winterayars @ winterayars @sh.itjust.works

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I believe they're throwing a fit about it right now but we'll see. They don't have a lot of room to complain about literal tons of free guns getting shipped to them.

XFS. It fills the same role as ext4 but it's less likely to lose your data and that's probably the most important part of a file system. Not that ext4 is bad or anything, but XFS is good. The only downside to XFS is you can't shrink the filesystem size.

All the judges own Apple stock for some reason, so...

Love to see the Supreme Court just blatantly ignoring the Constitution.

I'm being a little silly. Blockchain stuff wouldn't work great for hosting git on for a number of reasons. You might be onto something with that idea about integrating it with gir and torrents, though. I was thinking of using it as an external way to verify the repo is the real thing and hasn't been tampered with but your idea may be a better version of that.

On the grounds that the dmca is a blank check to let big corporations do whatever the fuck they want. It doesn't have to be legal, but if you don't take whatever they want down then that's illegal and could get you (GitHub, in this case) in serious trouble.

Finally a use for block chain tech.

So, the psychology research disagrees. While there IS a cultural/social component, there does seem to be a difference in people's disposition.

The big evidence there can be change is the Milgram experiment, where people who had first hand experience with the Holocaust immediately saw what was going on and refused to take part. That was an aberration, though. People aren't being forced to confront things on that scale in that way anymore, and even then it didn't work on everyone.

Unfortunately, this is one case where the answer really is "human nature", though that nature may be influenced by experience.

Psychological research into authoritarian personalities shows some people really do have psychological needs (or at least desires) that are met by stupid ass authoritarian power structures. It's not even, as you may be tempted to suggest, something like desiring power or wanting their team to win over the "enemy".

If no enemy exists they will create one, they need it. If no hierarchical power structure exists they will create one, and not only so they can be at the top. There are authoritarian followers, too, who will create power structures so they can be at the bottom. (Or at least not at the top, they tend to need people who are below them as much as they need people who are above them.)

But authoritarian personalities tend to want this kind of thing to happen for its own sake and not because of any particular outcome. The authoritarianism is the goal itself. Psychological studies have shown these people will support (or at least not strongly oppose) oppression of while groups of people even when they are a part of the group in question. That is: they'd rather this stuff happen than not, even if it's happening to them personally.

A good write-up on this aimed at non psychologists is The Authoritarians by Bob Altemeyer: https://theauthoritarians.org/

Written for the Bush era, sadly still relevant today.

You, uh, forgot to change accounts there, buddy.

"lolcow", damn you've got all the right wing dog whistles don't you?

"Glowies" is fascist signaling. I don't have a good non paywalled explanation so have this, i guess.

Funny how diversity is bad when it includes non conservatives but suddenly good when it forces (occurred) conservative views into, say, science, medicine, and engineering.

Looks like they're trying to compete with AI spam.

Either that or trying to push their staff to use AI without saying it.

They really are clowns.

Meanwhile i don't think a single person who is afraid of immigration has changed positions.

No chance you're gonna choke a cougar, but i don't have a better suggestion haha. They're real beasts.

I'd bet WSB fucks everything up even if they're trying to be helpful.

Nationalize them.

The best lipstick.