Gordon Messmer

Has an awful habit of taking things too seriously.

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@dieworkwear When the inexperienced observe that answers come easily to an expert, many of them simply conclude that the answers are easy.

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@mhdksafa Chocolate, wine, and coffee are all endangered by climate change, and I have no idea why that isn't the core and central message in advocacy.

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The crazy thing is that Trump had the Epstein files sealed up tight with no leaks. Why didn't he have those people handle the Reflecting Pool?

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@JamesThrot When COVID began circulating in the human population, "normal" fundamentally changed.

As more carbon enters the atmosphere, the climate's "normal" continues to change.

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@JamesThrot I think what they have in common is the perception of "normal". Many people seem to understand the world as some kind of baseline to which everything will return after some event. I think they are unable to understand that "normal" changes over time.

[Negan @Roger_Negan]

This

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@peterdaou Hasn't @ggreenwald been asking that exact question for like 25 years?

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Capitalism is not a system in which you can buy what you choose, that's commerce.

Capitalism is a system in which investors buy a percentage of your earnings, from your employer.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries
https://t.co/8kY171r5w1

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@kenklippenstein The alternate point of view is that it's not idiotic, it's manipulative. Platner is popular among women voters, so the message that has to be pushed is that his campaign is problematic for women. If they successfully break his support in that group, their candidate might win.

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@JamesTate121 Is she reading a script written by ChatGPT? Just a few words in, I could predict everything that came after.

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@kenklippenstein Host: "Some people claim that you have had sex. Will you still be able to credibly condemn rape?"

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@sjvn @TheRegister It's actually hard to imagine continuing that process without major changes.

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@sjvn @TheRegister It's a little weird to suggest that CentOS release latency improved, making the Stream change unexpected, when the opposite is true.

Release latency was getting worse. Users of the GA users were running unpatched systems for 2-3 months out of the year.

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Free LTS systems optimize for cost and stability, but security coverage isn't great as a result. Upstreams stop producing patches long before the distribution ends the release, and free distributions aren't staffed to produce their own security patches for everything they ship.

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In software development, cost tends to be a function of how long the software is maintained and how complete security patching is.

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Fedora, on the other hand, optimizes for cost and security coverage. The trade off is long-term stability. A release can only reasonably last as long as upstream project releases typically do.