black0ut

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[–] black0ut@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well, vibe coding isn't working. That's just letting the machine think for you.

However, even non specialized work is essential. Burger flippers, street cleaners, bus drivers, librarians... They may not have a career as long and specialized as a doctor's, but they're still essential people, and their work should be valued.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 17 points 2 days ago (4 children)

And to drive raised trucks 20mph over the speed limit in a school zone

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 13 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Everyone should be paid the same, no matter the field they work in. Doctors and engineers require huge skills and long careers, but they wouldn't be there if nobody took care of their pipes, waste water, trash, cleaned the streets, built their house or served them fast food.

Education should be free, same as housing, so it shouldn't be a problem to spend more time studying.

Capitalism told you nobody would bother getting a more "skilled" job, but that's just not true. When people are allowed to freely choose what to learn and work in, without needing to think about money, they will follow their vocations and interests. The only difference will be that more people will be satisfied with their jobs, and happy to work them.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 3 points 1 week ago

You'd be surprised by how widely applicable it is, it works for virtually any road. Small city roads, highways, even residential streets.

There also isn't a maximum number of lanes for this effect (well, there technically is, but it's too large to be feasible) because cars are an extremely inefficient way of transportation, so they take up a lot of space.

Roads also become increasingly more expensive with each extra lane added, to the point where it becomes economically impossible to keep adding lanes. You also need to demolish buildings if the road was already too close to them. And the cost of the extra lane isn't a one off, it also generates a running cost for repairs and inspections.

That money is better spent on making viable alternatives to cars, which actually will help traffic or even fix it.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 16 points 1 week ago

Yeah, this country is still a shithole.

There's a lot of division between "right" and "left" (the right being basically fascists at this point, with VOX and SALF as neofascist parties, and the traditional right, PP, trying to copy them). You can guess which side coppers are on. And they're not liking the pro-palestine protests at all. Every time there's a pro-palestine protest or event, the protesters are labelled as terrorists on right wing TV channels, and some people really believe that.

That video probably won't even get to the news here, and if it did, somehow people would come out of the woodwork to defend the pigs here. All despite the video having pretty damning evidence that the cops just wanted to hurt everyone there, because there was no attempt at deescalation or peaceful arrest.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago

Your data is worth much more than that, actually.

Proton calculates your data is worth, on average, $700/year. Granted, they have a financial interest in making that number as high as possible, because it's basically an ad for them.

I've read somewhere that data price varies a lot per demographic, with some data being worth just a few $ per year and some other data being worth way more than $1000/y. I can't find the source I read that on, so take it with a grain of salt.

Either way, it's very certainly more than a few cents per year per person.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago

Oh, I didn't know that. It's been a while since I've been through there lol

But it's good news at least

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If I had a nickel for every francoist bar in Spain owned by a Chinese guy, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't much, but it's weird that it happened twice.

(The other one I know is called Bar Oliva, and it's in Usera, Madrid)

A bar in the corner of a building, where the walls are all painted with a Spainsh flag. There are two Spainsh flags hanging above the door.

Coincidentally, cops seem to love it.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

Notice how I put the "taking over" part in the personal issues. It has long taken over in the enterprise world, as I mentioned with RHEL and Ubuntu Server. Mainly because those are the biggest 2 options, and most other enterprise systems are based on them or try to be like them. The enterprise Linux scene is very homogeneous. Systemd is now taking over consumer Linux, where you historically saw less homogeneous systems.

Alpine Linux has already been used a lot for containers and embedded devices, but companies are starting to see the value in it. It's fast, it's lightweight, it has a small attack surface and it can be used for many things, not just containers. We have full VMs running on Alpine and hosting systems, and they're very appealing because they're reliable, and their images are smaller. Alpine also takes less time to install, and it's more reliable when starting from a generic image than any other systemd distro.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Linux system administrator here.

Systemd fucking sucks, and it's a very big issue in the Linux world, because it centralizes everything into what should be the simplest process of the OS. It has a huge attack surface (and many recent critical CVEs have happened due to systemd). It forces everything into their unit files, which are very flawed and lack features that previous systems actually had. One of the big reasons the enterprise Linux community is looking to Alpine instead of the more traditional RHEL or Ubuntu Server is exactly the lack of systemd.

Aside from that, on the personal side, systemd has bit me in the ass way more times than any of the more traditional systems. I wish it wasn't so common. It's very rapidly taking over the Linux ecosystem, limiting freedom to choose another init system. And it's lead by a Microsoft employee.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 10 points 1 month ago

"Won't somebody think of the poor cops abusing civilians for their epstein class overlords"

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 18 points 1 month ago

This whole article reads like copium

 
 
 
 
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