it was an F-16A, too. even the most updated F-16A Block 15 aircraft are still just… from another era of aircraft entirely. the f-16 may now be demonstrating itself to be the plateau of combat aircraft as it outcompetes more up to date jets and drone combat changes what aerial combat even is. the F-22 and F-35 are more advanced, to be sure, but i’m more and more questioning if that means anything, or more, if that’s not actually a major design flaw in more modern craft

is this how contacts get sucked in according to our former national security director?

that’s more people than live in my community growing up. that’s more people than went to most people’s highschools. that’s more people than who most people are able to remember names for.

it’s a mind boggling number of people that russia sent to die exclusively for the purposes of hating Ukrainians

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUxkFCBPgx4

i took a month long hiatus and am probably gonna continue that pattern. the threadiverse has gone completely insane the last couple months and i worry about the people for whom this is their sole gateway into the fediverse, and what they think the consensus on what reality is. i’m mostly on mastodon at this point and have been just… talking to my neighbors more

or with letting single billionaire control this much infrastructure

i did some looking and basically, the NGOs that monitor/soft-enforce the Geneva convention are giving Ukraine a pass on video usages like this since Russia

1. refuses to acknowledge or frame this as a war
2. is mistreating their POWs much worse
3. is committing even worse atrocities

so… yeah it’s not strictly speaking good that Ukraine released this footage, but it’s kind of being internationally recognized as necessary given the circumstances. those NGOs have set the standard that the subjects of videos like this must not suffer excessive or unnecessary indignity

The ad company blocking an ad blocker is totally about security

- Google stans

Yeah please stop trying to act like multitasking on a small screen is something anyone wants. There’s enough bugs out there for app switching to fix that you coulda focused on that instead of adding another half assed product on top of your current half assed product

Duuuude American mega-churches are PURELY profit oriented

I read it as a law that the bootloader has to be unlockable so that the phone can be serviced by the end user past the manufacturers end of support

Conspiracy theory: got paid to write a smear piece about a piece of technology the spies of capitalism doesn’t like

Um… What fucking paradox? Authy is a know security vulnerability. If you’re installing GrapheneOS before switching away from Authy, you’re putting the condom on after getting fucked

I mean… Not YouTube specifically but YouTube is representative of why us programmers are unhappy. The era of feeling like the tech industry and the internet are making the world better is over. All of them media platforms exist to co-opt our social interactions and replace them with ads for microwavable meals. They’re spying on us, and for what? They control major elements of how we live out lives, and WHAT THE FUCK DO THEY EVEN GAIN? A lot of them are going bankrupt because it wasn’t profitable. Their ads are less effective than the oldest forms of advertising. Ultimately, these platforms were about control, not about… Any other stated goal. And us programmer? We got tricked into thinking we were developing platforms to connect people and create a global culture of interconnectedness. Turns out we were building the infrastructure to implement genocide

I’m opinionated, too, and I’m of the opinion that GNOME’s opinions get in the way of me getting work done lol

Bruhhh, fuck off. At this point the only thing an android phone would be good for is installing another, more privacy oriented, ROM

Linux Mint is one of the lowest effort (from a user perspective) options out there

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:

Ancient

• CDE
• ROX
• Enlightenment
• GNUstep

Real Old, Not Technically Abandonware, But Let’s Be Real Here

• Sugar

Long in the Tooth, But Still Developed

• XFCE
• LXDE
• MATE (My beloved)

Almost Modern, But Basically Abandonware

• Unity
• Pantheon

Modern

• KDE
• Cinnamon

Hypermodern

These follow development patterns that lead me to consider them bullshit

• GNOME (Stop breaking APIs, you jackasses!)

Why?

(Probably to be condemned in the future to "Almost Modern, Basically Abandomware, but I may be wrong, what do I know?)

• Deepin

I mean… I like it. Eye candy is in the eyes of the beholder. Just out of curiosity what’s your pick for most attractive distro?