If you and your identical twin relished pranking people by swapping places while you were both alive, then you’d sort of need to say goodbye with one last prank.

There was a joke that the successor to the RU-486 contraceptive pill was the RU-Pentium, and it worked by preventing the embryo from dividing correctly

In the same way that the döner kebab represents German cuisine.

At least Sweden has decent fikabröd. The rest of the world has only almond croissants, brownies or dire travesties of kanelbullar to accompany its coffee

IIRC, the inspiration for Fritz Lang’s “M”

The spherical shape allows for more efficient meat production with less waste. The next step, though, is to make a rectangular chicken for better stackability.

Britain didn’t vote to leave the EU for the Black And White Minstrel Show to stay cancelled

Being Australian, it of course wants to kill you

The alternative-pop singer Momus contracted that from tapwater in Greece in the 90s, and has worn an eyepatch since.

So, a new computer that works like an old computer?

IIRC, it’s still 100% privately held by the founders, who have no intention of selling up.

Another recommendation for Mullvad. Solid privacy options and no marketing snake oil

I wonder what the proportion of bots to actual gamergate incel chuds who idolise Musk was.

The story I heard was that it came to America with Russian Jewish immigrants who took transatlantic ocean liners from Hamburg, which is where it got its name from. (The Jewish origins are important as apparently the beef patty we know originated as a way of prepreparing kosher meals for travelling through areas where options were unknown.)

That looks like an Iain Banks non-sci-fi book jacket

More proof that we live in the dumbest timeline

Both of these services appear to be dependent on BlueSky. I.e., if BlueSky ceased existing, or cut them off from its API, they’d die. In that way, they’re not that different from “Log in with Facebook” or similar.

One could theoretically make one’s own independent AT Protocol network, but not in a way that interoperates with BlueSky as a peer. You’re either a subsidiary part of its network or you don’t exist as far as it’s concerned, which is a much poorer value proposition than ActivityPub and related protocols.

No, because the AT Protocol is not designed for interoperability, but rather for entrenching the silo owned by the main node (BlueSky) whilst giving the illusion of being decentralised. It’s to decentralised social media what Microsoft’s OOXML file format (tl;dr: a memory dump of Microsoft Word’s internal data structures encoded in XML, and useless to anything that’s not Microsoft Word or a very precise emulation thereof) is to open document formats.

It’s possible though less than ideal. Drivers that connect to devices are part of the attack surface, and probably the part you’d least want implemented in C when the rest of the kernel is in Rust.

There’s a Pareto effect when it comes to them, in that you can cover a large proportion of use cases with a small amount of work, but the more special cases consume proportionately more effort. For a MVP, you could restrict support to standard USB and SATA devices, and get a device you can run headless, tethered to the network through a USB Ethernet adapter. For desktop support, you’d need to add video display support, and support for the wired/wireless networking capabilities of common chipsets would be useful. And assuming that you’re aiming only for current hardware (i.e. Intel/AMD boards and ARM/RISC-V SOCs), there are a lot of legacy drivers in Linux that you don’t need to bring along, from floppy drives to the framebuffers of old UNIX workstations. (I mean, if a hobbyist wants to get the kernel running on their vintage Sun SPARCstation, they can do so, but it won’t be a mainstream feature. A new Linux-compatible kernel can leave a lot of legacy devices behind and still be useful.)