I like the bit where they wheel in the equivalent amount of data in stacks of punch cards, and the hard drive takes up more space.

(Not fair I know because they didn’t show the punch card reader, but the bits on these platters must be ridiculously large.)

RAID0 doesn’t give you any protection or redundancy, just speed.

They’re not talking about the language of the Fox presenters. They’re talking about the journalists who report on what the Fox presenters said.

Please don’t tell Keir Starmer.

Went there to update my password but got reminded what a horrible experience Plex is these days, so deleted my account instead.

I disabled all animations in Android after the recent announcement of a vulnerability in which invisible animations could be used to trick users into unwitting actions. The sudden transitions without animation were a bit odd at first, but I was surprised how much faster and more responsive the phone feels with animations turned off. I like it better this way and feel no need to turn them back on.

He said the code that came out was slow, but Rust always ranks within the top handful of languages for speed, so I’m taking that comment with a big pinch of salt. Among popular systems languages only C and C++ really beat Rust for speed. So you get better memory safety for the price of a pretty small decrease in speed and a steeper learning curve for the compiler’s picky rules (though the compiler gives you lots of clear help). Rust programmers know this.

Ah, that makes more sense, sadly enough.

I’ve had good luck with Antix on very old machines.

Is this a sign that he now realizes his criticisms were invalid? That would be a rare moment of rationality from a Trump administration official.

“My mom lives paycheck to paycheck and if the AC breaks down in the summer and you can’t afford to fix it, you will die here. My dad proves that.”

Just another day in the USA.

Then you will still find MAS useful.

US builds up forces in Caribbean as officials, experts, ask why

It’s fascist eugenics and they all see themselves as the Übermensch. They’re really ignorant but too ignorant to see it, and their wealth and the way they surround themselves with like-minded people and ass-kissers ensures they’ll never learn.

Also, their whole sense of self-worth ties in with the story that they got where they are through merit, not luck. And the willingness of society to listen to success stories of the wealthy and ignore stories of the non-wealthy means they benefit from its myth-making and financial survivorship bias.

Epstein clearly had other deeply messed up shit going on too though.

Leaked emails show that Epstein was using Barak to seek out opportunities in the surveillance industry and build connections with powerful figures around the globe, including American businessman Peter Thiel, the former director of Israeli signals intelligence, and two people in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s circle. … Meanwhile, he invested his wealth in bizarre projects, including a ranch to breed women with his DNA and “efforts to identify a mysterious particle that might trigger the feeling that someone is watching you,” according to The New York Times.

Whole new dimensions of creepiness from Trump’s best friend.

Doesn’t matter whether people buy it when their views have no effect on government policy. It seems many governments are simultaneously deciding to require ID to use the internet, and you have to suspect it’s coordinated.

I think we neee to protest, but we also need to work hard to set up more robust ways to use at least the non-corporate web anonymously. If it’s left to governments we’ll get to the point where only licensed corporate publishers are allowed to run a website and only licensed users can access it.

Actually, I’d be surprised if the US govt didn’t already have access to twitter.

Edward Snowden basically proved they did with his revelation of the PRISM program plus the NSA’s use of backdoors in 2013.

American progress in a nutshell.

Some people are untouchable because wealthy. They’re only kidnapping the poors.

Screwed just means you’ll have to turn off Secure Boot if you ever want to reinstall Linux. And on many PCs the Secure Boot has been so badly implemented it’s pretty worthless anyway. Several of mine have a root key called something like “AMI TEST KEY - DO NOT TRUST” which basically invalidates the whole system and is unfixable by the user.