My workplace preinstalls Ubuntu, personally I’m using openSUSE. I don’t even think that Ubuntu is particularly bad, I’m mainly frustrated with it, because it’s just slightly worse than openSUSE (and other distros) in pretty much every way.
It’s less stable, less up-to-date, less resilient to breakages. And it’s got more quirky behaviour and more things that are broken out-of-the-box. And it doesn’t even have a unique selling point. It’s just extremely mid, and bad at it.

Yeah, solid counterexample. Wikipedia and other Wikis have a clearly defined goal, i.e. collect factually correct information about a specific topic, which is also a goal shared by enough people to drive collaboration.

Another cool example is the Mutopia Project, which basically archives sheet music. Contributors can just pick a piece of music and transcribe that, and they kind of don’t even have to talk to anyone for the project as a whole to benefit.

But then there is lots of examples, like writing a new song, writing a new novel etc., where the goal is not clearly defined, where it’s difficult to collaborate, because what you contribute might not mesh well with what the others provide.

I think, it’s mainly a matter of the works to which Creative Commons is typically applied, being less suitable for collaboration. You might occasionally see remixes, but that’s mostly it.

In the case of open-source, collaboration is what elevates it, and often makes it better than paid-for software.
You rarely see Creative Commons works that outdo paid-for works in terms of objective quality. Heck, chances are that more collaboration happens in paid-for works, because they can hire an editor, a sound engineer etc…

That prices for photovoltaic are dropping rapidly:

The tragic part is that the EU is called the “UE” in French…

Git uses the diff binary under the hood (unless you configure it to use something else).
You can invoke that directly with diff file_a.txt file_b.txt.

How would you make it non-awful, without specifying static types?

I guess, a unit test would catch it, but needing 100% test coverage to catch typos isn’t exactly great…

Autocorrect got you pretty bad, there.

I was very confused, why we’re suddenly talking about rationing food during winter. 🙃

Your trouble with the clutch and watching the road, that will definitely get easier with practice.

But what always remains stressful is that lots of drivers are insane cunts. As in, they should be in a psychiatry. They’ll tailgate you, if you have the audacity to drive the speed limit.

And well, other factors can be at play. I’ve probably got some flavor of autism, so having everything around me rattle and explode, and needing to constantly pay attention to the road, that stresses me out due to sensory overload. Even after multiple years of practice, I’m more than glad to walk to the shops.

This is called the Pyramid of Doom, by the way.

Yeah, the distro installer even allows you to fully customize which packages should be installed, if you fancy that.

American investment firm KKR

Don’t think they could’ve chosen an acronym that looks any more like a certain hooded group…

There’s two things at play here.

MP3 (or WAV, OGG, FLAC etc.) provide a way to encode polyphony and stereo and such into a sequence of bytes.

And then separately, there’s Unicode (or ASCII) for encoding letters into bytes. These are just big tables which say e.g.:

• 01000001 = uppercase ‘A’
• 01000010 = uppercase ‘B’
• 01100001 = lowercase ‘A’

So, what your text editor does, is that it looks at the sequence of bytes that MP3 encoded and then it just looks into its table and somewhat erronously interprets it as individual letters.

Firefox won’t be able to do this without Thunar supporting it, but someone else already posted that Thunar does support it.

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• AFAB = assigned female at birth; basically because they happened to have a vagina at birth, so they were supposed to like pink and dolls and a lower paycheck and whatever else society has decided the female experience should be like.
• AMAB = assigned male at birth
• NB = non-binary; a person that identifies neither as male nor as female. They might be something in the middle, or they might be something completely different.
• femme = basically the way women have traditionally looked or behaved (long hair, pink etc.)
• fundie = fundamentalist Christian; basically very conservative, very eccentric people with world views they claim to be traditionally Christian
• bussy = boy pussy; the anus of a man, or it may also be used to describe the vagina of a transmasc person
• transmasc = transmasculine; a person who was assigned female at birth, but who rather identifies with masculinity and may have taken measures to be perceived as such (clothing, hormones, surgery etc.)

Seems like they just asked people “Would you be willing to give up owning a car for good?” and then people got to respond with:

• Yes, definitely
• Yes, probably
• No, probably not
• No, definitely not

It’s described in the report on pages 19, 20 and 150.

The five on the left are where cars are most dispensable, and the five on the right are where cars are least dispensable.

Wasn’t aware of that, so thanks for pointing it out, but yeah, what it’s really about is the nicotine. They want fewer people addicted.

Seems like it’s more about discouraging any tobacco use, rather than how unpleasant it is to others.