One time as a kid I took a southern Baptist church trip to Central America. When I got back my racist uncle said "y'all look like a bunch of foreigners." Mind you that at the time I was blond enough to be a Hitler Youth poster boy, but heaven forbid my skin was brown from being in the sun. 🙄

Shoot, you're right. I thought MX used Ubuntu as upstream but it uses Debian.

But this is Trump we're talking about!

It's funny and awesome that the two top distro are Ubuntu remixes that remove snap.

Edit: I'm wrong. MX uses Debian as upstream, not Ubuntu, which removes any snap related tech from the picture entirely.

"But soon people in my position will be able to have an AI make the call for them so they don't have to have that embarrassing conversation"

Given all the defects the cyber truck has, I think its engineering team is on par for video games.

Time for swap, aka writing things down.

Rawlsian veil of ignorance strikes again would once again be awesome to use.

Imagine that one side gets no background checks, and the other does, but you don't know which side gets what. Do you agree to that?

This happened to me with The Godfather in the Italy scenes.

Sure, but Google came out in 1998. I remember it taking over webcrawler and lycos. Telemetry definitely existed before then. But I get your point that telemetry really became a bad word much more recently.

telemetry has been around since google

Actually...

The beginning of industrial telemetry lies in the steam age ... Examples are James Watt's (1736-1819) additions to his steam engines for monitoring from a (near) distance such as the mercury pressure gauge and the fly-ball governor.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemetry

This is 2, not X, but you might still appreciate this live play. https://youtu.be/MUHlVdqRlPA

The lack of specificity reminds me of the joke about the Russians getting arrested for holding up blank signs that actually came true https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-war-invasion-protests-police-arrest-activists-holding-blank-signs-paper-1687603

Edit: apparently the blank sign thing goes back farther than I realized https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blank_paper_protest

"Disable your ad-blocker" is the internet's "hey kid, want some candy?"

That is an incredible find.

It's used by the true command as the source of truth for what the return code is.

Edit: I found a copy of the file and verified it:

$ xxd -c 8 true.dat | head -n 4
00000000: 0000 0000 0000 0000  ........
00000008: 0000 0000 0000 0000  ........
00000010: 0000 0000 0000 0000  ........
00000018: 0000 0000 0000 0000  ........
$ 

As you can see, it's all zeroes, which is what the return code for true should always be.

Immigrants often have families in their new country. You can't think about those people as individuals because they would likely stay for their family, which would be hard to move.

Skaters of the world unite!

It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be REDUCED to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.

I think that was a potential "something else" aisle.