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Yeah, I really dislike snap and have puppet clean it out and add in the real mozilla repo for me. If I wanted sandboxed apps I’d probably look at flatpak but I think there’s still work to be done there also.

Yeah, I just liked that bit of the meme. In the prank the meme is based on, they really are the same.

Canonical added an epoch prefix to the firefox version number. Because that epoch (1) is higher than the implicit default (0), the official ubuntu dummy package is always considered to be a higher version than the official Mozilla package. apt doesn’t look at snap packages, it installs the deb, but the ubuntu deb just runs snap install firefox and basically nothing else.

w3m is a proper deb 😛

Looks like only firefox, chromium-browser and thunderbird are these dummy transitional packages. There’s a fwupd-snap, but the default fwupd is a full deb.

Yup, apt install chromium-browser calls snap install chromium. Looks like thunderbird is the same. There’s a fwupd-snap deb but fwupd seems to be the default.

Well, yes, except Canonical have made them actually do the same thing in the case of Firefox. I’m not aware of any other packages that have the deb install just run the snap install.

So both commands do the same thing… right? I’m not saying snap and apt are the same in general.

In Ubuntu they are the same. firefox version 1:1snap1-0ubuntu5 is a deb that literally runs the command snap install firefox in the preinst script. Check line 77 in firefox-1snap1/debian/firefox.preinst in the source tarball: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/1:1snap1-0ubuntu5

There’s no magic there.

And then there’s shit like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Standard-Computer-Quieter2-Quieter2Q-Quieter2D-Black/dp/B099RXXDYT

if you want to use it on the third part mini pc,confirm that the output voltage of your mini pc needs 12V. If the output voltage is lower or higher than 12V and the output current exceed 2A, it will burn your mini pc or cpu.

I think ICQ, AIM and MSN messenger are all dead now. WhatsApp works on Matrix via a bridge. Not sure about other platforms.

Kanata is an alternative (like KMonad) that I’ve heard good things about.

Or even zcat -f /usr/bin/zcat

       -f --force
              If the input data is not in a format recognized by gzip, and if the option --stdout is also given,
              copy the input data without change to the standard output: let zcat behave as cat.

I don’t know why this isn’t the top comment. I guess there might be some scenario where you’d want to know about non-gzip files where you don’t expect them so changing the defaults would probably cause some subtle breakage. For shell use though, just an alias could be used; alias zcat=gzip -cdf

The full ten months of the year?

That’s the BBC criticising Apple for indiscriminately mangling all notifications with AI, like news headlines. The BBC could boycott the Apple platform, but that’s basically their only lever to stop Apple doing this besides asking nicely.

Well read the BBC article on this then: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0elzk24dno

It’s an iPhone ‘feature’ that summarises a bunch of notifications into one. It took a set of BBC headlines and turned them into “Luigi Mangione shoots himself…” They don’t list the article that was being summarised so I don’t know what the original headline was.

Already done of course

I didn’t recognise the ‘10 seconds of human consideration’ claim. I found this ProPublica report on it: How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them

There a former Cigna doctor says “It takes all of 10 seconds to do 50 at a time.” They claim to have seen documents for a two month period that put the average at 1.2 seconds per review. That’s using a specific review system that processed 300,000 claims over that period.

They don’t mention if there were other claims processed with different methods but still, the OP article seemed to be generous with that claim.

I don’t know what the “90%-error-rate AI” claim is about though. It’d be nice if the sources were actually cited.

Yeah, they’re a burgers & spies joint.