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The sabotage narrative did feel weak when I was listening to Natasha Bernal talking. Its probably not sabotage, its just their data is wank and the employees aren’t paid enough to care to fix it.

Good. It is morally and ethically the right thing to do. Also, did you know it is ethically and morally correct to firebomb datacenters? They're being used for structural violence, and are basically piñatas.

You can get fucked in this thread too.

Curl does exactly one thing and it does it very well. Systemd aspires to do all the things and does nothing very well.

I don’t remember anyone -asking- for systemd, I just remember being subjected to it at the time it started getting popular. If systemd is the solution, I want my problem back.

its the default, its the default everywhere, nobody is changing that configuration because systemd is a massive blob of nonsense. Why is it the default?

binlogs suck ass, you can’t convince me otherwise. Its slow and shite. Continue to suck.

Thats wild, I’m used to zero rating on basic food goods in the UK. Unless its chocolate. That’s taxable. Unless its a chocolate cake, thats a basic food again. But a chocolate biscuit attracts tax. Which was the whole thing about jaffa cakes and their tax status was about. Its a cake, therefore a basic food.

Catering, Alcohol, confectionary, crisps and snacks, hot food, sports drinks, ice cream and soft drinks are taxed.

Its all a bit complicated, but the more you can imagine someone eating it in 1910 the more likely its zero rated.

well, yeah, duh.

It is exactly configured as default.

Oh look, someone arguing that their lived experience is different to my lived experience, therefore mine is wrong. 🤡👞

I have. Never had your machine just sit there and refuse to boot because a network share is down? Or because the wifi isn’t connected yet? Or because its waiting on some nebulous thing until timeout… Never had to crawl through journalctl to diagnose things and wanted to claw your own eyes out in frustration? You are a fortunate person.

Its built antithetically to the unix principles, it uses binlogs, its slow and its a big ol’ bloated mess on low-memory embedded devices, and seemingly is creeping into the whole system. Also the original author has since fucked off to microslop so I don’t care what he thinks or does. It, as a project, also bent the fucking knee.

Gee mister I bet you sure do love paying phat margins on commodity goods. To quote Allan Sugar, you've bought in to the mugs eyeful.

and its STILL insultingly expensive for what it is. A laptop with one of the worst modern keyboards with a dated ARM phone soc.. Where have I heard that before. If the pinebook can exist for $200 in tiny volumes, the macbook with its massive production volume is absolutely a slap in the face. The BOM on that thing can't be more than $200-250 even with the wasteful packaging and marketing. That should be filling the $399 space the eee pc laptops did. The costs should have diminished down by now.

Go ask the robot to bang your wife for you.

Groceries have taxes? I assumed basic groceries were zero rated everywhere.

Prescott shall remain untouched, of course.

I like their christ, less the christians.

I was just imagining that situation and thought to myself that if only people were both cool and smooth enough to make casual unjudgemental conversation with the preacherman in the checkout line in that moment.. What a world we could live in, if only everyone could stop being shitty to one another.

I recently got allocated an m5 macbook. They last like 15 minutes before they’re chipped and scratched, the version of Bash they ship is a million years old, the UI is a fucking mess. Package management is a mess. The walled garden is a mess. I have had to brew this and fix my path for that just to have a working environment. This is ignoring the soldered on RAM bullshit. Can you even do memmap= to recover from bad soldered ram on a macbook or does it just become ewaste? They sound nice and they feel nice until they’re scratched. Also the keyboards are heinous. If Jobs was alive, he’d be punching people for re-inventing Vista Aero. I thought the UI was supposed to be good. Fuck these devices.

Mmm butlerian jihad, it is calling me.

Short of a botnet

Well, yeah. Or a browser extension that can be circulated.

Generating images and video are hella computationally expensive. requesting it to make millions of junk images will make a non-zero economic impact.

Its also why sora got killed off.

The carbon intensity wont make the product go away, but the economic cost will.

flipside: Using it costs elon money. we should be attacking his wallet by asking Grok more banal questions.

Right now its hard not to see them in a good light based on their targeting, the things they're saying and the things they're doing. That cannot be said for the americans.

They’re not useful tools.

its all a pissing contest between people we really aught to hang from the rafters… The consequences of their pissbaby behaviour is ours to bare. We should be making soup out of them.

If I recall, it was something Ed Zitron said but I can't find the quote, so it might not be. The implication that the cost of delivering that $20 user account was approximately $1800 worth of compute.

They wanted companies to normalise a dollar spend on tokens equivalent to half a dev salary per dev.

They want to pay you in it too

Its not consumers they charge. They were talking about businesses budgeting about 50% of a developer salary per developer on tokens. A consumer $20 claude code account gets about $1800 worth of tokens, iirc.

The venture capital is just piles of money in other rich peoples pockets. As I understand it, the AI bubble is funded by massive amounts of saudi oil money anyway. Its kinda like the jokers cash bonfire, but its Sam Altman pleading for more of it while eagerly dousing it in gasoline.

Gnome 3 was a fad anyway

I'm quite a fan of endevour, as its just arch with a pretty installer and they occasionally update the space backgrounds.

What software do you -need- to work? Going into it with the mindset of finding the linux workflow instead of forcing your prior workflow is the path of (least resistance|greatest productivity)

I’ll have to take your word for it. I can’t be bothered setting up quassel.

I think this is an excellent idea, alas I don’t know anyone from lobste.rs and I just cannot be bothered with going on IRC in 2026, so I guess I don’t get an invite

Last time I checked someone stole all their data and it was only 300TB. Data is cheap. Even cheaper when its peer to peer.

My killer feature is I can’t be banned for saying Peter Thiel should be turned into soup thrice.