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I love how these goons call themselves "conservatives" and hearken back to the Constitution, while demanding the removal of anonymity.

Publius is calling and would like to speak to the manager.

Wow this is sad. If any distro keeps the old ways around it should be LFS or Slackware I would think. And maybe Gentoo.

I'm honestly worried about the forces pushing systemd in Linux spoiling the BSD ecosystem. And I'm worried that the BSDs do not have enough people to forge alternatives and will have to go along with the systemdification of everything. sigh

*Note, I ended up on Cachy, which is systemd, so I'm not some pure virtue signaler. I'm a dirty hypocrite :P

Am I misunderstanding the headline? Is the word "block" now meaning "enhance" instead of "stop"? I would think based on the text of the article that it enhances resistance. Or are tumors necessary to stop cancer growth (even though it is cancer growth?)

"Redskirts" hahaha you are so funny and clever. Let me say something you kinda guys like to hear: "Keep your social bullshit politics out of my tech stories"

OK, looking at the actual link and not just bloviating my opinion this seems less offensive. These aren't Health Records in the sense of official documentation by doctors but communications with patient. I see some of it is initiated by patients, but it seems the majority is the provider using it in communication with patients/family... I can slightly understand that, but man I'd be annoyed if it was more than a smiley face once or twice. Maybe it's for patients who are children and parents can show to kids. I was thinking patients using it may be typing on a phone where this shit is much easier. But if it's from professionals, it's likely shitty AI autoresponses, i bet. IDK.

The rise in illiteracy rates is really fucking disturbing and this attitude (the parent) is part of what's to blame.

Looking at the examples in the comment above, I really hope it's not that bad.

It's like the stupid "ROFL"/CLOWN by political fighters, and the (handclap) 500 times in a row, like. Or the ROFL by people who are trying to make their shit seem "funnier" than it every could be and only makes it more obnoxious.

There's a difference between "making a powerpoint at a conference and using emojis as bullet points" and throwing emojis every other word to be cute and getting papers published, or medical records with that.

Bloody rentierists. This is what I've been realizing more and more as this "AI" push combined with rising consumer hardware prices. IMO this is an intentional war on consumers to force them into being digital serfs (like MS and Sun and all the others wanted back in the day). Mainframes->Minis (and mainframes)->Micro/PC->Cloud(and back we go to centralization).

You will own nothing and be happy.

Big Mother?

Nuclear Orange Dust (and not the Cheetoh dust, the og mac dust) and bigger fatter noodles (that late 90s skinnier noodles trash is what ruined it for me, texture ruined, etc...)

But Annies wins the flavor contest (at least with the cheese sauce pouch, not the Kraft dust kind)...

I love this, but can't imagine attending, I'd just be constantly playing "spot the spook"...

A few comments here touching on "disruption" (especially considering SV's historical mantras about "disruption" and "easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission").

So I think a good renaming is in order: Disruption of Government Efficiency

Slows it down to give them time to catch up, especially in this new tech era.

I read Wired in the 90s, I remember the Libertarian Logic.

The best part is "Oh gee, we might doom society, we should think about these things... hmm. OK, guys, let's keep building it."

Fuck it, let's straight up Stalin it, not just remove restrictions but FORCE these fuckers into slave camps building it all out, industrializing (Siliconizing? LLM-izing?) the future landscape.

We've already bent our "conservative principles" in the name of corporate expediency and fascistic tendencies (who doesn't love a little "public/private" co-operation).

The worst part is, most of these people have no principle and are merely opportunistic rent seekers bent on bending the rules for me, not for thee.

Paul Bufano! COME ON!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkOJv_zT9FI

I miss the old last.fm. I know it's still there, but it's not the same since CBS took over and made everything rely on youtube or whatever it's doing these days.

I have a theory about this, I gave it a name at one point but forgot what I called it.

And I think it relates to the idea in the Declaration of Independence where it says "people are disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable".

A generation experiences pain (like Cuyahoga, the river-on-fire), acid rain, ozone holes, etc... Struggle happens politically solutions help resolve some of the worst effects (if not outright), and people forget there was a problem.

"Why do we have these laws, this isn't even an issue" (this is for things that are obvious, not long term difficult to explain CO2 rise that people don't see easily (or explain away with industry provided excuses).

