Maybe you should read the article, because the increase in Linux users correlates with a reduction in Chinese users.

Sad to see, but extra sad that they made no considerations about releasing their servers

Slop overflow, for when the slop machine can’t lie to you well enough

There’s an old series of videos by Rick Mercer of Canada that does some similar cherry-picking of US residents responding to questions. They’re all done as a joke (Rick Mercer is a comedian) but they’re a surprising amount of accuracy to them. Mercer even interviews some US politicians in it and gets them to say some ridiculous things about Canada that show their lack of knowledge on foreign matters.

The US education is well-documented as an ineffective system but it’s not homogeneous across the country so I don’t think anyone would be correct to make any broadly-sweeping claims about how knowledgeable US residents are. Just know that some of them aren’t very bright and some of them are politicians.

I’m pretty sure most people outside of the USA would fail to point to Kansas on a map. That’s roughly equivalent to asking for someone to point to Brittany (administrative region of France). Just like I’m sure most people outside of Canada would struggle to locate Nova Scotia on a map. Heck even I sometimes mix up where New Brunswick and Nova Scotia are and I grew up in Canada. Administrative regions really aren’t relevant outside of their own country, but country borders are relevant internationally.

I do wonder how much North American geography the average US resident knows though. Like how (part of) France is part of NA or which island(s) is for which Caribbean country.

So many opportunities to cherry-pick funny and wild answers.

DMA devices aren’t in between the RAM and CPU, but they can talk to both of them (somewhat) independently. It’s more like a shared bus.

(Proposed) Direct Energy Converters

There’s also another heat -> electricity conversion method used by nuclear fission reactors, though it could presumably be used for anything in place of a steam turbine: thermocouples. Usually people think of them as electrical sensors for heat, but they can also scale up to produce a lot of electricity from a lot of heat. It’s not very new technology either; Voyager spacecrafts use it in their RTGs. No idea about how that scales though.

I’m not sure that I’ve phrased this question well, or that I even know how to ask this question well.

Consensus seems to be no, you didn’t ask this well. I think you could be onto something but you didn’t communicate any information to argue your point.

I think the problem comes from your premise. The WWW is not something that can have an information management strategy, good or bad. The WWW is a communication system that allows us to talk to other parts of the world, it is not the servers that the WWW talks to. Even if the servers were the WWW, they aren’t run by just one group. Anyone can run a server that connects to the WWW. This makes it impossible for there to be a single information management strategy; instead, every server has their own information management strategy. You also fail to describe what you mean by an “information management strategy” and what you consider to be a good or bad one.

And now, some editorial notes:

Once upon a time, I looked at the web as akin to an igneous rock, whereas now I think of it as a sedimentary rock.

Starting with a metaphor is fine, but without context (either before or after) it doesn’t mean anything. E.g. “Once upon a time I thought I was a duck, but now I think I’m a goose” sounds profound but it doesn’t actually contribute anything to the conversation.

The web has changed a lot in the last ~5 years. Sure, it can withstand a nuclear blast or whatever it was designed to withstand, but it clearly wasn’t designed to have usage patterns designed to endure.

You’re misunderstanding what was designed to withstand a nuclear blast. Web servers are not the self-healing communication standards that connect them.
Also, you use “designed” twice which makes it sort of tautological. I.e. “it wasn’t designed to be designed”.

For me, the thing that really drove this point home

You still haven’t stated a point. You’ve only asked a question up to this point in your post. You then bring up some anecdotes which you probably meant to support your point, but a reader can only guess what that point is so it’s confusing and unhelpful.

Anyway, I mention all of this because my first impression was that humans sought to record what was known so as to build upon that. Now, my impression is that the digital commons got turned into [a] forum of captive buyers without the language used ever changing, so it’s a shift that’s difficult to detect.

Is this your point??? It doesn’t have anything to do with your original question. If you’re going to argue a point, then please introduce it before you provide information to back up your point. While a standard essay layout is not required, the idea of an introduction, supporting information, then conclusion is always a good logical flow that everyone can follow.

By the end of your post, I’m still left wondering what information management strategy you want or what improvements you want to the existing one that the WWW uses.

The article briefly talks about female drivers too, which is what I talking about.

Women drivers can toggle on a preference to receive trip requests from women riders, giving them even more control over how they earn.

(and the image/gif seems to imply it’ll exclusively accept rides from women riders)

But yes, if gender is self-declared then it’d be pretty easy to abuse by a malicious rider (I assume, without proof, that drivers have to be vetted somehow). If they require a phone number for new rider accounts it shouldn’t be too hard to keep banned malicious users out, though. There are more foolproof ways, but they have other issues (e.g. ID verification is a privacy nightmare and potentially transphobic depending on local government policies).

It’s been a little while since I’ve used any sort of taxi service because the local public transit is pretty good, but I know a lot of the USA isn’t so lucky there either. That’s more of a cultural problem though.

