the aggrieved attitude of “but i am a socialist” is really adorable.

some twenty four years ago i managed, amongst others, a company's samba and print server (that was at the time when all the company's servers were beige boxes with less memory and disk than the laptop i'm using to type this – and still they served a few hundred employees).

the machine developed a strange custom of hard-resetting itself, which we initially tracked to specific files being sent for printing; the behaviour was fully reproducible.

as it happened, it was a hardware fault somewhere between the mainboard and the integrated SCSI card; installing a separate SCSI card and reconnecting the disks and backup tape device fixed the problem. (i did not have the budget for a new serwer, no.)

establishing the actual cause took me fucking weeks.

it's good the rats can't help themselves but to brag about what they're doing – in at least three different public places.

jfc. i remembered that the aurini motherfucker was very liberal with hard-r, but listening to that clip in 2024 is something else altogether.

he's the very model of a modern crypto-douchebag.

this is such a sad slop. i wouldn't guess it's yegge, it's so far from his style when he used to write himself.

The imminent arrival of their fourth child, a girl they plan to name Industry Americus Collins

ah well, at least when they transition they won't need to change the masculine-gendered second name.

those are extraordinary claims and i'm sure you can give pointers to peer-reviewed materials that back them up.

when you will be doing that, please consider which parts of earth you feel are overpopulated, what quantum of global resources are they getting and what should be done with it; please convey the results of your considerations back to us.

never been to the usenet, i see.

tbh the enforced civility and de facto ban on social issue discussion on lobste is not helping. (but after last “polite discussion” i had with the moderator i'm not going to bring it up anymore, just suspend the account or wait to be banned.)

how come the reply humans from programming dot dev have always the daftest takes?

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