I do think the surprise buttsex thing might be a deal breaker even if you do ship product.
"We're very progressive, apply even if you're a totally useless individual! A black hole from which money and talent descend and are forever lost! If you have no eyes or ears and communicate by screaming at the top of your lungs in a horrific cacophany that only serves to remind those around you of the perpetual suffering that is your life, we want you on our team! If you wear a pyramid on your head and go around suprise buttsexing anyone you catch, we have a spot for you in our c-suite!"
I think this is a good example of something I've come to realize: the fake environmental movement (there are legitimate ones of course, but they're more thoughtful and work to do effective things rather than easy or good looking things) doesn't care about killing the planet, they just care that we don't do it in their back yards. If we can do all the bad things to the environment but do it in Asia or Africa so we can claim we aren't doing it, then that's fine by them.
I suspect that Sweden is just the first to fall in a worldwide paradigm shift.
Policies have consequences, and if those consequences are getting shot at, or watching your communities turning into drug fuelled hellholes, or watching a generation of young men and women falling into despair, that's band enough. But if the people in charge then call you the worst names they can muster for pointing out the consequences of their policies, people are going to say "Fuck you then" and start turning their backs on that thing.
Policies have consequences, and if those consequences are getting shot at, or watching your communities turning into drug fuelled hellholes, or watching a generation of young men and women falling into despair, that's band enough. But if the people in charge then call you the worst names they can muster for pointing out the consequences of their policies, people are going to say "Fuck you then" and start turning their backs on that thing.
Security minded individuals need to stop assuming that third parties are safe. It's a stupid idea. It's a bad idea.
We've seen huge companies, we've seen security companies, we've seen important companies, all of them compromised.
If we assume third parties are safe, we're always one solarwinds away from all your data belonging to them.
We've seen huge companies, we've seen security companies, we've seen important companies, all of them compromised.
If we assume third parties are safe, we're always one solarwinds away from all your data belonging to them.
[Admin Mode] God engaged in a DOS attack against my data center, a network storm made out of droplets of water he sent from the sky. Knocked out the Internet connection somewhere. Thankfully back up now.
I have contacted the FBI, but they just got mad at me and said I was wasting their time complaining about rain in Canada. The nerve! I'm contacting Cloudflare next to get them to cancel the sky, I'll let you know how it goes.
I have contacted the FBI, but they just got mad at me and said I was wasting their time complaining about rain in Canada. The nerve! I'm contacting Cloudflare next to get them to cancel the sky, I'll let you know how it goes.
"Guix is an advanced distribution of the GNU operating system developed by the GNU Project"
TIL
TIL
I wrote a book while my wife was pregnant called "The Graysonian Ethic: Lessons for my unborn son", and I have a chapter called "the internet is not your friend".
The key lesson there is that just because a massive company has a smiley face doesn't mean it's your friend, and doesn't mean the internet is safe.
YouTube for example, has all kinds of videos for kids. But if you dig a little bit, a lot of them are weird algorithmically generated videos that are literally meaningless, to the point that they're probably going to hurt your kids cognitive development.
My parents pounded it into my head when I was young not to give out your identity online, and a lot of people missed the memo. They think that the internet is safe, and it's not. Part of the only reason that cancel culture is so prevalent is so many people end up putting their personal information out there for everyone to see.
People think that they can give out their identity online if they don't say anything controversial, but the fact is what is controversial changes over time so what might have been perfectly fine yesterday might be a cancelable offense tomorrow. These people are crazy, and we need to remember that. (These people not being any particular political persuasion, just crazy people)
Besides that, the internet is inevitable. You can't live your life without it. At some point you're going to have to pay a bill, or do online banking, or sign up on some government website that doesn't have an equivalent on paper, or do your taxes, or purchase something that isn't available locally, or do some assignment for school. So you can't just turn off the internet and hope that your kid never discovers that the most important communications medium in the history of the world doesn't exist. I think the only way you can really do it is the same way that you release your kids into the real world. When they are little babies, and they never go anywhere without you directly holding their hand. As they get older and you've taught them lessons and you've proven to yourself that they've learned those lessons, eventually you let them play in the backyard by themselves, then maybe you let them ride their bike up and down the street by themselves, and eventually they end up able to basically go out and do whatever they want on their own. In the same way, I think it's really important to start off hand holding and specifically picking the things that your kids see, and trying to teach lessons about logic and rhetoric and ethics and morality, and as you become confident that they have learned those lessons, then you can let them a little bit more and a little bit more on to the internet on their own. Eventually they're going to end up on there whether you like it or not, so you basically need to start right from the very beginning to deal with that fact.
