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@PNS Fat makes you fat.
@PNS Did he get a Darwin award?
@connection_with_reality @Endof10 I boot up Windoze in a VM to run Tax software. I don't know how to convince TurboTax/TaxAct/HRBlock/etc to have a Linux release. Maybe as a container release? There are legit reasons it is not open source.
An open source engine + proprietary tax rules database might work, but the rules are complex enough to be Turing complete.
The best solution is Flat Tax or Sale Tax and dispense with tax software altogether.
@cjd From NtB:
" Communism is when the people own the means of production and private property is abolished.
Capitalism is the one where the means of production are privately owned, but controlled and regulated by the state to serve national interests."
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"Why isn't there a Fedora LTS?"
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@cjd Needs a qualifier. I distinguish "centralized capitalism" vs "decentralized capitalism" (and in-between).
It is similar to the distinction between centralized "social media" like Farcebook and decentralized like SSB and in-between (federated) like Activity Pub or Matrix. or email.
It is like centralized internet vs OG internet where you connect to peers that you meet personally. "Hey, you want to make a peer connection?" (typically a 115kbps rs232 back in the day)
Cjdns is trying to make decentralized internet practical again for Normies - runs on a modern ethernet physical layer or a virtual tunnel. (And yes, yggdrasil as well.)
The Bible describes the ideal economy as "every man under his own vine and his own fig tree". I.e. the actual worker actually owns the means of production. Not the communist govt. Not the multi-national corporation. The individual worker (and no, stock certificates don't count).
New tech starts out centralized - steam looms, computing, plastic parts, space travel. As the tech advances (absent power hungry market distortion) it decentralizes - a powered loom in your workshop, a super-computer in your pocket, a 3D printer in your den, a family spaceship in your back acre (oh wait, Elon isn't quite there yet).
The issue with centralized capitalism and centralized social media is getting Normies to understand what we are talking about. I use the "know your farmer" analogy. Centralized agriculture is also a huge problem The answer is either "grow your own", or if like me you can barely turn out a few squash and berries, "know your farmer". You meet and talk to them, look at and admire their farm, noting that the cows actually eat grass and the chickens actually eat bugs. And you become a loyal customer.
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Oh how I miss working in datacenters regularly. Luckily I still get the chance every now and then.
Prepped a new cabinet for @almalinux last Friday thanks to a generous sponsorship by KnownHost featuring network hardware from Arista Networks.
Can't wait to fill this thing up with hardware over the next few weeks including the awesome stack of Power9 PPC hardware that was donated recently.
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Maybe the solution to troon criminality are dedicated troon jails. Then they're safe from the mean men and the women are safe from them.
And they can stab each other to their decroded little hearts' delight.
@PNS Those ladies should have done like my mom's generation and gone for the Mrs degree.
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Found on Telegram.
"Brian keeps doing good work...he is right far more often than not....he often emphasizes that... a propaganda message is published, pushed to all Western controlled media, & only redacted &/or corrected once everyone forgot about it....Russian drone hitting a house in Poland is a great example. Vast majority of people.. think Russia attacked Poland, where in fact, that never happened. It's the first impression that matters, perception management."
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Miracle at Ostrich Farm: Rental Company Pulls Out of CFIA Cull Plan - YouTube
@PNS Be like the people of Uganda. Govt installed paywall for Farcebook, Twaddle, etc - and people suddenly discovered federated and fully decentralized social media.
@PNS READ IT!
READ IT!
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My takeaway from the NPM mess is thus: languages should not shy away from large stdlibs.
I know they're incredibly expensive to maintain. But languages without usable built-in string processing, HTTP, or TLS implementations are setting themselves up for failure.
Rust is not as bad as JS, but it still makes me wary. Go's slow but steady adoption of "everyone-uses-them" third party libraries is a real boon. (And Python is sitting in a corner laughing at the rest).
@PNS The nephalim have returned! (guy on the right has 6 fingers on each hand)
@wy7usa Ah! You're talking about what we call Taiwan. Both Chinas have a "One China" policy, which is going to be a big problem at some point.
@wy7usa What's the joke? China is 9.3 million Km² - slightly larger the continental US. The red area does not look like China.
@truthbait Hey! It's progress. Celebrating obesity was going to kill her prematurely. MAHA is beginning to affect her at least.
@fromkulak Saddam Hussein protected his sons who had "rape rooms" for their pleasure. Anyone else committing that crime got put into the sausage machine.
In his case, banishment as you suggest might have been acceptable - would have at least stopped easy access to the crime.
@fromkulak Numbers 35:33 "Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it."
I suppose "take him out back and do it yourself" would be consistent with this - but vigilante justice seems to get the wrong person more often than state justice (which seems to err on the side of putting violent offenders back on the street).
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