Per another comment (and the article I suppose, if I bothered to read it), the title is apparently misleading and the bills are about ‘weather modification’ and such, not about chemtrails.

But a bill to ban chemtrails: my take is, I’d support that. You have a bunch of people worried they’re real. If chemtrails were real, they’d be bad. People can’t trust companies not to be doing it secretly, but those people trust legislation (a bit; maybe). Okay then, legislate it. Give people peace of mind.

It’s like all the debates about phones listening in to you. The consensus seems quite clear that they’re not, and all the uncanny ad targeting comes from connecting the dots on other data. But, maybe it could be real? Okay, legislate it. Make it highly illegal for devices to listen in without clear consent and notification. Okay, that’s far more complicated than it sounds, but it would be one step of pressure in the right direction to make it not happen.

More angry Truth Social tweets

Lol

It’s tricky. Part of the problem, I think, is if you do have corruption and carelessness in something like the FDA, there’s no amount of careful reporting that can fix it - it becomes propaganda.

It’s necessary to address the problems, though I still agree with being careful about what information is broadcast and how - but it’s necessary to keep information open and challenge things otherwise you end up worse down the line. A measles epidemic is bad. But imagine if you suppressed thalidomide results and other failures, allowing things to get worse and worse in the name of not damaging people’s trust, then eventually (after years of covered-up harm) it all comes out and people abandon scientific medicine altogether!

You don’t have to imagine… I’m sure a large component of both vaccine skepticism and Trump’s presidency have come because of suppressed and partially-suppressed wrongdoing by all the people we think the country should trust. Eventually people break and look for something else.

So, I agree with you, but in my opinion we do need to work more, not less, at transparency and truth even when it’s problematic.

Cool! Thanks for sharing.

Nix-related job - do tell!

Weird Al: Kernel Drivers

A parody kernel of Linux USB Support

Ubuntu 20.04, and doesn’t work on other Ubuntu versions? Sounds like it’s compiled against old libraries.

If you want to try something more advanced, you might be able to get it to work in Nix or Flatpak. Both are ways to use the exact software libraries with an application. Both would be quite steep leaning to do! Even docker might solve the problem; still not an easy solution though, and might be harder to get hardware features working.

I got the impression Mint isn’t best for KDE. For the reasons you mentioned, I guess, because it’s not been set up with all those options right for KDE.

I’m also on Mint, and happy to stick with it for some time, but sometimes I’ve wondered about going back to OpenSUSE, or even trying KDE’s own distro. But by then I start thinking about Nix and Guix also, as well as old faithful Arch. Then it’s too much choice and I remember how nicely Mint works for me and the family!

700 professionals in India probably make more coherent software than AI.

I don’t think they really had that chance. It’s there in the docs about it: they implemented receiver accountability deliberately so European governments might be willing to accept it.

Thing is, most money is already digitised and tracked. Taler has the genius of giving (hopefully) enough accountability on the receiving end to satisfy tax and counter-fraud, whilst at the same time giving privacy and anonymity to the spender.

From that snippet, it looks like they basically primed it to try blackmail, to see if it would.

This is what I want to know also. “AI textbooks” is a great clickbait/ragebait term, but could mean a great variety of things.

Wow, thank you for the insight. I guess this would be helped somewhat with some of the lighter models being designed, and used locally.

That’s something I think AI could do really good for education. “I’ve been learning combinatorial theory - these are my notes - where would I look to understand how that relates to the Standard Model?”

Doesn’t even need to be paper. Have locked-down, internet-disconnected computers in the exam hall bas glorified typewriters.

What’s the mysterious purple line? Red Hat?

It worked! Thank you so much.

My quadlet files are now cobbled together from various sources, cross-referencing yours with the official docker compose and a couple of podman examples I found. But I now have a functioning Immich running in rootless podman, accessed through a VPS reverse proxy!

I’ll edit my first comment in the chain with some tips in case someone else comes across this looking for help.

Edit: I just realised your Edit was saying you’ve got legacy bios! So this is all irrelevant. I’ll leave it up in case it helps someone else.

Could it be selecting the wrong SSD to put the boot loader on?

When I reinstalled mint the other day on my laptop with an nvme and SSD (also dual boot) it labelled the extra SSD as sda and the original nvme as sdb, so it was going to try to put the bootloader on sda.

I set up the partitions on the third option (1. Install alongside windows; 2. Wipe everything; 3. Set it up manually) and on the manual setup there’s a selector for the bootloader device just underneath the main section where you select partitions to use for /, /home, etc.

IIRC you set the bootloader to the full device (in my case sdb) not the EFI partition (sdb1) and it works out out.