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milicent_bystandr

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  • race conditions

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  • Jigsaw is for Java

    King is for Kotlin

    Lion is for LUA

    Monkey is for ...

  • race conditions

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  • Apple is for ADA

    Ball is for BASH

    Crab is for C

    Dog is for D

    Elephant is for Ecsmascript

    Fox is for F#

    Goat is for Go

    House is for Haskell

    Igloo is for

    ...okay I got stuck there.

  • race conditions

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  • News at Ten: Borrowed Data Escapes Outside of Associated Function

  • Eight US states seek to outlaw chemtrails – even though they aren’t real

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  • Per another comment (and the article I suppose, if I bothered to read it), the title is apparently misleading and the bills are about 'weather modification' and such, not about chemtrails.

    But a bill to ban chemtrails: my take is, I'd support that. You have a bunch of people worried they're real. If chemtrails were real, they'd be bad. People can't trust companies not to be doing it secretly, but those people trust legislation (a bit; maybe). Okay then, legislate it. Give people peace of mind.

    It's like all the debates about phones listening in to you. The consensus seems quite clear that they're not, and all the uncanny ad targeting comes from connecting the dots on other data. But, maybe it could be real? Okay, legislate it. Make it highly illegal for devices to listen in without clear consent and notification. Okay, that's far more complicated than it sounds, but it would be one step of pressure in the right direction to make it not happen.

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    Should we be wary of Red Hat?

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  • Shills or no shills, using Debian does not reduce your reliance on Red Hat software all that much

    Maybe, but if, based on one loud mouth in a Lemmy thread I began a whole intensive programme of de-redhatting my life, that would be a bit dumb ;-)

    But veering a little more away from using Redhat or Fedora, seems a proportionate response to finally feeling there really is bad faith shilling and genuine red flags. My inflammatory language was perhaps just an emotional expression of that.

    Does your distro use systemd? ... If so, Red Hat has a lot of influence on the evolution of your distro

    And that was part of the controversy, wasn't it? And part of why, if vague memory serves, Debian resisted it at first. Perhaps your comment vindicates them!

    I also think not being idiotic means acknowledging facts.

    Sounds like a pretty sensible policy :) Thanks

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  • Normally I sit back from this sort of drama: there are certainly bad actors and bad attitudes in various places, but in the end, for most purposes, it's just another distribution?

    But one commenter here, by looking so strongly like an idiotic shill, has now turned me against RH and Fedora. Hopefully the sour taste will fade soon and I'll forget, but for now: Use Debian-based or Arch-based, people! Or SUSE! (I know they had their controversial moment, but AFAIK all is forgiven.) Or another! But keep control and consolidation out of Red's hat.

  • Space: The Fungal Frontier

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  • *grown

  • Trump says Musk will face 'very serious consequences' if he funds Democratic candidates -NBC News

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  • More angry Truth Social tweets

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  • That's fantastic! Thank you for sharing. I've been going through some learning of my own recently, and I'm going to have a think on what you shared.

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  • Lol

  • choas

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  • https://xkcd.com/1425

    Alt text: In the 60s, Marvin Minsky assigned a couple of undergrads to spend the summer programming a computer to use a camera to identify objects in a scene. He figured they'd have the problem solved by the end of the summer. Half a century later, we're still working on it.

    Edit: seems I'm the third person to comment this! :')

  • The FDA Is Approving Drugs Without Evidence They Work

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  • It's tricky. Part of the problem, I think, is if you do have corruption and carelessness in something like the FDA, there's no amount of careful reporting that can fix it - it becomes propaganda.

    It's necessary to address the problems, though I still agree with being careful about what information is broadcast and how - but it's necessary to keep information open and challenge things otherwise you end up worse down the line. A measles epidemic is bad. But imagine if you suppressed thalidomide results and other failures, allowing things to get worse and worse in the name of not damaging people's trust, then eventually (after years of covered-up harm) it all comes out and people abandon scientific medicine altogether!

    You don't have to imagine... I'm sure a large component of both vaccine skepticism and Trump's presidency have come because of suppressed and partially-suppressed wrongdoing by all the people we think the country should trust. Eventually people break and look for something else.

    So, I agree with you, but in my opinion we do need to work more, not less, at transparency and truth even when it's problematic.

  • Microtransactions for devs

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  • Pay per loaf of bread at the baker

    ... Microtransactions for hungry people

  • Well actually...

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  • I read this as a "rolling cheese distro." Like Debedam, or Camombware. I use Brie, btw.

  • Well actually...

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  • It's a butter-cooled pc. More effective than water cooling.

  • Well actually...

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  • Oh, I remember that margarine brand, ICBINB: I Can't Believe ICBINB's Not Butter

  • What would make you change distro?

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  • Cool! Thanks for sharing.

  • What would make you change distro?

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  • Nix-related job - do tell!