That would be true in a free market but the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy actually incentivises over-production (it’s supposed to protect rural lifestyles). Dumping food abroad (i.e. at below market prices) then disincentivises domestic production there. It’s long overdue reform.

Haha same. I just hope all my yeast survives until my poopy one reaches daycare and we can start to reclaim some free time again.

I hope your poopy season has an end in sight…

Looking at the 100’s of lines of comments, I presume they’re doing so too!

I think it’s useful to point to docs for unusual features but this is so verbose it makes it hard to see what the system is doing.

I imagine it feels quite righteous to drop maxims like this. I too am reminded everyday how glad I am not to have to live in a fascist state.

That said I think this sort of superficial dismissal is really unhelpful.

I think the vast majority of Linux users will agree we don’t want to have to work with these laws but the reality is that we do. Far better we focus our efforts on minimising harm and promoting alternative mechanisms (e.g. zero-knowledge proofs).

Further I fear this righteousness actually serves to foster a toxic culture in the free software movement. And do you know what we call belligerent people who want to stifle dissent? Fascists!

No he doesn’t. We need to focus our anger on the legislators/ lobbiers (Meta in this case).

I’m inclined to agree that OS-level age verification declaration is pointless and invasive but I’m sympathetic with distros looking to comply with the law. I can also see why governments want to pursue identity verification to enforce laws online even if this is obviously not the right way to achieve that.

I want to see Linux become the mainstream choice and accept that it will need to be compatible with laws like this to do so. Were Linux more widely used then organisations like the KDE e.V. might even be consulted by lawmakers which might help avoid this sort of legislation being passed in the first place!

I’m also hoping that this can be solved for those in California with some sort of optional service rather than something that gets too closely integrated with the distros or desktop environments.

Yeah I learned this fermenting lemons. With the sugar gone it tastes like kitchen cleaner!

So kind of like a personalised learning assistant? I realise it’s different but this inverted instruct approach puts me in mind of Doctorow’s reverse centaur!

Don’t you find that the links you get are hallucinated though? Even if they’re not now you can imagine this collapsing into slop echoes…

I’ve tended to ask for examples to help me bootstrap new projects. A bit like getting customised docs. I certainly haven’t had enough success with generated code to think about automatically adopting it.

This is interesting and sounds like how I’ve been using it - basically like customised stack overflow answers.

Would you mind elaborating a little on your approach? Are you saying you provide it with guidance and links or are you asking it for those?

230B parameters is “reasonably small” now?!

This looks great - thanks a lot!

Can you really isolate a single cell without a laboratory?! What sort of equipment? This sounds more involved than just innoculating some wort with a spoonful of yeast sediment…

I tried to look at yeast under a 40x-640x microscope but just saw a brown blur! I presumed you would need expensive stains/ growth media to experiment properly.

Could you elaborate on what you mean by “1-cell” steps?

I didn’t realise yeasts have “killing features” either… I thought the whole idea with fermentation was to create the right conditions for your favoured micro-organism to out compete the rest!

Brilliant. This looks great. Thanks for taking the time for a thorough write up!

Great idea! We’re overrun with Lemon Balm!

How did you extract the flavour? Did you add it to the boil or make a vodka tincture or something?

In fact I’d really be up for trying this out if you’d care to share your recipe?

It looks like a Windows XP activation key!