I’m sure it’s possible, but it’s also a total dice throw with nobody responsible watching over the result. And the potential consequences of unsafety are pretty bad.

If money can buy fame etc and he clearly has plenty, perhaps it’s a lack of caring about it. Would seem consistent with his behavior overall in the last couple of decades.

I would agree with that sentiment, but seems like peoples’ actual experiences are a bit different: https://jeena.net/lemmy-switch-to-piefed

Possibly a testament of how software architecture can be more important than any lower level technical decisions.

Insane toxic trolls are insane toxic trolls regardless of how virtuous you might think their “cause” is.

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Banning alcohol and cigarettes from children seems to have worked, if not perfectly, rather fine.

finding safe spaces online

What do you mean by this? How can an online space be safe for a child?

You don’t get 20 years in jail for littering.

Your fallacious description of people’s process towards becoming Marxist Leninists as being the same sort of way that poor, ignorant, emotionally needy people latch onto a cult, is ridiculous, and the kind of things liberals like to say of all of us on the anticapitalist left to comfort themselves into maintaining their simplistic “I’m right but they’re wrong” worldview and avoid having to engage with the many real reasons people become anticapitalists.

Did I touch a nerve or something? Did I too accurately describe your origin story?

Don’t be like the liberals.

Oh, of course not. I am a liberal. Proudly. And I don’t mean the kind of wishy-washy liberal that American center-left calls themselves, but the real thing.

No one is born into Marxism Leninism, anarchism, or any other ideology, and saying that is a grotesquely anti-anarchist thing to say.

That’s naive. Of course people who are born in China will be indoctronated more into the chinese version of communism versus any other ideology. And people who are born in America will be indoctronated into a slightly different direction by default. I’m talking about the masses, not the 1% or whatever who decide about these things mostly for themselves.

The process is probably identical to how people fall into the alt-right/far-right mindset. Their life sucks, they have connections to no-one, nobody fucks them. But then this one group start showing them sympathy and camaraderie and things start to look better.

And some of them just get born into it.

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Actually vice versa, it’s often considered too polite. We tend to use “se” aka “it” in speech.

Proto-Finnic and current Finnish (and many of its sibling languages) has had a gender-neutral “Hän” (in some form) for about 3000-5000 years.

Insert “Look What They Need to Mimic a Fraction of Our Power” meme here.

Yeah I thought about Linux as a possible counter-example, then I realized that a significant amount of the maintenance burden of Linux as an operating system has been carried by American companies.

FOSS in general too, but a lot of that has also been done by american individuals either by themselves or backed by their employers.

And of course Linus Torvalds moved from Finland to America of all the places he could’ve chosen.

Megabonk.

Intravenous 1.

No third game. (This could be the name of a game, but sadly I’m referring to the fact that I only played those first two games during the holidays)

The problem can be witnessed every time just about anyone seriously considers moving away from American products in the software space. They will notice that generally

1. Americans have done everything better than anyone else

2. Americans have done everything cheaper than anyone else

Which means that a significant change to EU-made stuff means that you will pay more for something that is worse. It takes a lot of commitment to some pretty much non-existant EU ideal to do that. And before Trump (especially the second term), nobody in EU really had any good reason to do it. USA was genuinely a good ally in just about every level.

Does it. 99% are using AWS, Google or Microsoft to the best of my knowledge.

AWS is even trying to bluewash their crap with https://aws.eu/ – should have launched in 2025 but doesn’t seem like they’re getting there.

I don’t hate the hours, but I hate the constant process of it all. That we are expected to be at the computer about 8 hours every day, even if it’s clear that our efficiency has dwindled.

And I’m in a lucky enough situation, that I wouldn’t even really have to do this. I could easily take a few days off sometimes, but I just … won’t until it’s actual vacation time. So after the vacation ends, I end up working efficiently for a month, so-and-so for 3 months, then absolutely shitty for a month and then it’s vacation again. Because I choose to.

Jazz: The world is broken and it’s beautiful

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