Six sided devops engineer and baseball fan
I am also @Quill7513@slrpnk.net, but this is my primary and more active account. The slrpnk.net account is for ecology and lemmy.world stuff
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Microsoft is still who vetted and hired the contractor and who selected the location.
And yeah. Past CEOs of Microsoft have continued to be shitty. They’re who’s responsible for what’s going on. I just wanted to talk about the ways white knight philanthropy doesn’t help, it just perpetuates colonialism, and Bill Gates+Microsoft have always been in lock step in this regard.
The point is the true villain here is colonialism
So construction waste is a subcategory of industrial waste. Typical industrial waste includes toxic materials like excess cement, fiberglass, bits of plastic from wires and cables. But once the data center is in place, most likely the waste will be e-waste in nature. Think heavy metals, copper, and yet more plastic. And the thing is… This is why they’re putting this data center here. Disposing of this toxic waste will be cheaper because it’s less regulated. The long term cost of high tech industries like this to neo-colonialized communities like this is the communities themselves. It doesn’t matter to Microsoft they’re making the water undrinkable. They don’t have to live there.
And realize, too. Bill Gates’ philanthropic missions aren’t accidents. He may not run the show at Microsoft anymore but he still benefits greatly from their business. His philanthropic efforts aren’t about making the lives of people who are exploited better. They’re about maintaining that cheap form of labor just a little bit longer. And that may not be Bill Gates’ actual intention, but the fact of the matter is he’s a billionaire. He could make much larger changes in the world by not being a billionaire. He has power and influence to do things the rest of us can’t, but instead of treating the illness he treats the symptoms. His actions sustain the system he benefits from
Only reason I unblocked them was in case I needed to refute their claims anywhere. Suffice to say though, for anyone reading this, a good rule of thumb is if Possibly Linux says it, decent chance its untrue
The ad company blocking an ad blocker is totally about security
- Google stans
It was good! I really enjoyed it
Legitimately! Early Metallica was all about liberatory politics. Then it turned into center-right american politics. The kinds of dudes who really have hard-ons for how great the status quo is.
Hey good news. Turns out you can use bing and not get back Reddit results
They don’t care about traffic. They care about the existing barrel of data for the data models
100%. I wanted to summarize things as succinctly as possible but its basically impossible to deny this person is a complete bastard
Yeah. Like… I can’t think hyprland offers enough to make it worth promoting. Its like… Yeah Drake put out some tracks than when they show up in my feed I like until I realize its that massive piece of shit. You can’t really have death of the author when the author gains more audience through hype of their output. I’d recommend people interested in hyprland look at river, sway, or dwl instead
The lead dev thought it was no big deal that the moderators of his official discord server were going out of their way to harass trans people. Then when someone said “hey this isn’t okay” he was like “why am I to blame I didn’t do it”
I’ve recently gotten good at DCSS to consistently gather a few runes. Still haven’t had an orb run. I don’t want to talk about how long I been playing the game…
I’m opinionated, too, and I’m of the opinion that GNOME’s opinions get in the way of me getting work done lol
Linux Mint is one of the lowest effort (from a user perspective) options out there
I’d say then YaST is your friend but SUSE has overwhelming issues by not labeling settings as being common tweaks or advances options. Well… Maybe it’s better these days. I don’t think about SUSE that often. It just always stays on my horizon as being pretty much good enough for anything I’m interested in doing without it being perfect
MATE is how almost all Linux distros used to be. It’s my beloved mostly because of the age thing haha. I was excited about GNOME 3 at first because the thinking at the time was “Oh, they’re a good set of developers, they gave us our beloved GNOME 2, after all. GNOME 3 will develop into the wonderfully customizable, stable, and user friendly DE GNOME 2 was”
13 years later… Nope. Or… GNOPE. None of that has panned out. GNOME 3 is just as unstable and frustrating for sustained use as it ever was. Their libadwaita moves have been total horseshit. GTK 4 sucks. Meanwhile KDE and Qt have been becoming stronger and stronger, better and better, and more and more if you’re running a GTK based DE you’re gonna wind up with some Qt dependent apps anyway because… Well… Qt doesn’t suck. I’m for sure going to wind up with a mostly Qt based system in the nearish future.
Just out of curiosity, what do you consider a modern DE? Like not trying to start beef, I’m actually factually curious and I think am currently being confronted with that I’m an old man now. For transparency here’s basically my categorizations:
These follow development patterns that lead me to consider them bullshit
(Probably to be condemned in the future to "Almost Modern, Basically Abandomware, but I may be wrong, what do I know?)
I’d assume a sponsored post on a Lemmy community would just be a pinned post that a mod got money for
I think the issue is that this marketing consultant didn’t build anything. They just prompted an LLM to generate output