My first guess is the author is aggregating the numbers from either the distros download data directly or they are getting the numbers from some place like Distro Watch. You can even get a crude sense of the increase in new users if you hang out in a distro help forum. I check the r/Fedora sub on reddit a few times a week, (I run Fedora 42 BTW), and there has been enough of an increase in new users posting "OMG, I just ditched Windows and look at my shiny new Gnome/KDE desktop!" to be annoying to some people. It can be hard to find those posts from people looking for help with a problem sometimes. What no one can say is just how long those shiny new users will stick with Linux or run back to Windows at a later date. My gut feeling is, if half of this new 5% sticks it's a major, major victory for all the distros.

The 5800 was a nice phone, but for me the king of Symbian phones was the E7, I am still pissed mine got stolen Loved the fold out keyboard, it made the phone absolutely amazing, I remember running Putty Touch on my E7, sshing into a friend's server to access irssi and go on IRC. Looked like such a hacker, and felt badass.

So its gonna run a soft credit check on you and then give you a price? You don't even need AI for that, and that'd be waaaaay cheaper to implement than AI. ... A Delta spokesperson told Fortune the airline “has zero tolerance for discrimination. Our fares are publicly filed and based solely on trip-related factors like advance purchase and cabin class, and we maintain strict safeguards to ensure compliance with federal law.” This is horseshit. In Economics, the entire concept of setting specific prices for specific market demographics is literally called 'price discrimination.' https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/price_discrimination.asp Advance purchase and different seating classes literally are price discrimination, third degree. Frequent flyer discounts would be second degree. Overall adjusting seat costs per flight based on how full or empty that flight is, is first degree price discrimination. ... This is like a company that sells chickens saying 'we don't sell chickens.' This is just gobsmackingly false, so blatantly so that it is actually funny. Airlines entire fucking business models are based on inventing new forms and strategies of price discrimination. ... What this asshat is saying is only even interpretable as true if what he means is 'we don't directly factor sexuality, age, disability, ethnicity, legally protected classes into our pricing model.' They of course do this indirectly by pulling a whole bunch of your meta data and then accurately inferring those things, and then discriminating against you based on that. It is laughably easy to get around US discrimination laws in this way, megacorps have been regularly doing this for at least decade now, both when it comes to you as a consumer, and you as a potential employee or renter.

It all depends on the context to be honest. I’ve found that tech people, outside of professional contexts, are generally a lot more helpful. Things are different at work.

There are Russians who are more tech savvy than you would expect, but in average they're just like the rest. One would expect that in Russia, like everywhere, the kind of people hired to manage the IT infrastructure in most companies are not the "hacker elite" (unless the company gets one purely by luck) The only shocking thing here is that a military manufacturer - which one would expect to try a bit harder to find the kind of systems manager that can harden their internal systems - seems to have not properly hardenned/segregated their systems. Then again, maybe they're not totally incompetent and do have their mission critical stuff air-gapped and the damage done by the Ukranian hackers is less impactful than the headline implies. From the outside it's hard to tell.

Nushell?

Sure, if you have many TBs of data changes per day you probably want a different solution. But that would also suggest you don't need to keep it for very long.