Yeah, I can see that point. But I’m worried that if almost literally everything requires payment that’s going to exclude a lot of people from being able to use the Internet. Especially those who are young or poor.

Lots would change with nearly all content being behind a paywall, for example it would make search engines even worse than they have already become recently: Sites would have to choose to make exceptions for them, which would have to be cryptographically secure - certainly not just a user agent, and with each site selecting which one(s) they allow, I would almost put money on that list being 1 or maybe 2 entries in most cases. Goodbye independent search engines.

It would of course end anything like archive.org, and most other places that mirror or proxy content.

I also find it difficult to believe that most users wouldn’t be charged more in the end than they end up paying (to someone) currently as a result of seeing ads. I know seeing ads influences spending (otherwise why would companies spend money on ads) but when websites have the option to charge users more than they get from that arrangement, I’m sure the sites will take it.

Sure ads are terrible (especially for those who actually see them!) but they are a compromise that allows some freedoms I’d really miss.

Pretty sure that one includes a sneeze

The old joke I can’t find now was something like,

8-ball: “Outlook not so good”

“Wow, it knows everything! Now ask it about Excel”

Just means the lasso is smarter than he is

The headline smells sloppy to me. A bit close to the super common pattern of “Z did Y to an X, and it W”

I didn’t notice it in the article itself (and even saw a typo) but I’m not terribly sensitive to that stuff anyway.

Had the same misread myself

Yikes.

It’s interesting, but I really hope it stays confined to machine-only interactions. If this gets mainstream support in web browsers, it seems like a huge and terminal nail in the coffin of the “free” and open web.

The way I like to tell it is that I’ve met someone whose great grandparents were younger than my mom.

Of course at the time I first met this person they were a newborn. But by now could have kids if the pattern holds.

Ah, that makes sense now that you spell it out.

Not necessarily, I’ve heard of purple drank also (not “lean” though) but never seen it in person: I’m white and nerdy.

Cultural osmosis.

Dogecoin perhaps?

I found one for the Senate also:

https://www.change.org/p/replace-chuck-schumer-as-senate-majority-leader

We have new gov’nors, and they are so blue

My main issue with hibernation in Linux is that it by default uses the same swap as ram overflow, so it fails if ram+swap is close to full - such as having a huge project of some kind in progress which would be a pain to reopen, one of the situations where hibernation would be very helpful.

This is fixable, I did it on my own laptop, and really wish I wrote everything down because it was a complex and unintuitive process, both getting it to save to a separate swap file from the swap partition (switched on/off in the systemd hibernation scripts), and getting it to boot from said file.

I really wish this was a supported scenario that was easy to set up. It drives me nuts for a feature where failure can mean data loss to have a failure mode easily reached by regular usage.

By contrast, Windows has always had separate swap and hibernation files, and generally works if drivers don’t mess it up (which they can on Linux too, Nvidia.)

Unlockable Adult content. Lots of RNG involved depending on your stats and server though.

This episode.

What was it?

Valve stopped making them.

Download/source links?

It’s not “Meteor the size of a Dr Pepper” but “A meteor The size of Dr Pepper” as in the whole company.