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Hamas is crazy as Crazy Horse was “crazy”. You know what both have/had in common? They are/were fighting displacement of their friends and family due to colonizing powers. The only difference is the latter’s people suffered almost complete annihilation while the former is a work on progress. If the British didn’t insist on making Palestine their reservation for Jews, then Palestinian freedom fighters wouldn’t have had to fight Zionists violently encroaching upon their native land.

Brb, gotta go buy some cat food.

Explains why my personal blog, wiki, and git repo keep getting hammered by hordes of AI company scrapers. If AI was intelligent, they’d download a single snapshot every month or so and share. But no, eight different scrapers using thousands of different IP addresses (to evade my fail2ban measures) each have to follow every single blame and diff link when a simple git clone operation would get them the hundreds of megabytes of content in one go.

They are getting better, though. More hits are to RecentChanges on my wiki, so there seem to be some optimizations going on. But I refuse to increase my operating costs beyond a few USD/month to serve AI bots when I know barely anyone human visits.

I really enjoyed Chokepoint Capitalism (2022), the book he co-authored (read: had someone else back up his frequently repeated anecdotes with reputable citations in a proper Bibliography) with Rebecca Giblin. 90% of the interview can be found in that book already with 10% being new slogans and anecdotes that can’t be found in that book.

Step 2: stay dead

Sunlight is always doing this. It’s just that we call overlapping projections of a boring white-filled circles “dappled sunlight”.

Next up: the modifier letter apostrophe U+02BC ( ʼ ).

Or my Steam library.

Fair is fair for drivers blinding pedestrians with super brights.

That’s when you start spamming Page Up/Down, Home, End, and / to search within less. Usually seeing various commands jogs my memory, especially when they are grep commands searching for one I use often enough to be useful but infrequently enough to not remember off the top of my head.

I long for mixed used housing without an automobile parking requirement in an area with ubiquitous mass transit.

$ history | grep 'gre[p]' | less -S

See also: “Marvel Defenders of The Status Quo” (2022-06-22) by Pop Culture Detective.

See also “Robotnik Takes Over the US Healthcare System” (2023-03-05) by Jehtt.

You could make a religion out of thi—

No. Don’t.

A distributed reverse panopticon makes so much sense.

Same happened with me and a USB video capture card I bought specifically for Debian Linux compatibility. One kernel upgrade later… doesn’t work. Try again on old kernel? Works. I’ll probably try in a few months, but I can’t be bothered now.

Assuming you enter your password upon running sudo, isn’t there the risk of sudo’s privilege timing out if pacman takes too long to complete? I believe I tried something similar, intending to run a one-liner I could start then walk away from. However, I ended up returning to see the system not rebooted hours later.

Or is yes somehow supposed to take care of this? Sorry, newish Debian user here who hasn’t ventured outside the distribution much.

This reminds me of the campsite rule but applied globally: “Leave the world a better place than you found it.”

If your ethos is to own and manage as many housing units as possible, you’re not going to improve them since, paradoxically, leaving the world a better place doesn’t help grow your enterprise. On the other hand, if every housing unit is managed exclusively and only by a single local person who doesn’t split their attention, then that person has a personal incentive to improve their home since they suffer the direct consequences of neglecting their possessions.

To be fair, if an industry consortium bought 1 trillion USD worth of semiconductor parts to prevent the AI winter of the 1970s, it would have looked like a foolhardy move unless some group of researchers happened to get drunk in the correct bars and be sober for the correct investor meetings, leading to early discovery of attention and leapfrogging even today’s AI research to achieve several orders of magnitude efficiency gains in training so as to satisfy the eager compute capabilities of the 1970s.