I just saw this on F-Droid, will need to test it, but sounds like it could be really good: https://f-droid.org/packages/lu.knaff.alain.saf_sftp

I’m hoping, it works like mounting or FUSE on proper Linux, where you can just use normal applications to transparently access network files. Then you’d be able to use any old file manager app to actually work with the files…

You probably just misread, but just to note that SFTP is different from SMB. They’re similar in purpose, but basically competing protocols…

What we expect from candidates:

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• Easily breaks software, deliberately or by accident

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Well, bullet bras were a thing for quite a while, too:

I mean, bees do like to dance.

But the comic also refers to a clearly female bee as “Jim”, so I don’t think this is scientifically accurate at all.

Yeah, this should be equivalent to interpolation search, which has an average performance of O(log(log(n))).

It helps that the months are separately indexed, so instead of a search on 365 input elements, you can do two searches with much lower input size, i.e. 12 and 31.

But yeah, you’re still in the larger O(log(log(n))) category with that.

Yeah, I always found it really valuable to know a person on the other side. Obviously, they’re not immune to propaganda either, but even just seeing the differences in propaganda can teach you a lot, both about which parts may be untrue, but also how propaganda works.

For example, I once saw a guy on Mastodon, who posted a populist Indian news article and expressed his agreement. The article was about some policy the EU was discussing, following Putins attack on the Ukraine, which would’ve affected India.
That policy was controversial here in the EU. I don’t remember what policy it was, but I didn’t feel good about it, my country (Germany) didn’t support it, but the EU as a whole did agree to it.

Meanwhile, that article framed it as “Europe is doing a bad thing” and “the West is blah”.
Like, man, I doubt, I would agree with my neighbor about this policy, but somehow I’m being generalized into an amorphous blob, the size of half the fucking planet.
It dehumanizes. It makes it seem like we’re not open for discussion, despite us internally leading extremely heated discussions.

But of course, we do the exact fucking same. We talk about India collectively all the time, even though it is much larger than the EU, with 1.4 billion different opinions. You don’t hear “the East” as often these days, but you do hear “Asia”, which is effectively just as meaningless of a word.

And yeah, just seeing the inverse happen to me, made it instantly clear why this is shit, which I would not have even thought about, if I only ever read our news outlets.

It’s a screenshot I found on the interwebs. 😅

I mean, I do enjoy a dumb game, but on the screenshot, I actually only recognize the dev sandbox and airgame because the latter says in plaintext what it is.

Damage should be possible to disable in the main menu before jumping into a game:

You probably knew the game/modpack MineClone2. That itself rebranded to VoxeLibre, because the devs wanted a bit more liberty rather than miming Minecraft precisely.
Well, and as a result of that, a fork came into existence, which is called Mineclonia and which continues on the mission to replicate Minecraft.

I feel like folks are antsy, because it doesn’t look revolutionarily different from the original Steam Machines, which flopped back then.
But yeah, there actually is a revolutionary difference, which is that the vast majority of games now do run on the new Steam Machines. This has also already been proven to the public with the Steam Deck.

And I do think there is a market of folks looking at a Steam Deck and thinking they don’t need it to be a handheld and would rather have more bang for their buck.

I guess, we will have to see, but I could also imagine the cornered memory market playing into the hands of the Steam Machine, as the better memory efficiency of Linux will let you do more for less.

Apparently, there’s the Rwenzori mountains with glaciers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwenzori_Mountains

This map suggests that Mount Elgon in the east is also rather cold:

But from what I can tell superficially, it doesn’t have glaciers…

Well, you certainly have more of a dictionary available than I do. For me, it looks like this:

(Which, again, might actually be broken on my distro by excessive minimalism. No idea.)

My About→Components section in Kate says this:

Kate: 25.12.2
KDE Frameworks: 6.23.0
Qt: Using 6.10.1 and built against 6.10.1
NixOS 26.05 (Yarara) (Wayland)
Build ABI: x86_64-little_endian-lp64
Kernel: linux 6.19.2

You could try setting the “Default language” in the Spellcheck settings to something else and see, if it still completes the same words, just to try to find out whether these dictionaries are connected.

But yeah, might be worth filing a bug report with the Kubuntu devs. At the very least, it would tell them this behavior may not be wanted by everyone, if it is intentional…

Yeah, I specifically buy cough drops that don’t taste overly good for that reason now…

I mean, if we go back to evolution for just a moment, there is evidence that homosexuality aided survival rates: https://britbrief.co.uk/health/research/homosexuality-evolved-as-survival-strategy-in-primates.html

So, the cum button may have actually come about through evolutionary pressure…

Reminds me of the glacier mice that got posted here a few weeks ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_mice

Hmm, that’s strange. Don’t think, it’s supposed to work like that, but that does not either seem like behavior that would manifest from a simple bug.

The words in your screenshot do seem to all be in the English dictionary, well, except for “trotz”, but that’s a German word, so might still be that it somehow takes a dictionary into account.
There might be some dictionary package installed through apt, which might enable that.

Can you check in the Kate settings under Editing→Spellcheck, if any languages show up there? On my system, I actually have none there. Perhaps, if I “fixed” that for me, I might end up with similar completions as you have there…

Also, sidenote: To my knowledge, the T₊ icon means that it is a word completion (normally based on words in the document), and not a keyword completion or similar.

Oh man, I don’t want to get deep into all the politics involved, but man, this reads like complete non-sense:

The outage comes following Iranian attacks on the UAE as retaliation for US and Israeli strikes on Iran.

If they did specifically target US corporations in UAE, that would make some amount of sense as direct retaliation.
I guess, you can also attack UAE and hope that they pressure the US to stop invading.
But in any case, this seems like a really good way to drag more nations into the conflict, or at least to force them to become active, which is not in the interest of Iran.

Oh man, seeing folks suggest it as a Discord alternative always had me uninterested, because I don’t even use Discord and it just seemed like yet-another-standard.
Now I’m reading this really technical title for a talk which mentions XMPP and I’m instantly sold.

Well, to be honest, “Movim” also sounded like a VC-funded startup. Looks like it’s a bus-factor-of-1 open-source project instead, which I have significantly more trust in.