I’d argue it’s a bad career path overall. You will get laid off working as a dev, it’s just how it works, and if you haven’t managed a 10+ headcount by your mid 30’s you will find yourself facing ever escalating ageism 35 on as an old man dev. It’s not a field that generally professionally rewards experience beyond 5-ish years.

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I have seen enough footage of the war crimes to be confident of Blinken’s guilt.

War criminals deserve the noose. Especially genocidal ones.

Use FOSS on non-intel hardware and use tor. Your physical life is just gonna be kind of tracked because if you live in a walkable city, you’re on camera the whole time you’re out and modern cars phone home EVERYTHING if you don’t live in a walkable city. I guess you can buy a 1997 Honda Accord to get around that but on an infinite timeframe the cost of maintaining a pre-panopticon vehicle will only go up…

A party more concerned with defeating the hippies than their actual political opponents deserves to lose, and as we have seen now, will. The DNC is a waste of effort. Not to promote the Greens, they’re an asylum where the inmates have taken over and Jill Stein is too smug to win a PTA vote, much less the presidency. We need an American Labor party that actually wants to win more than make friends in the beltway.

Liz Cheney won’t be secretary of defense and Anthony Blinken will be out of work and ideally sent to Gitmo.

A party that offers nothing except the other party’s policies but 5% less racist/misogynist/homophobic deserves to hemorrhage voters and lose. When the DNC’s sole goal is defeating their pre-Biden base, they shouldn’t be surprised when nobody is a dem anymore.

No sweeter sound than “Hello, this is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce ‘Linux’, Linux” although in 90’s Linux’s defense, sound on 90’s Windows was also a zoo. At least once it was working on RedHat, it worked. Same box with windows 95, every boot you’d fear the sound driver was magically broken again necessitating a full wipe and reinstall…

It’s possible that it’s inferred off the digital footprint of you pirating the content, also. People freak out a lot about being listened to, but I’d argue that’s an inefficient spying mechanism they probably don’t lean heavily on if they can avoid it. We’re all living on platforms that are knowably spying on everything you click on or read or do online and feeding that into giant AI models with everything about you. Like just by watching a pirated video on a Google TV device, Google’s hashing that and phoning that data home, possibly even matching that to the specific file, and adding that to an ad profile.

Anything I need to actually write code on, Gnome, because I’m addicted to mac-style gesture controls, but hate the holier than thou design philosophy Jony Ive bullshit; anything casual, KDE; but I am planning to try out Cosmic on something soon

Hard to say with an unknown unknown. There’s no way to know what exact vulnerabilities exist or how they could be chained with other exploits. Think of it like not having your brakes promptly serviced. It’s probably fine, but it’s also possible 5% worse breaking leads to a 30 car pileup that causes a fertilizer factory to explode. In all likelihood nothing would happen, worst case, Frozen Bubble introduces an old library, opening you up to a chain of attacks where the attacker totally owns your device, plays the long game, using it to own your home and work networks, and steals your life savings, has you fired, and sends your nudes to all your grammar school teachers. Or something in between.

Frozen bubble is a joy, and I really don’t see how it’s a big vulnerability. Just don’t give it internet perms (which it shouldn’t need). I guess in theory it makes the device less secure, but in a world where they purposefully leave vulnerabilities in the chips for the cell connection itself, nobody with the resources to do so is going to bother engineering a chain attack utilizing a 20 year old FOSS game installed by .00005% of users.

I’ve seen them work on Freetube in the past although idk how, and maybe they no longer do

I hear ya

Get up in the dark, go to work, get out in the dark… 💀😭💀

Uh… Okay… How is saying it’s fair for Hezbollah to do the same to Israelis with the evacuation BS “Zionist?”

I mean, if you can just command citizens of other countries to evacuate their homes so you can blow them up… What’s good for the goose is good for the gander…

There really are only two because the states, except a few like Vermont, legally recognize and run elections for the duopoly parties. That confers legitimacy you don’t have when you’re running your own internal primary like a UK party, and makes it logistically impossible for third parties to actually challenge the duopoly. That’s why the elites shit a brick when we protest about Palestine but dgaf if we bother to vote or not, because it’s a CCP picking the options for Hong Kong situation.

The software is supposed to be free as in speech, not beer, ergo you can use it for whatever you want. If right out of the gate, GNU was like “you better contribute back if you use this!” nobody would use or contribute to it. All this does is produce drama and reduce use because of negative perceptions, it is bad for corporate adoption and adoption overall. If browbeating people like an ass worked we would live in a very different world. It does not.