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bitcrafter

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  • This is an official account of the US Government

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  • I personally get freaked out when everyone gets super pumped up about treating a group as being subhuman and worthy of death, because that's basically the same argument people used against the immigrants and look where that went as soon as they got power.

    Also, I have no idea what a typical ICE employee is like; it is possible that most or at least a significant fraction have never engaged in any fascist acts and have no desire to. Heck, for all I know, that ICE employee you took joy in watching die was actually working hard within the organization to try and make things better precisely because the violence was bothering them as much as it bothers you.

    So, I totally oppose the fascist things that ICE does, and don't really even have a problem with people calling it a fascist organization since that is how it is being run from the top down, and I would even go so far as to say that no moral person can be associated with them at this point (although I have sympathy for the people who were working there before things took a sharp turn for the worse). But having said that, I prefer to follow the words of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 31:

    Good weapons are instruments of fear; all creatures hate them.Therefore followers of the Tao never used them.The wise man prefers the left.The man of war prefers the right.

    Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man’s tools.He uses them only when he has no choice.Peace and quiet are dear to his heart.And victory no cause for rejoicing.If you rejoice in victory, then you delight in killing;If you delight in killing, you cannot fulfill yourself.

    On happy occasions precedence is given to the left,On sad occasions to the right.In the army the general stands on the left,The commander-in-chief on the right.This means that war is conducted like a funeral.When many people are being killed,They should be mourned in heartfelt sorrow.That is why a victory must be observed like a funeral.

    So I (optimistically) look forward to the day when everyone doing these terrible things is locked away for our safety, or killed if absolutely necessary, but I do not rejoice in the prospect, except insofar as it means the end of the terrible suffering that they are inflicting on others.

  • GNOME's Nautilus File Manager Finally Supporting Ctrl+Insert & Shift+Insert

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  • Nothing if that works for you, but sometimes I end up using Ctrl+Insert / Shift+Insert a lot because I am doing a lot of things in the terminal and Ctrl+C has a different meaning there, so it is nice for Ctrl+Insert / Shift+Insert to work everywhere for when I have it in my muscle memory.

  • Proton might recycle abandoned email addresses and the privacy risks are terrifying

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  • I am confused about how this differs significantly from someone mistyping their e-mail address so that they end up instead typing in someone else's active e-mail address, because in both cases e-mails get sent to the wrong person.

  • What do you think the future of Windows is?

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  • As the world outside increasingly turns into a social and ecological hellscape, people will want to look at it less and less, and the time spent peering through windows will diminish. Eventually, the existence of a portal to a realm outside their bleak cave will be forgotten to time and memory, leaving behind only pale indoor light and stale indoor air.

  • [JakeyBoi] Dump Stat

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  • You can not push a button to launch a nuke if they disable your hand!

  • If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

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  • Yeah, playing with it for fun to see what you can make it come up with is a perfectly reasonable use case, if it weren't for the environmental cost...

  • If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

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  • When I go on a bike ride, I don't constantly have people pulling beside me reminding that I could be driving in a car.

    When I use cash, the person taking it does not remind me that I could have used a credit card.

    When I open a container of oatmeal, there isn't a little piece of paper that springs out and reminds me I could be eating instantly ready breakfast cereal instead.

  • affine foss alternative to notion

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  • Call me old school, but I prefer my foss to be linear.

  • Rust Coreutils 0.3 Released With Some Major Speed-Ups, Better GNU Compatibility

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  • Being written in Rust has mixed effects. Rust is still less mainstream than C, so fewer people can contribute. However, it does attract more interest because it’s different.

    Yes, it's "different". That is all that it has to offer: it's "different". There is no other reason why people might be interested in it.

    However, the reasons why you create/contribute to new-but-similar projects is to add functionality that the original project doesn’t have.

    Why is that the only reason to motivate someone to do such a thing?

    So why are people (and Canonical) contributing so much labor to something that still doesn’t function as intended?

    Maybe we should take them that they word that they are genuinely think that coreutils would be better if it were written in Rust? Why is that such a radical possibility?

    I say it’s the licensing.

    Yes, I have noticed that you are very big on saying what others' motivations are.

  • Rust Coreutils 0.3 Released With Some Major Speed-Ups, Better GNU Compatibility

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  • So the fact that it is written in Rust has absolutely nothing to do with it?

  • Rust Coreutils 0.3 Released With Some Major Speed-Ups, Better GNU Compatibility

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  • I don't know where you are getting "a decade" from, but assuming we are using the percentage of passing tests as our metric of the percentage of "what coreutils does"--which is dubious, but it's your metric so let's go with that for the moment--we see in the very same plot that just four years ago it only did 25 percent of "what coreutils does", so clearly significantly more has happened in the last four years than did in the previous six, rather the project being worked on equally hard for the entire time.

    Also, you seem to imply that it shouldn't have taken them "a decade" to get accomplish "85 percent of what coreutils does", but that raises the question: exactly how long should it have taken exactly? Can you cite evidence that it took significantly less time for coreutils to get to the point where it accomplished "85 percent of what coreutils does" today? If not, then there is no basis of comparison we can use to decide whether a decade is a long time or not to have gotten to this point.

  • DOGE's Plundering of Data Hastens Calls to Tighten Government Privacy Laws

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  • At least they eventually closed that barn door!

  • React and Remix Choose Different Futures

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  • I appreciated this insightful essay for explaining where each side is coming from, why being different is okay, and how this ties in to a bigger picture, rather than being a standard opinionated rant.

  • Ring’s CEO says his cameras can almost ‘zero out crime’ within the next 12 months

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  • Man, I bet that, when this guy watched The Ring, the first thought that came into his mind was that the characters were being idiots by not making as many copies of the tape as possible and then selling them!

  • This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services

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  • The prospect is definitely tempting, but the problem is that the market can remain irrational for longer than I can remain solvent...

  • CRUX is a lightweight Linux distribution for the x86-64 architecture targeted at experienced Linux users

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  • Yeah, and this policy is especially nonsensical when you consider that in most cases the programs were actually written in C.

  • Adam Ellis

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  • Not minimalist enough: it actually runs NetBSD.

  • Why don't Americans impeach Trump?

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  • The votes needed for removal is actually 66%, which is even harder, but otherwise I concur.

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    Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever"

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  • FROM OUTER SPACE!!!

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  • Yeah, for me it is a matter of personal principle: I am against the killing of animals just so I can have a nice random number.