Personally, I don’t get why people don’t mind doing a search to find where windows hid some particular setting 3 submenus deep, but lose their fucking mind over the thought of doing a search to double check which command they need.

Because they like to believe that the former is how smart computer users do things.

And even Slackware was straightforward 20 year ago

Still is.

because 99% of the time it was just a flat out lie.

What I don’t understand is why they lie about something directly causal to the resolution.

Yep, that one where the person on the peak starts lecturing you in abstract terms about trying the simplest hypotheses and such, while you are trying to solve their problem.

I know the philosophy part that asshole is talking about, only he has no bloody clue which part is simple and which is not here.

It was a hang port on a switch in that case.

People who write screen broke shouldn’t be working with technology more advanced than a shovel

Shovel gay, pen have, paper end, rock good.

When it’s not E2EE, maybe they are right. What’s the point of encrypting something that gets decrypted midway by an organization with hundreds of employees, many of them with access, not even talking about law enforcement and accidental criminals.

EDIT: I mean, illusion of security may be sometimes worse that lack of that little security which comes with it. Everything is complex.

Because likely it’s a result of a dozen (at best) clueless managers accepting some kind of UI\UX with consensus. It’s a very slow process, but they want to micromanage everything that they can see and (they think) understand.

What beats me is how people like to say how 90s’ webpages looked horrible. But when I get to a miraculously still functional webpage with 90s’ web design, I feel like I’m walking in a park. Then I get to something such people would call a normal webpage, and I can’t use it. I ask such people and they … are not interested in actually finding something in the pile of crap they call better.

I felt that being like 15 years old, then got excited over one girl (that worked as a temporary solution), then she ditched me, so I have a good fat trauma to return to if bored.

TIL openssh, xorg, apache, nginx, all of *bsds are cuck-licensed.

While GPL-licensed linux, used by every corp out there, is not.

but since it’s protected under the GPL, Busybox developers were able to sue them and gain some money in the process.

Don’t need to steal anything. Lots of today’s usage doesn’t involve giving a binary to the customer. Thus Google, FB and who else don’t have to share any of their internal changes to Linux.

So two people communicate, one is American speaking English and the other is a Natmurrikan, speaking their Natmurrikan language. The former communicates with the latter and the latter communicates with the former. So if they speak Natmurrikan and it doesn’t feel natural for the American, is that right that this is the American’s fault?

Google some sites, visit some empty IRC channels, dream of the future for a bit, then turn it off

I’m using ipv6 when I occasionally connect to Yggdrasil.

And I think I’ll use ipv6 if we ever need to build a new earthnet.

It’s a fine technology.

it’s a threat to the future of “libraries” that decide to completely ignore copyright and give out an unlimited number of copies of ebooks

So do I, so this is very bad.

I live in Russia, so meaningful elections are off the menu for a period of time.

The fact that a mod decided that my comment should be removed is telling. See, if we consider that only freaks openly funded by Russia yadda yadda are its hands in Europe, then what I said is harmful, because I’m spreading the attention of the reader to wide. But if what I said is true and European politics are in general, just as well in the West, penetrated by Russian\Azeri\etc influence, with bribing politicians and companies which then lobby for criminal regimes, then what that mod did is much more harmful.

Removed by mod

In Europe without even anything exotic - German, archaic Dutch and all insular Scandinavian languages, and all Slavic languages. I don’t know Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian, so I can’t talk about them, a plethora of cases, but genders - I don’t remember.

The interesting thing to learn is that there are languages with more than 3 genders (M, F and thing). Or even more than 4 (M, F, N and thing), with additional genders being for kinds of animals, fish, plants, buildings, instruments. But I’ve only heard about that, haven’t studied any such language.

A horrible simplification. Power is what they are fighting for and they are getting it.

This is also what the Putler-backed far right parties in Europe stand for.

In European politics corrupt, and usually by Russia among others, parties encompass much more than these. You can tell easily a not yet poisoned voice when comparing with theirs.

It has only 2 genders, and they don’t affect verb inflections.

extremely gendered

Compared to English - yeah, but in general there’s nothing extreme about genders in French.