This is definitely the way for configuration files that you shouldn’t change permissions or ownership on but only want to modify a few times.

However, I find chmod easier to use without reference by using the ugoa (+/-) rwxXst syntax rather than the numbers.

No it isn’t. You were trying to cast China in a harsher light for doing “for decades” most of the same things the US has been doing (also mostly for decades).

Everyone sucks in this situation.

No, the pot and kettle can both be black, that’s the entire point of the expression.

Our last standing differentiator was IP law, until we got weapons of mass IP destruction in the form of AI companies and LLMs.

From IP theft, to secret police stations in foreign countries, human rights abuses etc…

At this point you could literally be talking about the US with this sentence.

AKA all of your personal data, you know, just in case we need it

I agree that most of them are athletic, but they simply aren’t competing in an athletic competition.

I think your comparison to the Globetrotters is on point. In the ballet and other examples, the difference to me is that they’re not pretending to be in a ballet competition while dancing the ballet.

There’s no doubt that what most wrestlers do requires skill, talent, and athleticism but it’s “fake” in that what you’re watching isn’t an authentic athletic competition despite the people involved pretending that it is.

The outcome of the match is predetermined while the participants pretend that it isn’t. That is why there are constant arguments about whether or not it’s “fake”.

They didn’t “design a directory tree” either. They were designing screens for a thing that sits on top of a directory tree, and they didn’t understand the underlying concept.

It was likely because they’re used to the abstraction that iPhones and iPads provide, where the underlying directory structures are largely hidden from users.

They were designing functionality that contained directory trees and didn’t understand directory trees. How is it my responsibility that this person is not qualified to do their own job?

If I knew I was teaching remedial computers that day, I would’ve come with a lesson plan.

I’m going to stick with my initial conclusion that you love to blame the “teacher” even when they aren’t in any way a teacher.

Yeah, but you were still in a teaching position.

No, I was in a meeting with a supposedly technical person.

I’ve been in the industry for a while, and I’ve even mentored people. These gaps in basic computer knowledge are new and they’re also not my problem. I was not this person’s mentor nor supposed to be teaching them anything.

I’m not a teacher. I thought I was in a design meeting not teaching remedial computers to someone who is supposed to be producing designs.

Just going off of my life experience, I notice that people pretend up a set of credentials, have large gaps in knowledge, and won’t admit they don’t know things.

I tried to explain a directory tree to one of them (a supposedly technical resource) for twenty minutes and failed. They’re idiots. They were ruined by baby tech like iPhones, iPads, and now AI.

I’ve been on it for a few years now.

It’s different from Twitter and that’s fine. I have no real drive to join bluesky to see if it’s similar because Twitter felt deeply unhealthy anyway. Crack cocaine isn’t good for you.

Nobody needs to know about the existence of, for instance, “bean dad”.

As a user of both Mastodon and Lemmy, I think there are inherit differences between the formats that make Lemmy easily a capable replacement for Reddit, but Mastodon not at all a replacement for Twitter.

To get into specifics, Lemmy is more meme and news based, and as long as there are a few thousand users using it and some percentage of those posting content…it largely scratches the same itch.

Twitter was very much an active global conversation forum. It was nicknamed the hell site for a reason because if someone took issue with or was very amused by something you posted and you became “the main character” of Twitter for even an instant (something I experienced only very slightly) it was electrifying and even sort of scary at times.

In addition, the people that were active on there were very active, and it felt at times like you could talk to anyone who had been twitterized…which was a lot of people including prominent politicians, celebrities, and even experts of certain fields.

It was just an entirely different thing altogether. Mastodon is like many of the Twitter alternatives that have popped up from time to time. It’s largely kinda the same with regards to functionality (though not having quote tweets is completely ridiculous IMO) but the engagement of it is very low, and the place largely feels very inactive. It feels like you’re talking to dead feeds posted in syndication and there’s nobody on the other end (and in many cases I don’t doubt that is literally the case).

It’s not the same as Twitter, and I doubt that Bluesky will even be the same as Twitter. Honestly, maybe all of that’s a good thing. But the virality and the engagement and the discovery and everything on Mastodon is way turned down versus Twitter. Twitter was like the crack cocaine of social media…fast, cheap, addictive, and terrible for you. Mastodon is like a cup of tea by comparison.

Lol what efforts?

Yep, collectivism for fascists, rugged individualism for those who seek to root them out.

Pairs nicely with all of the following American sentiments:

• fuck you, I’ve got mine

• pull the ladder up behind yourself

• pull yourself up by your bootstraps

• socialize the losses, privatize the profits

• caveat emptor (let the buyer beware)

• communism for the rich, laissez-faire, starvation capitalism for the poor

• if you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?

and on and on

She is last seen surrounded by dementors

Hey, just like in real life.

I feel like I was in the minority that saw that for the first time in the movies and was like…dude how fucking outright antisemitic can you be in a children’s movie?