What Rust lets you do is confine the "unsafe" parts so that you do most of the logic with full safety on and then pass the results to a much smaller "unsafe" part that interacts directly with the hardware.

Assuming Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit multilib, how would a 64-bit Steam client run 32-bit games whose (non-Valve) publishers have not released a 64-bit executable?

The summary sounds like a district-scale counterpart to Cloud&Heat, a German firm that colocates server racks running OpenStack in businesses needing heating. See "Germans Can Get Free Heating From the Cloud" from November 2014. Interestingly enough, the summary of the Cloud&Heat story mentions Qarnot as well.

"The Social Network" is to a notable extent a work of fiction and construes a Zuckerberg that doesn't really resemble the real one rather than an amalgamation of nerd-rage projected on to a fictional Mark Zuckerberg.

The movie is ever so slightly flawed in that way and does stretch the one or other trope a little too hard when observed in isolation ("crazy bitch", "angry wounded nerd", "loudmouth silicon valley investor" etc.) but those are _all_ placed and played in service of the story and its telling and that is flat-out epic. Every single part right down to single-scene appearances are cast to the T and deliver an unbelievable performance, the pacing is flawless, the character dynamic is a masterpiece, every single word of dialog punches above its weight, the score is breathtaking and the camera-work is top tier.

It's definitely a masterpiece of a movie and Fincher (and Sorkin) knocked this one out of the park and into geo-stationary orbit, there is no two ways about that.

One of the penultimate scenes is a rage scene that Fincher shot 99 (ninetynine!) times and edited it out of 114 different adjacent takes. It's flat-out epic and one of the iconic scenes in movie history and generally regarded as the "best rage scene ever". This just to illustrate the obnoxious attention to detail and borderline autistic aim for perfection by Fincher. It shows in the entire movie.

It only won two oscars because the reviewers where overwelmed by the topic, otherwise it would've scored higher.

You definitely missed out. Watch it. As a special occasion. You won't be disappointed, that's a promise.

... but I'd rather have movie itself directed by Fincher. They both collaborate very closely and AFAIK are good friends, but I don't see _anyone_ coming close to dialog movies directed by Fincher. He's basically his own league as a film director and just about anybody who knows anything about films agrees on that.

You mean games run faster on an actual operating system than a piece of software specifically designed to be slow, buggy and cumbersome in order to regularly help sell new versions of it along with hardware with ever increasing power levels? ...
No waaaaay!

... mandatory paid vacation for full time jobs and fully wealth-transfer funded basic healthcare. You know, like every other first world country on the planet. How's that for a plan?

They often suffer silently.

They are also more common than you think, especially today. I should know, because I was one, back in the 80ies and early 90ies when the term actually carried some meaning, unlike today where rampant femnoise and misandry have perverted the term beyond recognition. I'll just copy-paste my standard PSA on the topic here to offer some more broader less contemporary-dimwitt-mainstream-media-bullshit perspective. You might find this helpful.

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PSA: Incel, definition

Incel (involuntary celebate) is a gender neutral term. Coined by an incel woman(!). The largest group of Incels handicapped and/or disfigured people, followed by people with non-hetero-normal sexual orientation, then followed by heterosexual men, the vast overwhelming majority of which aren't misogynists but timid, shy, intimidated by women and/or the mating game and - often as a result - depressed.

To emphasize: Noisemakers on the internet aren't representative of Incels, despite what the misinformed public or some dimwitts on reddit think about the term.

Please stop perpetuating this ill-informed misrepresentation of Incels at large.

Thank you.

Brother seems a good bet. I got one similar (same model?) to the current Brother HL-L2400DWE.
And stock up on toner cartridges, so you're still good if they discontinue the model.

More or less.

I'm your Type A 80ies computer-kid and switching my career to becoming a full-time web-developer in 2000 was one of the best decisions I ever made. The last 25 years were awesome, I had a great time and made made decent money, even if I didn't get rich.

However, I see the writing on the wall. The bots are here and they're taking over and social media IMHO has always been a total PoS and it ain't getting better. Slashdot is the only thing that comes close to that for me and I've been here for 25 years which is quite a run. I'll stay around, but that's only a small part of my day.

I'm glad I have all the skills I could ever ask for in handling computers and digital devices and I'm also glad I basically can do _everything_ I would ever want to do with a computer myself and on a professional level. Designing, programing, video-editing, sound-editing, 3D, DTP, print, typography, etc. all with todays offerings of FOSS. But I also see that there is less and less need for my services in the real world, at an increasing rate and of the new stuff, from social media and online ads onward right up to todays generative and conversational AI there is nothing really there that interests me where I see a full-on day job coming out of it. It's all more of an all-out replacement of my kind.

On top of that I see the "loneliness epidemic" running rampant outside of my nerdy peer group and the real world increasingly becoming somewhat of an exception for a growing number of people.

As far as I can see it is due time for me to focus more and more on non-digital things. The last few years my non-fiction reading has moved from IT stuff to social skills and modern psychology (authentic relating, radical honesty, attachment style theory, mindfulness, etc.) and my pastime activities are all IRL (paragliding, kite-surfing, traveling, social dancing, meeting with non-IT peope such as motorbike clubs and boardgamers, etc.).

The prospect of more and more AI taking over as partners also makes hanging out online way less attractive IMHO. I will still be running my blogs and websites and helping people with digital stuff, but the party clearly is with real face-to-face human interaction now, the IT stuff has taken the place of little more than a sophisticated cultural technique and stopped being a day-job for me.

While I did get lucky and scored a good job as a sole IT expert and senior developer in a company of 70+ legal experts and lawyers, I do expect my job to go extinct in the foreseeable future and really don't see myself sitting at a desk typing and clicking for money. Those times have passed and I'm likely better off being a barista, dancing coach or travel guide in the future.

It is my impression that quite a few of my fellow IT experts see things more or less the same way.

Capitalism has failure modes where "Private property" makes "Competition" and "Freedom of choice" irrelevant. Some of these failure modes are called monopoly and cartel.

The problem I've had with Mastodon, assuming it's representative of fediverse microblogging, is that its search relies almost completely on hashtags. Full-text search is opt-in per post, and very few users have bothered to hunt for the switch to opt in and turn it on. Posts made before the introduction can't be found at all except through tags. And the users of Mastodon think that's a good thing because it protects vulnerable members of marginalized groups from abusive bigots searching for them.

This leaves users like me to play "guess the hashtag" all the time. I search for what I think is the right tag for a topic, and all the posts I find are my own. Or I write a post and nobody else engages with it because nobody else is searching for the tags I used. What am I supposed to do to get my posts seen?

That and we need to accept that nothing will bring Kurt Cobain back. Cutting pollution now buys us time to cut pollution further later.

The alternative to diesel and petrol doesn't have to produce zero pollution. It can produce substantially less pollution. It's a lot easier to scrub a handful of power plants than to scrub millions of tailpipes. Not to mention that if the USA still had electric light rail in this century, a lot of it would run on wind and solar.

Think back to 1940, just before the United States got dragged into World War II. Chevron and Phillips Petroleum were among the investors in an joint venture to put the electric streetcars of California out of business in favor of fossil-powered buses. Others included Firestone Tire and Mack Trucks.