On a semi-related note, it’s quite ironic that Uber made a change for only their home nation on International Women’s Day.

That also only solves half of the problem. Female drivers also want to be safe and doing background checks on everyone who has an Uber account isn’t very practical.

The Fairphone 5 has good Ubuntu Touch support and was sold in the USA by Murena until the gen 6 came out. There might be some on the local second hand market. Ubuntu Touch also has a good list of more common phones with varying ranges of software support, some of which are phones sold everywhere.

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At least up north around where I live manhole covers are often also either holes or bumps in the road due to things shifting around from the freeze/thaw cycles. Basically potholes with a purpose. Hitting bumps is bad for your car, so that’s a pretty good reason to avoid them. Though I’d never swerve around a bump if I was going to come close to someone else, since that’s much more dangerous.

This would be the sort of thing me, a cyclist, would stop for just to push the sign into the car lane.

The events are usually the first Friday of the month at the Brig Pub (in the Byward Market) but depending on who’s organizing they don’t schedule them very far ahead of time. There’s also been some debate about changing locations for the past few months so the location might not be there. There’s also a Signal group. A lot of the regulars have known each other for years (back to when the group was called GOSLING) so I think they have their own ways of getting in touch with each other. The main positive to Meetup is the discoverability aspect; it brings in a lot more people than before they were using it, from what I’ve heard. But nobody is really a big fan of it.

I have heard of OCLUG before but I’ve never managed to get their mailing list to work with my email so I always forget about them. I’m going to pin their website so I at least remember to check it for new events sometimes.

There’s also the Nerds & Nachos monthly meet up which often has a few local open source people (myself included), but it’s pretty casual and not project-focused https://www.meetup.com/opensourcenerdsandnachos It predates the Meetup group but that’s the most convenient link for it.

I live in Ottawa and work on FOSS hobby projects, currently https://git.ngram.ca/OpenJam/rc-servers . I’d love to see more talks and group events about FOSS!

Just one thing: veganism is not about protecting animals, just not exploiting them needlessly.

This seems like arguing semantics, but couldn’t that just as correctly be phrased as “protecting animals from needless exploitation”? Personally, I like to define animal rights as “protecting animals from humans” and human rights as “protecting humans from humans” because it’s a fun way to put it and reasonably accurate.

Getting nutrition isn’t ‘going out of your way’. This is something you have to do no matter what. Veganism is just going 1 or 2 aisles over in the supermarket and fetching the alternative to the animal explotation.

The same could be said about boycotting companies that are supporting Israel’s genocide, funding lobbying groups that support bad climate policies, or exploiting people in nations with less worker protections. Except perhaps in most cases it would be fetching the item beside it instead of an aisle or two over.

It’s just changing an action you daily take to another one with similar effort level.

That’s ignoring a lot of the challenges of going vegan. It’s not just buying different groceries, it’s also adapting or replacing recipes to work with the vegan products you’ve bought. It’s making sure restaurants have at least one vegan option when you go out (though you could be like me and just have “cheat” meals when you occasionally go out). It’s making sure your cosmetic products don’t do animal testing. Not that it has to all be done at once or at all, of course, but no matter how much you commit, it’s still a change. The food will taste different, the products will be different, the location in the store will be different.

The amount of effort is definitely greater at the start, but eventually it gets to a similar effort as the status quo as you get used to it (assuming there’s a decent & consistent selection of vegan options in this hypothetical person’s vicinity, which is pretty likely in the places most likely to read this comment).

Assuming you aren’t posting this just to preach to the choir, there’s plenty of completely valid reasons to not choose veganism. It’s also sort of the wrong question, because there’s a lot more people who choose to stick with their status quo than to change. In this world of endless causes, services, and distractions vying for everyone’s finite attention, what makes going vegan worth it? It’s not only a question of how or why to choose vegan, it’s also a question of why should people focus their attention on veganism over other things like volunteering for a local food bank, protecting people’s rights, stopping climate policy rollbacks, scrolling social media, or even playing video games? I’m sure you and I could come up a lot of good reasons, but we’re not who needs to be convinced… it’s everyone else.

Animal rights is sort of my favourite example of this. You will much more easily find people who think it worth their attention to protect other humans than people who want to protect animals. There’s nothing necessarily wrong with that view point, either – even I’d agree that human suffering matters more than animal suffering.

GrapheneOS has some very strict requirements which basically means they will refuse to support anything except Pixel phones. Fairphone isn’t in the business of making their own (security) chips so I doubt the Graphene team will ever consider them.

CalyxOS, arguably the next best thing, did have support for earlier Fairphones but that project is sort of in limbo now.

What is that woman’s pose though? It looks like she was about to knee him in the groin but was interrupted by someone trying to take their picture.