ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

I’m realizing that growing up as a wired magazine-reading cyberpunk believer— a kid who thought adbusters and the internet could save the world— and then watching as every technological miracle was turned not towards revolution or saving humanity but instead more pernicious and intractable methods of exploitation has made me uncomfortable with technological optimism. “assume all new technology will be used against you” —

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun control, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”

It’s about control.

I love that our idea of what Raptors looked like, was somehow way less cartoonish than the reality.

This scary boi looks like he just saw some Froot Loops, and he's got to follow his nose.

Fedora Workstation Aiming To Improve Encryption, Possibly Encrypted Disk By Default In The Future

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-WS-Encryption-Plans-2023

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-WS-Encryption-Plans-2023

#fedora #linux #unix

-0.7664680762053054 + -0.08957263307942497i at zoom 6.5820967488e+09.

Looks like Ive found the right section..

I've always struggled to find good uses for fzf, but I just saw this cool one on hacker news for using fzf to quickly test out jq expressions:

echo '' | fzf --preview 'jq {q} < filename.json'

it live updates the results as you type!

I am deeply unamused to see a peer-reviewed paper discussing one of my pet nightmares (the risk of a MERS/COVID19 hybrid emerging) and saying it's somewhere between possible and likely: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-023-01396-6

Why bother banning books when you can just defund Libraries? "Ignorance is an enemy, even to its owner." https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wgv5/missouri-voted-to-defund-public-libraries-book-bans

Now this is SEO.

Bonus picture: I gave the KBC a brand new socket. Look how the 74F00 and the 74F04 are tucked away in its belly!

It's incredible how much space is given to a few people in motor vehicles vs so many more people on foot or wheels. It's a vast inequity.

Nowhere is this more stark than #ShibuyaCrossing; the world's busiest pedestrian crossing with as many as 3,000 people crossing at a time. Compared to around 12 cars fromone direction of the junction in one sequence. #Urbanism #CitiesForPeople

Never misses a chance to be wrong. First, the US was founded on the very rejection of the UK monarchy. Second, NO US PRESIDENT has EVER attended the coronation of a UK monarch, going all the way back to George IV in 1789. Is there any topic you aren't amazingly uninformed about?

somehow /twice/ today i've seen an article where someone proclaims the future of programming is writing english prompts to an LLM and all i can think is these people surely cannot have written any code longer than a stack overflow answer

Update time! #LibreOffice 7.5.2 is now available, with fixes and improvements. All users are recommended to upgrade: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2023/03/30/libreoffice-7-5-2-community-available-for-download/