The Acela (faster one) is also several times a day now, but it’s more like every 2-3 hours instead of 1

Boston to NY is more like hourly - Amtrak has a lot of trains going on the line from Boston to/from DC (DC also has a very good transit system for the US at least from what I’ve heard).

The problem with those trains is that they’re expensive and slower - the Amtrak northeast regional costs $75-300 (depending on the date and time, as Amtrak is a company and charges more around holidays and during peak travel hours 🙃) each way from NY to Boston and takes ~4-4.5 hours. Driving can take 3.5-4 if you plan around rush hours in both cities.

Lemmy.one shut down so I wouldn’t use that one anymore

I use refind also, there should be a setting somewhere to let refind scan entries from other EFI partitions. I have that setup and just created a second EFI partition for my Linux setup, so that Windows has no idea Linux even exists. I even have everything running off of the same drive (my laptop only has one nvme slot) and I haven’t had any issues.

Please don’t throw one of the only cities in the country with a semi-functional public transit system into the sun :(

Didn’t know it only applied to UWP apps on Windows. That does seem like a pretty big problem then.

I don’t still have a Mac readily available to test with but afaik it is any application that uses Apple’s packaging format. It could also be that it needs to be in the “Applications” folder, but I’m almost certain it isn’t an App Store exclusive feature.

I mentioned Linux specifically because something like this is the hardest to set up on Linux. I (wrongly) assumed that since you were complaining about it not existing, you were on a platform where setting these permissions up isn’t straightforward. App-specific file-acess permissions are on MacOS out of the box as a configurable setting for all applications (in the system settings menu), and I’m pretty sure Windows 10/11 has something similar in its settings menu as well.

Edit: Also, if we’re being pedantic, this is also a setting on both Android and iOS, with Android displaying the option to change access pretty much every time you pick out a file.

Not sure what platform you’re on but on Linux flatpak can limit access to files, and things like AppArmor can do that for any native app as well (though it can be pretty tedious to configure)

I think the problem is that the Matrix Foundation (non-profit org) is being slowly cannibalized by Element (for-profit, VC-funded) which ends up making their costs and profit expectations a lot higher.

Right now this is only impacting the matrix.org homeserver. However, this could eventually end up impacting protocol-level design choices that harm other instances as well. Sure, you could fork the protocol and clients, but now we’re talking about taking up the work that an entire organization had previously been doing. Not impossible if an existing organization like the FSF or Linux Foundation started backing something, but not a great place to be in either.

Edit: grammar

Reminder: Most devs actually care about the things they make. This is a management/timeline problem, not a developer one.

The ghost doesn’t get a gravestone

Did some digging and I think it’s these projects:

https://github.com/BlackBoxMC/blackboxmc-rs

https://github.com/BlackBoxMC/blackboxmc

I’m headcanonning this comment as the finger gun scene from Komi regardless of whether or not I’m right

Even if you’re being serious, that still gives them attention though. If you’re actually serious about boycotting Nestle, don’t buy, talk about, or consume their products.

The only acknowledgement you should give them is spreading the word about all the terrible things they do (and maybe alternative-to posts like this one if you don’t know how to replace their products)

The prison system also doesn’t actually make a net-profit even in the US, it only makes money for specific people (the owners of the private prisons and the systems benefitting off of prisoners’ free labor). The government actually loses billions of dollars per year maintaining prisons 🙃

Oh damn fair enough I didn’t look at their profile

If I get blocked, oh well 🤷. Who knows what could be the thing that opens up someone’s eyes?

I have a lot of family members that I was pretty close to before they started being MAGA fans in the past year or 2. Maybe it’s the optimist in me but I’d like to hope that people can realize how much widespread hate and damage Trump (and conservative media in general) is causing to the US.

One of the first things Trump did as president this year was take away the White House press passes from journalists he disagreed with…

He has been denying free speech (anything against him) since day 1. The only time he likes free speech is when it degrades other people and allows him to push lies/misinformation to the public.

If you’ve always wanted to pursue CS, do CS.

Honestly, there’s a lot of hype around AI. Companies are trying to figure out how to incorporate LLMs into their workflows, but no one has meaningfully succeeded yet past using it as an automated StackOverflow (which is usually wrong or outdated, just like StackOverflow). Yeah, startups will claim that things like cursor have saved them hundreds or thousands of working hours, but then they get burned their AIs leave in their API keys and code security flaws into their services. In the best case, they’ve created a nightmare codebase that will raise the turnover rates for their software developers significantly.

If you are actually passionate about CS, get a CS degree and don’t use AI for problem solving. Maybe debugging/concept explanations if it gets better, but don’t let it solve problems for you. Designing solutions, to problems, critically thinking about their strengths/weaknesses, and working through them is exactly what a CS degree is supposed to teach you how to do, so don’t throw that away by having AI do your work for you.