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The mom of a friend of mine did this when he was growing up. She was a single mom, she asked him about a guy she was seeing, he said "He's a little weird, not sure I like him" not really meaning anything by it other than an honest answer. The guy was gone from their lives within a few days. He said he might not have given that answer if he'd realized what she was asking, it was just a snap answer based on not really knowing the guy that well.

The guy had money, seemed otherwise like a fairly decent person, but she dropped him without a second thought after that one conversation. Just gone. She did a lot of things wrong in her life but pretty much the one and only thing she was unerringly on the money about was loving her kids and making them the center whatever else was going on. She pretty much DGAF about what else was happening if there was ever a conflict.

Hm. TIL Inferno; I read but I still don't feel like I understand it. What I was talking about was a little bit more of a browser-native "OS" shell if you want to call it that... I feel like the kind of ease of interaction that people have on the command line on a Unix system still doesn't really exist for any type of web resource that I'm interacting with. It's all separate systems without much unifying access or principle.

Maybe Inferno would have been the answer (like I say I read a little bit still don't really grasp it), but the WP page seems to say that Lucent didn't really have a coherent way to deploy or market it and so even it being a good idea wouldn't really have saved it from obscurity. :-( Like I say it is sad overall, these things were better than the stuff we have around now.

Yeah, makes sense. I think they sort of just missed the boat :-(. I mean, the research that went into it birthed UTF-8, /proc and /sys, a lot of really good things that managed to make it in super-watered-down form into modern operating systems. But I think that if you want to make a modern OS that gets any kind of traction today, it needs to live on the web as opposed to on someone's personal computer, sad to say.

I think if you wanted to get serious about bringing those ideas into the modern day you would need to just rewrite it from scratch within a different context with a different scope.

9front? I thought that was still pretty active with new releases steadily coming out.

If you want to make changes without dealing with update hassles:

• Make a child theme to your current theme which inherits from it.
• Add a functions.php to your child theme, which only includes specific overrides for functionality you want to override.
• Presto change-o you are immune to stuff getting ruined with updates. (Aside from API changes and things but those are relatively rare in my experience, for the most part it all just works.)

Hugo is nice if you want extensive customization and you’re okay fighting with Go code and templates, a little bit.

It's not true :-(

https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/05/fact-check-image-does-not-show-1930-russian-soviet-tarantaika-boneshaker.html

Just read dohpaz42's comment. They literally copy and pasted for you the relevant text: How to check if you're infected already, and how to protect yourself in the future (which means apply updates).

researchers from security firm GreyNoise reported Wednesday

Why sure, I would be happy to help you find literally the very first link in the article, which is in the third paragraph. Since you asked politely and all.

Yeah. There are people like Hasan Piker who are clearly just talking about what they want to talk about, and the chips fall where they may. And then, there are other people in the landscape, where the topics of conversation follow a very particular ebb and flow (as you say, the economy and the government’s relationship to it has suddenly become super unimportant to them, now, this year, not worthy of close and extensive examination all of a sudden). And also, when those topics are discussed, certain very particular framings and cliches seem to show up again and again.

I honestly don’t really know which category “Second Thought” falls into. My suspicion of them isn’t based on all that much more than a couple things I found suspicious. But I did find a couple things about them to be suspicious.

So I first got suspicious of them when they aired a story about economic troubles in rural America… and they kept going out of their way to connect it to the Democrats. I mean, they’re not really wrong, but at the time they aired it was right in the middle of Biden’s absolutely massive effort to address economic troubles for working Americans. They talked about how wages have been going down for these people in this small town for decades because of 100% bipartisan not-giving-a-shit (which, yes, fair), without mentioning that wages had been going up pretty specifically and specifically for that small town for the past year, because of the IRA.

