Traditionally in my family it’s called the Excited States of Hysteria.

I mean… by now probably millions of people have done it. I’m one of them, started in 1997. It was easier then in that for example nobody used “Teams” (it’s still the case that nobody should) and it was harder in that Wine was not as good.

People need to understand how data is used

No. People need to learn to refuse to have their ID scanned at bars and restaurants and every other place that has no business scanning their ID.

There should be a public consensus that having your ID scanned on demand for no reason is unacceptable. It would’ve been obvious to the people of thirty years ago. There ought to be public service announcements telling people why it’s wrong, if for some reason the practice can’t simply be prohibited completely.

I too had a ghetto blaster, which must sound pretty weird to people young enough to have never heard of them.

Neat. But it’s not pre social media. Social media has been around since the 1980s.

The fediverse has become the central hub for it all due to its nature. Any forums or whatever which want to join in and be a part of it are free to do so. It could perhaps be made easier, but that depends on the technical details of the protocols involved which are still hard to understand.

Even in Europe where they’re more serious about such things they are approaching the idea only very slowly. Governments in Canada are so comfy in that prison that they’ve forgotten the outside world even exists. Couldn’t hurt to try and remind them I guess, but don’t expect them to believe you.

We’ve long been in need of a new—or freshly revitalized—brand for people interested in making things better to organize around, and it seems like we’ve finally got one democratic socialism.

Or is he one of those rare politicians who listens to the people of the country

Ha! Unless he’s been replaced by the pod people in the past couple of weeks I do not think that is likely. I would be betting on Trump doing what he always does rather than Carney doing what he always doesn’t.

True. Enough movies have been made, enough books written. There’s no need for more. Stop creating stuff, everyone — unless you really need to, in which case you might be an artist or a writer.

Hopefully it won’t matter too much in practical terms. More distributions have lately started using very new kernel versions and substantial numbers of people might therefore be hit by it. But the volume of patches to amdgpu is so high that I have no idea if whatever the problem might be was fixed already by someone. If it was as obvious to others as it seemed to me then it should very likely be fixed for 7.2.1.

You appear to have misunderstood what I said there. It was not in rc7.

If you have a patch to fix it the lkml or whichever related list is devoted to amdgpu would probably like to hear from you, otherwise I’m not sure — possibly the freedesktop issues page would be appropriate.

I’m still not yet sure if people other than me are affected, but I guess so? If it’s still there in a couple of weeks maybe I’ll find the strength to do some more testing.

rc7 was the final release candidate build for 7.2, the seventh in the usual series of them. They’re meant to fix bugs, not introduce new ones. I often run them, for fun and testing. One expects bugs like this — assuming it is a bug — in the rc builds but normally they’re meant to be fixed before the final release which happened this week.

Switching back to a working kernel is what I did for today, yeah. I have no particular reason to need 7.2 right now and don’t have time to try and track down the bug.

Search built for the AI era

I would really prefer search that takes you back to the era when search engines did a good job. It wasn’t that long ago.

There’s no doubt that a vegan diet can do people a lot of good but normally one doesn’t want to go too far in the direction of “you might not believe this, little fella, but it’ll cure your Asthma too!”

If you’re planning to buy a GPU in the 2020s it’s probably best to aim for late 2023.

$800,000 to install cooling measures in parks during stretches of extreme heat

I know the idea is to generate talking points to make it sound as if you’re doing something about climate change, not to actually do anything about climate change but if it’s literally installing sprinklers in city parks to cool people down on hot days — although that’s nice — I wonder if it might be just a little too obvious that it’s not really accomplishing much relative to the size of the problem of climate change.

Poilievre did a great job keeping the Conservatives out of power for a while. It was just bad luck for Canada that he did such a good job of it that the Liberals got a majority.

The monthly active users count there is not down compared to last year at this time, although it’s not up by as much as even the small amount that it was a couple months ago. Holding steady is a departure from the trend, the best it’s done in a long time.

Previously I noticed that Firefox user count had stopped declining for the first time in many years. Only later did I realise that it was probably due to all the fuss about Chrome dropping MV2, not anything Mozilla themselves had done. Hopefully this will keep the trend line going up a little further. Who knows, maybe Mozilla will miraculously come to its senses before it resumes the long slow decline.