I’ve installed gentoo but there seems like there’s so many sacrifices. I love that it’s all open source, but I really don’t mind closed source software now and then, because after all I would be using it to play closed source games. The biggest compromise I’ve observed is the very long build times. I have a lukewarm...
TheRegister & Ars Technica are the 2 that give the highest quality overview,
and yeah, Phoronix is kinda required for Linux news,
and … how the hell could churning more be somehow increasing one’s productivity??
Stephen R. Covey’s truth about…
the bigger one’s Circle of Concern…
the smaller one’s Circle of Influence…
one must Focus, or one is just mindlessly dissipating one’s finite strength.
Limit one’s inputs, to quality overview points, and know which other-sites to hit, for specific digging-down into some specialty,
( Leonard Susskind’s lectures, on yt, e.g. for mental exercise: his “Time As A Fractal Flow” one is awesome, when the lightbulb goes on, at the end )
and then you win most.
Never let sand into your gears, in other words, eh?
Keeping all the “misc sand” out from one’s “gears” makes one more productive.
Oh, also www.SemiAccurate.com for the semiconductor foundry industry news, if Demerjian’s still updating that ( he’s scooped the industry toooo many times to let that one escape being important! )
I’m not from the US, but I’ve heard about the housing shortage crisis as well as the commercial real-estate vacancy crisis. I’m pretty sure the US government will bail out the rich folks again....
You, and everybody interested in this who wants real integrity in their leverage to argue this stuff, need to get Hofstadter’s remapping of gender-terms from Mr vs Miss & Mrs to …
… IF you are white, THEN there is 1 pronoun for you, …
… ELSIF you are black, THEN your pronoun is dependent on whether you’re employed or not
written by Douglas Hofstadter ( author of “Godel Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid”, the keystone to competent philosophy ), for Scientific American magazine, decades ago.
It may be in the “Metamagical Themas” book.
It was mentioned in the 1990’s in the Feminism FAQ as being trailblazing, because it caused what we were unconscious-of to GET in our faces, violating our habits, so we could actually perceive just how prejudiced it is.
I only glanced at it, it’s too jarring for me ( I’d rather that I could just live in solitary isolation for the entire rest of my life: humanity’s abuse ), but it may help crystalize the ability to articulate just how stilted this all is.
I completely agree that “Mr.” and “Miss”, “Mrs.”, “Mz” all are gender-identifying, and as-such ought be considered illegal under their law.
But exactly as the convict/felon/inmate Yehoshua “Jesus” benJoseph identiied, a couple of millenia ago, legalists insist on the letter-of-the-law, while ignoring whatever law’s inconvenient to their artifice.
Legalists haven’t changed since benJoseph called them “Hypocrites!”.
If it’s changing, you might want to get a brain-scan, immediately.
No, it isn’t normal ( not for me, anyhow ), to the guy who said it is normal.
It’s not an ear thing, it is an auditory-processing thing, so it’s your brain that’s doing it.
The question is why it is doing it.
Perhaps it’s just fuzzy wiring, as most such cases likely are.
( synaesthesia is a case of weird wiring, and I’ve got that, but not in the normal way, not senses blurring into each-other, but rather my non-visual cognition being a kind of “blur” to those senses, so they mesh oddly )
But if it begins changing in either intensity or character, get a scan.
( I’m a braindamage survivor, and it takes decades to adapt to braindamage: prevention/avoidance is better than hating one’s life for decades, while being bullied by all who reject that it could still validly be a problem, and hold that one ought either force oneself into being an “acceptable” drugged psychiatric-zombie, and not “pretend” to be getting better, or one ought be able to be acceptable-pretence, just like Valid People™ are. )
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Read Paul Fussell’s books on the North American Class system:
the difference between Middle-Class & Working-Class is cultural, not income, and it’s rather indellible, too.
I’d now have Upper-Middle-Class, Financial-Class, Middle-Class, as distinct groups/cultures.
Middle-class judge you by your job-position.
Working-class judge you by your money.
The cultural-difference is profound.
Try getting an Upper-Middle-Class person to honestly accept you as valid, when you’re a homeless person ( despicable/inherently-nonvalid, human-garbage ) and they’re addicted to clawing all the Upper-Middle-Class status they can…
That can be quite educating.
Class-identity is as ancient as hierarchy in our society, so at least as old as agriculture, but I’d say it’s as old as village-chief, so … perhaps 0.5 million years, min.
