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by blibble 8mo ago
> You're confusing cause and effect. you are arguing against a point I never made (and no, I don't live in London, I live in an underfunded region too)
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by blibble 8mo ago
the problem is it IS something people have asked for the average British voter likes the authoritarianism
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by blibble 8mo ago
> This is demonstrably false. The data shows the exact opposite. it is not > Yes, London generates a fiscal surplus thank you the only regions of the UK that generate a net return to the treasury are London, the South East and East of
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by blibble 8mo ago
> The UK uses other parts of the county as a piggy bank to fund London projects. it's the exact opposite
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by blibble 8mo ago
oh dear the whole thing reads as "it's going to be so powerful! give money now!"
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by blibble 8mo ago
the remaining 1% when it drives you straight into crash barrier is sort of important
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by blibble 8mo ago
what I call it is "buggy garbage" it's not a person, it doesn't hallucinate or have imagination it's simply unreliable software, riddled with bugs
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by blibble 8mo ago
how many front rooms have you walked into that had a stripper pole? (also: what city? for a friend...)
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by blibble 8mo ago
indeed and it's even worse than that: you're literally training your replacement by using it when it re-transmits what you're accepting/discarding and you're even paying them to replace you
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by blibble 8mo ago
> I understand that one day this era will be history and society will be as integrated with AI as we are with other transformative technologies I'd rather be dead than a cortex reaver[1] (and I suspect as I'm not a billionaire,
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by blibble 8mo ago
it's certainly a change from the "inevitability" vomit the boosters were emitting this time last year
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by blibble 8mo ago
oh, so they got a better deal than usual...
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by blibble 8mo ago
it wasn't even close to 15% of my net income when I was 25 and it certainly isn't now that I'm quite a bit older, and I earn a multiple of what I did then
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by blibble 8mo ago
> London has a big commuting radius with strong regional transit (as maligned as it is). yes, you can quite easily live 50 miles out and be at your desk in under an hour
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by blibble 8mo ago
you realise most companies are private and don't have publicly tradable shares? very common: a small company with a couple shareholders of that aren't employees without dividends, how can the shareholders get THEIR profits out of
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by blibble 8mo ago
> Seems like you have an axe to grind with systemd because it replaced your familiar (but extremely cruddy) init system and now you refuse to debug the problem because you prefer being able to blame systemd. I'm a pragmatist: I just
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by blibble 8mo ago
it's a system service file the problem is systemd > The difference is that systemd is much better at ensuring correctness. yeah, whatever mate
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by blibble 8mo ago
> Finding a genuine security flaw in OpenSSL is extraordinarily difficult. history suggests otherwise > The fact that 12 previously unknown vulnerabilities could still be found there, including issues dating back to 1998, suggests tha
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by blibble 8mo ago
it's not just a resolver, log system, etc it's a buggy-as-hell resolver, buggy-as-hell log system, buggy-as-hell ntp client, buggy-as-hell network manager, ...
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by blibble 8mo ago
> Poettering is the worse thing that happened to the Linux ecosystem and, of course, he went on to work for Microsoft. Just to add a huge insult to the already painful injury. agreed, and now he's planning on controlling what remain
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by blibble 8mo ago
the US is going to stop the chinese by mass production of illegal pornography?
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by blibble 8mo ago
it's the "usually" that's the problem this service (untouched by me) had: After=local-fs.target network-online.target remote-fs.target time-sync.target but it was still started without an IP address, and then failed to b
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by blibble 8mo ago
you can merge the initrd + kernel into one signed binary pretty easily with systemd-boot add luks root, then it's not that bad
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by blibble 8mo ago
yeah, many options that are complicated beyond the understanding of the distro maintainers, and yet still don't allow expression of common semantics required to support network services reliably like "at least one real IP address
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by blibble 8mo ago
everyone attacking Microslop for a bug where Windows won't shut down properly well, systemd's got them beat there!
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by blibble 8mo ago
I only use debian pulseaudio I had to fight every single day, with my "exotic" setup of one set of speakers and a headset with pipewire, I've never had to even touch it systemd: yesterday I had a network service on one machin
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by blibble 8mo ago
yeah, the fix for pulseaudio was to throw it away entirely for systemd, I don't think I have a single linux system that boots/reboots reliably 100% of the time these days
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by blibble 8mo ago
that's a silver lining the anti-user attestation will at least be full of security holes, and likely won't work at all
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by blibble 8mo ago
intel have had a couple of goes at this and each time the doors have been blasted wide off by huge security vulnerabilities the attack surface is simply too large when people can execute their own code nearby
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by blibble 8mo ago
> So many failures coming out of Cloudflare these days I wonder if there's a particular new fad that could be causing this

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