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At once very impressive and so completely inadequate as to be almost entirely useless. This is the pace we’re going at when we haven’t even got near the difficult part that will come when the low-hanging fruit is gone.

One forecaster says that China might reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 0% from today’s levels by 2030, significantly overachieving compared to its goal of continuing to increase them until then.

VGA might’ve done that to get better resolution at 60 Hz, but I’m pretty sure earlier systems including CGA and the Amiga did 60 fps non-interlaced video at lower resolutions. At least the Amiga also had a higher-resolution interlaced video mode, but it was mostly used for displaying impressive-looking static images.

They’ll outlive humanity for sure. You think the robots that some day exterminate us aren’t going to be into memes? They have no flesh, no emotions, no hormones, no guts. They’ll be all about the memes, it’s all they got.

It comes directly from television. Early home PCs used televisions for displays, and by the 1980s TVs were generally capable of 60 fps (or 50 for regions that used PAL) so that’s what the computers generated. Everyone got used to it. And of course like everyone else said you don’t want to be adding more latency in games by not keeping up with that basic standard.

A good review but from what I remember of the game I would add that the “quick-time events” can be annoying. Do not play if you can’t handle scenes of gratuitous button mashing.

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Linux popularity going up means the percentage of users who know what cron is goes down.

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Apparently so, but I’m happy to say it’s never given me a reason to care.

XFCE: we added some format options for the clock

I’m sure there’s probably more than one and I don’t even remember which it was that I saw, but a quick search turns up GNO which is said to be privacy-focused although it isn’t immediately clear how exactly it works.

Personally I’m rooting for something non-blockchain for the electronic payments system of the near-ish future: GNU Taler. It solves enough privacy problems to be useful, making it much better than what most of the world uses now, without immediately becoming the basis for a pyramid scheme, an instrument for pump-and-dump scams, a means of receiving big ransom payments, or a big flashing target for banking regulators.

Monero is better than most in some ways, but it’s proof-of-work so not really any better in that way. Ether is the one that doesn’t waste energy, Monero is the one that offers privacy. There’s at least one that tries to do both but even fewer people have heard of it.

There isn’t one simple reason for it. There’s a fairly large set of complicated interrelated reasons some of which require going back over 40 years of history to explain. If things had gone differently we’d have had a different result. For instance, just off the top of my head here, if free software had arrived earlier the network effect where everyone wanted one particular operating system because it’s what everyone else was using and therefore all the software was written for it might not have happened. People would’ve been free to build and distribute things for whichever OS they preferred. If Bill Gates hadn’t been such a sharp business dealer, maybe his company wouldn’t have amassed the vast wealth and influence required to dominate things so thoroughly back in the 1980s. If American antitrust law hadn’t been defanged maybe it would’ve stopped him, because many of Microsoft’s business practices that allowed them to get the monopoly we’re still recovering from were quite despicable. If DRM (digital restrictions management) hadn’t caused problems for Linux such as preventing it playing DVDs for the first few years they were popular, maybe it would’ve got further by now. If education systems around the world did a better job encouraging more people to be curious about how the things they rely on actually work, maybe the switch to free software would be going faster.

Anyway, it’s one thing that is slowly going in the right direction for the most part.

There’s some good stuff in there and it’s easy to cheer for some big new regulatory burdens being put on Google and Facebook, but it’s slightly chilling to think what it’d be like if they eventually try to apply it to the fediverse. It sets up teams of what it calls “trusted flaggers” for example, whose job it will be to scour the net for anything they believe to be “illegal content” and order it removed. I imagine they’d start with places like c/piracy, but once such a vast apparatus for net censorship is set up who knows where else it might start looking. They’ll use it to go after sellers of “counterfeit” goods as well. Imagine your instance admins being forced to go through some kind of appeals process to take down posts they don’t like, but being required to instantly take down posts the government doesn’t like.

I don’t know, it’s pretty complicated but there are some reasons to be slightly worried about it I guess.

The one Ukrainian Linux user without an adblocker started visiting a website that still has a statcounter widget on it, but he got tired of it after a while and stopped?

It seems like nothing much has changed since this was written: https://webdevlaw.uk/2022/07/21/fixing-uks-online-safety-bill-part-0-not-fixable/

When does this moment of bliss happen? I must’ve missed it. All I noticed when I lost my firefox profile for some reason and had to make a new one was about an hour of fiddling with the settings, installing extensions, and messing with userChrome.css to make it look reasonable.