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When do we get the BonziBuddy reskin?

I don't need them but I do like them.

I see the shiny thing and I'm not delusional enough to think I need it.

He comes off as one here, although I'll take your word for it.

I agree the rhetoric hasn't been great, I'm just tired of seeing this polarizing language from both sides and it's, as i said, tiring and just noise.

If you sound like everyone else, how is anyone supposed to hear you?

I'm not tone policing, I'm saying he sounds condescending like the rest of these types of articles... making it sound like noise, adding to the static.

I didn't say he was wrong in what he was saying, I'm just seeing this as an outsider who immediately gets a sour taste in my mouth.

Tone policing is an ad hominem argument focusing on the tone and not the merit to DISCREDIT the information within, i am not intending to discredit him, i don't dispute his factual claims, just noting that he made it harder to see his side of things from my perspective.

Missed out, when it was at its peak, true kino

Because it's fun to break censorious systems. Always has been, it's part of the original "hacker" definition, making something do what it isn't supposed to or was never intended to do.

Please be wary to conflate ActivityPub with the code on top of it, like Mastodon for instance; which is, on both front and back-end, proven to be resource intensive and difficult/costly to scale especially over time. (the older the dbs get, the more inactive users pile up, etc.)

Versus something like Pleroma; which I've used since it's inception, being incredibly janky and lightweight, prone to breaking, but later versions have mostly ironed out most of those catastrophic bugs. It has it's own challenges as well, but it does historically scale better, is more flexible, and less intensive per instance

One demands a lot of money and time, where the other demands a lot of time and not so much on the money side. I'm not going to spend the time to give you a history of pleroma/mastodon instances, as it's a controversial history at best and there's a lot of people who know little, yet who will believe themselves an oracle. (ofc that could also be me so take it with a grain of salt and all) Though if you are willing to read through a bunch of highly opinionated accounts, and you pay close attention to what actually happened, the answer is pretty clear.

ActivityPub is intensive, but not the main culprit.

This is one of those moments where you make your opponent look really good and you're too blind to see it.

I never took much issue with DHH and now I feel I just side with him. Talk about being out of touch with everything Matt.

I still to this day feel like I'm being snitched on, even if I own the hardware directly.

Probably some MS server =|

I can't imagine why anyone cares what a CEO says in a few tweets? I was under the understanding that people actually work in this industry instead of playing these cliquey games of reputation or scraping through social media. (which is meaningless)

Only real valuable piece of information that I can glean from any of this is further evidence of the amount of vultures in this community who will publicly lambast another for the crime of "going off" (drunk or not) and calling for them to resign. History shows these types to be narcissists; I for one hope whatever is going on with Garry, that he can get some help and continue on doing what he does best, and I don't care what he said if he was really drunk, the content doesn't really matter too much when you are hammered.

There is also an oldish animated show (still don't know what it's intended audience was) called "Ren and Stimpy", Ren sounds far too similar to Wren.

A name change may be in order so people don't confuse the bird, the language, or the company, or the notes taking application with an "adult" oriented TV show.

When I first learned C I was a teenager coming from x86 assembly, and before that I was only involved with basic scripting. Having the base of how computers worked on the lowest level, as well as familiarizing myself with ROP and how that works. Only then to move onto C, which was a breath of fresh air. I will say that learning Assembly so early on was rough however it really helped with C. I followed the same path that a lot of earlier men and women went through. A lot of individuals back in the day learned a variation of BASIC, then they moved onto Assembly or C (often both) when things were just too slow for their liking.

Going through college I saw exactly what you are saying when it comes to struggling with the language. However most of the individuals I ended up assisting on top of my studying, one-on-one tutoring (if you will); the most glaring thing I noticed was not just a lack of understanding with how the language worked, but more importantly to our discussions, they didn't seem to understand how the fundamentals of computing. How memory is addressed, what exactly are pointers, how de-referencing works in actuality, heap vs. stack, passing to functions to returning values, etc. Once I would walk them through the basics it seemed that they started to understand that while they weren't able to really work effectively within the lower-levels, they would eventually begin to intuit things for themselves much more easily.

I don't believe that all that is required to learn how to write code, however if you know how a machine works, you tend to be able to figure out how to treat it or use it. Like with a manual transmission, if you watch visually how a clutch engages, you'll tend to not burn it as much while letting it do it's job, since you know the fundamentals of how it works. It's no longer the "abstract" or "too complicated to understand". Giving people that knowledge gives them the ability and the confidence to delve deeper and genuinely engage with new ways of doing the same thing they've been doing before.

You know how you can use a "death clock" to figure out when you should statistically expire?

I wonder if you can find a shirt that would print that

Why is it that I can't get an iphone 15 mini with 1TB of storage?

It's like, right there, so close.

and now my Thinkpad is rethinking it's lack of resources.

I love SSHing into an old server with an uptime in the thousands of days, I can't help but be amazed in those moments, quiet giants working behind the scenes to make the days of a few people work better, all the while most never even knew it was there to begin with.

