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Re:The Quake Fan who built the map editor everybody uses on Saturday October 24, 2026 @07:03AM (#50220108)
Couldn't this be solved by "map compilation"? IIRC, Hammer etc. did something like that. Occluded faces were removed.
Re:Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France on Friday October 23, 2026 @06:05PM (#50216002)
No it's two separate calls. No equating at all.
Re:Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France on Friday October 23, 2026 @11:18AM (#50210515)
Or maybe it's easier, if you can convince the people over the border that the enemy is people living among them, and their government.
Re:Tesla Roadster on Saturday October 17, 2026 @08:02AM (#50130347)
Invite only, so just fireworks for gullible investors as usual.
Re:Tesla Roadster on Saturday October 17, 2026 @08:01AM (#50130337)
Stop anthropomorphizing billionaires.
Re:How the Military Will Hack the Election on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @03:57PM (#50094148)
> our elections are the most safe and secure in the history of the United States.

Still worse than most other democracies.

Re:Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @09:11AM (#50087218)
What are the odds of a black applicant for CEO?
Re:NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect on Sunday October 11, 2026 @03:15PM (#50046783)
When are NY and California going to secede and join the EU?
Re:Deno Is Joining Cloudflare on Friday October 09, 2026 @11:48AM (#50022250)
They basically gave up the day they decided to become npm compatible. That was the day Deno died.
Re:A third way of using Linux on Monday October 05, 2026 @07:35PM (#49972214)
Looking at tuios, using a mouse in a TUI completely defeats its purpose, for me personally.
Re:Make Tmux the OS on Saturday October 03, 2026 @08:37AM (#49943735)
Afyer years of using tiling WMs, Niri was such a huge improvement. You don't really have to think about anything anymore, it just clicks. You always know where windows are (lile with tiling), but you also don't have to worry how to place them.
Re:I Switched to Brave Browser on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:48PM (#49884133)
A Facebook product.
It's not necessarily a binary choice, is it? There's a spectrum between true democracy that isn't simply "rule of majority", and authoritarianism.

There is a weakness in democracies too, that if they are too tolerant and allow too much freedom, this can paradoxically undermine democracy itself and lead to a collapse.

So in general, western democracies tend to respect human rights, sacrificing the greater good, because this in itself is considered a greater good.

> Its a "nation first + everything for the nation" thinking.

If you think this means "our nation over other nations" then you misunderstood. It means "nation above all", e.g. "everything for the government, above citizens". That is, forget the individual, there is a greater good for which we must endure some hardship, trust me.

FYI, the promised land never materialized, historically.

Has there ever been a prosperous and successful fascist country?

No, they stagnate economically in corruption.

"ackchually, facism good" is what he intends.

It doesn't merit more response, you can just look at the reality of actual fascist states. Economic stagnation, the most extreme corruption and incompetence, and cruelty beyond imagination. True masterminds.

> Not everybody who is against communism is a "fascist"

The man that bought one of the most important social networks and has substantially changed its algorithm is nearly openly a nazi. It's not just the sieg hail the day of the presidential swear-in, it's everything he does to the world and the USA. And so do all the others.

> So you get the rude approach.

You're digging your own grave. Your president is handing over your empire piecewise to your adversaries for a fistful of gold. You must understand this: the only thing worse than communism, is fascism, because it's just corruption as a form of government.

> It is one of Russia, China, Cuba's and even Iran's way of attacking the US

It's the USA eating itself and trying to attack Europe, if anything. It's American fascist billionaires who own, buy, and steer these social networks.

Instagram is full of videos of guys harassing and antagonizing people in public as "pranks". And this is not some coincidence, since both products are from the same company, they basically unleashed this for engagement.
Re:Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @06:35PM (#49823544)
> I’d rather be in the hole financially

You don't have the slightest clue what it means to be poor and in a financial hole. Like, it's impossible to explain to you.

Re:Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @06:29PM (#49823475)
Slavery is obviously not an issue in a country like Spain, but any kind of mining operation here seems to be heavily opposed by the people that live around the potential sites, for environmental reasons.
Re:Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @03:27AM (#49812779)
> When it is the other way around (the government defines the will of people), it is called authoritarianism.

Not the definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism

You should really read those Wikipedia articles. Creating and explaining your own definitions and circular logic make you sound like a fool.

Right now, there are foreign actors helping right-extremist campaigns in Europe. Those parties' goal is ultimately converting to Authoritarianism. You can connect the dots yourself now.

Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @02:36PM (#49806068)
Are those powerful models in the room with us right now?
Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @02:34PM (#49806052)
I am responding negatively to parent, which claims they are self-pacing, when the simplest explanation is that they just have nothing substantial to show.
Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @12:53PM (#49804354)
"bad actors" boogeyman, and we should trust some tech weasel to do the right thing? Yea we've seen who they really are, once they get a sliver of power.
Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @12:50PM (#49804305)
Occam's razor: they couldn't make any more substantial improvements.
Re:Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @12:48PM (#49804261)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

> "the essential democratic freedom – freedom of expression – is both ingrained in and potentially harmful to democracy."

Re:I don't want to read what you didn't write on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @03:44AM (#49797859)
Wasn't this always the case - in enterprise software? At some point engineering pushback collapses, and the thing just gets rewritten.
Re:Spymarks, Not Watermarks on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @03:23AM (#49797703)
> Why give it a new name?

> > Because I always wanted to coin something. Please don't forget me.

Re:Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors on Monday September 21, 2026 @02:45PM (#49791554)
You misunderstood. I'm not arguing for authoritarianism.

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