https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meme_Machine

Considering you started with an “actually” post gatekeeping memes, funny comment.

Meme is superset of your “internet meme”. Meme is any idea which successfully replicated itself to another mind. If you posted it on the internet it probably succeeded.

Virtualize fun things for projects

It reminds me of the difficulty of making things bear-proof without excluding some humans

You’re right and it’s a pragmatic approach to the problem. They only need broad technical effectiveness to change user behaviour.

I’d argue that it’s not strictly cost cutting but cost transferring. The total client resources most likely exceed that which would be needed on servers.

I wish reporting would challenge the lords and peasants assertion. Workplaces with collective agreements don’t require union membership, but all workers benefit from the collectively bargained terms of employment.

If your security relies on software in the control of the end user you have a problem.

Probably. It’s in f-droid but increasingly looking not quite unmaintained, but not developed actively enough.

I had to create one this year after discovering that connectbot (ssh client on Android) didn’t support agent forwarding otherwise.

Headless + ssh

cat /dev/zero > /dev/kmem ?

!sudo poweroff

End of universe, 2038.

I’ve been using Linux since 1996 and remember when time_t was less than a billion. I guess I’ve found a new way to date myself. Slightly interestingly I thought, 1 billion was a couple of days before 9/11 which some have said defines the modern era or epoch.

Oatmeal omelette

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Thanks. Sorry for paywall, the article was readable linked from a search as is often the way. Archive.today will open it.

The economic codependency is surprising to some but logical I suppose.

https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/03/30/why-russian-oil-and-gas-is-still-flowing-through-ukraine

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Ukraine

It took me less than a minute. I don’t know about Ukraine’s happiness, I suppose someone else could look that up.

They should pay me for testing their beta software

I would send “Stand on Zanzibar” which was published before I was born and still predicted much of the past few decades