I miss Trillian :(

You can offer the game elsewhere for less / free, you just can’t sell steam keys for less than you sell them on steam.

The company has taken action against violations of its policies, she said

What does this mean in this context? Send takedown notices to people who joke on the Internet?

I think we read different books if you think her characters were altruistic. I remember her specifically calling out altruism as a sin (compared to the virtue of selfishness).

I pay for YouTube. I’m mildly optimistic that this won’t make it into the paid version, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if it does.

I’ve already had to cancel Amazon Prime after they made the base tier have ads, but continued to show ads after paying extra for ad-free.

Aluminum is the fifth most common element on Earth, and is naturally present in pretty large quantities in soil.

Are you sure you aren’t confusing it with lead?

Hardware cloth is a metal mesh.

Then, you could take those comments, and have the compiler use them to ensure you’re using the right variable in the right place. Oh wait, we just invented a type system.

Ah yes, I’ll just replace all my power sockets, get rid of all my electronics, and only buy imported European electronics from now on.

It’s so obvious, why didn’t I think of it before.

Oh yeah, and rewire my whole house to 240 V. Easy peasy.

I’m waiting for Outlook (Taylor’s Version).

I assume you meant trillion and not million for those gdp figures? Even then, they’re low.

But you can delete your copy, ask others nicely to delete theirs, and refuse to accept more copies of the same thing.

I’m not sure if Lemmy supports any of this, but it seems pretty important for e.g. child porn.

By vertical tabs do you mean tabs on the side instead of the top? If so, check out the tree-style tabs extension, it’s great.

Your white led is a blue led with a phosphorescent coating.

Why isn’t there a way for Linux users to automatically install every missing dependency for a program?

There is; actually there are several. Every^* distribution has a package manager, that’s what it does. But you have to make a package for the program, similar to what the tegaki folks have done for Mac and Windows.

Another option is to statically link everything.

One issue is the fragmentation; because there are so many Linux distributions, it’s hard to support packages for all of them. This is one thing that flatpack aims to solve.

I would expect this to be an issue for old closed-source software, but not for old free software. Usually there’s someone to maintain packages for it.

Some cursory searching shows no tegaki package on flathub or in nix (either of these can be used on any distro; the nix one is surprising to me; it hosts soooo many packages).

But I do see it in Debian: https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&section=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=tegaki

It’s still wild to me that I visited Hawaii as a kid, and then several years later. When I went back, a road I had driven on as kid was covered in lava.

Python with numpy/matplotlib/scipy.

I agree. I would love to have an alternative, but there just isn’t one, and I don’t think it’s Valve’s fault.

Valve also hasn’t really done what other monopolistic companies have done, which is use their advantages to expand into other areas and crush the smaller players there.

It’s really not at these scales. Earth and Mars go from roughly 4 light minutes apart to over 20.

At the best case, saying something and then waiting 8 minutes for a response is hardly what I’d call “real time”.

I’m not so sure. The study discusses specifically people who engage in partisan subreddits, which is not the same as being politically engaged. It also uses an AI to grade toxicity, which surely mischaracterizes many interactions.

For example, I have been in communities of a non-political nature, where political discussions occur. These are often about real issues that affect real people in the community, and yet there are people complaining about political content.

To complain about political content is, at best, a very privileged take, demonstrating that you are in a position where politics do not affect you much. At worst, it is actively hostile behavior with the goal of continuing the status quo and shutting down discourse. I would call most of these kinds of comments “toxic”, and yet the rhetoric is usually fine, so I doubt an AI would agree.