Books that I find profounder, importanter, include Kegan & Lahey’s “Immunity to Change”, on our unconscious-mind’s automatic-fighting-off of growing-up, protecting entrenched-dysfunction, and how to correct/dismantle that sabotage.
Halvorson’s little, and important, “The 8 Motivational Challenges”.
Logan, King, & Fischer-Wright’s book condensing their research into something readable for us, “Tribal Leadership”, on the 5 cultural-process levels ( they wrongly identify them as “stages”, but stages, like Kegan-3, Kegan-4, etc, are irreversible ).
Moneyarchy has been crushing more & more & more lives into level-1 & level-2 culture, and there are consequences of that.
Level-1 is where mass-shootings arise from, and in 2023 the US had over 600 of them.
Level-2 is where conspiracism grows.
Not understanding that book should be considered criminal-negligence, for government-authority, nowadays.
Lanier’s “Foreign to Familiar”, and then Hofstede’s “Exploring Culture” show how the climate, the civilization, the culture, that we are born into, fundamentally-alter our “personality” in predictable ways.
John Truby’s “The Anatomy of Genres” and “The Anatomy of Story” should be considred required-reading for anybody who unconsciously uses story to form the story of their own meaning ( which is all of us ).
He’s got a couple of mistakes, as many profound books do, his concept of Village is insane, being Wild West Village, instead of the dozens-of-millenia old Tribal Mother Village, and his concept of humor is wrong, too, being based on “the drop”, which is a US thing, and not the core of humor, at all. The real core of humor, is being surprised by the improbable. Creative-misinterpretation humor shows this.
Hofstadter’s “Godel Escher Bach: and Eternal Golden Braid” is the core competence in all of Western Philosophy. All the Western Philosophers who reject, ignore, or don’t-understand, the core points in that book, are not competent in philosophy, period.
These books all outclass many of the books he’s recommending.
and not just privilege’s gaslighting about it ( via making-certain that the poorest have inferior-nutrition, inferior-air-quality, worse-pollution, inferior-education, inferior-healthcare, etc ),
then yes, I hold it is The Proper Way.
However, it REQUIRES a truly-level playing-field, and not a 2-tiered “level” playing-field.
The Scandinavian system of ONLY public-schooling, so there is only 1 tier of education-quality, is a required component.
Student nutrition needs to be guaranteed.
Healthcare needs to work properly, for all.
Livingwage needs to be for all full-time work, and companies that try to hire only part-time for the real-work, have to have the profit-benefit of such hamstringing-of-many-lives cut from them all, permanently.
Fairness requries careful systematic, & openly-honest enforcement, because the DarkHexad: narcissism/machiavellianism/sociopathy-psychopathy/nihilism/sadism/systemic-dishonesty ALWAYS seeks to enforce abusive-exploitation, and it is underhandedly aggressive, and natural in our human nature.
Spend a half-month considering, deeply, which path you would most-value having taken at the end of your life.
Due to an unconscious psychological-limitation, imagine your funeral at 1.5x your current age ( we apparently have a kind of “horizon” in our ability to understand our meaning beyond that ),
and imagine each significant variant, or compromise, and see how each makes you, in that future-condition/context feel.
I’ve spent some time searching this question, but I have yet to find a satisfying answer. The majority of answers that I have seen state something along the lines of the following:...
A couple of decades ago, iirc, SANS.org ( IF I’m remembering who it was who did it ) put a fresh-install of MS-Windows on a machine, & connected it to the internet.
It took SEVERAL MINUTES for it to be broken-into, & corrupted, botnetted.
The auto-attacks by botnets are continuous: hitting different ports, trying to break-in, automatically.
I’ve had linux desktops pwned from me.
the internet should be considered something like a mix of toxic & corrosive chemicals: “maybe” your hand will be fine, if you dip it in for a moment & immediately rinse it off ( for 3 hours ), but if you leave you limbs dwelling in the virulent slop, Bad Things™ are going to happen, sooner-or-later.
I used to de-infest Windows machines for my neighbours…
haven’t done it in years: they’ll not pay-for good anti-virus, they’ll not resist installing malware: therefore there is no point.
Let 'em rot.
I’ve got a life to work-on uncrippling, & too-little strength/time left.
“but I don’t need antivirus: i never get infected!!”
then how come I needed to de-infest it for you??
“but I don’t need an immune-system: pathogens are a hoax!!”
get AIDS, then, & don’t use anti-AIDS drugs, & see how “healthy” you are, 2 years in.
Same argument, different context-mapping.
