Jonathan

I hope every subsequent rally has even more people!

I had forgotten about doing that myself. I did that on a couple servers once the distros had full 64 bit builds. Does that technically count as an architecture swap in-place as well?

“Medium: Same as easy but go from the derivative to the base.”

I can’t quite recall, but I think I did exactly that with Ubuntu -> Debian once upon a time. I think Ubuntu was only a year or so old though, so there wasn’t a huge amount of divergence back then. As a bonus anecdote I also attempted a semi-successful build of Gentoo on a PPC Mac around the same time (nothing before or after that has compared in its level of nightmare).

I wonder if anyone (not in the government) was able to get a copy of this database before it vanished? In the same vein, I wonder if there are other databases that need to be copied before they’re gone?

Sadly I have to agree with you again.

Yeah, you’re likely right. I wonder if ICE officers were apart of this law enforcement accountability database that was erased today?

Well that’s just awesome, another reason for cops to “protect and serve”.

Maybe some folks will get some more money out of the inevitable lawsuits that will occur sometime in the next decade.

But that’s true of any network connected messaging protocol, making sure a message is delivered could be implemented client side. The issue with AP objects not making it to other clients / servers is more about federation discovery.

I definitely look forward to a future where I might not have to consume NSAIDS like candy anymore, because those are definitely doing some real damage.

It is very interesting and amazing stuff, no doubt about that. The future of medicine is only going to get more amazing, but I suppose I just really have very little confidence in that space because of a lack of understanding in oddball humans like myself who have somewhat bizarre physiology. For the vast majority of people, I think having a pain medication that doesn’t also slowly kill you is obviously a net positive.

I know how that is! Seems like I’m constantly wondering if I just made this or that up. 🤷🏻‍♂️

The developer of Pixelfed - an Instagram-alike (and now Loops.video - a TikTok like platform) announced that he is working on an ActivityPub messaging service called “Sup.” There’s nothing else really known about it except that he’s developing it. AP would actually work fairly well as a messaging protocol aside from the lack of end-to-end encryption, but that too is being worked on.

I have chronic pain and I’m all for innovation in the realm of pain management, but I personally won’t even think about taking that drug for many, many years. Fucking with sodium channels sounds super dangerous. There are so many variables they just could not have tested or even guessed at. It also doesn’t help that if there’s an adverse reaction to be had, I’m gonna have it.

I’ve been wondering that as well and I had a kind of scary thought; maybe there is no opposition party this time around because what’s happening is exactly what all parties involved want to be happening. I’m just so baffled by the state of politics in the US that I can’t help but to feel like we’re witnessing some kind of sea change in the fundamental structure of the government. Unfortunately it is not a progressive or thoughtful change in ideology.

Damn, I didn’t think of it quite like that, but yup, that’s exactly the result.

That is obviously good for people who’ve amassed a lot of medical debt in the US. Anecdotally, most of the people I call friends have at least a few thousand dollars worth of medical debt and the idea of trying to build credit or get loans is alien to them because of it.

No longer pissed and you don’t bother me…

Indeed. I’ve had a few decent experiences with the justice system here, but far more were horrible if not straight up tragic.

The particular small town I live in has about five “main” families that pretty much own everything and everywhere. They’re also the ones who hold all the local government positions. If I would’ve known all this before moving here, I would not have. At least now I know to research things like that before choosing a place to live in the future. Nepotism is not only common here, it’s a way of life.

And yes, it’s in the US.

I had a drunk driver crash into my car parked in front of my house at 3:15 in the afternoon and completely totaled the car. He sped away as I watched and so I called the police. They did catch up with him, but ultimately when it went to court the district attorney dropped the ball on some document details and the fuckhead basically got out of any sort of restitution. He did have his license revoked and probation, but my family no longer had a car and it seriously fucked us for well over a year.

I live in a small town and a couple years later I found out that the guy is not only related to the local judge, but also the district attorney.