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Texas is about to execute a man who was convicted on DNA evidence[1].

His crime? Having an affair with a cop's wife. His DNA was found in the victim's body.

There is sworn testimony that the husband confessed to the murder of his own wife.

I'd hate to have been at the wrong place at the wrong time, or to have left garbage somewhere a crime was committed, or to have had sex with someone who later has a crime committed against them.

[1] https://www.bostonglobe.com/2019/11/15/opinion/texas-may-soo...

I believe that constraints breed creative solutions.

Is the RPi4 mainlined in the kernel, or does the board require porting new kernel versions?

Gnome 3 is pretty great and so is Ubuntu 19.10. I have my parents on both and they seem to like it just fine.

I would pay $1/mo for a chronological feed of my friends' updates and posts.

I found Twitter and Facebook to be frustratingly unusable after they removed their chronological feeds in favor of feeds that prioritize ads and engagement.

This is called a hostel or a flop house.

I commute in NJ and used ride hailing apps until it was just cheaper to use taxis. I wouldn't use any liaison service at an airport, they're going to charge an arm and a leg for the purported convenience.

Edit: I'm not doxxing myself, sorry. I'm within commuting distance of NYC.

These talking points died in 2016. Now that Uber isn't subsidizing rides with investor's money and raised their fares, Uber is actually more expensive than taxis in NJ.

There's no reason ride hailing companies need to violate labor laws to do business.

You can blame some conspiracy theory involving politicians colluding to trick their constituents, or you can listen to the lived experiences of residents in Jersey City that have to live next to nuisance short-term rentals.

Parties all night during the week, drunk people trying to enter the wrong apartments at 3AM, arguments between loud tourists in your once quiet building, and somehow sleeping 10 people in a two bedroom apartment.

I don't blame residents for not wanting to live and work around that everyday. Most people don't want to live in flop houses.

I didn't know Craiglist determined your rates and claims to own the relationship between you and your clients.

They get bought out frequently. Juno is big in the NYC metro area that covers a lot of North Jersey. Curb, Via, and Gett also operate there.

The best part of Firefox for Android is that browser extensions work with it. That means you can have uBlock Origin on your phone.

There are plenty of competitors in NJ chomping at the bit to eat Uber and Lyft's lunch.

Yep, nearly 70% of voters voted against allowing short-term rentals. AirBnb spent over $4 million on that local election alone[1].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/06/airbnb-suffers-setback-in-je...

They'd lose out on a huge market where there are already competitor apps to both Lyft and Uber.

Jersey City just had a public referendum on short-term rentals that AirBnB spent millions of dollars lobbying against. It's good to see that the both the public and its elected officials are coming up to speed on the realities companies like Uber and AirBnb force upon them by skirting the law.

Red Hat has long support contracts for their server OSes that shipped with Python 2 when it was still kosher to do so.

That means they'll patch Python 2 should vulnerabilities be found on their OS.

> Is Google just not able to compete with SEO tactics? Or are they over-excited about/reliant on ML/"AI" techniques that don't work well in practice?

Those SEO'd pages are optimized for generating revenue, so they're packed to the brim with Google ads and referral links.

Prioritizing such pages generates revenue for Google, too.

You get this with Snaps, Flatpak and AppImages

There are a dozen of cloud-based web apps that interface with IRC.