Universiality, basically: almost everyone, everywhere has an email account, or can find one for free. As well as every OS and every device has a giant pile of mail clients for you to chose from.

And I mean, email is a simple tech stack and well understood and reliable: I host an internal mail server for notifications and updates and shit, and it’s rapid, fast, and works perfectly.

It’s only when you suddenly need to email someone OTHER than your local shit that it turns to complete shit.

Well, that’d certainly be a novel solution to the trolley problem. Just make sure FSD always defaults to hitting the non-nazis first.

For what they’re charging, you’re not going to get elite private security, you’re going to get mall cops on their day off.

This is not for the actual rich, it’s for tiktok influencers to show off.

Ah cool, the one time I read the article it’s wrong and saying that there hadn’t been someone who had stepped up yet.

Well, I’ll go back to making uninformed comments based solely on the headline, because clearly the articles are not adding any value. (/s, etc.)

Make H5N5 great kill everyone again!

Well, “maintainer” is usually a single person job. They didn’t write all the code or whatever, just were the gatekeeper to what got added and making sure shit works.

So I mean, it’s not great nobody is stepping up, but it’s also not like they magiced up the entirety of linux’s wifi support single handed, either.

The only way you could make that worse is if Palantir bought them all first.

had a falling out

Boy that’s the most sanewashed way saying ‘whipped up a mob that wanted to hang him’ I think I’ve ever seen. Kudos, I guess?

10940X

“They say”, but they’re right. Ryzen chips do have worse idle power usage, but you’re talking about 10w or so, at most.

And uh, if you were looking at an X-series CPU, I can’t see how that 10w is a dealbreaker, because you were already looking at a shockingly inefficient chip.

They were NiCad batteries, which would leak, and then completely eat and destroy the charging/temperature board.

Source: I have one and uh, they did and it’s completely useless because it won’t power on without the batteries attached, and I’m at a total loss as to how to or where even I could get/fix that charging board.

Shame since you’re right, it’s super cool, but must-have-a-battery was a horrible design choice that’s made repairing it seem like it’s probably not possible - I’d have to buy another one to get a working charger board at which point, well, I have a 2nd one so why fix the first?

Debian stable is great: it’s, well, stable. It’s well supported, has an extremely long support window, and the distro has a pretty stellar track record of not doing anything stupid.

It’s very much in the install-once-and-forget-it category, just gotta do updates.

I run everything in containers for management (but I’m also running something like 90 containers, so a little more complex than your setup) and am firmly of the opinion that, unless you have a compelling reason to NOT run something in a container, just use the containerized version.

Oh that’d be nice, but you just know it’ll be "Damn Obama! Why did he blow up those nukes!’ without a single hint of self-reflection.

fax the FBI their plans

Opsec is not the fediverse’s strenth, no. Anything you post here is going right to the FBI, courtesy of Palantir and Peter Thiel.

Anything you post online ANYWHERE is likely to end up there: if it’s not e2e encrypted, then you just told the FBI, and even if it is, you probably shouldn’t trust that it’s actually secure unless there’s public audits showing that it is, and you’re using a reproducible build from verified source.

…also, unrelated rant: stop taking pictures of people at protests and posting it online. Why is everyone doing state security’s job for them?

Look, if you can post your way out of this, then we should have been able to post our way into not having to.

But, judging from the outcomes of all THAT posting, I strongly doubt there’s a single thing anyone can post anywhere that’ll suddenly make people decide to wake up one day and go ‘Oh my! What a mess, I should throw away my entire world view and do ________!’ because that’s very much not how people actually work.

Best case, there’s enough pain and blood to nudge the lazy fucks into doing something in 2 years, but really, that doesn’t do anyone any good for the next 2 years and also very much isn’t assured: at least some of the lazies are actually in favor of this and the facists have a pretty good grip on the media and social network effects, so you can’t make a toot and expect it’ll do shit.

We’re past the polite letters to the editor stage, and in the misery and violence phase, even if it’s still being mostly coated in decorum.

I’m the same way. If it’s split license, then it’s a matter of when and not if it’s going to have some MBA come along and enshittify it.

There’s just way, way too much prior experience where that’s what eventually will happen for me to be willing to trust any project that’s doing that, since the split means they’re going to monetize it, and then have all the incentive in the world to shit all over the “free” userbase to try to get them to convert.

I’m not a huge fan of the email analogy, because nobody knows how email works who isn’t a tech nerd anyways.

See: people who ask what your gmail is, not what your email is.

I’ve started explaining it as picking a user and server name you like, and then that’s how and where you login to the ‘fediverse’.

Less tech people have seemed to follow that at least, since it’s a much simpler thing they can understand: they get what a username is, they get what logging in is, and they get that a username and a login lets you access something.

And before everyone comes in with why that’s a horrible explanation, I know. It’s terrible, but it’s terrible enough that I’ve got family members who can’t keep left and right clicking sorted out to understand what I’m trying to say and how all these things are related.

Fedora was always a bleeding-edge distro and never all that stable or reliable.

The problem is RedHat/IBM have been fucking with everything, and Fedora has suffered along with everything else and it’s just kinda decayed a bit over the past few years.

…Ubuntu went to shit at least a decade ago, if not longer.

TBH it’s on message for them.

The guy they had to lead the DOE last time had no idea what they did, either. It’s nice to see that at least some things don’t change.

New business opportunity!

New fintech startup, Wankr, provides loans at 2400% to pay your wank-fines.

…Now to get $300 million in Series-A funding.

Not voting was a vote for Nazis, so yeah, the ~40% that did not vote are being clumped in with them.