Tarpit was a wonderful-looking invention, for Linux’s netfilter/iptables, years ago: don’t help botnets scan quickly & efficiently to help them find a way to break-in…
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IF you want Steam, THEN please consider every variant in the official Ubuntu family.
Steam-support told me in their system, iirc in early 2023, that they ONLY support the Ubuntu family ( directly ).
As Linus Torvalds noted, it isn’t possible to release software that is going to work on all distros.
Even glibc has been broken by one, in that talk of his, and it wasn’t a niche distro, either, iirc.
Pick which subset you CAN afford to support, and do not add to that subset until you’re rolling in money, from your linux-customerbase.
( slight sarcasm on the last line, but business is business: destroying-resources costs, and if there is no benefit, it isn’t sane to continue doing it. )
Decide which capabilities/functions/apps you NEED, and then don’t even consider distros that break your required-set on you.
They are going to ignore all laws that are inconvenient to them:
IF Trump isn’t permitted to run, maybe they’ll run with a placeholder, then have Trump be shoehorned-in somehow, perhaps by Republican-electorate decree…
Legalists, same today as in Yehoshua “Jesus” benJoseph’s day, pick & choose which pieces of the letter-of-the-law that they acknowledge.
That has always been their fundamental tactic, along with gaslighting.
Notice how the West held-to Natural Law ( morally-based Law ) in prosecuting Nazis, but … as soon as that was done … the West decided that Legal Posit-ivism ( legalism ) is the West’s right, and nobody has any right to be threatening any privilege through moral-law, as legalism prohibited that sort of behaviour.
Nothing’s changed: human-nature is the same, now, as it was back in the Christian bible’s times.
You need to communicate your values, and why they are your values.
You need to communicate who you are, via the most-significant-moments/events you experienced: the most-significant-for-you meanings, see?
As for you disappearing, the Soul/CellOfGod/ChildOfGod/Continuum ( whatever you want to call it ) that causes the molecules in your body to continue-living ( yes, there is a physics-level cause for the anti-entropy behaviour expressed as living-organisms, and it isn’t there, when those same molecules are doing the disintegrating-corpse thing, obviously )
That cause is unkillable.
It keeps getting caught in conceptions/lives, through endless-stream-of-Universes’s perpetual recycling/churning of ALL energies ( including meaning! ) contained within it.
It isn’t the-individual-life that is the center,
it is the Soul/CellOfGod/ParticleOfBrahman that is.
IT experienced some of ITs growing-up, in/through your-life.
With you, your Soul got a gift, fersure.
My life’s been hell, & I’m glad:
nothing like aversion-therapy to force a Soul/CellOfGod to grow-up, eh?
The Soul that had “me”-personality won’t ever make that mistake, again.
: )
If you’ve still got any ability to read, or to have someone read to you, please have someone get Elisabeth Haich’s “Initiation” into you:
it is likely that only part of the book will be important for you, but that part will likely be IMPORTANT.
The world her Soul 1st inhabited was something like 10,000y ago ( it hasn’t rained much there, since then ).
My Soul’s spent most of its time inhabiting insect-lives, or particularly-stupid-fish-with-bad-eyesight.
It’s been centuries since it had been in a human-category life ( the Catholicism I was pressed into, by mom, got nuked when I discovered those strange-memories were memories of my Soul’s having lived in other kinds of lives.
Not only did it nuke all the Abrahamic religions, but it forced me to accept that ALL lives are lives because they have a Soul underlying them, and there isn’t anything “special” about the life of a human, except for our Potential & our Opportunity, which most take for granted, including me, in my younger days ).
Anyways, you can’t unexist, from Eternity.
You’ll always have-been, see?
The Soul/CellOfGod who had you has YOU in it, indestructibly.
I’m earning removal of me-personality now ( should be days ), so the nervous-system currently having “me” can get that “me” ripped-out & can replace it with a better personality ( it’s a Buddhist technique, apparently nobody remembers it, in the modern version of Buddhism, for some reason ), so you can stack multiple personalities/someones into a single incarnation, to get-through multiple-lives of lessons/growing-up crammed into a single incarnation/life.
It works, but it takes work to force one’s own identity-death, or removal of the instance-of-ego underlying one’s personality…
There are 3 kinds of mind that death-itself has difficulty “gripping” on:
As an Englishman, whose identity I don’t remember pointed-out, years ago:
IF the Jews of the region have a moral-right to their own homeland, THEN so do the Palestinians.
EITHER BOTH OR NEITHER-DO.
Once someone has proven they are only narcissistic-machiavellian-sociopath/psychopath, through their nihilistic obliteration of other’s lives, and much more, and throught their sadism,
they have ZERO claim on God, on “scripture”, or on “validity” or on Truth.
