For some reason I memory holed the first distro I used. There's only vague recollection. I think it was SUSE or something. When Ubuntu came around I tried Linux again. That's when I started to get the hang of things.

It's a rich peoples game. Those with mere pittance to invest will not end up with much even if they live a very long natural life and do not touch a penny of whatever they could invest until their death bed. Even then they've have to wait until the very end for that pittance. The whole thing is based on having a enough wealth such that small percentage returns equate to a lot in absolute value. A small or even larger than average percentage return from relatively little wealth is still very little.

To change any of this would be to change the underlying issues of unequal distribution of wealth. The stock markets are derivative. If more had wealth then obviously they'd be investing more. It's not the other way around.

Some believe they can cheat code their way to the other side by gambling which is not investing. Seems to have become popular again in recent times after certain cultural phenomenons. That again does not change underlying issues. A few lottery winners and many more silent losers only serves to amplify inequality.

It's long past time to move on from archaic inefficient x86 monopoly.

I'm glad I just got done buying a bunch of small solar panels from AliExpress to feed my electronics hobby. I have no clue if these will be affected though.

It already costs orders of magnitude more to buy the same kind of electronics stuff from western suppliers.

The world wide web was largely left leaning academic types. Then it was made more accessible to everyone. All the backwards ass people flooded in. I'm sure the establishment loves the poorly educated. They did have some tense moments around 2011.

Don't attempt rational discussion with a chud.

Sometimes I use their own tactics against them. Keep pressing them with backwards hypocritical gotchas. Sometimes they get super confused because I've gone of script. "Wait a minute! I'm supposed to be the one doing that." *chud hurts itself in confusion*. Some times they inadvertently start trying to be rational one.

Most often they just shut up and go away because they know they can't troll you.

That's all they've got is pre-prepped responses. They expect a standard set of responses because most people tend to fit the left leaning world views. They generally understand full well everyone position on things and they don't care. Their objective is to incite people. So fuck with them back or ignore them.

I've been thinking probably in our lifetime we could see Taiwan lose all of it's wealth once the Americans (and probably Europe too) have got done robbing them blind.

"Hey, help us build those fancy chip factories over in America. Oops it's our technology now. Too bad".

Same shit different era. Always gotta be persecuting somebody.

Also when Silicon Valley copies and steals they get praised as revolutionary innovators.

They talk as if they're protecting our privacy when it's really a global surveillance net. The spin doctoring is insane.

r/linux has been suspect for a long time.

Years ago I noticed they had the sub set to auto remove posts on as low as a couple of user reports. I don't know if it's still that set up that way. I bailed on that place a long time ago.

People seemed to be intentionally abusing that to shadow moderate the subreddit. They seemed to be primarily targeting posts and comments with anything related to China or Chinese origin authors/topics. Maybe even any topics or authors of east Asia all together? I never pieced together a clearer picture.

It was obvious there was unusual behavior going on with certain types of posts getting [removed]. The one topic they didn't touch was when the Asian American college student was doing a research study about submitting patches to the Linux kernel. The whole sub was having a meltdown over it even though what they did was superfluous changes and they had done so under the approval of the university.

I tried myself to fuck with it a bit getting some posts removed by reporting from a couple of accounts. The mods almost immediately reinstated the posts.

I think it's the other way around. We're traumatized as a society and media reflects that. I have long said that we've been stuck in a grimdark period of media. It started when 9/11 broke the modern western mindset. For the past quarter century media has been about trying to cope with that trauma through gritty dystopian settings with amoral shades of gray characterizations.

Completely dismantled was the hubris that the western world was an untouchable safe haven fortress from the worn torn dark savage lands of the world. We had defeated the nazis. We had won the Cold War. Europe was uniting more than ever. America was the sole superpower. We were the protagonists at the end of the story.

The shock and awe of witnessing a western city crumble to smouldering rubble on replayed every television set on every channel for years to come. That was traumatic. That kind of thing was only supposed to happen through a grainy analog camera thousands of miles away reported by a special correspondent on behalf of CNN broadcast through your living room cable TV. Suddenly it was happening in cities too close for comfort anymore. What happened to our happy ending?

