• House Rat
• The Honkeys
• Shaboogey
• Moldplay

Weener

(Wiener would be better, but I only get one letter. Oh well.)

Not always true. Sometimes you major in what you love, graduate, get a job doing cool stuff, (get fucked over by an asshole boss, change companies, kinda hate working there every day, find out through the grapevine the asshole fomer boss had been fired for being an asshole, return to the company you liked working at), well paid the whole time, and continue to love what you do so much you don’t get enough of it at work and do it more every evening and weekend as a hobby.

But then, my experience is a) a bit dated (I graduated college before 2010) and b) most likely atypical.

Hey! A truly unpopular opinion that I wholeheartedly agree with.

But I’ll take it one step further: I unironically believe that if you prefer your chocolate sweetened, you don’t really like chocolate. You like sugar.

And, yes, I love just sucking on 100% unsweetened baker’s chocolate.

…except for two things. 1) caffeine, even in the quantities in which it exists in an ounce of baker’s chocolate per day, doesn’t agree with me, so I don’t do any form of chocolate any more (but I often crave unsweetened baker’s chocolate) and 2) I have a severe, violent sensitivity to sugar, so I basically never eat anything even a little sweet.

the recommendations are very limited compared to actual YouTube app.

For me, that’s a feature, not a bug.

My solution is scp with termux. I can’t suggest any better alternative.

Nvidia:

• ✅ AI
• ✅ Religious
• 🚫 Red scanning visual sensors

Cylons:

• ✅ AI
• ✅ Religious
• ✅ Red scanning visual sensors

They’re only one step away, people, and I’m not even sure about the 🚫 on red scanning visual sensors.

Thank you for this. I haven’t been any sort of sysadmin in a good long time and when I was, I didn’t manage more than three or four servers. But I am fed up enough with SystemD to finally go to the trouble of switching back from Arch to the Gentoo I used to run and love. And it’s a breath of fresh air dealing with OpenRC (and generally the whole Gentoo ecosystem) again.

Unit files are a pain to deal with. I love that with init scripts, if I can write Bash scripts, I can write init scripts without having to look up every little thing in Google and in man pages.

Uninstall it and make the world a slightly better place?

Nope. I put guacamole and sardines on it. (100% serious here.)

Our Lord and Savior Almond Flour forgives all who humbly accept it into their stomach.

Low-carb bread is the one true religion.

So go post Kropotkin on https://thedonald.win/ or whatever domain they’re using now-a-days.

The company I work for (in e-commerce) just recently started offering/advertising paying using Klarna.

If you don’t know, (and you can probably guess given the context of this post), Klarna is a company that basically just allows users to buy now and pay over the course of a few weeks. “Buy this $100 item now and pay in four installments of $25 over four weeks” or some such. Anyone can get the app and it gives credit card numbers that will buy stuff online or whatever, and then the paying back process is that Klarna bills the customer over the course of a few weeks.

But companies can integrate with Klarna as well. When they do, Klarna makes everything work like it does with credit cards so the company doesn’t have to completely retool to support Klarna as a payment method. And it’s more convenient for the customer than dealing with the app and manually typing in the credit card number they get from the app.

Here’s the thing, though. There’s no interest charged to the customer. I think Klarna makes its money just because companies pay them money for integrations and for the ability to advertise that customers can buy now pay later and such. And at least in the case of my company’s integration with Klarna, Klarna takes all the risk. They’re lending customers money and hoping the customers pay it back. My employer gets the money up front and isn’t out any money if the customer doesn’t pay. And Klarna is huge. They’re holding a whole lot of debt at any one time. And it’s not secured debt or anything. And I don’t think there are credit checks involved.

Really seems like a risky thing. Just like risky mortgages are. If a significant number of customers were to default on their debt at the same time (and not all Klarna purchases are $6 pizzas, some are multiple hundreds of dollars worth of debt), I’d imagine Klarna would be out of business quicker than Enron. Or maybe they’ll be “too big to fail” by that point and they’ll get a bailout.

Either way, it seems like a not-insignificant chunk of the economy is teetering atop the pencil-balanced-on-its-point that is Klarna. I’m not sure if there are a lot of other companies offering similar services, but if so, that just makes the economy seem that much more precarious.

Hate to tell you, but a “big ass mouse” is called a “rat”.

If what Trump is going to do with the surveillance powers is exactly what it was intended the president could do with them, is it really misuse?

In software engineering, we call this “works as designed.”

Yes it sucks more that Trump specifically will weild them. But the real problem is that the office of the presidency has these powers. Not specifically which president had them.

Are not!

They’re rebooting that Jack Black movie already?

So many folks in this thread saying they have to be high to tolerate their families. What’s the point of even attending a holiday family get-together if you can’t stand them? (Just get high at home with a couple of friends who also can’t stand their families.)

It’s bad enough that blockchain weirdos, LLMs, and grifters like Futo have been trying to leverage the term “Open Source” in deceptive ways for one or another ulterior motive. Now sovereign citizen bullshit?

Edit: Oh. This is this user’s only post after joining 2 days ago.