@MichalBryxi@veganism.social Yup. Which is why Western cities genuinely are really boring. No opportunity for life to happen or culture to develop because everyone is alienated and everything is centered around automobiles. Nothing walkable, no corner stores or populated alleyways, no front-facing stores or cafes for trolleygoers to hop off to. Just roads. And parking. And cars. And more roads. And more parking. For more cars. @yogthos@mas.to
@dcc@annihilation.social Reading about the BSDs, NetBSD sounds pretty interesting as well. And I see a lot of Japanese users on Fediverse extolling NetBSD. But I don't know much about any of them. Everyone I've personally known who runs BSD runs FreeBSD. @kirby@lab.nyanide.com
@kirby@lab.nyanide.com I'm led to believe that OpenBSD is more niche and security focused or whatever whereas FreeBSD is more appropriate for personal use and daily driving?
@jasonkoebler@mastodon.social I wonder if this will bring us back to a return to small internet, personal blogs, esoteric domains. A rejection of the corporate web, a retreat from the centralized oligarchy internet where AI is running rampant and truth is becoming confused and muddied.
@NatureMC@mastodon.online I don't think global laws are going to be the antidote to AI. It's a reality, at this point, that we will have to live and contend with. We just have to develop new mechanisms of living amongst it. In many respects, I believe this is a good thing. "Truth" has widely been subjective to engineered and controlled narratives for a long time. And, people, unfortunately, are often not critical enough in what information they ingest and put stock in. Genuinely entering a "post-truth" reality via saturation of AI content might force us to critically believe nothing, vs. ignorantly believe lies. @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social
@yakumo_izuru@misskey.m544.net Well, NixOS is dead. Lol glad I never tried learning it or moving towards it, even when it was in vouge. Good ole' openSUSE gonna keep me comfy with that nice enterprise backing.
@splitshockvirus@mstdn.starnix.network My Indian neighbor is an extremely highly educated engineer. His wife is also in a high-level technical field. Very articulate, very cultured folks. Pleasurable to be around. He's always out in his front yard with a telescope checking out celestial bodies and sometimes we hang out.
My only argument against foreigners is the non-reciprocity of work visas. It infuriates me that we have so many foreigners here working on visas yet I would never be able to go to their country to live+work since it's a one-sided relationship. USA lets anyone in, but their respective countries strongly protect their national labor. I'm mostly referring to Europeans, but it could be anyone---India, too. Even Canada. If we had 1:1 agreements in place and I had the same opportunity to go to their country to live/work as they have to come to my country to live/work then it would not bother me. But, I don't blame them nor am I angry at them---I'm angry at my country for allowing this one-sided arrangement (probably at the behest of capital). @iska@catposter.club
Once I was a pirateA bold and savage pirateI flew the skull and crossbonesAnd stamped upon the deckOnce I was a camelA handsome sort of camelWith princesses aboard meAnd jewels around my neckOnce I was a dancerAnd once a necromancerI even was a VikingWith helmet on my headI might have been a parrotA gay Brazilian parrotIf someone hadn't wakened meAnd pulled me out of bed