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Majohn B32

Its cap is both friction fit and clipped, a bit of an odd system that I don’t fully understand.

I noted that on Doodle Bud's review. It appears to be similar to the Lamy 2000. Any problems with ink splatter? DB's had problems with his cap being so tight that when he removes it he gets ink in the cap, on the nib/feed/section and then on his fingers.

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Linux just cracked 10% desktop usage in North America, but no one's sure why

StatCounter itself has flagged the possibility that some of the new Linux activity could be bot-related, including traffic generated by AI agents and other automated workloads, which would make the jump appear much larger than a shift driven entirely by human users.

Oh, it's because of AI alright. Because Windows users are tired of it being shoved down their f***ing throats.

(I'm just being sarcastic for the fun of it…)

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Nexus Gamers are going to test gpus on Linux (Bazzite)

This is definitely something that has been coming for some time. Yes, I am a little surprised it has taken this long for a major channel know for hardware reviews for gamers to take this step... I would have thought that the popularity of the Steam Deck, and all of the handhelds that are now running Linux would have been a motivator.

But it seems that Steve is really seeing that there is more of a progression of people not wanting to go to Windows 11, and the issues surrounding Microsoft's insistence on adding creepy features that no one asked for (like Recall) as the push they needed.

And I agree, Bazzite is probably one of the best choices that they could make. The immutability of the system will allow them to have consistent images that won't change on them randomly. That is a definite requirement when dealing with this type of benchmarking.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Torches Trump Tariffs and Corruption: ‘It Shouldn’t Be About Helping Your Crypto Donors’

What timeline are we living in where MTG is actually starting to talk sensibly about some of the bull-puckey that Trump is pulling?

Don't get me wrong - she still is not a good person, in fact she is downright despicable on many levels. But crap, she's actually talking against Trump on two issues now.

But, honestly, I doubt her sincerity on the tariffs issue. It's most likely that she's concerned that the businesses that have been stuffing her pockets for years won't stuff her pockets anymore.

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Homeland Security wants social media sites to expose anti-ICE accounts

Well, this is definitely a tactic that is a new form of bullying. Sounds like they've been trying this all along, and are using the subpoenas to try to quell dissent. Hopefully the recipients understand this and push back on them. It sounds like the DHS knows that these court orders will not stand up to scrutiny in court and folds at the slightest legal challenge.

But, shame of Meta, Google, et al. for folding so quickly. Another reason to get off, and stay off the commercial media garbage.

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Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs

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I don't know if you were joking or not... But in case you weren't: the Intel guys typically have information about upcoming / unreleased products before the details are out in the open. Yes, the drivers can be maintained by the community when the information is available... But, day one driver support won't be there (since they are generally developed in-house by Intel, and then pushed up to the kernel for release), and community development would (likely) take significantly longer....

And on the Enterprise customer side, there might be some hesitation about adopting newer Intel products that don't have drivers officially supported by the company...at least in environments where Linux would be the (logical) choice... That might lead Enterprises to look at Windows instead of Linux.

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Help me understand- Angine de Poitrine

So, there are good explanations as to why they are popular, and not a joke even slightly.

What AdP have done is combined:

  • Pop rock using looping tech and really tight percussion / guitar work
  • Some very technical playing, especially using microtonal instruments with a 24 tone scale
  • A dada-esque aesthetic to make themselves standout
  • Created a lore that allows them to preserve some privacy

So, no, the music is not a joke. It's real music, made by musicians that have been performing together since they were ~13 years old (over a decade at this point). If you listened with a critical ear you might realize that many of their pieces are actually satirizing the clichés of pop-rock music. The aesthetic is made to be fun and get attention.

I've written a bit more about them here: The Summer of Angine de Poitrine.

Oh, and FYI—if this is a joke, it's one of the most successful jokes in nearly 20 years. They smashed the attendance record set by Stevie Wonder in 2009 for the Montreal Jazz Festival.

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Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition

Not only do I think this will generate a fair number of CVE's, I think there will be a lot of optimization of the code going on.

Look at what happened with OpenOffice a few years back -- the Oracle buyout of Sun Microsystems forced the forking of OpenOffice to LibreOffice -- during which the new Dev team took the time cleanup and refactor the code. This resulted in a suite that was about 10 percent smaller, and removed a bunch of redundant things (like multiple copies of icons).

I bet we see something similar with Minecraft -- even if it can't be an "authorized" version.