Thank you for these fantastic insights into your work. Nice to know that there’s a sense of camaraderie among installers and techs, after all, I reckon in most lines of work you’d find yourself pitted against those you are teamed up with. May that synergism always present itself as a well of rejuvenation.

The point about (visual) artists v. managers seems to mirror what happens in the music biz. One can never creative when one thinks they’re there or enough. The meekness has to be a necessity.

Person who’s had the fortune/misfortune of having dipped their toes into the creative scene here (architecture).

I am impressed by anyone who pursues a path such as yours. First, if you deal with it at all, how do you deal with stress?

Second: What are your thoughts on passions turning into commodities as is the case with most publicly renowned art?

It’s clear that it’s in the interest of the United States to do preemptive damage control in light of tensions between RUS and EU that could escalate into a war. The Americans simply don’t want to be dragged into anything, least of which conflicts they aggravated. Same logic as privatising profits and socialising losses.

That is unfortunate. I don’t like everything about Redhat’s products, but they do have some very useful tools.

The point about capitalism has always been being able to live off of property without moving a finger and securing that position with all that you have. What you are seeing is are the dynamics of capitalist class society. The numbers game is itself nothing new, nor anything that has especial depth.

We choose capitalism and we could choose not to do capitalism. So to capital, which comes from this social structure, you are like an abstraction, only because it exists in an less concrete way because it needs intangible property relations. To a fish you are trapped in air while you view fish as being trapped in water.

But the point of the economic critiques known from history is to show exactly this:

There is the numbers economy, the stock market, taxes and money. There is culture, there are political systems (liberalism, fascism) and political skirmishes. Then there is what actually exists in a very clear and tangible way. Schools, cars, machinery, fields of corn, people, their relations and so on.

One creates the other. The abstractions arising from the soil of the “real world” can not strike back and make the real world abstract. That is impossible. Capitalism and capital is not a demon that keeps you from undertaking modifications on the structures that birth it. It possesses no special or poetic qualities.

0 productivity increase. 0. Once this bubble is over the clean up will set us back years and that is if we’re lucky.

It’s missing the filepath

try “cat .bashrc”

atp they should just have their LLMs put in code that relies on proprietary services and apps. Go the extra mile man

Let’s not use ‘unemployed’ in a pejorative way.

‘These Freedoms That We Cherish Do Not Come Without Cost’

Same fucking propaganda bullshit is being touted in Europe. Unbelievable that much of the working class buys into this

Imagine walking up to a Microsoft engineer and asking them what software their company’s servers run on

Good

It’s not the sort of thing where we have clear statistics on. If we had statistics on the “Gen Z stare” then those would be of limited use due to the lack of historical data which could give us contextualised information in conjunction with contemporary statistics.

There seem to be only anecdotes. The above post marks my first hearing of such a phenomenon and I do therefore think not much of it. I would stipulate that any discussion around the “Gen Z stare” has more in common with folklore retold for nice musings than information which interfaces with the world as it is lived.

Simple answer: no

As someone who knows a thing or two about biology I think LLMs strip away >90% of what makes animals think.

Then the whole premise of systemd is absurd if it does talk for distros (OSes). When I get NixOS, I don’t install it because it has systemd. I install it because it is built around Nix. SystemD is a freaking fire-and-forget-style convenience and that’s it. When I look at specific features I want or don’t want, the first thing I’m considering is not necessarily the init system, I first look at what sort of computer I want, then I think about the OS, and specific programs like Konsole last.

I do not want a stupid init system, in this case an init system bundled in a suite(!), taking the steering wheel like this. I definitely don’t want this happening in highly politicised contexts like this one. A layer of perversion is added when you take into account that there are hardly any places to evade these big changes as systemd is omnipresent.

SystemD making these big political statements and practical decisions is just as absurd as GNOME or Xorg doing them. Fuck that shit.

You said it better than I could

Look, I can selectively quote what you say to completely fuck up the meaning of things!

little things like geography don’t matter.

laws that don’t exist outside of my mind

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/ab-1043s-internet-age-gates-hurt-everyone

I don’t know about you but this looks pretty real to me? Are you going to tell me that there is no AB 1043. Maybe you are trapped in a solipsistic world where this sort of encroachment doesn’t exist.

I know what you are going to say next, “Have you yourself ever seen the curvature of the Ear-”, but let me stop you for a sec and tell you that when you think everything is Alex Jones, you should maybe look at yourself and ask the question “Maybe I am Alex Jones?”

How do I come back at someone calling me a fed? Fuck, I don’t have any good arguments pro compliance … Guess I’m going to show how stupid and crazy they are by being a pedant Haha, that’ll show 'em

^you probably