krautburglar

block the shit out of them until they do something

Ok. Now point at one of the AI datacenters for making titty pics and get back to us. Absolute corporate shilling / distraction.

Worship of the eternal steady-state. Whoever speaks against any intervention to preserve it is a heretic, and must be excommunicated.

Whether it’s ML training, pentesting, or old-fashioned engineering, we have to throw the occasional curve-ball at our systems in order to improve them. Surprise internet shutdowns are good, even if the ostensible reasons for them are dumb. Maybe people will host more information offline, and become less dependent on cloud services…

It is probably for the best that Alex Karp is kept in isolation.

selah

rglullis wrote that they "do not want to". I went a step further, expressing that they couldn't even if they wanted to. Not necessarily from lack of understanding so much as poor computing habits--malware, crashes without backups, forgetfulness, post-it notes in the same household as untrustworthy relatives, etc. Normies need the administrative solution, but then we're back to Sauron.

It is all wishful thinking and beside the point. Pubkey auth and normies do not mix. They lose their keys, their identity, their history, then back to zuck or elon’s plantation where things can be administratively resolved.

Many medical preparations are oil rather than water soluble. Seed oils tend to be the cheapest choice, and probably still have trace amounts of pesticides/herbicides/fungicide--even after processing. Under such conditions, one must wonder how many of our modern neurodegenerative conditions are iatrogenic. Genetics may load the chamber, but environment pulls the trigger.

Absolutely! Most of it is there to protect their moats from us, not us from “hackers”.

They need to use it more then.

The post isn't the point. The point is that you have people abusing the flag mechanism. Maybe you should start ignoring their flags when they abuse it?

Dude, your flag function is abused to no end, and you don't really do anything about it. One of the earliest comments I've made was one on semi-recent X11 history, and got flagged for it, because apparently everything is political now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45796728

Both X11 and Wayland need a coherent accessibility on-ramp first. I know AI can remedy many of the issues after-the-fact, but it is an embarrassment that we need to go that far when the text and the partitioning are already known at different layers of the stack.

I believe compositors like picom can already do this.

ctrl+f shader

https://man.archlinux.org/man/picom.1.en

Every time I hear the “What about socialization?” argument from some childless person on SSRIs, I am reminded how dishonest some people are. If they even liked (let alone cared for) children, they would have had their own.

Everyone is in a rush to digest the old web into proprietary models--from Google & Bing's AI summaries to Elon's Grokipedia--harvesting the work of others without credit or compensation. Why does XSLT even matter at that point? Or even HTML & CSS, when the model can serialize the data any way you choose?

Anything that puts Chrome on a diet is probably for the best.

HERE is the techforpalestine github that is worth focusing on

https://github.com/TechForPalestine/boycott-israeli-consumer...

This gives me the same vibe as OLPC. We had these places where people didn't even have electricity, running water, or public sanitation, yet some nerds at MIT thought (?) to themselves, "Hey, you know what these people need? Laptops!"

But even worse, you can install it from App Store or Google Play! Israeli territory or Israeli territory! What will these dipshits do next? Send the Palestinians some more pagers out of Budapest?

I wish people would stop back-porting new features into vt terms, since those “features” gradually leak into terminal programs, which start spewing garbage in older terminals at the next update. Instead of having a standard, we get ESC[whatever-the-fuck-i-feel-like;, but with vt220 characteristics.

Missing out on inline images and megabytes of true-color CSI codes is a feature, not a bug, when bandwidth is limited.

If you want jupyter, we have jupyter. If you want HTML, we have several browsers. If you want something else, make it, but please don’t use vt220 codes and call it a terminal.

The article is just wish-listing more NIH barbarism to break things with. RedHat would hire this guy in a heartbeat.

Too much voodoo as Terry says. People are so lost and pinned-in—like a free-range prison. Riceing the computer helps take your mind off of it for a bit.

it is also a lot easier on the battery than iterm2

I don’t think that is necessarily true. Most of the work goes way back (1984), done by people who have been retired for a long time now. Then in the late ‘00s redhat’s x11 maintainers (i.e. young people who were hired to fix bugs, not original developers) intimated that with DRI/DRM, x11 had become mostly obsolete, and that they needed to start over, so we got wayland. All I would add to that is that if they were correct, rather than conjuring an excuse to write their own thing, everyone would have jumped to wayland over a decade ago, but here we are, 17 years later, the benchmarks are still weak, and people are still squabbling. seems more like JWZ’s CADT than anything else.

Applications vs Infrastructure: When stand-alone applications are in completely different languages, that is normal and reasonable and fine. When it takes 5-10 different programming languages just to build and manage the base system, that is an engineering failure and a mess.

I think polyglot causes more problems than it solves. It is gross how many different toolchains and package managers it now takes to build a distro. One person wants python, another wants node, another wants go, and now this. with node we traded buffer overflows for supply chain attacks. If they don’t want C, it would be better to start fresh. Robert Morris re-wrote enough of Linux in golang to be usable, and the overhead was something like 5-15% slower than C. If the goal is Rust everywhere, contribute to Redox. They are further along that road.