I read a book about this and it didn’t start well.

Excessive bold formatting. Short sentences. One-line paragraphs.

This isn’t just AI.

This is the most blatant LLM slop I have seen—ever.

I don’t think that’s on the cards. Non-microbial life has survived 70% of the planet’s forests going up in flames as a consequence of a massive asteroid impact, and the ensuing years or possibly decade+ of planet-wide ash and dust clouds blocking out the sun. And that was just the latest mass extinction event.

You’re giving humanity far too much credit by assuming we’d be capable of anything comparable right now.

I think this is precisely that staircase. Or rather, the real-world staircase it was directly based on.

“Reaganomics seems to be working” is such a 1983 thing to say.

Yeah those graphics tablets with a screen attached are a bit more complicated than plain drawing tablets. I have no personal experience with them, but AFAIK the driver side of things (the input method) is a fairly generic touchscreen/stylus device, and the main pain point is getting the display to work correctly.

Linux desktop has over the past ~5 years gone through a pretty foundational change precisely in the display configuration department, when the almost 40 years old X11 display server was replaced with Wayland. Most distros have moved over, but a lot of (imo clueless) people online still frequently recommend distros like Linux Mint, which notoriously is still stuck on X11, so if that’s what you tried, then… yeah, sorry, there’s a lot of bad advice online.

I’m seeing many reports online saying that specific tablet should work well out of the box with KDE Plasma 6, which is one of the most well-supported and up-to-date desktop environments, so next time you try Linux, consider that. A couple of examples of distros that ship with Plasma are the popular Bazzite and CachyOS.

Also, after googling a bit it looks like there’s official “drivers” for that device on the manufacturer’s website. By the looks of it, they’re not technically drivers (those are in the kernel already), but rather a desktop app/extension that adds software-based features like macro functionality. The device should work fine without it and the app seems to have trouble working on a lot of systems anyway, but if you used the corresponding Windows “driver” then you’ll be missing the software functionality you’re used to, and will have to make do with more generic solutions like quick selection wheels implemented by digital art software.

This is an unfortunately common situation on Linux, and also happens with e.g. gaming mice and other peripherals, where stuff like the Logitech and Razer and whatnot gaming apps generally aren’t available. On Windows these are often called “the driver” (though the actual driver is separate from the app). Linux users are often the kind of crowd that hates apps like that to begin with, but I suppose there are also people who actually use them and if you’re one of them, you’ll have to find more generic replacements to their features if you switch.

What tablet was it? Not every brand has good Linux support, but Wacom’s support specifically is excellent. And because the driver is in the kernel, it won’t stop working with updates until long after the hardware is completely redundant (if even then).

Let me tell you about the superior Linux operating system, where this is not a problem.

Vahva Vuoden turhake -palkinnon kandidaatti. Kai tässä on ideana lähinnä kusettaa vanhuksia ja tyhmiä.

Paloikohan Arevan kanssa liikaa siltoja OL3:n myötä, että olisivat suostuneet rakentamaan Suomeen toista reaktoria.

Mietin ihan samaa, että amerikkalaisten kanssa yhteistyö on nykytilanteessa vähän kyseenalaista. Mutta toisaalta aikaväli näissä reaktoreissa on niin pitkä, että kun rakentamista ollaan aloittamassa niin USA on joko raunioissa tai tiellä parempaan. Tai ehkä tämä on naiivia optimismia ja oikeasti todennäköisin lopputulema on, että kolmen vuoden päästä jenkeissä on demokraatit vallassa mutta minkäänlaisia rakenteellisia muutoksia ei tehdä.

(source: https://x.com/karepack77/status/2041935429705068647)

Oh hell no.

and I really doubt American carbrains are reading – let alone caring about – Yle or the Helsinki Times.

Unfortunately we have a plenty of domestic carbrains here in Finland too.

Presumably the watermark is just going to be intractably encoded into the video file that’s shipped to the theater. Doing it any other way wouldn’t make sense.

The chuds are going to love this one.

The chairwoman literally says that she didn’t understand any of it, which makes it all the funnier. But the funniest thing by far is the next speaker shaking his head when the camera cuts to him (though that is probably a result of the uploader cutting the video down).

You need that pointed out to you? The video game references. The video game references are what make it cringe. So delectably cringe that I saved the video on my computer into what is called a cringe compilation.

It’s basically impossible to detect well-designed steganography (invisible watermark) unless you have access to the algorithm that writes or reads it, or multiple comparable copies of the media.

No, but they also don’t drive when they don’t have catalytic converters.