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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 07:58:02 JST 
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> Correct, he already wrote a blogpost about scrapers breaking sourcehut.
https://fluffytail.org/objects/0fbdf04d-c440-46b1-96c6-9b6c7c50ae02
The thing is, DeVault is such a pompous ass that it's hard to say whether "AI scrapers" are Sourcehut's only denial-of-service vector. It wouldn't surprise me if the owner's behavior got the site on someone's list. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 25-May-2025 03:30:57 JST
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@0461fcbecc4c3374439932d6b8f11269ccdb7cc973ad7a50ae362db135a474dd If you see any of my relatives, tell them I said 'hi'. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 23:25:18 JST
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@cjd I don't know about now, with the current administration, but from at least 2008, financials aren't dependent on paying interest to attract funds. With strong political / government backing, they seem to be able to generate fees no matter what else is happening. I'm not sure I'd count them out as a sector for investors, no matter how much I think banks' and insurers' management should be wearing orange jumpsuits and leg irons. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 10:32:46 JST
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@lewdseagull @sun @Nudhul There was one in the 1970s, but I don't know if they knew back then that chocolate wasn't good for dogs.
(In the 1980s, I read an article where all the big pet food companies had discovered that dogs love the taste of garlic. Turns out this predated the story about the dog that died of garlic poisoning and prompted the studies that changed the advice.) -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 13:38:58 JST
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@p @verita84
Market share is almost certainly paid.
Where I worked appeared to be an all Windows network unless you knew about all the special services.
The Oracle databases ran on Red Hat EL. Services like facsimile servers and the earliest IM servers were also on Unixlike operating systems.
Windows was pretty much just AD + file & print. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 12:25:35 JST
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@thendrix @anemone @vriska @sun
Prostate cancer is usually slow-growing, but not always. Sometimes it is rapidly aggressive and by the time it is discovered it has spread all over the body. I'm specifically not saying it was true in his case, because it was obvious for the past four years that they were carefully guarding information about his health and mental fitness. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 12:20:32 JST
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@mischievoustomato @anemone @vriska @sun
Maybe in your country. Not happening in mine. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 09:42:13 JST
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@feld @sun I had to look that up: https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/tests/antibody-titer
That would have been helpful back when I was in high school. Because of frequent moves, shot records were lost. There was a day when all students had to prove they were up-to-date or get re-vaccinated. So I had to get some shots that I'd already had.
> no appetite to spend resources on these sorts of problems
I think the antivax "vaccines cause autism" movement caused even those who would have been willing to close ranks against a powerful anti-evidence movement. And the legal immunity from lawsuits (which started in 1976 with the swine flu vaccine and gradually spread) does little to motivate an organization to change what it does or how it does it. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 13-May-2025 00:40:07 JST
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> the extra labor you put into sorting waste *is* the whole point, as it exists to assuage guilt.
So most recycling isn't financially viable in the first place, but if it was close, sorting would be the thing that made it viable. For example, if you're recycling plastics, you'd probably need for each separate chemical and each separate color to be in a different bin in order for the output to be worth anyone paying for.
Likewise for glass. If the glass is green, it needs to go in a bin for green glass. If the glass is brown, it needs to go into a bin for brown glass. If the glass is clear, it needs to go into a bin for clear glass. Until some time in the 1980s, some parts of the US actually did re-use glass bottles. (I'm not sure whether any were re-melted.)
Now, there are plenty of things where that doesn't matter. For example, several years back, I saw a TV news report where they followed recycled plastic beverage bottles from California to a landfill in India. Splitting those ones up into colors and materials would not have made one bit of difference. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 13:22:20 JST
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@hfaust attention span -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 23:06:45 JST
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fpc being superglued to gcc
Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, fpc's advocates used to say it was "Pascal written in Pascal" as opposed to gpc, which was a Pascal front-end for gcc. But I still had a machine where Turbo Pascal 7 worked, so I didn't care.
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 09-May-2025 05:07:37 JST
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Is it a "feature" of Android that I still feel like my old Palm Pre was better than any other mobile device I've ever used? Even with parts of its webOS operating system being powered by a slow Java virtual machine?
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 01:15:38 JST
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@jeffcliff @mangeurdenuage @hfaust
Reducing their code while the web standards continually inflate is only going to hasten their collapse. I'm old enough to remember when the JS scripts to launch Macromedia's Flash player didn't work in Netscape (because they were IE-only), which meant that certain sites continually asked you to upgrade your player if you weren't using MSIE. People took that to mean there was a problem with Netscape, not that Macromedia (later part of Adobe) were lazy or incompetent. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 01:00:10 JST
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> 87% fertilization rate
Wao! Quailman must be visiting in the night after Patty Mayonnaise turns him down. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 00:57:17 JST
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@noyoushutthefuckupdad But in real life, what's more likely is that some group would pay you to show the most blatant propaganda on Movie Night. Probably something almost at Captain Planet's level.
All the Poast-tards and NCD mcnuggets would be hypnotized into becoming living bots for that group's pet cause. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 00:45:56 JST
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https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/23/blue_shield_leaked_info_google/
I expect we'll get no federal-level prosecution. Hopefully, at least CA and / or NY will go after the insurer and the ad / analytics provider. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 00:31:18 JST
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@jeffcliff @hfaust From a financial perspective, the search deal is what allowed Mozilla to deem itself "guardian of the Web" instead of remaining a smallish team working on a browser and mail client. This means the past two decades of Moz history (and the internal myths they believe about their work), and their various corporate entities are all sourced from that deal providing incredible amounts of money from Google.
I even read on some Mozilla site that when people donate, it goes to a completely different entity than the for-profit entity that develops the browser. I don't know what sort of options they have (and not just them: LibreWolf / PaleMoon / Waterfox / and the various other downstream forks are probably not strong enough to survive without Mozilla actively producing code upstream). -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 00:22:29 JST
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> It's not necessarily a _lack_ of housing, because housing _exists_. But, we have an epidemic of companies intentionally creating manufactured scarcity.
https://mtl.jinxian.casa/objects/019691c5-5cda-d1d5-a3a8-a57ba90c3242
It is both, IMO. This country has around 330 million people in it, up from around 280 million in 2000. We haven't built enough housing units for an additional 50 million people in the past 25 years.
That said, the various banks and corporations are making the housing crisis far worse than it otherwise would be. If USDOJ was doing its job, there would have been dozens or even hundreds of bank / corporate executives paraded in front of the TV cameras in orange jumpsuits and leg irons and locked up in the fiercest non-country-club prisons in the nation.
The shock would change the actions of the rest of them ... and maybe even make them unwilling to keep bribing congresspeople and state legislators to allow their rapacious ways to continue. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 00:13:28 JST
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@vriska I feel like the "how will I survive the next hour" thing is health-related, and not just being temporarily overwhelmed by the work of living in a new place. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 08:03:47 JST
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I didn't pay attention to the Canadian election, mostly because I try not to pay attention to politics in general.
So the question for those Canadians who choose to answer is: Can you summarize the results, with a short commentary about what you expected versus what you got and whether you think the results are acceptable?
Don't feel obligated. I live in your southern neighbor and don't plan to emigrate. It's just idle curiosity and I'll likely forget in a month or two.
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