NetBSD is fantastic, I also have a Manjaro box that has been handling some print stuff for me, been running for 3 years (with no intervention) and I often forget it's there until I'm reminded while moving boxes, just quitely working and waiting for the next request.

Further more, why did this ever have to be written of as some sort of revelation?

Of course advertisers, not just on Youtube, but pretty much everywhere track children's interests as well as adults. Someone said recently, "the antichrist has already arrived, and he works, in a suit and tie, in advertising" which while hyperbolic is surprisingly fitting. Mass tracking (which is a form of surveillance) for the uses of taking advantage of weaknesses in a human being (impulse control, gotchas, perceived "need", etc.) to reap monetary rewards at the expense of the individual, whether adult or adolescent, whether intelligent, or mentally handicapped... which may result in a percieved or otherwise degredation of QoL. It is immoral, not just unethical.

Most "tracking" scripts aren't age gated, most advertisers don't care, every day I grow to hate them and their institutions more and more. I would say that at this point, not having adblockers, and blocking tracking scripts is a form of enabling these parasites. Which, i believe (with strong conviction) that there is an argument to say that enabling such behavior without contest is unethical at the very least bordering on immoral.

I remember it back in the day as fully capitalized.

Now that the TorProject has opted to correct the record, it is too little too late. Most presentations at the time did use "TOR" and it was called the TOR router. Even they understand the acronym comes from the original onion routing project from the Naval Research Lab.

All that to say, I don't know why they would try to distance themselves from what it was, and what it still is.

One very important thing that TOR provides is additional routes when international routing between ISPs is blocked/broken for whatever reason.

Several websites (that are legal, legitimate in nature) get censored by tier-1 ISPs (for whatever reason) however even though they are clearnet websites, you can still view them out of country, since with TOR you can keep refreshing your routes until you get access.

Well you are maybe placing a few bucks in some English person's pocket where there was already money long gone to the Russian economy, and reminder that most people in Russia don't even support the war so it's not like you are making an impact outside of buying an Englishman tea after he already paid a Russian for his... idk what they prefer to drink over there other than Vodka. :P

Even in Russia, it's mostly a cottage industry, they aren't shipping thousand's monthly and definitely are not funding a war machine from that small investment, it also costs them raw resources when they do eventually manufacture. War has a way of getting funding much greater than from it's exports.

I can count the number of ham labs (owned by 40+ men) i've been in on one hand that didn't have a stack of old tubes in their original boxes lining the shelf above an old CW Transmitter.

I've been in a lot of ham labs; they are everywhere but super cool.

It is Nintendo after all

thanks for the laugh! :) <3

It's the nature of things.

This is a given (or at least I thought it was the usual) for many years now. Your only hope is that your service is too obtuse for the creeps/deviants to really grapple onto. Although considering how they are getting younger and younger (the perpetrators) even that is little condolence.

I've found myself in similar situations as yours, however now I just use other people's crap. I'm not willing to answer the phone like I was then; so yeah. It's a problem

I gotta say I have found Mullvad to be refreshing; they have good apps (you can get it running on most Linux systems with very little work) and I don't have to remember a password, just an ID number.

Stupid simple stuff, been using them for a long time (and guess what? no info shared, they don't EMAIL me every time they have a discount for a 3 year subscription discount like some VPN companies)

They just seem very honest and straight forward with their marketing. Never a bad moment.

That's one of the things that I really can't understand. Gnome is awful and the people who work on it are so out of touch with what users actually want.

Plasma understands that; as well as PLENTY OF OTHER DEs but your casual linux observer just thinks "wow gnome looks ugly" and it does, it always has, i still have absolutely no idea why anyone would roll a distro out with that... mess.

Mate is pretty good.

Cinnamon DE is great.

i3wm or ratpoison tho frfr

plasma DE is really nice though; and I use that on my artix install. Love it. It's like windows but it doesn't suck

Most people use Android nowadays and a lot of the older generation is seeing a lot of Mac usage as well as iOS.

If MS dealt with all their technical debt and built a brand new OS following proper disclosure as well as OSing most of their kernel, you'd see that it would be much harder to exploit.

Think of linux that runs over 90% of all servers in the world. How many ransomware attacks have they been hit with?

> I got a huge number of suggestions, of which I downloaded 16, basically all the ones that are free. In general I prefer to pay for things and am suspicious of anything that’s free on the Net, but when there are so many good free options I just don’t think there’s a business model.

This sentiment is quite odd; given that who would ever pay for a font? I get being suspicious of "free" but if you use Google, or have a gmail account. Heck even Mastodon is a free software package.

I see this a lot with older development communities; even though I've been writing code for many years; while working on an old application I was met with a prompt to purchase a license to use a library. It took me aback because while I've heard about buying and selling libraries, I've never (ever) ran into it before working at my current job. It's odd, and thankfully a dying way of making money since every dev license is at minimum $500 for a year; to $5000 annually to use those libraries in production, not even just the time to develop with them.

Never buy a font please

If you want a good thinkpad that you can just beat up (you know, a rescue) then they still have a very apropo use case.