NaibofTabr

He could easily be linked to one of the many Russian internet influence campaigns.

No collusion!

So, they’re delusional.

If you are interested in maintaining your OS as an ongoing and constant project, go with Arch. You will learn a lot about Linux, and about system administration in general. You will also have entire days where you are unable to do anything productive with your computer because the last update broke userspace again and you can either spend a lot of time troubleshooting your specific problem, or spend a lot of time reinstalling and reconfiguring your system.

If your computer is more than just a hobby platform and you need to use it regularly for any kind of productivity, go with Debian. Set it and forget it.

Either way, off-system file backups are recommended.

Just do AI therapy!

It will tell you you’re great, and you won’t have to risk any emotional vulnerability with a real person!

shred, then compost

https://archive.org/details/GorillasQbasic

You can also play it in your browser:

https://classicreload.com/play/qbasic-gorillas.html

Well… the first colleges were established to train clergy, because reading and writing were rare skills at the time, and there was a demand for trained clergy who worked as clerks, accountants and record keepers for nobles who could not themselves read or write, which I think just circles back to the workforce productivity thing.

This is also true for Confucian schools in China. The students were not clergy in the religious sense, but they learned reading, writing and tradition in order to become useful administrators for local rulers.

Hmm, depending on whose opinion you listen to, education systems have always been built around workforce productivity:

RSA ANIMATE: Changing Education Paradigms

“… the current system was structured for a different age. It was conceived in the intellectual culture of the enlightenment, and in the economic circumstances of the industrial revolution
[…]
it was driven by an economic imperative of the time
[…]
we have a system of education that is modeled on the interests of industrialism, and in the image of it.”

Striking is a revolutionary act and it should be normalized

An action (any action) cannot be normal and revolutionary. These are antitheses.

I am… actually not clear on whether you are referring to my comment, or the comment I was responding to.

If you were referring to me, I want to say that I’m not looking down on the potential good, I am criticizing the framing of unionizing as revolutionary. I think talking about it this way is a mistake, the kind that is made by people who want politics to be exciting, who find discussions of good policy to be boring. This kind of framing supports the narrative of the owner class who try to imply that striking workers are unreasonable violent malcontents.

Good policy should be boring. Unionization should be as mundane as arranging direct deposit for your paycheck when you start a job. It should be just another form that you fill out for HR. It should be normal. Employers should expect that their employees will participate in collective bargaining, and should be treated as unreasonable nutjobs if they speak (or take action) against it.

This probably seems like it makes sense when you’re a teenager, but most people with children want a stable society and a reliable income.

Please, we need your help. Our research suggests you’re the last living descendant of the person who knew how to format this config file.

What’s scary about this is that we’re basically already at this point with things like Voyager. The only way to solve problems on the probes is to upload new code to them. Some of the folks who fixed the communication problem in 2024 are well beyond retirement age; some of the folks that designed the Voyager probes are dead and gone.

As @tal@lemmy.today pointed out, TCP/IP was standardized in 1982. The knowledge of the people who built the founding protocols of the Internet is fading, and here in 2026 the system built on top has grown so complex that no one really understands all of it. If you thought link rot was bad, just wait, in a decade or so we’re going to see some serious infrastructure rot. The Internet will increasingly have the kind of legacy problems that Windows does, where Microsoft is forced to sustain old bad features because users are dependent on them. We can’t even get rid of TLS 1.0. There are still telnet endpoints exposed to the Internet, in production use.

Considering that they hired Wine devs and basically said “keep doing what you’re already doing” to build Proton… yes.

If I give you my page and tell you to enter your credit card details in, why would you do it?

Because I’m paying for something?

Why do people need to tell everything to the agreeing website?

I don’t know, it’s probably circumstantial.

Probably a lot of the data being shared is from chats, but not necessarily all of it. We know that OpenAI scrapes the Internet at large for training data, which would include data sets of publicly leaked PII (such as the OPM breach). It’s entirely possible that the data OpenAI is sharing about users was not given to them voluntarily by those users, but has simply been aggregated, analyzed and correlated by their AI tools.

If that’s how they learn not to share intimate and personal data with the billionaires, then that’s how they learn.

Let’s not engage in blaming the victims.

There’s no reason to treat the behavior of these corporations as if it were normal and inevitable, like they were a force of nature or something. Put all the blame where it belongs, on the people running these companies.

I don’t like this take, because labor unionization should be seen as a completely normal activity for workers and not a form of revolution.

Plants are friends, not food!

wrap it up