They spend a lot to decommission the ships and make them safe. It’s just cheaper to buy an old ship and clean it up than to buy a similar amount of other artificial reef materials.

Also, being ships in shallow water, it drives scuba diving tourists as well as creating new locations for recreational fishing.

They’re pretty big boons for the local towns.

They’re usually sank in areas that are otherwise uninhabited by corals due to the depth of the water. The wrecks provide surfaces in the light zone which allows corals to grow.

It’s entirely new habitat and it provides more breeding sites in the area. Even if it takes wildlife from other areas, the decrease in population in those results in higher breeding rates in those locations due to decreased competition for food and breeding sites. More breeding sites = more breeding and a higher overall population of wildlife over time.

Ecology aside, these sites draw a lot of tourism. They’re “shipwrecks” that are in shallow water, often shallow enough that you can experience them while scuba diving, without needing decompression stops. This means that scuba divers can experience wreck diving without the extra complexity of decompression.

There are many of these artificial reefs around Florida and they’re very popular dive sites in areas that otherwise would have no similar attractions.

Source: Dated a woman who worked at fish and wildlife, department of marine fisheries and attended the sinking of the Oriskany ( https://www.padi.com/dive-site/united-states-of-america-usa/uss-oriskany/#overview )

New people don’t realize that Linux is really a soap opera with a small software project attached.

Let’s say such a change happens and at that time there’s a bit of time pressure and the capacity on the rust maintainers is thing for whatever reasons. Will they still happily swallow that change or will they start to discuss if it’s really necessary to do that change? And suddenly, the C-maintainer has a political discussion on top of the technical issue they wanted to solve.

This situation could occur even if the code using the API was written in C.

If an API change breaks other downstream kernel code, and that code can’t be fixed in time then they have a conversation about pushing the changes to the next build.

In the end, Linus has already chosen to accept the extra development overhead in using Rust. I think this situation was more about a maintainer, who happens to disagree with the Rust inclusion, using their position to create unnecessary friction for other maintainers.

The people in Gaza are also a Semitic people, so I’m not sure the argument you’re trying to make.

cat is the tool of distinguished gentlemen

A Noble tradition

Meanwhile, coffee badging is creating thorny dilemmas for low- and midlevel managers. Although company leaders announce the return-to-office edicts, direct supervisors are reluctant to scold or discipline employees for trying to get around them, Nickson said.

“Managers are saying the work is getting done,” Nickson said. “Why do I need to have this very difficult conversation?”

The risk of raising the issue is that employees will quit, resulting in significant costs to replace them, Nickson said. Others may become disengaged, hurting productivity, Yost said.

As a result, the consultants said, many managers look the other way.

https://xkcd.com/927/

I use it in this configuration.

It works well except, if you lose connection temporarily the cloudflared stops responding until some, long (60s or so) timeout period.

A minor annoyance, I usually just manuirestart the service… but I cannot find the setting that is causing this.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/17/miami-shooting-israeli-men

sometimes nvidia drivers are in a state that breaks display reinit on wake from sleep

That happens so often that I’ve just bound a hotkey in Hyprland to poke my monitors config (toggling VRR off and on again) in order to force a mode change and wake up the display.

Oops my diesel spilled

And after 2 years, it’s no longer damp but still tacky

It’s never too late to do the smart thing

Yeah, until I go outside and think my phone is dead

The current moment is like the recent wildfires. All this trash built up over the years and it sort of has to have its time to burn out. Everything just has to find a way to survive it until it runs out of fuel. When the pendulum swings back the other direction, just be ready to rebuild from the natural disaster.

-Author unknown, February 1933

This looks shopped — I can tell from some of the pixels, and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.

Someone forked Infinity and made a Lemmy client, called Eternity: https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.toldi.infinityforlemmy/

I grew up when the Internet was essentially a bunch of forum communities and 10k people was a lot of people. Something Awful felt massive with 300k registered users.

You don’t need 150,000,000 people on a subreddit to have a good community.

Communities are far better when you can recognize the names of people and remember then from previous interactions. On Reddit, you’ll probably never talk to the same person twice.

You can’t have a community full of bots if there are only a few hundred people who all know each other.