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2026-10-27 13:45:37 UTC

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I mean, haven't they been 'dead tracks' for years and years? I would expect the signs to be an attempt to defeat the assumption that a lot of people in the area would've subconsciously built up over the years, that there may be tracks but there is no tram

2026-10-27 13:38:00 UTC

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university city does as university city is, huh

2026-09-08 19:28:55 UTC

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I have to ask before getting excited about them (as I just now learned of their existence)... no fash, no slop?

2026-07-19 14:50:03 UTC

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I haven't gotten around to reading the linked post in full yet (so this is more a general comment than specific feedback on your ideas), but wanted to drop this one bit before I forget, because it often gets overlooked:
Lots of people, me included, have auditory processing issues and so it's very difficult for us to process and understand speech, often requiring vastly more energy than just reading. Personally I tend to just outright skip things that are audio/video-only entirely, and only read transcripts when the author has made an effort to make them digestible outside of their original audio format.
I forgot the author's name, but one particularly strong example of such a digestible format comes to mind: they publish transcripts of their conference talks, but they are formatted as hr-delineated blocks with each block having the relevant presentation slide on the right, and the (cleaned up and sometimes reformatted) transcript of speech for that slide on the left. I've found this format very pleasant to follow, despite not being its original medium.

2026-01-28 19:09:15 UTC

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Christ, what is *with* this post attracting bigots. Fuck off.

2026-01-28 14:12:16 UTC

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JPEG, the true universal social media interoperability protocol

2026-01-15 20:03:43 UTC

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Related: a lot of things labelled as "fax machine" can actually *also* function as stand-alone USB printers. And "fax machines" are often free on classifieds, and use cheap generic cartridges/toners, and (aside from stuff like doorbell cameras) that means there's basically no paper or money trail from the original purchaser to you at all.
It's not a bad way to get hold of a more or less anonymous printer.

2026-01-07 20:35:33 UTC

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Until the broader XMPP ecosystem gets its shit together and provides a cohesive and *reliable* user experience, getting rid of the "you're just using it wrong" culture and actually addressing the problem of "where do people put their MUC without it disappearing under their feet when a server goes down"... no, it will not. Just like it didn't the last few times.
There's a *reason* people keep jumping between walled gardens, and the FOSS and open protocols community *absolutely* shares part of the responsibility for it.

2025-12-18 13:21:19 UTC

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The problem is that there's a new version of the DDR "standard" every couple of years and there's zero compatibility between those versions, so in practice RAM is pretty much tied to a particular generation of hardware (and thus a particular generation of performance).
Some reuse is possible by taking RAM from low-specced machines and combining it with high-specced hardware from the same era, but all things considered this is a pretty limited set of circumstances (also because you'll usually be dealing with an entirely obsolete generation), and one that just isn't really relevant to most people trying to buy RAM today, especially with Windows 11 setting high demands on hardware to even be installable 😐

2025-11-17 12:54:49 UTC

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A couple of years ago, I was brought in as a moderator to help de-fascist a community that had practically turned into 4chan, in one of the most fundamentally-abuse-attracting and difficult-to-moderate categories of community (privacy/security-related).
The policy was set as "no fascists, no alt-right, nothing that looks like it" and people would either get banned immediately (if clearly intentionally abusive) or get a warning otherwise that they were expected to take seriously (doubling down would be grounds for a ban). Every ban was permanent but revocable if someone showed genuine reflection and commitment to do better - this sometimes took minutes, sometimes months or even longer, sometimes never.
Randos complained for months. "You just call everyone a nazi", "how do you define fascist then", "you're being unreasonable", "the alt right aren't fascists", and so on, and so forth. Without exception, the ones complaining about it the most were the ones who already had a track prior record of being an asshole in different ways. A lot of the bans were the result of brigading attempts from, well, fascists who objected to being pushed out, pretending to be 'new users' and mysteriously immediately knowing about previous bans that happened before they joined.
It took a while, but they eventually gave up. The result was a pleasant community to be in, unusually pleasant for a privacy/security community. I haven't been around there for quite a while now, but my understanding is that it's still a nice place to this day.
"No fascists allowed" works, even under the worst conditions, and the "no, seriously, this is not up for debate, the moderator decides" is a critical component of *making* it work.

