And before that, PepsiCo, so if “CEO” wasn’t enough indicator that he was a complete ghoul.

Lol right? Everywhere we look, there’s volumes of “rules and norms” that would see us insta-fired and jailed if violated. Plenty of actions we could take would put us at the mercy of countless authorities and perhaps rightly ruin our lives.

But gee if you go high enough, the consequences are apparently just:

“Egad! Oh dear, how uncouth! Somebody should do something! Sir! We unfortunately feel forced to inform you that we find this behavior most distasteful! Excuse me sir are you listening? We disapprove, I say! We wag our fingers, sir!”

worked to simultaneously make fascism cool

Y’know I cringe so hard now at that whole humorous “Muricah” stereotype. You know, gun-nut, God and Country, Reagan was so great, filthy commies blah blah blah. Always with a wry chuckle…it used to be a funny ironic schtick…Colbert parodied it really well.

…Except it’s hitting hard and fast that it wasn’t a schtick and no small percentage of people adopted it in all seriousness.

(Like how many people didn’t understand the Space Marine fascism in 40k was supposed to be over the top parody.)

“Oh, you mean ¿death panels‽ Where a bunch of faceless, soulless bureaucrats decide whether you’re worth saving or not? You know, completely unlike the wonders of profiteer healthcare!”

That’s so freaking terrifying to think about.

But we’re seeing it here too: People seeing their neighbors dragged away, and they will do any mental gymnastics necessary to separate themselves from the victims instead of defending or even standing with them.

Lol! Source is like the second to last paragraph of “Prologue.”

A ton of Linux usage involves the direct or indirect management and commanding of daemons, too. <_<

I think we cracked it: Linux is free and open sourcery. XD

Lol I’m really curious about the etymology behind all these computing terms now!

I wouldn’t be surprised to find out something like “kernels and shells” was a historically common analogy though.

That IS a fun fact. Super cool!

Hah, reading the introduction to this book out of curiosity…

…And he through the council of a certain angel whose name was Hocroel, did write seven volumes of art magic, giving to us the kernel, and to others the shells.

👀

Oh we’ve got bots for every vice and deadly sin now, taking after their creators.

Kinda neat that for now, we’ve found a way to Dr. Strange mirror-dimension them for the time being. I hope those techniques proliferate quickly.

I don’t care what the “commercial net” does at this point. I just want the indie web to survive.

They haven’t read anything that wasn’t on their Facebook feed.

I am baffled at how this doesn’t constitute premeditated murder. They had some argument and then guy’s like “know what? I know what I’m gonna do.” And did it. What freaking horror.

Then he ought to be put down, for his daughter’s honor.

Iocaine, nepenthes, and/or madore’s book of infinity are intended to redirect them into a maze of randomly generated bullshit

We’ve officially reached a place where cyberspace is beginning to look like communing with the arcane. Lol

Something something “Those the law binds but does not protect and those the law protects but does not bind.”

Reminds me of the guy in that show Silicon Valley who was basically a plant / spy (Jianyang?), and his grand visions for all his apps were creatively named:

“Chinese Facebook, Chinese Instagram, Chinese Twitter. . .”

Lol

Right on!

I don’t know if there’s a hardware trading community yet. I think one challenge is simply how lemmy seems to aim for more general anonymity than reddit, and the DM system isn’t really used to my understanding. (Except by “that fediverse girl” LOL)

Establishing a sense of reasonable trustworthiness to thwart bad actors might take some work.

And thaaaat’s why it’s head/tailscale or nothing for me. I’m smart enough to know I don’t know enough to be absolutely confident I won’t get SHODAN’d and end up crying over a home network catastrophe, never feeling truly secure ever again.

Every now and then it’s tempting to get those fun features in containers like Nextcloud, like public links and federation, but it’s not worth the risk IMHO. Not when there’s state-class adversarial bots written by stupidly smart people roaming the landscape. <_<

Aw thanks!

<3 long time lurker, seldom poster. 😂

Hoping to change that and contribute more. :)

(also to @[email protected])

Good point and agreed! I’m a little new to posting so I thought it was polite to include the source where I found it.

At first glance I thought the poster coincidentally found these images side by side in their gallery, and that’s where the humor was.

Even though that poster clearly got it secondhand too, I didn’t wanna be “ripping them off” lol.

I edited the post to include the raw image. Thanks for clearing up community expectations / culture for me though. :)

I dunno now I’m intrigued to check out emacs. Somehow I learned all the complex finger-ballet to operate Blender mostly by keyboard shortcuts as intended, so maybe that’ll soften the learning curve? :D

Now that’s how you do in-universe self-aggrandizing lol. Love GoG.