m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@thatguyoverthere @kravietz @feld
Or worse: until some undemocratic regime has fallen out of favour, US might be even assisting the local motherfucker in charge.

@thatguyoverthere @kravietz @feld
There very often are equal assholes in power, they don't have the resources of US, but they also aren't subject to international scrutiny, and the freedom of press isn't even remotely close to that of the US. People hate their own governments — and very often rightfully so! No surprise that some would rather have US involved than die in the darkness or authoritarian regime fighting all that shit alone.

@thatguyoverthere @kravietz @feld
It's not some uncontrollable process, not some natural occurrence "US always does it" — these decisions have people behind them, these people have names, the movie explores this topic really well by the way. And these people can be held responsible.
But it's not like on the other end there are noble barbarians living in mud huts, having the time of their lives, but then US came and ruined the idyllic livelihoods — no, far from it!

@thatguyoverthere @kravietz @feld

Finding Ministry CD brought this thread back in memory.

I mean yeah, I'm pretty sure it had very bad effects domestically, but me simply agreeing with you on this would be a hypocrisy — I'm not a US citizen so it's hard for me to assess the extent of it. My point is that "US did it for the oil" — is a gross oversimplification, and it does neither party justice.

@eric
I knew they would go there at some point! I always liked how Live sacrificed flexibility to be more intuitive. But I suppose they don't have to do that anymore, now that it's mainstream.

@kirby @vncresolver
No need to be modest, I have even that shit on CDs somewhere. Didn't find it where I thought it would be though, only found HP-UX, but as it was on labelled CDRs, not on official media, I decided that it wouldn't make a good enough Fedi tech fetish photo.
Or maybe I should've 🤔 Those CDRs looked gold…
In any case, I've put it back into the cabinet already 😁

@eric
Yeah, I could even vaguely remember it not being obvious, but wasn't motivated enough to check 🤭

@kirby @vncresolver
"I'm kinda old-skool" 😅

@kaia
Gentrification of anonymous imageboards 🤪

@GoodBoyUV @milk
OMFG!!! Now I'm going to get another 15 followers on the federated social network! 😱
Maybe 20 even!!! 😵

@kirby
Most distros allow you to keep several versions of PostgreSQL.

@kaia
We sure do! 🤩
I do a complete playthrough of original C&C every few years, I think I should do Tiberian Sun and Firestorm too, I even have an old Toshiba laptop with Windows 2000 to make it an authentic experience — but sadly, I never get to it 😞

@eric
You can also left click the leftmost bar, the one labelled with C0, C1, C2, etc., hold the mouse button and move the mouse cursor left and right AFAIR — no need to touch the keyboard.
Or was it up and down? 🤔 In any case, you can do it with just the pointing device.

@newt @amiloradovsky
And this alone made me never consider this cloud shit.
In part it was due to working for organizations for which relying on offsite infrastructure wasn't acceptable — but I would never suggest it myself either, maybe as a backup or for occasional spikes in workload, not more than that

@newt @amiloradovsky
Everyone expects some very competent people overseeing all this cloud infrastructure, and that it would be build on some rock-solid technology — but in reality it's the same engineers as everywhere else and the same throwaway nodes running same Linux systems.
When Google introduced its App Engine and they were already accepting payments for it, despite it still being in beta: both formally and de-facto, judging by its reliability — it went unresponsive for days.

@lain @kaia
One pay phone on a distant sparsely populated street got it particularly bad — they were made of steel or other strong metal, but as I got a little help from my friends, there was literally nothing there to repair — they have just replaced it in a few months. And it only had four coins inside — definitely not the main motivation 😅