I mean, yeah. You ever ask an average software “engineer” to have a constructive conversation with someone a different department? It’s a nightmare.

I guess I’ll start screening my surgeons, attorneys, and accountants for how well they know how to use Zoom. This seems reasonable.

Usenet and an on-site NAS agree with me, any data cap below 10 TB/mo. is a non-starter.

The chance that Trump doesn’t try and use a nuclear weapon on Iran is near zero. It’s like drunk, depressed, isolated Nixon all over again, but worse this time.

Love the Pax MAGA:

1. Russia moves west until Putin doesn’t need to drum up nationalist fervor back home;

2. Israel gets all the weapons it needs to control every inch of the Mediterranean coast from the Suez to Turkey;

3. All US troops out of South Korea and IDK probably an arms sale to the DPRK;

4. The Seventh Fleet gets permanently reassigned to patrol the California coast as some immigration stunt and to make Pooh happy;

5. Probably a tactical nuke dropped on Tehran.

Seems awesome, right?

Tump high-key fucking hates Google. I don’t know that this goes away.

An order to sell Chrome would be accompanied by an order (or consent decree) to not engage in web-engine and/or browser development.

You should look up a lot of things

If Mastodon wanted to be preferred, it should have been better. I moved to Mastodon over a year ago when the Twitter sale first happened. It was not great then and it’s gotten slightly worse since. I created a Bluesky account two days ago and it already offers exactly the experience I missed from Twitter before Elon.

Would it be better if Mastodon was good and the federated FOSS option was superior? Sure, absolutely. But, that scenario isn’t even close to the case we are presented with.

I know posts like those feel good, but the objective fact is that the political conversation and (much more importantly) public policy has moved drastically leftward in both shorter terms (the last decade) as well as more medium-term measurements (the last fifty years).

Arch on my desktop and laptop, Debian stable goes on everything else.

It won’t be. Because: fuck everything

Legal memoranda are not just an interoffice note. They are policy interpretations and internally-governing documents. The memorandum is from the Office of Legal Counsel which is an independent subdepartment — neither Garland or the President himself can overturn the policy.

Because the cause for his appointment no longer exists. The OLC memo regarding the prosecution of sitting Presidents means that Smith’s appointment is frustrated at its most basic level of inception.

Bernie, who ran behind Harris in his own state? Yeah, ok buddy.

. I’d say this counts for sure.

Take a long look, this is what leftist victories look like

Fuck, probably Boromir too.

Dems and Repubs are so entrenched as the 2 primary parties that it would take a miracle to get enough voters to follow a 3rd party

They’re not “entrenched;” they’re ideally situated for the American electorate. There is not a single issue where a third party could take a position that captures larger vote share than those already taken.

lol no it didn’t