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Linus Torvalds muses about maintainer gray hairs and the next 'King of Linux' (www.zdnet.com)
In a candid keynote chat at the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit Europe, Linux creator Linus Torvalds shared his thoughts on kernel development, the integration of Rust, and the future of open source.
How could you best spent one million dollars, to materially help the world in a lasting way?
Telegram founder Pavel Durov reportedly arrested in France (techcrunch.com)
Welcome to the free world!
Borderlands is failing already. (www.eurogamer.net)
Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap. (www.businessinsider.com)
What would you like to change about Lemmy culture?
Do you know any mobile games that don't suck?
I just want to kill some time, I like simple arcade style games that aren’t using scummy corporate sales tactics to get me to play every day
Nato in talks to put nuclear weapons on standby (www.telegraph.co.uk)
An open source/self hosted and federated Tik-Tok alternative, made by pixelfed has just successfully tested federation. (mastodon.social)
If you were home and had five minutes to hide from foreign agents who were coming to hunt you down, where would you hide?
People that don’t wear antiperspirant…
do you not smell body odor or do you just get used to it?...
Price of solar dropped 89% in ten years (ourworldindata.org)
Solar now being the cheapest energy source made its rounds on Lemmy some weeks ago, if I remember correctly. I just found this graphic and felt it was worth sharing independently....
Americans of Lemmy, what is your approach to next year's election?
2020 was… truly unique. It was so hard to stay away from doom scrolling, and I (and many others) were pretty disillusioned by the sad fact that so much of our country legitimately supported the Orange Man. I didn’t get a wink of sleep the night of the election because I genuinely considered it to be a make or break decision...
Why does the value of things in dollars not make sense?
This is difficult to explain. I can’t figure out a rule of thumb for spending, the prices of things fluctuate so quickly it’s confusing. Here are some examples...
Would you consider the anonymous sale of nudes cheating?
Having removed metadata and with nothing recognizable in the pic.
Germany set to double Ukraine military aid (www.reuters.com)
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Zelensky refuses to hold elections in wartime Ukraine (www.newsweek.com)
Firefox Development Is Moving From Mercurial To Git (groups.google.com)
For a long time Firefox Desktop development has supported both Mercurial and Git users. This dual SCM requirement places a significant burden on teams which are already stretched thin in parts. We have made the decision to move Firefox development to Git....
Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future (techcrunch.com)
The mission-driven tech company behind the Firefox browser, Pocket reader and other apps is now investing its energy into the so-called “fediverse” — a collection of decentralized social networking applications, like Mastodon, that communicate with one another over the ActivityPub protocol.
Honda says making cheap electric vehicles is too hard, ends deal with GM (arstechnica.com)
Honda says making cheap electric vehicles is too hard, ends deal with GM::The platform was to use GM’s Ultium batteries.
What is the best linux alternative to OneNote?
I’ve no problem with using LibreOffice for most of my document needs, but i haven’t found a good substitute for microsoft’s OneNote yet. I mainly use it to plan my RPG games and it helps a lot. What alternatives are there for organizing notes on linux, with similar features to those that OneNote provides?
If you could bring back a dead band/musician which one/who would it be?
Israel war: Israeli foreign minister says Gaza territory will shrink after war (www.washingtonexaminer.com)
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen told Israeli Army Radio that Israel's war aims are not just the total destruction of Hamas, but the country also aims to reduce the size of Gaza. The pronouncement is the most explicit indication yet that Israel will move to annex parts of Gaza, as some analysts have speculated.
ONLYOFFICE 7.5 Released with New PDF Editor + More (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
‘It’s the same daily misery’: Germany’s terrible trains are no joke for a nation built on efficiency (www.theguardian.com)
what tech company is the worst in you're opinion?
mine is BlackRock if you consider that an tech company if not then my second is meta facebook
Whose a good comedian that never fails to make you laugh?
I had a dream about windows and have decided to setup Linux on my laptop. What distro should I use?
I used Ubuntu once a few years ago but had compatability issues so I went back to windows. Not a great programmer but I’d like to learn. I’m not looking to do much gaming beyond DOOM2 and factorio. Mostly looking for privacy and a way to get back into programming (I have this pipe dream of learning Assembly). I’m not to...
Microsoft published a guide on how to install Linux. (programming.dev)
Will the world ever stop being anti-intellectual?
One of the most aggravating things to me in this world has to be the absolutely rampant anti-intellectualism that dominates so many conversations and debates, and its influence just seems to be expanding. Do you think there will ever actually be a time when this ends? I'd hope so once people become more educated and cultural...