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and the other half work for the government or an NGO LOL

it's muddying what a package is. A package, or a distro, is the people who slave and labor over packaging, reviewing, deciding on versions to ship, having policies in place, security mailing list…

Yes. I work at boring companies that are not evil instead. Never went to my local magnate (Comcast), left a company when they off/onshored entire teams to HCL slaves, etc. No i won't make 35…

if you are always looking for new 'audiences' it's probably just media and not social media. I use hubs my peers and friends use. IRC, email and for the boomers - Facebook.

here's what I dug up https://github.com/attah/hydros https://github.com/samcamwilliams/hydros-site …

weird they start about McCarthy since he was absolutely right

acquhire practicies show that yes - sometimes people really ARE the company. However, i think for the average C# developer, or Epson printer specialist or wordpress or Bosch controller analyst, these …

i certainly don't want to use my cleverness for power or influence, no thank you.

There's some definite prior art here where they worked on that a LOT. https://www.erlang-factory.com/static/upload/media/149858389... …

Like New Caledonia the wealth of our nation has been pumped into a get rich scheme looking for a new world

I'm gonna scoop my own /8 and lock a 100 year colo lease

that's right! if only I wasnt posting snarky crap on HN we'd have a Utopia. Paging Upton Sinclair!

Private equity didn't. People did. We really need to get rid of limited liability and corporate fictions.

Pledge might be useful here

Idiots

These government officials are idiots. Jeffery Epstein, idiot. Why do even rich and powerful use easily hackable stuff? Lest us not forget bObama@yahoo.com or the IT guy who worked for the Clinton fou…

Sure just send the continental german army straight for the oil fields, worked out great last time.

yup. I do early bosch EFI and K-Jet... thats what I know!

How about something like IP as a tax? IE: if you make profit off of it, then it cranks up. There's plenty of music artists who's song blow up a decade or more later.

> So some skills fade and others rise. And also, software has moved in predictable cycles for many decades at this point. We are still a very young field but we do have some history at this point. …

And over and over time proves that, when you need it, ASM or C or generals system knowledge was handy. One example, I am not a "Windows" or "NT" guy, mostly working in various Uni…

it's past the end stage, we are already in business. it's just something I am not an expert in, I have used in the past (by having real ops engineers build it for me) and now I have somethin…

It's helping with that part too. I was able to configure a grafana stack with the help of claude for our ansible scripts.

The DMV.

ONLY TWO NINES! Meanwhile vital government services here have a whopping 25% availability.

There are petty peevish folks too, to quote myself lately October 2025 "I believe Trumps gutting of institutions of learning, culture, democracy, law is punishment for the Branch Covidians. I bel…

When Halo 2 (anniversary edition? ) was released there was also a video on in the game about the development. The point that always stuck with me was "you must nail that 2 seconds that will keep …

so what is going to happen? Will California issue slave catcher warrants for those who violate laws? will Free Stater sheriffs dispatch citizens on long haul flights to meet their fate in the Golden S…

so the security um, hack here is that someone has unauthorized access to your machine. its not related to x11. If you run untrusted code, thats it... who cares about x11?