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Still think that there is a law of diminishing returns as we push the hard limits of physics.

We have Facebook but not colonies on Mars because digital technology was so much easier and actually lucrative. But that will hit its peak too.

Anybody get it to play with proton? What a time to be alive. In some sense anyway.

This is a really badly written article. Like a really stupid boomer rant.

Flash forward to 2025 and the real thing motivating the move to Linux is the enshittification of windows not some embrace of privacy netsec culture. The kid’s aren’t just computer illiterate, they are illiterate illiterate.

Hot take but teaching kids to code or use computers beyond being specific accessibility aids isn’t a good use of their time. They should be building neurons and confidence with a pen and paper. Learning any technology is easy once you understand the principles of how it should work, stay calm, read the fucking manual and think critically about the problem your trying to solve.

My beloved opensuse better be left alone.

Ok that’s 0.5% of phone users sorted

The human brain only needs 20 watts.

“Omarchy is an omakase distribution based on Arch Linux and the tiling window manager Hyprland. It ships with everything a modern software developer needs to be productive immediately from Neovim (btw) to Spotify, Chromium to Typora, and Alacritty to LibreOffice. Hell, even Zoom is there!”

Holy smokes, gee wiz, what dorks

GenAI is a listical eight ball

In a slow way the internet nay sayers are right. AI slop is only part of it. Plenty of humans are also making easily consumed content gruel chasing the algorithm.

I really don’t like people’s nostalgia for the old web. Like try creating your own enclaves sure but realise it was always a voluntary thankless effort. What little we still got is amazing considering how many people sink hundreds of thousands of hours into YouTube slop or league of legends or whatever. Or how hard it is to self host with everybody trying to harass or scam webmasters.

I copy and paste mp3s like it’s 2005

Honestly this is it. I have an old laptop just for sims 2 that works offline. And 99% of cybersecurity is just not falling for obvious social engineering.

I guarantee they will go all Stalinist for this and invest everything. They want to live without needing the proletarian so bad.

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How big are these soy beans?

“We love the royals and William and Kate and it’s so exciting they are moving to Forest Lodge. It’s clear this car park closure has not come from them, but is down to security concerns.”

Sometimes I think republican is just an empty word. But it’s really an important state of mind.

Seriously think barter is a myth. Can’t think of a more inefficient way to navigate anything.

It looks like anti-migrant rage bait, it probably is. But Ukranians are treated so much better then other migrants with full welfare and a right to work. Come from anywhere else outside the EU on you are either in a glorified concentration camp or sleeping on the streets waiting out your application. Centerist politicians will excuse it because of their European christian heritage.

Every step will be made a excruciatingly slow as possible because they hope you somehow have money to make the flight home to warn everybody there. Meanwhile stormtroopers on the streets will constantly verbally abuse you, set fire to your tents, glass you or beat you to a pulp. If somebody volunteers to help you, they are doxed and piled on by bots 24/7, their family are piled on. These volunteers often have to scrub their online identity and flee the country themselves.

If you don’t have the money the fly home and you have no possible way to raise it then you will be forcibly deported with your family. Their school mates will watch your kids be bundled into vans by what might as well as be sexual predators. You will be surrounded by police boarding the plane, the same police who ignored the years of abuse you got and probably engaged in some of it off-duty. This multi-million euro single deportation of you and your family will be heralded by countries most likely next leader as “value for money”.

This is in Ireland. One of the countries idealised on hexbear because our spineless politicans made some uncomfortable meaingless noises about Palestine to cynically distract us from the fact that they are letting kids get crushed by their own spines. Their supporters have peak redditor energy, all they think about is national defense from a country that has to tow it’s aircraft carriers. And some integral part of that national defense is not patrolling our seas but sending soldiers without UN approval to fight Frances wars in Africa.

The US needs a century of humiliation so badly.

Tech is a such a distraction. Wish Google did this ten years ago.

Sometimes I worry if I am more of an economic nationalist when I look at stuff like this.