Is, solve everything for who?

As tech nerds we want to believe that technology is always going to be on our side and doing good things for us because it has for our entire lives and we are old and old people do not like to adapt to change.

But there is absolutely no reason why llms have to be a good thing for us.

What I'm trying to get across is there is a middle ground between ludites and the Amish and techno feudalism.

And it looks like we've got about five years to figure out what that middle ground is going to look like or it's going to be techno feudalism for everybody.

And keep in mind what that looks like for you is the kind of poverty you see in South Sudan or the parts of Russia outside of the two big cities.

And you should never ever ever question it. Now if you excuse me I've got to put these fragmentation landmines in my garden. Those little kids will stay off my lawn for sure now. And if they won't I've got free mulch. It's a win-win.

It's not thunderous applause it's not cool it's not fun it's not exciting. It dies in committee hearings often at the county level. It dies from shitty little assholes taking over what should be nonpartisan administrative roles and putting sycophants in charge top to bottom.

People expect the death of democracy and the coming of fascism to be something they can see and feel and something that is on par with storming the beaches of Normandy because that's what television told them and if you grew up with television and almost all of us did that's just part of reality for people even if it isn't real.

The phrase you're looking for is, the banality of evil.

Evil, real evil just kind of creeps into your life from the bottom up. And we are not equipped to deal with that.

I mentioned this because it should be painfully obvious having complex and opaque automated systems involved in elections is going to end with election tampering and fascism. Under no circumstances should this technology be brought anywhere near our elections.

And you'll see some headlines and get excited but quietly behind the scenes in committee hearings billionaire funded sycophants will slowly but surely implement the tech project 2025 style.

And I know you're thinking this is Canada and project 2025 is an American right? Remember the people pushing that or billionaires and they are not bound by your petty international borders. They are global. Not globalists, we're not talking about Nazi dog whistles here. Global. None of them think of themselves as whatever nationality they claim for convenience.

And that means they will absolutely spread the terrible policies to every country on Earth.

In 1976, industrial music found a name, when Throbbing Gristle formed Industrial Records (``Industrial Music for Industrial People'') along with such bands as Cabaret Voltaire and ClockDVA. These bands were heavily influenced by Burroughs' ideas, and cut-up theory made its way into their music, when the bands would make tape recordings of found sounds (machinery, short-wave radio, television newscasts, public conversations) and cut up, rearrange, and splice the tapes, turning it into music

At the moment inflation is steady at 2.7%. I know because I've been waiting for it to go down so that interest rates will go down so I can buy a fucking house. Trump took that away from me along with the funding for my kids graduate degree. Took the money and stuffed it right in his fat pockets.

Goldman Sachs is already said that the tariffs are going to hit us like a ton of bricks come october. That's when companies will have blown through the surplus of imports they were using to try and ride out Trump's national sales tax.

Right before the holidays inflation is going to skyrocket which is going to Crater demand. But the FED will keep interest rates high in order to trigger layoffs so the people are forced to spend less because that's how high interest rates fight inflation. On your back and mine.

I'm so fucking sick of ignorant stupid fucking people who do not understand the first fucking thing about how the American economic system works. Again if you want to sell off all your property you go do that but don't drag me into your crazy ass death cult

Until the announcement that CentOS Linux 8 would be EOL at the end of 2021, CentOS users enjoyed a relatively drama-free period of stability that might suggest RHEL has always had a viable, dependable clone with predictable releases. That is, as you’re probably already guessing, very far from the truth.

In this post we’ll look at the CentOS history from inception until the CentOS Project came under Red Hat’s direct sponsorship. That’s early 2004 through January 7, 2014 when the announcement went out to the world on the CentOS-announce list. We’ll also mention a few other attempts at cloning RHEL didn’t quite thrive over the long haul. Note, I’m mostly leaving Oracle Linux out of this even though it was introduced in 2006. As you might have guessed, it’ll be the topic of another post on its own. A quick(ish) note first I’ve been using, writing about, and/or working for some of the vendors in question for more than 20 years. This is one of the reasons I’ve chosen to cover this on my blog, because a lot of the participants in the current conversations around Red Hat don’t have the same history. This is a nuanced conversation that benefits from understanding how we got here.

