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It's apathy, resignation, tech illiteracy. People think they're powerless against a god machine. They think "the algorithm" is a black box which can't be deciphered by mere mortals. Except for the few ordained priests known as software engineers. In reality is a practical application of graph theory. Edges and vertices linking their private data to various tags/labels.

I make throwaway accounts. Push code. Disappear forever. Come to find out nobody ever looks at it anyways.

Did many other students commute too? I went to a commuter school. There wasn't much student life. People mostly went to class and went home.

Nobody really indexes those types of sites anymore. I suppose a lot of those site operators are more than happy to remain separate from the big tech net.

Years ago I saw users talking about joining Discords to share how to make subreddits go viral with inflammatory content. I believe the donald era brought a massive paradigm shift to the site. In other words the user base became that which enjoys edgy posting.

Fun times. Always keep a fallback kernel installed. Even if you're not compiling your own.

I had to learn what chroot is when I borked my own kernel compile and there wasn't fallback.

I could see the paradigm shifting over the years on reddit. They don't approach the internet as a knowledge base but a personal assistant chat. That's when I knew the value of the site was on the down swing.

There's more shoreline to spare.

Time to stake a nice beach front property on Hudson's Bay. It will replace become the new summer destination after Florida has completely submerged to the ocean.

It's been evident big tech wants their own corporate intranet of sorts. Perhaps we're seeing the beginnings of a great net split. That's if there's enough movement to forge on with a free (as in libre) standards regardless of what big tech is doing on their own.

How are their internet boards looking? I've noticed a kind of weird way to tell what's going on on the street is to observe actions of the population. Brazil has a very high youth unemployment. Most of the edge lord NEET boards are full of Brazilian kids.

It'd be nice if there was an IMDB forum like instance.

Is one really on the internet if they're trapped inside a tech bro walled garden. The situation seems quite terrible now that people have to be told how to go to a URL as simple as cbc.ca. It's not like the internet was recently invented. This is a developed nation and one of the earlier to widely adopt internet usage. Here we are teaching people how to browse to a website. What a mess that big tech has made.

It's not like Google engineers are hard up for cash. I know I know... it's never enough for the rich..

• Sublime Text.
• Whatever build toolchain of the current thing I'm using.

What happened to the ethos of the original internet cultures that were so dominant. It's like large swaths of that generation grew up and sold out to become the oppressors. And the other portion are being crushed by that system.

Pike once again demonstrates his faith in the crew without second guessing Uhuras decisions. What a boss.

I'm still getting the hard lock issue with driver 535 and a laptop running Arch. I've did a quick searches for issues and lots of different complaints in the results. I've been waiting for nvidia to put out these fires. Whatever they are. Still waiting since the 535 release...

Bluetooth stacks are notorious for being gargantuan spaghetti code base. People have been trying to put out all those little fires because it's more possible on Linux than Windows.

For a brief moment in time search engines were perfected. Then they veered off course. All of them did. Why though.

Remember when you could list vaguely some words related an obscure movie to Google. Then it would tell you the movie you're thinking of. That's been nerfed.

Tangentially related. What's the deal with search engines of online stores. It's like they aren't even search engines at all. They're doing nothing more than showing me products/sellers they want me to buy from. Digikey lets you drill down to precise specification filters. I wish all search engines could be like that.