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  • If you think "not invading other countries for oil" or "not doing ethnic cleansing of immigrants" are purity tests I don't know what to tell you.

  • Statistical fallacy #420: Assuming the value of a random arbitrary element will necessarily be close to the mean or median of all elements.

  • He'd lose the mandate of heaven so many times the dragons would come and smite the citizens for not overthrowing him already.

  • If there is an established pattern of malice, it is stupidity to attribute it to stupidity.

  • My dream Linux gaming setup would be a fully configured isolated container that can be run on any host OS. Games are the prime candidates for containerization because they're all proprietary, and there's absolutely no reason a game needs user level permissions or to interact with any other program on the system.

    Imagine if you could just pull the OGC container from a public registry on your distro of choice, run your game, and then just shut it down when you're done.

    I suspect the biggest barrier would be sufficiently low overhead GPU access though.

  • News flash: the things the Linux (open source in general) community fight about are also fought between developers of proprietary software. But you only see some of those fights because the others are either "trade secrets" you have to sign in blood not to reveal, or are in the form of corporate competition, sabotage, and lock-in instead of heated but usually still civil discussion where bridges and compatibility layers can still be built between even completely opposing camps.

  • As long as China and by extension socialism remain the evil boogieman, the Western ruling class will NEVER be threatened by the people they rule. That's why they must make you think China is bad by any means. The West does anything? China is worse so you can't complain. People will be walked into volcanos chanting "at least it's not China!"

    The instant people in the West stop pearl clutching about China (not even support them, not even not dislike them, just stop caring about a country half a world away and focus on how bad life in the West really is regardless of how well or poorly China is doing) is the instant the bourgoisie becomes endangered.

  • What about the IP issues? Not even talking about the "ethics" of "ip theft via AI" or anything, you just know a company like Microsoft or Apple will eventually try suing an open source project over AI code that's "too similar" to their proprietary code. Doesn't matter if they're doing the same to a much greater degree, all that matters is they have the resources to sue open source projects and not the other way around. If a tech company can get rid of the competition by abusing the legal system, you just know they will, especially if they can also play the "they're knowingly letting their users use pirated media that we own with their software” card on top of it.

  • Judgement is an essential nutrient for cats

  • Potato potahto

  • "What's my purpose?"

    "You seal bowels shut"

    "Oh my god"

  • In America the justice system leans strongly in favour of the defence (unless you’re poor, but we’ll put that aside for now)

    Neat trick the tankies hate: the West is perfect if you just say that the biggest counterexample is irrelevant!

    There's definitely an algorithm that decides if any arbitrary algorithm will halt or not (unless you feed its own source code back into itself, but we'll put that aside for now).

  • A smartphone is a handheld computer. Why should it be restricted to what software the company arbitrarily decides should be allowed to run on it?

    Also suggests she's a technically minded person who likes to know how things work and is not satisfied with a black box. Jailbreaking uncovers the complex machine a smartphone truly is, something that Apple tries very hard to hide behind its patronizingly simple interface.

  • If Sasquatch are real animals they're almost certainly extinct now.

  • Would have been some other date, some other terrorists, some other victims.

    US literally funded the terrorists and is surprised when they turn on them the moment the funding stops.

  • Where's MOM from Futurama?

  • The first photo of a black hole is the most historically significant "first photo of x" that happened in my life time and that I actually understood its historical significance when it came out. So I'd say that's probably my favourite.

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