phoenixz

I think socialism is awesome but capitalism, when highly restrained, is more effective at generating capital.

I think a few fairly simple steps can merge the best of both.

Limit personal net worth to, say, 01 million dollars. Companies can have a networth of, say, 1 billion tops. Below that, put like 10 or so tax brackets, the more you're worth, the more you pay tax. Anything over those limits goes 100% to tax

This favors many smaller companies working together instead of one huge monster that can't even take care of itself and requires regular bailouts

The tax income will be more than enough to support a large socialist system that can take care of free education, free healthcare, etc, hell, even universal basic income

Best of capital generation,best of socialism.

Aaahhh Cheeto, you always know how to ruin every even bby starting to bitch about Biden.

I am so happy that I do not live in your head, it must be so sad, so full of hate and anger.

Turning point should be labelled a terrorist organization.

So far it hasn't made any violent attacks but I'd argue it's much,much more insidious than that. It creeps in everywhere with tonnes of lawyers to corrupt the minds of children, letting them know that a pedophile president is fine, fascism is the best way, and believing in the 2000 year old tales that were copied from much older tales, is the only way to live a moral life.

Uh huh...

Fuck turning point, it's founders and leaders should be jailed for life, the organisation banned

What's wrong with webp, exactly, besides maybe some systems still not supporting a decades old format?

Jackie Chan is in his 70's now... I'm not sure how that would work out

Thanks for the compliment!

Like what, exactly?

Yeah that's a weird thing

Monitors always have HDMI and Display ports, video cards usually have display ports to HDMI in a 3:1 ratio, but then TV's only have HDMI, wtf?

Windows never has been the right tool, or even a tool for that matter. That Microsoft managed to convince people that it was actually a usable, efficient and safe system has been one of the biggest marketing tricks, ever.

The simple reason why some hardware may still not work right on Linux can be traced back to that same Microsoft marketing.

My hope is that with this next wave of people swapping over to limit that companies (both hardware providers but also companies in general) finally start seeing the light and make the switch as well

I said it somewhere around 2003, did it immediately, never looked back.

I've been a Linux desktop user for well over 2 decades now, and anytime I see a Windows user with windows problems I just roll my eyes. My eyes by now have the ability to make 360 degree barrel rolls after all the practice.

Yeah, sure, I've had problems here and there.

Mostly self inflicted whilst trying out new shit. I've hada lot of help. When lvm was introduced back in whenever, I immediately switched and it fucked one of my drives. One of the developers of lvm spent hours trying to help me fix it. Talking about your tech support! Windows tech support won't get me the main devs to help me out.

Linux mostly has been "once it works, it works, and it remains working until you change something". I know it's not entirely like that, but it's nowhere near the Microsoft "well just reinstall it every three months because after that it'll just get so slow and bogged up that it won't work normal anymore"

I put my mother in law on a Kubuntu system probably about 10 years ago, and she's used it for at least 7 years straight. Nothing crazy, browsing, solitaire, etc. but a 65+ yo had no issues with running that.

I created a multi user linux machine some 15+ years ago in an intel Celeron with 1GB of ram and 4 video cards (plus the internal video). With USB splitters we had 5x USB Audio, keyboard, and mouse, with 5 monitors for the video. We created a setup program that allowed a teacher to easily identify what keyboard,I use, and audio went with what monitor once and them it would keep that setup forever. The desktop was skinned to look and feel like Windows XP to not scare people.

5 people could work on that simultaneously, and one of them could run real windows in a virtualbox instance. It all worked, flawlessly. The work I did was fun, interesting, and awesome, but the real work was already done, right there, with the Linux kernel, and X. I was merely standing on the shoulders of giants, and the total development cost of the system (including research, salaries, hardware, etc) was around $30KUSD

Try that with windows.

Linux and Linux desktop are awesome 💯😎

It's very effective... At suppressing people, taking away liberties and rights... I mean, they're not wrong

It's also highly effective at waging senseless ears that destroy the future of the entire fucking country, and then adding a touch of genocide on top of that

A program that HR had built so that all employees could they their payment receipts online

The username was the companies' email address, the password was a government personal id code that you can lookup online, a don't change, and you can't update the password to something else.

So I told the director of HR this was a bad idea. She told me I was overreacting until I showed her her own receipt, then she finally understood that this is a really fucking bad idea.

Okay, so now she out me in charge of debugging that program.

So I setup a meeting with the director of the company they hired, he came by with the developer: a 21 yo girl who I think hadn't finished college yet. Great start! Apparently it was her idea to do the authentication like that so that explains a few things.

So we dive in to the code.

First of all, the "passwords" were stored in blank, no hashing, no encryption, nothing. That wasn't the worst.

For the authentication she made a single query to check if the user email existed. Of that was true, then step two was a second query to see if the password existed. If that were true, the email had been authenticated.

So let's say, hypothetically, that they had actual passwords that people could change... I could still login with the email from anyone, and then use MY OWN password to authenticate.

This just blew my mind so hard that I don't think I ever fully recovered, I still need treatment. The stupidity hurts