Ah, fair point. When someone says “org-mode” I think of the file format usually, but I guess that’s probably not what colournoun was saying.

But also, apparently Emacs is on android

There are at least two org-mode apps on f-droid

The article is written by the computer scientist.

Windows 10 Home Edition famously advertised candy crush in it’s start menu

Ah got it. I was thinking about dense vs sparse arrays or containers

Sparse is better than dense?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35839912

Github has recently dramatically reduced what you can do without logging in

Been Emulating Every Radio-frequency-handheld-supercomputer

The vast majority of micro USB cables are A to B cables, but USB A to micro USB B. Maybe if they had been introduced now when super thin laptops are a thing they micro USB A might have become more popular. Or more likely, the problem with the A/B distinction would have become more obvious sooner

Micro USB also has an A and B connector

That would be a deeply ahistorical argument.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

AI is a very old field, and has always suffered from things being excluded from popsci as soon as they are achievable and commonplace. Path finding, OCR, chess engines and decision trees are all AI applications, as are machine learning and LLMs.

That Wikipedia article has a great line in it too

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists organization views the AI effect as a worldwide strategic military threat.[4] They point out that it obscures the fact that applications of AI had already found their way into both US and Soviet militaries during the Cold War.[4]

The discipline of Artificial Intelligence was founded in the 50s. Some of the current vibe is probably due to the “Second AI winter” of the 90s, the last time calling things AI was dangerous to your funding

What are you talking about, all of those are banned.

Came here to post this. You need a very good reason to break with Dijkstra

Part of the problem with Ring is it’s generally not self-surveillance. The cameras point onto the street and other people’s residences. You get surveiled because some other random person thought it was a good idea.

The cube feature and a bunch of wobbly window stuff are currently in Plasma 6

It’s an alternative shell for Plasma, so theoretically you should be able to do anything in it that you can do in Plasma.

On my Arch box it installed a minimal set of Plasma utilities to support it, which means my setup is still very limited (and I can’t turn off screen lock!), but I haven’t tried if it would change if offered a full Plasma install.

I can most certainly launch Steam, Kodi, Jellyfin etc.

This has been happening to me in embeds for ages, and I am logged in. It doesn’t even give any option to sign in or watch on YouTube, I just don’t get to watch embeds anymore.

This is the one that broke me