And in the meantime, I'm fucking done with this place. Have fun amongst yourselves.
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Pretty amusing that for all the moderation this site is proud of, there's no moderation of people trolling recent comment history and mass downvoting.
Like, wow, it easy for me to see when 3 replies, across 3 threads, across a 24hour period all are downvoted by the same person in 24 hours.
Really not that hard to fix. And god damn if it doesn't happen every single time I call out some backward conservative bullshit (this time it was little kids in beauty pageants, and child marriage), and god damn if it doesn't happen without a single refutation. Every. Single. Time.
So if you're the person doing this, rock on, because wow, what a sad existence. I'd pay to have to have a face to face chat about this, so I can publish it afterwards. johndough@loremipsumtechnologies.com (do a whois, it's a real domain and address).
hit me up. We can talk about the 3 kids a year that get gender reassignment a year after months of consultations and consent from guardians, etc.
And then we'll talk about the thousands of pre-pubescent girls that are dolled up, put in skimpy clothing, and made to compete for the approval of adult judges.
Or you could've just replied, but we both know why neither of those options are happening.
- k8svetErm. I fail to see how this moves the needle unless usb-if is doing extreme firmware level source analysis and deterministic compiles and checking them against shipped firmware. Which I doubt is happening, with every atom in my body.
- Bruh. I mean this as a genuine ask. Have you heard of Nix and is there a reason it didn't land on your radar or was rejected?
Because what you want exists and has a thriving community, and a package set that outclasses, well, statistically every other package manager in existence.
I swear, it's a daily occurrence for me to see software engineering challenges posited here as damn near impossible that Nix has been solving for over a decade.
What if you could run a single command and have exact insight to the source you're using for every single package on your system with the context of the dependency graph it exists in.
I cannot wait for this wave to crash and for people to realize how much engineering effort is reduced by using Nix. And that all of these things they know they want for years, already exists. But hey, the syntax takes time to get used to and how do you compare that against the countless blog posts and hours and institutional knowledge you need to actually use docker properly. And then later on some Go-based SBOM tool made by a VC-backed startup that fundamentally still does an inferior job to Nix. Sigh.
Well anyway I guess nix will keep being used by hedge funds, algorithmic traders, "advanced defensive capabilities" companies, literal (launched, in space) satellites, wallet manufacturers, etc, while everyone else listens to the syntax decriers.
- It means we can build the same thing and check the output hashes. In terms of deriving a method for trusting build infra, it's basically the end all-be-all. I almost don't know how to answer it.
- I'm sure you've heard this before, and I'm sure you don't give a slim shit, but like 3 minors a year undergo gender reassignment surgery. After countless consultations with physicians, therapists, parents, etc. And hormone blockers aren't given out trivially either. But I have no doubt that you know this.
So, really, pretty laughably not comparable. And to directly answer your question, the answer is duh, no.
I'm sure you're equally upset about young kids being put in beauty pageants or the countless (Republican) states that have recently defended child marriage. Right? Right?
- You know, someone had previously written that Meta should be held accountable. Which I guess I didn't consider too strongly.
I'm sorry, but Meta knows why "adult-run minor accounts" make them revenue. Fucking disgusting. I'd love to see some discovery on their internal metrics and how they build out that feature to drive up engagement from these horny creeps.
- Its pretty simple. The parents almost surely would've been more cautious about their daughter getting married. But turning her into a marketing content mill on the internet was done with next to no consideration of the consequences.
And yeah, I guess if you don't care about tens of thousands of men perving on your daughter every day, upload away! Good thing men are never incredibly harassing or anything.
There's videos online of me doing stuff that would probably end my father's heartbeat in about 10 seconds. I'm not a prude. I'm someone that wishes people would think instead of playing this surprise Pikachu face constantly.
This general ignorance of long-term consequences, and this behavior of men... Neither are limited to Americans. I mean, I wish, it'd be an easy solution for me to avoid both, but alas.
- But have we weighed the social impact of teens not publishing themselves online to pervs? /s
This, like every other problem with pervasive brainrot technology, and hell good old fashioned ways to shut a brain off, will be talked about for years. Nothing will be done. Things in 10 years will feel normal and be unimaginable now. Thus is humanity for the 30 years I've been here so far.
