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I don't know, you may need to ask someone at Facebook.

However, most people who want this kind of feature hope to use it to violate the privacy of others, I think. Which is imo a good reason against such a feature. Another reason against it is that a significant portion of people are not logged in, so the data would be wrong anyway.

Porting Wayland compatibility to GTK 2 would be incredibly out of scope for GIMP developers. :)

GTK is a UI toolkit, i.e. a piece of software that draws uniform-looking buttons and scrollbars and the like.

GTK used to stand for "GIMP toolkit" but GTK and GIMP development are now entirely separate, so much so, in fact, that 13 years after the release of GTK 3 and 3 years after the release of GTK 4, GIMP still hasn't upgraded to either.

Actually, part of the reason that American cheese cannot be called "cheese" even in the US is that it's not just cheese + sodium citrate anymore. For cost reasons, it's now cheese + butter + skim milk powder + sodium citrate.

I hate it when when my local /dev/shm gets smelly.

If you are going to write "user issue" in the future, maybe stop and think. You might be calling someone dumb and be defending bad design at the same time.

It's extremely convenient and not particularly safe. I love it, my FBI agent loves it, and my Russian hacker friend loves it too.

Hello Jesus dude. That's kinda what I said, no?

Trees and grass and other green things around you in the garden have a positive psychological effect. The feeling of having done something visible has a positive psychological effect. Getting a physical workout has a positive psychological effect.

I know yours is a humorous comment, but a child digging in a garden has nothing to do with them yearning to be an early-capitalism style child laborer.

With these types of Captchas, I always wonder whether I need to click on e.g. square C2 that has a tiny bit of the seat padding on it.

Either the EU manages to step in and largely fill the gap, or Ukraine will have to give in. Russia can then ingest Ukraine, continue to seed political distrust in Western countries and then potentially start another war in Europe a few years later.

Alternatively, the NATO/EU/US may decide to become directly involved in the war in Ukraine to avoid a further destabilization of Europe. In that case, Russia can be beat, although I'd expect Russians to be more motivated to go into war.

I'm not sure whether the way the war against Ukraine plays out has too much influence on whether China decides that it needs to start a war against Taiwan though.

.db is usually short for "database". I'd suspect this file is part of an anti-virus tool or similar. Where did you find the file? Edit: phishingurl indicates that it's part of some URL checking functionality of a browser. Not sure which browser puts that straight into .local/share though. Might be a KDE thing.

Edit 2: Qkall's answer says it's KMail.

Wikipedia is probably a reasonably good starting point to learn. Just start at your own country's page, read the Politics section and click through to the pages for the national parliament, the government, the regions, etc.

News, as the name implies, often has a relatively short half life. Thus it's not a good starting point for learning. Ground News I only know from Youtube ads and I guess using that is better than, say, starting a Fox News diet. Actually, in general, keep away from (American) TV news and find more in-depth coverage elsewhere that includes a bit more context and nuance.

Also be aware that a lot of what looks like news at first may actually be opinion content and thus does not have to be entirely true.

Well, "nome", with a silent G is the correct pronunciation of "gnome", as in e.g. "garden gnome".

SUSE originated in Germany, where it's just the normal pronunciation. "Suse" also pre-existed as a nickname for "Susanne" (of course, the company name was derived from an acronym which isn't used anymore).

The issue comes in when non-Germans, especially English-language natives try to pronounce the word. English pronunciation is incredibly inconsistent. Hence English speakers tend to fail (very confidently) when pronouncing foreign-language words.

(Fwiw, Germans and many others don't know anything about the silent G in "gnome" and will happily pronounce GNOME the way the project intends without being told. Similar things are true for Linux.)

The marketing idiots who published this are Americans. The pronunciation is borderline correct but not quite.

Rock-hard, even though it's not cold.

You can't even read the title of the window properly, and it's a short one! And there's this ugly scramble of icons all clustered on the left. This may work and you may be used to it but Gnome is certainly not designed to be used like that.

Hiding all the buttons as the poster above told you to do is worse though.

It was an important model in the 90s and early 2000s. It helped that ever more computer users came online at the time many of whom wanted very similar utilities and that those shareware companies often basically consisted of a guy in a basement converting Diet Coke into code.

7Zip is open-source and can be audited which is something people do from time to time (e.g. there was an encryption issue that was fixed a few years ago). No real reason to fear it simply because the author is Russian.