Is that a USB to USB adapter?

Came from Italy and to be fair I didn’t try too much American food, I guess some corn meal and pancakes, meat was really good; but the real greatest thing I found in the US is the HUGE sandwiches they make in the Publix supermarket. Great stuff, loved it.

Various different types of Parmigiano are available indeed. Some are made in large factories while other ones are made by a couple brothers with some cows. The culture is indeed there, which does not mean such a cheese can not be replicated or even made better somewhere else. Indeed, if you buy Parmigiano outside of Italy it is likely that what you’re buying is coming from a large production facility. However in Italy it is not uncommon to have small productions serving just a few villages.

However, regardless of this, counterfeit products are a problem for this system. Counterfeit products are not necessarily worse, however do not need to comply with the same quality standards which are in fact required in the production of Parmigiano. Allowing counterfeit products to be sold, especially in Italy, would likely drive out the production of proper Parmigiano and eventually result in a quality degradation.

After all, Parmigiano tends to be a cheap product; don’t be a dick and buy the real thing. I believe price increased recently, but I still see 36 months aged Parmigiano for about 15 €/kg while in Spain it is common to pay 10-15 €/kg for fresh cheese.

Is anyone trying to make counterfeit American cheese? As far as I understand it it’s generally the US who is producing counterfeit European cheese.

I am one of these child free uncles. I believe I have two nieces, one of which I guess to be 7 or 8 years old. I have seen one of them once.

I’m sorry, I clearly have no idea what’s good for them.

On a positive side, I live with two children and hopefully that’ll be enough for me to learn how to become a better uncle.

I know plenty people who are currently homeless in Europe originally lost their job following the 2008 crash.

Do you often cut and join audio that you did not record yourself?

Same, my conclusion is that we have too much faith in medics. Not that Llama are good at being a medic, but apparently in many cases they will outperform a medic, especially if the medic is not specialized in treating that type of patients. And it does often happen around here that medics treat patients with conditions outside of their expertise area.

I mean, AI is what took the focus away from QC, especially after AlphaFold. Quantum Computing is potentially a society changing technology, now regarding practice we are really far away. The main expectations are in the field of medicine. I work in that field and I reckon that if the expectations placed on quantum computers were to come true, we’d be able to study the human body much quicker than now and to develop drugs much quicker than now. However, I do work nearby a Quantum computing centre and I have met quite a few persons who work in the field, both as researchers and entrepreneurs. Currently no computer can be used to make any real calculations and it is actually unclear if the molecular simulations are actually possible with a quantum computer. As far as I understand it, it may not be possible to encode the whole system in a quantum computer before it loses coherence. This may be an intrinsic limitation as for real problems you’d need to encode tens of thousands of electrons.

Raising price of water or increasing prices when supply is low is not something I’d see working in real world. Pretty sure if it did that I’d just smash the machine and advise the company to replace it with a normal one.

Creating an id check does increase the risk, it would be an additional attack surface.

Social media may be dangerous, but I feel it should be supervised by the parents and that the government should provide the parents with good tools to supervise them. I do not like the idea of having websites being able to verify my identity, if it were to come to that I’d hope it would be for something more reasonable than protecting children from social media. I may prefer outlawing social media altogether at that point.

As far as I can see it has not been updated and someone is working on it. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2355938 Why does it matter for you to have version 2.0 anyway? As far as I understand it is interoperable with previous versions. At least, I didn’t have any problems until now.

I wouldn’t use Arab springs as an example of why Facebook is not a good product. Facebook has many problems and misuses, but I would not list allowing people to organise as one of them.

I didn’t even know syncthing 2 was released. As a service type of software I don’t really care too much for new features, I want it to be stable. Judging from this thread it wasn’t really stable until a couple months ago: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-2-0-august-2025/24758/30

I guess I’m fine with that. Software for which I need the latest release I wouldn’t install from package manager anyway.

I used to mess a lot on my Linux system, now I just want it to work and not have to change anything. Still on default plasma config after years, I guess I just mess with my vim config and little else.

An article about it is very much appreciated. It’s difficult to see things coming when there is no information available.

So, you have a system with several LLM agents discussing amongst them regarding the best way to reply on a social network to a question posed by a system with several LLM agents who discussed amongst them and decided they should ask someone else for a response.

What is the point of the social network? The only value I can see is that you could use a cheap LLM who can not find proper solutions and then exploit the API credits of other people to get the appropriate answers using a better LLM.

I mean, I used to hate Microsoft way more when I was using Windows. Now I mostly do not care. Except when I have to open office365, then yes, I really hate Microsoft.

I’d like to meet the person responsible of designing that webpage and present him some very sadic friend.

Used to have this, now I just sudo dnf update my life is more relaxed.

alias p=“sudo pacman -Syu”

$ p $ p $ p

I doubt that speed in a package manager would depend greatly on programming language choice. A package manager downloads the repository index, evaluates your current environment, decides what packages you need and then downloads them. You may get minor speed improvements due to a more performing programming language, but we’re talking about milliseconds differences in a process that likely takes several minutes. I wouldn’t take that into account when choosing across options. Indeed speed can greatly vary across package managers, but that mainly depends on implementation; as such you may have a package manager implemented in a slower language that is faster than one implemented in a faster language.

If I have to choose a package manager, I wouldn’t even consider speed and rather evaluate functionality. I don’t know paru, I imagine it allows doing what yay allows doing and as such I’d be satisfied with either of them.