Don't. Put. Your. Kids. On. The. Internet. I'd say "don't put unwitting strangers on the internet" too, but it's less targeted unless you're stalking a stranger, and I suspect too many HNers are Instagram users for that to be popular.
Also this is your too-often reminder that child beauty pageants are still popular in many places. Anyone taking attendance at those? Seriously, the status quo and what people are accustomed to biases people's norms in extreme ways and we just never seem to put that in context.
My point being, we have fucking pageants for children to get dolled up and pranced about for adults to watch, and here we are, off to the next horror-porn-horror travesty we all know is likely going to continue slowly getting more and more wack, as the norms shift.
I hate how 99% of the planet has no ability to consider long-term reprocussions of decisions, or worse, are incentivized to self-deluded about them. "Let's appeal to things that work in marketing and put our teenage daughter on the internet". Sounds like a god damn comedy sketch.
- I am not sure I will ever stop being weirded out, annoyed at, confused by, something... people asking these sorts of questions of an LLM. What, you want an apology out of the LLM?
- I almost want one of these, except I have no use for it nowadays. Ventoy didn't even work the one time I tried it, probably because it couldn't hook nixos's initrd properly.
But also, I'm insanely frustrated that (1) Google doesn't allow USB Gadget mode to do this from stock Android (2) the app that appeared to work for LineageOS/rooted devices is abandonware.
There's no good reason why your phone can't serve up ISOs with gadget mode.
I already travel with my ancient Pixel 3a as a backup (which has come in handy, clumsy me). It would be slick to have that as a portable ISO host, and backup phone. (Ignore the USB2 USB-C port, it's fine.)
- Huh? This entire subthread is about Freenet and moderating the medium. The analogy is that if USPS were trying to do so, it would be absurd.
It also highlights why I think this is nearly intractable. Distributed, censorship-resistant designs lend themselves to resiliency and permanence. I just have this gut feeling you don't get both. And frankly I think the people trying to shove the cat back into the bag are a bit naive.
- Uhhh. Look I think this is sort of an intractable problem. Technology is advancing. Humans are terrible. No technical or political solution is going to stop atrocities. That's of course not to say we shouldn't try to educate, prevent, serve justice, etc.
But... Are you implying that random people being unwittingly exposed to CSAM is somehow going to cause a reduction in production of CSAM? Because good lord, I'm not sure I can understand that train of thought.
- Nothing about the described scenario is remotely unique to Freenet. By a long shot.
- Huh. You think you'd proofread the copy in your lead marketing image.
- Fascinating. Thanks so much for sharing this. Good read.
- I can't decide a tone for this comment. But comments like yours make me want to go make a new "distro" that is just triggered when nixos updates and publishes an iso with Nvidia pre-installed. Lol maybe even do it for every major distribution. Nvubuntu, fedoria, etc. And then we can be done with this? Idk.
Like you, I find the "hopping" nature of Linux enthusiasts to be exhausting. it's almost always nearly the same fucking bits at the end of the day. Great, you know how to use the package manager? Everything you like about NewShinyDistro's defaults can probably be hadon the distro you're on already.
Christ maybe the better approach is my other idea - customnixos.org. You always get nixos, but you get to pre-pick the desktop environment, theme, background, etc, and then it slips you an iso with those options set.
- This is quintessential MSFT. I have absolutely less than zero doubt that there is a informal/formal agreement that they're called such. They always pull this crap. And then their OEMs realize later that the "Windows 8 Ready" sticker is almost more of a pariah.
- Okay. Now they have a distro from someone that doesn't care to respect licensing terms. And an end user who apparently can't be trained to click a few times in an app store...
Yeah, let's imagine how they react to their entire system being broken and some rumblings of "well maybe if you change time". Yeah, sure, okay, I'm sure a user that can't install a package will be able to handle that. /s
Maybe it's simply because I AM a distro maintainer, that I just roll my eyes at all of this. What's pre-installed is so trivial it's almost nothing to me when I think about why I chose my distro. How fast can they react to security reports? Are they abreast of developments in the Linux ecosystem and adjusting and experimenting with defaults? Really truly? Because even in (my distro) where I can tell you the names of owners of specific areas, there's still some gaps we could cover better.
The curse of knowing too much. Or maybe my empathy meter is way off tonight. Idk.