facebook's employees enshittified their site and made it hostile for their users. Cry me a fucking river.

If you're such an egomaniac that you've made half the planet hate you then tough tits, I say.

Yes functionally it is really good but, much like the Aadhaar biometric ID system, the direction of travel is that it becomes so ubiquitous you are more or less forced to use it.

In a country where you actually have things like rule of law, separation of powers, freedom of speech and assembly, this might be ok. But both Aadhaar and UPI are moving towards 'data maximization' and user profiling at govt/state level, with your spending and service utilization data being shared with an opaque group of favored providers.

from the article - "This targeting is unusually specific. In addition to standard developer secrets such as .npmrc and .git-credentials, the malware also hunts for AI tool configuration and MCP-related files, suggesting deliberate interest in environments where coding assistants or local automation tools may expose API keys or workflow secrets."

Definitely - a lot of people doing 'bad' things are broken in some way, had difficult/abusive childhoods etc etc. Not minimizing that at all, and it's something we have to work on as a society.

But what we're each saying isn't mutually exclusive - a person's background is obviously relevant to why they ended up in court. But the point is - they still did something horrible. I saw on multiple occasions, people not going to jail for awful crimes because their lawyer told Court what a difficult upbringing they had - and then that person going on to do something horrible to vulnerable people. Actually meeting a few of those victims and talking about their confusion/amazement that the perp was allowed to come back and beat/rape them really changed my worldview on all this.

I'm politically on the 'left' but I think you're dead wrong about this.

In a previous career I spent LOTS of time talking to criminals of all stripes, from shoplifters to serial killers. I went into that job thinking more or less the same as your above post; I came out of it many years later thinking the exact opposite. There's definitely inequality in terms of who gets sent to jail, but what I learned (n=1, this is just my opinion) is that we need prisons, and prisons don't have to be about education, reform, whatever - they can just be about punishment and that's fine.

it's starting to feel like it for me. I was joking to someone the other day that my work now consists of running 3 claude code terminals and me pressing '1' every 5 minutes.

I guess the world seems like quite a scary place from your mom's basement.

Meanwhile in the real world, exactly like GP says immigrants have made a meaningful impact on US birth rates.

Something I've noticed is - being forced to use Azure and O365 at work - the experience in firefox is horrendous. Laggy, sign-in looping, it's just awful. Even in azure - activate subscription, and usually even 10 minutes later I still have no access to resources. If I do the same thing in chromium it usually happens right away. Maybe just optimised for chromium browsers (?), and maybe it doesn't like my extensions, but it's a massive difference - anyone else see this?

some countries have figured out that having families is not purely about income but somewhat correlated with other complicated stuff like: paid leave, affordable childcare, safe spaces and parks etc. I'm sure the US will catch up some day.

I much prefer charging for access to having corporate fifth column interlopers steer linux away from all its core values, but it is very much the lesser of two evils.

genuine question - why was this code pushed now? I don't know who this idiot dev is but I'm struggling to imagine how this is issue is anywhere near the top 10 things they should be working on.

So then, who is setting the roadmap for systemd and the issues that are prioritised? There's no way this just came from the community - it smells very much like MS or even Valve have been advocating for it.

weird take

wow really? you must look so intimidating in your leotard. Bet that driver is petrified until the signal changes then their truck, about 2ton heavier than you, can push you off the road with almost zero effort. Cool!

I'm a cyclist and morons like you are why drivers hate cyclists.

+1, and lots of 'mainstream' apps also have fdroid versions which I always go to first, including:

• nextcloud
• aegis (MFA)
• Dsub2000 (play media from my NAS on android auto)
• jellyfin
• k-9 mail
• kore (kodi remote)
• OLauncher
• tailscale