JohnTHaller

The 'know how to code' part is a difference between classic Drupal and modern Drupal.

Drupal 7 was useful enough on its own and with regularly supported modules that most folks who used it never wrote code. Most smaller folks who used it just dropped the files on a shared web host via FTP or similar and ran with it.

Modern Drupal is more geared towards coders rather than smaller folks. And the modules suffer from slower updates with the smaller community around Drupal than there used to be. So you'll likely have to use your own custom coded modules or have to code the updates for the existing ones when you upgrade Drupal over time.

I'm aware that the modern Drupal supports in-place upgrades for the most part, though white screen of death reports are still pretty common. My point was that there was a split from classic Drupal to modern 'you have to use the command line and should know how to code' Drupal in terms of upgrades from the 7 to 8 split-off.

From all my reading in the Drupal subreddit, modern Drupal isn't especially useful for real world scenarios without a bunch of contributed modules and stuff... hence Drupal CMS. Additionally, folks were recommending not using Drupal 11 until it had been out for well more than a year due to the sad state of contributed module upgrades. I'd wager this is due to the much smaller Drupal community than the version 7 highs.

> Drupal CMS is working to solve some of this

We've been hearing this for years. On the Drupal site, it says it's a trial and makes you register to download it. Last time I downloaded the Windows package, it gave a Drupal white screen of death. I'm not planning on registering again to try it again. Nor do I want to use AI to install and manage my CMS.

Drupal is now a very different animal than it was in the Drupal 7 heyday. It's confusing for folks used to WordPress and similar as you're not gonna be uploading it to a regular old shared hosting provider. There's no way you're using modern Drupal without SSH access and using command line to install and update. And thoroughly learning how the Drupal bits all work together.

Drupal CMS is what a lot of people suggest for new folks, but it isn't explained what it is on the Drupal website. It's apparently a set of pre-configured extensions, templates, AI, and settings. Drupal has a version on their site to download but it says it's a "trial" and requires registration to get it, further increasing friction: https://new.drupal.org/drupal-cms/trial#:~:text=start%20your...

Once you do get it, it may or may not work. When I last tried the Windows version, it didn't work and just gave the old Drupal white screen of death in the browser.

When I've seen discussions in the Drupal sub-reddit, most of the recommendations on how to do something seem to be some version of 'have Claude do it for you'. And the Drupal homepage is very AI forward and mentions AI 9 times.

Drupal's largest install base was back in the Drupal 7 days, which was the last major version that supported upgrading in place from the previous versions. Major compatibility changes started with 8 and continued. About 1/2 the sites that used to run Drupal 7 migrated to WordPress rather than upgrade. Today, there are about the same number of sites running Drupal 7 as the current Drupal 11, which speaks volumes.

As someone that still uses a paid, extended-support version of Drupal 7 and is likely switching my big legacy site to Backdrop CMS (actively maintained Drupal 7 fork) and my other two sites to another CMS, it doesn't seem like there's a place for folks like me in the current world of Drupal.

I stopped using Twitter after they made it so the only way to avoid all of that was to individually block every single account. I spent a couple weeks clicking that I wasn't interested before it was obvious that you'd see Musk's rantings until you blocked him.

"I wrote the prompt for Claude to generate this"

You didn't create it. Claude generated it based on ingesting source code of various licenses without adhering to said licenses.

iOS does not allow third party browser engines. Every browser you download from the iOS App Store is using 'Safari Lite' under the hood. It's ostensibly for security, but it's more about control.

The Tor statement doesn't mention the actual donation or party. Daniel Berntsson the co-owner of Mullvad, donated approximately US$500,000 to the far-right Örebro Party in Sweden. It's an ethno-nationalist party that is pushing for "remigration". From Wikipedia: "Remigration is a far-right concept referring to the ethnic cleansing via mass deportation of non-white minority populations, especially immigrants and sometimes including native-born citizens, to their place of racial ancestry."

The folks acting like this on Twitter are likely Omarchy man-o-sphere folks

Kidney transplantation is major surgery with decent risks. Donation carries a certain level of risk as well but less than being a recipient. When I donated, the chance of dying was about 1 in 4,000.

Since I donated, my remaining kidney has grown larger and taken over a chunk of the function of my missing kidney. If possible, getting it back would only give me a relatively small benefit compared to the risk of the surgery. First, I'd have a spare again for major injuries meaning I'd be 'allowed' to do things like contact sports and such. It's recommended you don't do things that could result in an impact to your kidney when you don't have a spare. I did violate this once by going skydiving, though.

Second, I'd be able to take anti-inflammatory meds without restrictions. That is an annoying one as when I injured my rotator cuff years ago, the normal recommendation was a month of high-dose anti-inflammatory meds. Since I couldn't do that, I had to do physical therapy and injected steroids which was much more involved and more expensive.

Note that a transplanted kidney can be re-transplanted depending on the health of the recipient when they die. It's not as common but it has been more in recent years. It's often referred to as "regifting".

I donated a kidney to my Dad in 2000. It gave him an extra 23 years with us. He was on very low doses of his anti-rejection meds, partially due to us being a 4 out of 6 HLA type match, so the doctors were hopeful it would last him the rest of his life. It would have lasted far longer if ALS hadn't shown up.

