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The themes of alienation, the parallels to classes and the methods in which people use to divide people so that they won't unite and revolt, as well as challenging pre-established hierarchies and the methods that are used to justify them and indoctrinate is so poignant. Mix that classical analysis with the modern corporate environment that is so sanitized and faux empathetic for self-interest, and you have a masterpiece.

What Im surprised about is that no one has abstracted this out so you can run multiple Android containers under LXC. With Waydroid, you have one image. From what I can see they use a custom Linux kernel with a lot of patches and I wasn't really able to get a handle on it, but the LXC interface stuff is pretty simple.

That is definitely one of the things I really do love about Zig. Is that even I as a semi-inexperienced programmer have had multiple pirs accepted in zig without really any friction? And I've talked to Andrew and a few other of the guys and girls multiple times and they are very receptive and very open to well thought out well planned solutions. But in regards to any writer and any type, there have been a lot of suggestions, some of which were tentatively accepted and then didn't work out in the end and some of which have been denied such as interfaces. So I'm not sure where that will end up by 1.0

I love Zig, but anytype and the typed GenericWriters are a horrible mess. It is such a pain in the ass.

Compare that to any other public institution or service at the state level. Federal is an entirely different game. The disparity is gigantic.

I mean that's not really what that says. There's multiple polls or multiple different groups ranging from Rich liberals to Hardline conservatives of which it's pretty much split down the middle plus or minus 5%.

And even then, I'd say that this is not really a good marker for like the general sentiment of the entirety of the population. But it's likely somewhat close as things currently stand, but you have to also recognize the current political climate, as well as that there has been no real counter narrative against trump's framing of politics. Democrats have done a horrible job of presenting any counter narrative whatsoever. And on top of that, a lot of people don't realise yet what these things are going to entail. I mean of course rich people want to downsize the government of course and of course they oppose tariffs. It's completely expected that trump supporters are going to be supportive of mass deportation. Boom my projection is that once people see how violent and cruel this is that a lot of them are going to be like. That's not what I wanted that I didn't know was going to be like this yada yada yada and quickly realise how a horrifying and stupid this is.

> There is no consensus because there is very little left to strive for in the eyes of the average citizen.

I heavily agree on this, people have nothing to look forward to, and nothing to be proud of. In fact, the state of the US is more embarrassing than anything. Every other country has free healthcare, high speed rail, free education etc... On top of that, there is no upwards social mobility. I know a lot of people my age are literally gambling everything on crypto and hustle culture because they have no future prospects or hope.

> This is why we can’t have single payer healthcare, because our populations are too busy fighting for their radicalized ideas.

but I have to say that this is beyond naive. A single payer healthcare system is broadly popular, it has had the majority of support for decades at this point. We can't have it because it goes against the profit motive of the people running that industry. We already pay more than we would in taxpayer money than we would if healthcare was free across the board. Its as simple as that. Blatant corruption.

And this circles back to the last point, people see this, they realize this... and they don't believe that they can change this. This is exactly why, across the world, Luigi Mangione is hailed as a Saint. Thats exactly why the response was, "I get it." and people should try to examine that more. Its honestly not very complicated.

Fox News and such, are the only ones providing answers and giving people a place to channel this anger. But it is at the expense of marginalized groups, and truthfully, everyone. The Neo-Liberal order has failed everyone, and the Democrats have nothing to offer. I mean, we have corruption and oligarchs controlling the government. People feel hopeless, and powerless.

games is a terrible example here, basically everything runs perfectly fine. If you use Steam, there is absolutely no perceivable difference or inconvenience to speak of. The only argument to be made in this department is proprietary kernel level anti-cheats. Other than that, its download Steam -> install game -> click big green play button. I have like 500 hours gaming on Linux, from indie titles, to triple A games on day one (every fromsoft game, baldurs gate 3, even Genshin impact etc...) I have a Mac and the gaming selection is abysmal.

The other thing is hyper-specific and proprietary peripherals, but even then, most things work well. I have multiple drawing tablets for example, and these guys even release Linux drivers these days.

If you specialize in using Microsoft Office daily, or Photoshop, then sure... but thats not most people.

Besides that, you don't need to be super absolutist about it, you can throw Asahi linux on a mac, or an older laptop/pc. Its not all or nothing.

I have an M1 mac with Asahi Linux and Hyprland, and I just love it. Its sleek and powerful but has the freedoms of Linux and I hate that MacOS feels like playing in a padded room. Like wth is up with Finder? Its awful. But if I ever need photoshop or w/e, I just boot into the Mac partition and call it a day.

I agree in the sense that it is directly the fault of the people doing the surveillance but this sounds like "guns dont kill people, people kill people..." which is true semantically, but not in spirit.