I wrote a lot of stuff about a lot of stuff, but the only other thing is the warning that people who are online tend to stay online, and people in real life tend to stay in real life. It's hypnotizing, and very easy to end up in a situation where you have 10,000 friends on facebook, and no one to help you move a couch. A lot of people my age are absolutely miserable because the only friends that they have are online. Consciously you might believe that a friend online is the same as a friend in real life, but subconsciously and unconsciously your whole being recognizes the truth. You can't actually convince yourself after sitting at a desk for years that you've actually accomplished anything, so no matter how amazing the internet is, you do eventually have to go outside. The real world doing real things is where you're going to find fulfillment, and fulfilling relationships.
The key lesson there is that just because a massive company has a smiley face doesn't mean it's your friend, and doesn't mean the internet is safe.
YouTube for example, has all kinds of videos for kids. But if you dig a little bit, a lot of them are weird algorithmically generated videos that are literally meaningless, to the point that they're probably going to hurt your kids cognitive development.
My parents pounded it into my head when I was young not to give out your identity online, and a lot of people missed the memo. They think that the internet is safe, and it's not. Part of the only reason that cancel culture is so prevalent is so many people end up putting their personal information out there for everyone to see.
People think that they can give out their identity online if they don't say anything controversial, but the fact is what is controversial changes over time so what might have been perfectly fine yesterday might be a cancelable offense tomorrow. These people are crazy, and we need to remember that. (These people not being any particular political persuasion, just crazy people)
Besides that, the internet is inevitable. You can't live your life without it. At some point you're going to have to pay a bill, or do online banking, or sign up on some government website that doesn't have an equivalent on paper, or do your taxes, or purchase something that isn't available locally, or do some assignment for school. So you can't just turn off the internet and hope that your kid never discovers that the most important communications medium in the history of the world doesn't exist. I think the only way you can really do it is the same way that you release your kids into the real world. When they are little babies, and they never go anywhere without you directly holding their hand. As they get older and you've taught them lessons and you've proven to yourself that they've learned those lessons, eventually you let them play in the backyard by themselves, then maybe you let them ride their bike up and down the street by themselves, and eventually they end up able to basically go out and do whatever they want on their own. In the same way, I think it's really important to start off hand holding and specifically picking the things that your kids see, and trying to teach lessons about logic and rhetoric and ethics and morality, and as you become confident that they have learned those lessons, then you can let them a little bit more and a little bit more on to the internet on their own. Eventually they're going to end up on there whether you like it or not, so you basically need to start right from the very beginning to deal with that fact.
I wrote a lot of stuff about a lot of stuff, but the only other thing is the warning that people who are online tend to stay online, and people in real life tend to stay in real life. It's hypnotizing, and very easy to end up in a situation where you have 10,000 friends on facebook, and no one to help you move a couch. A lot of people my age are absolutely miserable because the only friends that they have are online. Consciously you might believe that a friend online is the same as a friend in real life, but subconsciously and unconsciously your whole being recognizes the truth. You can't actually convince yourself after sitting at a desk for years that you've actually accomplished anything, so no matter how amazing the internet is, you do eventually have to go outside. The real world doing real things is where you're going to find fulfillment, and fulfilling relationships.
I've been reading an illustrated bible to my son a few pages at a time. We're early on talking about Joseph, I think the son of Jacob.
