Don’t drag the rest of us into her shit. Being trans has nothing to do with why she’s a shitty person. We’re not here to beg for your approval before we get to be who we are, and we don’t need it. Pick another hill.

404 demanding my private information to access their article about how I shouldn’t give my private information to companies.

I mean it seems like you’re just kind of asserting that it will be there. Just repeating it doesn’t make it more true.

You’re shifting the goalposts, and that still doesn’t work.

An infinite number of monkeys typing for an infinite length of time doesn’t necessitate that they stop once they reach 191,726 characters and then start over again. It also doesn’t necessitate that they never repeat a pattern of characters. In fact, it’s incredibly likely that they repeat more or less the same patterns more often than not. They’re probably going to repeatedly press keys that are in proximity to one another while moving around the keyboard. Things like: “;ml9o fklibhuasdfbuklghaol;jios9 fdlhnikuasdf”.

If you’re measuring whether or not eventually you’ll produce Hamlet by typing out every single possible permutation of 191,726 characters on a keyboard, well… yeah, of course you will. But infinite monkeys aren’t a grid search system for combinations of keystrokes, they’re monkeys mashing the keys without knowing what they mean or in all likelihood what a typewriter or computer is.

You want monkeys on keyboards? You’re mostly going to get gibberish.

If you put a bunch of yarn in a room with some high-powered rotating fans, are they eventually going to produce a sweater? Probably not. You’re just going to have a bunch of tangled yarn. Sweaters require a consistent repetition of a non-random pattern of movement. Alter that pattern only a handful of times and you won’t have a sweater even if you do manage to stumble across some version of that pattern accidentally.

Is there a non-zero chance? Eh… maybe? But there’s no reason to assume that it’ll actually happen given any amount of time unless someone comes along who knows how to make a sweater and does so.

With monkeys and keyboards you’d be lucky to get a few lines of anything resembling English in iambic pentameter.

There’s a world of difference between interconnectedness and an enforced monoculture of dependencies on a wide range of insecure repos maintained by hobbyists.

It’s not, though. It’s a much wider potential for failure, as there are a great number of dependencies that are often left to individual developers to maintain. That may be a somewhat reasonable amount of risk when you’ve got multiple options for dependencies and no major target, but when the entire EU relies on single individual maintainers? That’s a massively exploitable threat vector. It would be absurd to assume no one will take advantage given what we’ve already seen.

It would be an extremely foolish move to put the whole EU’s security on one single set of open source dependencies. Microsoft at least has a financial and legal incentive to try to prevent straight up breaches by state actors, shitty as they may be. There’s no such resource allocation or responsibility when it comes to open source repos.

Push a switch to Linux, by all means, but security monoculture is as big a mistake as putting your eggs in any other single basket, especially one as exposed as one single distro.

Considering that there are an infinite number of potential arrangements of keystrokes that aren’t Hamlet? I’m honestly not fully convinced that you’d necessarily get Hamlet to begin with, let alone in a finite amount of time. Could you? Sure. But an infinite set minus an infinite number of possibilities still leaves an infinite number of possibilities. Any or all of which could not be Hamlet.

There are an infinite number of values between 1 and 2, but none of them are 3.

Okay, but when’s the last time someone created a security vulnerability by sneakily taking over a Windows dependency controlled by a single developer after pressuring them into handing the keys over with a bunch of sockpuppets?

Do I think tiptoeing around the issue and maintaining the status quo is a tactic to retain the votes and donations of Zionists? Absolutely. It’s 100% par for the course of political game-playing. Do I wish they’d speak out against it and completely cut off all support for Israel? Also absolutely.

Do you not think the DNC is making a calculated political move to keep people who care more about supporting Israel than doing what’s right on-side?

Whether or not the DNC has their heads up their asses on their political strategy doesn’t lessen the reality that Harris has the potential to be pushed against Israel and has already signaled her disapproval of Netanyahu or that Trump has come out and told the genocidal monster to ‘finish the job’.

Israel’s treatment of Palestine has certainly been unacceptable for much longer than Biden’s presidency, but their current bout of genocide is much more recent. The DNC has been faced with a political decision about whether it’s a greater risk to alienate centrist Israel supporters or leftist Palestine supporters in an election year when the literal collapse of any semblance of American democracy is on the table. The stakes, domestically, literally could not be higher. If we lose, it’s likely to end in either a generation of extreme fascist authoritarianism or outright civil war to prevent it. We’re very likely to have two supreme court seats coming up in this next term, which would give Trump five appointments to the supreme court, as well as the opportunity to dismantle any semblance of anything good the US has achieved in the past generation.

Biden was faced with an impossible choice, and so is Harris. But that danger will literally evaporate on November 6th. At that point, a narrow margin of support isn’t a matter of life or death for the preservation of some semblance of American democracy.

The US has overwhelming military dominance and an incredible potential for force projection. That power falling into the hands of a fascist who cozies up to the world’s worst dictators would be an absolute disaster for the entire world. Unimaginable as it may be with the current atrocities being committed by Israel, it would be worse for Palestine. It would be worse for everyone.

Trump was bad enough the first time around, but he didn’t have the agenda he does now. He didn’t have a Republican party ready to burn down any chance of the US having legitimate governance in the next half-century without a civil war.

Trump winning at this point would be a global catastrophe.

When the storm has passed, we can at least try to pressure Harris. Is it guaranteed? No. But Trump is guaranteed to make it much much worse.

Harris at least snubbed Netanyahu. That’s a better sign than we’re seeing from anyone else in the running for office.

Do you think we’d have had more success pushing Trump left in 2020?

Harris may be able to be pressured to take a morally justifiable position on Israeli war crimes after the election is over. Trump most certainly will not, and will cheer on the genocide.

Jill Stein will do nothing, because she will not win.

It also means the entirety of the EU’s governments would be susceptible to the same vulnerabilities and bugs, and would share the same dependencies. Given recent issues with bad actors taking control of small but essential repos, this seems like a potentially dangerous security flaw.

The “can” in this title is pretty disingenuous.

Scifi aging poorly is honestly a plus. I love sci-fi that contains incidental retro-futurism. Super high tech but everyone uses tape cassettes and coin operated everything? Sign me up. High tech but for some reason the style choices are all 20 years old?. Yes please.

So this means the UN will remove Israel’s status as a member nation and officially recognize Palestine, right? … Right?!?

What I find not only strange, but extremely suspect, is that people who acknowledge that reddit has been heavily astroturfed deny up and down that it’s also happening here.

Weird way to frame it! Is this post sponsored by Comcast?

You joined 11 days ago and your comment history includes you using slurs, saying you’re racist, and warning against “turning mental illness into an identity war like LGBTQ”. Now you’ve made a thread saying you “secretly” hope Trump gets elected so that “radicalized” people will suffer.

Somebody out here quacking like a duck.

Honestly I’m considering just using Windows server 2022. I’ve got it running on my dedi and it’s great. I don’t see any reason not to just install it on my pc too.