As much as possible I’m trying not to simply work from memory. If I can, I’m trying to cite primary sources or news sites that covered these things at the time. Thank goodness for LWN, which is still doing great work and has extensive archives. Other sites, though, have gone the way of the dodo and vendors have disappeared a lot of content over the years. Some projects have also gone extinct in the interim.

Forget wasting the money he is actively soliciting bribes here. Peter thiel runs those companies and Peter thiel pushed Trump harder than anyone going so far as to put his hand-picked man into the vice president role.

Take away Elon Musk and Peter thiel and Donald Trump wouldn't be president he'd be on his way to jail. And now Trump is already selling Trump 2028 merchandise.

It's a bot. There is somebody training their chatbot on my comments. I've been having fun replying to it with poisoning text. Usually after I do that the bot goes away for a few days. I will probably have to find a different source of AI bot poisoning text though because they're catching on to it

required reading. Yes, he addresses the “freeloader” question. Decided to make you read the full post to get there, though. It’s worth the time. I’ll just say this, no disagreement registered.

Markwhen for Markdown timelines: Happened to catch this on Hacker News, a Markdown-driven calendar and planning app. I’ve been looking for something to display timelines around the Clone Wars posts but hadn’t found anything great. This might fit the bill. Note that the site is geared towards the web service and editor, but you can install the CLI utility and generate your own timelines as HTML.

Also there happens to be a person training there llm on my comments. Which is completely unrelated to the post above

In American history and yes I know about Harding's administration.

I don't think people realize what this level of corruption is going to do to their personal finances. And by the time they do it's going to be too late.

I mean seriously if you want to sell your house and all your possessions and give them to Donald Trump or Peter thiel, maybe splitting the proceeds between them, that's your business. But what pisses me off is you dragging me and my family into it.

Letting crap like this slide is why people call it a cult.

What I like best about private equity is that the all you can eat buffet is basically over with all the juicy targets already absorbed so that private equity is now a money loser.

And at that exact moment our magnanimous overlords have deigned to grant us unworthy peasants the right to invest our 401ks and our life savings into private equity funds. Praise be to Wall Street!

You don't believe any of what you just wrote you're just being contrary. It is an effective tactic for internet arguing and it's part of why our civilization is basically doomed.

Any serious attempt at discussing the problems young men have is either shut down by the news media that wants to keep the right wing tax cuts flowing and certainly wants to keep those young men bitter and angry or by guys like you just looking to drop a bomb into a discussion.

I mean seriously man did you honestly think anyone believes there are serious feminists floating around this forum or that in 2025 any serious feminist is incapable of a discussion of toxic masculinity that doesn't just evolve in the man hating? Yeah you will find forms full of angry girls venting but they're very specific. And this is not that forum. So what I'm saying is, we see you. We know what you're doing. And it doesn't matter because we're all doomed anyway and that goes for you too.

You're going to be just as homeless as the rest of us as our entire civilization collapses, have fun trolling on the internet in the meantime

Certainly not anymore. I think Trump beat it out of them. Having an extent threat will do that to you. You don't really play around anymore.

Also I don't think anyone cries wolf about Fringe movements I think it's pretty obvious at this point that The Fringe movements on the right wing are extremely dangerous. We have multiple cases of them shooting and killing people Plus trying to kidnap governors Plus shooting up power stations.

Stochastic terrorism is real and I don't think anyone can pretend it isn't anymore.

So these were people who agreed to join a study to track how often they go to church.

They would have been incentivized and in particular they would have wanted to show how pious they were to the people doing the studies and they still managed to have extremely low rates of church attendance.

Basically Church attendance has been cratering for some time. It's actually benefiting the mega churches because the other smaller churches are closing left and right leaving nothing in the area if you want to go to a church.

That's good short-term but long-term it means that your irreligiosity is skyrocketing. The rate of atheists isn't going up all that high but the rate of people who are just quote unquote spiritual is shooting up and people like that don't tithe.

Usually you can turn it off though like you can turn off the motion adapt features that make everything look like daytime television and soap operas. I remember seeing braveheart running on one of those TVs and wondering what the hell was I looking at.

I haven't yet though found one of those fancy color options on a monitor or TV though that I really liked more than the defaults. Not that I've tried a lot of them.