“A dinosaur stole my fucking chips.”

“Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website — maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination,” Root wrote.

Fucking gold.

Oh hell yeah. I don’t do too much research into shrimps, but if you ever fall way too far down that rabbit hole, the guy to go to is Sammy De Grave at the University of Oxford. He works on WoRMS (the World Register of Marine Species) and absolutely loves caridean shrimp. Really nice guy.

Congratulations on iNaturalist! We use images from iNaturalist on Wikipedia all the time, so we’re intensely grateful for the work y’all do. Did you see any crustaceans by chance?

What kinds of critters? 👀

Robfefehood

They’d still be wrong about it not being MSM. Politico has been around for 18 years now and was acquired by Axel Springer in 2021 for $1 billion. This is not even remotely obscure. But if you still want to think that for some reason:

• Fox News (sorry)
• CNN
• Newsweek (tabloid trash but mainstream tabloid trash)
• The Seattle Times (Washington state’s largest newspaper)
• Associated Press
• The Independent
• Axios
• The New York Times
• The Guardian

The only logical conclusion is that you said this based on vibes without a cursory check.

Notice how the msm will never point it out.

You’re in a thread about a Politico article reporting on the pipe bomb suspect’s political beliefs.

Lmfao, does the acronym stand for “No Bullshit News”?

I feel like this video has somewhat interesting bits sprinkled within, but for the most part, it sets up a problem most people already recognize, never actually explores why it happens (besides vaguely “money”, which I think anyone could guess), and then interviews Don Norman to give the most obvious “no shit” and high-level explanation for creating intuitive designs. We also get the solution to the door problem – which is also trivially obvious.

Vox imo is usually good and in-depth (at least their written work is), so while inoffensive, this really surprised me.

I hate you.

Oh, you’re going to have to elaborate on this. I want to feel your suffering.

Hai, froggy.

NDT’s not even going to mention that Santa probably solved or approximately solved the traveling salesman problem for a complete graph of several hundred million vertices embedded in a spherical topology?

efforts to extend Xorg’s life or replace it with similar alternatives continue.

This is 100% true, but the efforts are negligible and not even worth consideration.

• Xorg maintainers are doing just that: maintaining it (and, for the most part, begrudgingly). It will continue to exist for a long time, but that’s the only remarkable thing about it.
• XLibre is made by some anti-vaxx conspiracy dipshit who thinks ^ is an exponentiation operator in C and who got kicked off Xorg for being a moron who did functionally nothing of any importance while carelessly breaking things like the ABI. Enormous quantity but zero quality to speak of. It will go nowhere and only has any crumb of relevance because of the maintainer’s virtue signaling.
• Phoenix basically just started, yet Linux outlets are tripping over themselves to report on it, showing there’s very little real work to speak of in this space. It’s a nothingburger of a story. It doesn’t even do basically the only thing X11 is even good for anymore, which is support legacy applications.

As GNOME and KDE drop X11 and DEs like Cinnamon adopt Wayland, more and more actively maintained applications will stop giving a shit about X11. Even if they don’t explicitly not support it, none of the developers will be using it, and most of the userbase won’t either; thus, applications’ support for X11 will just rot away if it isn’t outright deprecated. Obviously X11 will always have a base of legacy applications, but you’re going to be seriously hard-pressed even two years from now to find someone who would use X11 over Wayland – except for specific and severely outdated hardware, conspiracy nutjobs, and the rare case where XWayland doesn’t properly support a legacy application.

Also on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/techaltar-the-billion-dollar-race-to-replace-windows/

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Rule 1, OP.

You ought to link the Retraction Watch source, OP. Fostering a culture of responsible sourcing is incumbent on all of us.

Any particular words you don’t know? Probably the most likely ones are para- and monophyletic. For a taxon (scientific grouping) to be a valid clade, it needs to be monophyletic, meaning it contains the most recent common ancestor of the group’s other members and all known descendants of that common ancestor. Paraphyletic, by contrast, means not all the descendants are in there. For example, imagine if the mammals just randomly excluded the bears – that would be paraphyletic, because the bears also share a common ancestor with the other mammals.

So a monophyletic group of your family tree might include your grandmother, all her children, and all their children’s children, etc. A paraphyletic one might exclude Gertrude and her kids because she got drunk and stole and wrecked the LeBaron and we fucking know she did it and we don’t talk to her after that.