I’m down for Linux, but not C++ (I’m not into S&M)

Searx is the only one I know of. Most others repackage one of the big tech companies’ results.

Edit: Brave uses its own search index, but isn’t open source. Also Brendan Eich is a tremendous asshole.

True, but it’s only about eugenics if you think that intelligence is a primarily hereditary trait rather than a learned one.

You could just as easily make a case that’s about “nurture” more than “nature”. Stupid and negligent people will make bad parents regardless of genetics.

TIL American imperialism is when Russia’s neighbours don’t let themselves be invaded by Russia

A Canadian was also the principal author of the UN declaration on human rights, and another was the reason NATO is a political as well as military alliance. We just keep winning!

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3290363/chinas-hypersonic-jumbo-jet-prototype-hits-mach-6-gobi-desert-test-flight

I’ll withhold judgment until I can find a source that doesn’t trace back to that obscure blog.There’s nothing else online regarding this.

Nice, thanks for this extra background! My first thought was scramjet too, but it would be nice of them to mention how it takes off and lands.

The original rendering looks awesome, in a bonkers sci-fi kind of way.

Based on the renderings (as there are no actual photos of this thing, other than the blurry-ass pic of what appears to be a rocket taking off vertically) it’s nowhere near the size of a 747. It actually looks rather like an elongated SR-71, which makes me very skeptical that it can actually hit Mach 6.5 because ramjet engines have a hard limit due to something called “physics”. That fact, plus the rocket-like takeoff, are why I think this is more like the X-15 and can’t sustain its top speed for long.

Uhh OK, they’ve matched something the X-15 was doing 65 years ago. What’s the endgame here? Build a ludicrously inefficient passenger aircraft?

They’ve been trying to grab that last slice of Golan for decades — don’t conflate opportunism with long-term policy. There’s absolutely no reason to believe that HTS would support Palestine less than al-Assad did. You may enjoy this analysis: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241209-is-the-overthrow-of-assad-good-for-the-palestinians/

Not really. Al-Assad was a known quantity and the relationship, while certainly not friendly, was at least stable (by Middle-Eastern standards). These guys on the other hand are an unknown, and that lack of predictability makes neighbours uneasy.

From the US’ POV, having Syria devolve into a theocracy is a small price to pay for the harm this inflicts on Russia (most notably losing their only port on the Mediterranean and forcing them to transit through the Hellespont, subject to the whims of Turkey)

what do you gain by running Linux over Windows?

Not using Windows.

But more seriously, you’d be astonished at the progress over the last ~3 years. I don’t play that many games but have yet to run into one that doesn’t work.

Link to the actual source: https://old.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/1h7521g/looks_like_valve_is_working_on_a_steamos_device/

I won’t buy this, but as someone who uses exclusively Linux including on my self-built gaming PC, it’s great news.

ChatGPT-ass article. Is all news going to be like this now?

No

And I speak three and am learning a fourth. It’s just a bad name.

Maybe it’s more like for-gay-joe? Or for-gay-o? For-gee-o? For-gy-o? Who knows?