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aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

The cool thing is that even if the penalty isn't a fine, there's a good chance you can plea bargain your way back down to a fine

aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

A fingerprint is a password you leave a copy of on everything you touch.

aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

No it isn't

aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

I avoid gas stations that have ads. There's a chain where I live that doesn't do them, so they get all my business.

aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

I completely agree with his points but enshittification is such a cringey word

aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

Lord of the Flies is bullshit. When a group of boys actually got stranded together, they peacefully cooperated with each other to solve their problems.

aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

Is it? A lot of people seem to have come to the conclusion that its characters are realistic.

The novel is styled as allegorical fiction, embodying the concepts of inherent human savagery, mob mentality, and totalitarian leadership. However, Golding deviates from typical allegory in that both the protagonists and the antagonists are fully developed, realistic characters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies

Golding’s work is a powerful exploration of the inherent capacity for savagery within human beings when societal structures are removed. The novel touches on themes such as the loss of innocence, the struggle between civilization and savagery, and the fragility of societal norms.

https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/flies/

it serves as an interesting look at the dark side of human nature and how no one is beyond its reach. Plus, anyone who had a bit of a rough time in high school will probably not find the events in this book a huge leap of the imagination

The scary thing about this book is how real it is. The Lord of the Flies bespeaks the brilliance of realistic dystopian fiction, it gives you a possible world scenario, a bunch of very human characters and then it shows you want might happen when they are thrown into a terrible situation: they act like monsters (or humans?)

the author very realistically portrays human behavior in an environment where civilization no longer has meaning.

If you have never experienced the amount of destructive power that is possible in that short time-span, you might think Golding exaggerates. Unfortunately, I can see any group of students turning into the characters in The Lord Of The Flies if they are put in the situation.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7624.Lord_of_the_Flies

If it's not supposed to be realistic, he did a shitty job of communicating that.

aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

I think this is a great point. However, and I don't think this takes away from what you are saying, the kids (in your US-centric example) would have a better chance of getting along than if they were kept together in society. For one, shared hardship has been shown to be a very effective means to breaking down tribalism. For two, being left in society would mean they'd have external forces bearing down on them to keep them in tribal lines. It's precisely "civilization" that creates and inculcates these prejudices. But people take the opposite lesson home: that apart from "civilization", humans become brutal and violent.

aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

I'm running 4 Debian machines, all configured to automatically update every night, and this has never happened to me.

aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

The meme text itself refers to "frequent" updates. Seems weird to compare apples to oranges, since release updates are not frequent. Even still, updating from buster to bookworm was relatively painless; certainly not 3 hours of reconfiguration. Before that, I was on Ubuntu, and the release updates were also painless; I remember multiple times not needing to do anything except uncomment the sources.list(.d) changes.

[edit: Another quick point. Since Debian/Ubuntu manage configuration for you to some extent, you don't need to fix configuration files as often as you would need to on Arch, hence not needing to do ~20+ config changes for two years of updates all at once.]

Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media (www.technologyreview.com)

From the article: "In particular, five fundamental attributes of social media have harmed society. AI also has those attributes. Note that they are not intrinsically evil. They are all double-edged swords, with the potential to do either good or ill. The danger comes from who wields the sword, and in what direction it is swung....

aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

Technology and policy matter. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/world/europe/facebook-refugee-attacks-germany.html

aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do learn from history are doomed to watch as those who did not learn repeat it.

aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

NB: there's a small, faded out button a ways under the "add your name" button that lets you opt out of the huge e-mail swarm you'll probably get otherwise

aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

Is there a reason this requirement doesn't apply to iMessage as well?

Sweeping EU rules for tech giants take effect today. Here’s what’s changing | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)

Europeans using Apple, Google and other major tech platforms woke to a new reality Thursday as a landmark law imposed tough new competition rules on the companies — changing European Union citizens’ experience with phones, apps, browsers and more....

aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

As someone from the US, a hearty thank you to Europeans. Not all of these will directly benefit me, but some of it will. Also, Apple has to be so fucking mad that they can't keep their app store monopoly, even if just in Europe.

aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

You should set up mail delivery, so when sudo reports you it reports you to you

aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

Imagine thinking that any for-profit company built on VC funding won't end up data mining.

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    aberrate_junior_beatnik , (edited )

    there are two healthy sex phenotypes ... and b) the result of something going wrong.

    What about intersex people makes them "unhealthy"? What makes what their bodies do "wrong"?

    Everything else is a) extremely rare

    Intersex people are about as common than redheads. Would you agree with the statement that redheads are the exception that proves the rule that there are 3 hair colors, blond, brown, and black?

    [Edit: more common -> about as common]

    aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

    Here, I drew the word "Just" in this post

    https://midwest.social/pictrs/image/58a2b1e3-95b9-4cb5-a19f-c5dd1e7464d3.jpeg

    [Caption for the visually impaired: "Atlas holding up the celestial globe" by Guercino]

    aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

    "it" in this case is to magically add a centimeter or so of paper to the left side of the 't

    Jayjo , to Selfhosted

    @selfhosted Have a commerical @wireguard vpn on my server. The problem i have is that if i use a docker, it does use the vpn interface with iptables, but if that goes down, the docker still goes through without the vpn interface. I have looked at iptables, but docker makes it own, and bit of a minefield. Any ideas? Thanks

    aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

    IMO the best way to ensure that traffic always goes through a VPN is to use network namespaces. The wireguard website has an article describing the process. In a nutshell, you create a dedicated namespace to put the physical interface in, create the wireguard interface in that namespace, then move the wireguard interface to the root ("normal") namespace. That way the only way to get traffic out without the VPN is to run a program in that dedicated namespace.

    aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

    Curious that this list is missing short-term shareholder value 🤔

    aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

    This is just not true, to my understanding. The climate scientists I've seen talking about it say that if we stop emitting, climate change will start reverting. What's your source on this?

    aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

    The problem Fox News have with Taylor Swift isnt her carbon emissions, it is her hypocrisy.

    I mean, no. If she didn't fly on a private jet, they'd find something else to ding her on. Their problem with her is that she's not entirely on their side.

    aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

    Headline has real "you want to improve society yet you participate in it" vibes

    aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

    without jailbreaking ... thanks to the 2 coretrust bugs

    I think you do not understand what these words mean

    aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

    I mean, I think it's a silly point, but yeah, ultimately we're going to give it all back

    aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

    Not saying people should buy Google phones, but I did replace my 5a's screen with iFixit's guide. Took one evening with no prior phone repair expertise.

    aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

    No

    aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

    no

    aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

    You're lucky. I run FF and uBlock and get the pause sometimes. Still better than using YT without uBlock, though.

    aberrate_junior_beatnik ,

    Check out the Framework 16. Ubuntu and Fedora are officially supported. I run Debian on my Framework 13 no problem.

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