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Regions give manual tiling possibility though, which is actually how I prefer it. I’m testing a new patch that someone recently did to support focus based on region, which is nifty.

labwc is working pretty well these days. Screen tearing for games and all.

There are a bunch of environment variables that I set this time though, which may have contributed to a better experience this time.

English aint Lojban, if you know what I mean.

You need training material for negative prompts too.

100% ChatGPT, seeded with the text. It was surprisingly good compared to the poems I normally get out of it.

In Tiananmen’s shadow, two leaders met, A show of strength, yet a tale of debt. Putin’s cap in hand, Xi’s gaze afar, The echoes of Ukraine, a haunting scar.

The Red Army’s songs played, children cheered, But in Xi’s eyes, the future’s not cleared. A hug for the cameras, words held at bay, Xi knows the game, it’s a cautious play.

Russia’s strength, now frail and thin, Exposed by war, the cracks begin. China stands tall, the senior hand, Guiding the course, on shifting sand.

Economies entwined, yet paths diverge, Xi’s balance act on the world stage surge. A pariah’s plea, a friend’s restraint, In whispers, their true sentiments faint.

For China’s gain, Russia’s plight, An alliance of need, not equal might. Xi will nod when the moment is right, In shadows, he maneuvers out of sight.

Austria remains a snake in the grass, unfortunately. Too many russian spies, bribetakers, and sympathisers.

If I were a new user, I’d consider using such a tool. I guess I’ll see myself out. ;-)

That indeed changes things, potentially introducing much more bias. What motivation would somebody have to install this tool and run it? Is it being marketed/advertised somehow? How, where, and to whom? :-P

People who voluntarily report usage are more likely to be new users, experimenting with Linux distributions etc. Greybeards like me will check out new stuff every few months or years, and won’t shout about it one way or another. We’ll probably not send statistics when prompted, either.

Skynet sounds friendly. It needs a friendly looking logo.

“Stalin was an amateur. 28 million, here we come!” --putin, probably

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/caps-lock-behaviour-wayland/79868/8 seems relevant.

When you have cloud providers growing faster than the region’s grid capacity, something has to give … throttle growth there, or plan for mega growth? I guess it helps that nuclear is green again. 😁

In some countries private law firms chase down infringers on behalf of copyright holders. They then attempt shakedowns with the threat of legal action if you don’t pay. They have a financial interest to catch people, and moral compasses vary.

Also, mistakes can happen (you, your family, guests using your wifi, in the courts, in the ISPs, in the law firms, in the tech they are using to identify people). Shit happens.

And if (when) it happens, then you would still have to deal with it, costing you time and money.

Understand the risks and make choices to minimize them if you can.

I think you underestimate the desire for russia to avoid a direct war with the west, and overestimate the west’s response (which would be devestatingly tactical, but limited)

We see how the west and russia go out of their way to avoid direct clashes in Syria, and have painted over the odd incident. This is officially still a SMO.

The challenge is how to better protect the cities, supplies and infrastructure in the rear without getting directly involved at the front.

More air defence is the approach that will most likely be taken, but it leaves everything in Ukraine as a target for russian aggression and terror. Every apartment complex, school and hospital is a valid target for russia.

There would be significant strategic and tactical ambiguity in having western countries regularly entering Ukrainian airspace to patrol and interept. It would be a huge morale boost for Ukrainians, and a blow to the russians.

It is still unlikely to happen without a significant change like the russian federation’s collapse or perhaps a true stalemate at the front. I don’t see either happening soon, but the ballet is notoriously hard to predict in russia.

edit: the realistic threat of direct involvement might be enough to achieve similar results, and being unsure whether they are tracking/targeting ukrainian equipment or not would give pause.

That’s how it is traditionally enforced, but that is not the approach that must be taken, and likely wouldn’t be given the risks of a direct engagement. I’m sure the PR department would give it a catchy new name.

It’s all hypothetical though… no politician would sign up for it just now. If there were a disorderly collapse of the russian federation, I could see it though.

If aircraft or AA tried to engage, then yes, it would be targeted. If russia chose not to engage (eg. for fear of escalation) then it survives another day to be targeted by Ukraine instead. We know russia can turn off its AA and restricting by geography is normal.

My expectation is that the skies in Ukraine would quiet down very quickly for fear of an accidental engagement.

However, it would be like walking a tightrope. It’s not something the US is good at, and would be hard to sell politically.

NATO (edit: or “coalition”) jets intercepting russian aircraft in russia or international airspace would be very escalatory.

Declaring zone X (in Ukraine) as protected-by-coalition airspace and intercepting foreign objects within it (or imminently approaching it), less so.

If russia then attacked a manned western aircraft within zone X directly, that would be a serious escalation, and would demand a suitable response (eg. goodbye, illegal bridge and new railway line). Still not nuclear, but one step closer.

Such active air defence is not without risk, but I’d like to see it anyway. Preferably two years ago.

Apparmor profiles can be applied to an executable - the profile is then (if so configured) inherited by subprocesses. In my case I have a launch script to run lutris in a safe mode. It also changes the effective gid to be matched by some iptables rules (it was easier than creating a new network namespace, which is also possible). The script then checks that the Internet is inaccessible and that reading/writing to secured paths is denied before launching lutris.

Similarly I have a “safe” script to wrap other commands with an apparmor profile that stops most writes to my homedir/reads from some secure locations, which I often use to run scripts/programs from the Internet.

My sudo also requires a password (or a special keyboard combination, thanks to a custom pam configuration).

All that said and done, I’m sure I’ll be caught off guard one day.