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š¤ why do people who don't need to flatter a fuckwit, who won't be flattered by them anyway, feel the need to flatter a fuckwit?
@ElonMusk, youāve been an underdog and never quit fighting for your ideas. Donāt abandon Ukrainians as they fight for their lives and freedom against an aggressor.
āLuca Guadagnino Has Made the Real Sequel to āThe Social Networkāā variety.com/2026/film/reviewā¦
Jeff Waugh retweeted
Ā»Anti-fascist EconomicsĀ« is triggering all the usual suspects even before publication. They come after me with sexist slurs.
This is the deepest crisis of Western democracy since the Nazi era. Growing up in Nuremberg, I have learned that being anti-fascist is my first civic duty. There canāt be a question which side Iām on, as a human and an economist.
As a student of FDR, I say: āI welcome their hatred.ā
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Holy shit is this real
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The video of Anthony Albanese falling in Fiji is AI-generated. No such incident occurred; he attended Pre-COP events normally.
pm.gov.au/media/doorstopā¦
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Ha ha. "Trap."
NT was designed. Coherent, beautiful. It's still in there.
Linux grew. Chaotic, messy. Whole subsystems could be the work of the CIA or a lone genius. It is simultaneously ancient and science fiction.
But: everyone can use Linux, and put Linux, anywhere.
Say what you will about Windows (OS), but the NT kernel really is an engineering marvel that still puts Linux to shame in many ways.
The quickest way to describe it for a programmer, is NT was more like an object-oriented language, with a strong security model from day one, whereas Linux is veryā¦not.
A lot of the āgoodā features in Linux feel bolted-on (SELinux, Capabilities, Namespaces) becauseā¦well they were. I love to imagine an alternate history where NT won.
IMO, Microsoft *should* have made an āOpen NTā in the early 2000s; not fully GPL-style open, but one where a large org could sayā¦swap out a memory allocator for their own. (they sorta did this with limited source access, but it was too restrictive)
You could imagine sayā¦an early Amazon forking OpenNT to create an āAmazonNTā for EC2, where they have a modified scheduler, network stack, whatever. But, the security+compatibility contract keeps a stable baseline on the Microsoft side.
Controversial take, but if we enter this era where users are giving AI agents increasingly higher levels of access control; the Linux kernel is legitimately a poor fit. Think about it; answer the question āWhat exactly is this AI agent allowed to do?ā
On Standard Linux, itās disgustingly messy with lots of overlap.
Do you use UIDs? GIDs? ACLs? CGROUPs? Policies? SELinux? Filesystem modes? Thereās not a singular coherent graph of capabilities you can point to. Too many ways you can escape an initially narrow scope.
NT, by comparison, can go the route of explicitly typed resources, and then you could have these really strong centralized audit trails when an agent goes haywireā¦etc.
I know Iām rambling, but the point isā¦if you were greenfielding an OS kernel from scratch, in 2026, with the intent of being forward-looking, it would *not* look like Linux. Frankly, itād probably look a lot closer to NT, or even a BSD forkā¦
Etymology is delightful, and deeply human. š„°
Faced with a versatile and hardy tuber from the New World, the French took one look and said, "ground apple", and almost everyone else agreed.
Not the Spanish, who stole it in the first place. Or the English, who admire theft.
Fascist-aligned operating system projects will never receive attention from the most powerful limited resource in Linux and open source: trans catgirls.
Enjoying Rust projects occasionally means worrying a new tool doesn't, but it's just That Fast. github.com/bdrung/3cpio
# GRUB lacks write support for lvm, so recordfail support is disabled.
^ use LVM and UEFI on Ubuntu? surprise, you get to wait 30s at the grub menu every time you boot
i donāt think weāre going to give the geoengineering contract to the my-car-door-handles-keep-killing-children guy
Especially in FLOSS circles, you mightāve heard: āIf you didnāt run code written by assholes, your machine wouldnāt boot.ā [1]
Which is true. And sometimes we have to work with people we donāt like.
But questioning your complicity is a worthy exercise.
The Third Culture (1998) says a lot about the present moment: LLMs didnāt spend enough time in the lab with scientists; they were pressed upon our world by impatient nerds. science.org/doi/10.1126/scieā¦
It was bad enough when zombie fascism was getting in the way of climate action.
Now weāve got oligarchs and idolators building bigger fossil fuel burning power plants than ever before.