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No I interpret it as “manually edited”. Which it isn’t, check the sibling comments to yours

… they said confidentially but incorrectly.

Having a sharpening filter built into your scanner isn’t Photoshop, lol

Nuance? On my internet?

OK Google set a reminder 10 years from now to remind that gal/guy of ralph

I agree with you here. As soon as you change something, that should be respected but as long as you use the default theme/wallpaper/… that could just as well mean that you prefer tracking the default or don’t care at all.

Now bringing back the explicitly disabled search bar really is atrocious

I’m not the same person, I just saw someone responding to kindness with discouragement, and humanity really doesn’t need that right now.

WTF is wrong with you. A stranger pours out their heart for you and you just stomp on it? Have the decency to just shut up and ignore it instead of going out of your way to be an asshole.

So you’re agreeing. “one does not simply stop, because one needs to be really sure that they want to stop for some reason or another”. The desire to stop doesn’t come from nothing, yet it’s the vital ingredient for stopping successfully. Unless you have it, stopping is really hard.

The contents of your message aren’t a “no”, they’re a “yes, and”

For me it’s less often, but otherwise same.

Wow, what a completely unhinged reply to what was simply stating the obvious.

The person you replied to didn’t see the scenario you imagined in your head. They replied to the words you wrote.

Tastes amazingly complex. Can be overwhelming, but if you like things like wine, whiskey, cheese, and chutneys, you’ll love it.

It tastes like some kind cheesy fruity onion chutney. Sweet and rich.

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They are already. Antisemitic violence has been on the rise here since October 7. Antisemites see Israel do a thing and think “I know, let’s hurt some Jews”

That was my immediate reaction here: one of the reasons the xz backdoor was possible is that nobody is going to question the idea of shipping a tarball to spare users from having to touch Autotools.

Of course I wouldn’t think of manually hacking together Makefiles since I come from languages that have either the One True Build Tool or a standard for packaging and defining build backends.

I think the author’s aversion to build tools trying (and apparently failing) to make everyone’s life easier is more a statement about how much C/C++ have suffered from not having a standard for packages.

I’m from Munich and followed that very closely when it happened.

The reality isn’t lock-in. The reality is lobbyism. Ballmer literally interrupted his skiing holidays in the 2000s to offer the then mayor a better deal when that mayor started the Linux project. But Ude stood firm.

Then the next mayor came, and with him, a new opportunity. Microsoft was planning to build near Munich you see, and it would be a shame if that had to be cancelled. So they met the next mayor, Reiter, behind closed doors to talk about the building project, and a bit after that, the (by then already clearly successful) Limux project was undone.

Not cancelled, that would imply that they weren’t done switching everything yet. They were. They just did the whole migration in reverse because Microsoft wanted them to.

No, as said: I’m not talking about ideology.

Ideologically they might be principled. But practically they make it easier for Trump to win than if they’d recognize the real implications of the fucked up US voting system and vote for the lesser evil. And making it easier for a candidate to win is effectively support.

We’re speaking facts, not ideology. It’s effectively what you’re doing.

Horseshoe “theory” is bullshit.

It’s more like they are so single issue focused that they ignore how fucked up a Trump second term would be. Like completely ignoring reality in order to hope for a miraculous third party win or revolution happening this year.