2025-10-28 17:10:29 UTC

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In the Netherlands, you merely need to look at the graph of total deaths per year. It went up at the start of COVID, and has never gone down since.

2025-10-15 12:06:10 UTC

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You sure this was Vivaldi and not Brave? Because Brave has been caught doing this, and it would be disappointing if there's a *second* browser doing this...

2025-10-11 13:32:29 UTC

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Unfortunately there's now Anduril employees on the steering committee and the founder of Anduril is openly chatting with DHH about taking over the NixOS project/community, all the while project governance has refused to even *try* to prevent any of this, so I don't know about that...

2025-10-04 12:55:37 UTC

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I think the "even when achieved is under constant attack" is key here. It means we're constantly having to treat the capitalist component as an adversary, fighting it, trying to keep it under control.
And that begs the question, why are we keeping it around at all? What unique thing is it giving us that is not achievable through some other mechanism that *isn't* a constant adversary? What is the capitalism component still doing in there to begin with?
This is all the more pressing of a question considering that essentially zero of the claims about how capitalism is supposed to benefit society (think 'trickle-down economics' and the like), have held up to scrutiny.

2025-10-04 12:04:56 UTC

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This is precisely what I am talking about, though - "the rich dismantling democratic mechanisms" *is* the phenomenon I am describing, and it is a pretty much unavoidable outcome with the social and political dynamics that capitalism introduces as an ideology (which is what it is - not just an 'economic system' as it's often portrayed).
Very bluntly speaking, the core ideological tenet of capitalism *is* wealth accumulation, and the remaining way to do that once all the low-hanging fruit is exhausted, is to capture structures of power to your own (semi-)exclusive benefit. And since wealth accumulation is ideologically a virtue in capitalism, this can easily end up overriding 'democratic mechanisms' in the arena of public discourse. If you convince people that chasing wealth is good, then they will (sufficiently) approve of regulatory changes that function to that end, and more generally support the wealthy.
To stop this from happening, you'd have to remove the concept that "increasing wealth" is a desirable thing and a virtue, and by that point you're not talking about capitalism anymore, because that is what defines it. So the only way to have reliably regulated capitalism is to *not* have it at all.

2025-10-04 10:29:07 UTC

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Speaking as an anti-capitalist, I'd agree with all of this (except *maybe* the 'standard of living' thing because the methods of measurement are a bit sketchy there), but I'd argue there's a third problem that's missing here: the non-isolation between wealth and regulatory power.
This model assumes that the regulatory power stands above wealth in the hierarchy, and while this is initially true - and I'm going to assume that the regulatory power is benevolent here - this doesn't *remain* true because wealth and influence gained through capitalism can be traded back for regulatory power due to the social value assigned to wealth (which needs to be there for capitalism to 'work' as a concept, or the driving incentive disappears).
But what that means is that if you have regulators keeping capitalists in check, and capitalists slowly amassing wealth and influence that they can use to adjust the regulators, it's only a matter of time until they slowly chip away at the regulatory layer to reduce the restrictions and nudging, which then improves their wealth acquisition, and so on, until eventual regulatory capture. And incentive-wise, this is entirely consistent with capitalism's theory of operation.
So as far as I can see, 'controlled/regulated capitalism' will always turn into uncontrolled capitalism eventually; it can only ever work temporarily, and this matches the actual timeline of events.

2025-09-29 11:34:27 UTC

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Didn't WOW originally fall over shortly after they started trying to do transatlantic flights for 200 euros roundtrip? Or was it already on a failure path before that?

2025-08-29 12:05:25 UTC

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Sounds like Kaitai Struct may be close to what you're looking for?