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  @badsamurai I would caution anyone "politically exposed" that Eventbrite's founders are very deeply linked to Thiel and Palantir. And there is a significant likelihood they are 'volunteering' data to Palantir and the regime.

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  @MedeaVanamonde @pndc @cstross and because people continually ask: The only thing keeping '08 from being a total implosion was underlying assets. Houses are an underlying asset that got turned into predatory rentals. '01, you had offices, IP, businesses that COULD work, and hardware to recover with. With much smaller holes to fill. This time? It's a literal Ponzi scheme. Basically all of the hardware is ewaste. There's no trillions in IP - not even millions. Ju...

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  @anne_twain @devsimsek a better equivalence explanation. Here is a 'smart hammer.' It promises to never smash your thumb. And between 20 and 60% of the time, it works! The other 80 to 40% of the time it explodes and takes off your entire arm and sets the nearest three houses on fire. The question is not "why are people not stopping when it explodes" or "how do we filter the explosions." The question is "WHY THE FUCK ARE PEOPLE STILL...

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  Keep following me in hopes I return, stop following me and toast the good riddance, I truly don't care. I know where I stand and I know that nobody cares if I live or die, except people who want me to die. Just don't fucking bother me with bullshit pretending you care.

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  Where'd you go? - Away, hopefully to an early grave Why? - Because I'm tired of every fucking day being a fight to achieve nothing So you'll be back, right? - No, and it's insulting that you act like you give a shit Why not delete the account then? - Impersonators. This is the only actual RootWyrm, period. Signal's in the profile. I won't hold my breath.

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  @alice@lgbtqia.space don't be ridiculous. Reply Guys don't know when to run away.

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  @maxleibman@beige.party @mwl@io.mwl.io oh, no, you seem to have misheard me. I said I'm a man of MINI talents.

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  @soatok as someone who routinely has to explore these concepts in a somewhat reality-based context? There are literally not anywhere near enough antidepressants and liquor production for anyone with involuntary empathy to have survived past 2014 or 2015.

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  So now apparently it takes a force greater than the one that took Iwo Jima to escort a single merchant ship. Crewed by soldiers who are so terrified, they demanded helicopters and attack boats and spent thousands of rounds of ammunition firing at absolutely fucking nothing and hitting even less.

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  @hrbrmstr it's absolutely not. People have the utterly incorrect knee-jerk reaction to OPEC because of the 1973 oil embargo. Which was started by *OAPEC*, which is *NOT* OPEC. OPEC is a much broader international organization which finally broke the Seven Sisters oligopoly that was inflating oil prices. Their intent was to *stabilize* oil prices. People argue with all the cheating members do, it's near useless. But the existence creates the stability, because the markets are vibe based.

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  @cR0w @catsalad should.

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  @humanhorseshoes I used to talk a lot with the UK storage folks; I was one of *the* outside experts on SVC/StorWize (technically still am; only outside person to ever successfully develop a correctly behaving multipath driver.)

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  @timbray @graydon @cstross they're also the least brand-loyal of all segments; it's effectively *zero* brand loyalty beyond Windows. They want to do their taxes on it, open their documents, read their email, and use the same apps and tools they've been using, but not have the shitty experience of a 'netbook.'

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  Perhaps the most offensive thing to me of all, is that these LLM-loving AI-boosting idiots who perpetuate falsehoods like 'AI can read minds with fMRI' and 'AI can magically find vulnerabilities' and 'AI will cure cancer' is that we have known this is bullshit for years. Years. IBM Watson was launched as a magical cure-all in 2013. By 2022 it had been pulled from everything because despite years of 'refining' and 'training...

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  Boy I really love how the Linux kiddies have decided that the best way to improve things is to actively make them worse by removing basic functionality and features. Who would ever want to change the font on their terminal, right? (What a bunch of absolute fucking idiots.)

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  @Dio9sys @da_667 but it's not like Google, DDG, and every other search engine is eating this shit up and promoting these sites, right? Right?

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  RE: https://fosstodon.org/@SocketSecurity/116275498711560605 This is going to be a fun one, as everyone picked Trivy as the golden child for their base scans and SBOMs. We really learned so well from left-pad, yep. Things have really improved. </sarcasm>

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116234495704645651 Data centers can't consume water and power if the switchyard and the pumps are on fire. Just saying.

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  @iinavpov@mastodon.online @cstross@wandering.shop one of the reasons I basically don't accept follows from mastodon.[social|online] is because both of those places are utterly *infested* with a whole variety of influence campaigns from state actors, scummy marketing firms, and medical quacks. Especially anti-vax and Covid deniers.

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  @jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com @cstross@wandering.shop let's be honest: the absolute majority of 'developers' these days can't read K&R and would burst into flames upon being presented with Perl. Brooks, Wirth, it doesn't matter, they'll refuse, fail to comprehend, and insist that it's too old and only they have the brilliance for modern programming.

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  @cstross@wandering.shop what spine? The man was born without spine, or conscience.