DjangoFett

How dare you make actual sense in this modern age! I’m gonna go stick a fork in the electrical socket in a fit of rage to get back at you!

I just wish I knew why I keep hearing myself after I speak. So strange.

Yes, definitely that.

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You and I might not have the mental and emotional bandwidth for “yet another crisis,” but there are real people living harsh realities everywhere. Minimizing any of them makes you little better than any Zionist crying about the rocks Palestinian kids throw over the walls of the West Bank.

Classic case of if you’ve nothing nice to say, nicer to say nothing.

Joined just in time for the discovery of the safe.

Witnessed the “Don’t ask me how I took this picture” in real time.

Exhaled heartily through my nose at many a meme.

Left because the experience turned to absolute dogshit over the past four or five years. Like, it was already declining in quality by 2018, but man oh man has it really throttled up on the nosedive.

Touched a nerve have I?! Which I find rather hard to believe! You haven’t seen the last of me! That’s it! No More Mister Nice Gaius!

He doesn’t live in the same reality the rest of us do. Like it or not, there are hordes of people who want to be just like him and believe their day is coming tomorrow, so they will gladly support him while he runs their pockets telling you with a straight face all the while that you’re wrong, he’s not a thief and a liar.

The further to the right side of the bell curve you end up on, the more people are going to end up missing your point - and the greater realities of things - with seeming determination. And then some people, like Zuck, are just plain psychopathic; there is zero concern or care for any other human being unless it somehow directly affects them.

Then why suggest that?

I am decidedly on the spectrum and very much prefer things to be clear-cur with precisely defined lines.

You can be a healthy individual with solid beliefs and that is precisely why you can’t in good conscience walk away from your family who might be struggling but always means well in their heart of hearts. Not bad people, just misguided. And on top of that, they’re your only support network. You may disagree on everything except that you genuinely love one another and would never wish or bring harm upon one another.

A healthy person would absolutely struggle with leaving that social circle. And this isn’t really that far-fetched a scenario as most people really aren’t that adamant and vitriolic in their beliefs as any given extreme would have you believe.

So are you wrong? Not in every case, for sure. But you’re also not really correct either. Human interactions are mostly nuance, which your assessment is entirely devoid of.

To be perfectly clear, the only AI I am subscribed to is the one Proton gives with their family plan VPN bundle, and I didn’t choose it. I used it to edit a letter I wrote once and otherwise trust it as far as I can throw its server.

This knee-jerk reaction to anything with the letters AI attached being bad is just so silly. Y’all are acting the way Republicans act when it comes to the word “queer.” Just because it’s in the vicinity of you doesn’t mean you’re contaminated, you’ve caught it, you’re now one of them.

This is a highly intelligent individual - controversial hot takes notwithstanding - utilizing a tool in a way that has proven itself to be very effective when used properly. Nobody is saying you have to get ready to be a switch in the bedroom any more than they’re saying you have to use AI.

Distro maintenance is a difficult and thankless task, and having a tool that can scan and analyze code orders of magnitude faster than you as well as make suggestions on how to fix it isn’t an inherently bad thing. Setting that tool loose with unlimited agency would be a bad thing, but where oh where is Linus saying he’s gonna give Claude full read/write access to the entire kernel and walk away forevermore?

Hate on AI bros all you want. I’m with you there, most of them are idiots that don’t know their mouth from their anus and speak from both equally. I don’t think Linus fits that particular picture [hot takes notwithstanding!] when it comes to using the new tool on the market in a reasonable and measured way.

Same, brother.

So it was definitely an act for many years, but shortly after the time he did his big cyberpunk video I feel like his character shifted. As I examine the timeline now, that’s around the time he got engaged/married so I can appreciate his priorities shifting. That’s not it, though.

What sold me on him being a bit out of touch now was the recent debacle with YouTube changing how views were counted and him being flippant about the whole thing. JoshStrifeHayes actually did a direct video response to that claim which, IMO, expertly dismantled Spiff and demonstrated why not only was he wrong, but also sitt8ng atop a high horse because he is the Spiffing Brit and losing 10k viewers means little to him. He does it on a Tuesday as an experiment, so his hot take of “people go outside bruh” doesn’t work for people who only have 7k followers.

