The memecoin rugpull by the President of the United States is considered by many historians to be the start of the downfall of the US.

-AI David Attenborough

POV: It’s 2007 and you just signed up for Netflix, streaming is so simple and easy

They pulled up to a stop light

It can’t even reproduce the opening paragraph of Moby Dick

Meta has a chatbot that makes pirated books available?

You can label different sections of the working class but on the scale of history and societies the only real divisions in society is between the class people who trade their labor for money and the class of people who earn money simply by virtue of having money.

The poorest Walmart employee and the richest doctor have more in common than the doctor and a person of inherited wealth. You’ll interact with doctors and engineers many times a year in your community. While you’ll probably never be in the same room as a wealthy person.

Laws that protect labor, provide social safety nets, provide for education, security, etc all benefit the Walmart worker and doctor. But they’re completely worthless to the people who own their own security, pay for their own education and never have to worry about starving to death if they’re unable to work.

We’re seeing the wealthy taking control and deciding that they can save money by simply choosing to not support working people. After all, what are we going to do? Stop working for them?

New people don’t realize that Linux is really a soap opera with a small software project attached.

Let’s say such a change happens and at that time there’s a bit of time pressure and the capacity on the rust maintainers is thing for whatever reasons. Will they still happily swallow that change or will they start to discuss if it’s really necessary to do that change? And suddenly, the C-maintainer has a political discussion on top of the technical issue they wanted to solve.

This situation could occur even if the code using the API was written in C.

If an API change breaks other downstream kernel code, and that code can’t be fixed in time then they have a conversation about pushing the changes to the next build.

In the end, Linus has already chosen to accept the extra development overhead in using Rust. I think this situation was more about a maintainer, who happens to disagree with the Rust inclusion, using their position to create unnecessary friction for other maintainers.

Where’s the pre-order link?

Listen bro, I’m not pirating anything.

But I’m real friendly with a server in a Singaporean datacenter that is

Is it, like, algorithmically deprioritized?

Yes, that’s modern censorship. The owners of social media get to decide how viral a piece of content will be.

This is why when you make a new X account it pushes right-wing conspiracy nonsense. Or why Palestinian topics don’t gain traction.

The manipulation of social media to control what you see and hear is invisible. Some people, topics and keywords can be deprioritized and others boosted and nobody can know the extent except the people that own the social media companies.

The Social Dilemma and The Great Hack go into the nuts and bolts of how people are profiled so that content can be targeted at them as well as how political outcomes are driven by the manipulation of social media, they’re on Netflix.

The term is ‘enshittification’ and it’s practically the default business strategy for extracting cash from brand value.

Buy/make a good company by offering a quality service and then spend the next decade cutting costs until the product is terrible.

Most people won’t notice the incremental changes. It’s often likened to boiling a frog.

I don’t even try to navigate the mess of corporate ownership. There’s always a little shop ran by a guy with an espresso machine.

It won’t be drive thru but the coffee will taste good

cat is the tool of distinguished gentlemen

A Noble tradition

Yes, we all know the infamous crimes of the *checks notes* minister of agriculture

I think you’ll find, as a regular civilian or a VIP in the target country, that you’re making a distinction without a difference.

Ask Saddam Hussein’s opinion on the US’s loss in Iraq or the hundreds of thousands of dead civilians how they feel about winning in Afghanistan.

“Removed by Moderator”

https://xkcd.com/927/

The walls get hot, you absorb the heat from the walls with a fluid. You use the fluid to heat water, you use the steam to drive a turbine, you use the turbine to turn a permanent magnet inside of a coil of wire. In addition, you can capture neutrons using a liquid metal (lithium) which heats the lithium, which heats the walls, which heats the water, which makes steam, which drives a turbine, which generates electricity.

If you poured water onto them they wouldn’t explode. 100 million degrees Celsius doesn’t mean much when the mass is so low compared to the mass of the water.