You have failed to solve the trolley problem.

They’re not our representatives. They never were. They’re the representatives of the ruling class.

Each election there is a set of choices on the table, usually only bad ones. But one of them always included extra suffering for minorities. It’s your duty in good solidarity with the minorities to vote against that.

If you want better choices you need to fight for a new table. That gets done every other day that isn’t election day. 99% of your time spent on getting a new table, like the French. 1% of your time protecting the vulnerable through harm reduction.

List of FOSDEM devrooms now up, including illumos (in partnership with the usual friends)

https://fosdem.org/2027/news/accepted-developer-rooms/

I know you guys won’t, because your job is to convince as many people as possible not to vote after all, but god do I yearn for the day when the Democrats start to appeal to non-voters by other means than “at least we’re not as bad as the other guy”. If you think that this is an effective strategy, you might just be able to wrestle defeat from the jaws of victory. Just keep letting marginalized folk know that they shouldn’t count on their lives improving, because you’re commited to doing just slightly better than the opposition. Don’t campaign on promises of anything materially better, only on being paid off by the same interests groups as the “other side”, except for the fact you’re going to keep doing those things they paid you for - but politely. And if you think that the existence of my argument against your strategy on the internet is going to ruin your chances for it working at all, and you’re going to blame those arguing against it for your loss while you’re blasting the same old points of “we rape and murder arguably less”, then BOY can I figure out the results it’s going to bring.

Anyone who was going to vote for the lesser evil is going to do that anyway. Anyone who’s on the fence will most likely decide to sit this one out (again). Claiming it’s someones moral obligation to vote for terrible (but slightly less) people is going to depress votes, exactly as it did with Harris. Change your strategy or lose.

Just fucking… talk about the affordibility crisis and your plans to end it. About universal healthcare. About how Israel is a bunch on genocidal bastards. Just anything other than this proven, time and again, losing strategy. You have a field full of targets and a loaded gun. Only way you can miss is if you point it at your head. Or go further right to win MAGA voters, I guess…

Thank you for your service, I guess

#USPol

@joepie91 nothing makes your website more secure than never finishing it enough to even take it online!

RE: https://amicale.net/@nextinpact/117483957355398664

Sans se demander *pourquoi* les projets tournent toujours avec COBOL...
Pas pour le plaisir, mais pour la fiabilité, surtout pour des transactions bancaires.

@davidgerard

“Bet you three swords against a chipped stone that Lindon didn’t hold back because Red Faith was here. If anybody snaps and takes the heads of everybody onboard, it won’t be him.” Yerin gave Kahn Mala a reassuring clap on the shoulder, next to her Blood Shadow. “It’ll be me.”
“Oh,” the Archlady said. “Good.”

Will Wight, Dreadgod

co-locating cybersecurity awareness month and ADHD awareness month in october is a cruel joke

After dinner with my wife to her study and there read some more arithmetique, which she takes with great ease and pleasure.

@mrsbeanbag @halcy someone used botted accounts to mass report your message

@arstechnica

#alttext

An aerial view of a controlled permit burn in The Pilbara, located in Western Australia, with a clear line of flames dividing the scorched dark earth from unburned brush.
Credit: Abstract Aerial Art

Uh oh. Kimco recycling is on fire
#ygk

Thank you for falling for the propaganda and blaming people who didn’t want to support genocide rather than placing the blame at those in power who refused to take the most basic moral stance we can demand of our politicians.

One side is circling their wagons around a child fucking pedophile rapist.

The other side isn’t.

Don’t forget gutting USAID and research funding, including children’s cancer research, so they can instead pay for the hired thugs in ICE. Legitimately one of the most shameful things the US has ever done in terms of deaths caused, in the short and long term.

One side started war with iran while other side didn’t

One side destroyed relationship with strongest allies for nothing while other side didn’t.

One side went to war with people on the streets with ICE and lowered recruitment requirements while other side didn’t.

One side gave us Pete Hegseth while otherside didn’t.

One side started tariff war for nothing while other side didn’t.

Both sides same though I guess?

@stephaniewalter

I wouldn't call that redundant.

Some people are able to remember what an icon stands for.

Others of us need the term, and either can't see, or can't retain what the picture is intended to convey.

With the millions of icons used on the internet, that is no surprise.

It's accessibility.

I am always complaining that I have no idea what the icons in the menu bars are supposed to do without their visual label.

I'd rather have a label than a picture. Except the picture is big enough to click on.

@fj Chosen by fair dice roll. Guaranteed to be random.

Yeah but you can just blame all that suffering on the people trying to hold the whole thing together, because obviously if you just let the whole thing collapse then the suffering will end abruptly and a magical utopia can finally descend from the heavens! /s