It’s even more ironic: the palantiri were built as communication devices, to be used for good by the right people. Then Sauron came to power and immediately used them to corrupt and spy on the rulers using them.

So they are dangerous tools that are just one bad government away from being used for horrible things. WHY DID THEY BUILD THEM THEN?

They’ve always done it “for the children”. Same wrapper.

That’s because people actually take sick days when they’re sick 🤯

In the US, they just work until they can’t and then they’re fired and have to recover while both unemployed and having neglected their health

Go back to reddit, even there you can learn that the horseshoe “theory” is bullshit.

Yeah, these people never do their research. Its very easy to find the discussions and reasoning the devs had at the time.

That especially disqualifies the conspiracy idiots who come up with myths about Red Hat or Poettering or Microsoft or so puppeteering Linux into its dooooom

Nah, the issue is accidental corruption, different parsers doing things differently, stuff like that. Happens often with “mostly text but actually some structured data also” formats, doesn’t happen with formats that have well specified framing.

Because most people prefer it. Again: having a minority taste doesn’t mean you’re oppressed when there’s an option to have what you want.

For many, it makes them require lube in situations where they would otherwise need none.

For some, it makes things painful some or all the time.

Read. I’m saying that you lied, not that your preferences are bad.

Systemd doesn’t force you to use binlogs.

Can you add more fields? Is there no ambiguity in context switching? No breakage around whitespace?

If so, sure, that’s fine then.

WTF. Saying “it uses binlogs” as if that wasn’t a choice is just a lie. I called it out. Deal with it.

That old load of bullshit again. You could swap out the logs if you want a shittier, less searchable (but text based) logging system. The rest can be countered in a similarly conclusive way, and has been repeatedly in the last decade or so.

Inform yourself before copy-pasting misinformation and misleading propaganda.

Eh, it exists to make fun of the Gen-AI image Trump posted, so I’ll allow it.

That’s tautological. Of course “doing X in relationship model where X isn’t considered cheating” is not considered cheating

No, it doesn’t. It represents the average crime of the pictured groups pretty well.

And don’t forget that those payment tiers are heavily subsidized.

Haha idk I just love the video as well

My immediate association: https://youtu.be/WqacyIaq27o

Just a port?

And yet I’m rarely believed whenever I recommend that people should stop using antivirus software once they figured out how to use the internet responsibly.

Like I get it, there are a lot of people lacking that knowledge, but I feel less secure on a company-sponsored PC with forced antivirus installed.