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And yes, I know about Hanlon's razor ("Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity"), but answer this simple...

And yes, I know about Hanlon's razor ("Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity"), but answer this simple question: which adjective better suits your idea of the wealthiest man in the world, "stupid" or "evil"?

Everybody was making fun of Musk that he spend billions to buy Twitter and then ruined it, but what if his real goal was to turn Twitter...

Everybody was making fun of Musk that he spend billions to buy Twitter and then ruined it, but what if his real goal was to turn Twitter into a platform for right-wing nuts? In that case, he has actually succeeded, has he not?

No głupia sprawa. Ciekawe, czy te wszystkie osoby, które wczoraj wrzeszczały o islamizacji Europy wykręcą jakąś woltę, czy po prostu...

No głupia sprawa. Ciekawe, czy te wszystkie osoby, które wczoraj wrzeszczały o islamizacji Europy wykręcą jakąś woltę, czy po prostu skasują co się da i będą udawać, że nic nie mówiły. Nie, nie mam na myśli Muska, ten jest przypadkiem beznadziejnym, chodzi mi raczej o tubylczą prawicę.
https://oko.press/na-zywo/na-zywo-relacja/islamistyczny-zamach-w-magdeburgu-dwie-osoby-nie-zyja

It seems the countries are sorted by negative sentiment towards "other parties rather than difference in sentiment towards own/other. Poland...

It seems the countries are sorted by negative sentiment towards "other parties rather than difference in sentiment towards own/other. Poland has relatively low (lesser than Germany or Denmark) positive sentiment towards own party…

So it seems that I have finally ditched Microsoft Windows.A Requiem For An Obsolete Operating SystemSo it seems that I have finally ditched...

So it seems that I have finally ditched Microsoft Windows.

A Requiem For An Obsolete Operating System

So it seems that I have finally ditched Microsoft Windows.

Among users of both Windows and Linux on desktop I was somewhat of an oddball, as most such people (that I know of…) run Linux at home and Windows at work, because it is their employers’ requirement. I have been using Linux at work approximately since the turn of the century (after switching from Solaris), and after trying out several distros I settled on Debian for servers and Ubuntu for desktop. At home, however, I have been using Windows for almost 30 years – starting from 95 (3.x line were more of a curio than a daily driver), 98 and 98SE, short episode of 2000, then XP, 7 and 10.

Why? I like to play games. And most of the games I played were released for Microsoft systems only, and even with Wine it was too much hassle to get them running on Linux. So I was using Windows, not only for games, but for all other daily activities like web browsing, writing code, editing files with Office, playing music and video etc. And even if I was cursing it from time to time (though I must admit 7 was quite an improvement over earlier versions, and 10 was equally stable even if a bit… chaotic) I had no intention to part ways with it.

The situation has changed with the advent of Proton – suddenly a large part of my Steam library became Linux-compatible. I began toying with the idea of switching to Linux at home, but I always had something more urgent, or just more pleasant, to do. The final impulse was the announcement from Microsoft that they’ll drop support for Windows 10 next year. My current (~7 years old) hardware is officially incapable of running Windows 11, despite its performance under 10 still being more than satisfactory. So I was left with three possible paths:

• replace my computer with a new one and upgrade to 11;
• keep using an unsupported Microsoft system;
• replace Windows with Linux – also unsupported, but hey, “It’s FOSS!”; quite often it’s easier to get a solution to your problem from random people on the net than from Microsoft support.

Well, guess what I chose.

This time I decided to go with Debian, as Ubuntu recently made some unpopular decisions (their insistence on using Snap or pushing their Pro subscription among others). After a couple of days of tweaking I had it configured exactly to my tastes. And today two weeks have passed since I last used Windows. I haven’t deleted the Windows partition yet – just in case I suddenly find out I haven’t transferred nor backed up some important file – but it seems there’s no coming back.

Tych dni historia nie zapomniGdy stary ląd w zdumieniu zastygłI święcić będą wam potomniPo pierwszym września -...

Tych dni historia nie zapomni
Gdy stary ląd w zdumieniu zastygł
I święcić będą wam potomni
Po pierwszym września - siedemnasty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHZSp9VUw4A

Mankind has only one science (…)it's the science of discontent.– Count Hasimir Fenring in Frank Herbert's Dune

Mankind has only one science (…)
it's the science of discontent.
– Count Hasimir Fenring in Frank Herbert's Dune

Maybe some oldtimers will be able to identify those relics. I am pretty sure the first one is from a drive that came with IBM 4361 we...

Maybe some oldtimers will be able to identify those relics. I am pretty sure the first one is from a drive that came with IBM 4361 we scrapped some 30 years ago and the other one from a VAX-11/750, but I don't know what models they are.
Update: the one on the left has been identified as IBM 3380 and the one on the right as Fujitsu M2294N https://ia803200.us.archive.org/13/items/bitsavers_fujitsubrorochure_2210946/Fujitsu_M2294_Brochure_text.pdf
Thanks to everyone who helped!
#computer #history

Chciałbym zarekomendować wystawę https://wawel.krakow.pl/wystawa-czasowa/wawel-wyspianskiego - byłem w piątek, składa się z trzech...

Chciałbym zarekomendować wystawę https://wawel.krakow.pl/wystawa-czasowa/wawel-wyspianskiego - byłem w piątek, składa się z trzech części, nazwa jest nieco myląca, powinna raczej brzmieć "Wawel w wizjach artystów XIX i początku XX wieku", bo jest tam i Matejko, i Wyczółkowski, i wielu innych, ale pierwsze skrzypce gra faktycznie Wyspiański i jego wizja przebudowy Wawelu na "narodowe akropolis". Jako podkład dźwiękowy polecam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U4GyeahDQw

Don't know the author, but (s)he is right to the point.

Don't know the author, but (s)he is right to the point.

I took the liberty to run this through Google Translate, the results are:BorageLucema sativaCornflowerPyrethrumCommon echiumCommon...

I took the liberty to run this through Google Translate, the results are:
Borage
Lucema sativa
Cornflower
Pyrethrum
Common echium
Common buckwheat
Common trefoil
Phacelia blue
Blood red clover
Meadow clover
Common wild carrot
Plantain
Yarrow
Field poppy
Dark cornflower
Lesser hemangioma
Jastrun proper
Common sorrel
Being no botanicist I have no idea how correct this translation is but I guess at least some names are correct.

“Which Side Are You On” — American Socialist Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzvH5UZVQU8

“Which Side Are You On” — American Socialist Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzvH5UZVQU8

So, which version is the best one (yes, all are the same French Renaissance song)?1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z6YKwrPajo2 -...

So, which version is the best one (yes, all are the same French Renaissance song)?

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z6YKwrPajo
2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p26NSF3H0Ws
3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqk-1XdeYhw
4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvjuv4IIKcU

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https://zrzutka.pl/4ryy9v - Marcin Ogdowski prosił: https://bezkamuflazu.pl/pomagal-innym-sam-potrzebuje-pomocy/ więc ja się dorzuciłem.

https://zrzutka.pl/4ryy9v - Marcin Ogdowski prosił: https://bezkamuflazu.pl/pomagal-innym-sam-potrzebuje-pomocy/ więc ja się dorzuciłem.

From https://diasp.eu/posts/16403669

From https://diasp.eu/posts/16403669

“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their...

“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig9IKQpu50o&t=17s

https://diasp.eu/posts/16360299

https://diasp.eu/posts/16360299

Och, mBanku… no tym mnie na pewno zachęciliście.

Och, mBanku… no tym mnie na pewno zachęciliście.

via https://diasp.eu/posts/16309778

via https://diasp.eu/posts/16309778