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Prisoners are in prison as punishment. Not for punishment.

That is a concept that eludes many.

> What's so interesting about tiling managers?

And of that interesting stuff, how much can't be had just by configuring the window tiling shortcuts in floating window managers to have the best of both worlds?

https://uli.rocks/p/tilling-xfce/

> The funny part would be when one would be promoted into management, and instantly became incompetent in the estimation of the other workers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

> Yeah because addressing the city council with your middle fingers extended is totally mature and appropriate of adults.

I think by reaching adulthood, let alone public office, most people have seen middle fingers before. Moreover there is no statute against being in public bare-handed.

I find my M2 Macbook Pro so much less pleasant to use than my x220 thinkpad (running Debian) that I only use the Macbook for CPU-bound activities to which the x220 thinkpad is unequal.

I find the Apple offering's keyboard worse to type on, its enormous touchpad is a chore to engage with compared to the venerable Trackpoint, and the operating system feels contrived to make simple things difficult.

The x220 thinkpad is 14 years old now. And has a 500 GB SSD and 16 GB RAM. Perhaps in another 14 years Apple will be able to match it feature for feature.

One might well ask why I own Apple hardware at all. The answer is to buy entry into their walled garden as a developer.

The Phosphor screensaver module in xscreensaver doubles as a functional console.

https://marcelwunderlich.com/using-phosphor-xscreensaver-for...

Also I remember the game magazines had advertistements in the back for VGA adapters for the SNES.

My neighbor had one and we all agreed that the sharper picture looked better.

https://www.jamesfmackenzie.com/2026/09/06/plugging-a-snes-d...

While the Sonic waterfall is probably deliberate, I find it more likely that people have always preferred the highest resolution and the crispest graphics they can afford.

You are incorrect. Chrome was widely bundled with third party installers for much of its history.

https://www.osnews.com/story/25184/adobe-tricks-users-into-d...

https://www.labnol.org/software/chrome-with-adobe-reader/201...

https://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?style=246&...

> nearly 10 % of the installers came with a third-party browser (e.g. Chrome)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016740481...

> What exactly is missing from macOS that makes you feel the need for Linux?

For starters, the source code.

https://www.LokiList.com is more in the spirit of Craigslist casual encounters but it might also be used to plan strictly platonic group activities.

Chrome attained its user base not by merit but by paying third party Windows installers to bundle it.

> Social constructs are bought and paid for by the wealthy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg

"We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water and people buy it from us on a meter"

- Sam Altman[0]

"Can you define intelligence?"

"Yes, it is this many moneys."

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-ai-utility-electr...

Why is there still demand for Chinese student visas at universities in the USA?

In practice "web optimized" is a soft copyright control where the image is read-only to the extent the only readily available software that can open it is a web browser.

> 100% e2ee encrypted and decentralized and open

https://getsession.org

https://docs.getsession.org/contribute-to-the-session-networ...

I understand why people value the code John Carmack has released but I do not understand why people value his public statements.

"eventually id Tech 5 is going to be open source also. This is still the law of the land at id"[0]

"Great! I think Microsoft has been a good parent company for gaming IPs"[1]

By sheer coincidence, John Carmack is peddling machine generated code.[2]

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20081003111457/http://www.linuxg...

[1] https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1308069857913720832

[2] https://80.lv/articles/john-carmack-s-agi-startup-keen-techn...

That training data does not preserve provenance seems a "smoking gun" in terms of intent to plagiarize.

Semi-related. I wonder why Mac OS does not provide any setting to keep the laptop running with the screen closed. You either need to use third party software or connect a dummy HDMI dongle. Both of which cost additional money for a function that is furnished as a matter of course by other operating systems.

> In traffic, energy used over a specific period of time (power) translates into speed. In this case, the critical quantum will appear as a speed limit. Wherever this limit has been passed, the basic pattern of social degradation by high energy quanta has emerged. Once some public utility went faster than 15 mph, equity declined and the scarcity of both time and space increased. Motorized transportation monopolized traffic and blocked self-powered transit.

>...

> From our limited information it appears that everywhere in the world, after some vehicle broke the speed barrier of 15 mph, time scarcity related to traffic began to grow. After industry had reached this threshold of per capita output, transport made of man a new kind of waif: a being constantly absent from a destination he cannot reach on his own but must attain within the day.

https://www.davidtinapple.com/illich/1973_energy_equity.html

> Let. People. Enjoy. Things.

Except silence, which is so unnatural that it should be disrupted and criticism of its disruption should be silenced.

I understand why people value the code John Carmack has released but I do not understand why people value his public statements.

"eventually id Tech 5 is going to be open source also. This is still the law of the land at id"[0]

"Great! I think Microsoft has been a good parent company for gaming IPs"[1]

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20081003111457/http://www.linuxg...

[1] https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1308069857913720832

Paint.net was originally MIT licensed but the author closed its source because people did not give him credit. Note: The MIT license does not require credit.

https://blog.paint.net/2007/12/04/freeware-authors-beware-of...

Paint.net likely still benefits from the announcement of "Open Source Alternative To Microsoft Paint" long after switching to a proprietary license, which I find more dubious than using MIT-licensed code without giving credit to the author.

Also I rather doubt a "clean-room reverse-engineered rewrite of Direct2D" can be "written by our good friend Claude, without whom this would NOT have been possible"?

Should add a full page click through slop warning to each page on the site. Also give credit to the LLM that made it in the "Brought to you by" section at the bottom.

> EasyEffects does take up a tiny fraction of CPU power (I’m talking 0.1-0.2% according to KDE’s System Monitor), but I have never seen it have any noticeable performance impact on anything.

0.2% of WHAT?