Lol. It’s not the groundhog we should be watching, then?

They probably mean Open Container Initiative (OCI), the protocol shared by Podman and Docker.

Yeah. The idea of an automated C to Rust replacement of the Linux kernel is fascinating. As you say, there’s probably stuff in the Kernel that Rust’s compiler won’t allow.

I imagine it wouldn’t work at all, out of the box, but it might reduce the cost curve enough to make a dedicated team of very clever engineers able to cross the last mile, given time.

As cynical as I am of both Rust and AI generated code, it honestly feels like trying an automated conversion might be less of a long shot than expecting the existing Linux kernel developers to switch to Rust.

And I’m sure a few would kick in some thought cycles if a promising Kernel clone could be generated. These are certainly interesting times.

Lol. If Rust fans want a Rust kernel, no one is stopping them from building one.

I setup a mail forward, and check the ‘to’ address to all incoming messages for about a year.

Some other good answers already but here’s a sound byte version:

It’s currently expensive to borrow money, and then the borrowed money isn’t as useful as it used to be.

Yeah. The litigation risk is considered high right now, and no one wants to be first to try it.

Which I totally get. This place is largely run by volunteers, after all.

We saw similar hesitation in the early days of WordPress/Wikipedia/Drupal proliferation. Eventually those solutions greatly enabled sites like BlogSpot and Tumblr to become wild places, and niche sites to pop up for stuff that BlogSpot and Tumblr didn’t want to touch.

I can think of a few specific anti-spam and security tools that strongly enabled casual admins of WordPress to start sites.

I think we will see an erotic golden age once Fediverse moderation tools cross some unknown usability threshold.

Edit: I come across here as really excited about porn. Lol.

Art has a long history of being erotic, and beauty appreciation is one of the better things technology can do.

I am also really excited for the rest of the content that will thrive after demand for porn has pushed the technology to maturity.

I’m not sure what to do.

On Mastodon, I used the search function to shotgun random topics that interest me, and then followed all the hashtags on the posts that came up.

Over time, I started replacing following hashtags with following my favorite users who I discovered through those hashtags.

Then I started discovering and following their favorite users through their boosts.

Now that my feed is pretty much where I want it I tend to click “hide boosts” on anyone new that I follow, to prevent their every random amusement from cluttering my feed.

The end result is fantastic, but it took awhile to get there.

stopped talking to me once I said I didn’t have instagram, because it meant I was “hiding something”.

That’s awful.

Also, I guess they would think I’m hiding so much, considering the number of bloated awful services I’ve rejected.

and therefore is the one and only acceptable proprietary launcher.

Yep! But that’s only until they decide to enshitify, which they (Valve) will, because they (the humans making the correct choices today) will sell or retire.

You’re doing better than I am. I just bullshit them and say I’ll “probably check it out later.” By which I really mean whenever it gets reposted on a less shitty technology platform, in a few decades. But I don’t say that part.

Yeah! I think that’s going to sway in this place’s favor very soon.

I predict a glorious age of the very best curated pornography being here.

As other preferred platforms enshitify, I expect a lot of innovate erotic sensual and/or dirty artists (new and established) to have a dynamic, accessible, profitable experience here.

It’s probably going to be very horny, but also really beautiful in a lot of pro-social ways.

Makes sense. I only really replied there to help anyone reading along.

There’s many very basic features of vim that VsVim does not have (like… almost all command line commands), basic features which regular vim users use all the time.

! is supported:

https://github.com/VsVim/VsVim/blob/master/Documentation/Supported Features.md

It sounds like you haven’t tried VsVim in a long be time, or had an unusually bad experience with it.

(Edit: My responses to your other points were my old man energy, and not worth anyone’s time, so I removed them.)

It’s simply false to claim that vscode has more features than vim

Holy shit. I would never claim that. Lol.

Not sarcasm. I’m genuinely satisfied with VSCode’s Vim emulation, and you’re the first person I have heard say otherwise.

I just meant - that means you’re using features that most of us aren’t.

Fair point about evil mode for Emacs being better, but that requires using Emacs, which I have found un-usable, so far.

Also, the vim plugin for vscode is kind of a joke compared to what vim can do.

Dang. Hot take! I don’t think I’ve heard anyone else say that.

You clearly actually completed VimTutor.

I have several complaints about the VSVim plugin, but it’s easily the most feature complete Vim-like plugin I’ve ever encountered.

I’m trying to pay you a compliment, but I am doing it poorly.

As a legend among my Vim using peers, I can see how VSVim can be frustrating, to someone who truly leverages Vim.

Your annoyance with VSVim outs you as one of the true power users.

Interesting! I learned something here. Thank you.

Interesting bit from Wikipedia:

Had Metternich not stood in the way of “progress”, Austria might have reformed, dealt better with its problems of nationality, and the First World War might never have happened.[94] Instead, Metternich chose to fight an overwhelmingly fruitless war against the forces of liberalism and nationalism.[95] Heavy censorship was just one of a range of repressive instruments of state available to him that also included a large spy network.[72] Metternich opposed electoral reform, criticising Britain’s 1832 Reform Bill.[96] In short, he locked himself into an embittered battle against “the prevailing mood of his age”.[97]

Sounds familiar. He’s certainly not the last person to do so…

Lol. Thank you. Sometimes when rational thought and optimism are at ods, I choose optimism.

• The largest e-commerce platform in latin america and the most used in my country requires FR to use it.

I minimize my use of the largest eCommerce platform in my country. It’s a pain, but it can be done, and I feel good about my money going to organizations that better match my values.

• The bank is now pressing me to use their app with FR as a 2fa when using homebanking from its website, something that wasn’t necessary up to some weeks ago.

Sounds like a great opportunity to check into joining a credit union. All banks are predatory. There’s lots of other great reasons to minimize your exposure to banks.

• The telecoms demands FR from now on if you want a new SIM card in case you lost your phone or it’s been stolen.
• The government is in the same direction as it’s moving to digitalizing many burocratic procedures and also requires FR.

I imagine you may be stuck with these. Sometimes we can’t win them all.

I wouldn’t take that as a reason to give up. Having your face on file in fewer places is very lively to save you future headaches.

Ideally this will be less of a concern in the future, when the vast majority of organizations no longer have utter shit for Cybersecurity.

But that day is not today.