When I lived in my own house in the woods (literally no neighbors), I could bike ~10 minutes to the nearest small farmer’s shop, or ~20 minutes and get to a bigger grocery store. The fact that you must drive to buy groceries is, frankly, insane.

I live in Russia, dachas are common enough here (mostly summertime and not heated houses on small plots of land, used for gardening and sometimes growing food). So, we have one. When I’m there, I only bike for fun. I can literally walk to the neighboring town with a cinema and a mall and plenty of conveniences in 40 minutes on foot. I mean, people who have cars do drive to that kind of distances, but it’s not necessary. It’s the kind of place where in like 1 in 20 houses people live most of the time. And still.

and threw out the entire MacOS codebase due to bugs, legacy cruft, and laughable security.

Maybe he shouldn’t have.

A nuclear plant is not a nuclear bomb. And 5000 years is outta your ass.

And, the most important thing - military targets are usually protected worse than nuclear stations and big industrial plants. A nuclear station doesn’t move anywhere, it just sits on one place armored so well that it’ll likely survive the town being nuked (pun intended).

There are pollution dangers and complex logistics of rare and expensive materials. And the stations themselves are very expensive. But the danger of a nuclear station giving out a nuclear explosion is nonexistent.

I leave the 8-story building (with an elevator), walk 5-10 minutes (one road crossing with lights), buy groceries, in 30 minutes I’m back home.

Something is wrong with that murrka thing.

Honestly even if they are, there’s a concept of freedom, including freedom to make mistakes, and another concept of what’s natural. Most relationships are flawed one way or another, doesn’t mean we should have state officials deciding who sleeps with whom.

But in any case - when it’s about women, the real reason is usually that the one saying doesn’t want to feel competition from men much older than them, or competition to their son/nephew(-s) from men much older, or something like that. It’s usually people with fucked up ideas of relationships, who’d consider leaking woman’s one private photo as something as bad as rape and warranting murder, but who’d not consider grooming wrong at all, because the groomer is “taking care of her”, letting down a woman even unknowingly as being a bullshit person, but trying to decide for a woman as fine, and things like that. Shit that was normal in Victorian books, but isn’t anymore.

OK, I’m reminiscing on my dad too much. I once heard him talking to a therapist over a video call and starting that “I have a son your age …” (I’m autistic with BAD and, in no small part, it was kinda hard to have relationships having such a closer family) line, couldn’t help cringing so loud he shut the fuck up. The therapist apparently was cold-blooded enough that she advised him to apologize before me, LOL.

Adult men like that live on to be big babies far into their 50s, and then become a bit smarter simply because they have less energy.

Similar plus the issues of delivery to Russia and impending expenses at preventing like everything around me from crumbling plus creeping depression plus sick dog plus sister’s plans.

still

Democracy as “rule of the majority” I never supported in the first place. Exactly because I’m capable of understanding that if now the majority doesn’t want to rob and kill me personally, accepting such a system means declaring that if it does, then it’s right and I am wrong. Would be kinda stupid to declare that.

One reason I love Cryptonomicon is how it describes the way our whole world is built from WWII lessons.

One of them being that yes, you can’t learn contact potential from contact surface. This is also true for “in the open” scams like the whole Silicon Valley.

Not as much 51st state as being on the same continent with pretty thoroughly replaced population.

But - OK =\ Honestly I’m not too knowledgeable about Canadian identities and nationalism.

I’m not sure if Canada really counts as “from outside”

Honestly, while Windows sucks and so on, Unix has been more instrumental in bringing fascism to us. Via the Internet, and the Unixy hierarchical “one right dumb way” models of everything.

That whole country is like Hitler, from the outside. So honestly this just seems to be overly dramatic, should have started worrying about that Hitler stuff sometime earlier.

I mean, when you’d let an American see that you don’t think an American should decide something outside of USA (and that too belongs to natives), 9 in 10 would go livid. Most Americans don’t understand that other countries have sovereignty as good as their own. Or that they are as good as any other people.