For context: iOS devices typically receive about 6.5 years of updates. macOS devices typically receive 6 to 8 years of updates.

Copilot+ 365 XL Max Media Center Edition, of course

The fact that you and the industry try to call it "gaming" is still such a scummy thing. It's gambling. Call it what it is.

For the unfamiliar on the background, DigitalOcean pledged $3 million to the Omacom Foundation aka the Omarchy Linux distribution. It's an AI-built distro led by David Heinemeier Hansson aka DHH. The idea being that AI can build it and run it and create all the apps it is missing like Photoshop. And that things like codes of conduct are to be shunned. Toxic behavior is welcomed as long as your code is good. It's been derisively referred to as "DOGE Linux".

Much of its popularity is apparently via certain YouTube influencers in sponsored videos that often hide their sponsorship or affiliation with Omarchy. It's gained quite a following in the "man-o-sphere".

Omarchy was formed as a culture war weapon/counterpoint against other Linux distros with codes of conduct. DHH believes such codes are used by clowns and that prohibiting racism, sexism, homophobia, etc is stupid.

DHH has some interesting views on "gypsies": https://world.hey.com/dhh/wolves-sheep-and-gypsies-ba44af6a

And "retarded" immigration policies: https://world.hey.com/dhh/three-sacred-cows-that-must-die-so...

From a technical perspective, it's been referred to as an opinionated theming layer on top of Arch Linux or a vibe coded dotfiles project as it is mostly Arch Linux with AI code atop.

From a financial perspective, DigitalOcean recently pulled funding for multiple open source projects like GNOME before this $3 million investment in Omarchy.

It's relevant to know when the source of information is biased due to a conflict of interest. The source's business is apparently scraping Google (and Bing, etc).

Note: Article published by Autom.dev which, from a quick read of their homepage, seems like it scrapes Google search results in violation of Google's terms of service and sells those results to customers via an API. That's just my quick read of it, though, so this could be wrong.

There is indeed a crease: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1wbx1wo/there_is_a_cr...

I use this for everything except where I write the month out or use an abbreviation. Much easier.

It has no AI built in, which is a feature to a growing set of users. No AI buttons all over the place and sending your personal data off to who knows where. And if you want AI, you can add your choice of AI via plugins if you want AI in your word processor.

We knew they were reporting back our watching habits of the built-in stuff. Then we learned they were doing video capture on HDMI ports to report back on what we watched on external sources (Xbox, Apple TV, etc). Then we learned that they did botnet-like stuff in the background even when they were switched off.

NOW we're learning that they're spying with their internal microphone when switched off.

Essentially: US Dept of War refuses to pay out war benefits to US soldiers killed in the Iran war because it isn't a war.

You said:

> Why didn’t the other parties do anything or immediately declare war on Russia besides just the United States?

I pointed out the fallacy of your statement. The US didn't declare war on Russia. And the fact that the EU isn't a party to the Budapest Memorandum, so they're not supposed to be defending Ukraine from Russia.

Now, you're saying that the we should ignore the Budapest Memorandum and negotiate in good faith with a tyrant like Putin that never negotiates in good faith. And violates agreements without thinking twice. And that somehow sending a fraudulent "negotiator" like Kushner is somehow a good thing and the US acting in good faith.

Also:

> I can't say anything other than what is officially reported. Everything else is a conspiracy theory.

The actual reporting by multiple news organizations contains far more factual details than anything 'officially' released by a convicted fraud and adjudicated rapist. Or his sycophants.

Can you honestly say with a straight face that you believe Jared Kushner is in Moscow negotiating in good faith with Putin with respect to Ukraine? Especially given his lack of experience and multiple corruption accusations and investigations. And that Trump has illegally withheld Ukrainian assistance in the past and stopped it in the future.

Given that Trump's "peace plan" is essentially for Ukraine to give up even more territory and partially disarm - decreasing the size of their military and giving up long-range weapons... and there's no such provisions for Russia to do anything of the sort. The plan all but sets up Russia's next invasion of a weakened Ukraine.

The US didn't declare war on Russia. The EU isn't a party to the Budapest Memorandum. Ukraine, US, UK, and Russia are with China and France giving separate assurances.

This is Russia's second violation of the Budapest Memorandum. We know Putin will simply ignore another treaty when he feels like. We also know the US under the current administration is "negotiating" in bad faith (via the president's son-in-law) and will do even less when the next treaty violation occurs.

Russia's word has been ironclad each time it's been given to Ukraine previously. It surely would be the same this time.

Reminds me of all the smaller/local newspapers and stations in the US that geo-block the EU from their content because complying with the GDPR - and paying the appropriate folks to ensure you are in compliance - simply made no business sense.

Hopefully they aren't forcing the military to install Trump's spyware White House app

There's nobody left at the DoJ in a high enough position to do anything like this. I'm not a gambler myself, but if I were, I certainly wouldn't used something that seems made for insider traders and suckers.

macOS slowly ramping up the friction to run unsigned/unapproved apps over the years