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• Post #4324602

  this sounds like being proud of a western bias. we are the fortunate. it should be our duty to consider perspectives that have been disadvantaged and where information about this side of the internet doesn’t flow as freely as it does in the first-world culture. was saying “uneducated” wrong? sure. but who was responsible for the frustration and misunderstanding that led to using that word in the first place?

• Post #3248207

  are you saying that the marines were flying the air force?

• Post #2398838

  not exactly. if you’re worried about the differences between bash 3 and 5, you’re probably using some intermediate bash-exclusive features because that’s the headlining changes between these versions (google says associative arrays and new shellvars. even if zsh has equivalent features, the syntax would be different.) it’s only “guaranteed” to run fine in both shells if the shebang ends in /sh to call the POSIX shell without any bash- or zsh- specific features. it isn’t available anywhere els...

• Inside the Systemd Age Verification Debate: Developer Responds to Criticism

  I draw the line at when a third party internet-connected service is doing validation of ID. Let’s be honest though, I strongly believe such a thing isn’t possible on a FOSS operating system environment unless they could control what was bootable on the device at a firmware level, enforce signatures to ensure that you couldn’t boot something unrestricted, remove the ability to be root, and block LD_PRELOAD so signals couldn’t be faked. There’s probably more ways to circumvent that. What I’m try...

• special containment procedures

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…/American_politics

• Post #244331

  Around January 11, 2026, archive.today (aka archive.is, archive.md, etc) started using its users as proxies to conduct a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against Gyrovague, my personal blog. All users encountering archive.today’s CAPTCHA page currently load and execute the following Javascript: Posting this here since the dispute was started over a PII concern.