https://archive.is/JrMHl

In Chinese, affirmation is often compiled through negation:

没错 (méi cuò) = “not wrong” = Right

不差 (bù chà) = “not bad” = Decent

还行 (hái xíng) = “still passable” = Okay

没事 (méi shì) = “no problem” = It’s fine

In English, this feels bizarre. If something is good, you say:

Nice

Great

Perfect

Brilliant

You name the quality directly. You point at it. You own it.

In American positivity-laden, self-marketing, businessy English perhaps. But in the UK “not bad”, “could be worse”, “not wrong”, “can’t complain”, “I’ve had worse” and so on is often as positive as it gets, or at least was for a long time. American positive-speak gets on British people’s nerves; it’s perceived as boorish, boastful and unsubtle. And “no problem” is common in English all over. British people do say “brilliant” but only when they’re being unusually enthusiastic, or fake, or sarcastic.

Their agenda sounds good but apparently they’ve acted a bit shadily in various ways.

https://drewdevault.com/2025/10/22/2025-10-22-Whats-up-with-FUTO.html

I have no idea how he manages to do so many things so well. Some people just seem to be built like that.

Another case of AI = Actually Indians.

Benn Jordan’s video on Flock is worth a watch.

Fortified with vitamins and cancer.

It’s a good time to preserve old hardware and the software that will run on it. If all these price crunches have a silver lining, I hope it’s that they motivate people to resist the pressure from tech corporations to be constantly upgrading.

Fixed link

The Infinite Mac site linked from this story is also impressive, and runs the actual OSes.

The NYT has evidently decided its task is to undermine Mamdani steadily and gradually through the spin it puts on daily reports.

Lol, I’ve corrected that now. An OCR Freudian slip.

Shame about the black ones.

What are you referring to here?

Just for convenience (since it’s hard to read the screenshot on a phone), here’s the text:

GrapheneOS is being heavily targeted by the French state because we provide highly secure devices and won’t include backdoors for law enforcement access. They’re conflating us with companies selling closed source products using portions of our code. Both French state media and corporate media are publishing many stories attacking the GrapheneOS project based on false and unsubstantiated claims from French law enforcement. They’ve made a clear threat to seize our servers and arrest our developers if we do not cooperate by adding backdoors. Due to this, we’re leaving France and leaving French service providers including OVH. We need substantial help from the community to push back against this across platforms. People malicious towards us are also using it as an opportunity to spread libel/harassment content targeting our team, raid our chat rooms and much more. /e/ and iodéOS are both based in France, and are both actively attacking GrapheneOS. /e/ receives substantial government funding. Both are extremely non-private and secure which is why France is targeting us while those get government funding. We need a lot more help than usual and we’re sending our the first ever notification to everyone on the server because this is a particularly bad situation. If people help us, it will enable us to focus more on development again including releasing experimental Pixel 10 releases very soon.

Do they have to take the Texans?

Yes but it’s surprisingly convincing given how it actually works. It’s more impressive than useful, and it’s a huge waste of energy.

https://archive.ph/LFrKt

Functionally it’s good and fast. Privacy-wise I would recommend at least encrypting the files before uploading. Cryptomator would help if your friend is willing to use it. VeraCrypt volumes also work, and they sync quickly because Dropbox is smart enough to only update the bits of the volume file that have changed.

If you’re looking for something similar but not US-based, pCloud is good and allows you to save the data in Europe. But encrypt your files there too.

What benefits are you thinking of?

It’s what everyone does. Which doesn’t make all interpretations equal, but anyone who tries to live according to that book is picking and choosing and interpreting in some way.

Meeting people face to face is often a pretty good way to get over hangups about them. The closer you are to a person the harder it is to remain bigoted about them. I hope this will have some positive effect.

Edit: where I live there are Catholic schools that are explicit about being pro-LGBTQ+, with big pride flags on display and a policy of supporting gay and trans kids against bullying and discrimination. I have known trans kids that were happy at these schools. Their school may not be changing the official stance of the Vatican, and we might rather not have Christian schools at all, but I still think it’s worthwhile and important that a Catholic school makes explicit these messages of support and respect for its students. Even without the Catholic church officially progressing, a good number of Catholics and Catholic institutions are.