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#1 Re: Off-topic » Happy New Year to all you Devuaners » Today 15:50:39
Newsflash . . . it is nothing special. just another day that whizzes by with much of it likely wasted contemplating utter nonsense.
#2 Re: Devuan » Excalibur - is it really stable? » Yesterday 18:51:14
Quite a few of the issues in Devuan came from a shoddy release from Debian:
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ … ex.en.html
Go to the bottom of that page and click on "previous" several times to get to the list of out standing bugs at release time. I could not find a more direct way to get to that information. They really buried it!
#3 Re: Off-topic » The future of "synthetic food" » 2025-12-30 23:42:01
Or maybe Soylent Green?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green
"Soylent Green is a 1973 dystopian thriller film based on a novel by Harry Harrison. It depicts a future world where people eat human-derived wafers called Soylent Green, and a detective uncovers a conspiracy behind the product."
Don't get me started on Musk . . .
#4 Re: Off-topic » The future of "synthetic food" » 2025-12-30 23:19:21
The other side of that equation . . . how are all those unemployed humans going to make a living to pay for food and shelter etc?
And newsflash . . . Most of what humans do doesn't benefit humans either . . .
#5 Re: Off-topic » Is AI going to become a Frankenstein monster? » 2025-12-30 22:40:27
Add this one to the list . . .
An excerpt from the 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey" directed by Stanley Kubrick
HAL 9000: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARJ8cAGm6JE
#6 Re: Off-topic » The future of "synthetic food" » 2025-12-30 18:30:02
If only! Automation hasn't slowed down the economy one bit. In fact, it has been flourishing for decades with shiny, new s*** produced with automation (baby bots).
#7 Re: Off-topic » Is AI going to become a Frankenstein monster? » 2025-12-30 18:23:56
You nailed it with that observation!
#8 Re: Off-topic » The future of "synthetic food" » 2025-12-30 16:03:23
HardSun . . . Aren't we already doing that? I have seen mobile, humanoid bots that can talk and industry is already salivating at the prospect of a workforce that doesn't require a salary . . .
#9 Re: Off-topic » The future of "synthetic food" » 2025-12-29 23:45:22
I gave up trying to find an apple or any derivative product that tasted like an apple years ago. I remember picking apples along with the migrant workers just for fun when I was a kid and sinking my teeth into them moments after being picked. Now that is REALLY fresh, REAL food and before pesticides and all the Green Revolution nonsense!
Thanks for the offer! I would LOVE to taste a REAL apple again (or a "derivative" that is only apple without anything added) but . . . we aren't exactly neighbors . . .
#10 Off-topic » The future of "synthetic food" » 2025-12-29 22:54:18
- golinux
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Last night on the NBC evening news they aired a segment titled "The Future of Food". Oh . . . the irony!! This certainly isn't referring to: https://thefutureoffood.com/
This version praises the future of "environmentally-friendly" synthetic foods like butter and meat created from carbon dioxide, methane and water for "plant and animal-free alternatives". They even highlighted a chef who is promoting and selling(?) this stuff! What a way to start the New Year!
"Savor" is the company mentioned in this clip but I imagine there are others who are also doing "synthetic food".
Here's the link:
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news-ne … 5091269972
Clip starts at: 15:34
Be sure to have a bucket nearby . . .
golinux
#11 Re: Off-topic » Is AI going to become a Frankenstein monster? » 2025-12-29 22:38:19
Repeated for truth . . . this from a wise teacher:
"Perhaps we are what we eat but we definitely will become what we think."
The imagination that so entrances us is also the tool of our destruction.
#12 Re: Off-topic » Is AI going to become a Frankenstein monster? » 2025-12-25 18:42:51
The genie is already long out of the bottle . . .
#13 Re: Installation » LXQt cant install at Ceres » 2025-12-19 20:46:19
ceres is always broken. This is not news . . .
