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logi , 24 days ago to Technology in Lynn Conway, leading computer scientist and transgender pioneer, dies at 85

Well played

logi , 1 month ago to Memes in Protect yourself friends.

Don't forget the sticky bit and chown root for extra convenience!

logi , 1 month ago to Technology in Male birth control breakthrough safely switches off fit sperm for a while

If only your dad had had this pill

logi , 1 month ago to Lefty Memes in Reminder...

Things are even worse in the US. For president you need to get a plurality of the votes (more than any other candidate) nationally (let's ignore the EC for now) which means that any vote not for the two candidates who stand a chance is wasted.

But also in their congressional elections they set up the system so to get in you have to get a plurality in some district where only one representative will be sent each time (FPTP). So even if your party has 15% nationally, unless they can win a plurality in some districts, they won't get any representation.

Thats why 3rd parties are pure vote wasters in presidential elections and in Congress you only have a handful of independent reps who somehow win their districts without party backing.

Cobtrast that with most of Europe (including Denmark(?)) where you have proportional voting for a parliament and then parliament forms a government. You can vote for your green party and while they might not get to be Prime Minister, they might be needed for the parliamentary majority to form a government and get the environment ministry. Win! Or they might just exert slight pressure in parliament directly, which is where laws are made. Not a loss!

The poor 'Mericans, meanwhile, are screwed. The only reasonable choice is between the two major parties at the elections. To turn that oil tanker they have to get involved in those parties and try to affect which candidates are put forth and then the party even skips that step entirely if they happened to have won the last presidential elections.

logi , 1 month ago to Technology in We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem

It's like letting auto complete always pick the next word in the sentence without typing anything yourself. But fancier.

logi , 1 month ago to Technology in iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes

In your analogy, they never even put the photos in the trash can. They just put a postit on them saying "don't show to user". Then the updated software forgot about the postits (and started to post tits).

logi , 1 month ago to Technology in After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year

Yeah, happily using Tidal as well. Haven't missed any music that wasn't also missing from Spotify, so...

logi , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in Which DE/WM do you prefer?

It was. I think I used CDE very briefly on some Sun workstations back around the kde 1.x times. But lowly undergrads mostly got ttys and not X terminals.

logi , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in Which DE/WM do you prefer?

Yeah, that would work.

logi , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in Which DE/WM do you prefer?

Is gnome claiming to be older than kde? 'cause it isn't. Gnome was started because decades ago, the license for the qt library used by kde wasn't quite open enough.

logi , 3 months ago to Memes in What's the worst that I can say? Things are better if I stay.

Is it viewed as Abad thing to be in that group?

Who cares!

Sounds delightful

Amen!

logi , 3 months ago to Technology in Sweeping EU rules for tech giants take effect today. Here’s what’s changing | CNN Business

Time for a nice 10% of global revenues

Perhaps Apple will fund those 800K artillery shells for Ukraine?