They do still have some time to pull back up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_German_federal_election

The Basic Law and the Federal Election Act [de] provide that regular federal elections must be held on a Sunday or on a national holiday[c] no earlier than 46 and no later than 48 months after the start of a legislative session. The 21st Bundestag was constituted on 25 March 2025 and has therefore been in session for 14 months. Accordingly, a scheduled federal election would have to take place on one of the following dates:

• 28 January 2029
• 4, 11, 18, 25 February 2029 or
• 4, 11, 18, 25 March 2029

So about two-and-a-half years.

in the 2050s

As long as demand is steady and predictable, I’d expect prices to ultimately be lower, because it reduces the costs for NAND memory makers by increasing their economies of scale. Spreads the fixed costs of manufacture over more units.

That doesn’t solve things for those who need SSDs now, though.

I’m also a little annoyed by the fact that people use “algorithm” to refer to a “recommendation system” for social media. “Recommendation system” is really the term that one should use, and on top of that, one should really say that the system as a whole is using a heuristic to come up with the best-possible content rather than an algorithm.

…and looking at the Wikipedia page for “algorithm”, apparently they even explicitly point this out:

In contrast, a heuristic is an approach to solving problems without well-defined correct or optimal results.[3] For example, although social media recommender systems are commonly called “algorithms”, they actually rely on heuristics as there is no truly “correct” recommendation.

It’s probably not going away, since it’s entered popular usage, but it really isn’t a correct use of the computer science terminology.

It’s kinda like someone decided to start calling the cylinders in a car’s engine “the metal thing”…which they are, but are far from the only “metal thing” in a car. Then they accidentally messed up the classification and called it “the plastic thing”. I mean, yeah, I get what people mean from context, same way an auto mechanic could interpret “the plastic thing” to mean “the cylinders”, but it kind of gnaws at my soul every time I see it.

and the whole scrolling window manager thing…tmux wasn’t that far behnd

I remember one time reflecting on how many layers I have at which one can expand workspace.

1. Linux virtual terminals. By default, Debian runs 7 login sessions on seven virtual terminals and sticks the GUI (Wayland/Xorg) on the eighth. So Control-Alt-F1 through Control-Alt-F7 will get me a Linux terminal. I can stick more programs on more virtual terminals with openvt. That’s the first layer.

2. Okay, so on virtual terminal 8, I’ve got Wayland running. On that, I’m running Sway. That has an infinite number of workspaces that can be created. Currently, I only have bindings set up for 10 (and I use nonstandard bindings for them, Super-q N to switch to the Nth workspace) because I didn’t find myself actually using named workspaces. This is the second layer.

3. Within a workspace, I can have Wayland windows. Say I can have two or three windows reasonably visible. This can be expanded whenever opening a window; for example, Super-t to open a new virtual terminal emulator window. This is the third layer.

4. One of the most common windows I use is a virtual terminal emulator, foot. That can run a program. I typically have it running tmux, which can have its own list of concurrently-running terminal programs (I use Control-O as the tmux meta key). This is the fourth layer.

5. I often use emacs. Emacs has multiple “frames”; one can “clone” the current frame with C-x 5 c. When run in a terminal, this basically acts like another tmux-like layer where one shows one frame at a time. This is the fifth layer.

6. Inside an emacs frame, one can have multiple emacs windows (analogous to what is typically called “panes” in other software) showing various things at the same time. One can open a new window with C-x 2 or C-x 3, cycle with C-x o. This is the sixth layer.

7. Emacs has a list of buffers, any one of which can be shown in a given emacs window. A “buffer” is vaguely analogous to “an open file” in some other programs, but could also be showing a terminal emulator or similar. One can switch with C-x b. This is the seventh layer.

8. Say I’m running a terminal emulator in one running bash (M-x term RET RET). bash has its own job control; one can suspend a running program and bring bash to the fore with Control-Z, list running jobs with jobs, then resume a suspended job in the background with $bg %1 to background the first or bring a job to the foreground with $ fg %1. This isn’t quite the same thing as the other layers, since the screen state isn’t maintained for separate programs and restored, but it can reasonably allow one to run simultaneous things and follow each. This is the eighth layer.

You almost always want to pair lsof with -n, as by default, it (slowly) lists a bunch of things that require name resolution.

$ time lsof >/dev/null

real    2m12.352s
user    0m0.499s
sys     0m1.217s
$ time lsof -n >/dev/null

real    0m1.600s
user    0m0.523s
sys     0m1.029s
$

I wrote this because my /tmp tmpfs was taking up 32GB of ram despite the files inside summing to only 3MB.

Note that tmpfs doesn’t force its contents to remain in memory — the kernel can move stuff there to swap space if it needs to do so.

Ramfs is the filesystem that keeps things locked in memory:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt

With ramfs, there is no backing store.  Files written into ramfs allocate
dentries and page cache as usual, but there's nowhere to write them to.
This means the pages are never marked clean, so they can't be freed by the
VM when it's looking to recycle memory.

