Silver Needle

Since the seventies at the latest. Unions were unified and synchronized with parties post-WWII, workers’ demands reconciled with those of capital. That was originally the project of il Duce, but we took it out of his hands greedily.

We could do fascism better than him and what is more fascist than to peg the worth of individuals, the economy, to that of a not necessarily racialised abstract people of a Nation? Now anyone can become a fascist by subordinating themselves to the state. A German is anyone who is a good citizen to the German state, Japan and the US are the same.

In Benito’s words: “Race? It is a feeling, not a reality: ninety-five percent, at least, is a feeling. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today… National pride has no need of the delirium of race.”

Something like that very vaguely happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_&_Wishart

If I come up with a concept in philosophy can I patent it and charge money when people use it in their philosophy? Fees for codecs operate on this plane of backwardness. Patents in and of themselves are stupid enough, but the capacity for stupidity within patenting knows no bounds apparently.

That is unfortunate. I don’t like everything about Redhat’s products, but they do have some very useful tools.

The point about capitalism has always been being able to live off of property without moving a finger and securing that position with all that you have. What you are seeing is are the dynamics of capitalist class society. The numbers game is itself nothing new, nor anything that has especial depth.

We choose capitalism and we could choose not to do capitalism. So to capital, which comes from this social structure, you are like an abstraction, only because it exists in an less concrete way because it needs intangible property relations. To a fish you are trapped in air while you view fish as being trapped in water.

But the point of the economic critiques known from history is to show exactly this:

There is the numbers economy, the stock market, taxes and money. There is culture, there are political systems (liberalism, fascism) and political skirmishes. Then there is what actually exists in a very clear and tangible way. Schools, cars, machinery, fields of corn, people, their relations and so on.

One creates the other. The abstractions arising from the soil of the “real world” can not strike back and make the real world abstract. That is impossible. Capitalism and capital is not a demon that keeps you from undertaking modifications on the structures that birth it. It possesses no special or poetic qualities.

0 productivity increase. 0. Once this bubble is over the clean up will set us back years and that is if we’re lucky.

atp they should just have their LLMs put in code that relies on proprietary services and apps. Go the extra mile man

Made fun of small business owners iirc. I like the man.

As someone who knows a thing or two about biology I think LLMs strip away >90% of what makes animals think.

Then the whole premise of systemd is absurd if it does talk for distros (OSes). When I get NixOS, I don’t install it because it has systemd. I install it because it is built around Nix. SystemD is a freaking fire-and-forget-style convenience and that’s it. When I look at specific features I want or don’t want, the first thing I’m considering is not necessarily the init system, I first look at what sort of computer I want, then I think about the OS, and specific programs like Konsole last.

I do not want a stupid init system, in this case an init system bundled in a suite(!), taking the steering wheel like this. I definitely don’t want this happening in highly politicised contexts like this one. A layer of perversion is added when you take into account that there are hardly any places to evade these big changes as systemd is omnipresent.

SystemD making these big political statements and practical decisions is just as absurd as GNOME or Xorg doing them. Fuck that shit.

You said it better than I could

Look, I can selectively quote what you say to completely fuck up the meaning of things!

little things like geography don’t matter.

laws that don’t exist outside of my mind

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/ab-1043s-internet-age-gates-hurt-everyone

I don’t know about you but this looks pretty real to me? Are you going to tell me that there is no AB 1043. Maybe you are trapped in a solipsistic world where this sort of encroachment doesn’t exist.

I know what you are going to say next, “Have you yourself ever seen the curvature of the Ear-”, but let me stop you for a sec and tell you that when you think everything is Alex Jones, you should maybe look at yourself and ask the question “Maybe I am Alex Jones?”

How do I come back at someone calling me a fed? Fuck, I don’t have any good arguments pro compliance … Guess I’m going to show how stupid and crazy they are by being a pedant Haha, that’ll show 'em ^you probably

Why doesn’t Debian do it instead of systemd? Let the distros decide on the plan of action, this is clearly not something that systemd has to decide. The people maintaining systemd are leveraging the fact that their shite software runs on more than 95% of Linux machines. That is an abuse of power. What is weird too is compliance ahead of time. Compliance ahead of time makes sense with cars, but software can be updated immediately when necessary.

Look it’s mr. Fort Lauderdale again^

I guess such a response can only come from the head of a “rioting pacifist”. You turn up at the protest but always keep a distance of 50 yards from the crowd so you can say you were part of something while having done nothing. It’s exactly people like you who would have told critics of Franco that they’re delusional and would report people for going outside to catch a breath of fresh air during martial law. All the while broadcasting your liberal virtues of pacifism and political action in all directions.

You are someone who couldn’t get into the NSA and all the other cool agencies, or your country’s equivalent should you not be US American. No badge, no ID number, no nuthin’ - just your computer and you. Should you actually work for the govt. then that reflects rather poorly on the government; You are an awfully unconvincing propagandist. Incapable of reading comments and engaging clearly in serious discussions. I would fire you if you astroturfed for me. God knows, you are so shit at it that I think it’s likely that you are an LLM.

I think you vastly over estimate the importance of the reddit/lemmy-sphere freaking out over this.

I don’t. The people I know in real life don’t take lightly to the changes.

And the more insane the slippery slopes you imagine skiing down […]

This is the fallacy fallacy. There is a precedent for freaking out. Foreign routers being banned, countries and regions stating that this is only the beginning for age verification, you name it. Anyone who submits to that in any way unambiguously invites the new order that is enforced upon them, I say that in regard to systemd specifically.

The fact that there isn’t a serious programmer making a fork[…]

No serious programmer is forking systemd because systemd is more or less doing kernel tasks besides the Linux kernel… and then some. This violates GNU best practices. Not to mention openrc and plenty of other init systems existing as a yet uncompromised alternative. Also you are twisting what I am saying, I specifically am not promoting the fork in the article.

If it’s the vast majority of Linux users, how come there was not one that’s read the systemd docs?

You didn’t see the barrage of critism under the pull request, did you? Makes me wonder if you read anything at all.

milktoast law

The law is not at all non-trivial or milquetoast. With ID verification and other methods of age verification you absolutely can unmask users online if states demand APIs be implemented.

You sound like a narc btw!

My argument is that most people don’t work in software and don’t know what a config file even is, this includes people who are the targets of persecution They might know how to install GrapheneOS or Mint and get the Tor browser but beyond that there is little they can do. systemd comes along and paves the way to ruining the much of libre software. If someone needs to be anonymous right now or else they are in danger, like a whistleblower with described skillset, can’t just create quick patches or implement experimental patches made by others. This is especially concerning with solutions that use external services to verify age.

Finally someone who’s read into the issue