Catholics, Israelis, and Palestinian immigrants! Gen Z! Undereducated white men. It’s a grab bag of blame.

YOU get a blame, and YOU get a blame… EVERYONE gets a blame!

Ssshhh…

This is fantastic. I’m going to have to spend more time with it.

Since we’re discussing timescales over which there’s a not insignificant chance something radical will happen to society, there’s also the fact that the day is getting longer by 2ms every hundred years. If you’re scheduling out 625,000 years, that’s 12-some seconds by the end, compounded - 6 extra seconds every day by the 312,000th year, etc.

Hooo-ly shit, that’s a concerning read. I have to go blacklist Deepin; it’s in Arch extra/.

The whole article is concerning, but this part was really scary:

The service methods were not only unauthenticated and thus accessible to all users in the system, but the D-Bus configuration file also allowed anybody to own the D-Bus service path on the system bus, which could lead to impersonation of the daemon. Among other issues, the D-Bus service allowed anybody in the system to create arbitrary new UNIX groups, add arbitrary users to arbitrary groups, set arbitrary users’ Samba passwords or overwrite almost any file on the system by invoking mkfs on them as root, leading to data loss and denial-of-service.

What boot loader do you use? Grub and REFind are the most common, but there are others: Clover, LILO, Lemine, systemd-boot, syslinux… how you tell your computer which thing you want you boot from depends on your boot loader.

However, I suspect the issue is more simple: did you go into your BIOS and switch where the firmware which device to try to boot from? If you’ve added a new HD and you want to boot from it, this is _always_¹ required.

1. Ok, not always. I suppose there exists some BIOS that always shows you a menu and asks which device you want to use, but that’s uncommon.

Yay! Countries that might not just wag their dicks, and actually use those nukes!

Christ we’ve been stockpiling them so long, what a waste. Let’s get those bad boys in the air! Yeeeehaw!

And that’s all it is: a capitalist, predatory, minor convenience. Again, I’m surprised these characters use them.

Well, I don’t use G either. Or Microsoft. I did used to have a Home back when they first came out, but Google started being obvious about being evil around that time and I gave it to my MIL.

Echo, Siri, Google - they’re all bad, and even less necessary than smart phones. You can make a decent, quantifiable argument about the quality-of-life differences a smart phone, wisely used, can make. There are few, mostly accessability related, arguments for the whole-home surveillance devices. They’re absolutely a boon for accessability, and I wouldn’t take that away, but otherwise it’s a minor convenience most of the world manages to live without.

I was going to say that I’m a bit surprised that the characters use Apple products, given their (the characters’) politics.

Yeah. But there are tells.

“The West” is a broad brush - more broad than is justified, given that the UN world court revelry l recently came out with the Big “G”-word. Who’s the instinctive alternative to “The West”? Words carefully chosen, I think. The West is more than just America, and countries like Germany are justifiably reluctant, given their history, to come out against Israel. Given that they’re the reason Israel even exists today, so to speak.

Israel is engaged in an unjustified and unjustifiable genocidal land-grab in Palestine, and is committing horrible atrocities. No question. And the US has been utterly complicit, and there’s really good evidence that much of our policy is a direct result is foreign (Israeli) influence (money). And countries in “The West” have been guilty of being slow to respond, and negligent in reacting. However, hyperbolic and overly broad titles like this smack of propaganda. How much aid has China sent to Palestine? How much have they fought for Palestine in the world court, where they hold a seat? Why is it “The West”, and not “Eurasia and US”? Or, “developed countries?”

No, this is clearly intended to cast shade explicitly on Western countries, while “The East” whistles innocently.

Remember, kids: FUD doesn’t have to be lies to be effective. If fact, false equivalencies and later justifications for “just as bad” are all the more effective when you lay the groundwork with a little truth.

It’s over there top for everyone. I wish it were easier to use, but then it wouldn’t be as effective.

As I said, much of its value probably comes from the rigor it makes you exercise to really get its value. It costs a lot of effort, though, and you’re on the right path with kanban: use the most lean process that works.

Did you look through the github project management list?

While it doesn’t meet any of your requirements, I firmly believe the best project management software is Taskjuggler. You have to be able to write software to use it, because it’s a language for defining tasks and projects, and it can get quite involved. But it is an excellent educational experience that exposes just how much people futz with Gantt charts to get what they want to see, vs the reality. It is also unparalleled in exposing resource use and needs.

