This is interesting but has been happening for an entire decade now. I wish they’d stop acting like it’s new.

The 2016 U.S. election was affected by foreign facebook activity. Specifically, a lot from from Macedonia.

RIP Kevin Mitnick! Ghost in the Wires was a fun audiobook, and I really enjoyed the 2600 documentary Freedom Downtime when it was released.

I’m not exactly sure, but a few things have worked better out of the box than other distros.

For example, it boots up faster than any of the other “simple” distros I’ve tried in some time. I tend to like lightweight things that seem to install a “bare minimum” to start, and Cachy appears to do that. It was dead simple to install my favorite window manager, even using X11 instead of Xorg.

The equivalent minimal mint installation took considerably longer to boot, using pretty much my same settings.

Here’s his reasoning from the article:

an Arch-based distro optimized for gaming on modern hardware, with support for cutting-edge CPUs and GPUs and an allegedly easy setup.

I installed Cachy recently too and I really like it, after using Mint and Arch for several months (and many others previously).

This quote from Tom Stuart in 2014 has been true since I started using Ruby in 2006.

DHH is the Fox News of Ruby. He’s noisy, he’s reactionary, he’s anti-intellectual, he’s very sure he’s right and he enjoys being rude.

I loved (and still kind of love) Ruby but I’ve always thought “DHH” was a loudmouth wealthy douche.

I’m glad to have always been unapologetically vocal about that.

“The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me."

That’s your killer feature? “But you can converse and it can make any image!”

As I fume, I wonder why I’m so angry. I suppose I feel offended that anyone would think this is what humans want from companionship: a voice with no interiority giving the verbal equivalent of a thumbs up emoji.

Strangely, a lot of fully-grown people think this is what humans want from companionship!

The photos having rust on them are because the authors are quite lazy and they need an image.

So they just look for copyright-free images of a rusty USB and they’re all set.

I’m not reading all that. Sorry for your issue, or I’m happy for you. Whichever you prefer.

It has been remarkably useful! I keep trying to tell people about it but apparently I am just their main use case or something.

I would have loved it when I was using Samba to share files on my local network decades ago. It’s like a Swiss Army knife!

rsync can sometimes look similarly scary! I very clearly remember triple-checking what it’s doing.

rclone works amazingly well if you have hundreds of folders or thousands of files and you can’t be bothered to babysit a portal.

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Tangentially, I don’t see people talk about rclone a lot, which is like rsync for cloud storage.

It’s awesome for moving things from one provider to another, for example.

Try playing an old PCM wave file from a 68k based Macintosh or Amiga on a PC.

I really appreciate how specific this is. It sounds like it’s from experience.

There’s also a small mental cost to switching contexts, from reader to browser.

This is actually one of the better uses of AI I’ve seen because it is literally asking a large language model about language.

I probably still won’t use it, but at least it makes sense!

Or sometimes history if I can’t remember at all.

Oh my bad, two other people said that too I was just excited