psivchaz @ psivchaz @reddthat.com

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That's how deep the conspiracy goes. These damn climate scientists are somehow changing the climate to prove themselves right!

Here's the thing. You're sometimes right. There's definitely negligent parenting that leads to juvenile crime. There's also circumstances outside of the parent's control.... The community, the schools, the other children they interact with outside of the home, any mental illness or problems the child might have.

The common theory here is that the parent should be more involved. But two things:

• Children NEED some level of freedom. I'm so fucking sick and tired of the people who believe children should be monitored at all times. When you see it in practice, you immediately recognize it as a problem. Those children are stunted socially, emotionally, and in terms of their abilities. A parent who can 100% ensure their child does no wrong is 100% ensuring their child becomes a neurotic or entitled mess.
• Available time and resources are not split evenly. Before someone says, "but someone who can't raise a child shouldn't have had a child" please keep in mind that peoples circumstances change. Ignoring the whole abortion debate, access to birth control, etc, a person who has a child with a loving partner with plenty of money can end up destitute and alone and still have that child. A person who has a support network of siblings and parents can lose them. A person with a reasonable amount of money for having kids can be financially overwhelmed caring for a child that has unexpected difficulties in life.

Yeah, there's shit parents in the world. But the law is a hammer that lacks the ability to discern a terrible parent from one who is just unlucky. It's not the right tool for this job.

SyncThing has been great for me. I tried NextCloud and OwnCloud first, granted years ago, and they were not great. So I've been using SyncThing at least 5 years now.

I just want one of the "You can't vote for Biden!" people to outline what I should do instead. What's the play here? Dismantle the government? Sure, outline your plan and let's see if it has any merit. Protest? Great, tell me when and where but it doesn't preclude the need to vote.

They talk big, but if their entire plan begins with "don't vote" and ends with "bitch about it online" then it's not a great plan.

I don't know what your particular situation is but if you're just using it on computers you could use LUKS or BitLocker or FileVault. Then if you want to wipe it, you only need to destroy the key and the data is rendered effectively gone.

This is a thing in some scouting programs, and I hear it's a pretty common thing in the Netherlands to drop teens in the woods and let them figure their way back.

I'm not a sociologist, and probably there is someone who knows what they're talking about who has done actual research and maybe written an actual paper I just haven't seen. But I have this theory that humans need some level of discomfort.

In part, I think the brain gets stronger when challenged. It needs practical challenges, not just artificial challenges. And in part, I think that suffering is relative. Those people who freak out about getting the wrong color iPhone? It's literally the worst thing that's ever happened to them, and they have no coping skills.

All that to say... We're definitely fucking ourselves up by trying to make things TOO safe and comfortable.

I have a similar one! I did house calls. I got called out on a warranty call, someone said a coworker of mine didn't fix the problem. I look in the notes and the coworker says he did a standard virus removal, suggested virus protection but was turned down.

I get there and sure enough it's riddled with viruses again. Coworker was legit, notes all in order, I tell the client that this isn't a warranty issue, the work was done, and it has now been reinfected and will need another removal. He seems fine with this, but his wife flips out and demands I prove it got reinfected.

I suggest that we can check the web history. Since it was popping up ads, we'd see when the pop-ups started, and more importantly we'd see if they had stopped after coworker left. Guy says that's unnecessary, it definitely got reinfected, and this time he'll buy an antivirus. Wife is having none of it, says go ahead and check and I'll see the problem was never fixed. I ask if they're sure, guy kind of resignedly says to do it.

I'm not one to kink shame, but when all the trans porn site titles came up, the dude was clearly mortified. I didn't get very far into trying to figure out if I can prove it's related before the wife says "just fix the damn thing" and stormed out. I hope it wasn't too bad for him, she seemed a bit difficult to deal with.

To be fair, I bet some percentage of those that don't use an ad blocker ARE using something like no script and just don't need one as a result.

There's some inherent risk in the ad blocker as well, though. If it's an extension, you're trusting that this thing you installed, that can read and modify every website you visit, isn't going to do anything sneaky. Yes, maybe it's open source, but every once in a while something sneaks into open source projects, too. It will get caught, but it could be after the damage is done.

I mean, I use an ad blocker. But I don't think it's unreasonable to value security and not use one.

This. People are all for unions and collective action until it inconveniences them or it is done by someone they seem "too rich."

We ARE all in the same boat. Doctors, with few exceptions, are still the working class who depend on their paychecks from their labor. That they are doing something about their conditions should be celebrated and modeled, not condemned.

I don't need it or support it personally, especially the really loud noises. But I don't think it's as simple as you say.

A car without noise is like the acceleration version of a touchscreen. Perfectly fine and serviceable and probably works for most people. But I'm not going to automatically look down on people who prefer buttons. Having that extra feedback to tell you you've pushed the button, or how hard you've hit the accelerator, can be useful.

That said, I'd much prefer they stick to internal speakers for such feedback. It can be useful letting others know that you're about to haul ass, but the people who do it outside my neighborhood at 1 AM in the most obnoxious way possible can right to hell.

It's not entirely unlike my plan: No more externalities. That's the big problem with the environment and with a bunch of other things. Economists call it an "externality" when the things you're doing have side effects that you don't have to account for, such as pollution.

The thing is, we let industry and capital get away with it for a long time. And there's no doubt that fixing it would also impact people. If the cost of properly disposing of a tire was built into the price of the tire, it would be passed along to customers. But it's the only way to rehabilitate ANY system that uses currency.

And that's becoming it's own problem with search, especially with technical questions. The good answer is also old and out of date.

Honestly, I think some of it is a bit over the top. At the end of the day, they're a company producing a product and not the chosen savior. But as far as giant companies go, they're almost everything you could want.

• Lots of pro-consumer policies. From making returns a thing, to never taking away access like some stores, to big sales. If the idea of buying a digital game in 2004 and still having access to it in 2024 doesn't sound revolutionary to you, it's because you haven't paid attention to how other companies run their stores.
• Open source contributions. Gaming on Linux is getting a huge shot in the arm from Valve, Steam, and the Steam Deck, both through direct contributions and indirectly through showing it's viability.
• Employees, by all accounts, are well taken care of and enjoy their jobs.

They aren't perfect, but the bar for a company, especially in the gaming industry, being ethical is so low that the way Valve operates makes them basically saints by comparison.

"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."

A compiler that uses an LLM to function mostly off of vibes. That's... An idea you've had, for sure.

I'm trying out something mildly nutty by putting .steam in /home/steam, then making user-neon, and symlinking so that I can try kde without reinstalling steam games. If I succeed I might try it with other files.

All these comments and no one is going to point out that this is invalid?

The git stage and git commit don't have any terminator, so it's all one "command" and will fail. Then there's a single & between git commit and git push, so it would run in parallel, so it would also fail.

Also, don't git stage . people. Or at least do a git status before to make sure you didn't stage file-with-all-the-production-secrets

Honestly I don't relate to this tweet. Around me at least, it's the 30-40 year old millennials switching the terminology because some of them use Google Slides or KeyNote or a bunch of Figma screens.