Well, FEMA funds are being redirected towards building concentration camps in the Everglades. Whatcha gon do without any money?

What I meant was, it’s really sad that it takes celebrities to get anyone to do anything about this scandal.

alas, someone bright and intelligent somewhere probably already fed your credit card alongside all your other customer information into it

Well, you’re probably right there…

Our city has had a fleet of electric BYD buses for the past year and a half and they’re great! Whenever I have to ride one of the old diesel buses still operating on the less-traveled lines, it feels like a downgrade.

But their range isn’t all that great. I asked a driver, and he said that yes, in theory, they can drive 300 to 400 km on a charge. But the reality is, because of heating in the winter (and we have VERY cold winters here) and A/C during our short summers, the buses do 150 to 200 km at the most, and the city basically had to purchase an extra bus for every one on the road, the other being charged at the depot.

How is this Linux news? It’s barely tech news.

AI learning your credit card number is a recipe for someone to make it spew it out in the future. No thanks.

I guarantee you nobody would have lifted a finger about the Madleen if Greta Thunberg hadn’t been on board. This whole thing is a PR stunt.

That sloppy AI gobbledygook barely qualifies as computer-related content, let alone “hacker news”.

Is there anything in the US that gets better?

Immigrants are just the first wave of scapegoats.

I refer you to Martin Niemöller’s famous confession:

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

ICE is the modern American SS. They just need an excuse to arrest people arbitrarily - until they don’t need an excuse no more.

poettering is an absolute good guy here

Agreed. But he’s also an abrasive know-it-all. A modicum of social skills and respect goes a long way towards making others accept your pet projects.

pulesaudio protocol is used within pipewire and it works just fine.

I wasn’t talking about the protocol, I was talking about the implementation: PulseAudio is a crashy, unstable POS. I can’t count the number of hours this turd made me waste, until PipeWire came along.

I wish we still had some living memory to whoop these fascists in line.

I’m not old enough to have lived through WW2, but my parents and my grandparents did. And quite a few members of my family went to the camps. Some didn’t come back.

They told us kids what happened. They lived it, and they passed their memories onto us.

And so as a result, fascism is very much a living memory to me. It’s the memory of seeing those dear to us weep when they told us kids what they saw and what they had to endure.

Sadly, those of us for whom fascism is a living memory - directly or indirectly - are too old to whoop anybody’s ass. But I have a burning desire to. I can’t stand fucking fascists, and they’re running the country right now! I’m so fucking mad!

Poor little Grok is just trying to make Daddy proud…

Whatever Jack Dorsey proposes, always remember that he created Twitter - which is a shame in and of itself - and then took $653m from the South African Nazi when Twitter was sold.

Fuck Jack Dorsey.

I totally agree. I used to hate systemd for breaking the traditional Unix philosophy, but the reality is that a tight init and service-tracking integration tool really was required. I work with and appreciate systemd every day now. It certainly didn’t make things simplier and easier to debug, but it goes a long way towards making a Linux system predictable and consistent.

Poettering can go fuck himself though - and for PulseAudio too. I suspect half of the hate systemd attracted over the years was really because of this idiot.

Of all things that could lead to his downfall.

Too late for that.

And then what if he was impeached (and that’s clearly not gonna happen, but for the sake of argument…)? The next Nazi in line is JD Vance, and he’s much more dangerous than the senile orange buffoon.

And then let’s say President Vance dies in a freak sofa-humping accident: the next Nazi in line is Mike “I sucked Trump’s dick for this job” Johnson.

The American Reich is here to stay. And ICE will make sure people vote the right way at the next election.

It’s quite staggering how the Nazi playbook is being followed almost to a tee in the United States.

The previous stage was the incredible expansion of ICE, an unaccountable masked police force the law can’t touch, making it to Trump what the SS was to Hitler: a private army.

This is the concentration camp building phase.

Anyone who’s had history lessons in school should see what’s been happening since the orange utan came back to fling feces in the White House. It truly is the Hitler timeline, 1-to-1. Yet nobody peeps a word.

Plus ca change…

Well, I guess nuclear winter is a way to stop all wars ultimately…

But then it’s probably just more Trump BS: as Steven Kroft eloquently said yesterday, just because Donald Trump said something doesn’t mean it’s true.

Trump is quite amazing: everything - and I mean EVERYTHING - he does is clearly geared towards cruelty and hurting other human beings on purpose.

I mean other dictatorships are usually nasty towards certain groups of people, and most have at least a couple of redeeming qualities. But it really seems Trump has a grudge against other humans in general, and literally none of what he does is good in any way, shape or form.

He’s a head of state. That automatically qualifies him to nominate people.

Of course, the Nobel committee is also perfectly free to say “This nomination of a fucking fascist by a fucking genocidal maniac…Should we do a Kissinger again or shall we just close the file and go have a beer instead?”