One expert said it was an incident waiting to happen given the loitering of the Grigorovich off the British coast. John Foreman, a former Royal Navy captain and defence attache to Moscow, said: “This may not be not Vladimir Putin’s response to the Channel seizure, but yachters should know not to sail near a Russian warship.

“Russian captains, Russian warships are always twitchy about boats coming towards them. They have a mental exclusion zone of about 500 metres. It is not unheard of for a Russian captain to fire after issuing a warning.”

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/56d327ec-5754-43fe-a316-39ecf7ad54f4.jpeg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogger_Bank_incident

Threadiverse instances aren’t really rigged up for hosting video. Some will handle certain formats of video, but the size is normally limited, and IIRC they don’t guarantee that they’ll retain the images. I guess that one could link to externally-hosted ones.

I’d kind of suggest that PeerTube is really more oriented towards video posting.

https://peertube.fediverse.observer/

I guess someone could post to a PeerTube instance and then submit their posted video to the Threadiverse for discussion or something.

Can’t leave a gap and let someone jump ahead of you in line, I suppose.

You can also still access the file as long as there’s a process that still has it open. I have, in the past, “undeleted” a file or two doing that.

$ echo foo > bar
$ tail -f bar
foo

In another terminal:

$ pidof tail
1525534
$ ls -l /proc/1525534/fd|grep bar
lr-x------ 1 tal tal 64 Jun 16 06:42 3 -> /home/tal/bar
$ rm bar
$ ls -l /proc/1525534/fd|grep bar
lr-x------ 1 tal tal 64 Jun 16 06:42 3 -> /home/tal/bar (deleted)
$ cat /proc/1525534/fd/3
foo
$ cat /proc/1525534/fd/3 > bar-recovered
$ cat bar-recovered
foo
$

That is, the /proc entry for tail’s file descriptor 3 there looks kinda like a symlink, but the kernel doesn’t actually make it behave in quite the same way as a normal symlink.

That being said, getting back to the original point about unlinking not being able to remove the directory entry…it won’t sit there blocking you from putting a new directory entry there with the same name, the way Windows file semantics mandate.

Looks like it’s probably Portugal. Apparently that gold stripe on the license plate was a thing up until 2020.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Portugal

Either way, when you’ve paid $70 for a game, the idea that you then are still going to be bombarded by commercials as you play is pretty damned galling

Oh, I’d say that it pretty much tracks the sports experience that it’s trying to simulate.

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https://qz.com/150577/an-average-nfl-game-more-than-100-commercials-and-just-11-minutes-of-play

An average NFL game: more than 100 commercials and just 11 minutes of play

Supergirl (vol. 4) #79 (April 2003)

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https://www.zipcomic.com/supergirl-1996-issue-79

Lois: “You know, Superman’s been acting awfully strange since being exposed to pink kryptonite. What do you think’s wrong with him?”

Supergirl: “Lois, you so don’t want to know.”

Superman: “Did I ever tell you how smashing you look in bowties, Jimmy? By the way, that’s a fabulous window treatment you’ve put together.”

YouTube does provide the ability to livestream, and it sounds like livestreaming is one thing that they’re upset about, not just commenting.

searches

Ironically, apparently 10 Downing Street livestreams there:

https://youtube.com/@10downingstreet/streams

EDIT: And on Twitter, but that’s also targeted.

https://x.com/Keir_Starmer/status/2066416751848706064

I guess that there’s Sky News:

https://news.sky.com/video/watch-labour-conference-live-as-pm-to-make-crucial-speech-13441407

And the BBC:

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c24p9d7en65t

Rumble would be banned too

Yeah, but my point is really that some services, probably including Rumble, won’t care about regulatory action. So the next action, if this continues, would presumably be the British government doing what Russia did, which is mandating that British ISPs set up to block access to government-specified hosts, because legal routes currently being attempted on them won’t work.

Then the VPNs and similar come out, and presumably if it keeps going, again, the UK does what Russia did, which is disallow commercial VPNs from operating in the UK without blocking traffic to said hosts internal to the VPN.

Then the next step is things like VPNs that rely on data harvesting instead of commercial sales, so can’t be pressured by payment processors, and operate in jurisdictions that don’t care about legal action, Tor, DIY proxies (e.g. get cheap VPS in random place, run SOCKS proxy/VPN), and so on. At some point, the British government stops following up, and someone starts making one-click solutions juuust beyond what enforcement goes after.

Telegram is more social network tham messaging app these days

Ah, gotcha, thanks — I don’t use it.

If you don’t see anything at !transyiff@lemmy.blahaj.zone or !yiff@pawb.social then you probably have NSFW content hidden in your settings.

Try https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=furry&nsfw=true for some other communities.

If you asked all sitting British MPs to say when the European Council is next meeting in Brussels, I doubt that more than a handful could give you the right answer. In fact, I wonder how many could immediately tell you what the European Council is.

