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gxnxcxcxon Why don't people return their shopping carts?

I fully acknowledge their existence. I'm sure I most certainly engage into equivalent antisocial behavior in some way or another wherever I most lack awareness, and my sole point is that, for most of us, when we are doing that, we dumb.

Slightly veering OT:

While I get the sore need for a place to vent after being subjected to a customer-facing workday, the website you keep linking to gives me in aggregate the rage farming vibes that are as prone to distort everyday reality as blind naïveté could be.

gxnxcxcxon Why don't people return their shopping carts?

There's a minority of people wealthy enough to grease everything with money or really powerful connections. In a conversation involving people doing their own shopping and eating at places where you are presumed to take your tray to the bin I wasn't even thinking about them.

Those who lack that surplus wealth are "leaving money on the table", so to speak, by not caring about others. That's dumb.

And her pedigree or whatever gave her those aristocratic ways didn't save her from mild ostracism at the end of the story, so... That's social capital she left on the table. That's also kinda dumb even if she had enough money/power to enable god mode. It's even dumber if she didn't have it.

gxnxcxcxon Why don't people return their shopping carts?

> I've read far too many stories of people who don't clean up after themselves at a store or restaurant, justified by "no need - they pay someone to do this" or even "it's a good thing I do this otherwise you wouldn't have a job" to know it's simply intellectual ability.

That they can barely articulate a verbalized post-hoc rationalization* for that kind of behavior doesn't prevent them from lacking the minimum processing power needed to achieve awareness of how they are leaving ungreased the machinery of the commons. Into which they will keep being embedded, pulling levers left and right all day long.

Even a moderately zero-sum minded sociopath can be aware of the perks of investing a modicum of well-placed niceness; if for no other reason, just to avoid losing social capital.

* And probably a memetic one, hardly an original thought.

gxnxcxcxon Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'

It'd be interesting to get a new CEO that gets organically exposed to the same corner-cases roulette you play on a MBP with an actual second screen attached. After more than a decade of straying from the happy path I gave up and was bullied into clamshell mode for my own sanity.

gxnxcxcxon I may have found a way to spot U.S. at-sea strikes before they're announced

They seem to be able to more easily acquire flags of convenience from further away, and optionally some kind of nominal insurance from different providers likely to pass muster at a first glance (I have zero maritime expertise and just wanted to add some supplementary context to the parent of your post).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_shadow_fleet

https://eutoday.net/eu-sanction-issuers-of-fake-flags-to-rus...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/30/world/asia/ru...

https://www.nrk.no/vestland/xl/over-100-ships-have-sailed-wi...

gxnxcxcxon I may have found a way to spot U.S. at-sea strikes before they're announced

In the appropriate line of work you can already shoot their dog and seize their TV, and that's when things go peachy enough.

gxnxcxcxon What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on

A problem created for absolutely no reason by a bunch of idiots[1] playing world police under obviously false pretenses for the benefit of absolutely no one of their constituents. They played with the thermostat, left things hot and some unrepentantly notorious twat[2] is still hungry and ready for seconds.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azores_Summit

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_International_Transitiona...

gxnxcxcxon Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

We know they do. Now adjust what that tells you about the "first world".

gxnxcxcxon Poland shoots down drones in its airspace during Russian attack on Ukraine

Tech and the occupation of Palestinian territories have enough overlap to warrant organic self-interested flagging, and that isn't even accounting for any coordinated or state-sponsored activity.

Most people don't like seeing their employment, the stock they hold or their retirement plans stained by this kind of shit hitting the fan. It's one thing to let some token CEO boogeyman catch some flak every now and then, and another thing to be made aware of your own complicity by holding MSFT or HPQ or whatever.

gxnxcxcxon Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians

I shall amend my flawed recollection of the facts: it was a chuckle, not a smirk.

https://www.theverge.com/news/643777/microsoft-bill-gates-st...

gxnxcxcxon Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians

Gates: [smirks] All right...

gxnxcxcxon Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up

There's shady shenanigans from the moment you download the Firefox installer, before you even install it.

Each Firefox download has a unique identifier (2022): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30715163

gxnxcxcxon All Roads Lead to DSLRs

> All Roads Lead to DSLRs

> Guy asked a chatbot and bought a mirrorless camera.

gxnxcxcxon Google is intentionally throttling YouTube, slowing down users with ad blockers

Nah, you insist on building an empire, the onus in on you to git gud at keeping barbarians at bay _at scale_.