After that, the changes I perceived in his character clicked into place for me; he’s become elitist and has lost touch with regular working class folks. That’s fine and I’m happy he’s made it like that, but I don’t need to support him any longer. And he’s not at all hurting from my lack of views.

Sjin for touching kids.

The rest of the Yogscast for just generally being shitty people once they hit the six figure earning mark doing things like promising a game and then running away with the crowdfunding.

TotalBiscuit died.

TheSpiffingBrit went from faux elitism to actual elitism and I just don’t find him funny anymore.

He says on his favorite thinking machine.

I absolutely agree, though the reasonable side of me just wants to note that while Conservatism is evil as an ideology, being conservative (little c) isn’t inherently bad and, in fact, is required in order to be properly progressive; you cannot build a proper future without a solid foundation. Conserve what works, discard what weighs you down, build newer and better, rinse repeat. See: boiling water for power meme.

Modern right-wing movements are a global net negative on society, but I just hesitate to fully endorse blanket statements like yours because while the overall movements and ideologies tend to be oppressive and bad for society, there are still sensible elements and issues raised that are worth considering.

That said, if the Republican party got Thanos Snapped tomorrow my antisocial autistic ass would throw the biggest party in the world with open invitations. I’ll make pizza, you just bring the dough.

He was the punkest motherfucker I ever did see

Aw, hell, he’s even more punk than me!

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The Post is only fulfilling its original purpose since it was founded by Alexander Hamilton; it is a political mouthpiece for the moneyed interests in New York City.

One of their earliest political hit pieces absolutely decimated John Adams’ already tenuous political career in the public eye and ultimately paved the way for Jeffersonian politics to calcify around the heart of our nation’s politics.

Obscurity as in there are how many flavors each with their own repos and dependencies? And which one are you using? So which vulnerabilities work on you? And are you even aware of them?

Hiding among the weeds obscures you from view.

And while AUR isn’t Linux code and I definitely understand that, it is very much what you’re talking about; if anybody bothered to RTFM, they’d have had as many AUR issues as I did when the shit hit the fan - precisely none. And I’m only on Arch because Cachy is basically iOS for Arch if you can read and utilize copy/paste functions, a dazzlingly high bar for entry that somehow even I am capable of.

Then again, I also know enough to have a clue as to how much I really don’t know. Most people just assume magic box makes pretty pictures happen and anybody who knows how to change operating systems are literal wizards.

And so I would argue that being on Linux and the variety of flavors is, again, a form of obscurity in and of itself. Yeah, its all open source. Did you plot an attack for that distro? That file structure? How about a missing dependency? It simply isn’t worth it to plot Linux malware at this market share just like 20 years ago it wasn’t worth it to put malware on Macs; their use is still too obscure. Once critical mass is achieved, watch Ubuntu and Mint malware variants increase by an order of magnitude. Until then, the whales are all on Windows and Mac.

Linux is safer than Windows

Yes and no. Security through obscurity doesn’t innately mean its more secure. The recent AUR debacle proved that all it takes is a competent and malicious actor with the time and dedication to make something to target Linux. And why has nobody done it? Because the Linux market share is still absolutely pathetic compared to Windows, and is even abysmal when compared to MacOS. The returns on hacking a single Linux distro simply aren’t worth the investment.

I would also argue it is far easier to unintentionally brick your system with Linux, and if people don’t know what they’re doing (see: most end users) they can and will very easily leave themselves more exposed in the long run than by using the spyware that is Windows/MacOS/iOS/Android.

This pretty effectively explains all your other bullet points with minimal extrapolation; everything else you listed requires significant know-how for the systems to function properly. These are the super-deep superusers. Some of them probably tossed a few bones to Microsoft and their end-users, but as others have pointed out individuals and companies have vastly different motivations.

Between those main ideas… Yeah…