You say you stick to open source, do you happen to block your messenger apps from using Play Services? I know from experience the fallback notification delivery mechanisms of a lot of apps will keep the radio on for much longer than it would be with Google Play Services, so I wonder if that could make up for some of the difference.

The book is for sale for ten pounds on the Oxfam website. Looks like the ebay seller found this book in a sale or something.

I don't see why they can't ask a reasonable price. They put a little time and effort into listing and posting the thing, they could've just recycled the thing if they were done with it, and OP could've looked around and gotten the book for cheaper.

I think this mildly infuriating because OP clearly missed a good sale, but this isn't bullshit.

Time namespaces may be the best bet if you also need to run other tools with the same time configuration alongside the game.

For quick one-offs, there's libfaketime with the faketime command. I'm not 100% sure that this will work with things like Wine but it should be relatively easy to test.

On the one hand, the first reaction is "ew, that's gross". On the other hand, that's also the reason people try to ban gay marriages.

Logically speaking, as long as there's no power imbalance and no chance of kids, I can't think of a reason to ban incest. Especially for same sex couples.

In practice, incest is often done as a form of abuse of some kind. Too often for broad legal acceptance, in my opinion.

A lot of valid email addresses are obvious typos. steve@gmail is perfectly valid but useless in most web forms, for instance. A lot of websites drop technical compliance for the convenience of people who don't know how email works.

Technical compliance can also become rather annoying when you start doing things like escaping characters in quoted strings or include spaces. Practically nobody is using any of that stuff in the real life, so you rarely ever need full compliance.

I don't know why single character email addresses would fail that test, though.

You're right, I looked up the highest Intel GPU count but forgot that they released desktop cards. Intel iGPUs "only" have 768 cores, it's the Ampere cards that have thousands of cores.

JSON is UTF-8 so it can be up to three bytes per token theoretically. Depends on the language you're processing, I guess.

Bluesky is growing rapidly while ActivityPub growth is stagnating. I expect BS to grow beyond AP this year. People I used to follow on Mastodon have moved over to Bluesky, so I had to create an account there.

Personally, I like the ability to follow people who don't necessarily know how to install Linux. I'm glad techies seem to slowly move towards ActivityPub related services, but the general public doesn't seem all that interested. Plus, federation between services is the whole point of the fediverse!

Fifty million polygons processed by over 7 hundred ~~thousand~~ processing cores (Intel iGPU), versus 4 million tokens processed by a single execution unit (with some instruction reordering tricky).

Like a lot of Wayland, accessibility is currently in development while distros are shipping it in production.

I'm sure the accessibility portal will fix the current issues and even improve things, but there's no guarantee that this will all work in a year's time. There are still lots of restrictions right now, despite people's best efforts to fix them in the future.

Wayland is architexturally better than X11. X11 was developed in a time where any serious application more powerfully than a terminal emulator would be running on another computer, and everything else has been hacked on top of that. There's hardly any security restrictions for things like keyloggers and key stroke injection. It's old and maintenance sucks for the people currently maintaining it.

After a couple of decades, people looked at what the rest was doing and thought perhaps the old mainframe model isn't necessary anymore. Windows and macros don't model their GUI after mainframes with dumb terminals that happen to be physically located within the same machine, so X stands alone in its design architecture.

I think everyone maintaining graphics code for Linux distros thinks X11 doesn't cut it anymore. Importantly, the people writing GPU drivers don't seem to want to be held back by the extensions built on top of X11 (while others dutifully maintain their old drivers). This is work only the companies making GPUs can afford, without it, the drivers will stop working. There's probably also a reason Android took the Linux kernel but stripped it of X11 acceleration and developed its own GUI stack. Canonical tried to get rid of X years ago by developing Mir and a bunch of small projects tried to create an X12 of sorts, but neither took off. Almost everyone is now working on Wayland when it comes to alternatives.

There are people who don't care. Some GUIs will always be X11 and they can use X11 as long as the drivers and tooling still support it. Most X11 programs have worked without modification for years through XWayland, and I expect future applications to still work fine through some kind of reverse that'll turn Wayland programs into X11 programs.

It's only tangentally related to black holes, but this reminded me of a demo/small game I once played. For people interested in messing with relativistic speeds and the weird stuff that happens with light, I suggest giving http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/ a go. It's a game developed by MIT that simulates a downscaled speed of light, so you can play around with relativistic effects, like red/blue shifting and perspective warping.

I doubt it'll be the end of accessibility. There's a very active issue on Github about an accessibility portal to fix Wayland's shortcomings for accessibility. I expect the problem to be that very few people work on accessibility tooling, so even if the standard is finished tomorrow, it can take years for tooling to catch up.

I expect the Gnome/KDE tools to work on Gnome and KDE first, and then generic tools to work later. Or maybe the tooling Google has built into ChromeOS will be ported over, as Chromebooks are running on Wayland as well, who knows!

Luckily, X11 is going nowhere for the coming years. There are still people running system-v on bleeding edge Arch installs. Linux has a very long half time when it comes to software support. If you install Ubuntu 24.04 with X11 today, you'll be able to keep using the current accessibility toolset until 2034 at least.