Thatcher had to be genuinely talked down from using Nukes

There are only two source I could find for any such claims. One is an interview with Michael Quinlan, former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence, who claims that after the war ended Thatcher suggested to him that she would have considered using nuclear weapons if the war went badly enough. The other is this book by Mitterrands psychiatrist written ~20 years after the conflict. I only really think the interview is a credible source, and it sure doesn’t sound like they genuinely had to talk her out of using nukes at any point.

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Yes that happens, for some reason that user actively goes to FuckAI and bans people who posted there. I can only assume that they see disdain for AI as a personal slight.

The difference being that Motorola is a well established device manufacturer and not just a community project with minimal funding. Google using play integrity to exclude a competitor could be very easily seen as an abuse of market power and they already have problems with antitrust laws.

No alternative codecs wont do, the application we are building has a hard dependency on these specific dlls due to another dependency requiring them. It was also just one example of many excuse my hyperbole. Here is another one, try to get winget to work with a local package cache. You have to go to some third party developer for that. Want another one? How about debugging windows binaries in an offline environment. Reasonable requirement? Microsoft says no.

Why is this arbitrarily “a whole different story” and who said anything about UWP, it’s the media codecs we depend on. Windows 10 N offered an offline installer for that “optional feature” and now Microslop makes my life more difficult for no reason at all.

Ok, where can I download the Media Feature Pack for Windows 11 N as an offline installer?

At my job we are working with a few air gapped Windows machines which is already really annoying because Microslop doesn’t offer offline installers for anything related to Windows 11 anymore. I expect this to get even more difficult over time.

Also:

Very very simple.

Really? I find it quite feature packed for a notes taking app.

Here are a few more:

logseq

Its an outliner, a colleague of mine basically lives in that thing.

silverbullet

It’s almost perfect for me but the browser based editing made it unusable because there is no way to unmap Ctrl + W in a browser and I can’t live without my Vim bindings.

QOwnNotes

This is the solution for normal people who don’t spend n+1 hours tweaking their editor configuration.

Org-Roam

For people who do spend n+1 hours tweaking their emacs configuration.

This looks like it was inspired by Vermis.

That’s a shame. Did they take the wasted developer time dealing with slop into account in that discussion?

Codeberg is cool but I would prefer not having all FOSS project centralised on another platform. In my opinion projects of the size of Godot should consider using their own infrastructure.

I think moving off of GitHub to their own forge would be a good first step to reduce this spam.

They plan waste $130 million on AI bullshit. Imagine a fraction of that invested into the actual browser. I can’t even eat as much as I want to vomit.

Yes, for the Gnome ecosystem.

You can read about the reasoning here.

Basically using GTK alone became a lot of unenjoyable work for them because they didn’t want to depend on libadwaita and since its something they do for free in their free time it has to be fun.

My guess would be that its because La Suite tries to replace all of Microsoft Office and having all the moving parts under your organisations control makes it easier to create a fully integrated office suite that offers the same UX throughout. Also Jitsi is owned by 8x8, a US company, which might have factored into the decision to create something new.

Just once would I like to see a thread about Poettering without people being fucking idiots in the comments. We know literally nothing about this verifiable integrity product and people are already shitting on it. The guy could announce that he developed a cure to cancer and people would still complain about it.

Poor Greg. 😔🪦