Notices by schrotthaufen (schrotthaufen@mastodon.social)

@nixCraft The goal is much more sinister. They want to completely eviscerate democracy, and establish several enclaves they call network states. These will operate much like company towns, or fiefdoms with the fascist tech VCs at the helm. The society they envision is a fascist one, with tech workers (see Balaji’s grey shirts). They also want to replace fiat currency with crapto, and the best way to achieve that is to crash the dollar.

@itsfoss @aud To EOLand :P

@nixCraft Generated subs are hopefully better than no subs. As long as it’s a pre-trained model that runs locally, and only if explicitly enabled, that’s fine by me.

@nixCraft Domains are like street names and house numbers, websites are interactive billboards located at that address.

@nixCraft If you mean “work with”, then whatever Debian release was current stable in 2010.

@nixCraft @blogdiva Seems they learned from Boeing, and Coca Cola 🙊

@itsfoss @blogdiva Are we talking about the kernel (init=/bin/sh saved my bacon more than once), or the whole eco system (tiling window managers, obviously)?

@nixCraft It ships without baked-in spyware

@nixCraft That’s hopefully changing when software vendor liability kicks in in 2026 in the EU.

@nixCraft I can totally see this happen with renovatebot or dependabot, and automatic merge, and release if the tests pass.

@aral I’ve seen this with a bunch of German sites as well. They call it “Continue with ads” though.

@nixCraft “ss” has the best the most unfortunate name for a program ever.

@nixCraft @catsalad I once thought it was great a company I worked at pointed out during the interview they had a burnout therapist on retainer.

@nixCraft Windows 11, google search, generative AIs, IoT household appliances

@nixCraft VB6, because the village library had a book on it.

@aral Germany would like to have a word. (Iirc we supply weapons, too.)

@nixCraft Nice try, Fed

@nixCraft An IP address encodes the physical location of your toilet at home

@nixCraft It’s a cult. Their VC idols despise regulations, so they too hate anything that threatens unimpeded capitalism, and technological “progress” at any price. (And maybe fear that China will out-AI the west)

@nixCraft lua