should it be left wholly on parents to police the whole internet

Nope. Just their kids.

Like always.

They hate us first.

Source: lived there 8 years.

So Fetch

In all my servers I still have a cron->make routine running. It’s a hold-over from 20 years ago and the state of IaC back then, and it’s made its way onto every server I manage because it is simple and effective.

And it still does its job. 8 major RHEL releases later, and the thing it needs to do, it does.

Lennart would build 3 new daemons and link them all into dbus, I’m sure.

Stayed with FB despite Cambridge because Portal TV.

I’ll still maintain an account because Portal TV.

It’s a gorgeous product done wrong by meta and in need of a cloning.

Yeah. Threats are speech that attracts repercussions.

Appimages, flatpaks, snaps

Former OS security guy. Fuck no. Nope nope nope nope.

sold on the idea that billionaire philanthropy is somehow a good and positive thing for regular people.

He’s not wrong, but he’s judging occasional donations to particular issues as neither ineffective, incomplete, nor completely toxic to direction of research, because he judges them in a vacuum and/or against a fake goal-post of ‘no research funding’ instead of 'broad research funding based on income tax that rich fucks would have paid in a world before Reagan dropped the bottom out '.

The mating habits of cannabis-injected left-handed greater eastern blue potter’s snails will get no money from rich fucks, DESPITE its follow-on application to cancer cure research based on the secretion rate inprovement and or testing options derived from massive population explosions with a kill switch.

“The Taliban do not see women as human beings.”

Not many do.

Now what?

what has meta done that was good

Facebook Portal TV. What a great device: “call mom” and it calls on her TV where she can see whom it is instead of her tiny phone screen. The cam was good, it panned and zoomed to focus on the speaker really well, and the sound was great. It’s a small unit that also does zoom and prime and Netflix and Plex. The M assistant is good, but it basically leverages a built-in Alexa for external control.

Then Cambridge analytica. Every new review is like “this is an amazing device, but don’t get it because fuck Facebook.”

Now it’s been orphaned: voice control is busted. No apps updated or installed. But if you had the apps installed they still work. TV calling still works if my mom can find and figure the remote.

And there’s been no replacement tech, which makes this unit that much better than everything else since it’s peerless.

There ya go. We bought 1 and then 3 more for family just before COVID.

Depends: did lennart poettering write it? If so, they’ll jam it down our throats.

few of my workplaces have made use of Linux unfortunately.

Without the right punctuation, this reads as if they specifically used Linux in an unfortunate way.

You should use Linux in a fortunate way.

Oh, surely.

Wait. Non-profits looking to shepherd the upstream used by a dozen derivatives; that’s BAD now?

Whoa whoa. Let’s pick up the build of Mozilla’s ditched namesake and confirm a future there, and then maybe consider their next discard. Wait; who’s got tbird? Can we rescue that first? Get their trash in ‘tip’ order, anyway.

That’s a pretty unfair kneejerk without receipts.

I do. I will. Sorry it triggers ya.

Except, I won’t wait for an answer. In my job it just means a wall of text is incoming, so come back in like a minute.

It always weirded me out how people just repeated Russian propaganda.

The mean girls won.

Still requires docker?

Worst. Invasion. Evar.

Let’s all celebrate the fact that he and his people were apparently able to find Greenland, though.