Same I was born in a car

THEYRE FUCKING DOING IT LETS GOOO

Horrible… I hope Iran has the resources to double down on its missile strikes compared to operation true promise 2. And I hope they’ve got a clandestine aspect to their nuclear program as a contingent. There’s really no better guarantor of sovereignty or defense against invasion, as proven by the example of the DPRK, and counterexamples of the Libyan jamahariya and Baathist Iraq

Recent assaults on Chasiv Yar and Pokrovsk have proved that Russia is prepared to expend troops, weapons and time trying to capture cities even if they have little strategic value.

It’s so funny to me that every contested city is the turning point of the war and the keystone to Ukrainian defenses until the moment Russia is poised to seize it, when it becomes a useless objective, little more than dirt, low strategic value etc. It happened with Avdiivka, Bakhmut, and now with Pokrovsk and Chasiv Yar. If these settlements have so little tactical value then why are the Banderites expending so many men and resources to defend them in the first place…

“The center of gravity for this war is not terrain—the place where it’s being decisively waged is the perception space in Western capitals,” said Barros.

When it’s definitely not a proxy war

GrapheneOS is a security focused project so they only publish for devices which meet their hardware security requirements. In the past this included a few non Google devices, but as of today only Pixels meet those requirements in the Android space. The Fairphone has poor hardware security

I absolutely recommend switching to Linux, it’s a truly liberating computing experience. However if you have to stick on windows and want to go LTSC, this document from massgrave makes it really easy and even provides the direct ISO download from Microsoft.

Lmao good

Holy shit yes

Let’s start the hexbear coding coop and make our own jobs

I went to school for CS out of passion, computers and software have been my bread and butter since I was a kid. Currently on month 7 of the job hunt with no bites. I got another degree in math for similar reasons, but job prospects from that are pretty slim too. It’s a grim landscape; there’s work to be done and a need for more workers, but it’s more profitable to bleed the existing workforce white than to hire new people in any real quantity. And they lean on “AI” as an excuse for the hiring freezes but the reality of that grift is obvious; it’s all just bluster and excuses to pad the margins.

Went to an observatory my alma mater runs out in the mountains to look at stars earlier this month. It was great, kinda cloudy at first but once the skies cleared we got a great look at some globular clusters and cool stars. Also saw some baby foxes playing in the woods on our way up there, extremely cute

I wish them all a swift return from orbit and minimum return on investment 🙏

Average national income in India (2023, Statista): 170k INR ≈ 1996 USD

Average annual salary in USA (2023, Statista): 81359 USD

Yah they will happily eat the 25% when the labor they’re using is that exploited. They’re still making more money with the added taxes than if they used domestic production.

Also these stats are not accurate to the real worker’s experience, the general point stands though. Capital doesn’t give a fuck about paying living wages or taking care of anybody’s needs but their investors.

The way they pretend like this is fundamentally new is laughable to me. Feels like they’re finally admitting their enemy is competent right as a loss for Ukr is looming in order to save face in defeat. But fundamentally these weapons and their doctrines crystallized like two years ago

bout half past

Alternate search engines exist and work just fine. Hop on duckduckgo or qwant, disable their little summary features, and boom regular reliable search engine with no LLM slop built in. You could also go straight to a resource, like Brittanica or Wikipedia, and look up your info there. The only thing I use Google for is Scholar to find papers and for YouTube, everything else has a better replacement and has done for years now.

I was so hyped for this game when the kickstarter came out, just a cool huge open world with endless interactions and futuristic graphics etc. I bought in for $40, to be fair though I was literally a child. But even through that lens all the hype was dead for me by 2016

Aaaaaa nu cheeki breeki iv damke!!

I thought he said he was gonna cure cancer?