I guess don’t get involved then?

Also, this conjures images of Shinzo Abe in a fighter jet with the numbers 7-3-1 on the side.

No, Facebook and Twitter are still useful for the status quo.

Fox News isn’t rallying people to support Palestine.

Thanks AIPAC, for protecting Americans from foreign misinformation campaigns.

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Ozzy the man was already in from Black Sabbath. But Ozzy Osbourne the band is in now. Their first six albums (through No More Tears) are as good as any other band in metal.

I assume this means Randy, Zakk, Jake E. Lee, etc are in.

Curious to see what they do about the bassist and drummer who sued and were subsequently removed from the reissue of Blizzard of Oz and Diary.

EDIT: Looks like Randy has been in the hall of fame on his own since 2021. TIL.

Maybe SuSE?

Play Minetest.

I remember the last few versions of Netscape Communicator had a “Shop” button.

This was the sign that Netscape had lost the browser war and was giving up.

Never heard of this service. Thanks.

I’m still on a Fairphone 4 – in fact, in December it surpassed all my previous smartphones as the one I’ve owned and used the longest since smartphones became a thing. However, I’m on CalyxOS and have always used a GCam port for taking photos. So I’m not sure if I will get this camera software update or if I have to move back to the (buggy) stock Fairphone OS to see the changes.

This is a big complaint for me. I know that there is the official standalone APK, but if I am running a de-Googled phone, I want to be able to use Signal and have it update on a regular basis.

I mean licensing comes in here. The FOSS licenses allow this. Microsoft EULA and copyright almost certainly does not. But yes, I get the sentiment.

It’s almost as if all of the FAANG/Magnificent 7 market outperformance the past 15 years was built on the backs of the free labor provided by the FOSS movement. But then they will turn around and claim that non-western companies steal IP, etc and have US intervene to ban competition, or sue in courts. Kind of funny.

Back to the tech discussion, I’ve been using doas for a few years now instead of sudo. Even on my GNU/Linux machines. It’s a lot simpler to setup for desktop workflow machines.

Good post, my favorite Sabbath song and album.

I’m happy for them.

Was this the best metal album of 2023? Not by a long shot.

Was it the best Metallica album in 25 years? Absolutely. They tried new things and pulled it off well.

The Grammys have very narrow criteria. Basically you are going to get top 40 radio friendly songs and they choose from that. Looking at the list of nominees, they were the only metal band actually nominated in this category. The rest of the nominees are what people who drive in to “easy listening soft hits” think metal sounds like. 2023 was a pretty weak year for metal anyway.

In my 30s, I’ve come back around to appreciating Metallica. We don’t have many years left of them being around. Enjoy them for the time that we still can. One of these days, soon, they will play Master of Puppets for the last time.

And at least Babymetal didn’t win.

I agree. There should have been an official Firefox repo from the beginning.

I do remember twenty years ago, Firefox development was incredibly Windows-centric. At one point it felt as though Firefox for Linux was a second class citizen. This was a radical departure from the Mozilla Suite which was maybe the first major desktop software to go from close to open source. For many years afterward, as a BSD/Linux user, I continued using SeaMonkey for that reason.

I assume having an official repo was just never a priority in the early days.

Fantastic version. I didn’t know it had so many verses.

It’s kind of terrible now. Since late 2023, when I go to search technical specs of hardware, I am presented with a view that looks like browsing an online shopping catalog. It’s weird and unwanted. For personal use, I went back to DDG.

South American history has been rewritten only in the past few years. Lidar and overhead satellite photography has revealed multiple forgotten cities that have been lost over the span of thousands of years, rising and falling to be reclaimed by the jungle over time. Intricate civilizations supporting populations in the hundreds of thousands, with pyramids taller than Egypt and earlier in time have been revealed.

The Eurocentric view is being slowly undone. I don’t think there is a consensus on how it happened, only that the civilization had already recently declined by the time Europeans got there, which unfortunately led to this idea that the people were genetically incapable of development and Civilization. We know where that led. (Even in 2016 in Ecuador, a Mormon missionary told me that rationalizing with those people was worthless and that they hadn’t even invented the wheel). There’s an unfortunate legacy of colonization in South America that perpetuates the inferiority complex among certain groups.

Reclaiming heritage and learning the history of these once proud people is a way to break that cycle. I am hopeful that in the upcoming decades, we continue to discover more and listen to and appreciate the descendants of these original civilizations. Thanks for sharing this article. There is a somewhat related, recent PBS Nova episode on how these cities functioned if you have the time. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/ancient-builders-of-the-amazon/

Man locks the front door to his house after refusing to answer the question, “Why do you beat your wife?”

Looks like Meta is using some of the stock price increase from the past few months to fund their media marketing campaign again.

It’s an election year. We are going to hear more about this and omg China.

Just remember that unlike Insta and FB the far right doesn’t go viral on TikTok. The platform that supported insurrection, the company that has allowed the far right to flourish and led to a direct assault on representative democracy, remains unpunished and is bigger today than 2020.