mitch

All those fun little cultural benefits were only meant to keep people at the office for longer spans of time, away from their families, and always ready for work. These bureaucratic structures are just the natural state of any public company that has to answer to feduciary duty.

Tech isn't dead, nor is it done. It is just going to not be very profitable for a while, which will likely mean that a lot of us won't be working on it for a while.

That, and, y'know, actually showing up for each other instead of relentlessly torturing other men for having the gall to express any emotions beyond the two approved ones, laughter and rage.

FWIW, this is why AI researchers have been screeching for decades not to create an AI that is anthropomorphized. It is already an issue we have with animals, now we are going to add a confabulation engine to the ass-end?

that is coming and has always been part of the plan. eventually they'll do a 25A and he will be President.

that, and let the publishing industry sink to such a level that people like JD Vance can publish an entire book of embellishments about how terrible life was in the same area he now actively represses.

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see ya in Philly, Trumpy.

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Judging by what little I have at my disposal (my Proxmox summary), netin is the lion’s share of it.

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Hmmm. You just reminded me to update, thank you.

I run a single-user PieFed instance and am happy as a clam with it.

YouTube blew up the year I went to college and got access to a T3 line. 🤤 My school had pretty robust security, but it was policy-based. Turns out, if you are on Linux and can't run the middleware, it would just go "oh you must be a printer, c'mon in!"

I crashed the entire network twice, so I fished a computer out of the trash in my parents' neighborhood, put Arch and rtorrrent on it, and would just pipe my traffic via SSH to that machine. :p

Ah, and the short era of iTunes music sharing... Good memories.