I used to have a roommate and we had this funny schtick. He would walk into the livingroom and ask a question. If he saw me take a deep breath, he knew I was about to launch into a long-winded lecture on the topic. So he'd see the inhale and pre-empt: "nevermind" and walk out.
KDE Plasma recently added a once-annually notification requesting donations to the KDE e.V. (who pay for things like server infrastructure to support the project). Is this past your line, or acceptable?
Yep -- a warehouse ceiling for a cold-storage facility, photographed in the dark, with light spilling from another room, so the camera was also "fuzzy" due to the low light conditions :)
Assuming I have time, and an audience that isn't too entrenched, I will try to respond with with something that goes like:
Science is both a method of acquiring new knowledge and a largely self-consistent model containing the already acquired knowledge. As we acquire new knowledge, we must update the model.
If our sum of all knowledge was perfect, then we'd never update the model. But, over time, the model tends towards "better than before".
As it is physically impossible to be an expert in all things, at some point you have to trust that the people that have been updating or refining the model where it relates to their specific expertise are largely doing so in good faith and in accordance with the scientific method.
This is not the same as faith. The model can be wrong in places and will get updated over time. This is a process. If you understand the process, then you understand science.
(I sometimes will use different phrasing -- the word "model" throws some people, so instead I'll use "the whole body of knowledge" or something like that.)
I really hope Trudeau does a last-hour electoral reform shenanigan, as a legacy statement or something. Then I can stop having to decide between strategic voting and throwing my vote away. Alas.
Windows 7 still has a similar market share to desktop Linux. I suspect that some of those users are holdouts, rejecting the Cortana nonsense but too stubborn or lazy to switch. But I'd also wager that, in the longer term, a decent portion of that 3% ends up on Linux.
Not likely. Kazakhstan is the world's number one producer of Uranium. So unless the plant requires enrichment in a way that only Russia can provide, I would presume they'd be their own provider.
I don't know a lot about KZ's current politics, but I know a little. The article talks about Russian involvement, which is interesting, given that Kazakhstan largely imports their oil from Russia. Their attempts to build nuclear have usually been opposed by Russia. Trying to figure out the play here.
I suspect a lot of people are unhappy and are looking for solutions. They aren't evaluating their solutions, just latching onto the first things that make them feel like change is possible.
It's really rare for a project to completely rewrite to a new toolkit. VLC in circa 2007 did it (moved to Qt - even stole their volume control widget directly from Amarok at the time). GCompris ended up as a KDE project despite originating in Gnome (along with toolkit change, but it weirdly kept the name). LXDE->LXQT also. But I don't actually have that many examples.
I thought I was being clever as a child, and went and broke all the spoons, believing somehow that the spoons were responsible. I quickly learned that it wasn't the case.
That only really works in a benevolent dictatorship. In a democracy, the masses can vote for reality-rejection candidates.
It's a pity democracy seems to be better than all the alternatives in practice, cause in principle there should be ways to improve things more. Inevitably though all other forms turn into draconian crap. Well, democracy does sometimes too, but less often.
I used to have a roommate and we had this funny schtick. He would walk into the livingroom and ask a question. If he saw me take a deep breath, he knew I was about to launch into a long-winded lecture on the topic. So he'd see the inhale and pre-empt: "nevermind" and walk out.