It’s really just some of the paint falling off and showing that the wall consists of human bones among other things. As if nobody knew.

Ah, yeah, by the way - if you do something harmful at work and are hold responsible for it legally, it’s weird because when you do something clearly beneficial at work the company holds all the responsibility for that, and you hold your paycheck independently of the outcomes of your work.

So how the hell is this even treated as any kind of crime, let alone worth 4 years, is unclear for me. Some people seem to be forgetting that where peaceful protest is punished, violent protest finds a way.

If an intern damages a production database, they (or whoever else) are not (legally) held responsible, despite someone there definitely making a few mistakes leading to loss of profit. But it’s not even considered.

In this case it’s not a mistake, but does it matter? Unless they violated some security process inside the organization, thus illegally gaining access wherever, the story means that they used “maliciously” the access they were given.

In the 1970s this, first, would be an equivalent of what another guy wrote, changing a lock combination and not telling people, a minor mischief, and second, he’d have a union protecting him.

This is clearly disproportional.

A bomb kills\maims people and harms equipment, this is very clearly not a bomb.

In the 1970s this would be a scandal.

So I’ve done plenty of that in my, ahem, practice. And honestly if I had a choice to concentrate and not do that, even if that meant losing my “dead man’s triggers”, then so be it. Extinguishing a perpetual dumpster fire as part of your job is not good. Also someone might be given that to fix after you leave, I’ve been in that role too.

I’ve recently got an idea (a paranoid one) that this

Microsoft was never a nice company. Even in the 1990s they were exercising their E.E.E (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish) strategy to beat federated and decentralized platforms and technologies.

is a popular wrong myth.

Because Sun was still alive. That Sun. Seeming as if half of its employees were geniuses. Seeming as if they had a plan for all the industry for a 100 years forward. Which was the original “corporation of good”, almost nobody dares to treat it as something not sacred.

Sun’s plan was extremely hierarchical, and definitely not decentralization\federation minded.

Saying that a technology is universal (or not) requires understanding of it down to elements.

Maybe the Internet itself is conceived the way that it will always lead to centralization and hierarchy, as a tool to change the society.

See how IRL democracy and interoperability and choice in various situations were and even are absolutely normal, in friend groups and often in community places, but on the Internet you come to a place and it has moderators, appointed by other moderators and administrators, and administrators are gods, and there’s often no interoperability. And the longer it exists, the less interoperability there is.

Maybe we need a new global network, reimagined from ground zero with understanding of the risks. That is, a new common layer, where IP is in the Internet.

I tried using org-mode, but eventually returned to simple plain text.

Color notation, or various enriching elements don’t help. They actually distract.

There’s the task. The task of having a TODO list. Its elements are free form by definition.

I swear, today’s tech is 99% arrogant people showing themselves how they know everything, except they don’t solve the actual task which is the only thing needed.

Like those over-engineered half-working arcane machines they portray in steampunk settings, except those at least feel cool.

It’s like that anecdote about “what buzzes, spins and doesn’t bite your ass? - a Soviet machine for biting your ass”. 2025 machines for biting your ass do everything, including almost sexual gratification of their developers from using any of a hundred of hipster libraries, frameworks and build systems, and a server component using Firebase, AWS and what not, what they don’t do is actually bite your ass. Well, they kinda scratch it.

Doing a lot is not the same as doing better.

Also I fucking hate modern UI\UX design and ergonomics (both lacking).

There’s something about the Silicon Valley and everything looking up to it. A culture of authoritarian cheap bullshit, with pretty arrogant people not capable of having a civil discussion, and when they fail that, it’s not themselves who they blame.

Honestly it sometimes feels as if all the visible things around were like that. Linux included. Also maybe BTRON for workstations not happening is a bigger tragedy than it would seem.

I’ve just realized that using FPGA for such products is economically sane. I thought before that when they use FPGA for specific end products, that’s because of military-like expectation to be able to change everything, or because of lacking effort and aiming for fans.

Of course it does.