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Gavin Newsom proposed expanding the state sales tax to ensure it covers digital prewritten software.

As opposed to analog software, or postwritten software? I’m very curious what that is supposed to mean, and what it would be. Does Newsom know what software is?

“As someone who lives near a Best Buy, I’m at Best Buy often,” Newsom told reporters during a news conference. “And I’m paying sales tax on a lot of this prewritten software. And then I find out that all my friends that aren’t near a Best Buy, they’re downloading and they are not paying sales tax. How is that fair?”

I wonder what exactly Newsom has bought at Best Buy that constitutes “a lot of this prewritten software”.

The cifs driver is complex. I haven’t spent time tuning it in quite a while, but I once got rid of a performance problem by mounting with the nouser_xattr option, which can be included in a mount.cifs command or an /etc/fstab entry. That, or something else documented in the mount.cifs man page, might be worth a try.

Good luck!

FWIW, this is more likely Linux-specific than Debian-specific.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260518192910/https://www.404media.co/the-fbi-wants-to-buy-nationwide-access-to-license-plate-readers/

Is anything unofficially in the Library of Congress?

Within any given tier of gaming hardware*, the main advantage of consoles is not price, but simplicity: They’re convenient and easy. They consume very little extra space (no dedicated monitor/speakers/keyboard/mouse) and require practically no technical knowledge or setup/tuning/troubleshooting effort.

But PC gamers get value for their efforts. The vastly larger pool of games and greater variety in hardware options are part of that value, but there is also the total cost of ownership: PC games tend to go on sale for lower prices, and hardware upgrades can be done incrementally (ship of theseus style). Over the course of 10 years or so, that translates to either more fun or more money left to spend on other things. Or both.

Perhaps this decade’s painful rise in hardware costs is making more people willing to invest a bit of effort in exchange for a gaming PC’s better long-term value compared to a console.

*(I mention hardware tiers because it doesn’t make sense to compare a Nintendo Wii to a high-end Radeon or GeForce PC, of course.)

The problem is not data representation. Yes, you could build fancy display features into an app that understands email, and define a data format for representing those features in email attachments/parts. They could then display just fine in your Onlinepersona app. (Or you could just use HTML email, which already has partial support in some user agents, though it is not universal.) You could even go so far as to define a reply protocol for your app to share data edits via email attachments. Those replies would be useful to other people on a mailing list who run your app.

But at that point, what you’re using is not a mailing list. It’s an Onlinepersona app that happens to use a mailing list as a transport for your overlay protocol. To everyone on the list who doesn’t use your app, its traffic would be noise.

In other words, the problem is not data representation, but adoption. Good luck getting all the world’s email software to support your niche extensions. I think the most you can realistically hope for is to convince the members of your favorite mailing lists to either use your app or tolerate the noise it generates.

If you’re confident that your app is wanted by enough people to make its development worthwhile, then go for it. Just realise that it won’t be an email client; it will be an Onlinepersona client.

If you hate having information delivered as text, you are never going to love mailing lists. They are not applications, and most likely never will be, since that would break the universal interoperability that makes email valuable.

However, email does support threading, and it is possible to find user agents (clients) that support it. Perhaps someone who has compared them recently can offer suggestions for whatever platform you use. (I can’t, since I’ve been using a proprietary one for ages and don’t know what else is out there these days.)

Also, you might find that some are better than others at formatting text to your liking.

McMahon also pushes back on the government’s argument that “there is no real constitutional problem here because any viewpoint-based classification was ChatGPT’s doing, rather than the Government’s:”

There is no distinction to be drawn here between the Government and ChatGPT. ChatGPT was the Government’s chosen instrument for purposes of this project, and DOGE’s use of AI to identify DEI-related material neither excuses presumptively unconstitutional conduct nor gives the Government carte blanche to engage in it.

Honest and sensible reasoning is in such short supply lately that it’s a breath of fresh air when it occasionally shows up in government.

I wish some of that light would shine upon Constitutional law circumvention programs like Five Eyes.

Forgejo came out on top due to its fully free and open source nature.

I probably would have chosen it even if licensing wasn’t a concern. It’s good.

The headline Go Away Microsoft is amusing, because Forgejo is written in Go.

Good news: That spare RAM will become disk buffer cache on Linux, so it’s not useless after all.

This is part of why modern games claiming to need an SSD will often run pretty well from a slow mechanical hard drive on Linux.

It wasn’t snark, but mild confusion.

In that case, I’m sorry for misunderstanding.

I hope you can understand that at least nine times out of ten, a response like yours (instead of simply answering or ignoring the question) turns out to be from someone looking for a fight. I’m glad to find that the last sentence of my reply turned out to be warranted, at first. Lashing out really wasn’t necessary.

Whatever. This is pointless. Chao.

Fair enough. Ciao.

Then try to imagine that some people do exactly that, and the rest of us don’t know you or commenting habits.

My question was therefore reasonable. It was also informative, by letting other readers know they can avoid that kind of paywall without revealing their interests to the dodgy archive site.

Your response reads like snark, which doesn’t help anyone. I’ll try convince myself that you didn’t mean it that way.

Is there a paywall on the original? I don’t see one, but I have scripts disabled.

For those who are unfamiliar with it:

NetHack is a bit like Diablo, but turn-based, single-player, very light on graphics, harder, and far more complex in game mechanics. People who have played it for decades are still discovering new things.

I guess I didn’t think of that approach because it wouldn’t work for me. I use a lot of tools that follow the long established convention of putting dotfiles directly under $HOME, so I back up $HOME and exclude things like cache and trash.

I don’t know what you’re referring to. How would changing the location of dotfiles make backups easier?

I don’t mind that one, since .var doesn’t clutter my home dir and is only created if I use Flatpak. It follows unix conventions, stays out of my way, and is only a few lowercase letters to type if I choose to work with it.

No, it does not mean that.

Sigh… Yet another thing pushed by the self-appointed nannies at freedesktop.org that I will have to manually undo on practically every new account.

At least it will probably be configurable, unlike Canonical’s infamous ~/snap directory.