Sometimes with the middle east it feels like all factions involved think that not doing that is the radical behavior which is so frustrating to watch from the outside.

In a way it is already acting like a CEO, LLMs basically just repeat what everyone else they read was saying, just like CEOs do with the latest hyped thing.

It shouldn’t come as a big surprise that <people who hate group x no matter what group x does> also oppose <specific thing a specific subset of group x does>. That is not an argument for or against criticizing that specific thing.

I would argue that advertising is not just a privacy concern or a nuisance, it often also influences people to make decisions that are highly damaging to their health, the environment, democracy in their country,…

My house used to be next to the highway, the sound was so irritating

You don’t dislike the city, you dislike cars. Cars in cities are often people who live outside the city imposing the cost of their life style onto the city.

It is hard to clean all the dust off your printer for the once every 3 years you might need it though without also blowing the toner everywhere.

Deleting the current directory via ./ seems contrived since you would just use . or more likely the directory name from outside the directory. What does happen is rm -rf ${FOO}/ while ${FOO} is an empty string.

Well, in this context what we are talking about is some random init script from some other service because nobody wants to write all that crap from scratch every time.

Before you copied some random file you edited and put it in init.d and it worked.

Before you copied some random file you edited and put it in init.d and it appeared to be working but then failed in random ways the first time you restarted, the first time you rebooted, the first time you restarted it via sudo instead of directly as root since some environment variable differed,…

So really it only appeared to be working in my experience because you had no real way to check.

where they make sure it works and they officially support it

Citation needed

completely stop caring about other formats and community packages.

That seems to be the case every time developers package software in any way. Sometimes even if they don’t package it at all.

it seems to be something devs like because it makes their life easier.

It seems to be something some devs like because they get annoyed when distro maintainers point out problems in their software or implement workarounds for those issues.

But Flatpak is one of the technologies that explicitly has the developer deal with packaging, something they are usually quite bad at because they don’t do it very often, unlike distro maintainers.

I reject several of the premises of the article, in particular the idea that China and the western countries are independent enough from each other that their rise or fall could be seen as independent phenomenons and also the idea that China’s growth represents something that the West could emulated and that isn’t just a result of the fact that China’s population was still largely peasants at the start of that growth. It is always easier to see higher percentage growth if you start from a very low base value.

That said I am not saying China isn’t doing some things better than the west, particularly when it comes to decisive and unified action but again, a lot of that is the result of the different starting positions, if the status quo favors you already you tend to be cautious not to lose that status while risky behaviour is more likely to benefit you if you start further down. And of course it is easier to get a population to act in a unified way if you can just force them as opposed to having to convince them.

the moral and Christian fortitude he aims to represent

I mean to be fair he is a good representative for the disgusting “values” that kind of religion instils in people.

Confusingly enough to release can also mean to publish or to cut loose.

They used to back when they were actually threatening but then over the course of Voyager they switched to Wayland and that is why they are now defeated all the time because they spend 95% of their drones on fixing Wayland issues and only 5% on operational objectives of the collective.

Wouldn’t that be BDS?

And all of them are universally bad. Especially all the Kubernetes tools, Helm is so bad and at least half of it is due to the combination of YAML and templating.

I don’t use Terraform but from my understanding Terraform is more for “what kind of server hardware/VM/container/… do I want” and less “which configuration do I want on that server/VM/container/…”

To be fair it is not Ansible’s fault that Windows does pretty much everything differently from the systems Ansible was designed for.