This doesn’t affect your taxes (except for $2bn more being spent on fuelling pointless war instead of healthcare).

is when you are held liable to pay your employees the money you agreed to pay them.

Either online or oriental supermarkets, I don’t see it in regular shops sadly.

As I mentioned, that isn’t an issue with driver verification. In fact, the bug only seems to apply in user mode, rather than kernel mode.

Ube or bust

Yes? Of course crashes still occur in Linux. That bug is not a driver issue, but a kernel instruction issue.

It should also be noted that although that bug was solely seen with Crowdstrike, the actual panic was recognised as a bug and fixed on the kernel side. So the Linux project took responsibility and fixed their side. Most notably, the issue you linked wasn’t actually caused by previous negligence.

they were not to blame

Hard disagree. Both Crowdstrike and Microsoft are to blame here. Crowdstrike are obviously stupid for pushing out a broken update to everyone. But Microsoft are also stupid for not doing driver validation, as well as not making their OS stack tolerant of driver faults.

For the record, the Linux kernel automatically does driver verification to prevent this happening, Microsoft deliberately opted not to do that in favour of their own paid-for certification program. This wasn’t an unforeseen problem, it was a problem they purposefully avoided addressing in favour of money and vendor control. At least Crowdstrike’s failure was a genuine accident.

Yes, Crowdstrike slammed the table hard, but Microsoft actively chose to make the wobbly legs that snapped.

Appreciate the respec’, I absolutely empathise with the instinct to feel that way, but I honestly never say shit like that and I don’t think comrades should.

We are all products of our material circumstances. If you don’t believe that then just tell everyone to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and stop worrying about collectivism.

Except they didn’t say ‘anyone can just hoist themselves’, they just said it’s something they think about a lot. They were empathising and sharing a story they found helpful, that was all.

I think it’s unfair to respond like this. I’m not a fan of the story either, personally, but it’s clearly a story that some people really do derive value from, even if you and I don’t.

I totally feel it, I too have had a friend commit suicide and it made me confront a lot of things. It’s cool you’re sharing these stories and how they inspire you - just saying I find my own interpretation a bit different, that’s all.

I’m very genuinely glad it’s clearly helpful to you and others, but I personally find these kind of narratives to be negative, bordering on harmful.

Nobody is ever suffering heavily, and then just ‘decide to kick ass’, like it’s just a decision you take. No doubt his recovery from anxiety and depression was a lot more complicated, involved a lot of other people, and was a far longer road, than that. Cool life story and goal, nonetheless.

Having not moderated in spaces outside my own language, I can’t speak with significant authority on the matter. We just seem to differ on how difficult, and consequentially effective, we each think that would be.

If we can find, or attempted, a way to effectively do it, then I’m all for it, I totally agree that being accessible to speakers of other languages is an important goal and would be a huge boon!

I think it’s also important not to understate how difficult it is to moderate multilingual websites. Translation software is not perfect in even very closely related languages, and even the latest translation AI misses a lot of subtext. So without being a fluent speaker in a language, along with knowledge of relevant cultural context, you’ll never accurately read the tones and full message in a piece of text. Certainly not to the point of being an effective moderator.

It would be super duper cool if hexbear supported other languages, but unless we have enough speakers of <x> language for it to be a functioning community with its own fluent moderators, I don’t see it being practical (maybe we do?? that would be a neat surprise).

I have a real fondness for just normal pictures of NK, it’s like brainworm cleanser.

Speaking of, these are all village-esque, but seem exceptionally tidy! Meticulous gardening, well maintained walls, etc. Any more info on where exactly the pictures are from?

EDIT: After chasing down the Titok channel, looks like they’re pictures of relatively new-built housing for rural areas. Explains why they’re so flawless.

It’s from a camera

• Whenever you think you’ve made a good point, end it with “QED” (or “quod erat demonstrandum” to sound smarter).
• If you feel overwhelmed or confused by any counterargument, be sure to dismiss it as “an argument in semantics”.
• Heraclitus stated “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”, this phrase can be deployed for almost all topics.
• All treats you subjectively hate can be marginalised by labelling it low-brow, meaningless “bread and circuses” slop (or “panem et circenses” for extra points).

I fear I do these and your tips more than I care to realise

Lol, sounds like the work I would do at my job. But absolutely! This is why there should always be a >= and <= version requirement on dependencies.

Dooown with needless updates

Not really, though. Redoing most prompts will frequently deliver very different results, this one was almost panel-for-panel on the first try.