Notices by Rob Landley (landley@mstdn.jp)

In case you missed it, the Most Divorced Guy Ever tried to use his money to convince GamerGate he was good at Diablo IX: Even Diabloier, and it did not go well.

https://youtu.be/8Ui4h0J1mIQ
https://youtu.be/wlCCtrOCvu0

The beardy basement dwellers are PERSONALLY OFFENDED by this. Reaction videos reacting to other people's reaction videos, with half a million views each.

https://youtu.be/MKJQGasI0Nw
https://youtu.be/6N-WW0UDrVQ

There's a "you come into MY house" vibe to this...

https://youtu.be/zTyIvPJ-aLc

Because they diverted all the budget to the LAPD, yes.

https://youtu.be/UzCcnFX3y6o

The calls to "defund the police" were always about there being better things to spend the money on. More important. More effective.

But no, rich white politicians wanted all the money to go to ever-escalating autoimmune attacks on their own citizenry. The beatings will continue until morale improves, more police more obedience.

Boomer media is now blaming the fire department chief, when LAPD stole their budget.

It's billionaires. It's always been billionaires. https://mstdn.social/@Npars01/113782648812749787

I'm not motivated by money. I'm sometimes motivated by a lack of money, but just to make it stop bothering me. Basic income would be ideal for me, because I could get to work.

I care about creating value, not making money. Converting the value I create into money has always been a janitorial task.

Just some thoughts listening to https://youtu.be/xvZB93rnq4Q (where he said he's not motivated by having money but is still motivated by making it), and being reminded of https://youtu.be/u6XAPnuFjJc

In ancient times they read sheep entrails, or tea leaves, or watched pythia huff volcano gasses. These days they ask chatgpt.

@dalias Over the years, "am I doing more harm than good here" has gained increasing weight in my decision-making process.

And I've watched a lot of my theoretical allies succumb to divide and conquer "let's you and him fight" diplomacy, in multiple contexts.

You make very different decisions than I do on both counts. Oh well.

@dalias Weren't you the one mad at the ACLU for defending people you don't like?

@ErosBlog That's a @dalias question.

Once again watching someone try to substitute cryptograpy for moderation, and I haven't got enough facepalm. (Even Picard hasn't got enough facepalm.)

It's a variant of the "fences makes good neighbors" fallacy. No, respect for privacy makes good neighbors. Physical fences _without_ social agreements escalate ala:

https://www.expatexchange.com/thread/202/3344190/Ecuador/Expats-Living-in-Ecuador/Why-all-the-fences

@dalias Your advice, in isolation, was an exhortation to keep THEM out without further nuance. You then went "but I'm on the right side", which can be true without being helpful in context.

@dalias So your position is "it's our job to keep THEM out", and you know which them is bad because they think it's their job to keep "them" out.

Meanwhile, "Victoria Explains" just privated her account and deleted a bunch of old posts, because of endless techbro tone policing _and_ the white knighting of everyone else trying to "help":

https://linuxmom.net/@vkc/113693952707940138

Meanwhile bluesky is run by women with paid admin team vs a zillion interlocking homeowners associations reaching beyond their borders

@acb @HighlandLawyer @Di4na @cstross The trouble with hiring bodyguards is a lot of emperors have been killed by their own bodyguards. (Modern billionaires don't even have poison tasters.)

You know how modern Google produces AI slop summaries of searches and links to "google amp" cached pages instead of the real site? Spotify went "hold my beer":

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ugly-truth-about-spotify-is-finally

Spotify now has its own content farms they prioritize to the point grammy winning songs get fewer plays than individual instances of their in-house muzak. And the article says their CEO makes more than Taylor Swift.

Via https://toot.cafe/@baldur/113692083557449454

@HighlandLawyer @Di4na @cstross "Filial responsibility" laws already do that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filial_responsibility_laws

The hospital performs "heroic measures" in the parents' last hour of life (out of network of course) and saddles the estranged child with a $15 million dollar medical bill payable to United Health. Neither the parent nor the child ever have to consent to this.

The billionaires haven't just already locked up all the boomers' assets when they die, they've made debt inheritable.

@dalias If behavior is "undefined", define it to the most obvious thing and stick with it.

I want a -fdisable-stupid-optimizer for every instance where the plain meaning of the language and the behavior of GCC diverge. (Alas disabling the optimizer entirely loses the old "turbo C for dos did this" stuff like dead code elimination.)

@dalias ...?

Just saw Luigi's perp walk described as "gender affirming care for the police"...

@BetaCuck4Lyfe @cstross Is there any way to read it other than fear? The picture makes it look like they've captured Spider-Man, who may just _decide_ to leave at any moment. I'm surprised they don't have a tank.

Thought about adding VDSO versions of clock_gettime() and gettimeofday64() to linux/arch/sh after seeing https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/commit/?id=f2375aacac13 and checking https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/vdso.7.html

Adding two new functions to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/sh/kernel/vsyscall/vsyscall.lds.S#n75 seems easy enough but where to add the function? https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/sh/kernel/vsyscall/vsyscall-sigreturn.S is assembly salad and there's bits of it in arch/sh/kernel/signal_32.c too.

The downside of not having a simple example to copy. The architecture's current examples are giant swiss army knives of complexity.

"Even if we had the excessive means to pay the hundreds of thousands of dollars out of pocket, the hospital would not accept the funds. Why? The industry is such that not only do insurance companies deny 51% of claims, they have enacted policies forbidding people from paying for the critical medication they need out of pocket, lest the insurance company lose control and revenue."

https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/113624927814397047