Some countries, like Finland, already started collecting their population’s DNA sequences of willing individuals for research purposes.

What a convenient way for police to ship you a backdoored version.

I always use gimp. Just define one pixel equals one millimeter, and then make all the furnitures as separate layers so you can move them around separately. Works great!

I would propose creating a distributed hash table for this. But I would never host someone else’s data like this, because I’m too afraid they will give me encrypted illegal content and then some obscure law will give me the fault for it. This is just me though.

I really hope that all Linux desktop software gets scaling support soon. Can’t live with only integer scaling increments

Yeah, I guess this is written from a more conservative standpoint.

I believe the principal ideas from the article apply to other people as well. Like progressive people could join a local sports club for example. Keeps them healthy and fit, and provides social contacts. Or then a book club, painting club, you name it.

And well, parents can create communities around their kindergarten or school classes, or maybe also some children’s sports club.

Interesting article. I believe it makes sense what they are saying in the big picture. Certainly, people would benefit from creating and joining local non-online communities.

What in their definition of community do you find problematic?

This graph gives me some Corona flashbacks.

It’s very good for servers. I wouldn’t use it on desktop.

Not niche, but surely exotic: NixOS, a distribution that is configured via a purely functional language. There is no such thing as installing or uninstalling packages, you add or remove things from your configuration and then simply apply that configuration.

And here my friends, we can see an exhibit from the United States of America.