More and more people in hooded robes with star-symbols on their foreheads are saying it.

Listen, I’m not saying Ya hai kadishtu ep r’luh-eeh Nyogtha eeh, s’uhn-ngh athg li’hee orr’e syha’h. But I get it.

people would tell you to RTFM if your question was answered anywhere in the documentation

Modern day internet techies will snear at you for using AI assist tools when setting up an environment. But by god, do these agents not save me endless hours of trying to decipher the Dead Sea Scrolls of system configuration.

RTFM only works when the documentation is high quality and easy to follow. Better yet, if you know the manual so well, just link me to the damned chapter I’m supposed to focus in on. I’m trying to set up an *arr stack, not become a sysadmin team lead at a Fortune 500 company.

Never mind DMAs and IRQs, you had to manually write config files specifying the geometry and refresh rate of your monitor.

In fairness, a lot of those config files were relatively easy to write. I’ll take that over hunting through forty different nearly-identical screens in a custom configured BIOS.

I feel like it’s more of a “If I tried to tell you what this was, you wouldn’t believe me” than a “I am physically incapable of explaining the idea that you’re plugged into a computer”.

This is the news section of a major newspaper. It’s not a leftist blog.

Which is funny, given that the bloggers - left, right, and center - have consistently been breaking more stories with better researched articles of late. The last straggling remnants of print journalism don’t have the budget to do more than stenography or the clout to do more than lick the taint of whomever is in charge.

Biden’s age was indeed a major concern.

If you treat MAGA Fascism and Biden’s Octogenarianism as equally important, so will your audience.

Their coverage of Trump was extremely good and extensive

It was extremely late and ineffectual.

Meanwhile, for every Trump scandal story, we got three different Transgender Athlete pieces. North of 30 distinct pieces appeared, often at the front page of the Times coverage. These ran in lockstep with the Republican political campaign ads vilifying liberal candidates for support of Title XI and Equal Access laws.

This, alongside a slew of stories demonizing student protesters which went so far as to call them unwitting agents of the Iranian military.

So, after echoing a slew of lies that echoed Republican talking points in a razor thin election all year long, they also popped off a handful of stories critical of the Republican nominee weeks into the early voting period. Cool. Great job.

Americans voted for him. That’s their choice.

Millions of Americans were disenfranchised in 2024.

This was a failure of democracy regardless of outcome. But the dogged assertion that “Americans Voted For This” consistently ignores how many Americans were strictly prohibited from participating, to the point of facing years of jail time, if they even dared submit a provisional ballot.

You can’t put opinions in news.

Sure you can. These journals do it all the time by filtering it through a cushy interview or ghostwritten native ad or “unnamed source”.

The front page of the New York Times.

Okay, but also…

Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”. This, while regularly blaming poor electoral performance among liberal politicians on the Palestinian solidarity movement.

and further…

The New York Times rarely quotes transgender people in trans stories in a journal that simply will not shut up about how we need to debate Transgender athletes competing in sports.

then, it cannot be overstated how many times we get…

Why does the New York Times keep calling the left ‘divisive’? With popular candidates and policies routinely pillared as antithetical to the mainstream Democratic Party and a threat to general election success. At the same time, NeverTrump Republicans who run the gamut from Donald Trump’s secretary’s husband to Ted Cruz’s former campaign manager keep getting Op-Eds and interviews explaining why the party needs to move to the right in order to win voters.

And let’s not forget how The Times has been far too distracted as of late by worries over President Joe Biden’s age, allowing it to steal attention away from the larger and far more serious danger posed by a second Trump administration. Critics have also argued that The Times covers Biden and Trump with disproportionate standards, placing false equivalence on issues surrounding the current president to those of the former president, who is facing 91 criminal counts and fantasized about being a dictator on “day one.”

The NYT fucking sucks. It consistently tries to have its NeverTrump cake while eating out on Trump-friendly business interests. It is a paper of, by, and for the millionaire class, whose only real criticisms of the President begin and end with how it makes America look to the rest of the world. Stop buying into 96-pt font when as often as not the NYT agenda is buried in the fine print.

I would be curious to know this uptime relative to any other self-hosted sites.

I remember Reddit and Twitter constantly suffering from uptime issues and they were far more decentralized, with modern infrastructure to match.

Is 95.2% all that far out of the realm of expectation?

even if something like CXMT scales to start to fill the market

Can’t use hardware produced by the insidious Chinese. It would destroy our economy and open up all our devices to the evil kind of spyware.

Bundling, baby! Added benefit, it’s going to deprecate a whole bunch of motherboards.

It is now. Used to be owned by a constellation of private equity firms from BlackRock to Capital International Investors to The Vanguard Group. Just different flavors of evil.

🎼 🎶 The circle of life 🎶

Nobody familiar with what an LLM actually is thinks it’s intelligent

Even the most experienced professionals are still vulnerable to AI psychosis. The issue isn’t whether an LLM is intelligent, it’s whether a human perceives the LLM as intelligent. And, for better or worse, humans love to personify non-humans.

My brother-in-law does work in AI. He names all his models. He talks about them like their his children. Push come to shove, he’ll tell you “they’re not intelligent”. But I’ve seen him cry over one, because the firm he was working for had to cut back his resources and he ended up needing to shelve it indefinitely.

Everyone who isn’t currently blocking the import and sale of Huawei hardware, anyway

Was going to say. This seems like the most polite kind of person you’re going to meet on the subway. Dude’s not manspreading, not gawking, not trying to get their attention, literally bumped up against a woman and not trying to cop a feel.

This is the Ideal Male Commuter. You may not like him, but this is what peak performance looks like.

Well, one of them is going to eat it Lehman style. But then the Feds will rush in to save everyone else.

the Argentinian claim being the anti-colonialism one

“The British didn’t colonize The Falklands, it was an empty island, but also the Argentinians are the real colonists because they wanted sovereignty over a neighboring island which was the rightful possession of a country on the far end of another hemisphere” is a level of mental gymnastics Olympic Athletes would marvel at.

this was supposed to be some kind of justification

It’s soccer hooligans holding up posterboard covered in sharpie and y’all act like you just survived Verdun.

The dispute is over whether it should be a military base of a foreign power

How do you know if it’s pre-historic…?

I would consult an anthropologist on that one.

Who were these pre historic natives

Evidence of prehistoric human activity in the Falkland Islands

Are you mistaking penguins for humans

I’m not mistaking them for the French, if that’s what you’re asking.

The island has been a traffic stop for seafaring people since prehistoric times. The Europeans ethically cleansed the natives, then spent three centuries contesting their control.