Disaster

I mean.. yeah layoff a whole bunch of people and start treating your employees like replaceable commodities.. then go ahead and arrogantly deploy technology you don't understand and :surprisepikachu: everything breaks.

But management get to do things without personal consequence, as they'll just lay off more workers to cover their absolute incompetence and things will continue to get worse.

Perhaps we should be replacing C-suite dipshits with AI's instead.

The same thing that is powering most other political figures, all of which can be termed "Populists"

People are angry about a number of things. The wealth gap is very large, they are constantly told that the reason they aren't doing well in life is because of their own failings, whilst they watch elites with political access get away with things they can only dream of. They're being told immigrants and/or AI's are coming for their jobs. They're being told they can't have what their parents or the wealthy had because Climate Change, or because inflation.

This generates a great deal of friction, which in turn pushes people to radicalize their beliefs. You can't continue to sell a liberal, centrist viewpoint of the world when it simply isn't working for them. They might cotton on to "dumb" ideas, but this does not mean that they are stupid. It means that they are angry. This is is demonstrative of a deeper problem that is being very deliberately ignored or papered over, because those in power have a vested interest in keeping the gravy train running for as long as possible. The sheer scale of the problems we now have to deal with are exceeding the kinds of moves and actions most Western politicians have learned over the years, so we aren't getting appropriate results out of our political apparatus.

In times such as these, many people will look to the past for ideas on how to deal with their current situation. They sometimes come back with bad ones, sometimes they come back with good ones, and the pre-existing power structure will do everything it can to resist both of them, because to change is tantamount to completely losing grip on power for many of the people invested in the way things are. They cannot adapt, and once gone they will never get it back.

So we have a kind of a worst-case situation with a maladaptive leadership, extreme public resentment and actual natural/physical catastrophes forming a kind of crucible that this civilization needs to endure.

The trumps/erdogans/farages/orbans/lukashenkos/putins/meleis of this world are symptoms of these issues.

Yeah, kinda funny how it's OK when there's a bunch of neoliberal gangsters like larry summers behind it, right?

No.

Yes, Eugene Debs, please.

• who was basically jailed on political pretexts but still..

I wish they'd give SteamVR on Linux a long overdue upgrade.

And by upgrade I mean "Make it look like it's a project which is even alive"

Well, except scumbags like eric adams, NYC's bought-owned-and-operated-by-real-estate-interests mayor.

I believe it's a little more sinister than that. There is less education around these issues because many services have adopted a highly polished, "Walled-Garden" approach to their presentation. This keeps people who've grown up with the concepts in their walled garden loyal to that specific service, and makes it difficult for people to dig under the hood and work out how things really function without the sugar coating. They get irritated quickly because they're used to everything "Just working" and don't have experience on more open systems.

Therefore, they would like there to be no need for tech education unless you plan on a professional career as a tech.

As long as ownserhip don't get carried away with enshittification chasing next quarter's finance call and drive users away by annoying them into putting the extra effort in to learning about alternatives, they could keep it that way forever.

80% of our machines were hit. We were working through 9pm on Friday night running around putting in bitlocker keys and running the fix. Our organization made it worse by hiding the bitlocker keys from local administrators.

Also gotta say... way the boot sequence works, combined with the nonsense with raid/nvme drivers on some machines really made it painful.

NYC and the costs are NOWHERE NEAR offset.

Then again, that is primarily because landlords are disgustingly greedy.

Matrix

CUNTS.

It beggars belief that people still make the argument you responded to after the whole Clownstrike debacle.

No, most people would not.

Most people would share, or hit a point and think "OK, that's enough for anything I really want personally... I'm gonna try and help out now.."

Nobody in their right mind should want a world where they are privately wealthy, but publically impoverished.
Because then, you have no security.
Someone will always be gunning for you.
You can stave it off by layering brute force, and laws, but there is no such thing as 100% secure. Eventually something will make it through, and wreak havoc. And because all you now care about, over everything, is whatever paltry "wealth" you've managed to secure, the catastrophe is magnified orders of magnitude. You have no real friends or community to turn to, nobody who would support you if you didn't have the most, and the rules didn't make you "king" because of it.

It's a sickness.

That dude should not have put up with that.

Remember when one of the OWS agent provocateurs got outed by riding his motorcycle like a dick a few months afterwards?

Ah, that explains why everything felt pretty off with the whole thing.

Maybe real estate?

I really don't care until I can buy one. In the meantime I have a few hdd's and an old LTO4 drive...

CGnat is an abomination.

I managed to migrate all mine to libvirt when I dumped esxi. They dropped support for the old opteron I was running at the time, so I couldn't upgrade to v7. Welp, Fedora Server does just as well and I've been moving the VM hosted services into containers anyway.

Ofc... well, we'll see what IBM does with RedHat. Probably something like this eventually. They simply can't help themselves.

..yet another reason to not use that pestilence.

Cunts.

I recently had to hold my nose to see a band I've been following for a very long time.

The venue utterly sucked, treated like cattle, tighter security than getting on a plane flight. Pathetic.

Ticketmaster/livenation can go die in a fire.

Billionaires should pay 100% tax over $999,999.99 of personal wealth.

Some people still get to be wealthy. Problem solved.

This. People exercised their consciences.

"I paid for this traffic light, therefore I want to use all three bulbs at once"

isn't riccitiello the same fuck who was behind EA's sharp turn bitchwards? and who even Sleepy Joe called "A creep"

They are making money off a literal public good. EVERYTHING they produce, including the profits, is public property.

At least we have Bitwig for music production now (if you can work out how to use it.. I still haven't had the time :-/ )

It might help if they didn't put all their efforts into killing Nitter and other useful frontends.

US now in the byzantine period..

I tried to get this up and running back on my K6-2, unfortunately I couldn't work out how to get the X server running with my 3Dlabs FireGL Pro card at the time.

"Today nothing happened, and everything is fine. (Fear it, fear it)"

Someone tell that to NY state's gov.

Sad we are cursed with such an absolute piece of shit senator as schumer.

Really wish we'd get some nice, fast RISC-V base boards with a nice amount of flash memory paired with a cool round LCD display..keep patrolling CNX for the parts but they don't seem to be quite there yet.

The sun will start increasing in luminosity within a billion years, at which point it will be intense enough to cause rocks to begin soaking up CO2 to a point where photosynthesis will become difficult, and the planetary food chain will collapse.

The hour is much later than we think. Maybe another supercontinent cycle or so?

There's also the term Xennials , which is 1977-1983.

The hour's growing late there. We needed to solve that problem before this technology became available. Just need useful life-extension technology and then it'll just be a bunch of rich psychopaths running around the planet, and everyone else will be disposed of.