I mean that alone is not fatal. Not everyone with bad things to say about the Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer corporatocracy is a secret Chinese agent or anything. But it just started to strike me as weird the conjunction of:

• Random YouTube channel out of nowhere
• Weirdly high production values
• General adherence to things all leftists already believe, lots of focus on just repeating and emphasizing them
• Casts about, before the election, trying any which way they can to single out Democrats and Democrats alone for criticism
• Talks up third parties as a good solution, no particular stance on RCV or other reforms that would make them viable

If someone tells me that we can add to that list a new bullet point “Weirdly totally unconcerned about human rights abuses in China and in fact hostile to the idea that they happen and to anyone who wants to talk about them,” that would be another huge bullet point in the pattern that would start to take the shape of a pretty recognizable outline, to me.

I hope that she’s just decided to shut up and prioritize her own safety, and the Chinese government is okay with that as long as that’s her side of the bargain. I have no idea but it seems possible.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/23/385843576/50-years-of-shrinking-union-membership-in-one-map

It doesn't change overnight. Union membership was the plug holding all the money in the barrel, holding back the pressure of the bosses just taking whatever they could squeeze, gradually in a coordinated bloc, but not enough that people would jump ship from their specific operation and go to another place, but enough that every year there would be less and less, until now a majority of Americans can't pay their expenses.

Maybe it wasn't unions. You might be right. There are all these graphs pointing to something specific that happened in the 1970s that suddenly divorced productivity gains from wage gains, so maybe whatever it was that caused that finally began to have its real awful influence in the mid-1990s and finally really bear fruit in the late 2000s. Kevin's dad didn't buy that house in 1991. You get what I'm saying. There's a delay. But, like I say, I have no real idea. I'm just guessing and throwing out random possibilities. Something fucked everything up. Probably a combination of things. Not having unions definitely couldn't have helped.

"It was fun while it lasted" 💔

The whole fucking thing sucks. From the carelessness of the Western press even when it concerned her direct personal safety, to the rampant cruelty and brutality of the whole Chinese system, to the casual misogyny of the internet as a whole. And then of course all these dumbshits on Lemmy who pretend that all this oppression isn't real no matter how tragic and obvious it is. Bottom line, she deserved better.

I also perked up at the mention of "Second Thought" as someone who would try to shit on her a little bit more, indirectly, and object strongly and try to do some damage to anyone tried to speak up on her behalf. "Second Thought" is one of the YouTube channels that I'm pretty suspicious of as some kind of fakery masquerading as leftism. I have no idea about the landscape of this kind of leftist streamer palace intrigue, but I just thought it was a super interesting statement.

What’s wrong with Fandom?

Can you name three incidents since 2020 where the cops have not been charged? I know of one, and even that one has an asterisk next to it. Before 2020 it was multiple every year, there used to be these massive walls with names written on them.

Hm, I'm not really all that expert on the topic, but I feel like people in union jobs making enough of a salary to buy a comfortable home is going to drive up wages for everyone, even the people who have nothing to do with it.

Of course, UPS drivers are making $175k/yr right now, and there doesn't seem to be a lot stopping other companies for paying people in washers and balls of lint for doing the exact same job. My feeling is that it's an issue of critical mass, but like I say that's more or less just a guess.

You gotta read past the first sentence my man lol

This is just how things worked back when unions were in the equation. If you sold TVs or drove a truck for a living, you got a house. If you had a good job, you had a house like this and basically everything you wanted.

We traded that life for a few hundred people having yachts instead.

It absolutely has. Before Rodney King it was always fine. From 1992 to about 2014 it was mostly fine. From 2014-2020, it was a debate, and after 2020, they're pretty much always guilty. There's a whole interesting conversation to be had about why it was that all kinds of riot and peaceful protest had basically 0 result until 2014-2020, and then in 2020 it all of a sudden starting working significantly.

Anyway, now under Trump, some of the reform is going backwards. There were some outlier departments that were still in the 1992 mode, and the feds were doing some things to try to come down on them, whereas now it's the opposite, Trump is actively pardoning dirty cops. Great stuff.