They should get their lawyer on that.

Great point! They do vary wildly by style and subject matter, while all being masterful IMHO. Incredible talent.

I mean, fair. All great books!

The Culture by Ian M. Banks. It’s a little difficult to approach, but an incredible exploration of Sci-Fi, humanity, AI, and life in general. Unlike a lot of other great Sci-Fi (like The Expanse, which I also highly recommend) it’s gritty, but overall The Culture is a hopeful and optimistic take on the progress of humanity and technology.

The best books are The Player of Games, Look to Windward, and Excession.

Depending on how you’re feeling, I think you can skip The State of the Art, Matter, and Inversions, though they’re worth an eventual read. They’re just less connected to the main Culture story.

It’s a series that truly changed me and my perspective on life.

I can promise you it isn’t the engineers fucking up Boeing. It’s the old macdonald-douglas management / exec team.

Which might make an even better comedy honestly.

Different caller, same question.

The BSDs I’ve used are extremely well documented and cohesive. No basic tools or functions are missing and everything works very simply and together as a whole. The tooling they put forward in the 2000s like DTrace, ZFS, jails, bhyve, were simply unmatched for their capabilities at the time. Having all those tools on a simple and fast OS at the time felt like living in the future.

At the same time, BSD is severely lacking in gaming, graphics performance, compatibility with modern ecosystems, ease of use for less technical users, and generally seems to have stagnated in the last 10-15 or so years. Some chalk that up to leadership, some to the license / corporate interests largely moving to Linux, who knows. But these days I use Linux and while I miss the halcyon days of BSD, I wouldn’t switch back.

I stand with my (forever) baby hippo Fiona.

No, I appreciate it! Couldn’t find a complete gif that didn’t look thoroughly nuked.

Max, what’s wrong? You’ve hardly touched your jar.

It’s because instead of using logic to reason, they use emotion: usually outrage, fear, uncertainty, anger, distrust. All while of course projecting the ‘overly emotional and illogical’ stamp onto “bleeding heart liberals”.

Caps conveys what their audience pays attention to.

I hate spiders, know thine enemy I guess.

Top one is an Australian huntsmen. Bottom one looks like an orb weaver of some kind.

Two spider pictures in the article, but neither depict a Fen Raft Spider. Shameful excuse for journalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_raft_spider

Not here in Minnesota. Thanks Mr. Walz!

You know that famous Texas saying: “Don’t tread on me, unless you’re a christofacist, then HARDER.”

It won’t actually work. So yes, this is just a grift until funding dries up.

Oh to be clear, it’s all humor. At least mostly, I’m sure there are RMS level fanatics somewhere that truly believe some of the BS.

This is something as old as time. I’ve seen it prolifically on Reddit (though not in the Emacs community, they generally discourage memes), various Linux forums, old Usenet, various programming forums… I’m not trying to be evasive, but it’s hard to provide examples that aren’t specifically cherry picked, which wouldn’t benefit the conversation much.

There’s even a Wikipedia page dedicated to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war

See if it’s supported by Lineage OS.

Bruh 😂 the Emacs user community absolutely constantly shit on Vim users. When they added Vi(m) bindings they literally named it ‘evil mode’, and they constantly make fun of people who use it, and spacemacs, and the latest flavor of (neo)vi(m), and all the extensions necessary to make vim halfway useful as an ide, etc etc etc.

Real talk though: why would he ever rule out future possibilities?