Yep. Whenever I learn that someone went to business school, and doesn’t feel any shame admitting it, I simply stop talking to them. Fucking ghouls, man. Literally destroying the earth for profit. As a society, we need to drown them in ridicule. That’s what they deserve.

Can confirm. It’s not just the US either. We have similar things happening in India. The leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi wanted to talk about Modi’s connection to Epstein, and about a recent (unpublished, due to lack of approval) memoir of a retired General about the Indo-China situation. But he was stopped for bogus reasons, and the parliament was prematurely adjourned.

But no one even saw the footage from the parliament session, and no one seems to care that it happened. What people do seem to care about is that Rahul interrupted some union ministers’ press briefing, and they basically bolted as they didn’t have any answers for him. So now everyone is calling them cowards. Not because of what happened in the parliament, but because of this memeable interaction. We are truly living in an idiocracy, just worse. At least the President Camacho seemed to genuinely care.

Video of the outside interaction: https://youtu.be/MGM7YHho2_0
Video of the parliament proceedings: https://youtu.be/BHgZDSi9QiM

This is why I find it so funny when the US celebrates its independence day. Bitch, independence from who? Yourself? (I know from who, but I think it’s kinda bullshit. It’s like if the British committed genocide in India, and then declared independence. Kinda dilutes the meaning of the word.)

I’ve always been kinda technically motivated. The only reason I didn’t actually study computer science is that I had a great math teacher who made me fall in love with math. But I had it for a minor, and like to read stuff up from time to time. So, I guess I’m kinda in the grey area in regards to being a person in tech.

Anyway, I love tinkering with stuff, so I inevitably got into self hosting. Nowadays, I’ve even started maintaining some self hosted software.

They probably just stored CSAM on it.

In my culture, being a human and having humanity are two entirely separate things. So I think we agree for the most part.

They were born humans, but they’ve surely lost their humanity by now.

Things break. More than upgrades, Framework laptops are great for repairability.

Not surprised. From what I’ve heard from pretty much every German person I’ve talked to, Bavaria is basically their Texas (read UP if you’re Indian, not sure about analogies for other countries).

Probably still a more positive influence that these scums have on their kids.

Yeah, I can tell from experience. In India, the older folks almost have a taboo against divorce. It was getting better, but with the re-emergence of religious extremism, it’s probably gonna get worse.

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Statistics don’t matter to bigots.

Let me introduce you to spices. /s (Only somewhat, I know people who actually don’t use any spices.)

Exactly. I never see people actually liking Cinnamon as a DE, but everyone keeps recommending Mint. It’s so frustrating, and perplexing.

Same in many other places. Around 2015, I remember recharging with a prepaid package that gave me 100 messages/day. (I think it was like ₹10/day). I used to save from my lunch money so that I could text my then gf. Man, I was so happy when she finally got a smartphone.

Hope that isn’t coming from personal experience, brother/sister/anything you prefer.

In Bangla, we call the color peyaji, which is basically “onion-y”. It’s also what we call onion fritters, and they’re absolutely delicious.

Edit: Just remembered that we also use it as a slang for fucking around. Not sure where that came from lol.

The idea is that someone is checking the code. And by building it yourself, you can at least ensure that you’re getting what’s built from the code. It is possible that some malicious stuff was inserted while building the binary that doesn’t show up in the source code. Building from source solves that problem.

Reproducible builds try to solve that problem by generating some provenance from a third party. A middle ground can be building the binary using something like GitHub Actions, since that can be audited by others. That comes with its own can of worms since GH is owned by M$, but I digress.

So it is technically sane to do it, just not very practical in my view. But for lesser known apps, I do sometimes build from source.