xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@xianc78 The hard reality IMO, is that it's very hard to deprogram people who spent a decade or so online balls deep in internet bullshit, especially if they will drift from one allegiance to another as a defensive tactic.

Case in point: the reason everyone laughs at the idea of "trolls remorse" is that the same guy who mopes about how some website he used to post at is a "hate site" will use his tactics for the other side even as most of the people from said site of that era grew up and settled down.

Sun Microsystems website as of 1994.
#sun #solaris #oldweb

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This would matter more if Ubisoft made anything worth playing

@atomicpoet I would argue though that judging the American Revolution – or any other revolution for that matter – for the events long after it, is unfair and even bad.

You can always cherry pick and pinpoint specific periods after the revolution that supports your argument. Could be decades after, or could be today 250 years later. Anyone persistent enough can make a case for/against by picking a random time that serves the argument.

My controversial opinion:

The Americans were the bad guys during the American Revolution.

Not that the British were great—they were awful—just that the American colonists were demonstrably worse.

You see, British bankrolled the entire French & Indian War. When the Brits raised taxes on American colonists so they would pay their fair share of the costs, Americans got all hot and bothered—rebelled just so they wouldn’t pay for a war they materially already benefitted from.

And what was the end result? Americans pay more taxes now than the British ever asked from colonists.

“Oh, but we don’t have a King!”

You have something worse: an Imperial Presidency with less accountability than the British Royal Family.

So much for “freedom”!

This is like the breakfast question for young engineers...

Headline: "France Confirms Data Breach At Government Agency That Manages Citizens' IDs"

And soon every app, site, OS, and device will be demanding your ID.

If you think age verification is a good idea your an idiot.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/france-confirms-data-breach-at-government-agency-that-manages-citizens-ids/

everytime i read of gnu taler i'm pissed that those people thought taxation is something that should be supported.

New Tractor With 12-Valve Cummins and Zero Electronics Goes Back to the Basics

Ursa Ag, out of Canada, is building farm equipment that's both affordable and serviceable by independent shops.

The tractor is new, but the Cummins engine is "re-manufactured" and sourced from used engines from an earlier time.

I think this is a really good way of going about it. Kind of #RetroEdge in re-purposing something of quality from a while ago and mixing with new parts.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/new-tractor-with-12-valve-cummins-and-zero-electronics-goes-back-to-the-basics

Same for people who previously couldn’t find time to mentor a student or new junior colleague because “it’s too much work to describe the task in enough detail”. For their LLM? No problem at all. 🤷 That’s the one that really gets under my skin.

It is a sad state of affairs.

#LLM #AI

RT: https://social.mei-home.net/users/mmeier/statuses/116453266695870491

I've had stomach pains the past few weeks, and already saw a doctor who gave me a medication. A friend told me to drink water mixed with psyllium husks to alleviate stomach pain. Has anyone ever used this stuff before?

https://www.healthline.com/health/psyllium-health-benefits