Palantir for example works directly with the government on State and Federal levels, and know damn well what they are doing, what their tools are used for, and answer directly to the requests of the government in regards to contracted work (all at the cost of the taxpayer mind you). These are mass surveillance tools, they have one purpose.

I also don't think its insignificant to recognize the backroom deals here that have created this vicious cycle of:

working as a govt official and giving kickbacks and heavily inflated contracts to contractors, and forming laws favorable to those contractors -> then getting a consulting job at those same defense contractors or lobbying groups -> and then moving back into politics

we can't just strip away the context here, a database has a purpose, what purpose does mass surveillance tools have? I'd argue that there is no proper use case for these tools against Americans, other than authoritarianism.

The other factor is that police have near blanket immunity to violate any of our rights, whether that be privacy, using the power of the state to harass individuals, and even killing or maiming people. Then the worst consequence they face is a light slap on the wrist, paid vacation and then a transfer to another Police department. Police only serve one purpose, and that is... well if you know, you know. They have a mass surveillance state in their hands, blanket immunity, and no oversight or checks and balances. People should at the very least recognize this fact.

On top of that I get super frustrated when people want to do austerity measures like cutting funding to libraries, cancer research, public health etc... but refuse to even acknowledge that the police takes up the majority of a states public funding by orders of magnitude, and often receive "surplus" military weaponry.

If anyone actually cared about govt spending, it would be extremely clear that military and police funding would come first and foremost. The reality is that these two things are heavily intertwined, and the ways in which they are corrupt are the same... but one should ask themselves why does the US police force need to be more powerful than nearly every countries military? Who is it that they are fighting and who are they fighting for?

What components? Wayland is literally an XML protocol that turns an XML file into a method of communication. libwayland-server and libwayland-client only handle communication and the internal event loop. Its completely up to the developer to write the implementations of these functions and register them in the server.

Then a client is going to query the server and ask request to do stuff via a unix socket. In fact, you don't even need libwayland, you can raw dog it over sockets manually. The idea is that there are standard protocols that can be queried and used,and you can implement this in any environment you want to. You could write the "frontend" in html and JS and run a wayland compositor on the web (which has been done [1]), you could do it with text or anything really, most people use some graphics stack.

[1] https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield

Software has bugs and water is wet. Wait til you hear about HTTP, TCP, UDP, IP torrents, etc... and "simple" is not really a term I would designate to X11. I mean, its fine, but even just the ecosystem surrounding X is convoluted, outdated and absurd. Things like xinit, startx, .Xauthority, xresources, xhost etc... are all a mess.

Its very interesting, but I would love to see other Wayland implementations other than GNOME's. Its kind of hard to tell if its the GNOME specific implementation or if this is going to be a trend across KDE X vs KDE wayland and specific window managers like sway -> i3 and hyprland etc... But still a really cool blog post.

We used to have the fairness doctrine but it was repealed

Japan gives every candidate an equal amount of time on TV. Its just one example of something that other countries do to make elections more fair. You could limit resources and give everyone a standard platform as a baseline so that anyone outside of the deeply entrenched dual-party system has a chance to win.

There is no coming back from this to be honest. America has been a silent Oligarchy (a government by the few, for the benefit of the few) for a long time and now its just mask off... and unfortunately, the large majority of Democrats have had no interest in making meaningful change, let alone undoing these highly damaging policy changes like Citizens United and everything after that.

Kakistocracy: Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens - also comes to mind here. No one in the upper levels of government care about anything other than enriching themselves at the behest of corporations, and at the expense of everyone else's wellbeing and livelihood. Instead we get vapid shallow identity politics and "culture war" garbage, and every once in a long while we get a gutted out compromised bill that addresses 1/1000th of the problem... only to be later overturned despite it being wholly ineffective.

I just don't see the government, in this state, ever having the faculties or incentive to "fix itself." These institutions and "norms" are irreparably broken, and some people still insist on holding them in the highest regards like they are some infallible mandate.

they hate each other but when it comes down to it they all understand their position and common interest in screwing everybody else over for massive and unthinkable profit.

Its purely transactional. The Libertarians gave him their endorsement and one of the things they wanted in return was this pardon and deregulation.

It would take a LOT of explaining about the context and political climate as to why this is the case. Im on mobile so I'll give a very reductive take, the political guard rails have been removed. Billionaire after billionaire, politician after politician has gone to Maralago to meet with Trump and kiss the ring, they've been making donations of millions to his inauguration fund. Trump specifically threatened Zuckerberg with prison, so he fell in line, and that is the "right" thing to do in his eyes because he stands to gain a lot by getting on his good side, he could even get tiktok. On the other hand, his other option is prison or endless harassment from the government. This is the same deal with Bill Gates and many others. It's all performative bs and these corporations have never had any convictions other than to make the most money possible and to accrue power by taking the path of least resistance.

