TheCaconym

I know, it's fucking shameful

It's a fucking pandemic. At the early stages, one person can (inadvertently of course) kill millions. Later, one can kill hundreds. Just by moving around and talking to people.

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream, right ? still need to play it.

Ah yeah, drivers are another thing entirely. Especially for what I imagine is very proprietary undocumented hardware. The only thing that can help there is a reverse engineer / kernel module dev.

I use fluxbox but that doesn't prevent using gnome apps; my main issue with them is that god-awful look they all assumed overnight a few years ago, without the title bar and the like (I think to match the Ubuntu tendency at the time / trying to emulate the fucked-up universal touch interface thing Microsoft tried to introduce at the time ?), from gedit to, indeed, evolution. I really loathe it. And thunderbird kept a classic look (firefox didn't, which means regular css tweaking to achieve the same result).

Also thunderbird supports calendars and webdav/webcal sync with plugins (though perhaps evolution does as well now, I haven't checked).

Everybody does, comrade

I still use thunderbird. It works well.

On that Windows 95 anecdote, by the way, beyond gaming that's also one of the advantages of wine. Pretty sure their software would run perfectly on Linux with wine.

Not a bad article, but there's a nugget of shit in there:

Totalitarian propaganda always follows the same patterns: if you do not accept the authoritarian management of Covid, you are a «negationist»

Also a much smaller thing but:

A humanity to be kept under the iron heel, also thanks to administrative detention – that is, imprisonment in the absence of any crime – experimented precisely in Israel and now extended all over the world.

...Israel certainly didn't invent administrative detention, the US for one (and I'm fairly certain many EU nations) did it before that

And provide a helpful mirror of the staff cafeteria menu each week

The very leader of Hamas in Gaza comes from one such prisoner exchange (that of Gilad Shalit)

I'm wondering just how likely Israel is to do more of them, it genuinely looks like they just decided they didn't give a flying fuck about the hostages this time.

I'm still not sure to be honest, but yeah, I've been suspicious of the accounts of that day.

There is also the possibility that there were a majority of civilian deaths (official numbers do suggest a small majority of civilians), but not all of them from Palestinian fighters; this article is especially interesting; I quote:

Kibbutz Be’eri has been a favoured destination for BBC reporters keen to illustrate Hamas’ barbarity. It is where Lucy Williamson headed again this week. And yet none of her reporting highlighted comments made to the Israeli Haaretz newspaper by Tuval Escapa, the kibbutz’s security coordinator. He said Israeli military commanders had ordered the "shelling [of] houses on their occupants in order to eliminate the terrorists along with the hostages".

I haven't checked the Haaretz piece in question myself though. There is also this piece:

Israeli forces shot their own civilians, kibbutz survivor says

Even if nobody had picked anything up, it's been 200 years, the cities should look like this.