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  • Gonna disagree here.

    Humans have always had “social media”, but it’s not been directed by a cadre of oligarchs until recently.

    I mean shit, humans have been sitting around the campfire telling stories to each other going all the fucking way back to forever. Sure, a campfire story isn’t a tweet, but for our monkey brains it’s essentially the same thing: how we interact with our social groups and learn what’s going on around us.

    The problem is that the campfire stories couldn’t be manipulated into making your cavemen neighbors hate the other half, because half of them were totally pro rabbit fur while you’re pro squirrel fur.

    You absolutely can do that and worse now, so while we’ve always had social media, we just simply never had anyone with enough control to make an entire society eat each other because of it’s influence.






  • One thing I ran into, though it was a while ago, was that disk caching being on would trash performance for writes on removable media for me.

    The issue ended up being that the kernel would keep flushing the cache to disk, and while it was doing that none of your transfers are happening. So, it’d end up doubling or more the copy time because the write cache wasn’t actually helping removable drives.

    It might be worth remounting without any caching, if it’s on, and seeing if that fixes the mess.

    But, as I said, this has been a few years, so that may no longer be actively the case.




  • Yep. Texas has been just-one-more-thing-happening from going blue for 25 years now.

    So far, not a single damn one of those things, or even, somehow, the aggregate change of ALL of them has resulted in shit.

    Cities are just as blue as they were, and the rest of the state is just as red, and the Republicans have remained in charge throughout it all.

    And, before someone goes ‘but gerrymandering!’, the ®s are maintaining control even in state-wide elections that are just a matter of getting more votes, too, so while you can argue that some of the stuff is probably gerrymandered, that’s not the root cause of it either.

    Another handful of people moving here isn’t going to make one single bit of difference, and anyone thinking otherwise after literal decades of this kind of wishful thinking needs to take a deep breath and some introspection and figure out why they’re still willing to buy that line.



  • I hate to wreck this beautiful dream, but tech is not nearly as blue as everyone thinks it is.

    I’ve never spent time around big tech types where the split wasn’t 30% libertarians, 30% right-wingers, and 30% american-style liberals.

    The problem there is the libertarians land all over the damn spectrum but you end up basically the same place you do everywhere else: it’s a 50/50 split.

    And let’s be honest, the expectation here is that a lot of the employees won’t move.

    If the goal is to avoid “liberal bias”, or whatever, moving the people from California to Texas won’t do a damn thing. What you do is you move the jobs somewhere unpalatable, knowing full well this will let you do a mass layoff without it being a layoff, because people “chose” not to move to where their job is.

    So we’re going to get a couple of jobs, but they’re going to be filled by people already here.


  • $5 says there’s a hard fork led by all the commercial providers and anyone else who has a business that depends on Wordpress, and that it happens fairly soon.

    It’s GPLed, so while you can’t call your fork Wordpress, you can just rename it and carry on with everything as it was, except you’re no longer involved in dealing with crazy.

    I’m not sure the average customer of any of those businesses knows or cares about the name of the software that their site runs, and won’t give a single crap about it not being Wordpress but some other name while otherwise staying exactly the same - or, maybe, without an opinionated obstructionist sitting in front of the code approval path, perhaps even better.




  • That’s so petty, I’m actually impressed. Like, it’s VERY hard to end up universally disliked by everyone, but it looks like Matt’s figured out how to do it.

    That’s the biggest crybaby nonsense: Oh no, the lawsuit is making us broke. Yes we started this whole thing but it’s not OUR fault! It’s those bad evil private equity firms. Yes, we take equity money too, but not from the BAD firms! Fine! We’ll take our ball and go home!

    Also, hilarious because I’m sure all the developers they have on staff are not involved in doing ANY lawsuit anything, though if they are, I’m going to watch this even closer since if there’s a group of people that firmly do not understand legal shit more than developers (because developers rightfully expect the rules and procedures to make some sort of damn sense) I don’t know who it’d be.