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by toyg 6mo ago
Opus Dei is an issue but it's not the only 'cult within a cult' in the Catholic Church, not even the first. They just happen to be the most recent fashion. Popes have always had to balance the power and influence of this or t
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by toyg 6mo ago
To the degree that it emphasizes communication between individuals over being a dumb database, yes, a bugtracker can be a social network. Bugzilla is a bit too close to the "database" side of the spectrum, whereas GitHub is at the
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by toyg 6mo ago
I don't think technical features were the key to git's success. What really made the difference was: 1. it was free; 2. it was sponsored by the most fashionable project of the time (Linux); 3. it did not require a server; 4. becau
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by toyg 6mo ago
Some people spend most of their time in issues and PRs, which are social features mapping social interactions.
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by toyg 6mo ago
Not taking these people seriously is how we got here. Please stop making that mistake. These people are insane.
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by toyg 6mo ago
It's all about timing.
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by toyg 6mo ago
It depends on the country. In many, there were actual rounds of dedicated votes.
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by toyg 6mo ago
> weird to describe a custom of commons as colonial When you point at a resource under my control and force me to share it (or else), it's not "a custom of commons" - it's a classic colonial appropriation. Which is
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by toyg 7mo ago
> stocatto Staccato, which is Italian for "detached, separated". When I see simple Italian words used as technical terms in music or art, I think "oh, this must be what English speakers feel when they work in tech - a lo
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by toyg 7mo ago
This is such a made-up idea. The various treaties about freedom of passage exist precisely because, before the last 200 years, everyone did whatever they wanted with straits and other natural chokepoints, including closing them at will. Fre
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by toyg 7mo ago
It was working just fine, until Bibi decided he wanted to be remembered as "the guy who completed Israel" so he needed a distraction to try and finish Hezbollah. It will work just fine once Trump is cut to size and the adults get
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by toyg 7mo ago
It should be remembered these points have not been agreed - they are the basis for the Iranian negotiation over the next two weeks. There is no guarantee that the US will not simply reject it and start bombing again - in fact, considering
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by toyg 7mo ago
Yeah, this stuff goes way back. My great-great-uncle Adelmo Landini, who had worked with Marconi, was already doing it (I think there used to be a patent somewhere).
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by toyg 7mo ago
Just let me know which type of information goo you'd like me to generate, and I'll tailor the perfect one for you.
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by toyg 7mo ago
> we know the US doesn't have a dictator Even most dictatorships don't "have a dictator". They have a "great leader" that coincidentally gets voted in again and again, for whom constitutions are amended, a
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by toyg 7mo ago
> Do they really? Vietnam. Afghanistan. Iraq (it's an Iran proxy now). Korea was a stalemate. Pretty much every time the US goes alone against a medium-sized country, it doesn't end in victory.
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by toyg 7mo ago
Nobody can realistically maintain bases in a country without some sort of agreement with the local government (and a certain level of tolerance from the population at large) or an expensive full-on occupation. As far as I know, there is a s
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by toyg 7mo ago
It's supposed to show to regional US allies that the American military cannot really protect them, pushing them to apply pressure to end the war in the short term, and to cool their relationship with the US and Israel in the long term.
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by toyg 7mo ago
That's mostly imputable to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Reddit is a footnote in the mainstream, which is dominated by those 3.
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by toyg 7mo ago
It does, it's textbook "banana republic". Dictator and close circles enrich themselves, everyone else gets poorer. US voters were so worried that South America would come to them, that they have become the worst of South Amer
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by toyg 7mo ago
I mean, I like openbsd the product, but the community culture is notoriously terrible and unwelcoming to newbies.
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by toyg 7mo ago
If I need storage now and I can't get flash disks, I will buy mechanical. Production will not ramp up overnight (or at all - there is no point investing in scaling up if I think the situation is only temporary), so an increase in deman
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by toyg 7mo ago
You could solve that with a stroke of a pen, by re-nationalizing.
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by toyg 7mo ago
> She is blatantly EPP Well, that's because she was nominated by European governments, which happen to be largely run by right-wing parties right now. There have been socialist personalities in her place in the past. That has noth
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by toyg 7mo ago
That's more like perversion...
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by toyg 7mo ago
Still better than a permanent dictatorship built around the mafia, sorry.
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by toyg 7mo ago
"Never meet your heroes." This goes double when your heroes are actors, i.e. people who lie for a living.
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by toyg 7mo ago
> for Europe to stop allowing the US and Israel to do what they want Yes. > starting from the US arrogance that led to the war in Ukraine No. > We should go back buying gas from Russia Hell no.
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by toyg 7mo ago
Although I agree on the general point, it's technically not true that the internet is "still at open as it always was". Nation states are increasingly putting up barriers and filters, and (pushed by commercial interests) forc
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by toyg 7mo ago
that's a pedantic and fundamentally useless distinction in practice.

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