This is just hypocrisy baiting, this isn't a real analysis at any level. They didn't bring ANY evidence for them to argue against, it was purely an opinion by the state that there could exist a threat, which again is not supported by evidence, true or not. America has a lot to gain by controlling tiktok and one American billionaire will become a lot richer, that's all there is to it. I mean both candidates used tiktok to campaign while wanting to ban it. It's just a ridiculous notion and even they know that.

"Oh you love hamburgers? Then why did you eat chicken last night? Hmmm, curious... You are obviously guilty"

the only option to fix healthcare is to decommodify it and implement a public option where the risk pool includes everyone. There is 0 reason that the wealthiest country on the planet needs to operate at a worse level than so called "3rd world countries"

even from a purely neo-Liberal capitalist sense, this completely violates the shared fantasy of the "free market" and yet we still have people going on Joe Rogan saying stuff like "we need to deregulate the market further because this is all due to innovation being stifled through regulation" which is an absurd notion.

Every other country is eating our lunch when it comes to medical discovery and novel chemical compound discovery while the US spends all of its time and money evergreening medical patents to extend them indefinitely so they can maintain monopolistic control. I honestly just don't see a way out of this.

I agree with you here. My solution was to use Linux on my Desktop PC and its been great for work and gaming, and I have an M1 Mac with Asahi Linux on it for on the go. I love it and I'm really happy with it. I've used Windows most of my life and is has really worn me down, and I tried MacOS for around a year, and it is equally as painful but in different ways. Linux has some rough edges in certain areas, but I like that I can easily sync all my devices, emulation files (it pairs well with the steamdeck), and configurations... and I don't have to put up with being a data cow or being constantly badgered to engage in vendor lock-in.

No one said third-party ads, the description is perfectly accurate to what is happening. The knee jerk reaction to call it sensationalist is odd to me.

nice, that was the first thing that I noticed that I kept trying to do. It makes it a lot easier. I forgot about how clunky controls can be for older games without retroarch rebinds and stuff. I was playing Perfect Dark last night on my Steamdeck and I was able to bind the controls to a modern layout (left-stick walk, right-stick look, etc...) and it makes the game a ton easier.

one must ask themselves, "why?", this never happens lol.

People think in terms of what is inconveniencing them directly. Great examples are when consumers yell at low level workers when a company has horrible policies that run back to cost cutting...

or union workers strike against Imaginary Mail Service Corp. because they are being killed on the job, and people (consumers) get angry at the workers because their package wont show up on time (or the railways arent running, etc...) instead of getting mad at the company inflicting that damage on other people...

or when [imaginary country] puts sanctions on [other poorer country] the people of that country blame the government in power instead of the people directly inflicting harm on them.

I'm not sure why this is the case, but we have been conditioned to be resistant to the inconvenience and not the direct cause. Maybe its because the direct cause tends to be a faceless, nameless entity that directly benefits from not being the target of ire.

You cannot look at any American institution without seeing something that Reagan destroyed. His legacy has had lasting detrimental impacts to this day. Just some examples are the privatization of Colleges, the privatization of healthcare, the near annihilation of labor unions, he ignored the AIDS epidemic for years, his mental health reforms made homeless and crime exponentially worse... Watergate, Iran-Contra and the overthrowing of Sandinista in Nicaragua. All issues of which persist to this day. He is also the sole reason that we do not have national health insurance.

Thats not even touching the corruption, lobbying scandals, the grant rigging, the EPA scandals, the 160 billion dollar in "charity" given to banks to bail them out, Operation Ill Wind etc... You could fill books with this mans horrific legacy and its lasting detrimental impact on society. If you can trace the root of our modern problems to one man it would be Reagan.

Ghostty, Mitchell, and the community around Ghostty, are all really amazing and pleasant to work with. I've had a lot of fun hanging out in the Discord, and sending in a couple of PR's. Everyone is really kind and accommodating. It's a pretty great example of how to run a community and open-source project, even this early on.

Darknet Diaries did a few podcast episodes on the NSO group from the perspective of people who have directly interacted with or have been the target and it really puts it into perspective how horrific they are. They operate under the protection of the US and are directly allowed to spy on US citizens without any recourse whatsoever.

One particularly grotesque case was the illegal wire tapping of Ben Suda after launching a criminal probe in to Israeli war crimes, which they used to threaten the prosecutor and used it to hide evidence that they knew was under scrutiny or take the cases to court just to drop it so they can tell the ICC that they did make an attempt to prosecute, which is a loophole that disallows the ICC to take up those cases.

I'm certain many countries do this stuff, as well as operate botnets and threaten journalists... but the uniqueness here is that these intel groups located in Israel operate under complete protection of the US without any scrutiny or oversight alongside the US government. We are living in this dystopian universe that people have warned about, for decades at this point.