The thing got big because it was free. They bought it, society (d)evolved together with the thing, they turned it into what it now is. Monetization is their problem and no one else's.

gxnxcxcxon Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says

And why, pray tell, was Hamas the only organization wielding some semblance of power in Gaza in 2023?

gxnxcxcxon Is America Headed for an Age of Dumb Phones?

Rage-farming is brainrot, too. The kind that tends to create an in-group fed up with "the degenerates" of an out-group.

gxnxcxcxon Obsidian Bases

> Datacore is a work-in-progress re-imagining of Dataview with a focus on 2-10x better query and rendering performance, as well as fully interactable views.

https://github.com/blacksmithgu/datacore

gxnxcxcxon Grok's white genocide fixation caused by 'unauthorized modification'

> there is no large scale effort to fight back against these 'flagged' topics.

The Wiggum insight: "My cat's breath smells like cat food."

gxnxcxcxon Asahi Lina Pausing Work on Apple GPU Linux Driver Development

Nobody cares but the culture war hounds.

gxnxcxcxon Firefox for Android starting to share location data with third parties

Mozilla could piss on our breakfast and people will still assume it's probably Tang and we should avoid overreacting.

They acqui-hired ex-Meta ads people, the culture will obviously leak (tee-hee) and it is what it is.

gxnxcxcxon US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s

The beatings will continue until... LibreOffice finishes downloading?

gxnxcxcxon Tattoo ink sold on Amazon has high levels of weird and rare bacteria

> you have no way of telling what someone thinks of tattoos.

Disgust is one of the most easily telegraphed human reactions. Also, haters with suboptimal impulse control can't avoid using any and every soapbox at their disposal to make sure you know where they stand on the matter.

Exempli gratia: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41374358

gxnxcxcxon The Cult of Mac

I agree with you, but at the same time I find myself having to relearn interfaces all the frigging time anyway.

I get it, I can't expect to get into "the zone" without investment into detailed and up-to-date knowledge of my current environment, and any relearning is at best merely incremental and at worst a brand new trend that is (or will become) widespread enough to be unavoidable.

But I can't stop envying the superficially "naive" stoicism of those waning generations who only wanted some kind of glorified typewriter and anything else they've got along the way is still gravy on the top.

gxnxcxcxon The Cult of Mac

Every time an OS upgrade disrupts some UI paradigm or process I've got deeply ingrained into my mental model of what I do with my computers, I marvel at how my mother has kept doing her own thing without giving a fuck about _any_ computer interaction paradigm† from our Macintosh SE to her current M2 Air.

She's by far the least tech-oriented close relative I have. And she has the longest Mac-only usage and ownership streak of anyone I know in meatspace, too.

† Except for dark patterns, because even the ones that don't give a fuck about computers can be quick to notice when things change for bamboozlement reasons instead of mere vanity or tool complexity increase.

gxnxcxcxon Pulsifer v. United States, a case that turns on a federal law’s use of “and”

> The court has become “more and more obsessed with language and grammar in recent years,” says Stanford Law professor Jeff Fisher. “Oral argument these days can seem like being in a sixth grade English class.”

> “The Court has had cases, for example, that turned on the word ‘so’” and “the use of a definite article instead of indefinite (‘the’ instead of ‘a’),” he says. “This is all a product of the ascendancy of ‘textualism’—the theory of statutory construction that aims to discern precisely what the words Congress enacted mean, as opposed to what Congress probably intended to say.”

Great news, if true, for nerds in comment sections everywhere trying to get away with treating the law as code by nitpicking the letter of the law.

gxnxcxcxon OpenCore Legacy Patcher project brings macOS Sonoma support to 16-year-old Macs

It's not a black and white issue easily swept under the rug by an elitist platitude about what the cowering masses deserve. There's a lot of installation cases (older hardware -> newest systems) where System Integrity Protection will be partially lowered by default[1], and most installations will need to keep it that way.

That needn't be a show stopper, but before somebody starts patching with OCLP, some deliberation about their threat model and their macOS security expectations would be healthy. Specially for hand-me-down hardware that ends up in less tech-savvy hands.

[1] https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/POST-INST...