So to be clear, I believe the person is referring to the recent case of a German (white dude, electrical engineer iirc) who got picked up and treated so poorly during detention that he had to be hospitalized. The article I saw specifically mentioned the Immigration fuckwits encouraging him to get rid of his green card.

everything’s computer

It breaks my heart that so much of these will end up in landfills. Resell them. Or send them to device recycling. There’s a shitload of rare earths in modern-ish but obsolete computers. And downcycling is possible too - my router is an old Lenovo thin client with a dual port 10g SFP+ card slapped in it.

Sometimes they do rather inappropriate copium pieces when shits looking particularly bleak. That doesn’t excuse it, but it does explain it.

Yeah honestly it’s pretty clear that nobody in the government right now understands how much of a watershed moment this is. We used to build the best shit, period. Now we build the best shit, except we’re fickle as fuck and the shit is also so complicated that there’s no feasible way to determine if we stuffed a kill switch in there somewhere.

Nope. I never ever configure my systems with autologin. Auth is always required to use my shit. It’s a good habit and I’m not breaking it lol :P

Yeh seems fine tbh. Genuinely didn’t do anything special. Literally just slapped Kinoite onto a surprisingly useful little asus laptop I snapped up a while ago for a hilarious deal.

I mostly use it as a secondary computer near my bed stand when I remember I wanted to do some sort of thing on my system or homelab crap but it’s late and I don’t feel like getting out of bed. Crucial use case, to be honest.

It’s only a clarification, not the definition of the significant terms

This document updates RFC 2119 by clarifying that only UPPERCASE usage of the key words have the defined special meanings.

December 31st

ticket closed as “by design”

The ruling says that Wynn-Williams should stop promoting the book and, to the extent she could, stop further publication. It did not order any action by the publisher.

Emphasis mine. RFC 2119 strikes again :D

SHOULD: This word, or the adjective “RECOMMENDED”, mean that there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item, but the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a different course.

I’d ask how the Meta lawyer could sleep at night arguing such a bullshit and openly caustic line of rhetoric, but the answer’s probably “like a baby, in an extremely expensive and comfortable bed”

生意気な野郎 😂

You just gotta be big enough that you can buy enough people. FAANG is there (though this is Wild West politics nowadays so who the fuck knows what’s gonna happen). But when you own the people writing the laws to control you… they’re not controlling you.

Honestly, if I had done something like this and they twigged to it, I’d consider just fucking off and joining the French foreign legion.

Thank fucking god.

This is the fundamental core of what it is to be 196

lol I’m so exited for these to flame out hard

Ngl I’m a little bit looking forward to the next housing crash, because maybe then I can finally buy a fucking house for a not-too-insane price.

Not when it comes to the fash.

They do not get even the barest semblance of sympathy, mercy, or benefit of the doubt. Ever.

I find Wolfenstein 1 and 2 to be extremely therapeutic.