This only applies if you’re not extremely wealthy, though.

So there’s that.

Sigh

Very annoying - the apparent author of the backdoor was in communication with me over several weeks trying to get xz 5.6.x added to Fedora 40 & 41 because of it’s “great new features”. We even worked with him to fix the valgrind issue (which it turns out now was caused by the backdoor he had added). We had to race last night to fix the problem after an inadvertent break of the embargo.

He has been part of the xz project for 2 years, adding all sorts of binary test files, and to be honest with this level of sophistication I would be suspicious of even older versions of xz until proven otherwise.

Damn. I would love to see a full post mortem on this compromise.

Idk what you’re into buddy

but I like it.

Inflation.

This guy ducks

It seems Rabbit has followed several of these principles…

I thought maybe the trash can meant the user was banned?

Getting military backing is necessary for a coup to succeed.

Not just this thread, sadly.

That first one is where I feel I’ve seen myself and others get downvoted more than anything else listed here. Maybe it is recency bias from that one thread the other day lol.

I hope not yikes.

Drier lint also can be used as kindling, in a pinch.

So, he’s desperate because the whole charade is starting to collapse. Interesting.

Kind of like those movie set facades.

Perhaps. But I think there’s no point in even trying to make sense of his bullshit like that, because it ignores the fact that he is bad faith.

No I didn’t mean to say he is operating in bad faith.

I mean everything he does, says, his whole persona, everything about him, near him… His entire existence. It’s all bad faith lol. He is the walking embodiment of bad faith.

He makes ever more outrageous claims and repeats it until people are talking about it. It shocks, it puts you on the defensive. It confuses and confounds. It dominates.

It’s not a denial or brilliant logic. It’s a power move of crude, clumsy, brute force. It’s breaking the whole game of statements and denials and counter claims and all that. It’s like playing chess and suddenly breaking your opponent’s arm and pissing on them.

Because he’s too pathetic and stupid to do anything calculating, deliberate, and complex. But the tactic is effective just like some brainless water buffalo stumbling around kicking the heads of predators purely on instinct is effective.

So the shit spewing from his head hole isn’t about whether it is true or to be made sense of any more than the mindless flailing of some dumb prey animal is to be analyzed for its Karate technique.

Yes. Every single time. Even if it is just walking around the block at a swift pace a few times a week (light to medium exercise). Usually the depression reduces after the 3rd or 4th time, sometimes sooner: fewer negative thoughts, less anhedonia, more motivation, less negative attitude, etc. If I keep at it, usually I actually can find myself in a good mood. Why the hell do I stop exercising then? I’ll have to get back to you on that.

What a fascinating analysis. And a captivating video. I think the idea of entropy in storytelling fits well. The notion of creative passion driving the project versus “corporate passion” for me gets close to the mark but doesn’t put a fine enough point on the contrast in motives.

Looking at the hollow, failed movies, video games, and enshittification of online products, I keep coming back to the idea that projects motivated primarily by profit are usually doomed to fail while projects primarily motivated by passion are more likely to succeed.

I’m sure each of us can easily think of examples of movie franchises where you can pinpoint when the motivation changed. When the greedy bastards in charge took the success of passion and tried to harness it, tried to make it into a money printing machine. It’s then that elements of the story are added to serve a purpose other than the story. And as the franchise continues, this happens more until you end up with something hollowed out and lacking meaning and impact.

Invariably greed blinds people from seeing that success isn’t due to the trappings, the window dressings, the quality of the CGI, the parts and pieces, but the story and its characters, and the quality of craft and art of telling that story and connecting us with those characters.

I mean motion is all relative anyway, right? So would teleportation be like throwing a ball on a train? That is, the ball’s motion depends on the frame of reference. So maybe teleporting would work that way if it were actually possible.

Very cool. Easily my favorite use for 3d printing.

Related, I think there are several sets of files for various RC cars I have run across. Would be kind of fun to download a whole (RC) car :)

Such a great song. Looks like Hope Sandoval (lead singer) is still performing. Cool!

Yup there it is, on schedule ⌚

fEW uNDeRsTanD!