Did I say “only”?

Fascists are the most dangerous and frankly, alarmingly flooding the internet with their shit right now

“Magnitudes” is a borderline dangerous understatement of the difference in their output versus any other corner of political thought.

Hyper targeted advertising on the internet means you categorically will not be seeing anything close to the worst of it.

Of course it is.

Fascists can create the illusions they need to convince morons whilst at the same time making them distrust reality (“nah that’s AI”)

A lot of people are going to suffer

It does actually seem like it’s only the US for now

Unless I’ve misunderstood your comment

BBC article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2vgkn7w10o

Oh yes, more of this.

I think having a healthy population is key for defense too, so I’d say NHS spending is also defense spending and should get a slice of that pie

VScode locally, vim if I’m shelled into something

Used to use sublimetext, but roughly a decade ago VSCode ended up getting a lot of inertia, and that resulted in better plugins (at the time anyway)

I’ve used the jetbrains stuff and I do not get the hype whatsoever, it’s bloaty and cumbersome.

One of the main reasons I switched from vim as my main was ping-pong pair programming. I’m not gonna be the arsehole that tries to force a junior dev to figure out vim instead of actually working on the ticket. Still 100% my go-to in text mode though, it’s basically perfect.

Using a magic keyboard for this is a bit cursed

I also am short sighted, though possibly a bit worse than you given your description. If my glasses suddenly fell off there are plenty of hazards I would potentially miss. Idiot kid about to run into the road, etc.

I think I’m more concerned about the unfortunate scenarios where:

Glasses fuck up meaning driver can only see near -> something that needs quick reactions happens to avoid someone dying -> driver is fumbling with glasses or trying to find a spare pair -> somebody dies

I don’t think I want it to be possible for someone’s glasses to die or freeze

People do dangerous things that are made safer by the fact they can see—like driving

Edit: you’ll need a prescription because the amount of focus it needs to do will be different for everyone and there isn’t a sensor to determine your eyesight

I think it’s worth understanding that tinyconfig is the result of a lot of effort into finding how much you can strip back the kernel and have it still (kinda) work. It’s realistically as stripped back as you can get—you don’t even get access to storage devices by default.

I’m curious about where your requirements have come from, as if the kernel was literally just tty and ethernet, you basically wouldn’t be able to do anything with it.

Genuinely though, the point of YouTube premium is to get rid of the ads…

We seem to be making cable TV again where you pay a premium for the privilege of being advertised to

Looking forward to the new era of security holes caused by this

Nearly the same for me, but it was closer to the end of June that I moved.

I’ve not contributed to Reddit since, and only really occasionally browse it from my computer when I’m looking for something in particular now.

Kinda helped by the fact the Reddit I used to enjoy seems to be more or less dead anyway. Weird bot filled comment sections, ads shoved in your face, weird monetising features no one asked for, increasingly weird moderation.

The problem you have is you care which disk gets wiped, russian roulette is the best design pattern!

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=$(ls /dev/sd* | shuf | head -n1)

…I shouldn’t need to say, but don’t run that unless you want to make your day a bit worse

Most Java engineers I’ve ever met have Stockholm syndrome with the framework du jour.

Flashbacks to one of my early freelance PHP gigs I did about 2 decades ago where I opened up the existing backend source code to find a load of unsanitised user input directly from the query string getting interpolated into the various SQL queries the application made. Part of me also feels like the “bobby tables” xkcd already existed by this point, so I’ve got no idea how that website managed to not get nuked before I refactored it.

To top it all off, of course the application authenticated with the database using the root user…

Thankfully I think that was the worst I ever discovered in the wild