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this is one of the things that struck me about email clients on Linux – CLI and GUI clients have followed two very different evolutionary paths – the CLI clients went for the “doing one job well” path (where you end up assembling a whole system of apps for sending and receiving email) and the GUI clients went for the “everything and the kitchen sink” path (where you end up trying to hide half the options so they don’t get in your way)

• buy a sports car [company]: Elon
• lease a falcon: RFK Jr.
• start a cult: L. Ron Hubbard

your only loyalty to the company is to the paycheck and that bag ain’t coming out of your paycheck (no matter how much your manager whines about it) – put on your best dead face (maybe mix in a little of “did you just shit your pants?” revulsion) as you hand over a bag and get him out of the store and out of your life as fast as possible – life is too short to give his ego anything other than apathy and disdain

not everyone can be Beck

(until they get a new lead dev, Ladybird is definitely not any type of “Good”)

the “leader of the free world” shops off the remainders rack at Walmart

“Don’t anthropomorphize computers. They hate that.”

• as a human: no
• as a computer: yes

“And I’ve had very little need for any kind of customization as the people behind my distro have pretty much seen to everything”

I think that’s one of the key points (and Nick kinda quickly passed over it) – the Linux desktop environments have constantly iterated over options and changes that customization at this point is more a matter of showing off rather than being a necessity to make things workable or usable

additionally Brodie Robertson did a video about Malibal banning countries back in October: Youtube, PeerTube

with one post, Malibal turned itself into a joke

• but corporate policy is to let IT handle updates
• but Windows doesn’t like being ignored so it bypasses group policy and auto-updates

original generation of COBOL programmers where expecting their programs to be replaced (or at least rewritten) within a decade or so – and then Y2K and we realized how much COBOL was still in the wild – and now a couple decades down the line, they’re still having problems trying to convince fintech to switch from COBOL to the new language of Java …

• domain renewal: $12.12
• letting your domain lapse and having to buy it at auction: $2345 current high bid

“Which is more American? Toyotas built in the US? Or Fords built in Mexico?”

proven multiple times and confirmed by multiple studies: communities that welcome immigrants have higher education rates, better incomes, higher productivity, and lower crime than communities based on exclusion/exclusivity/isolation/separation

conservatives use “CRT” and “DEI” to sow polarization because they know even they’d get blowback if they admitted they were just anti-empathy/pro-hatred/anti-equality

other than similarity of services, I’m pretty sure the two aren’t affiliated

but Cloudflare tends to be a little more “corporate” in its approach so more likely to block archive.today (and libgen and sci-hub)

are you using Quad9 DNS?

(Catbox and Quad9 have an ongoing squabble – usually it’s just a matter of waiting for a day for things to clear up)

even if you do get any of the problems diagnosed, not like you can afford to deal with them