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Paris air quality 2007-2023

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Reading the annotations on each of the plots, these are all average NOx concentrations of the labelled year, not point measurements - as you are insinuating. Furthermore, the color scales match up too. (edit) Do note: the more recent plot is zoomed in though and scales are much less clear!

I think it is fair to say that recent policy changes, like rejecting private vehicles from the center and promoting active transportation work. Though aftereffects of COVID (work-from-home) may be a contributor too.

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Firefox is ending support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, and users are urged to switch to Linux

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The key issue is that the request is to change behavior in one place (browser) to match that of a rare case (terminal), causing a mismatch with the frequent case (office suites, mail programs, ...). The terminal is the odd one out, not the browser, and ought be the one to change the default for the reason you provide.

In practice, a terminal is a special case and not just a text input window, and current convention is that Ctrl + C aborts / cancels.

(You could of course have a duplicate hotkey, but now you are inconsistent w.r.t. other browsers, and there will be someone else who will be annoyed by the difference)

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Hosting images is not free though, and the cost of it scales with the quality of the images. People that host Mastodon also have to manage excessive disk space usage, and if you want to use more of it, compensating the entity that provides this storage, whether a company or a person, is not unreasonable.

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No Policy Change: In CNN Interview, Harris Refuses to Condition U.S. Military Support for Israel

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Trump supports Russia and Israel, the dems support Israel. If you pick Trump, both groups pay the price. Depending on who you pick one group will pay the price or not, one group will pay the price no matter what; yet for this group (the Palestinians) the degree to which will probably differ, I suspect Trump may be worse given that he avoids supporting a ceasefire at all and tells the Israeli government to finish what they started. People from Palestine state the same: Trump would be worse, but neither choice would support them.

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sudo-rs Is Now The Default sudo Of Ubuntu 25.10

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  • wasnt broke dont fix

Sadly, security issues are still being found in sudo, so wasn't broke isn't entirely true. Though, whether or not Rust prevents a given security issue is strongly dependent on the kind of issue. Security issues arising from logical errors usually don't get caught, there is only a guarantee for memory management issues.

  • missing some configuration features of base sudo

One of the things sudo-rs does is implement only a subset of features to decrease the attack surface. A recent security issue did not affect sudo-rs because they simply did not implement the feature that had the (logic) bug. As with many things this is a trade-off.

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It is uplifting though? The alternative is not 'not having cancer', it is 'cancer is recognized in a later stage'. Having cancer be recognized earlier really boosts the possibility of survival, and any improvement in that regard is quite uplifting in my opinion.

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Duchamp's Fountain (more images in post)

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The same thing happened to photography, and other kinds of modern art, too. Things are often excluded from being art until they are included (to at least a subset of people).

With AI it is often questionable how much 'intent' someone has put into a work: 'wrote a simple trivial prompt, generated a few images, shared all of them' results in uninteresting slop, while 'spent a lot of time to make the AI generate exactly what you want, even coming up with weird ways to use the model (like this / non-archive link)' is a lot more interesting in my view.

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Judge says he must still approve sale of Infowars to The Onion

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I think the video LegalEagle uploaded explains it quite succinctly: for the sale there was a certain split between the debtors, the debtors with the largest portion were willing to forego a portion such that the other debtors would get a larger portion if The Onion's bid was the winning one. In effect, the other debtors would get more money out of the 1.75m than the 3.5m bid, and the debtors that 'got less' are the ones that offered the money in the first place.

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Linus T..... (choose wisely)

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A layman would think: I am installing steam, I want to install steam. What do you mean potentially harmful? Steam ain't a virus. I have no clue what pop* is and what it does. -> do as I say.

While the prompt is perfectly adequate for those that are technically experienced enough to recognize it is about to uninstall your desktop environment, that isn't the case for someone who doesn't know what their desktop environment is. Especially since there is an expectation that installing software does not break things (but, because shared libraries are shared more often than not in Linux, it could!)