really? that’s interesting because yeah when I lived in Tucson they were huge.

Thank you, appreciate the answer.

yes when I installed Arch a week later a pair of stockings showed up in the mail oddly enough.

I think the Doctor Who fanbase is the actual worst out of all fanbases but I still like watching the show. you don’t have to participate in the community if you want to use something. I use Linux but I’m not wearing thigh high socks and sitting in the Arch discord all day.

I mean aren’t they already? pedophiles and/or sex fiends? it’s almost a daily thing where you read a story where “such and such conservative found with computer full of child porn or was found rubbing one out in their church/state office”

if someone tells you who they are, believe them. If someone’s entire personality/live is based around “fighting” this stuff be it anti-gay, anti-porn, anti-abortion chances are they’ve already and routinely do it all.

it’s already happening. A lot of places are now realizing that advocating “vibe coding” and what have you is generating a lot of broken shit and tech debt. I’m a front end/back end dev consultant. been doing it for a couple decades now. and lately most of my contacts have been for fixing or refactoring or straight up rebuilding stuff built by a vibe coder.

Nothing produced by AI scales. None of it is encrypted, everything is exploitable, and eventually it all breaks. Example call I got last week: a startup had decided to set up their own mastodon instance for marketing reasons or whatever. they left the setup and configuration of it to their vibe coder who essentially had Claude Code set it up for them. basically build it out locally then throw it in some dockers for the server. real backwards ass way to do it. The problem is on weekly basis it was completely maxing out the storage on the server, thus it would crash and also crash whatever other instances for whatever they had on their (namely their own Gitea instance). Ends up the vibe coder in charge of setting this thing up either used Claude Code (doubtful) or straight up when to Claude.ai to walk them through the setup process. What was happening was all the images, videos, cached stuff was going into some extra .config dir and that’s it. wasn’t getting cleaned out, just all being thrown into some random directory and sitting there gradually growing. The fix was painfully easy just clean it out and make sure the cached stuff goes into the proper dirs and as a safety just run a cron job like once a week to clean it.

Digging around same company pretty much set up all their instances for various things the same way. a couple of their apps had major security holes cause AI really doesn’t care or know what to do with that stuff. It was a mess.

And it’s not just that company. like I said most of my calls now for work are just being a sort of digital janitor for AI and Vibe Coders. And I’ve dropped these companies some hints saying “look, hiring this dude who touts being a vibe coder is going to cost you way more money and tech debt in the long run then saving a few bucks right now. get rid of them and hire devs that actually know what they’re doing.” But most of these CEO’s and CTO’s only think in the short term. A year from now they’ll all be collectively fucked. Expect a LOT more stories like the recent Tea App to come out. Everyone’s data is at risk currently. I wouldn’t sign up for shit using my ID or anything right now.

outside the US? not likely. I would even argue they’re not even that popular or known in all of the US. but in the midwest and for some reason Southern Arizona? 100%.

I went to high school in Southern Arizona when my family lived in the US and yeah, pretty much everyone at my high school loved them. I liked one of their albums but I wasn’t like a face painting merch buying fan. They didn’t radio play or anything, it was all word of mouth and early internet stuff.

in college I worked at a local Best Buy and EVERY TIME a new ICP album would come out (which was frequently) we always had to put a couple extra people in the media department cruising the CD aisles and one posted outside the washroom because the Juggalos would constantly come in to steal the album. You could see them coming from a mile away cause they quite literally were advertising the band with all the merch they had on. But they would NEVER pay for the album, it was so odd. like buying a $50 ICP Hockey Jersey? sure. Paying $15 for the new album? no way fam, they’re stealing that shit.

you seem like an expert and I was actually wondering this yesterday while I was out on a walk cause I tend to think about silly things. So Theropods evolved into birds right? what about Sauropods or like Triceratops? or did they just go extinct

I’ve seen a very similar print out when installing/loading Arch for the first time.

oh OH I’ve seen this episode before!

And now the important question: Sir, exactly how many interns have YOU sacrificed to Micorosoft Khorne? how many skulls did you provide for his throne?

when I moved to Linux a couple years ago I felt the exact same way. I dont’ know how old you are but maybe you remember that feeling logging into win 95 or 98 for the very first time and falling in love with computers and what they could do.

I hadn’t felt that way in decades and when I switched to Linux it made me feel like I was a kid again in the late 90s with my very first PC. Switching to Linux made me fall in love with Computers again.

early days Reddit and the whole Digg vs Reddit thing was wild. I remember someone made like a stupid long comic about digg vs reddit. and yeah Early reddit was much like what Lemmy is now.

for those in the UK and/or Other places in Europe just know it’s so painfully easy to either set up your own VPN or just use something like Mullvad.

I set up my own VPN this morning for the first time on my server and it took less than 10minutes. plenty of guides online on how to do it.

yup just did it this morning on my server because now I’m moving my stuff, yet again, away from European companies because of all this. it was painfully simple and easy. I just followed a guide I found on a linux blog and within 10minutes I had a VPN of my own up and running.

because MC and Visa are morons. According to them in porn 4 fingers and a thumb in a vagina is fine. as soon as you take said fingers and thumb, ball them into a fist, and then stick it in a vagina then they got problems with THAT and it’s a no go.

They have more stupid rules. If you piss on a woman in Europe and film it then it’s fine. If you piss on a woman in the US and film it then it’s not fine. IF you take the footage of someone pissing on a woman IN Europe and SELL it in the US then that’s fine. But Americans are not allowed to pee on Americans on US soil according to Visa and Mastercard.

here’s another one: Incest Porn is not fine according to Visa and MC. “but I see that stuff all the time!” I hear you say dear reader. Yes, because according to MC/Visa you MUST establish that this is a step family relationship in the beginning BUT further into said video you can drop the “step-” moniker and start throwing around regular dads and moms and brothers and sisters all you like.

they’ve been doing it since the late 90s/early 00s. Visa and MC have a list of “rules” for porn companies and have had them for decades. Why the vast majority of adult entertainment companies use third party processors like CCBill to specifically deal with that shit.

These dumb fucks in Australia think they’re ahead of the curve or doing “something that has never been done before” but nah man they probably did talk to Visa and MC but highly doubt they pushed them to anything. it was more like Visa/MC said “oh yeah we did this before…yeah we should probably apply what we did to Porn to the gaming industry.”

I don’t think anyone is killing her. She met with the DOJ and Trumps lawyer or former lawyer or whatever last week and then suddenly, yesterday, she submits an appeal to the SC. they pretty much told her “because of optics and how it would look to our fascist moronic base we won’t pardon you BUT if you submit an appeal we’ll ensure it goes through”

Terms of the deal is once she’s out she reveals all the democrats and other left leaning individuals that were “on” the island.

If they wanted her dead, she’d be dead already. OR (puts on my tin foil hat) they tell her no pardon cause they can’t, but sure go to the SC and appeal we’ll “make it happen, trust us” and then they tell the SC “lol, no man we’re going to kill her but want it to look like suicide again so tell her no dice and then we’ll kill her and say she killed herself cause she lost her appeal” or something stupid like that.

Unfortunately in this current climate either option is a very valid and likely possibility.

shiiiit I wouldn’t count on that anymore. With the age verification and ID stuff they would honestly at this point probably make it worse.

I used to be an advocate for European alternatives for US based tech companies but now? no way, started self hosting everything. it sucks.

If I were an American I’d be insulted by the constant dog and pony show. Just let her out. you know that’s what’s happening, why go through the show for the peasants?