I am sorry to hear that, and deeply sympathize.
I am curious to know what kind of cancer (their are about 200 different types, with VERY different outcomes), and what stage it was when it was discovered.
The reason I ask is that with screening, certain types of cancer are survivable (e.g. prostate, colon, some type of skin cancers,
Other types are killers no matter what, and it is only a matter of time (bile duct, pancreas, glioblastoma,
One thing I did a while back on Xubuntu, is uninstall the Firefox snap.
Then uninstall snap itself.
Then use the Ubuntu Mozilla Team repository to install the ESR version of Firefox.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install firefox-esr
That is it!
You don't have updates that are too frequent, and you don't get the bleeding edge features like this AI crap.
The idea is not new
It was proposed first in 2016 by Breakthrough Starshot.
I have been using Sony phones exclusively for over a decade and a half, since they were Sony Ericsson even.
The flagship phones are good quality, rugged, water proof, and have excellent cameras.
I used to buy them used, so I pay a fraction of the new price.
But that came to an end earlier this year when I could not locate used ones at reasonable prices.
So I went with a Motorola Edge 2024 that was provided free by my carrier (Fido in Canada, a subsidiary of Rogers). It is as good as a Sony. The camera is decent, though it has no telephoto lens (only a normal lens and a wide angle one with macro). There is no focus hunting like my last Sony did (Xperia 1).
They sell them directly, and no carrier provides them. That is why they are on the way to extinction.
I'm not an astronomer, but I recognize a hack when I see one. Dark matter was a hack. Dark energy was a hack on a hack. Now they're hacking the hack to the hack
The article is about Dark Energy, not Dark Matter
However
Dark matter is not a hack.
It is just like viruses.
When they were discovered (1890s?), they were yet to be seen for decades.
The basic story is that a solution from infected tobacco leaves caused mottling on healthy tobacco leaves. Bacteria were suspected, but the scientists used very fine filters that excluded bacteria, and the leaves were still infected!
They called it virus from the Latin word for poison.
It was not seen, because they were smaller than the wavelength of visible light, and that was what optical microscopes use.
It was only in the 1930s when they were actually seen by electron microscopes.
So Dark Matter says we observe effects of something unseen through its gravity.
It may turn out to be a particle, or primordial black hole, or something else.
Thanks for pointing this out.
It will do, but it also lacks any community input ("Oh, I have this problem but solved it by
I emailed them, and got an autoreponse.
And it seems the RSS just started working again.
Hey Slashdot,
The RSS feeds are not working again.
Right now, the feed looks like this.
There are 6 more stories on the front page, newer than the SoftBank and OpenAI story.
The oldest that is not in the RSS feed is from last 23:30 on July 21st, and now it is 9:15am.
I reported this a few days ago, and was marked 'Troll', and 'OffTopic'.
For those who are hasty with moderation points, how else can someone report a site issue, when Slashdot has no place for it?
This attitude of tweaking things, reducing configurability, reducing stability, pushed me away from KDE.
Switched from Kubuntu to Xubuntu, and never looked back.
Hey Slashdot
The RSS feed stopped working on the 17th of July.
Check the feed out yourselves
Or the alternate feed, same problem.
Unless you don't care about traffic from the feed then
What the fuck is wrong with Americans? The moment anyone says something as benign as "let's all agree to be nice to each other" you lead poisoned fucks start screaming some shit about communism. No wonder your country is descending into a socio political shithole.
Here are some anecdotal data from my backyard weather station (Southern Ontario, Canada).
Absolute values are irrelevant, but it is the comparative values that matter.
Same sensor, same placement
2022: highest was 33.9C in June, with 17 days above 30C (2 in May, 6 in June, 6 in July, 2 in August, and 1 in September.
2023: highest was 33.4C in September, and 11 days above 30C (2 in May, 2 in June, 4 in July, none in August, and 3 in September.
2024: highest was 35.2C in June, and 21 days above 30C.
2025: already got 36.4C in June, and 6 days above 30C, with at least 2.5 months left in A/C season.
El Nino did end in early summer of 2024.
If records continue to be broken, then my guess is that we have already started on the runaway warming phase
I hope I am wrong about that
In 2013, the CO2 average hit 400 ppm
In 2025, it crossed the 430 ppm mark.
That is ~ 7.5% over a mere 12 years.
This is frightening for anyone who takes science and observations seriously.
While I accept your point, I feel it necessary to add that the problems you are referring to, excessive cost and poor quality, are American problems. The rest of the civilised world has low cost or free healthcare and doctors that aren't ground into apathy by the capitalist machine.
So the rest of the world would like to be cautious because we like what we have. Unlike Americans we do have something to lose.
You make it sound like "certain viruses can cause cancer" is hidden knowledge that is being actively suppressed by 'the establishment' for some nefarious reason.
The first virus found to cause cancer was Rous Sarcoma virus in 1911, in chicken. Since then, several cancer inducing viruses (oncoviruses) have been discovered.
They are all covered in virology textbooks. If you have the time, watch the Virology course of Dr. Vincent Racaniello of Columbia University. It is well covered there.
Viruses like Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) causes cervical cancer in women. Others like Hepatitis B and C cause liver cancer. Other common ones are Kaposi sarcoma, HIV, and Epstein-Barr.
All in all, viruses cause around 12% of cancer cases. So they are just one factor, not THE only factor.
There is no conspiracy here.
Anyone else wondering what are in these 18 Petabytes?
Is it Basecamp's HEY email service?
Other than that, it is project management software, chat,
Can't imagine how those latter parts add up to 18 PB.
The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice.
