Internet revolutionaries revealing that “eat the cul de sac” was internalized self-loathing all along.

An iPhone can communicate with other devices over open protocols, which is different from the proposed un-reachability and privileged access to the network.

Elites abandoning a world they judged unworthy in favor of vendor lock-in sounds pretty dark to me

People were generally onboard with liberating plantations, but the question of what to do with the previously disenfranchised was asked, framed, and guided by the previously slave owners. There was the option to give out land and cast a broad social safety net, but White hand wringing abolitionists couldn’t get passed “what if Blacks are lazy and stealing from me?” So they leaned on “they can pull themselves up by the bootstraps”, but to clear their consciences they also needed to claim they were lifting themselves up by their own bootstraps as proof that they’d contributed to building a system where that’s possible. Yada yada, the system that manifested was wage slavery, a late 19th century nail in the coffin currently burying us alive!

Start your day in Tarrey Town

“Cafe Ghibli” is also good over coffee, but that’s bending the rules

APIs … could be used to move IRS data to the cloud

AWS Blank Check as a Bloatware?

• Lawful Good: haskell, scala, rust, go, erlang
• True Neutral: C
• Chaotic Good: +tex, +(the meta language we’re using to express this kookiness)

We make you shower, clean your room, eat your vegetables, and brush your teeth.

don’t you have homework to catch up on?

without installing another distro over the top of it … [replace] package managers

The package manager is the distro, though.

$ pacman -S apk-tools
$ apk add alpine-base linux-lts

Then kexec to alpine’s kernel and the initramfs generated by its installation (which would incidentally “replace” PID 1 with the new /sbin/init). For clean up you could take a diff of “tar -t” for all the installed packages from both distros then delete the files only in the old distro’s packages.

Make a self-compiled distro your target.

Replace the first step with a compilation of apk, abuild everything required by alpine-base and linux-lts (git clone aports to bootstrap that work), then add the package directory to /etc/apk/repositories before the second step. Next, begin to worry that you haven’t fully broken free yet, replace abuild with a bespoke mybuild and apk with tar -x, grapple with signed binaries, reflect on your own identity and authenticity, then take a tour through gentoo and find yourself missing the $HOME you left and its familiar comforts.

The Ghost of Reagan enjoys credit for growth that follows his destruction

This is that special blend of Tablet Kid “I don’t need to know things I can google them” and Rich Kid “I don’t need to do things I can crowdsource them” that makes for that Distinctively VP “I don’t know what I’m doing and nobody can tell 👈😎👉”

I’ll tap in for Brother Bear!

What are you trying to solve here beyond indulging guilt? Your last sentence is outright asking to be told you’re bad. If you want validation or excuse for that you can go to confession or seek diagnosis (which might fairly fit into your plan, I’m not judging).

You say, “If you steal from someone … saying sorry doesn’t do much for me because if you were sorry, you wouldn’t have done it in the first place.” I hear, “avoidance”. Apologies are promises, commitments, and covenants, not regret and remorse. Simply Feeling Bad is the relinquished barfly’s philosophy and doesn’t accomplish much but prolonging the bad feeling.

Talking anonymously online or in person can be a healthy start to validate and work through both the stealing and the secrecy, but growing beyond those releases all The Stuff so you can exist honestly and authentically with your pack.

I think we’re going through Cold War 2 before World War 3. China and Russia have been testing krill fishing limits recently while American private equity has entered the field, and the TikTok showdown is testing Internet authority.

Toxic negativity