The year 2000 was a century leap-year, therefor Calvin could be 7 now. That would also imply he's at least 2400 years old by our normal timekeeping.
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Didn't you see the Tesla ad on the Whitehouse front lawn?
This is the Mastodon link, but he is quoting a NYT article (from which I'll quote the meat)...
https://tech.lgbt/@joshuajfriedman.com@bsky.brid.gy/114321303656287669
Immigration judges are employees of the executive branch, not the judiciary, and often approve the Homeland Security Department’s deportation efforts. It would be unusual for such a judge, serving the U.S. Attorney General, to grapple with the constitutional questions raised by Mr. Khalil’s case. She would also run the risk of being fired by an administration that has targeted dissenters.
“This court is without jurisdiction to entertain challenges to the validity of this law under the Constitution,” Judge Comans said as she delivered her ruling, apparently reading from a written statement.
I was just reading a comment on Mastodon that immigration judges are not actual judges but are employed by the Administration. Which means they can't even rule on the constitutionality of the information provided -- so they're really nothing but puppets to make the process appear to be legal.
So the next question is... can the ruling be appealed before a real judge?
Ah that's good. Disk space isn't an issue here, I have around 105TB of storage, but my desktop is an older machine with only 24GB of memory so being lightweight is somewhat of a requirement.
Agreed on Debian stable. Long ago I tried running servers under Ubuntu... that was all fine until the morning I woke up to find all of the servers offline because a security update had destroyed the network card drivers. Debian has been rock-solid for me for years and buying "commercial support" basically means paying someone else to do google searches for you.
I don't know if I've ever tried flatpaks, I thought they basically had the same problems as snaps?
I'm not sure about other distros, I've just heard a lot of complaints about snaps under Ubuntu. Cura was the snap I tried on my system that constantly crashed until I found a .deb package. Now it runs perfectly fine without sucking up a ton of system memory. Thunderbird is managed directly by debian, and firefox-esr is provided by a Mozilla repo so they all get installed directly instead of through 3rd-party software (although I think I tried upgrading Firefox to a snap version once and it was equally unstable). Now I just avoid anything that doesn't have a direct installer.
That's a good point... if you can't read messages and discussions without a login, then it's not really facilitating public notification.
That's what I was thinking too... If they're running Ubuntu then they're probably installing packages through snaps, and that's always been the worst experience for me. Those apps lag down my whole system, crash or lock up, and generally are unusable. I run Debian but have run into apps that wanted me to use a snap install. One package I managed to find a direct installer that is rock-solid in comparison to the snap version, and the rest of the programs I abandoned.
Firefox (since it was mentioned) is one of those things I believe Ubuntu installs as a snap, despite there being a perfectly usable .deb package. I applaud the effort behind snap and others to make a universal installation system, but it is so not there yet and shouldn't be the default of any distro.
I've said it before and I'll say it again... a social media post is NOT an official government communication. I don't mind it being used in addition to public channels to help spread the word further, but if you are going to use one platform then you should be required to use all of them to ensure all affected people receiving the same information... and I don't see them posting on Bluesky or Mastodon or even Reddit.
Ah that's handy to know the status can show more detail for individual interfaces! I still use /etc/network/interfaces to set up each port so systemd shows them all unmanaged. Maybe some day I'll try switching to that kind of setup.
Where do you find default link files at? There's nothing relevant under /usr/share/doc/systemd/. I had to do a lot of online reading to find an example of selecting them by the MAC address, and the NamePolicy= line was critical to making it actually work.
I don't suppose you happen to know of a way for systemd to manage a DSL connection (CenturyLink)? The old pppd setup seems to be getting hammered by systemd for some reason even though there's no service file for it, but ppp0 refuses to try connecting on the new server until I can log in, stop it, and restart it again. It's like it is trying to connect way too early in the boot and gets locked up.
Not Calvin specifically, but pretty much all cartoon characters age really slowly, if at all. And since a leap-century only happens once every 400 years, it seemed appropriate enough to match their apparent immortality.