The political machine does terrible things to people who are at least somewhat fundamentally good.
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I try to post as sincerely as possible.
The political machine does terrible things to people who are at least somewhat fundamentally good.
I lived and worked inside the DC beltway for ten years. They don’t care. The stuff they worry about is so far removed from our everyday lives it doesn’t even register.
We care about stuff like getting to work on time, covering rent, and not yelling “This is all bullshit!” during daily standup. They care about getting a position paper from a lobbyist summarized to read in the car on their way to a meeting (they tend to be one or two hundred papers in length and can serve as general anesthetic) and making sure that some other person on the same committee will vote the way they agreed (“You back my $foo, I’ll back your $bar”).
As a rule, if you have Money you can hire folks that do all of the drudgework for you. For example, a secretary fields all of the requests for meetings, looks at your calendar, comes up with a couple of possible time slots, and negotiates the time and place.
We’re cleaning up our living room as crash space again for folks leaving red states.
I’ve had this happen before on some weird systems. Unplugging and replugging the keyboard woke the keyboard back up.
Trying to kill the Internet Archive would set just the precedent publishers want to kill community libraries.
I’d be surprised if the big publishers didn’t try setting up their own pay-for-access libraries in a few years.
I’ve been saying, Microsoft hired Poettering to thank him for fucking up Linux so much with systemd.
That would be far too helpful.
Check out Slackware. There is still a 32-bit version that is said to work on older Pentium-class machines.
Change up the kinds of malware they write.
Do people seriously not keep copies of their finished work anymore? They just post them and delete the local copy?
I thought that feature was built into it, but okay.
Folks have made it - I think ollama was name-checked specifically because it’s on Github and in Homebrew and in some distros’ package repositories (it’s definitely in Arch’s). I think some folks (at least) aren’t talking about it because of the general hate-on folks have for LLMs these days.
Either the article’s author has an editor who made the change, or the author knows what side his bread’s buttered on.
I mean, even then it might not work. I’m wrestling with it right now (Lemur Pro 13 from System76) and from plain old suspend mode the machine still wakes up randomly (it pops up on my monitoring network as active, and can even be SSH’d into when it’s supposed to be in lower power mode). Also, suspend-to-disk hibernation only resumes correctly about 13% of the time (I’ve been keeping stats while debugging it).
You are not the only person. However, even hibernation mode isn’t a sure thing anymore.
Generally speaking, if the oligarchs don’t think you’ll be useful to them, you don’t make it far enough up in the food chain to be considered a candidate. They don’t play the game of “Maybe this person will do what I tell them once they’re in office,” they play of the game of “Only people I know will do what I say will get onto the ballot.”