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- Comment on Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison 2 months ago:
I know about 3 people on earth that ever ran it in anything approaching production. Two of them still found a way to use the acme editor til LSPs took over, one is still at it.
It remains a pretty cool project you can still find people maintaining the bones of it. I think the core utils are ported and in the arch repo.
- Comment on Lemmy wouldn't really takeoff to replace Reddit until it's content is search indexable 2 months ago:
I mean it predates a lot of the pervy anime, but Usenet looked the same at the start with lots of Unix/computer boards and an alt.
Computer enthusiasts gonna enthusiastically talk about computers. People who pick up and move to a new platform are likely to be united around being technically competent enough to get there first, and everything else second.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla is an AI company now. Here’s how plausible that is. 3 months ago:
For the most part what kind of company you are is what kind of product you’re selling or making money off of.
So you could contend that Tesla is a battery company or a car company feasibly. Nobody ahead of the AI bubble would have mentioned Tesla and artificial intelligence in the same category.
Besides, if it’s what he makes money selling Tesla is a tax credit company.
- Comment on Microsoft is not done yet: more ads spotted in latest Windows 11 build - gHacks Tech News 3 months ago:
I think it’s grossly undersold personally. What valve has managed is getting the single target platform open source could never agree on.
It’s a small miracle, and it bleeds over into stuff like device driver support in a way I don’t think most people who didn’t deal with Linux in the 2.x era immediately appreciate.
If Linux on the desktop has a surge, they did a lot of the legwork.
- Comment on Windows 11 is getting native macOS or Linux-like Sudo command 9 months ago:
- Comment on What is the need for so many instances? 1 year ago:
We still haven’t really sussed out whether the dominant model is going to be general or specific focus instances, or even brought whether niche boards want to just be in charge of the content and not the users, since your credentials are good everywhere you’re federated.
Right now your ‘all’ feed is a combination of all the various places users on your instance have trawled, but they’re not totally the same everywhere.
We could see curated instance feeds with some instance muting from admins that make it function like a public RSS, per user even if it gets that granular. Skies kind of the limit once you understand it’s limited to insecure communication, the most anonymity you have here is in a crowd.
- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
You are conflating socialism’s view of money, with food. A maximalist socialism would contend money is not for food, give away the food use the money for the stuff you don’t NEED.
To some degree I agree with that. Any stance that socialism would do anything other than prioritize the well meaning of people over capital is either a compromise (and some of the Nordic models would be an example) or a deliberate straw man, just like the author is building here.
The idea that you can’t ‘afford’ to feed the world and ideas just like it is the entire reason there’s a socialism in the first place.
- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
I figured I’d do the diligence since I have to put up with enough Cato for other projects. I didn’t know the authors name, so I had a good laugh at the 3 lines on his linkedin.
- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
“Who We Are
HumanProgress.org is a project of the Cato Institute”"/
Sounds about right. You’re quoting a right wing rag from a 20 year policy analyst with no practical experience.
You want to know what poor people can’t afford? Extinction.