In the wake of 9/11 the news media became obsessed with the 24/7 constant panic news cycle. There was a terrorist around every corner lurking behind the bushes ready to savage your family. That raised the bar to a level we've never returned below since.

Fictional media stopped writing happy stories. The western nations went into more wars of bloodlust against vaguely brown people. If they look suspect then carpet bomb them before they get to us first. Round up as many as we can and let our finest young military men and women torture them. Who we really are came to light. We are savages too.

The story telling came to reflect that. Characters weren't the idealistic superheroes anymore. They became flawed protagonists. They don't swoop in and save the day while teaching the primitive villagers a moral lesson and everybody claps. They do the things only villains used to do. They do things that make your stomach turn. Because sometimes that needs to done. That's the cope we've been living with.

The public discourse has never really talked about all this. I mean for all the pride about being self aware and more attuned to mental health there are still some topics too taboo. It's as if proverbially the public conscious has been secretly curled up in the corner of a padded room wearing a strait jacket quietly self soothing rocking back and forth repeatedly whispering, 'it's gonna be okay'. We've not been okay. We just lock that part of us away in a deep dark corner of the collective conscious.

Space sci-fi shows are a barometer for the cultural zeitgeist. We used to have the Roddenberry vision of Star Trek. Sci-fi shows were mostly inspired by that. Then things pivot into the grimdark era. We got shows like Battlestar Galactica. Then the Kelvin timeline Trek movies. Then the prime timeline Trek shows came back all dark and gritty. Nobody writes happy stories anymore. A campy show like Stargate could not be made in this era. Kids these days would cringe to death because all they've known is the adrenaline pumping trauma content.

Of course we cannot have this discussion without mentioning the most important show which is 24. That was basically revenge porn for 9/11. It was so popular because it was an outlet to satiate the desire to maim brown people.

The trauma and cope continues to evolve to this day. Now western society is realizing the rest of the world continued to developed and progress instead of being the primitive tin hut dwelling people that we were so sure we were inherently superior to. This is an absolutely unacceptable state of affairs. So the trauma response seems to be evolving into temper tantrums of some sort.

Not only are have we been coping with the fact that we're not the protagonists of the world. We have also had to reckon more than ever with our own domestic issues not just foreign affairs. And so the moral center of media is currently fixed on shocking traumatic content. It's how we cope. How we tell ourselves it's okay.

The great feedback loop is inevitable.

Maybe instead of Torvalds taking lessons on how to be less of an asshole, he should be teaching developers how to be more like him.

Yeah everything is broken with anti-patterns meant to kill competition.

I keep a separate Google Chrome install with no addons for government and banking. Websites break things so badly unless you're leaving yourself wide open to all their privacy snooping and what not.

For random web browsing the annoyances don't matter as much. It's unacceptable when it comes to important things. It's all by (anti-)design.

Not too long ago only anglos were considered "white" in Canada. The Trudeaus were considered mixed race for being French and English. This guy should be grateful Canada became woke enough to include him.

Google hasn't been dogfooding in a long time have they? I wonder what products Googlers use.

Notice the difference between complaint and threat. Minorities: "That's offensive, please don't talk that way". That guy: "Only a matter of time until we fucking come for you".

Where I grew up if you weren't an aggressive wrestler fanboy ready to thrown down at random then you must be gay. Some boys put up a facade just to avoid the witch hunting. I didn't bother. Didn't care for that stuff at all. By high school I was considered defacto gay.

I know which raging conservative men are in the closet. I know because they thought I must be into secret gay sex with them. Some of them attempted to forcefully. One of them had moderate social media popularity for a while as a local evangelical community leader. I think most people believe it's a stereotype that is to say exaggerated but from my experience it isn't at all.

There's more money in tech than anyone does what to do with. They give it to each other.

Are we all forgetting rm -rf has the --no-preserve-root safeguard? The accidental engine DataSource culprit seems unlikely. You can experiment yourself with in VM. It's only a couple lines of QML code. Nothing will happen without explicitly turning off safety.

The pling account that posted the theme was registered on February 25 2024. And suddently it has 3800 downloads without anyone else saying anything?

Things aren't adding up. I think this had to be intentional malicious crafted code.