I started using it 'cause I was working with a lot of Linux nerds and they convinced me to try it out. I liked the politics of the GPL and the potential in the Free ecosystem.

25 years later I refuse to use anything else. Windows & Mac are built to take options away from you, to force you do is your hardware their way, and I hate it. My machine does exactly what I want it to, with hundreds of keyboard shortcuts and a solid UI built atop transparent subsystems. Windows ties my hands while pushing ads and AI into my emails. Mac only “Just Works” if you’re using it precisely the way that wasnt you to and exclusively with other iShit. No thanks.

Thank you for this. It’s positively infuriating the way the left keeps eating itself. There is no way the establishment will let socialism take root in the Democratic party, but there’s real value in moving the Overton window to the left enough to allow people to see either the benefits of socialist policies or (more likely) the opposition to it.

The whole “fuck these guys, they’re not revolutionary enough” is a great way to ensure that nothing ever gets done.

We should absolutely have red lines though. Some of these candidates already cross them, and even more candidates may be all talk. But shitting all over anyone who dares to do anything other than launch an unpopular resistance is not constructive.

As this is your first go, I’d recommend not tinkering with USE flags at all. Take the defaults, find what you don’t like, and consider tweaks later. USE flags can end up like a sort of “dependency hell”, with one package not working correctly because it expects another package to have something you’ve excluded. It’s uncommon, but frustrating when it happens. It’s best to start with the defaults.

I suppose the most important thing to have post-apocalypse is a copy of Wikipedia.

You might want to look into Gemini (not Google’s “AI” offering, despite the name). It’s an internet protocol for sharing text-only communication. There’s a whole community out there working with it.

There’s something deeply infuriating about a politician citing climate change and energy security as priorities in the same breath as promoting LNG and carbon capture as solutions.

He either doesn’t understand the problem, or he’s hoping we don’t. Both options make him a terrible leader.

Edit: and now I’m at the point where he’s saying that the path to transition is through a period of increased emissions because the shock would be too great. Now where have I heard that before?

Oh right, the last 30 years. Somehow, choosing not to burn the planet is something “Future Canada” will have to do. “Present Canada” is always willing to screw over future generations if it means making fossil companies richer.

This is the typical defence for copyright. It’s also innacurate to the point of being intellectually dishonest. It ignores the reality of capitalism where legal protections only exist for people and corporations that have the money/power to get what they want.

Your Thing™ example would be cloned and sold on Amazon by a broad range of fly-by-night companies, and that’s if you’re lucky. If you’re unlucky, Amazon will clone it themselves, obfuscate your product in its search results, and sell your product under their brand, sometimes even for more than you’re selling it.

If your Thing™ isnt a physical product but rather something creative, then 99 times out of 100, there are only really two paths available to you:

In the lucky case you sell your copyright to a third party that exploits it (and you), offering you a pittance while simultaneously tying your hands, preventing you from creating derivative works or even just giving it away… for the res t of your life, and that of your kids’. In the unlucky case, you can’t afford to promote your product, so you toil for years with little to no reward for your work. Then AI techbros scrape your art and sell it back to you exclusively for their profit.

Copyright has some great marketing, but it offers you little while the rich claim ownership over your art, and our society.

Those rights are yours. They’re only denied to you because of copyright and capitalism.

I’ve been using the FOSS version of Kvaesitso and I quite like it.

I like this alot.

How would you reset the timer whenever input is detected though?

Look kids! He’s relatable! He likes ${SPORT}! Pay no attention to how deeply he’s screwing you!

They don’t need to do either of those things. They just buy the legislation they want.

I’ve had a really hard time figuring out how to get cloud native pg working 'cause I couldn’t get longhorn working for disk space.

So instead I went with a separate Raspberry Pi that isn’t part of the cluster to host a single Postgres instance.

It’s inelegant, but has worked for years. Still, I’d rather host a separate pg instance for each project… I just have to figure the above out first.

I’d settle for not aiding the cause.

Ferengi rule of aquision #285: “No good deed ever goes unpunished”.

As Trudeau once said: “I’ve been called worse things by better people”.

Neat project, but it appears to be using (L)GPL code in a bunch of places while being licensed under MIT. That’s a big no-no.

This reminds me of an excellent video I saw about “AI” the other day: “We are so deeply steeped in bullshit that we have forgotten that there used to be such a thing as ‘truth’”. It’s long, but maybe you’ll like it too.

There’s no grey in the science. We’re burning the world, and attempts to sound enlightened with platitudes doesn’t change that.