Got no valuable secrets but if anyone wants to hire me and pay me a few million a year, stock etc I’m fine with keeping my dick in my pants. Its really not that difficult if you take your marriage and job seriously.

You can buy a serious amount of focus, discipline and keeping dick in pants for a fraction of what these CEOs take home.

I am currently running a shell built with quickshell, which is built with QtQuick with a language called QML which is like a declarative javascript for UI which can also include javascript. There is no escape. Not sure young people know how to write native UI anymore and the native desktop UI got neglected for years as all the money went into web and mobile.

There is a difference between writing a whole application in a scripting language and using it as intended for customizing the behavior.

I ran sid in serious production when I was younger and more foolish. The trick with unstable distributions is to test before you deploy and know the incompatibilities and have the fixes ready in advance. The problem is you are basically taking a snapshot approach and doing the work of the debian release system yourself and doing it half-arsed. An urgent security update comes out and you can’t rush to deploy it without risking a dependency being pulled in that breaks under your config. For servers it ends up being a huge amount of work for no gain and you can actually miss out on security updates.

BTW this approach is why Valve can release Steam OS based on Arch or Google can base ChromeOS on Gentoo and release them to millions of consumers safely. They freeze updates to create a release candidate and test it and they deploy a limited subset of packages.

At home I update one arch desktop machine to work out what breaks, how to fix it and seed the package cache on our server before I do the rest and break everyone’s systems. I could do the same with Sid but Arch, despite being unstable intentionally isn’t all that unreliable compared with Sid though my experience with Sid is dated.

I only ever deploy and develop on Debian. Community run distros all the way. I had bad experiences with Redhat decades ago and do everything I can to avoid it or its siblings.

Debian has faults but it is often a taste thing. I like systems that give me upstream with minimal patches, like Arch. I moved to Arch on all desktops/laptops. The Debian devs repeatedly doing dumb shit with ssh patches was part of that. Arch is not unreliable but it is unstable. All that means is that software updates which aren’t backwards compatible sometimes require intervention . To be clear that is not a fault with Arch but it does make it much less suitable for long hassle free server deployments. Also Arch doesn’t have the Debian security announce list or maintain a stable production environment for years with backported security fixes and unnattended security updates.

Always surprised by music critics/industry types using their data as an indication of artist popularity. It has been generations since real music fans moved to a combination of piracy and directly supporting new artists with merch, vinyl and live shows. I suspect most spotify listeners aren’t music fans. It is just something they have on as the background soundtrack to their bland consumerist lives.

The Linux kernel team has a policy that all bugs are potential security threats and should be assigned a CVE. That does not mean these CVEs are exploitable. Many will be for features that aren’t even enabled on typical systems.

LLMs are allowing researchers to locate known classes of bugs more easily than an exhaustive search with other tools. Security researchers are driving the bus here. Not the tech companies or their products. Don’t believe the marketing hype. The tech companies want us to be dependent on subscriptions to their products and deskilling is part of their agenda. Good stuff is coming from security researchers using expertise and tooling.

Some of them are AI slop. But also people are extremely impressionable and ready to sign up to a cause and there is a bit of a cult forming around machine learning applications. There are weirdos ready to marry, serve and worship their delusions. Its not without precedent.

Already long gone. All streaming services are terrible value now. They all got too greedy.

Chattel slavery is the worst evil on a very, very long scale of evils inflicted on working people. It is so evil it stands apart. But it doesn’t make all the other labor abuses unimportant.

The plantation owners buy chattel slaves if you let them. You take them away and they import indentured labour. Take that away and they want convicts. Or illegal immigrants who can’t go to the authorities. Non-union labor. Wage theft. Casual workers on commission. Self employed contractors with no labor rights. Unpaid interns.

Stealing every word written, every note played, every picture painted by every human to exist shouldn’t be a surprise. The fact that this was done in lawful democratic societies under our noses is crazy. It should be causing an outrage. People are becoming worryingly disconnected and distracted.

The worst thing I think is that for so long we were told that working people could escape poverty and gain some control of their lives through education. Not much you could do for yourself working in a mine or factory but if your kids focus at school they can go to college and get a career. Don’t have to struggle like their parents. Buy a nice house. Raise a family. And the rug has been pulled out. The house isn’t happening. The family is on hold. Nobody is worried that AI has copied fine arts and literature from dead people. The problem is the impact on the living. It is another betrayal.

A youtuber with a large following bought a substantial share in GoPro. I think it is is a comment on how immature stans are subservient to their para-social relationships and throw their money at men they idealise instead of working to improve themselves. Comparing Markiplier with DHH is really unfair to Markiplier but its all the same weak minded exploitable herd behaviour. It doesn’t matter if you are a preacher, politician, con artist, influencer or OF model - manipulating fools seems to be part of the human condition.

WTF. Why not contribute to Arch, Cachy, KDE, Inkscape, Krita, Kdenlive etc. Omarchy is just a meme distro of half arsed dotfiles. How is hyprland better than Niri or Cosmic built on Smithay which are at least written in an over hyped safe modern language. Why are some d-list tech celebs dotfiles better than my quickshell config? And how about we sponsor something that would make a real difference to people like better accessibility in Gnome and KDE or is that too woke these days?

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A lot of tech bros who were deeply into crypto currency scams before they latched onto AI. There was a fair bit of anti-government feeling to that lot. Naturally scammers and criminals fear regulation. Now they arguably control the government it is more about retaining their influence. It can be difficult to separate self interest and politics with the rich. I think amongst average people distrust of AI is fairly split across political divides but that might change with funded, targeted campaigns.

Never see them inject performance enhancing drugs either but modern physiques are impossible without them.

The land lines got replaced by digital services in many places. A VoIP service isn’t a real landline. I couldn’t get a real land line if I wanted one.

Murdoch? Putin? Bibi? The AI/tech bros? The list is crazy long.

On the world stage the orange pedo clown is mostly a joke. I have a bottle chilling in the fridge for Murdoch.