After I'm done writing about the HP c8000, anyone interested in a similar UNIX workstation writeup about my dual POWER9 machine? I've been itching to set it up as a FreeBSD machine for that real UNIX workstation feel. And no, x86 workstations are not UNIX workstations. They just aren't. I don't make the rules.
I love it when right-wing extremists claim the EU is trash compared to the US. Here's some numbers. - Homicide rate in US is 5 times as high as in the EU. - Traffic death rate in the US is 30 times as high as in the EU. - Poverty rates are higher in the US than in the EU. - Life expectancy in the US is several years shorter than in the EU. - Medical bankruptcy is effectively a US-only phenomenon, and extremely common there. - Health outcomes in the US are trash compared to the EU. - Number of overdose deaths in the US is substantially higher than in the EU. - Americans are far less happy than Europeans. And this is just a small selection. The US is a third-world country with a small number of ultra-wealthy individuals tricking dumb fucks that they're better off than the rest of the world.
Bureau of Justice Statistics
International Crime Rates
This study compares the 1980-84 U.S. crime rates for homicide, rape, robbery, theft, and auto theft with those of a number of other countries.
 https://www.wardsauto.com/news/what-europe-can-teach-america-on-road-safety-killing-by-design-part-1/798798/
Confronting Poverty
America's Poor Are Worse Off Than Elsewhere - Confronting Poverty
It is certainly true that if we compare the U.S. to countries in sub-Saharan Africa, physical poverty in the U.S. is obviously less extreme. The Un...
Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
How does U.S. life expectancy compare to other countries? - Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
The U.S. has the lowest life expectancy among comparable countries, but spends nearly twice as much as them on healthcare per person, on average.
Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
How does the quality of the U.S. health system compare to other countries? - Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
Across a wide variety of measures of quality, the U.S. health system appears to perform worse than peer nations on more indicators than it does bet...
U.S. Overdose Deaths Remain Higher Than in Other Countries — Trend-Tracking and Harm-Reduction Policies Could Help
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Finland picked as happiest country in the world, US not in the top 10
Ban Twitter. It's a fascist and nazi propaganda network that has no place in a democratic society.
European Commission on Mastodon
European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)
Attached: 1 video Today, we fined X for non-compliance with transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA). We're holding X accou...
This is now like the 6th machine I tried that just refuses to boot the OpenIndiana live USB into its graphical environment. Always the same error: graphical-login/lightdm fails. Intel, NVIDIA, AMD - it doesn't matter. The log always shows the same thing: failed to get list of logind seats, followed by something about the name org.freedesktop.login1 not being provided by any service files. Wtf is this? image
Wait @npub1e0x2...xqda, I thought Apple's shit software was Ive's fault? I was told once he left everything would get perfect again, but under the next guy Apple's shit software somehow got even worse? Now that he's gone, I wonder who the Apple people will toss in the wood chipper next once Apple's software inevitably remains shit. 🤷‍♀️
Being told that prominent Linux YouTubers are still frequenting Twitter, the infamous nazi bar, is not surprising. What *does* surprise me is seeing major open source projects who claim to be normal still working with these people. ¯⁠\⁠(⁠◉⁠‿⁠◉⁠)⁠/⁠¯
Well it's officially 1 December here so I guess I'm 41 now. :flan_hacker: 🎉
If I was stupid rich I wouldn't try to exploit and fuck the world. I'd just do stupid shit like buy HP-UX and PA-RISC from HPE and build new workstations and laptops. I'd hire an army of developers to modernise everything. I'd waste my fortune so quickly, but at least we'd have some cool hardware to remember the good times by. ¯⁠\⁠(⁠◉⁠‿⁠◉⁠)⁠/⁠¯
HPE sales replied, and pointed me to the tight department. I *will* get those patches.
The Linux world should do this more. Fucking rainbow that shit up. Default KDE colour scheme? Trans flag colours. Default GNOME wallpaper? Pride parade. Force the unsavoury individuals in the Linux world to get mad at it every time. Smoke them out. Make them out themselves for the hateful bigots that they are.
TransFem Space
Kiran 🏳️‍⚧️ (@kirancodes)
Installing Linux software is about to get a lot more... GAY. (📎1)