The old rabbis ( find some interviewed on youtube! ) who call-out Israel & I stand together in contempting their lies.
KNOW gaslighters for what they are, & deal-with-them as such.
Rabies is rabies.
IF the patient can be got sane/healthy, then help 'em do that, but if not…
then don’t let 'em infect you with their rabies.
( & that goes also for Hamas’s terror-strike, too: both sides have crossed the line into worshipping nihilism/mass-murder, while claiming God, sadly )
WHEN they’ve got the imbalance in-their-favor enough, they will gut & smash India: that is their plan.
Modi’s relying on Russia, China’s economic-vassal-state, for protection against China, hands India to China, strategically.
Make-believe never saved any country’s life, nor will it, in the coming decade.
See it for what it is: now is only a “location in time”, during the slippery-slope ( low steepness, after 1 or 2 more world-process Punctuations, the slope will be STEEP! ) time before global-TANTRUM/POGROM that #ClimatePunctuation, combined with political-tantrum, including “populist” dictatorships, combined with religious-tantrum, combined with food-web collapse, combined with an increasing-fraction-of-humankind becoming refugee…
etc.
The Great Filter’s unfolding, but still in its Yin stage.
China doesn’t want to rock the boat yet.
When opportunity is ripe, however, they are going to.
I’m commenting only on a now-traditional disinformation about GMO’s.
I don’t consider mutations to be self-inherently toxic, whether natural or engineered: some are toxic, some aren’t, in either case.
Consider that there are specific plant-materials which grab all the arsenic that they can…
Some ferns do it, rice-bran does it, there probably are others that do it.
It is sooo effective a specialized biology, that it is possible to just keep running water through a special greenhouse filled with such plants, and they’ll concentrate the specific heavy-metals, so they, themselves, can be the HAZMAT containing the arsenic, after…
IOW, you can significantly reduce the amount of loose arsenic in your ecology with deliberate-use of such things.
They weren’t engineered to do that, they just have the genetic machinery to do that.
I’ve read that rice-bran from some areas of Bangladesh, South China, etc, are sooo arsenic-rich, that they are HAZMAT, themselves, according to test/measurement/evidence.
Obviously, some lobbies want GMO to be a simple dog-whistle, they want everybody’s System-1 ( read the important “Thinking Fast & Slow”, by Daniel Kahneman: System-1 is the default-instinct system, it can be trained into conditioned-expertise, it is also the mechanism of both addiction & prejudice ) programmed into automatic, unthinking reaction against GMO.
Consider, though, what I’d enjoy: ZERO caffeine-family coffee.
And chocolate.
They’re too toxic for me, as they are.
That would require genetic-engineering, to remove those methylxanthenes from those plant-parts.
I’m NOT saying that "Round-Up Ready"™ crops are healthy for either us or for our only planet’s ecology, but I AM saying that GMO is a category, and it includes oceans more than just Monsanto’s dependency-developing pseudocrops.
IS it bad when a crop is genetically altered to improve its resistance to some “rust” or blight?
It comes down to the actual case, is what I’m saying.
Same as “All Whites are bad” or “All Nonwhites are bad” is just prejudice, the same is true of surgeries, both at the body-scale & at the molecular scale.
WHICH genetic engineering??
For what?
Where & How, in the genome?
Why?
What are the side-effects of doing that, both for the organism & for the rest of the food-web that it lives-in??
I’m commenting against oversimplification, is all:
dumbed-down may be “easier”, but it is mismanagement, inevitably.
I’m Buddhist, so I’m answering this question from my real-life standpoint:
Authentic Realization of one’s Ultimate ( original awareness ) Nature.
What could be more precious?
Given that ALL of one’s unconscious-mind’s mechanisms exist to block that from happening, to protect unconsciousness’s Eternal unbroken dominion, what could be more difficult to earn/obtain?
All the distractions in the world, “helping” one to NOT earn one’s deepest profoundest Truth…
All the profits that cease, should one get anywhere in self-realization…
You simply don’t need any external resource, for there to be a most-precious-resource, you know?
I’ve been told that to start a fight in Francophones, just demand to know whether grapefruit ( pamplemousse, iirc ), is male or female…
: P
The book “The Alphabet Versus The Goddess” by Leonard Shlain, makes the point that women’s-rights simply don’t progress as quickly, in countries which have gendered languages…
So, Anglo cultures pushed women’s-rights, whereas Latin cultures … won’t, don’t, drag their heels, etc…
That book is now a couple ?decades? old?