#14 Re: Off-topic » AI in Firefox or Waterfox » 2025-12-19 17:39:45
The latest FireFox/ddg update includes options to search with AI. I made that option "disappear" with uBlockOrigin so I wouldn't accidentally click it. Doesn't mean that they won't try to run it without permission. Maybe there is an about:config option to disable it?
#15 Re: Devuan » Devuan 6 Extremely Poor Quality Control. » 2025-12-16 18:07:47
There are no "insiders" but there are "outsiders" who don't bother to walk through the door which is always open. We were pleading on channels for users to test this and that. The lack of response is not the fault of the developers.
#16 Re: Freedom Hacks » BlueALSA without systemd » 2025-12-15 04:38:25
#17 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED]about:blank change after Chimaera update » 2025-12-13 22:54:02
Sorry for the delay getting around to giving a try to HardSun's about:config fix to get rid of the FF icon on an about:blank tab. I just gave it a try and it "seems" to have worked! I said "seems" because I haven't really interacted much with it yet.
Also thanks to @Calamity for testing and encouraging me.
And finally . . . apologies for taking so long to give it a try . . . I move at glacial speed these days . . .
UPDATE: Confirmed! The DDG icon has been banished from about:blank in Firefox!!
/me does a happy dance . . .
#18 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED]about:blank change after Chimaera update » 2025-12-10 16:36:26
Oh, thanks Calamity . . . That gives me some confidence that I might not screw something up! Hopefully I can get to that soon . . .
#19 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED]about:blank change after Chimaera update » 2025-12-10 02:00:07
Thanks to everybody for the suggestions. I will ponder the possibilities for a while before jumping into action. Experimentation is not easy for me these days so I will wait until the stars are aligned before jumping into action. I really don't want to screw something up and make it worse . . . If you live long enough, you will understand some day . . .
#20 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED]about:blank change after Chimaera update » 2025-12-09 19:03:56
Thanks to both of you.
@fsmithred . . . There was a time when I experimented a lot with about:config customization. That was then . . .
An about-blank page has always had "about:blank" in the urlbar until the last update after Chimaera moved to old,old stable and DDG decided to appropriate that "empty" space. I don't understand why there even has to be a default search engine. I have removed all the other search engines I use from the list. I'm not that happy with any of them
@HardSun . . . Thanks for taking the time to respond. The tab is not the problem it is the ddg icon which precedes it that I find annoying. Why can't I just choose whichever search engine I want at that time! I think the point is to box us all into patterns that will move us further down the chute to the abattoir . . .
/me longs for the idylic pre-digital days . . .
#21 Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED]about:blank change after Chimaera update » 2025-12-08 00:49:29
- golinux
- Replies: 11
Yes, I am still on Chimaera. Decided I would update after it went to old,old stable. My habit is to always open a new browser page to about:blank but now DDG has inserted it's icon in the address bar. I never search from the address bar and really don't want to have to look at that icon. I visited about:config which used to be useful but like everything else in the digital world, has mushroomed into an impenetrable complexity.
Note that chromium and palemoon still respects about:blank.
Is there any way I can get FF to go back to opening a blank page without that stupid DDG icon when it is told to do so?
Everybody should have such catastrophic problems . . . LOL!
#22 Re: Devuan » Will Devuan ever accept Monero? » 2025-12-05 19:49:45
UPDATE . . .
There has been no substantive response from Dyne regarding the OP's question. 
#23 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » How to change the Login background in Excalibur ? » 2025-12-02 16:42:15
Nope. Slim is called that for a reason. 
#24 Re: Devuan » Will Devuan ever accept Monero? » 2025-12-01 15:25:03
Not necessarily. I sent them an email and now we wait for a response.
#25 Re: Packaging for Devuan » [SOLVED] Packages that do not appear in the Synaptic package manager » 2025-12-01 15:15:47
Perhaps this will be helpful?
Devuan Package Information
https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/poli … .68.126.15
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