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This seems illogical.

This boils everything down to brains, and discards the human individual, and how different human individuals react differently to the same things depending on their pre-existing understandings of their worlds.

So this statement cannot be true.

The thing is, they're still responsible for cutting down the Amazon.

The "responding to demand" is a complete cop-out. Stop blaming the consumer for the actions of the greedy.

I wouldn't be surprised if the consumer very often isn't even aware of the sources of the materials for a lot of the stuff they buy. And it doesn't help that the consumer is all too often worried about stuff that immediately affects them, leaving them no time or energy to worry about stuff that's they're not immediately aware of.

It's like blaming the consumer for the ridiculous amount of plastic corporations use for packaging when that's all that's available 99% of the time.

Tencent, for all intents and purposes, IS the CCP.

They must act according to the CCP's dictates.

Twitter is the complete opposite of "the free press".

Twitter's admins arbitrarily remove content that they disagree with, while allowing content they do agree with, regardless of whether said content is illegal or not.

It's a harsh, but true reality that with only have finite quantities of time and space, especially in real world computation. The assumption of finite resources is also a harsh, but true reality.

There are many things that fundamentally defy any form of computation. Things which cannot create mathematical formulae to represent, nor create algorithms for.

For a major example, we cannot translate the mental activities of conscious, aware living beings into any sort of computable form, as these activities are not algorithmic in nature. They aren't random, nor deterministic ~ rather, they are indeterministic, following no rigid patterns.

Even the most complex, complicated computer program follows an algorithm, which is ultimately deterministic. Even if you throw in some random inputs at some parts, the algorithm still acts deterministically. Perhaps the only really indeterministic part in an algorithm's behaviour might be hardware level bugs and errata which interfere with the otherwise very predictable algorithm.

I wonder how much Andrew Lee paid Fosshost to pull this dirty stunt.

> I've used Linux since it was first available in the mid 90s. I use it at work and on machines at home. It is almost certainly more reliable than Windows and MacOS as a server. However, the context here is desktop UI and laptops.

Desktop UI is where Linux tends to shine. Laptops... oh, those are a royal mess, usually.

> Linux does exceptionally well considering there is almost no money at all going into this use case.

No money at all? There are countless developers being paid to work on the Linux kernel. And on other pieces of software in userspace ~ usually by Red Hat.

> But there are many bugs, sometimes due to hardware (e.g ACPI inconsistencies, even Thinkpads have issues)

Hardware-related bugs are always an unpleasant can of fun...

> and because of software churn (few fix bugs in their spare time, it's more fun to create something new).

Bugs caused by software churn are also a thing. I personally haven't noticed anything major from many packages in the main repos.

> If you wish to pretend that everything is perfect and there are no problems, then you aren't helping Linux either.

Oops, I could have worded things slightly better, as in "not as "buggy"' instead of 'not "buggy"'. I sometimes miss words, only to realize later.

lmao, what a amazingly shitty hot take...

Your "average" Linux distro isn't "buggy" as you claim.

You sound like someone who either hasn't used Linux, or extrapolates their experiences from one specific distro, to all distros.

I say this as someone who uses Linux daily. Specifically, Arch Linux, with testing repos enabled. The only bugs I run into are from using Git master versions of software that I'm interesting in testing.

Let's see... crypto-miners hoarding GPUs by the tens, hundreds, even, driving up GPU prices for the non-miner. Also, when the cycle busts, hoards of cheap, abused mining cards flood the second-hand market, making it difficult for companies to sell fresh cards, and also possibly hurting the company's reputation when an abused mined-on GPU fails prematurely.

Miners can whine, all they want, but something needs to happen to hamper their greed for virtual money.

This is far from true, lmao. It's only tightly coupled to depending on the Linux kernel.

systemd was in fact heavily inspired by MacOS's launchd. At worst, it can be said that complex boot managers will begin to converge on a design that actually works ~ MacOS did, Windows did, and now Linux has with systemd. The three have plenty of differences, though systemd is still closer to launchd than not.

And in actuality, it's very tweakable. Did you notice that the source code is open, for a start...?

> But the one thing that still really pisses me off about systemd-the-project was the fact that they ate udev-the-project. In my view, that decision was unnecessary and was done for purely anti-competitive reasons.

The developers of udev at the time agreed to merge to the project into systemd, as it made a lot of sense to them.

There was no "devouring", no "anti-competitive" bullshit.

It's a case of developer UI. Has nothing to being "allergic" to "good UI design".

Being able to design something friendly to the average user, yet powerful enough to be friendly to power users, is a very difficult task to accomplish.

