It was virtually nothing but ignorant and hysterical ukraine hawks when I left. I’m sure it’s so much worse now that I really don’t even want to look.

Interesting choice to omit Isntreal as the original source for these claims. Is CNBC admitting that creates a credibility problem?

Can we please stop saying “left wing liberal” or implying in any way whatsoever that such a thing does or could exist? Liberalism is a hard-right ideology down to the core and slapping vacuous identity politics stickers on it to get more votes does not move the needle a nanometer. At bare minimum, the left begins at anti-capitalism, otherwise it’s just right-wing infighting.

First woman president of Burgerlandia? My country has had a few already 🤣

omg do it, that would be so funny.

It’s been weird

Biden just told the press that she was not qualified to be president a few days ago, so I’m not sure where that sits with regard to endorsement. Not that a reviled genocidal sociopath has much credibility.

But campaign finance laws (pretending those matter) would prevent the money raised going to anyone other than Kamala… I wonder if the dems might just force her to take a backseat again, just as a way to juggle the money around.

yeah, there’s a lot of shit that should never have been allowed in the kernel and rust is definitely up there. May as well add npm dependencies to the kernel next.

I’ve never had much of an opinion on micro vs monolithic. I think either can be fine, but I will say that 99% of the reason I compile my own kernels is to take stuff out lol

Both openrc and runit are great; simple, stable, secure and fast. I had some huge problems with systemd even before it was considered usable. Since then, watching it becoming a bloated CVE monster by needlessly sucking up dozens of userspace components has really made me lose a lot of faith in the direction of GNU/Linux. Linux was supposed to be a free and open version of unix for desktop users, but it’s being reshaped into a cheap tool for capital and prone to all the pitfalls of corporate / techbro thinking.

I’ve worked on Linux for decades, but I might ditch Linux altogether if FreeBSD had better hardware support. There’s only so much I can write and maintain, myself. I love OpenBSD for servers and network appliances since it’s very hardened, straightforward and very well documented.

I’m the same with booting into a tty. Starting up with easy to read shell scripts (like just being able to edit .xinitrc) is exactly how I want everything to work :)

I’d hope “linux” users might have a little better awareness of the attack surface of systemd after xz, but I’m usually disappointed. Tech bros and big tech are absolutely ruining Linux to the point that you have to go pretty far out of the circle now to get a good distro that understands unix philosophy and KISS principals. Void and Gentoo are pretty much my go-to’s, even then I blacklist a good number of packages.

Again, you really don’t know what the fuck you are talking about.

I only rock with Beasties and sysdfree Linux. Everyone running a CIAware OS gets what they fucking deserve.

I saw some ex-cia guy making that same argument. The idea of a US president thinking the CIA is out to kill him is pretty funny.

If she did know sanctions would backfire, would anyone in the state department have done differently? Russian sanctions make peepee go big.

“A Small Price to Pay for Freedom” would be a banger line to put on a $7k electricity bill

In the US they’re legally compelled to collect and retain all call logs, text, gps coords (and others), so cops can search all of it through a web portal without search warrants. Data breaches are guaranteed.

Doesn’t texas have some really stupid privatized power reseller system or something that makes its grid this dysfunctional?

Yep, everything china is a “SeCURiTY tHReAT”, but umm… lets just ignore google, microsoft, apple, ibm, yahoo, wikipedia, oracle, cia, nsa, fbi, mi6, mossad, nato, aol, yahoo, facebook, twitter, hb gary, bitlocker, prism, operation rubicon, clipper chip, windows, android, macos, ios, intel management engine, stuxnet, systemd, muscular, cointelpro, xkeyscore, 5-14 eyes, project six, tempora, stateroom, openai, lustre, skype, hotmail, gmail, youtube, cablehaunt, carnivore, sms/mms, firebase, cloudflare, cisco, juniper, [10 hours later…], all western mobile carriers, all western internet service providers, all closed-source software, all consumer routers and firewalls, all closed-source firmware… Those are totally cool.

But did you know chinese-made cranes are a threat to Amerikkkan security? If you put 3 chinese cranes near each other, emperor Xi will command them to build a 100 meter-tall Mao Zedong robot that will steal all the flags, thus eliminating all freedom everywhere forever.

How can we write policy to make the kids hornier?

lol, yeah, that line is beyond insane.

He said the country had recently “begun to change into a female-dominant society” and that this might "partly be responsible for an increase in male suicide attempts”.

He pointed out that globally more men took their lives than women. In many countries, including the UK, suicide is the biggest killer of men under 50.

Having capitalism strip your life of all meaning and dignity sure produces interesting forms of dissonance when you’re not allowed to criticize capitalism.