My limited experience on Europe-oriented online forums — which I suspect are disproportionately populated with internationalist people who are generally more familiar with the EU as an institution than most — suggests that a fairly scanty percentage of people in EU members have a handle on the difference between the European Council, the Council of the European Union, and the Council of Europe.

Or the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Justice.

Or the President of the European Council, the President of the European Commission, the President of the European Parliament, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and the President of the Council of the European Union.

It’s kinda confusing terminology-wise, as things stand.

EDIT: Not to mention that the first three presidents are all Presidents of the European Union.

They say that they intentionally aren’t targeting messaging services, so Telegram might be exempt.

This would capture user-to-user platforms, whose purpose is to enable social interaction and which allow users to post material, alongside algorithms. The ban will therefore include platforms like Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X. We do not intend for messaging services like WhatsApp and Signal to be included in the social media ban.

That being said, I’m a little fuzzy on how this is targeting communicating with strangers, since I’d imagine that more people do that via messaging platforms than, say, YouTube:

In a move to protect children online and address the scale of the challenge, the government will also go further than a blanket ban on social media with world-leading blocks on harmful functions such as livestreaming and stranger communication with children for under-16s. These restrictions – which together with the ban go further than any other country – will apply to a wider range of online services, including on gaming sites.

That’s a good point on Rumble, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumble_(company)

Rumble, Inc. is a Canadian-American online video platform, web hosting, and cloud services business[8][9] headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with its U.S. headquarters in Longboat Key, Florida. It was founded in 2013 by Chris Pavlovski, a Canadian technology entrepreneur. Rumble’s cloud services business hosts Truth Social, and the video platform is popular among American conservative and far-right users. Rumble has been described as “alt-tech”.

Rumble received investment from venture capitalists Peter Thiel, Vivek Ramaswamy and JD Vance in May 2021, with that round of funding valuing Rumble at around $500 million.[21] In October 2021, Rumble acquired Locals.[22] On December 14, 2021, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) announced that it entered a “wide-ranging technology and cloud services agreement” with Rumble in a statement that also stated that Rumble would operate part of Truth Social as well as TMTG.[23]

According to a June 2021 article from Slate, “Pavlovski has recently become more outspoken in accusing Big Tech of censorship and now actively courts prominent conservatives and intellectual dark web figures to join Rumble.”[50] It also hosted Truth Social as of June 2022.[62] In August 2021, Rumble reached agreements with former Democratic Representative Tulsi Gabbard and The Intercept founder Glenn Greenwald to start posting their videos to the site.[63]

As of August 15, 2022, Rumble reported 78 million monthly active users (MAU).[64] That month, after being banned from most other platforms for hate speech and harmful conduct, kickboxer and social media personality Andrew Tate began posting on Rumble. Tate’s move coincided with a significant increase in downloads of the Rumble app.[65][66] Other prominent figures to join in 2021 include far-right podcaster Nick Fuentes, who has become one of their biggest streamers.[67]

And in that vein, gab.com:

https://gab.com/

You won’t find Gab on the Apple App Store or Google Play. We’ve been banned since 2017 for refusing to censor speech that Big Tech demanded we remove. But you can still get our app on your phone—and it works just as well as any native app.

Freedom of Speech & Reach

All First Amendment protected speech is welcome. No algorithmic throttling or shadow banning like other platforms.

Battle Tested

A decade of standing strong against censorship. Banned from app stores, banks, and payment processors—and still here.

Being banned from app stores for nearly a decade shows how serious we are about defending free speech. We also reject all foreign censorship demands and data requests for so-called “hate speech” from foreign nations. On Gab your speech stays protected and we have the scars to prove it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)

Gab is an American alt-tech microblogging and social networking service. Widely described as a haven for far-right and alt-right users, Gab has attracted users and groups who have been banned from other social media platforms and users seeking alternatives to mainstream social media platforms. Founded in 2016 and launched publicly in May 2017, Gab claims to promote free speech, individual liberty, the “free flow of information online”, and Christian values. Researchers and journalists have characterized these assertions as an obfuscation of its extremist ecosystem.

And 4chan, while I’m on that:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c624330lg1ko

The UK online safety regulator Ofcom has fined the US messaging platform 4Chan a total of £520,000 for failing to comply with various aspects of the Online Safety Act.

It includes £450,000 for failing to put in age checks to prevent children from seeing pornography on the platform.

However, a lawyer representing the company - which has previously said it won’t pay such fines - has responded to the demand with an AI-generated cartoon image of a hamster.

In a follow-up post on X, 4Chan’s lawyer Preston Byrne wrote: “In the only country in which 4chan operates, the United States, it is breaking no law and indeed its conduct is expressly protected by the First Amendment.”

The latest image is not the first picture of a hamster lawyers for 4chan have sent in reply to Ofcom

Like, if part of the net effect winds up being a transfer of Britain’s children and teenagers from websites that care about and follow British regulations to websites — some of which are hard right — that do not care about British regulation, it will be interesting.

this other lady like social justice warrior

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarah_Sultana

The 1760s were coming back.