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Hugo has a watch mode, right? It should rebuild if it detects changes.

People have covered German and French. Esperanto has the genderless "la" for "the"; there is no "a" article. "Here is a house" is "Ĉi tie estas domo," or "Jen estas domo," or even simply "Estas domo" depending on what you mean. But there's no article.

The screen shot is because they were proving a point.

Your other points are valid. Chrome? Logged in to Google? Google search?

Although, I will say that with as shitty as Google search has become, it returning the answer as the first result only underscores their point.

I've just accepted that I'm completely out of touch with the average American.

The problem is that it gets really hard to find non-extreme right people willing to post, at least in the states. I refuse to recognize anyone who voted for Trump as being non-extreme, and given Trump's historic positions, the actual quotable things he said during his campaign, and his subsequent actions, by voting Republican in the last US election they sat down at the table with fascists.

Maybe. Snape isn't exactly a sympathetic character, though; he almost was, but ended up being a true villain.

Maybe you're right, with a different author perhaps this would be uncontroversial. It's hard to not read racism into it given her politics, though. The only thing that would have looked worse, given her nationality and politics, would have been if they'd made Snape Pakistani.

Text list? I don't need to see a tall talking head rabble about OSS, unless they're doing a tutorial.

Edit: it appears the list is just the title:

• DurDraw
• Caligula
• Pastel
• Astroterm

I had the similar comment about PKGBUILD/templates. The package definition is far less likely to do something malicious than the software you're installing; it's indeed a vector - a hypothetical AUR "git-plus" package could install git and a virus at the same time - but frankly I'm more concerned about upstream.

I don't have an end-to-end solution, but I will say as a former Pebble user that I'm delighted with my BangleJS watch. It's inexpensive, I charge it once a week, and it has the usual activity tracker hardware including heart rate monitor. There are a ton of apps. It's less "hacker" and more polished for non-technical users than you might expect; if you're running Linux, this is absolutely within your comfort zone. It also has a temp monitor, so it can detect when the watch it being worn or not.

The customized GadgetBridge Android app is good, most of the programming is in JavaScript, and the developer community is active and responsive.

A quick glance through the app "store" (they're nearly all free) shows there's a heart alarm app, which seems aimed at notifying the wearer. Another app publishes heart rate over bluetooth, so someone must have a pair device that monitors heart rates.

I didn't see anything obvious in the ecosystem, but since the data is going to GadgetBridge already, it's most of the way there; if GadgetBridge could publish to web hooks, with ntfy you could get alerts from watch to partner's phone. I haven't yet looked through the GB issues to see if someone has already requested it, and I've only done light digging in the app itself; it may already support this.

It's worth investigating.

Edit looks like others have requested similar features (and this, and this); it hasn't been implemented yet.

I lived this working for a company that, as part of a suite of services, tracked international business travelers for the companies they worked for. The air travel part was a nightmare.

You know what else was a nightmare? There's an airport in Hong Kong which technically isn't in any country as per most land country boundary maps; it's built it out in the ocean. It occasionally gave us grief when we updated map data because we'd have to go in and manually change the map boundaries so the software would correctly locate travelers at the airport as being in the country.

Which countries are Hong Kong, Macau, Tibet, and Taiwan airports in? Hong Kong has since become un-controversial, but no matter what you choose people get upset about it.

That system was so complex, it was fascinating. The fight data alone is a nightmare, but when you start factoring in itineraries, and the fact that there's no commonly used standard for booking systems and booking agencies have terrible data quality control, our most common issue was data quality; even after 15 years, the we'd still find edge cases in the system where real world varied from theory.

Dude(tte). I don't know if pilots ever giggle about this, but

controlled flight into terrain

I know it's the official, correct term, but still. Every time I see this, it cracks me up. The euphemisms that organizations come up with to either be extremely specific, or avoid using emotionally charged words like "crash" is hilarious.

Excellent, informative post.

Um. I can't tell if you're joking. It's up to $139 annually, or $15/m.

Are you running on btrfs? If not, why not? If so, install snapper and grub-snap or refind-btrfs, or whatever, and go wild.

Sounds like you might also be missing backups, but snapper you can have run every 10 minutes at almost no overhead. Then it won't matter if you delete something; you can always grab it out of a snapshot.

Yeah, there are a dozen "trash" commands. Honestly, I think changing muscle memory would be safer, but they could just install one of the trash commands and set up an alias as you say.

Oof. I didn't get that far. They really mention DEI in the project README? That's going to be a hard no from me. Even if I did agree with them, it has no place in the repo.

Big oof. I should have finished reading.

Wait, what? How did politics come into this? Did they talk about DEI in the README? I didn't read the whole thing.

That would be disappointing.

shyly raises hand

I wish there was an alternative to Amazon. If there were only 3 or 6 stores where I could get everything I get from Amazon, I'd go through the trouble of multiple orders. But the alternatives to Amazon is usually a bunch of individual items ordered from a bunch of unknown sites, all of which give my angst about giving me credit card to, and which usually adds up to significant shipping costs. Or, driving into the city and spending an entire day driving from shop to shop, and being limited in my options and often never finding everything.

I so badly want an alternative to Amazon. Shopping was objectively worse before it. We've tried Walmart, but it's worse and I'm not sure it's an ethical improvement.

I still drive to the mall for clothes, but even the mall is limited for non-clothes - and often hella expensive.

Ah. So you gave addition a higher precedence than subtraction. That makes sense.

She graduated her Masters with a 4.0. I didn't know graduate programs didn't award a title, though. She did get extra tassels on her hat, so it was recognized, Latin honors or not.

Edit: her graduate program had an honors society, which was the equivalent of Summa for graduates. That's what the tassels were for. I had to check with her: I didn't myself rise to such lofty heights.

Well, that's one way!

That can't be legal anymore, right?