The Venezuelan President Maduro was captured by a special American police unit and flown to the US.

This decapitation strike might mean no war for regime change necessary.

Also ketamine

SUsE Linux had a nice GUI installer in 2005.

Soulseek is still around. Nicotine+ is a great client for it. It’s perfect for music and ebooks.

IRC was great, but it failed to progress meaningfully.

Thank you for his hint.

Spotify using several processes and GB of memory just play some music and browse a library is an abomination. WinAMP did most of that 20 years ago while using a fraction of the resources.

Discord similarly is an affront.

Lemmy is no different than any other social media platform that thrives on hate

💯Lemmy is dominated by leftist extremists and insufferable Linux advocates. Then there’s a large section of the mentally unwell. And a whole category of communities filled with automated copies of Reddit posts and zero comments.

Happy healthy well adjusted and successful people are not Lemmy. It’s mostly the lunatic fringe.

The modding of communities into echo chambers is more extreme than on Reddit even. Productive political debate is impossible here.

Apple supports their phones for at least 5 years. iPhone XS from 2018 is still supported by the current version of iOS. As iOS 26 just came out, that means 8 years of software support.

LFS is unlikely to run on such a machine. BSD or Xenix are appropriate operating systems.

guard isFirstAttempt { return LoginError(); }

The support for updating to a new version of a distribution is often still a headache. Some distributions don’t support it at all.

That’s the best part of this post. Windows is fully automatic, while on Linux you need to tell apart two terminal commands with confusing naming.

NIZ makes pretty good Topre clones that sell for around 200 $.

Alps and Topre are the best.

Yes, I didn’t phrase that well. DEI is more than its three components. You can have diversity without equity and inclusion. You can have equity and inclusion without affirmative action and quotas. Diversity, equity, inclusion is a desired outcome with typically quotas being the main tool. So DEI as a term is mostly interchangeable with affirmative action and quotas. People opposed to quotas aren’t necessarily opposed to diversity.

Diversity in a team has lots of advantages, but that’s not directly related to DEI, affirmative action, and quotas.

DEI, affirmative action, and quotas are well intentioned to offset systemic disadvantages. How this is implemented and executed on in practice varies a lot. The results of these measures to enable societal change are mixed.

Instead of using race as a proxy for disadvantaged groups, using quotas for people from poor districts, people with non academic parents, etc. directly might be more beneficial and more broadly accepted in society. The problems in the US, and elsewhere, start with access to and quality of education from childhood on. Trying to fix that with racial quotas for universities seems to be the wrong end.

Have 60 years of affirmative action fundamentally changed the success of African Americans? How much longer should these programs be used?

What about the poor whites who now vote for Trump? They are not part of the good old boys white elite club either. The US is obsessed with race and should move beyond it.

There’s research on affirmative action and it’s effectiveness and overall the results are a bit meh. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ejsp.2991

He is being turned into a martyr for the cause. Schools and streets will be named after him soon.

Yes, it is. He always used to harp on affirmative action DEI leading to less qualified and able people getting jobs. So this results in the perception that any minority working in a qualified profession like pilot is only there because of DEI, not because of their skills and qualifications.

Watch this video for context. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDjN6A8ruo4 Parts of it are used in the submitted edit.

Charlie Kirk has said plenty of crap. There’s no need to misrepresent his views by selective editing.