I love my team and the people I work with; they’re awesome and why I’ve stayed at my current company (and yes my manager and ever his manager are included in this).

I hate that they’re shoving AI down our throats and is the primary reason I will be searching for a new job once I finish my degree.

I probably have a lot more interactions with houseless people due to my demographic (queer, genderqueer, poc, smoker) so i often get stopped by someonr asking for a cigarette or mutual aid.

these are all very reasonable takes, although as a smoker i definitely prefer the electric divvy bikes so im not complaining on that last one xD

And i don’t really mean that everyone needs to smoke on the train to have an opinion on the CTA, but its situations like that where you can really talk to people and get to know them. and houseless people are some of the coolest and nicest people if you just give them a chance. it just really pissed me off that the original person i was replying to acted like houseless people staying as safe and warm as they can is a detriment to the CTA. thats some surburban ass shit

it’s perfect because of the crackheads. when the government has failed you at every step, at least you know theres a warm place that’ll take you anywhere in the city that you need to go. it’s a public service that truly serves the entire community as equitably and fairly as it can (not to say that infrastructure investments are distributed equitably though). trains really are the solution for all of humanity’s problems.

if you’ve never smoked a joint at 3 am with houseless people on the L then i don’t particularly care about your opinion on the CTA.

Yes and no.

Yes becuse our new C-suites are pushing it heavily and my boss (who only cares that we use AI as much as we need to not draw ire) has warned AI usage is a tracked metric that may be used for perfamnce reviews, bonuses, promotions, and raises.

No because I know my immediate chain of command does not fully believe in AI or are skeptics, and when the bubble bursts the price per token is going to slyrocket. Suddenly minimal AI usage as a tracked metric will probably look pretty good.

Either way once I’ve finished up certain things I intend to look for a new job. I love my team but I fear the writing is on the wall, and even if they try to reverse course I’m skeptical that the company will be able to.

Slight correction: the contemporaneous usage of the word lesbian in the queer community does not specifically say it is wlw, but that it is femme/non-masculine attraction to femininity/non-masculinity. In that sense it may be more closely aligned with being sapphic than strictly wlw.

In the Global North it could only happen in America; in thr global south these sorts of atrocities are unfortunately not uncommon specifically because of the Global North. Just because Europeans don’t do it at home doesn’t mean they don’t do it.

As a trans person in the US, i believe they knew as far as they had accepted the idea of revolutionary suicide. Why did I bring up I was trans? because i intend to soon start medically transitioning and I have to question if i want to legally transition as well, and to what degree because the laws in the US are making it increasingly difficult to legally exist as a trans person. Either I repress myself and exist to conform or i live as myself and risk death/rape for that. and even in the former case it is unlikely i exist without scrutiny or repercussion given the fact I’m clearly not quiet about this.

similarly if you are an activist or revolutionary on that level you have to accept that the state is trying to suppress if not kill you; either you repress your own grievances and continue to let exploitation happen unchecked or you fight back and likely pay with your life. But again, anyone willing to consider the latter is still likely to face repercussions even if they choose the former. choosing to exist or operate outside of the hegemonic system of thought will lead to oppression in all forms, and anyone who is pragmatic will understand that being faced with that option typically means you have already gone too far to turn back. You either rebel or capitulate, and being a bootlicker doesn’t mean you live longer it just means you’ll be remembered as a traitor.

Thus i believe MLK, Malcom X, and Fred Hampton all knew they were going to die even if they did everything to prevent that outcome, but I don’t believe they knew they would die when they did though. At least for Fred Hampton he had a son and a wife; while i dont imagine myself having children i cannot fathom that someone with so much empathy could stomach the idea of leaving their child behind if they could prevent it.

In most cases I would agree.

In the instance of a heavily secured state-of-the-art datacenter with armed guards it should’ve gotten flagged immediately.

Then again thats assuming the people in the SOC aren’t massively overworked and were paying enough attention of course

please do! native flora are super important, especially since large monocultures of a useless crop (grass) have become popular. if your yard is gonna be filled with plants that you aren’t using, you might as well fill it with plants that are useful to the environment

I will push back on this a bit because Debian is great, but point release distros like Debian that focus on stability can be incredibly behind on important updates that include features users will want. I personally recommend Fedora to start because imo it’s the best of both worlds for new penguins and greybeards alike.

The systems that begot America have existed for centuries at least throughout much of Europe and the Global North. This horror and absolute denigration of human dignity that defines the US was brought by colonizers who began developing these institutions of terror on their own soil. I argue that the assimilation and oppression of indigenous historically non-white European groups (such as the Celts) are the direct idealogical ancestors of the atrocities that Europeans have committed across the world. Without the enslavement and oppression of Ireland, as an example, I do not believe that the holocaust of the indigenous American peoples would’ve looked the same or even existed to begin with. This issue has existed long before the US has existed and until Europeans reckon with the harm they have wreaked across the planet this will continue.

