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  • The declining birth rate isn’t going to hurt anyone alive today.

    Having a top heavy age demographic means less tax revenue will be split between more required services. There will also be fewer labourers with more labour requirements. The only ones it won’t hurt are the billionaires.

    It’s probably a good thing in the long run that human population is stabilising, but it’s going to be problematic until we get to that stable state.














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    10 months ago

    Asides from the kinda-shady crypto stuff and the other things that’ve already been mentioned, just philosophically it should be kinda evident that over-concentration on one corporate controlled rendering engine isn’t a good thing. Google wants the internet to be a walled garden with themselves as the sole decision makers so they can stuff ads down your throat.

    Gecko’s web compat is bad largely because of this over-concentration.


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    That is the default behaviour, but it’s pretty trivial to change. Also, I’d imagine the distro maintainer could choose to change the default settings as part of a post-install script, if they wanted to.

    Edit: Not sure why you’re being downvoted, as I do think it’s a valid concern.



  • Could someone perhaps explain the major use cases or give a real life example of a time you’ve needed to use awk? I’ve been using Linux casually for quite a long time now, and although I learned the basics of the tool, I can’t recall having ever felt I had a need for it. If I want to glue a bunch of cli stuff together and need to do some text processing, it generally seems like it’d be easier to just use a simple python script.

    Is it more for situations that need to be compatible with most *nix systems and you might not necessarily have access to a higher level scripting language?



  • The problem is that performant screenshare (to multiple users) more or less requires infrastructure. That requires money, and it’s impossible to compete on price with services that have the VC-enshitification model.

    You can get around this in a few ways, but they’re all tradeoffs that are in some way or other worse than discord.

    • P2P - sacrifice latency, reliability
    • direct multi-stream - sacrifice PC performance and/or bitrate
    • paid infrastructure - sacrifice money