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101·10 hours agoSorry, I didn’t notice. I’ve fixed it.
4·12 hours agoyou are safe, as long as you stay in line and don’t dissent
Even that isn’t true under fascism. It’s capricious and must continually find new enemies, so you may be rounded up tomorrow even if you feel safe today.
28·12 hours agoI’ve been using Linux for nearly 30 years and I recently noped out of NixOS. It’s a great concept, but I’m old and I don’t want to spend the rest of my days configuring stuff just to get to where I would be in 30 minutes on a less rigorously designed distro.
On Android, Firefox Focus can be useful for this. It doesn’t keep cookies, so sites that allow you only a few free articles think each visit is your first.
That sounds good, but when you start thinking about how to implement this practically, it seems like it would either be unfeasible or would fail to really address the problem.
Maybe the rule would be: Unicode is allowed only in resource files. It would make code comments awkward for many non-English-speaking programmers. But suppose you did it, then since URLs can include Unicode, it would become normal to put URLs in resource files. If the VCS flagged up Unicode commits in source code, it would have to give resource files a pass. So in any case where you’re not hardcoding a URL it wouldn’t flag up Unicode URL abuses like the one illustrated here. You wouldn’t really have fixed the problem, just hidden it in a different way. You’d still need to flag up ambiguous Unicode characters in resource files.
2·13 hours agoImagine having to watch this guy run your country. Resentful friendless losers can be pretty dangerous.
They need to INVESTIGATE all the FAKE LIBERAL universities handing out PHONY certificates that allow people to call themselves “Dr.” when they CAN’T EVEN diagnose prostate cancer.
15·14 hours agoCan’t take off either, so Poland is really doing them a favour.
LLMs write better than that.
41·24 hours agoThey sound staggeringly incompetent. And anyone who bought their software without any investigation into its quality also sounds staggeringly incompetent. Apparently there’s a lot of it going around.
He doesn’t have any, and that’s probably due to how he was brought up. I get the impression there wasn’t a lot of love going around in the Trump household.
…shudder…
Surprising to see the NYT reporting on this, since they’ve usually been on board with such crushing.
Here’s one report that mentions some of his statements:
You are arguing that most people enjoy life, and those who predict that others’ lives will be full of suffering tend to projecting their own feelings onto those as yet unborn. The antinatalist might argue that, though historically this may have been the case, the circumstances are now different: climate change or the likelihood of nuclear war (for example) is sure to bring suffering hitherto unknown to us, for everyone in the coming generations. The debate would then be about (1) how certain this future suffering is, (2) whether there’s a type of suffering that makes any life not worth living (or whether the value of life even relates to what suffering it contains), and (3) how much suffering, or what kind of suffering, we can best predict for these future people. We can have these debates, but I don’t think it’s obvious that the reasoning of someone who disagrees with you must be “pants-on-head level”. These are serious questions that intelligent people can consider, and the antinatalist position is a serious position that you don’t have to be an idiot to arrive at.
Stories of young women being taken to Al Fayed’s office circulated in the company at the time. But it was only after the billionaire’s death in 2023 at the age of 94 that the full scale of his abuse of women came to light. He is alleged to have sexually assaulted hundreds of women.
The UK is good at this. Somehow it’s impossible to investigate what everyone knows about a powerful person until just after they die, when the evidence suddenly turns up.
Now now, there’s no need to be extreme. Keep the letter polite, and show a little good will by agreeing to everything the fascists propose.
Yes, that’s why I’d like to run something as clean as NixOS. For now my compromise is OpenSUSE Tumbleweed’s btrfs snapshots.