They won’t open source snaps because they want to control the snap ecosystem to make money off of it for an IPO

That’s an interesting comment from a guy that used to work for Canonical, and then went anti-snap pretty hard, to the point that he made this:

https://github.com/popey/unsnap

Thanks for the list. It’d be interesting to see something like the Are We X Yet sites for Mozilla/Rust projects that tracks this sort of thing

Went with a friend to see some metalcore recently. Not really my thing in general, but I liked the band Novelists:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3U6VmQal00

Most of the bands at the show were solidly in the “jumpdafuckup” genre. It’s funny because I’ve heard that term before, but never seen so many bands in a row directly have lyrics about jumping da fuck up

Anup Sastry - Lion

All of his stuff is good. He programs weird guitar riffs and then drums along to them and ends up with some great music. Most of it’s instrumental, but his most recent album has a bunch of collaborations with vocalists

You might also be interested in checking out Zellij, it’s like tmux with nice defaults

There’s some even older UI bits buried around in there:

This is tilting at windmills. If someone has physical possession of a piece of hardware, you should assume that it’s been compromised down to the silicon, no matter what clever tricks they’ve tried to stymie hackers with. Also, the analog hole will always exist. Just generate a deepfake and then take a picture of it.

That’s not really the same thing. It’s also bad, but the producers aren’t shipping that themselves, the NSA modifies it the devices after shipment. That’s in some ways worse, since installing Linux yourself won’t help against adversarial firmware/hardware.

What do you mean by NSA spyware? Anything that I can think of along those lines isn’t really the same thing as what Lenovo did.

Also a great option. I like their tiling window manager and the other gnome extensions they’ve done. I’m also generally excited about the work they’re doing with Cosmic as a new DE.

You’re going to get a lot of comments about Ubuntu and snaps. Definitely one of the reasons I switched away from it.

Sure, that’s a great discussion to have, and I’m glad you spelled it out well. I just dislike people trying to claim that using “they” to refer to a specific, known individual is “nothing new because Shakespeare did it”. He didn’t, and it muddies the waters of the conversation to spread falsehoods like that.

A few years is a loose term, but it was certainly not in use by Shakespeare, unlike what people try to claim.

Your confusion here is exactly what I’m trying to clear up. We know the gender of the person in the Shakespeare quote you linked to (“man”), but nothing else. It’s a placeholder term that doesn’t refer to a specific, known individual. Shakespeare never said anything like “Here’s Frank, they’re a cool guy”, that would be considered ungrammatical until a few years ago.

Lots of people talk past each other on this. Singular they to refer to a known single person is an invention of the last few years and is the thing that a lot of people are up in arms about. It gets confused with the centuries-old usage of using it to refer to an unknown or undetermined person. Your first example is in line with the latter, and your second example is the new usage. TBH I’d be confused by your second example. Is Frank part of some larger group that doesn’t know what they’re talking about? Or is it only Frank that doesn’t know what he’s talking about?