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@kims > “We’d have times when you’d deny proton laser therapy for a kid with seizures and the parent would freak out,” said the former executive.

holy shit what. this is the therapy they use as a last resort for brain tumors — that kid was seizing because their tumor was killing them

someone please tell me that former executive followed their little anecdote up with “The Aristocrats! haha just kidding imagine being this much of a fucking monster”

@dalias for those playing the drinking game version of this thread: that’s a shot

“you know what you should do to replace protonmail? self-host your own email, it’s easy and secure!” statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

- self-hosting mail is a fucking nightmare
- you’ve kindly put all of your messages in a box you can and will be forced to open if you get into legal trouble

self-host what you want, it’s a good thing in general, but don’t misrepresent the experience. you will have to think about opsec and administration. mail isn’t worth it.

@hipsterelectron right, ls is multiple ls

@hipsterelectron sometimes I just make up commands: lspci, rg, sync, halt

and people just go with it!

none of these federated fools will ever find out I don’t know what linux is

all of the video games you grew up with are now considered retro, and your back hurts

@davidgerard I can’t emphasize enough how much it’s fucking me up that Nix, a highly useful technology I’ve advocated for damn near everywhere, let its community become a Nazi bar because its founders wanted a small fraction of Palmer Luckey’s blood money and foothold in the same space as horseshit like Urbit: esoteric functional programming used by right wing think tanks and defense contractors to enable racist processes and murder.

@RL_Dane @dalias @irenes also, it’s weird and fucking ridiculous that I have to maintain a large multi-service blocklist of systemd stans and red hat employees just to avoid being signal jammed with toxic nonsense every time I want to discuss anything negative about their ecosystem. this particular cathedral has already used its position to destroy our ability to effectively communicate, and I do resent that

@RL_Dane @dalias @irenes this is at the root of my distaste for systemd and the gnome ecosystem too, and it cuts deeper than any technical issues I have with systemd (though extreme resistance to technical improvements from outsiders does go hand in hand with cathedral-style development)

@chjara atari’s weird false 64-bit marketing was all worth it to establish the setting for their ads: every kid’s favorite place, a math class they’re failing

@babe I keep hearing things about nixie OS which I think is the linuxkernel forked to display things using Nixie tubes??? you linux users and your weird hobbies I swear. on windoes you can at least do practical things like excel cpus and the batch script

@cwebber it’s how our BBSes exchange emails and warez but only the bigger BBSes have it cause most sysops can’t afford the extra phone lines??? some sysops federate using the “Internet” but that only lets you telnet into university computers and email boring researchers so I haven’t tried it

uh can anyone upload doom? circuit city finally had FPUs in stock and I want to see if it’s faster

@thomasfuchs @mainframed767 thomas, please reconsider making this comparison