Making the API version a feature flag is a very interesting idea.

Fading out? With my wind band, we’ve never done it.
You can have everyone play pianissimo and also reduce how many players play each voice, but unlike a digital fade, this does change the way it sounds.
It’s also difficult to stay in tune when playing at a low volume with a wind instrument, so it starts to sound horrible before it becomes inaudible.

@[email protected] mentioned mic+soundboard, but for a windband, the band itself would need to be out of earshot, which is rarely possible.

So, yeah, if we ever need/want to cut a song short, we make use of a marching band signal.
Basically, the person on bass drum does two double-hits, which are out of rhythm so you can hear them, and then another hit on the first beat of the next measure, which is when everyone stops playing.
That does not always sound great either, but better than nosediving the whole orchestra. 🙃

Excuse me, Windows is the cheap copy of KDE.

I always hated that. It always felt like they just admitted defeat. They could have made an excellent song, but settled for disappointment.

Now I’m doing music myself, and goddamn, I get it. You can have a cool song going, and then you try to end it and it just sounds like disappointment every time.

“I had the best environmental numbers ever. My top environmental people gave me that statistic just before I walked on the stage actually.” (It’s unclear what Trump meant here

Yep, ‘here’. As we all know, Trump is well-known for constructing comprehensible sentences. The best comprehensible sentences.

Glasses with wrong strength should focus the incoming light wrongly and therefore effectively blur things.

If you can, I’d recommend trying out someone else’s glasses. It can give people headaches when their vision is blurry, because they’ll try to focus their eyes really hard.

It’s like camouflage, but for stairs.

Various ant species do a similar thing where their soldiers have really big, flat heads and when their nest gets attacked, the soldiers stick their head into the entrance way, so the attackers can’t come inside.

Apparently, this kind of behaviour is referred to as phragmosis.

Man, I hate the detours you’re supposed to take as a pedestrian or bicyclist, so that car drivers don’t get inconvenienced.

Interesting strategy after they already advertised their most recent game, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, as going back to the roots…

I guess, at the end of the day, life is just a whole load of chemical reactions. Oxygen is popular for life on Earth, because it’s available pretty much everywhere and because it releases energy when combined with carbon, which we’ve also got a lot of.

Presumably, you could stick any two elements that have an exothermic reaction into a box, give them an energy source with enough activation energy (akin to Earth’s Sun), as well as a source of entropy and then, with enough time, life would find a way.

I deliberately chose a high number, because I’m saying there’s no reason this would satiate Putin. He has no need for those 20% land. Why should he stop when he gets them?

The war did not contribute much to the cost of living here. We now have to import natural gas from different nations, and apparently Ukraine was the #1 supplier of sunflower seeds, but that’s mostly it.
The cost of living mainly rose due to a housing bubble and inflation. And of course, you’ve got lots of individuals that lost their livelihood from COVID lockdowns, post-COVID chronic fatigue and climate-related catastrophes.

I also have no idea what you mean by the current government being opposed to ending the war. They don’t want to invade Russia to defeat Putin, no one here wants to try that. But unlike the far right, they are in favor of supporting Ukraine to hold Putin off.
If your idea of ending the war is giving Putin half of Ukraine and hoping he’s then satiated, I do not see how that should work. It’s not like Russia needs more territory. Putin started this war, because he’s mentally ill. He will start another war in a few years, if this one is “ended” by sacrificing Ukraine, because he will still be mentally ill.

after a test version of Firefox leaked

I don’t think, that’s quite the right verb in an open-source context…

Yeah, Tree-Style Tabs is the most popular extension, although there’s various others, and this has been a highly requested feature for a while.

In Southern Germany, we have a food roughly like a baguette, called a “Seele”, which also happens to be the German word for “soul”.

So, in my headcanon, the guy ate a baguette and they split his stomach in half. 🙃

I actually even made my own bullshit-Spotify. As in, I’ve got a server running on a single-board computer which reads my music folder and serves a small music player as a webpage.

I didn’t want to install a music player client on my work laptop, but still wanted to listen to my own songs there.

This looks like one of the color blindness filters got activated. Here on Plasma 6, it’s a Desktop Effect in the System Settings. Not quite sure, if that was also already the case in Plasma 5, but if you just type “blind” into the search bar of the System Settings, then it should show up and you can disable it.

Redditors gladly fall for drama and clickbait. Mozilla being a non-profit at its core means they’re supposed to be the good guys, so if they do anything that could be interpreted badly, or even if they don’t, journalists will publish stories about it and Redditors will gladly lap that shit up.
If Google tries to rape them, that’s yet another Tuesday, boring.

Unfortunately, it is, yeah. Inflation and a rising cost of living leaves many citizen with not much choice, but to believe that their situation will improve, if we just stop accepting immigrants and stop helping out Ukraine and stop fighting climate change and whatever else there is.

Of course, the actual solution would be getting more money into poor people’s pockets.
Politicians without morals will rather risk a Fourth Reich, though, because the actual solution is hard, not just for them but also their sponsors.