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required to share your personal data with our main office in Russia and our external counsel in the USA

Which most probably means that if you report a bug, you send them data about your installation and whatever additional data you include, like the email to contact you.

Lawyers keep stepping on this rake time and again when writing terms and policies.

LibreOffice's look stems in large part from the UI toolkit that they use. Which was guaranteed to look like Windows, since LO is made in Java, and is not gonna be changed easily.

I haven't used Apple's suite much, but it's likely that LO could learn something from it, for the simple reason that Apple knows about the principles of grouping in design and thus never subscribed to the approach of ‘cram lots of buttons in the toolbars without spacing’.

However, changing the paradigm of the existing UI is probably a big ask.

I'm wondering where people like you and me, using non-LTS but not rolling distros, go in the OP pic.

I'd guess that keeping configs in Ansible would reduce that setup time to an hour or two.

There's a sequel to ‘Mutant League Football’, from 2017, called ‘Mutant Football League’. And a sequel to the sequel.

I have to wonder if the pic is made by AI, because it's fascinating to me that some people keep cranking out elaborate Pepe images. Shitposting in text is easy, drawing not so much.

The OP image is rather low-res, but I don't see any particularly obvious bullshit in the Pepe pic. Other than the fact that drawing full five fingers is unusual for a comic.

辻斬り or 辻斬, literally "crossroads killing"

So either ‘crossroads killing’ or ‘crossroads killing and a swirl’.

how to give people the power to protect others without giving them the power to abuse

Police are by their nature a gang who are paid off for protection from other gangs. They likewise consist of people who sell their muscle and weapon skills, for the absence of other skills to sell.

The US also has ‘surgeon general’, likewise not typically doing any cutting.

It's like the people complaining that in MacOS the user needs to install third-party tools (open-source ones!) to tune the GUI, and then advising each other how they use this and that tool to disable MS' bullshit in Windows.

And ‘Tomb Raider’ was developed by Core Design and published by Eidos.

Wendy Carlos' ‘Switched-On Bach’ turned synthesizers from a tool of avantgarde experimentalists into a mainstream instrument.

Captain Beefheart's ‘Trout Mask Replica’ remains probably the most widely cited avantgarde-rock album, perplexing listeners to this day. (Gotta say, I never had a problem with it, perhaps because I don't know music theory.)

Kraftwerk's ‘Autobahn’ is an obvious one, though ‘Trans-Europe Express’ and ‘The Man-Machine’ probably had more influence on synthpop and techno.

Lou Reed's ‘Metal Machine Music’ was trashed on release by critics, and returned en masse by the buyers, but it presaged industrial and noise music, and possibly noise-rock.

Then again, though industrial music properly started with live performances, if you wanted to revisit its roots, you'd listen to Throbbing Gristle's ‘The Second Annual Report’ or the more warmly received ‘D.o.A: The Third and Final Report’.

The ‘No New York’ compilation was exemplary of the ‘no wave’ experimental jazz-rock of the downtown NYC scene and gave the genre its name.

Liaisons Dangereuses' self-titled album was the progenitor of ebm, e.g. with the track ‘Los niños del parque’.

This Mortal Coil's ‘It'll End in Tears’ “set the template” for dream pop, although the sound itself was already around in the work of Cocteau Twins and the ethereal wave movement.

The Winstons' 1969 track ‘Amen, Brother’ didn't start anything itself, but the ‘Amen break’ is one of the most sampled in history, beginning with the 80s breakbeat, and with jungle, drum-and-bass and breakcore having been predominantly built on this one sample.

Napalm Death's ‘Scum’ is the origin of grindcore.

John Zorn's ‘Naked City’ is a landmark in jazz-fusion: although the concept existed before, no one mixed jazz with other genres so aggressively outside of free-jazz. (Though arguably the band Massacre anticipated Zorn's approach.)

The Prodigy's ‘Experience’ is said to have birthed edm albums as a concept:

Moby credited ‘Experience’ with changing his perception about dance albums; previously he felt that "dance albums had always failed [...] because they didn't work over the full length of the record. Mostly they were singles collections which was exactly what I didn't want to do," and noted that ‘Experience’ "impressed me because they'd managed to create a full listening experience which encompassed various styles. This was the kind of vision I had for my debut album."

The ‘Artificial Intelligence’ compilation on Warp started idm.

‘Wipeout’'s electronic soundtrack, along with its acid visuals and nightclub-oriented promotion (by Designers Republic) was a big factor in targeting the first PlayStation to college-age people, instead of kids as it was with previous consoles. This shifted the console market from kids' toys to entertainment for everyone.

Therion properly invented symphonic metal around ‘Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas’ / ‘Lepaca Kliffoth’ / ‘Theli’.

The ‘Hotline Miami’ soundtrack played a large role in the popularity of synthwave and the 2010s revival of associated genres like darkwave, coldwave, ebm, and to some extent post-punk.

If you're into edm, you might want to check out Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music for various branching points.

The thing is, I haven't heard that the backpack was thrown out of the evidence, which is what confuses me. But I'm only following the case via Lemmy and Reddit.

The most loud evidence since the arrest was the backpack with the gun and the manifesto. Except it was known pretty soon that the cops botched the ‘chain of custody’ for the backpack, as some officer had the backpack in her sole possession for an hour before delivering it to the station.

I keep being baffled as to why I don't see any news about this evidence being thrown away. Maybe it was dismissed from the trial right away, idk.

I keep getting amused by how for three years USians cried that Russians should've rioted and ousted Putin, and now for the past year “it's complicated”.

It's not the kernel, which is their own work for a long time now. It's the userland utils, which are almost entirely taken from FreeBSD and track that project.

Although BSD utils are updated at a glacial pace, so it probably wouldn't be much work for Apple to do that themselves.

Everyone needs to realize that all the age verification stuff is just a step towards the purpose, which is having any and all computer operation tied to the person — i.e. as Cory Doctorow has put it, the war on general computation.