cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

I picked up a set of stainless steel chopsticks and have been practicing with them for reasons.

http://wondermark.com/601/

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Onward, Infinite Threadians!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/07/15/infinite-thread-xxiv/

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niconiconi@cybre.space wrote:

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

Maybe we should just admit defeat and go whole hog and distribute all applications as VMs with a thin hypervisor "distro". Maybe take a look at Qubes OS. Or maybe stop using computers. :thonking:

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

So distros give up and just ship packages straight from vendors (which makes me question the value of a distro). And then there's flatpak on the WSL, which just... Well, I won't go there for the moment.

Anyway, I don't know why we stop at flatpaks. We keep futzing around the edges attempting to accommodate and quarantine developers' self-inflicted complexity while simultaneously pretending we can protect ourselves from bad decisions or bad actors of complex apps with leaky containers.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

I was reading another article on distros adopting flatpaks:

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/900210/c6723f688997abdd/

And it occurred to me there's a story of power dynamics here. On commercial platforms, MS, Google, and Apple set the terms and vendors deal with it. And there's no hope of that changing.

On Linux, distros had been setting the terms, but due to the way development has changed over time, vendors seem to be getting the upper hand either intentionally or as a side-effect of the way they do things.

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selfsame@gamemaking.social ("selfsame (gamedev aspect)") wrote:

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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Here's what they promised but never got done, off the top of my head:

- $15/hour minimum wage
- Voting rights reform
- The original human infrastructure bill
- Heavily cut-down Build Back Better plan
- Codifying Roe v Wade into law

And I bet nobody even remembers that Medicare For All was also on the agenda in the beginning of the 2020 campaign. But we should not forget.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

I'm hearing Joe Manchin has torpedoed the Democratic Agenda™ again? Has it played out enough times for staunch #VoteBlueNoMatterWho voters to realize that it's actually working as designed? Has it not been for Manchin (and Synema), corporate Dems would be in a real trouble because they wouldn't have such a great excuse for never doing anything for the people that also goes against their corporate donors.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Ignore both the New York Times AND Harvard.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/07/15/the-only-university-that-counts/

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