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Comment Re: Billionaire's playground (Score 0) 167

Yes, exactly this. Itâ(TM)s so strange to see all the bot people do a 180, when the machine tells them to. They are really gray people. So programmed. It was strange for me to see my old hacker journal 2600 become filled with gray programmed by the machine people. Would think hackers would have some self awareness and some resistance. But no. I hope people at slashdot wake up to it!

Comment Re: Billionaire's playground (Score 1) 167

Why does everyone hate free speech all of the sudden?? Unbanning 10000 of nazis. What other large online platform has true free speech ? Reddit? Facebook ? Itâ(TM)s so strange to see people so against twitter / x , so. Are you not aware of the mainstream media machine ? Woke companies like Disney hates true criticism of their woke products/ movies, ergo they pay the media machine to be against twitter /x.

Comment Great news for Freedom lovers! Systemd is Soviet (Score 0) 140

This is great news! - One of the main reasons I strongly dislike systemd is that it breaks with the core fundamental *NIX philosophy of trying to achieve a decentralized model of system components. This is basic software design. If you have a complex problem you want to split it into parts, and have those parts work together by good protocols. Challenge then is to create good ways for the components to work together. Same as with the Internet. You have many independent actors working together by a shared set of protocols. Systemd does the opposite of this. It gobbles up all the daemons into a monolith. One big codebase. - Main problem, I think, is that students nowadays do not see the value / understand the value of decentralized systems. Most of them are all woke, where Soviet Style centralization of powers runs supreme. So everything needs to be centralized. One Authority To Rule Them All. More fundamentally, I think this is due to the fact that so many children don't have siblings and are raised in nursing homes, so they do not learn proper cooperation skills. So they're only coping mechanism is to force other people to their will. Thus we are left with centralized structures like systemd, a big heavy handed federal state, heavy handed european union, and so on. We need to teach the younger folks the values of decentralized structures.

Because the *NIX philosophy, for me at least, is about decentralized cooperation. To have many system services aka daemons that run independent of each other, which are created by independent teams, and we then have a set of protocols that try to integrate those other parts. This is why I love Devuan. It's a tiny slice of true freedom where we try working things out by respecting each other's boundaries. I would say, this is the true hacker spirit.

Comment Re:Covid-19 as a change agent? (Score 1) 98

Lack of Economic understanding is the central issue. If people were to understand that you can not just print money. When you do this loads of people just gets poorer and no one understands why.

We need to END THE FED. And understand that governments create inefficient processes that bleeds away peoples wealth.

Comment The reason I like geek culture (Score 1) 859

Is that we don't have all of this social rules. "Dont be a dick" is a good rule. Its going to drive out all of the aspies and other people that are good coders. I dont understand how FreeBSD could be taken over by snowflakes ? FFS. This is a sad day. Its toxic. I can not support this community anymore. The code for our CORE infrastructure is now run by SNOWFLAKES! How can you make good code around people you have to walk on eggshells with? Code for our mission critical infrastructure which peoples lives _literally_ depends on are run by people that worry about "Deliberate misgendering." , and virtual hugs... And Im not joking. This is true. For fuck sake. What has happened.

At least I can take great joy in the glorious SpaceX dual rocket landing to feel that the world has not gone completely bonkers.

Comment 180 to the culture of writing good code. (Score 1) 859

This is the end of FreeBSD. It has been taken over anal people. The whole point of BSD was the chill people that just wanted to write good code. Not obsess about anal rules of conduct.

The code-of-conduct should just state "dont be a dick". That is all! That is true BSD philosophy. Keep it simple, stupid! Shut up and hack! FFS! SystemD for linux. now SJW for the BSD. Fuck!

FOSS is going downhill.

Comment Why not let the marked solve this problem? (Score 1) 218

Why can we not let the marked solve this problem ? Cabs in my country could really benefit from some competition. Today there is poor vetting of the drivers , due to non existent reputation system or independent third party validation. The drivers rape left and right despite government laws and regulation. Many drivers are rude. All this due to non existent reputation system. The cost is really high, due to low productivity since they can sit many hours in waiting for customers (especially at the air ports). Uber would probably solve this by having a more dynamic allocation of drivers. How to order a taxi is old fashioned. No apps , have to call in to a operator. Several times the taxi has not properly registered my request.

The classic cab driver paradigm is dead. We needed cab drivers due to their knowledge of locations. We do not need this any more due to really good GPS.

The only reason it is still in operation is due to anti competitive laws that favour the classic model. Because cab driver organisations is well connected with the government.

If you want special service X, (e.g. counter in the car) why can you not choose the company that gives you that service? Why do you have to force that requirement on everyone else?

Comment Re:Problem (Score 1) 218

The problem with capitalism is that a company can be successful even if it's bad for everyone.

What you are saying here does not make sense. In capitalism people choose freely which company they want to buy services from. If there services actually was bad they would not choose to use them. You can always refrain from using them.

Comment Re:Anybody can be a taxi driver in germany (Score 0) 218

I still think Germany here is acting like a despot. A nanny despot. As a free individual I should be able to drive with who ever I so choose to, as long as the person I drive with follow the minimal road standards which applies to everyone (drivers licence , insurance , etc) It is my choice if I want to go into a car that does not have e.g a counter , commercial car insurance , etc.

A free country should not limit my choices in this fashion. Using law like this , is the same as using the threat of deadly force. Which is wrong. You can not make the thereat to kill someone if they refuse to use a counter.. People must be allowed to make individual choices, and be allowed to suffer the consequences if the choice was a poor one. The marked will solve this, most likely there will be a demand for cars with proper security (insurance and no prison sentence for certain crime) probably though a system of reputation and voting and third party validation. You do not need the state to mandate this thought law.

Also having these kinds of rules limit the amount of production (why should one has to spend energy and time having a counter?? when you can just agree to a price in advance? ) which again limits the peoples standard of living.

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