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You should install an actual local resolver for this, not systemd.

Actually yes, that's why they did stop working. Laptops regularly change hardware configuration. Desktops less so. Back when "local ISPs, newsgroups and so on and so forth" had desktops, they never changed hardware configuration while running.

Nobody even uses sysvinit. When people say they use sysvinit, they actually mean a pile of ad-hoc shell scripts that have no relationship to sysvinit.

It's good to a first-order approximation. Haven't seen many cases where it fails. You do get right-wing parties pretending to be left-wing (never the reverse) though, like the German one that called itself "worker's socialist"

has died

Copyright isn't "use it or lose it"

popular != better but better == popular

If you see something that is popular but you think it is worse, then your better/worse axis is not aligned with the majority.

For example, X is better than Mastodon because you don't have to pick a server to use.

Because it works. This is at the top of Hacker News, and Nearby Glasses isn't.

Since before 2016 actually

Wireguard is great for a point-to-point or multipoint VPN set up by a competent network administrator between machines with static addresses. But that's the only thing it does. It does not handle authentication or mobility very well.

This is obviously vibe written, and I can't wait to see how quickly it will be shut down after someone uses it in combination with Mullvad to host child pornography.

Mullvad themselves already turned off port forwarding because people were using it to host child pornography. This is like Mullvad's port forwarding, but free.

We did sink many non-Chinese ships because a human thought the fish they were transporting were drugs.

note the airline industry has moved past firing pilots who make mistakes, since that turned out to be a recipe for more plane crashes, not less. Instead, they find out why the mistake happened, and fix it. In some cases, this involves firing the pilot. They do not do that by default.

So call them confabulations

With a lot of fast ASICs and by aggressively discarding stuff you don't want. It's not magical.

It's still government protection which caused Microsoft to be a monopoly. You provide a great example of libertarian goalpost-moving:

> Microsoft wasn't protected by the government.

> Yes they were, by copyright law.

> But the government didn't set out to make Microsoft a monopoly.

> The more developed a nation the more centrally controlled it is?

The central control has to develop, alongside everything else. Somalia isn't centrally controlled because it can't be, because it's not developed, and doesn't have a way to be centrally controlled. If it was, it would be. See: the history of any developed country.

> Also, when did any communist state ever threaten the US economically?

In the 1940s-1980s (USSR), and in the 2010s-present (China) and if the US's overreaction is to be believed, from 1960-present (Cuba).

Why do you think that a human therapist who causes patients to commit suicide is a good therapist? I don't understand that.

"Don't blame me - I voted for Kodos!"

So if we all collect information and don't know who uses it, and the police can't find who uses it, nobody gets charged.

When they are one in the same, how do you plead?

Do you defend LG telescreens too? After all, by using the TV, you agreed to LG watching your every move.

Well those support programs don't provide support. They exist to make a profit, just like everything else. Providing a service is secondary.

No it's not, it's a cop-out. You really expect every member of society to individually stand up to Anthropic? That thing you just said is not an alternative solution - it is actually an attempt to prevent the problem from being solved at all. Which is fine if you're an Anthropic shareholder and believe the problem should not be solved.

It's conservatives. Leftists are often found supporting things that hurt them, and liberals usually don't support anything at all.

They have that, it's in the Digital Age Assurance Act, which I've been unreliably informed is fascism.

Really hot take apparently: any technology that causes people to commit suicide during therapy isn't a good therapist.

Everything that happens in childhood affects everything after that, you know. Children aren't a separate class of people from adults. People are children, and then they are adults.

We should remove age checks from alcohol, and just don't let kids go in the shopping mall.

The trackers have this if you upload your ID to some websites.