So we get a new generation falling for the corporate line because they don't see a problem, and ... yeah.

It doesn't even have to be a "solved" problem, just that it appears to be solved or mostly solved. Or people accept a new equilibrium, which is also the sad part.

I think it's: "tweeted" -> "xited" pronounced "shitted"

They still make it. Tons of great utils for Win10/11 (I'm off of 11 cuz fuck that noise, but when I was on win10 I used it).

Here's the link to the current version for modern systems: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/

Aww yeah Print Shop! Dot Matrix cards ftw!

We need to call Windows 11 (the MS ecosystem), all these "free" systems, "Nagware" like in the old days.

What's funny is I was doing online shopping from a national chain and got so frustrated by the UX that I gave up.

I thought : If only the CEO would dogfood this instead of farming it out to their lackeys/gofers/personal assistants, etc...

Instead these poor people deal with stuff like that (if they're doing online shit).

"Privatize the profit, socialize the (pain in the ass enshittification, or whatever)."

The ads on 11 were enough to keep me away, at least til 10 expired.

The AI guaranteed I will never touch MS again, and recently switched when it did expire.

"No ethical consumption" under capitalism or whatever; every tech company has their finger in the pie. sigh

I'm slightly worried about the Linux Kernel and whether AI features pushed by NVidia, and MS in particular, will get brought in.

"we might end up collapsing our own civilization before we ever make it beyond our solar system."

Given what I see in the past 15 years, I don't particularly see that as a problem, honestly.

I love me a good Tu Quoque defense. Keep em coming! I can't remember if we supported him cuz he wasn't the war candidate or we supported him cuz he was or if it even matters and we just make up bullshit excuses for what suits us at the time with whatever is convenient for the given argument...

I know we're on hacker news, but let's just say I misread the title.

Is the initial setting (Color Name List) a list of ALL the colors in each "sub" category listed in the drop menu?

If so, would it be possible to put a "namespace" in front (like html.violet, or html::violet). That way you see which source it's from? That way you know where it's from (though I realize this may cause multiple "hits" on the same value/name) Or perhaps same names have different values.

Either way, pretty cool. I agree, it would be nice to have a button or mode to stop spinning without having to hack it manually.

Oh the halcyon days of Swatch Internet Time measured in .beats (1000 .beats to a day)

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

I love that it's metric. One would think they'd at least give homage to 1024, but it's Switzerland so they gotta shove mod10 in our faces.

Came here to say this, like literally this LOL. here's my upvote :)

90s high school Turbo Pascal gang represent!

Yep. It's a difficult needle to thread. Seniority IS important and there really needs to be a way to keep that knowledge. On the other hand, people retire, at some point... If you layoff the last batch of people (no matter how good they were at their job) and replace them with even newer people (in the case of my layoff with my "Team B" in the second most longest job I've had (8 years)). The incoming team at least had more training than our group did which was 2 weeks, they got 3 months. We were meant to be expendable but proved ourself during the pandemic with a massive influx ofwork-from-home installs, while people had quit and burned out from it all.

I still support Unions, even if in the US they're compromised, primarily (IMO) due to Taft-Hartley and the political restrictions placed upon them (mostly about cross-shop/cross-trade organizing, general strikes (sympathy strikes), etc...)

The best part was union leadership informing us the "good news" that there won't be 2 different pay-grades. And at least in the interim we did get a bump to "tier 1" for that time of negotiations while we were there before we were let go.

Here's an article about the history of that:

https://www.nbcnews.com/better/health/reason-your-dental-wor...

I'm old enough to remember this: https://www.nydailynews.com/1998/12/17/test-tot-dna-sez-rudy...

(1998, NYC, "America's Mayor" before he became such)

"Mayor Giuliani said yesterday that he favors DNA testing for all children at birth as a tool to fight crime, track deadbeat dads and resolve paternity suits. Though not formally proposing such a plan, the mayor told reporters, “I would have no problem with that or fingerprinting all children. “I think DNA should be available the way fingerprints are available,” he added. The mayor’s comments added fuel to the heated debate over Police Commissioner Howard Safir’s plan to collect DNA from prison inmates, parolees and crime suspects."