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On the one hand, the board was an insane cult of effective altruism / longtermism / LessWrong, so fuck them. But on the other hand, this was a worker revolt for the capitalists, which I guess shouldn’t be surprising since tech workers famously lack class consciousness.

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People are asking what is wrong with these cults. It’s a lot to cover so I won’t try. People who follow the podcasts Tech Won’t Save Us or This Machine Kills will already be familiar with them. Here’s an article relevant to the moment that talks about them a little: Pivot to AI: Replacing Sam Altman with a very small shell script

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I’m sure the developers make the lower half of six figures, but they still have to sell their labor to survive, so they’re still working class.

I’ve been an SF Bay Area software developer for almost thirty years, so I know them well. I consider us members of the professional–managerial class (PMC). We generally think we’re “above” the working class (we’re not), and so we seldom have any sense of solidarity with the rest of the working class (or even each other), and we think unionization is for those other people and not us.

When Hillary Clinton talked about the “basket of deplorables,” she was talking to her PMC donors & voters about the rest of the working class, and we eat that shit up. Most of my peers have still learned no lessons from her election defeat, preferring to blame debunked RussiaGate conspiracy theories.

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For the ableists in the room: to reduce mouse usage.

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Some people still follow GPSes into lakes ¯_(ツ)_/¯ There’s a gormless technophile born every minute.

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You’re basically saying that virtually every Linux is the same, which to a certain extent is true and to a certain extent is not true.

Basically you haven’t said anything.

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They’ll keep trying until they win. It will be relatively easy for them to win on corporate social media. They largely have already have won, if you’ve continued to follow Matt Taibbi’s Twitter Files.

The final frontier will be the non-corporate fediverse: Atlantic Council: Collective Security in a Federated World

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I’m guessing a “SPAD” is a “Special Advisor”, because I think “Maria” is from Ireland and works for an NGO.

What should be used for anonymous usernames?

More often than not, the best way to hide is to simply blend in with the crowds – this also encompasses one’s choice for a username. It is relatively simple to make a single throwaway account – just come up with a username, and off you go – however, if one makes throwaway accounts often, the task of thinking of a unique,...

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€12.99/mo. sounds wildly overpriced to me in comparison to 1) cost to serve and 2) ad revenue. I’m not an ad revenue expert, but I have a hard time believing they make anywhere near €13/user/mo. from advertisers.

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Those appear to be per-quarter numbers, and if so that would mean ~€5.95/month.

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National security can largely kiss my ass.

For the most part, “national security” is the security of the State, and is largely unrelated to the security of the people who live in that State. Since we’re all speaking English here, it’s safe to assume that the States we’re talking about are capitalist ones, so “national security” is for the most part the security of the oligarchs of the State in question.

A closely related term is “national interest,” which for the most part is a euphemism for the interests of the country’s billionaires.

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For my fellow Americans, here are two concrete examples of what I mean:

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/841f05df-f9a4-4725-a627-65e7b612fbb5.jpeg

Those two holes in the middle of New York City are blowback from our national interests in West Asia in the later half of the last century. National interests and national security are not our interests or our security.

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🛎️🛎️🛎️ Citations Needed podcast: Ep 191: How Media’s Use of ‘The Economy’ Flattens Class Conflict

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How stupid are you, photographing random mushrooms and asking random people on the internet if you should eat them?

Extremely fucking stupid. This is the stupidest thing I’ve seen on Lemmy since joining four months ago.

U.S. Quietly Expands Secret Military Base in Israel (theintercept.com)

Two months before Hamas attacked Israel, the Pentagon awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to build U.S. troop facilities for a secret base it maintains deep within Israel’s Negev desert, just 20 miles from Gaza. Code-named “Site 512,” the longstanding U.S. base is a radar facility that monitors the skies for missile...

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And nobody is saying that they do. But there are plenty of people who are unaware that non-GNU Linuxes exist.

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It’s only called UNIX if it comes from the Santa Cruz region of California, otherwise it’s a sparkling POSIX.

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Also true. Feel free to make an informational post on the matter.

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After 33 years of development, GNU/Hurd still may not be ready for production use, but it’s not quite dead 💀 🦜

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🤞 I’d rather chew glass than deal with C again.

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It’s unfortunate that Go has become so popular at the expense of modern system programming languages like Rust and Nim and Zig. Go is such a platypus: a compiled language that isn’t a proper system language.

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Philosophy probably did play a significant role: Google could have chosen BusyBox, which is GPL licensed, if their concern was solely the GNU user space’s comparative bloat.

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Funny thing about American southern accents is that “stock” and “stalk” sound the same.

I was in the south once and someone asked me to stalk the printer. It took me a second to realize she wanted me to PC LOAD LETTER.

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vim phone-blocklist.txt

I mean, you need to be a little more specific about what you want.

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I wouldn’t say I’m forgetting to do them.

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Bonus: the app is just an Electron wrapper to their website.

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This is gonna cost you so many fake internet points, comrade. TYFYS 🫡

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Sorry sweaty, but pre-February 2022 Western media is fake news now.

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It’s funny how IMDB changed his name sometime between January 2022 and now: web.archive.org/web/20220129175259/…/nm3305952/

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Initiate sauce separation.

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Please say what platform(s) a thing is for next time, so I don’t dig around & discover it’s of no use to me.

Edit: It’s for Android.

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He’ll inform only when it suits his own ends, and never out of a sense of justice or patriotism, or a want of walking around money.

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