spend

spendING. Who let the used car salesmen in here?

singleplayer

It’s a hyphen, Skippy. Learn to use it.

Countries outside of the US are sick and tired of paying for what they see as untrustworthy American-dominated software-as-a-service (SaaS).

SJVn is so hit-and-miss for tech clue, but this resonated.

Canada is a country outside of the US. Can we get on the notion of independence and digital sovereignty yet, or are we still gonna chain our junk flotilla to this Titanic? And when it goes down, will Millhouse still be complaining about how slow we sink?

Damn. Maybe poliestre was right, and we should have given the money to rich bastards instead to get some of the scraps from that table.

“War does not determine who is right. It only determines who is left.”

Absolutely this.

33 years in Linux, 30+ professionally, Unix+Linux security background in a past life at a fucking distro.

When I first install a new distro version, I do something very simple; maybe I configure a simple web page, for instance.

Usually the web server refuses to start, or something equally “so dumb it should have been seen in early testing and doesn’t even get to the challenge I set before it” stupid. If the distro can’t test something so basic, then I know they’re not prepared to consider selinux implications while maintaining or debugging the distro. I don’t need to blaze a trail the distro can’t be arsed to.

Then I mod away the config in my template and hope the distro can pull out their proverbial head in 5 years.

The easiest path needs to be the safest path

5kg of c4

overkill. Shitty shotgun loaded with a slug. Hit it at the right spot.

…then pick a smarter audience?

It’s funny how Ai is trying to lump itself into a datacenters-in-general issue or a general tech issue. It’s neither.

It’s not anti-tech: it’s anti-Ai .

atleast

at least

Im on Lemmy specifically to not have ads.

That seems to be a topic a little orthogonal to the current one.

Nevertheless, how should Lemmy sites remain online? Is it the ads you hate, or the algorithm that prioritized revenue over your experience? If you hate the algorithm, that’s understandable; but if you want to use a service without kicking anything in - viewing interspersed ads or paying a subscription - that suggests some hypocrisy that I’d rather not assume exists.

So what kind of subscription did you negotiate, and can we sign up as well?

Exactly: cross the floor.

seems unfinished

We keep electing wolves in sheep’s clothing who win our votes on fake promises to help us then turn against us and double down on policies that make life more difficult and increase our level of misery.

You’re expecting a perfect candidate. This is not how politics works. You need to reject the worst party at every turn until they’re dead, and the window shifts a little more toward “dispensing collected resources as per the wishes of the people” kind of management. It’s not gonna happen overnight.

But if you’re suggesting it’s all fucked regardless of whom we elect, then I suspect you’re in one of those areas who get gaslit a LOT and are used to politicians immediately going back on everything after the election. Lougheed wasn’t the first and he definitely wasn’t the last. I bet you don’t have a coastline.

Right now, voting is more “harm reduction” than “great strides”, even if the latter’s required. We’re just not getting that kind of leader, so our choice is between “harm reduction” and “faux-ristocracy”.

At least we can protest the one we got over the idiot idea of the week.

I do partially blame minimum wage as that lets companies openly collude on underpaying workers too (well we only legally have to pay X so we’ll pay that much).

To argue that it’s at fault because shitty owners pay only so much diverts from the fact that we needed a law to get them to even pay that much.

Review the conditions and wages before we had laws about them.

False. I’m a decade out and I’m mostly still enjoying the learning and the challenge of it all.

Do what ya love and you’ll never work a day in your life.

[Edited to correct sleepy-eyed typing; sorry]

This assumes everything is valid on the external. If one slop cluster feeds off another - a slopveyor? - then there is nothing external for the validation hall-monitor to compare against. They’re trusting another model’s output as if it were gospel.

YSK: as a mass noun, ‘spyware’ doesn’t need the indefinite article. We don’t say “a happy”, for instance, and we heckle those who say “a software”.

birdwatching

Written by the BBC, who can’t seem to find the hyphen key?

spend

Was the site built by coke-addled used-car salesmen on their break?