I'm calling him "No coat guy" because every problem in his life seems to revolve somehow around a coat. His dad gets him a nice coat? His brothers sell him into slavery and then steal his coat. The pharoh's wife gets ahold of his coat? She accuses him of surprise buttsex and he goes to jail. I have to assume that next he'll find his mother in bed with a coat or he'll find out a coat ended his home country or something.
Like... If I were this guy, I'd swear off coats for life. "No coat guy"
I'm calling him "No coat guy" because every problem in his life seems to revolve somehow around a coat. His dad gets him a nice coat? His brothers sell him into slavery and then steal his coat. The pharoh's wife gets ahold of his coat? She accuses him of surprise buttsex and he goes to jail. I have to assume that next he'll find his mother in bed with a coat or he'll find out a coat ended his home country or something.
Like... If I were this guy, I'd swear off coats for life. "No coat guy"
I think I agree with your first post, and the first 7 words of your second.
too much got too serious on the Internet, and that includes politics, and that includes lolcows, and that includes encouraging people to kill themselves.
So I shall, like Thanos, snag some infinity gauntlets. One for my left hand, one for my right.
And in my left hand, I administer the message "go kill yourself" to 50% of the fediverse without any prejudice, chosen between every man woman and child.
And in my right hand, I administer the message "lol ur politics are wrong and you're stupid for believing them" to the other 50% who were spared from being told to kill themselves.
And in my center hand (wait where did that come from), I have a third infinity gauntlet. This one is for taking shit offline, for calling the cops on people you don't know, for calling their employers, for calling their families. That one is for taking shit too seriously, for thinking your online shitposting is an actual movement and not just a digital bowel movement you probably made while taking an actual bowel movement, for trying to get websites shut down or people kicked off of platforms. This center infinity gauntlet I cast it into the fires of Mt. Doom! (wait when did we get a set change) Even if I have to hack my own arm off to do it! (ok well im back to 2 hands at least)
too much got too serious on the Internet, and that includes politics, and that includes lolcows, and that includes encouraging people to kill themselves.
So I shall, like Thanos, snag some infinity gauntlets. One for my left hand, one for my right.
And in my left hand, I administer the message "go kill yourself" to 50% of the fediverse without any prejudice, chosen between every man woman and child.
And in my right hand, I administer the message "lol ur politics are wrong and you're stupid for believing them" to the other 50% who were spared from being told to kill themselves.
And in my center hand (wait where did that come from), I have a third infinity gauntlet. This one is for taking shit offline, for calling the cops on people you don't know, for calling their employers, for calling their families. That one is for taking shit too seriously, for thinking your online shitposting is an actual movement and not just a digital bowel movement you probably made while taking an actual bowel movement, for trying to get websites shut down or people kicked off of platforms. This center infinity gauntlet I cast it into the fires of Mt. Doom! (wait when did we get a set change) Even if I have to hack my own arm off to do it! (ok well im back to 2 hands at least)
"it hurts!!!"
"You're darned right bucko! This is life! And life is hard!"
"Fuck you! Give me drugs!!!"
"That's what people think! And they're wrong! Life is hard, but you gotta bear it, and if you bear that load then you'll find something more important to you than drugs!"
"Fuck yoooou I want a divorce!"
"Oh, so ya think you want to run away from your problems? Think that's the answer? Well let me tell you, sunshine! You start running away from your problems, then you'll find out that you haven't rescued your father from the belly of the whale, and then you end up becoming a tree full of snakes and they sent you off to the gulag!!!"
"You're darned right bucko! This is life! And life is hard!"
"Fuck you! Give me drugs!!!"
"That's what people think! And they're wrong! Life is hard, but you gotta bear it, and if you bear that load then you'll find something more important to you than drugs!"
"Fuck yoooou I want a divorce!"
"Oh, so ya think you want to run away from your problems? Think that's the answer? Well let me tell you, sunshine! You start running away from your problems, then you'll find out that you haven't rescued your father from the belly of the whale, and then you end up becoming a tree full of snakes and they sent you off to the gulag!!!"