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Cake day: January 11th, 2024

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  • One thing I never liked about Element is the devs’ refusal to put effort into supporting multiple accounts. Now I’m starting to wonder if that was a deliberate choice and not a fundamental technical limitation. Discouraging multiple accounts and effectively forcing people to use one identity for everything is exactly the sort of requirement I’d expect from VCs looking to sell out to advertisers.










  • Very sad news. His performance in the DS9 episode Duet was great. I highly recommend watching Duet if you haven’t. Go in blind. It’s a safe bet that anyone on this site would very much understand and appreciate this episode. Don’t worry about knowing anything about Star Trek if you’ve never watched it. This episode can be enjoyed standalone. All you really need to know about Deep Space Nine to understand Duet is that the Federation (the Space United Nations with an exploration/military branch called Starfleet, the “good guys”) is helping a world called Bajor recover from a brutal colonial occupation by a major galactic power called the Cardassian Union (basically Space Nazis).

    The Bajorans and the Federation collaboratively run a trade-port space station, the titular “Deep Space Nine”. It used to be a Cardassian ore processing station using Bajoran slave labour before the end of the occupation. The Bajoran Provisional Government didn’t have the resources to repair and repurpose the station to be a trade port, and they had concerns about the Cardassians being a continuing threat, so they made an agreement with the Federation. Starfleet would run the station and it could be used as a base of operations without interference from the Bajorans. But Bajorans would work alongside Starfleet in operating the station, Starfleet would provide military protection for Bajor, Bajoran law would apply to non-Starfleet matters on-station and in Bajoran space, and a Bajoran military officer would be second-in-command. The second-in-command of DS9 is a former guerrilla fighter who started at age 12. She’s seen some shit that she can’t and won’t forget, such as liberating the Bajoran equivalent of Auschwitz. The various post-independence factions of the Bajorans have differing views on the Federation. Some see them as noble saviours who will solve Bajor’s problems, some see them as just another colonial power looking to exploit Bajor. But the majority are at various positions in-between and see the Federation as annoying but temporarily necessary while they get back on their feet.






  • I fully second this. I’ve been using Linux as my main desktop OS since about 1998. I cut my teeth on Slackware 3.4. I’ve seen distros and important system software come and go. Wayland certainly needs work, and isn’t a 1:1 replacement for the X protocol, but it’s designed for the modern world. The X protocol (any implementation) is a relic of a bygone age. It was designed for running programs remotely over a trusted connection in an academic setting. It was a poor choice for a desktop OS where web browsers can facilitate malware coming in. X was only adopted for Linux back in the day because there wasn’t much else mature when desktop Linux at home started being a thing. We need to let the dumb thing finally die.