Yep, I think that’s the real terror of it, is that the line between ad and content will blur even further. There’s already everything ranging from astroturfing to paid endorsements, but eventually AI maybe can get good at finding that line of what you think is trustworthy and crossing it maliciously.

Pizza is also, like other foods, apparently a salad.

The Cornell system is pretty famous note-taking method. I also saw while checking for the Wikipedia page for that, there’s a partial wikibook on Note-Taking with some various tips and links, and a Note-Taking article that outlines several methods.

But my advice would be not to stress too much about how you’re taking notes. Writing helps with memory, but from what I can tell it’s really the act of taking the information, choosing what to write down and how to re-word it that does the heavy lifting.

So basically, just do it, even though it’s imperfectly. Sit down to learn something, and as you read, watch, or practice, decide what’s important and jot down something on your paper that you think captures the idea.

Also be wary of the trap of buying nice pens and notebooks. That stuff is cool if it motivates you to actually start taking notes, but can drag you down if you let yourself get too particular about it.

I mean, yes, but I don’t think anyone is intending to do use packages only based one factor. Popularity is a reasonable heuristic for quality and long-term continued support. And my reading of OP is that they’re trying to gauge the popularity to use it for that. I think it’s also a decent enough measure for discovery, since usefulness (hopefully) should correlate with popularity and the latter is more measurable.

Libraries are awesome!

Nice touch making Months plural and Day singular.

I also like how Wednessecond isn’t going to be the end of the list, trailing comma is there.

Cursed.

Cathedral and Bazaar is one of the classic essays. It’s available in book form too.

Free Software, Free Society from RMS is also a foundational text. It’s online, but you can buy a hardcopy as well.

I’m sure there are more up to date options, but those are the basics to get started.

Now I don’t have to type that in again. Phew!

In the past, I’ve used Fcitix (in Plasma anyway) and found it to work well.

Since I switched distros and moved to Wayland though, I haven’t managed to get it working again.

Same here. I keep Tubular and Pipepipe installed alongside of NewPipe. Usually at least one will work if I update to latest releases.

False Swipe.

If I’m going out, at least break the rules of reality.

No, I try to keep in mind that most situations are transient and I don’t really know what people born today are going to be dealing with.

Climate change looks pretty bad for people going into the future, don’t want to discount or downplay that. But other things, from the terrible political trends and hatred to wars to failed or booming economies will ebb and flow over lifetimes, and it’s hard to say in many ways if the future holds better or worse for today’s children.

The idea you’re getting at is ‘security by obscurity’, which in general is not well regarded. Having secret code does not imply you have secure code.

But I think you’re right on a broader level, that people get too comfortable assuming that something is open source, therefore it’s safe.

In theory you can go look at the code for the foss you use. In practice, most of us assume someone has, and we just click download or tell the package manager to install. The old adage is “With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow”. And I think that probably holds, but the problem is many of the eyes aren’t looking at anything. Having the right to view the source code doesn’t imply enough people are, or even meaningfully can. (And I’m as guilty of being lax and incapable as anyone, not looking down my nose here.)

In practice, when security flaws are found in oss, word travels pretty fast. But I’m sure more are out there than we realize.

Interesting, I never knew. Is that the case for aviation industry in other parts of the world too?

I wish my job would force MacOS instead of Windows. 😭

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Enjoy clicking the cat!

Right! Emphasis, however sadly, on ‘should be’.

Hard to say it’s not getting enough attention - there are a lot of serious problems going on in the world today, that people are justified in making noise about.

But one of my pet issues is the switch to the metric system in the US. Why are we not working towards this? It was standardized decades ago. Should be uncontroversial to deprecate imperial, even though it obviously can’t happen overnight.

Nice! I remember this looking promising before, but not having Linux support. Now it seems like 2.0 is properly cross-platform, so I’ll have to give it a spin.

My parents weren’t very restrictive. But one time, to get me to stop asking for a new game, my Dad said I couldn’t get any new ones until I beat the last game I got.

I think about that a lot still. I think it would have been a good rule, outside of some edge cases like games that were endless or too easy.

But it was off the cuff, he didn’t remember saying it. By the time I finished some game and brought it up, I think he said something like “well don’t you have other games you never finished?”