Real kidnappers will not be happy about this as deepfake becomes more prevalent and calls for ransom gets ignored more and more. Do they have union that can go on strike to raise awareness about this?

Maybe you will find Blood, Sweat and Pixels by Jason Schreier of interest. Been a little while but I enjoyed it as an audio book.

I use this to come across magazines or communities i might not have thought to search for and add those I find interesting. After scrolling a little bit I switch to the subscribed list. This works well for me at the moment.

According to a news article about US MIL emails being accidentally sent to ML addresses due to misspellings, there was apparently a contractor in charge of the ML TLD, whose 10(?)-year contract was up the other day, I think, or will be soon. With Mali taking direct control over it, presumably they have their own ideas how to manage it. Why they wouldn't or couldn't have had the contractor do it (charge for domains) a long time ago, I have no idea. Doesn't seem like something that would have to be postponed until the contract was over, but obviously I have no insight into the details of the matter.

We had a cat named Pixel back in the 90s to 00s too. Does yours walk through walls? In any case, enjoy every moment with her.

Plexamp is my primary music playback in the car commute if I'm not listening to an audio book. Love it.

Since you said any language, you have Free Pascal and its gui editor Lazarus.

För wxWidgets and C++ you have wxFormBuilder.

The Glade editor for gtk3 programs (C, C++, or whatever language one might use). (edit: just a gui editor that is used separately from whatever IDE or editor you write your code in)

Eclipse and WindowBuilder for Java.

We had a cat named Pixel back in the 90s to 00s too. Does yours walk through walls? In any case, enjoy every moment with him.

Huh. I guess I replied to the wrong thread! I saw another about a cat named Pixel. Weil, enjoy Light anyway!

One of them could be born February 29 and lose out on a bunch of birthdays compared to their twin.

Proxmox with a bunch of small dedicated lxc containers (running small Ubuntu lxcs mostly). It works for me anyway, though I don't use any of the rr programs. My Plex lxc gets its Media files from an openmediavault NFS mount (Running in a VM instead of lxc), and I use smb file sharing for my windows desktop to access the same files. Your mileage may vary, what works for me night not be for someone else.

Birds are not real so it must be a plane.

Looks like the kbin PWA on my phone is now following my default setting for homepage of subscribed instead of all when opening it. I like this change.

The first thing that comes to mind for me is The Ray Tracer Challenge book.

http://raytracerchallenge.com/

Hexica Spellfire
https://www.webtoons.com/...

Sounds like the book Truckers, the first in the Bromeliad trilogy.

Neuromancer by William Gibson. I guess I must have missed reading most of his books for a very long time despite the topics being of interest to me.

the sun-Earth Lagrange point 2, which is roughly 1 million miles (1.5 million km) away from our planet on the opposite side of the sun.

This seems a little poorly stated. L2 and the sun are on opposite sides of earth. As written it seems to read as if earth and L2 are on opposite sides of the sun.

A Fedora Linux container on Proxmox. I have no stability issues really.

I loved my A310 at the time. I'm not so much of a hardware person though, and I'm not sure I can get it working in the US, despite the rush of nostalgia it would mean. Main issue would be getting a monitor going with it.

I loved RISC OS. I got the computer in '87 or' 88, while at university. Such smooth multitasking for its time. For school work that involved writing some programs, I fired up the PC emulator in order to run Turbo Pascal. It was sweet seeing a virtual PC running in a window while doing other things in other windows. Writing graphics programs with GUIs (Acorn C) instead of just creating image files like most of the other students did was fun too.