Many non-Americans in the global north will point to US atrocities and say “only in America” without even questioning their country’s involvement in the current state of things, or the fact that their country likely perpetuates similar oppression in the global south in order to maintain their “social democracy”. Until we stop relying on exploitation to drive progress (i.e. capitalism) this will not change. “This wouldn’t happen in xyz European country” thats because they historically and likely presently externalize their oppression to provide the surplus necessary for a socially democratic capitalist country. The bourgeoisie still steals from the worker, so to maintain a level of comfort for the worker they also steal from a country the European does not care about to provide the surplus without having to give up anything themselves.

Until Europe does the work to remove the parasitic owner class and end their exploitation of the global south they are only marginally better than the US in my eyes. And realistically they should pay reparations for all the harm they have done to the global south as well.

In the US it makes sense. Much of our corn is grown for ethanol so ot can be used for fuel. Replace that with solar and we reduce our reliance on a monocrop and end up with far far more power.

W answer (although im considering moving to neovim due to vim using AI code)

I do this for my containers. I have a completely domain-managed network, so my docker/podman host mounts an NFS share that contains all the data volumes for my services. Each one only has read permissions for the service account that runs it (and has nogroup). Each OCI container mounts their data volume(s) from their respective directory as well as a kerberos user TGT and credentials cache. Each OCI container runs as the service account, which uses the kerberized credentials to access the mounted data volumes (this is necessary), and thus I acheive separation. Even if a threat actor were to compromiee a service they would still be locked down to that service account and only able to access/modify the data of this service. This is still be very bad for services like keycloak, but for other trivial services it almost guarantees more than adequate segregation. This does fall apart a little bit with the recent copyfail and dirtyfrag exploits which allow for easy privilege escalation, but I don’t allow root squash so the data volumes on the NFS share are still service_account:nogroup even when accessing as root. Now an attacler could go through and use the KRBTGTs that are stored for each service account to access the data, but at that point I am dealing with a dedicated threat actor. Defending against someone explicitly seeking to compromise me is a different situation altogether, and still requires initial access through a vulnerable application that is sitting behind an SSL termination proxy and an NGFW with IPS capabilities.

It seems they literally meant what commands are your favorite. Bash is a shell but it is just as much a command (bash -c 'wall poop'), and ssh and man are some of the most widely used commands on linux (if you end up working with LXC containers many of them do not come with manpages preinstalled. I highly recommend installing them if you’re going to spend any of amount of time on thr LXC)

This is unfortunately true. Despite having an IT admin as a dad, it only taught me how to more effectively circumvent censorship. I went as far as using the 3DS browser to access stuff I wasn’t supposed to

This isnt a violet08 image, this has been around longer (i believe)

just because people can give criticism does not mean the system actually accepts criticism or even that it does not retaliate against such criticism. yes there are instances where criticism has led to genuine change (easy example is “The Jungle”), but for every instance of successful criticism i argue there are hundres, thousands, even millions of instances where said criticism has led to the harassment and discrimination; tenfold if the person was a minority in any capacity. by and large american media, industry, government, and society has suppressed any and all forms of criticism or even nonhegemonic thought until its existence has been so normalized amongst cishet white peoplr that they finally let it exist in a heavily moderated and monetized manner. this can be seen time and time again with hayes codes, mccarthyism, the civil rights movement, the suffrage movement, queer acceptance, trans acceptance, the war on drugs, 9/11 and the wars in the middle east. we are actively seeing it right now; you cannot look at the NYT, Time magazone, the WSP, CNN, or any major American media institution and tell me that they are actually free press. At best they are controlled opposition. this is not a conspiracy theory, these are documented facts¹. This has only gotten worse as more tech CEOs have bought more and more news and media companies. anyone who actually reports on important, topical information in a way that is contradictory to the Americam hegemonic system of thought has been target, oppressed, and even sanctioned². Mainstream media has enjoyed a degree of freedom allowed by the understanding that maintaining the visage of a free press was important, the current high profile cases as of late³ are realistically the exception correcting itself.

America is not free, has never been free, and will never be free until the system is radically and fundamentally changed. The ideals expressed in the Bill of Rights and the Constitution are noble, but the implementation of those beliefs were created by entitled white men who encoded racism, misogyny, bigotry, and hatred into the DNA of the country. At one point there may have been an opportunity to change the direction of America to actually align with the values it professed, but much like a cancer that has metastasized to every part of the body any effective treatment would be lethal; America cannot both exist and actually improve. From the moment this country was built on stolen land we have placed ourselves on fhe wrong side of hidtory, and what has become evident now has always been evident to black, brown, queer, and disabled people. It is not a few apples that are rotten; the barrel itself has rotted.

^1. https://futureofmedia.hsites.harvard.edu/us-media-index^

^2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_government_attacks_on_journalists_in_the_United_States^

^3. https://www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2026/01/31/journalists-are-being-arrested-fired-and-silenced-what-this-means-for-the-future-of-the-profession/^

The US never did. The American media has been lying to people for over a century and people have been pointing that out just as long. Now the media is so horrifically corrupt that everyone is starting to notice it, not just minorities or queer people.