Well, I wasn’t aware that they’re doing this, because I don’t follow Microsoft news.

Now that I’ve heard it, I don’t find it particularly surprising, although as the other person suggested, surely there’s a more proper solution.
Maybe they don’t want a proper solution, though, because it puts them into the news…

From what I understand, it works like this:

1. Rust compiler reads the pseudo-Python and tokenizes it according to Rust’s rules.
2. Macro code converts the tokens back to (now proper) Python, while filling in the captured variables. I believe, this is the code that does this.
3. Python code is executed in an actual Python interpreter, via PyO3.

You’re obviously right, but it’s just the same trap that humanity keeps running into: Mediocre platform with a majority of users turns into centralized monopoly.

And it’s almost like a case study that this is going to happen no matter the circumstances, because the base technology is decidedly not the problem, and the users are techie enough to have been burned multiple times, and where the technological friction of switching to another platform isn’t the problem either. The problem is entirely social.

Obviously, federation is the technical solution trying to eliminate this social problem. But for it to have a chance at solving anything at all, we need international legislation to force monopolists to adopt federation.

Git itself is already capable of distributed usage, which is better than federated/decentralized.
‘Distributed’ and ‘decentralized’ in this sense:

But in terms of the Git hosting service, with an issue board and all that, which is often called a “git forge”, you’ve got Forgejo working on an implementation, as well as ForgeFed as a general protocol (also work-in-progress).

You’re supposed to cut off the green parts. 🫠

I noticed yesterday that openSUSE specifically recommends not using Ventoy, due to possible boot issues: https://en.opensuse.org/Create_installation_USB_stick#Ventoy

The “Ventoy Update” post looks rather suspicious to me. The dev didn’t respond to the GitHub issue, so this might just be some jackass pretending to be the dev.

But independently of that, the BLOBs are even more suspicious…

I mean, you say that now, but if someone stood on the other side of the river and shot arrows at you, would you really disagree with them?

Cooking with rice. I was never big on rice, so never had particular ambitions for experimenting with it.
Then I found a rice variety in the shops, which actually tastes nice on its own, and also you’re allowed to just dump it into a pot of water, then drain the remaining water, which I much prefer for experimenting.

And yeah, that has led to me catching up with experimenting very quickly. Last week I made basically a risotto using:

• rice
• red lentils
• vegetable broth
• coconut milk
• bell peppers
• caraway
• teriyaki sauce
• sriracha sauce

…and last, but definitely not least, orange slices.

And it tasted fucking rad. That’s my favorite feature of rice. You can throw in the wildest ingredients and it magically makes them work together.

You mean more like Veloren. 🙃

(It’a basically a community revival of Cube World.)

I mean, if I had to guess, it’s:

• spätzle
• beans
• onion rings
• leek
• sesame
• two kinds of (hot) sauce

If you find a vegan spätzle recipe (or find them in the store), there’s probably not too much you can get wrong about this. 🙃

I believe, they increased it a little while ago, so it’s actually -64 to +320 now.

But yeah, I don’t think anyone’s actually happy about the limited world height. It’s so limited, because of the way Minecraft works on a technical level. It loads the map in chunks, which are just massive pillars, reaching from the bottom of the world all the way to the sky, across the whole 384 blocks.

As a result, if they increase the world height, they increase how many blocks have to be loaded at once, which increases the lag.
Luanti doesn’t have this problem, because it uses cubic chunks instead.

Man, I saw them initiating discussions around the name like a year ago. I did not expect anything to actually come from that after all this time. But yeah, glad that it did.

Now we just need a better default font. 🙃

I find the increased world height much more important. Luanti can generate actual mountains, and caves where you’ll want to bring ladders for your descent.
It was the first time, I felt like it made sense to build minecarts and intermediate mining bases, because the ores reach far deeper.

Sure, but I cannot imagine that Elon’s newest toy would solve that. It still needs to be dispatched from somewhere. Obviously, it would solve it, if you splurged on tons of robovans, much like you’d solve it, if you splurged on tons of buses.

Oh, I didn’t mean to say that balenaEtcher actually had gone unmaintained before. I just meant that it’s likely to do so in the future, like pretty much all software.

dd is kind of in a unique position, in that it’s so simple, that it’ll hardly need maintenance, and it’s useful enough that it presumably gets this maintenance.

With balenaEtcher, it’s developed by a company. If that company folds or changes strategy, then they’ll stop maintaining balenaEtcher.
It’s also implemented with Electron, i.e. browser technologies. If it goes unmaintained for a few months, you’ll quickly have security vulnerabilities in there.
You might also not find anyone willing to maintain such a comparatively thick tech stack…

Well, you can also file a formal complaint with your regional data protection officer. Usually, this is resolved outside of court, though, so it doesn’t necessarily prove that the behavior was illegal (although a judge might take the data protection officer’s opinion as expert input for future trials anyways).

There’s a condition where people may sweat less or not at all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypohidrosis

Not as great as it might sound at first…

I feel like the main problem with balenaEtcher is that it requires downloading 150 MB, for a software that many people will use only once before a reinstall.
If you’re in a rich country, you might hardly notice, but for poorer countries, this is an insane ask, especially if it just improves convenience mildly.

But yeah, ultimately any such tool is going to face the problem that no matter how easy it is to use, you need to first install it, which needs to be explained.
The usage of dd also needs explaining, but you don’t need to install it.

Well, and another factor is that dd has been around since the dawn of time. Software like balenaEtcher tends to go unmaintained after a few years, at which point any documentation referencing it, will need to be rewritten. And it’s usually rewritten to reference dd instead, before a new convenient software emerges…

You can pick out a company and sue them.