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My best friend's band is objectively the best hardcore show you've never been to yet. :)

It's not entirely dystopian (just barely), we have newer messengers like SimpleX and DeltaChat (I/we use Delta) on the up and coming which deliver on all the same e2ee promises as Signal. It's just network effects as usual, getting people to try is the real hurdle.

What they share in common (mostly) is the architecture - they're built natively decentralized, utilizing caching relays with no single source of truth, or device of truth, to be used to create a profile of you like a phone number does. Encryption keys owned by the user and no single servers. Generally this is the Nostr design as well, so we have 3 different teams all focusing on the same natively decentralized architecture patterns.

por qué no los dos?

What I like about this one is the nerd friends cheering Sid on, celebrating his success in action. It is, to me, one of the quintessential parts of nerdery - to lift others up and watch them become great.

I would assume your system is using systemd (I don't use Kubuntu specifically); the laptop lid is (now in 2026) controlled by the systemd infrastructure - it's a matter of setting a config option and this should fix you up. Arch as usual has the best wiki on the subject:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management#ACPI_events

You're probably looking at HandleLidSwitch* options. There's still nothing wrong with the manual disable to /proc/acpi/wakeup to cover your bases (layers of the onion), I'm fighting with a "modern" laptop that only has s2idle and it's terrible compared to S3 - I'm in ACPI wakeup hell and still trying to figure out what's causing it.

It's when you subsist on Lower Class Brats songs during the night hours.

From my understanding (which could be incorrect, I mean I wasn't there), the pattern applied to the hull was done differently per ship. I imagine they applied the base pattern in a random tile-like build where things can be rotated and moved around in the design before painting.

My first thought when I saw this - "oh hey look, razzle dazzle clothes" which is my personal mental association of the famous scene in Stripes movie, with Dazzle Camouflage which I always thought was a neat idea.

In late May 2026 images appeared on social media showing Russian Ural and KAMAZ trucks painted in the classic dazzle camouflage. Supposedly the unusual paint scheme is to confuse Ukrainian drones controlled by artificial intelligence and disrupt their pattern recognition, and not to trick the human eye. Ukraine has experimented with AI for targeting as seen in Operation Spiderweb, and is conducting a deep strike campaign to disrupt Russian logistics.[72][73]

(just talking shop) I've poked at them, you'd think the old.lemmy.ca would be appealing but not for me - I rather like this Lemmy webUI overall as a design. Good font sizes, line spacing and so forth - it has a well formed comfortable feel which I can tell has an experienced eye to it (minor details matter). Conversely, when I look at, say piefed or old.lemmy I just got "ugh, those fonts! that line spacing!". The default UI is actually a well crafted piece of usability kit - the infobox is an Achilles heel.

Random: I've used the Lemmy webUI details to craft similar feeling looks to HackerNews and (old) Reddit using nothing more than uBlock filters. Nothing grandiose but the fine tuning makes them sorta feel like the Lemmy UI (but worse, holy cow is there so much hard coded HTML in these old sites - lipstick on a pig but it helps).

Honest input to your thoughts - as a registered/logged-in user, that Lemmy home page infobox is a UI/UX nightmare - it blocks my quick access to the second box below that has my subscribed communities. Upon visiting, I would immediately collapse that top box without ever looking at it; I now have a simple uBlock Origin rule that hides the top infobox on the home page for me automatically. On old.reddit, the list of subscribed things is a dropdown top left so they avoid this UI/UX problem with stacked infoboxes.

Look, I touched the bride's butt once at the reception. Never living that down am I?

GenX here, using the 80/20 rule 80% of my friend's marriages (probably higher %) have ended in divorce. Typically after kids are involved. :-/