It’s still true.
Conditioning an entire population’s System-1 ( Daniel Kahneman’s “Thinking Fast & Slow”, the System-1 is the default-instinct & the trained-now-automatic-expertise system, it also is the system that is both addiction & prejudice ) into gendering everything, automatically, may well prevent equal-validity from ever having place…
Mind you, I now want to see which Nordic/Scandi languages are gendered, & which Middle-East languages are gendered, to see if that holds in those parts of the world, not just in the Americas…
( that isn’t a quick read… may come back to it some day… )
Bingo!
“The grammatical gender of nouns is one of two: a noun may be masculine or it may be feminine, and there is no neutral option. Moreover, masculinity is the default grammatical gender in Arabic and a word does not have to have anything special in order to reflect this. Femininity, on the other hand, is not default and a noun would have to have something special to reflect this gender in Arabic.”
So, there is ZERO hope of equal-validity in Arabic culture, because the language programs Arabic people’s System-1 into 2 exclusive validity-categories, with male being inherently more-valid, by established language-habit.
No wonder women can’t get equal-validity in Jewish culture…
( I read a Jewess’s writing ~ Nobody EVERY celebrated the birth of a Jewish girl: only boys are celebrated ~ … which explains the damage in the stereotypical “Jewish mother”, a woman whose validity has been contempted by all in her culture, until the damage is her most defining feature… )
So, it looks like equal-rights/equal-validity for women is … baseless, in some/many cultures…
Sentry has moved to a new license for its products called Functional Source License, and explains in this article the story of the licensing for these products and why they throw BSL for FSL.
and if you consider that “economic barrier to entry” can make any bigger company, who is able to scoop a startup’s code & sell the use of it, can extinguish the startup who created the code …
then, yes, there are definitely situations where protection-against-competitors, some of whom have DEEP pockets, could be an actual requirement, for opensourcing one’s code.
“Coopetition” Bill Gates coined, where you “cooperate” with your competitors, but, being Microsoft, you do it so you can snuff them, soon.
I can definitely see why a company would want to be able to allow limited use of their code, globally, but to legally-prohibit using it to destroy them.
The CIA conducted psychic research in the 70’s and 80’s. The experiments were successful enough that the Army put together a group of remote viewers, one of them was named Joe McMoneagle and nicknamed RV1 for his unusually good skill. He worked with the CIA, FBI, DIA, DEA, and was eventually awarded the Legion of Merit for...
Go read McMoneagle’s book of predictions: it is awefully wrong.
Remote Viewing is a modified kind of dreaming:
Remote Viewers are in dreams, and their ( very primitive brain, it seems ) ESP is patching-in pieces of what it perceives, but … it is patching those things into a dream, so the result is … rather groundless, with fragments of truth in it.
I trust the hard photos from NASA & ESA more than I trust McMoneable’s dreams…
Yes, the youtube vid of him being interviewed about his helping Japan find sites that archaeology says did have to do with an early royal of theirs ( an Empress? ) is convincing, but I’ve not fact-checked it.
It may well be spot-on: ancient Japanese history isn’t my interest.
If he was predicting people living on Mars, the same Mars that sometimes comes up to warm-enough to melt water, but has dry-ice on the ground, in the winters at the poles, and planet-scale dust-storms, and CO2 lasering in its atmosphere, and an atmosphere that is 1/1000th as thick ( from the aviation perspective ) as ours, with nearly-no oxygen loose in it…
I’m sticking with the machines that map & photograph the things.
On the other hand, declarative readability (or readability-d) uses abstractions and architectural layers to manage complexity. It seeks to answer very different types of questions:
What is the intent of this function or module?
What business rule or domain concept is this code encapsulating?
What is the end goal or output of this code, in terms of the domain?
What are the high-level policies or constraints that this code is adhering to?
… I’ve no interest in learning Scala or Closure, but damn that is an important differentiation…
I haven’t read the article, but yes, wars do have time-limits:
Once a war becomes domestically impossible to participate in, Vietnam as 1 proof, then the-course-of-war changes.
Economic-collapse means that Biden’s hosed in 2024, and the Republicans are Russian allies, not NATO allies.
Yes wars have time-limits.
Simply wait & see: by the end of 2025, NATO will be gutted, Trump will have been crowned GEOTUS ( a term they already use for him ), and Trump will ( passively, at least ) back Russia.
Sickening, but it looks like that’s the fact of the unfolding global/geopolitical near-future.
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