Site is down right now but I imagine it is yet another contribution in the genre of leaping to the worst possible conclusions about matrix from very shaky ground. I don’t know what motivates that sort of thing, but there sure seems to be a lot of it around.

Too old (it’s from 2019) and too tendetious in tone; didn’t read. For both reasons it seems certain that it does not tell the whole story.

Plutarch’s biography of Cicero notes that:

Again, in a dispute with Cicero, Metellus Nepos asked repeatedly “Who is your father?” “In your case,” said Cicero, “your mother has made the answer to this question rather difficult.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"Yo_mama"_joke

Yeah there is no “plugins enabler” required, that’s just a starfield thing.

If something is overwriting your plugins.txt it probably isn’t Skyrim. Maybe you’re launching something other than the actual game? Such as a mod organizer type of thing which isn’t working correctly. Skyrim itself definitely should not do that, nor should skse64_loader.exe which is what you’d want to run instead if you have skse (a very widely-used mod).

If you’re using steam, it’s probably steamapps/compatdata/489830/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/Skyrim Special Edition/Plugins.txt. All the various tools will just try to modify that file for you.

I have ~500 mods working well on linux just by manually installing them one at a time over a couple of years.

Youtube?

https://alt.pavethe.earth/

I went looking for coverage of this from the big news media and didn’t find a whole lot.

When the best the CBC can do is one brief mention that civil liberties groups had “several issues with the bill” right at the end of a lightweight report that mostly stresses how urgent it is to combat foreign interference, many Canadians will resort to trashy “news” sites like The Canada Files which from the looks of some of the things it publishes has a pretty high probability of itself being a foreign disinformation campaign.

Well, at least they didn’t go with the Sony Minidisc.

I’m not a fan of the idea at all, but come on, it can’t really be that bad. There’s got to be somewhere you can tell it what environment variables to use. Probably something like run0 systemd-edit /usr/system/systemd/systemrun/run0-environment --system-default=system

the harm caused by vaping and why it is not a good way to stop smoking

I’m not up to date with the latest research on the dangers of vaping. When I did look into it some years ago things were very much inconclusive. The only thing that was really clear was that it’s nowhere near as bad as smoking, despite many well-funded people trying their hardest to prove otherwise. Presumably more evidence has come in since then.

But I do know that it is still a very good way to quit smoking. The only way that works for some people. There’s been plenty of research to support that, but it seems pretty damn obvious to many of us who’ve done it.

It’ll probably be a little less easy if the tobacco companies succeed in fully taking over the market with their shitty cigarette-shaped disposable products, so perhaps we can hope that someone considers that when deciding how to regulate the market.

It’s just a thought. On further consideration I’d probably broaden it to any non-Starfleet faction. In cases where there is one involved in the plot I like it when they’re portrayed in more depth than is usual.

There were some tools available to make it easy. For instance, to get a modeline that might work for your monitor just fill out this simple form.

My linux experience:

1993 - Hey, there’s a new Unix-like thing for the PC. You can check it out down at the university computer club.

1994 - Wow, I finally managed to get X running

1996 - It was somewhat normal for more nerdy software developers to run linux full-time on their desktop at work.

1998 - Linux was taking over servers to the point where you rarely saw Solaris, HP-UX, AIX around any more.

2002 - Everyone agreed that linux was pretty much ready to take over the desktop as well.

Counter-proposal: Same thing, except instead of crew members it’s people from whatever non-Federation civilisation is involved that week.

Science is a religion in the same way that golf is a religion. It’s not, but it’s easy to see how one might get the wrong idea by listening to the rhetoric of its most enthusiastic admirers and not looking too closely at the actual thing they’re talking about.

Recognizing that those goals are simply wrong should be one of those “basic digital skills” they talk about. I mean use cloud services and AI if you really need them, but it should not be encouraged.

Maybe more people will join me in thinking that the best thing to do is to set browser.newtabpage.enabled=false and otherwise fiddle with the settings until it just shows you nothing but a blank page in a nice colour when you open a new tab or window.

It’s the one with the glasses. He doesn’t give a damn about God, gays, gender, or guns, except in that they are useful tools for achieving power.

El Mundo according to google translate:

The problem is that the Agency only has powers for companies and internet providers with their main establishment in Spain and that is why it seeks to extend its project worldwide.

For this reason, in addition to explaining it in the US and before the EC, it has been presented to the Plenary of the European Data Protection Committee, where work is being done under age verification criteria and it is expected that some criteria will be approved before the summer based on the Spanish proposal.