Grumpy former Manchester United defender appears to confuse a good league start with completely unrelated performance expectations.
@dajb @fieldstation And there is a terabyte of storage for stupidly low prices - I've switched my photo online storage from Google to KDrive. Infomaniak has a really good offer.
@rochelimit @fieldstation Yep, happy so far!
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"Keeping essentials tethered to fossil fuels [leaves] ordinary people exposed to the price volatility of oil and gas that generates the economic insecurity on which authoritarian politics feeds.”
Good interview with German neo-Keynesian economist, Isabella Weber.
#Economics #Fascism #ClimateEmergency
‘People’s dignity, and democracy, is at stake’: meet the economist ditching ideology for reality | Economics | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/16/isabella-weber-anti-fascist-economics
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Pica has a vivid imagination, above average emotional and social intelligence, exceptional athleticism and agility and next to zero (maybe less) understanding of logic.
This combination of extreme contrasts is the essence of the cat.
She doesn't understand that if she's standing on the blanket I can't pick it up so she can lay on my lap... but she knows how to help when you are depressed, and she's living an exciting saga where she hunts the ghosts that live in the walls.
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3416 mal hat @nadia_z in der Suche der Tagesschau den Begriff #umstritten gefunden. Eingehender behandelt sie die "Umstrittenheit dieses Ausdrucks" in ihrem Vortrag "Medien zwischen Macht und Ohnmacht", den sie kürzlich auf der re:publica gehalten hat. Kürzlich auf der re:publica? Ja, die gab es - #Österreich hat jetzt nämlich ebenfalls eine 😄
Individous-Key: ITynsk1w9Pc
Noura Maan hat sich für @derStandard mit @nadia_z unterhalten.
Wie und warum scheitern Medien am Umgang mit Rechtsradikalen bzw. Faschisten? Und was soll das mit dem Objektivitätsfetisch, dem fehlenden Kontext, den Doppelstandards, der Red Scare?
Danke, lieber @lxplm @derStandard
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Noura Maan hat sich für @derStandard mit @nadia_z unterhalten.
Wie und warum scheitern Medien am Umgang mit Rechtsradikalen bzw. Faschisten? Und was soll das mit dem Objektivitätsfetisch, dem fehlenden Kontext, den Doppelstandards, der Red Scare?
Just say "What, exactly, do you mean by "AI"?", if they try to answer, get out.
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHASHHAHAHAHHA YEAH YOU FUCKING MORONS GET FUCKED
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Thirteen years ago since this golden email arrived in my inbox:
calls this to mind
The social mechanism by which human beings cause other human beings to behave in a fair manner is their willingness to do things that go against their immediate self-interest just to punish those who offer unfair choices.
People who are unwilling to make such choices are antisocial.
The best illustration of this trait is the test where one person divides up a pile of money and the other person either takes the deal, splitting the money as the other person chooses, or refuses the deal so that neither person gets the money.
Be the person who only accepts the 50/50 split.
@yogthos I was hard to motivate decades before covid.
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30k commits per day isn’t the flex you think it is
Some of us remember a time when we committed work when it was functional and shippable
(WIP commits were checkpoints, local, and were not intended to escape)
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Today's badly-written residential proxy AI crawler fun: 5.8 million requests from 2.3 million unique IP addresses in 24 hours for a site with 12,000 static pages that hasn't changed since 2003. Most of these requests are from consumer networks and pretending to be real browsers. As many other folks have noted, it's becoming increasingly difficult to mitigate the impact of these attacks.
...I could really use one right now.
@neil 80% of people think "fanny" is too offensive to be broadcast in the day? what the fuck is WRONG with them, the whole point of it is that it's a kid-friendly word. That's also why it's funny
I can see how some of the words will be highly problematic in the context of how they are likely to be used.
Other words... not at all!
The social mechanism by which human beings cause other human beings to behave in a fair manner is their willingness to do things that go against their immediate self-interest just to punish those who offer unfair choices.
People who are unwilling to make such choices are antisocial.
Nothing new, but I'm disappointed.
Many years ago, Linux represented the alternative. The question was: "Why don't you just use Windows? It's easier." And the answer was, almost always: "To be free."
The "bazaar" spirit of Linux and its distributions made us feel free. Personally, I've always thought that the "cathedral" approach of the BSDs produces more reliable and maintainable results. But that feeling of freedom was fantastic.
There wasn't a company deciding everything. There was a kernel developed by people following what they believed was right. Or what the community, in one way or another, was asking for.
Torvalds has always been quite outspoken (remember the middle finger to Nvidia?). But the general spirit was, again, freedom. Anyone, sitting in their bedroom, could contribute in some way. Even me.
Today, after the embrace of AI, I read statements about wanting only "serious" contributors, "serious" contributions, because the world depends on this code and reliability must come first.
I understand the problem. Maintaining the Linux kernel is a huge responsibility. And low-quality contributions, especially those blindly generated with AI, are a real problem.
But what I hear, between the lines, is something like: "Hey, kid in your bedroom. If you don't have the right tools, the money to afford them, or the experience we expect, maybe your contribution isn't even worth considering."
Am I exaggerating? Maybe. But this is what I got from the tone and content of the latest public statements.
And it makes me sad.
Because it feels like a transformation towards what we wanted to escape, back then.
So please don't ask me why the BSD community, imperfect as it is, feels like home to me.
When I see young people, with limited resources, being able to contribute and attend conferences (thanks to the support of the Foundations), and I see the enthusiasm in their eyes, I feel at home.
Because I still remember what it meant to be that kid in a bedroom.
And I really hope we never close the door in their face.
@stefano Where you go wrong is that if said kid in the bedroom contributes something and has no clue what that contribution is, does or what its impact is, it really isn't worth considering. Irrespectively whether that contribution was generated by AI or not.
And the experience by most open source project owners is that most of the AI generated contributions are slop, can't be explained by their submitter, and take up huge amounts of time from the projects maintainers.