Developers understand the latter quite well, I think, as they themselves are power user-types. The former... well, that requires having dedicated designers who know how the average user thinks, as well as perhaps guinea pigs in the form of the average user. And that might require a lot more funding, perhaps.

Hardly. Mimicking a UI doesn't make something "literally" that.

Also, stop using "literally" when you don't literally mean that.

They probably don't cover stuff like this just yet.

If it's even possible to block...

One of Google's aims has been to make Adblockers useless.

Think Manifest V3, which would originally enforce a static filter list with only a few thousand or so entries allowed.

uBlock Origin and other actually useful adblockers make heavy use of dynamic filtering lists.

It's because there was some overlap in their functionality.

What I did was disable the overlapping functionality in uBlock Origin, and let uMatrix handle the rest.

One could almost hazard a guess that Google has people inside Mozilla deliberately sabotaging the browser, to drive people to Chrome, while keeping Firefox around for the sole purpose of avoiding anti-trust lawsuits...

No, it's not.

A unit test is there to allow the developers to test whether the program is producing expected output from certain inputs.

It doesn't demonstrate that it's intended for circumventing copyright.

They just picked examples to use for in test cases.

> Why not change it to something that does not refer to one of the most barbaric, nightmarish relationships between people?

Gee, maybe because it also has connotations that have nothing to do with racism or human slavery?

Where does this slippery slope end?

Should we change other terms in computer technology simply because some vastly small minority emotionally fragile busybodies break down at the mere sight of the word "abort" or "kill" or "terminate"?

Master/slave have very well defined meanings in computer terminology ~ and spoiler alert, there are no human or racial connotations in those meanings anywhere.

Why not post the actual source, rather than some second-hand clickbait?

"Characteristic patterns of EEG oscillations in sheep (Ovis aries) induced by ketamine may explain the psychotropic effects seen in humans"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-66023-8?error=coo...

It's part of the systemd project umbrella? It's part of the systemd monorepo? It uses libsystemd?

Maybe it's simply easier to maintain this way?

elogind exists, if you care. It exposes the DBus interfaces that logind supports for applications to call.

Thus, environments like Gnome can be supported on non-systemd systems if they emulate and/or expose and implement the required DBus interfaces.

What apps depend on a specific init system?

Gnome does not depend on systemd, but rather logind.

KDE used to be the same, until someone started maintaining ConsoleKit2 again, proper, at which point they were happy to support it.

ConsoleKit was dropped because it just wasn't being maintained, and had various limitations.

Portable to other systemd-using Linux distros.

sysv init scripts simply weren't portable between distros, leading to tons of non-standard, incompatible fragmentation.

Users simply couldn't simply take their own scripts over to another distro and expect them to just work, given said differences.

With systemd, unit files will simply just work between all systemd distros, given the standardized format.

> This is just a developer workstation friendly move that explicitly doesn't tie you to Windows itself.

Ah, but it does tie the developer to Windows ~ this DirectX module can only be used with WSL2, which only runs on Windows.

Oh, please ~ Intel fucked up their 10nm process pretty hard, and they kept trying to fix it for years. They also had to keep pushing their roadmap back again and again for 10nm.

This is entirely due to Intel's awful management getting in the way. Intel's engineers might be clever, but with shitty management, that can all go to waste.

Intel's management have been sitting on their arses, more or less, when you consider the fact that they've really been dragging their feet in terms of progress.

AMD has made more progress in 3 years than Intel has made in 10...

Intel simply got too comfortable with their monopoly.

Ibogaine is amazing at dealing with addiction, considering that it can blow away a serious Heroin addiction after one good trip.

Google has too much power and influence over what people see when they search for things.

That, combined with having a massive ad network and the most browser marketshare, Google has the ability to unduly influence the opinions of millions of people, if they so chose.

Too much power for a single corporation...

I trust them far less than I trust the Trump administration. Google is proven themselves to be pretty evil. They're so much worse than Facebook or Microsoft.

So, let them be broken up. I'll feel a little safer.

Did 8chan promote "extremist" views...? No more or less than posters on Twitter do on a regular basis, yet Twitter hasn't been silenced.

The same people that got 8chan shut down also hate 4chan, and want to see it silenced.

It has to do with the memes that come out of 4chan, mocking a certain crowd of people for being emotionally fragile and over-reactionary to everything...

This was based on a misconception that was later debunked.

DMT is not known to be produced by the human brain.

And even if it were... the large amounts of monoamine oxidase naturally present in the blood would all too quickly break it all down.

The only way too get enough DMT to temporarily overwhelm the MAO is through exogenous sources.

Evil, but clever.

Eventually, more and more sites will push these things on users, so it will not be enough to not visit these sites.