It's swarmed by crypto content but it's a nice, simple, distributed protocol. Run your own node; compared to any AP service, it's astonishingly lightweight. Peer, or not; refuse to handle traffic from the crypto heavy nodes.
It's a fantastic, well designed protocol. Read a few NIPS, then read the Activity Pub design and you tell me which one you think is more well-designed.
I won't ignore that the majority of traffic was crypto stuff, but it's slowly broadening out to more legitimate content, like porn.
This is a golden opportunity for some enterprising British soul to start a "cheese of the month" club, shipping internationally, where each month features a specialty from a different party of the UK.
I would totally sign up for that.
I didn't realize the Brits made so much blue cheese.
Ok, so get this: we had a 17 hand Percheron gelding - for those who don't know horses, this a horse that literally weighs over a ton - and we borrowed an older pony mare from a neighbor to keep him company. I don't know how big she was, but her head barely came up the the bottom of his belly. And she utterly dominated him. We had a barn with a single - Percheron size - run-in stall, and if it rained she'd get in there and keep him out, and we'd have to go bring him into one of the other stalls.
She was actually pretty sweet to people; not bitey like some can be. But she took no shit from our boy.
I love America (maybe less now than in 2023, but still), but one of our great failings has been to ignore Eisenhower when he warned America about the military industrial complex. Most of my generation blames American imperialism on Big Oil, but I think the real roots lie in the MIC.
I'm going to continue voting for the lesser of true evils because choosing to not participate is provably worse.
I agree we need to fix the system, and people are working to do that. When the choice is between someone who doesn't support you, and someone who actively, vocally supports your eradication, you have to be a particular kind of stupid to think sitting on the sidelines is going to help. This is why languages have metaphors and similes against doing what so many people did, like "burying your head in the sand," and "sitting on the sidelines," and probably the most ironic of all given to origin, "all that it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing."
Which is exactly what they did. And now their people are suffering for it, asks women are suffering for it, and minorities, and civil rights... but hey, at least they made a bunch of other people suffer, too, huh?
It's Far Side, but if Centaurs were IRL they'd be able to understand and obey instructing instructions and not have to be put down. With today's technology, they might even be able to return to a mostly normal life, although modern domestic horses are remarkable fragile and we ask a lot of them given the structure we've bred them to for their size.
Ponies, OTOH, are tough little bastards and will fuck you up.
I wish they'd have shown the other photos, because the one example they show looks, to me, like someone took a picture, downwards, at a rock in a still pond reflecting the sky and a jet. Like, if you were standing on a road, looking down a slope with a fence running along the edge of a pond, in which a pointy rock is sticking out.
I've seen too many photos of street puddles so still that it's hard to tell what's reflection and what's not.
TA says there was a series of photos, any of which might clear up the reflection question.
Well, because Redhat was the first linux distribution I used, and I did so four about 6 years personally and then another decade professionally (various versions, from CentOS to RHEL) and IME it's by far the worst distribution I've used, and RPM is, and always had been, a clusterfuck of a package management system. The excuse for use in Enterprise was that companies could pay for 24/7 service support, and that is often a deciding factor, especially if OPs has a strong voice in the decision process; but by god is it a horrible system.
I'm actually pretty oblivious to any Redhat controversy; I don't bother reading anything Redhat-related anymore.
I'm not surprised that it's widely used, for the same reason I'm not surprised Microsoft is widely used: because of the enterprise decision process. But the popularity surprises me.
Did they provide raw scores?
Yup! Here:
Thanks!
Ah, would this comment help?
I saw that; absolute values would be preferable, but I can work with percentages - two decimal places of accuracy should be fine. It's not like we're trying to do science here.
Iβm more interested in a ranked-choice version of this poll.
Me too. I suppose you could retro-actively use the raw scores for this. I'm curious of your findings!
I think you can't, because it requires each voter to rank their preferences, which requires a specific form of voting mechanism. I didn't participate in the poll, but if it was run as ranked choice, and if we had access to the raw, per-voter results, and if the sample size was sufficiently large; then yeah - we could run a full Condorcet count and get some interesting answers!
The hard part about doing an "should these two distros go into the same bucket" evaluation is determining how closely related distros are. For example, I wouldn't consider Mint to be Debian because there are no number of packages you can remove from Mint to make it pure Debian without breaking it. Believe me, I've tried. At some point, there's are very Mint-specific packages which, if you remove them, the system won't boot. A dedicated and knowledgeable enough person might be able to swap packages out and keep a running system, but the Mint-ness is woven in pretty deeply into some core package dependencies. I suspect the same is true for Ubuntu->Debian, but maybe not for Kubuntu->Ubuntu. I know you can go from Arch->Artix and back again, although it's a bit of work. I don't know if you could remove enough of EndeavourOS to get pure Arch and still have a bootable system (I haven't tried).
So, you could just bucket everything by package manager - does it use apt? Then it's Debian! Although, now with Snap, how much is Ubuntu based on Debian anymore, anyway? Anyway, this is the last, uninteresting way.
More interesting is bucketing by whether it's reasonably possible to convert one distribution to another. I suspect you could turn Arch into Endeavor by changing some source package lists, running an upgrade and maybe installing a package or a dozen. Figuring this out for every distribution would be hard.
The docs don't say it's completely offline. Can you turn off your LAN connection and it still works? Have you tried this? Or just firewall off out bound access to Google services?
This comment:
Contrary to what the name suggests, the integration only does text-to-speech and does not translate messages sent to it.
doesn't say it doesn't call out to Google services; it says only that it doesn't use translation services. I didn't see anything else that implies it doesn't send data to Google.
Right; this was my question. Technically, they are tubeless - just not in the original and traditional way the term was coined. I'm not using inserts, BTW - I went the whole-tire route, and - yeah - they're solid.
I can't really tell the difference, but I'm a casual rider. The benefit to me is that they've improved my riding experience immeasurably, as I no longer have anxiety about getting a flat on long rides. I hate changing tires in the middle of a ride; it's dirty, and never easy, and takes time I'd rather be riding. So any extra firmness or weight which - again, I really can't detect - is well worth being able to enjoy the ride without worry.
My wife, who still has tubes, says she can feel that they're more firm, but not substantially. Mine are three years old now, and I think it'll be interesting to see what improvements will be available by the time I ride the rubber off and need to change them. I'm really excited to see reviews about METL tires - also airless and tubeless, but not solid like Tannus.
In any case, I was mostly curious about the taxonomy. Airless, then, are not considered tubeless even though they don't have tubes, merely because of how tire technology has evolved - right?
In case the user changes the mirror list on the live session, these will be used instead, and not ranked in the installation process again,β said the devs, who also mentioned the fact that users should expect a somewhat irregular release schedule for now due to life circumstances
Did they provide raw scores? I'm curious about two things, one is which could be determined from vote counts, and the other which would require a different voting system:
I kinda want to roll up the values into the base distribution, and rank that. Distros obviously add value, but Endeavor and Cachy are a couple of extra (removable) packages descended from Arch. There's a hard, subjective version: "Is Ubuntu really just Debian with extra packages?" ; an easier version of this: "can Y be turned into base X without dramatic system modification?"; and a really easy, but probably uninteresting version: "is Y descended from X?".
I'm more interested in a ranked-choice version of this poll. While I suspect the results would be similar to the second evaluation version above - users are likely to rank ancestor or siblings above other base distros - it still might be interesting. E.G., I like EndeavorOS but might rank Alpine over base Arch.