At it’s most complete, here’s a taste of what it looks like to use it:

You declare all your resources and their capabilities (John is junior and is 60% as efficient as Mary). You define a project, broken down into tasks at various and increasing levels of detail, including priorities and estimated effort, and assign teams and resources. When it’s all defined, you compile a Gantt chart and it will show you exactly how long everything will take: when things will start and end; and that you can’t deliver X and Y at the same time because while you have enough developers, the QA servers can’t be used for both at the same time.

It’s incredibly tedious and frustrating to use, but after a while when you get the resource definitions really dialed in, I know of no other tool that predicts reality with such accuracy. It’s definitely ideal for for the waterfall minded, although it can be used with agile if you keep it to the release scope; you can record both expectations and reality as time passes.

It’s not a lightweight process, and I haven’t met a project manager yet who could or would use it; it’s quite intensive. You do have to define a complete and comprehensive picture of everything impacting your project, and honestly i think that’s most of the value as most teams just wing a bunch of stuff - which is why estimations are so frequently wrong. It does tend to eliminate surprises, like the fact that half your dev team just happen to be planning vacations at the same time in the middle of the release cycle, or Management is having a big two-day team building event. If you can see it in a calendar, you put it in the plan and assign the people it affects, and the software calculates the overall delivery impact.

It’s a glorious, powerful, terrifying and underused tool, and satisfies none of your declared requirements.

I like these upbeat ones at the end of the weekend. Really makes me enthusiastic for the start of the work week.

Thanks. I’ve only heard the narrative that users had compatability issues; I did hear Microsoft went heavy on pushing to get then back into the ecosystem, basically offering installs and the suite for practically free, but I also heard there was negative feedback from the Munich employees. I hadn’t heard about Munich’s mayor being an MS advocate.

Are books not media?

I was thinking through my list, and almost mentioned Calibre Web, but decided it’s media related.

I don’t think these two academics are suffering from disinterest or a lack of subject expertise.

Perhaps not, but successful academics will also understand and tailor their messaging to their audience, dumbing it down if necessary.

I think that’s a very purposeful result of US politics

Complete agreement. So is the international hegemony of the dollar, and why, a decade ago, the US government had an apoplectic fit when OPEC made noises about starting to accept payments in, or fixing prices to, something other than the dollar. I don’t think the general public understood just how important it is that so many of the global currencies are tied to the value of the dollar, and, like English, it’s the financial lingua franca.

I disagree that it’s been overall bad for the US, although I think it’s been extremely unhealthy for the world at large.

Any subject can be qualified, and you’re right that more things probably should.

There’s capitalism; then, for me, there’s laissez-faire capitalism and regulated capitalism as the two main branches. Somewhere within laissez-faire economics lies libertarianism and anarchy, which are political structures, but the implementation of which would presumed literally no central control - people trading precious metals, goods and services directly. On the other branch you have regulated markets that eventually include limited socialism - usually restricted to public infrastructure and military, and where you start to blend in aspects of communism. And while I’m certain there are technical terms for all of the, I care a little less about economics than I do sports, which is to say not at all.

I have my own opinions about what I think is wrong with Capitalism in the US, and what changes I think could fix them, but this is decidedly not my area of expertise and I’m very much a believer of differentiating between opinions and knowledge.

What you’re seeing, I think, is a limitation in American education combined with DILIGAF - disinterest in becoming enough of a subject expert to use precise terminology. However, I think it’s misplaced to get upset about it; I’m certain medical doctors, aerospace engineers, computer engineers, plumbers, electricians, auto mechanics, classical musicians, voting theory scientists - they all probably mentally tear their hair out a little when talking to laypeople because we’re all so “imprecise” in our terminology. I think it’s just a consequence of living in a world so complex and varied, it’s not possible for one person to be an expert and use precise terminology when talking about every subject - and this includes economics.

You say the audio is bad, and many people hate watching a video that could have been an article - maybe a transcript would be good, huh?

Ok, so, first, let me say that while I’m enthusiastic about the concept, I understand it’s entirely theoretical. We can’t even get US civilians to adopt metric, FFS. Just a caveat, lest anyone wander by and overhear us.

That said, I did spend some cycles trying to see it it would be possibly to line up a lunar and solar calendar, and it’s not. And it isn’t nearly as important as it used to be. It would still have been nice.

So if you do run calculations, I’d like to see them.