BillyClark

I’m all of the above

It says “Someone you know is gay,” but I think it would be extremely presumptuous of me to say that I know you. It also says, “someone you love,” but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt on that one.

I like that flatpak runs the apps in a sandbox.

For desktop use, I’m not even sure that minimal binary distros make as much of a difference as they used to. Most of the software I use tends to be flatpak, which is like the opposite of minimal binary.

I’m starting to think that whatever distro installs and updates the easiest is probably the best to use. Either that, or if you want a specialized distro, like one specializing in games, that might be the best, because games tend to be my number one headache.

One of the basic problems with theists is that they have no idea what God is.

“God is love.” In what way? God is just an emotion related to a chemical reaction in the brain?

“God is all powerful.” Can he microwave a burrito so hot that even he can’t eat it?

“God is omniscient.” If everything in the future is already known, then what’s the point?

It just goes on and on. Either God is some vague impossibility, or he’s exactly the same as a human male, somehow. But a human male is not the same as God, so that can’t really be right. But nobody can even give a real framework as to what he could be.

If you can’t describe God no matter how hard you try, then what the hell are you believing in? That’s the basis for ignosticism.

Yeah, his personality comes through.

The problem with taking good photos of Pete Hegseth is that, no matter what, it’s still a photo of Pete Hegseth.

Yes, it’s ironic speech.

The Reform UK party has had this sort of thing happen over and over, where, despite them saying that they have the highest moral standards, one of them turns out to be a very immoral person. Usually they’re caught saying something incredibly racist.

LBC’s James O’Brien recently imagined that their entire interview and vetting process must consist of only one question, “Are you a wrong’un?”

He’s a paedo, yes, but do we know for sure that he’s also racist?

I think that definition simply doesn’t reflect how the word is used anymore.

In English, the definition is based on how the word is used, not the other way around.

And another fuck you to the American people. Melania was not elected. She was not appointed and confirmed. She’s a nobody in the eyes of our government. We Americans have a process for choosing people in our government and it’s not supposed to be nepotism.

A competent professional would have found a way to make both things work together. Ripping the carpet out from under their users’ feet is exactly why people switched from Digg to Reddit all those years ago.

Everything about that announcement screams, “We are amateurs who are bad at our jobs” to me. I guess that’s on purpose? But what’s the point? If they suck so badly at these sort of decisions, you don’t want to use their services, anyway.

One of the unexpected boons of using Ubuntu is that there are fewer zealots. If I say it sucks, nobody gets offended. Actually, I think more people get offended if you say that Ubuntu doesn’t suck.

More “right on right” violence. I wish someone would teach these people that violence isn’t the only solution to all of their problems.

I think there are some historical governments where individual people earned the right to vote. One thing that is appealing about that is the people who worked to earn their vote would appreciate its significance.

But I don’t agree with that style. I think everyone should be forced to participate. It’s called compulsory voting. And that we simply need higher standards for education. These people are dumb as shit because our education system failed them.

I think the bigger point is that if you type the entire path, you are obviously typing more characters, which gives more opportunities for typos, whatever they may be.

It’s far safer to find ways to type less. Less typing, fewer typos. As long as you can do it safely.

That doesn’t protect you from typos.

rm -rv /home/schmuck /etc

“Whoops, I accidentally added a space.”

I have three ways around this:

1. ls ~/etc … <press up arrow, replace ls with rm -rv>
2. ls ~/etc … rm -rv !$
3. Add the commands to a simple script and use variables to remove the danger of a command line.

Even if it’s not entirely faked, you can instruct an AI to give you wrong answers to your questions. So unless you can see the entire conversation history, you can’t make any conclusions about a single response.

I imagine if somebody started a thread here that asked the same question, but said, “Wrong answers only,” people would find a lot of evidence that humans aren’t capable of figuring this out, either.

You were using the phrase correctly. “They can’t compete with it,” is the standard way of saying what you intended to say.

I was playing off of the normal meaning of your statement to make a turn of phrase. In other words, I am intentionally using weird phrasing, and placing it next to your normal phrasing for humor and impact.