I keep reading this complaint every time FairPhone releases a new model, and it’s nonsense. The millions of people who didn’t buy a FairPhone 5 in the last 2 years are not going to buy a 2 year old model when they need a new phone in 2 months.

You bought a FairPhone 5 or 4 in the last 4 years? Keep it and don’t buy a FairPhone 6, you don’t need it.

You didn’t buy a FairPhone and your current phone is dying? Then you have a modern FairPhone and don’t need to decide between a FairPhone with old specs or an up-to-date phone that is not repairable.

39 is not a prime number

It’s definitely worth keeping an eye on. Keep in mind that the name of the fork currently under active development, TrilliumNext Notes, will soon change to just Trillium Notes, like the original software it was forked from, according to the release notes of the latest version (0.94.1).

I would understand that “swarm” here is used as a noun, destroy is the verb. The verb uses the third-person singular form (destroys) therefore the subject can’t be “1 million antelopes” (plural), but should be singular, like “one swarm of antelopes”.

The country overnight decided…

Your country was changing…

you do realise you’re on the World Wide Web, right? Please stop acting like there’s only one country in the world, and that’s the omnipotent, wonderful USA. That’s what the message you’re replying to refers to: 9/11 was important for the USA, but the world is much bigger.

And what will Germany do about it? NOTHING!

Fuck the USA. America is a continent with many nice countries.

Then there’s Germany where restaurants charge you 6€ for a jug of tap water.

Yeah, Germany is quite backwards in this aspect.

What happens now? (in my ass)

There’s also IHateMoney as a self hosted service and MoneyBuster as an Android app to interact with IHateMoney.

keep it that way until the Turd Reich is vote out of office.

No, please. Keep it forever. The USA was never and never will be a reliable ally. Good riddance. Forever.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

In my opinion it is not about swearing, and (not) seeing it, it is about censorship. Some big sites censor content that contains words that are considered bad by advertisers, these are not only swear words but also words like die, suicide, porn… This has changed the way some people communicate, with people using euphemisms or censoring words in images themselves: people censoring themselves before the big internet site censors them.

As you wisely said: “Express yourself however you want”. The original author of the text in this post used a swear word and later it was censored by someone reposting it in social media to avoid upsetting the censorship machine or whatever website it was. I find this unacceptable.

I fully support using a rich vocabulary and not using swear words, being polite. There are many reasons to do this: respect for others, improving ones communication skills, practising formal writing… but giving in to censorship imposed by social media websites should NEVER be one. Fuck censorship. It is unacceptable to allow big tech companies to shape the way we speak with their censorship.

Express yourself however you want, if the website you’re in doesn’t allow you to do it don’t give in to censorship, give up that website and look for a place where you can express yourself.

That sounds interesting, do you have a source? I’d like to learn more.

I’ve read that in ancient Spanish the letter X had in some cases the sound that the letter J has in modern Spanish, therefore the spelling of some words changed accordingly: Don Quixote is Don Quijote in modern day Spanish.

Noted

With a bit of effort you can stream any movie directly to your TV for a few moneys a month (or free, but paying for the essential bits removes the jankiness)

Something I learned back in the day: “Never pay for warez”. Pirate all you want, the moment you are paying, pay the creator of the product you’re interested in, not someone who pirated it and wants to profit from distributing it without a licence.

He pardoned a bunch of rich criminals

Separate the fat. Make soap with it. Sell it to the rich.

I’ve seen a couple of articles from earth.com shared lately and they always have this clickbaity sensationalist tone. I don’t like it.

Looking at the original publication this article is based on I don’t understand much (I’m not a climate scientist myself), but one sentence stands out:

Whether global warming has affected the strength of this overturning circulation over the past century is still debated: observational studies suggest that there has been persistent weakening since the mid-twentieth century, whereas climate models systematically simulate a stable circulation.

The climate models we all know and predict how climate change will affect us all seem to work on the basis that these currents have a stable circulation that doesn’t change, which doesn’t seem to be the case. Therefore the climate models we’ve known until now might be wrong… and things could be even worse.