I thought that was Bob Dylan…

This guy must work for Boeing.

They don’t only have ICBMs. They’ve launched satellites. They have a space program.

Convertables.

We don’t even know who’s running yet. Implying people aren’t allowed to criticize shitty hypocritical politicians because they might, at some future date, announce they’re running for president is completely ridiculous.

This person ALMOST gets it, but I have to hammer down on the “we don’t even know who’s running yet” part. Why don’t we know? Why is there no obvious champion of the popular will? We are going to wait around until a small slate of candidates who are acceptable to the donors and media barons are selected for us, and they are all going to be repugnant imperialists.

The US political system is governed by a series of filters. To be deemed eligible, you first must go through the Cursus honorum of state government, the House of Representatives, and then the Senate, or be the executive of a large state or serve as Secretary of State or something of that stature. Along all of these steps, you must maintain the favor of our oligarchical media apparatus. You must never draw the ire of the party machinery, making sure to never cut the line in front of any of the corrupt sleazebags who have “tenure” over you because they have been wetting their beaks for decades. By the time it is finally “your turn,” you have sold out any principle you ever had, or you have been locked out of the system by any one of these filters.

It’s extra funny because there’s an official flag folding procedure (which ultimately produces a triangle) and these clearly were just folded like a stack of bed sheets.

I wonder if the toilets in Hell work any better than the ones on the USS Gerald Ford.

I would ABSOLUTELY not recommend Signal for org work. Personal communication, sure, but org infrastructure should be self-hosted, and MUST NOT require PII (phone numbers) for access.

It is better than SMS, but not sufficient. It has all of the same vulnerabilities as WhatsApp from an architectural point of view. Their reputation, and the availability of free software clients is the only major difference.

I have made things very slow

This brilliant mind literally invented the term “removeds” (they glow) but couldn’t manage to do it without invoking the n-word in the same sentence.

I have an update on my “escape from bcachefs” post (see also: two years ago when this saga began). Expect it in a couple weeks.

Long story short, I’m going to end up on ZFS by way of a complete disaster of device-mapper masturbation.

God forbid, japes.

warning that what some may dismiss as winter “antics” could escalate into something far more dangerous.

Today it’s antics, tomorrow it’s hijinks, and before you know it, the whole city is descending into an unmitigated epidemic of tomfoolery.

This might be a small potatoes issue, but starting out as a GNU zealot tech libertarian and seeing how deliberately the (US) government repeatedly dropped the ball in terms of embracing open source infrastructure and developing their own technology solutions in-house definitely influenced my radicalization arc to a degree. Not as much as more life-and-death issues which I only grew to appreciate in adulthood, but this is fertile ground to agitate, especially for any euros floating around.

Tech Sovereignty is a laudable goal, but it is also turning into a big marketing buzzword. To some, it means not allowing the US to rugpull your state institutions, while to others it means prostrating yourself so the mega-polluting OpenAI and Palantir surveillance datacenters can be built in your country too.

Right now, in light of the US’s enthusiastic violations of international law, Global North Liberals (especially technology professionals) EXPECT their countries to take the matter of tech sovereignty seriously. A cost must be exacted every time the ruling class squanders and sandbags these opportunities in favor of supplicating their citizens to US dominance.

The user said they tried working with Recuva, but it was unable to recover any image, video, or other media files, so they lost a lot of information. In the end, they warned users “to be careful not to use the turbo mode” at least in the beginning. And despite the catastrophic failure, they still said that they love Google and use all of its products

I still love the truck.

Lies. Slander. Sonic 2’s halfpipe ring collectathons were pretty cool. Sonic 3’s bonus stages were varied and interesting for what they are (a gimmick to get some more rings or an extra life). Sonic Spinball’s rigged mini-pinball tables were dope as hell. It is pretty much just Blue Sphere which is a steaming turd, and I guess 3D Blast’s ring collectathons which were derivative and worse than Sonic 2’s in every way.

For what it’s worth, industrial mermaid bone farming was a bridge too far for Tarn.

I haven’t tried either, but stoat seems more promising: https://github.com/stoatchat/

Matrix is lowkey dead. Everyone is waiting to see what will replace it, but none of these Discord alternatives check the federation+E2EE boxes yet.

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