The web is best browsed with Dillo, Elinks, or at worst something like Palemoon or ArcticFox. Screw these huge browser projects anyway. They all take massive resources to compile and run. Chrome is an especially bad bit of corporate spyware doing their best to prevent ad-blocking. At least Firefox is still somewhat portable, but it's still just (far) too damn big. I never allow Javascript and if a site wont work with a simple browser, I just leave. The web is mostly a time wasting corporate strip mall. Everything you need to know is in the man pages or source code.

Fire them. All of them. They are expensive and useless. Despite Trump's failure to overcome cherry picked activists judges, the voters thirst for government employee mass firing remains undiminished. Fire all the beurocrats, now. At the federal level we need a small military and a few excise tax collectors. Just about everything else should be shut down or transitioned to the private sector.

They cannot do the basic *arithmetic* to understand that UBI is not technically feasible (or they refuse to try). This is just another non-technical story that makes current Slashdot commie user base heads explode. "Big meanie with government says no UBI for you." Laughable. Then there is the simple fact that high levels of income redistribution has an extremely poor history of effectiveness in realistic historical terms.

US population: 330M. Assume $1,000/month UBI per adult (250M adults).
Annual cost: $250M × $1,000 × 12 = $3T.
2024 federal budget: ~$6.5T. Tax revenue: ~$4.9T.
UBI = 61% of current revenue, requiring massive tax hikes (e.g., 60%+ income tax rate across all brackets, far exceeding current top rate of 37%) or unsustainable deficit spending (2024 deficit: ~$1.8T). Historical tax revenue caps at ~20% of GDP; UBI pushes this to politically/economically infeasible levels (>30% GDP).

They just revealed they've been sitting on a two year old zero day issue with Chrome that was fixed last month. I think I'll stick with Dillo and Elinks.

Every FOSS coder has 10 ideas he hasn't had the time or energy to code yet. When I see a giant explosion of open source hit the street and actually work and/or one-up the existing stuff, I'll believe "vibe coding" works.

In the meantime, AI is kinda helpful for diagnosing weird compiler errors and occasionally can write 15-30 lines of code without introducing more bugs that it fixes. SOMETIMES. I use multiple LLMs every day so I agree it's helpful, but "about to take coders jobs" is very hard to believe unless everything you write is 10 lines of code or less.

The kids where I live will probably set them on fire or put cones on their head. This ought to make for some entertaining videos.

If these AI tools are so good, why didn't they skip translation into English requirements and just re-write all the code in a more modern language? Couldn't possibly be that these promises are oversold and underdelivering, eh? Personally, I cannot get ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, or CoPilot to write more than about 30 lines of code without introducing/causing more bugs than it fixes. I use one or more of them daily for various (admittedly useful) tasks, but the idea that LLMs are a replacement for programmers is still looking silly from here on the ground with no journalists around.

This should be the takeaway for everyone. To (mis)quote Scarface "Systemd is a great big pussy, waiting to get fucked."

This is 100% on Pottering's System==D. It's not a "Linux" problem, it's a System==D problem. For someone who ostensibly in the group that "doesn't give a shit" you sure sound mad. Are you mad? Because you sound angry.

"It looks like you are trying to be productive and do some work. Would you like me to get in your face and make some inane suggestions?"

Your reply looks weak and reaching. I think he was right and you're tap dancing.

These assholes are way past due for some jail time. They are rife with CIA pass-throughs like the EcoHealth Alliance. They've likely been funding and offshoring illegal bio-warfare research. These guys were a nasty circus during CV1984 and I'd personally love see many of these "researchers" in jail. We saw during CV1984 that the NIH is a massive criminal enterprise full of liars, spooks, and self-serving thieves. Send the research money back to the taxpayers and turn out the lights on these criminal fucks. We also need to jail Fauchi. I realize his massive corrupt pardon will make it more difficult, but it's still possible and greatly needed. Throw that piece of shit into the deepest faggot pit of a prison one can find. In fact, I'm fine if we convict and send his dumb ass to El Salvador's mega prison to hang with MS13 after a bit of waterboarding.

No dude, he nailed you. You're a fucking idiot and he's got you dead to rights. You've always been a fool.

They are playing a game where they are trying to squeeze American companies just enough to get their massive fines, without taking away the profit motive. If they get more aggressive, the calculus could easily change. Europe needs to remember that they have invented almost nothing for almost forever now. You faggots didn't invent the Internet and couldn't engineer your way out of a paper sack. All you make is regulations. So, if you do run off American companies, you can pontificate your rules to China or someone else who will ignore you and have you fuck off with even less worries.

Let's face it, you sure as fuck won't be engineering anything or setting up homegrown alternatives. All the EU can do is make up rules. That's what Socialists do: they make up rules to fleece anyone under their control and dumb enough to be productive. Problem is, you guys are low on folks to fleece and high on brown Muslims with their hands out. Enjoy that!

Get me to work on a boat under false pretenses, slave me 22 hours a day, and keep the boat at sea for months? I'd definitely kill you. I'd kill you, feed your dumb ass to the fish, then about 100 meters from shore in some random area, they'd find your boat on fire and sinking quickly as I swam ashore. If you have guards and are much better armed I might have to wait till we get back onshore to kill you, but either way it's going down. Who the fuck would put up with that?