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New comment by diffrinse in "ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team"

diffrinse — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 20:46:38 +0000

We ask things like this because we fundamentally misunderstand the MAGA movement. The MAGA movement's fundamental claim is that America is under attack by an insurgent force. The Trump regime (read: Heritage Foundation) is a counter-insurgency operating under emergency conditions.

New comment by diffrinse in "Helium Browser"

diffrinse — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 20:40:36 +0000

That's because they had serious investors

New comment by diffrinse in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

diffrinse — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 07:24:46 +0000

>Perhaps if companies could not "just hire from overseas" or "just outsource" there would be a longer term growth strategy that would focus more on the education of the US population (not just training for this or that job).

Except the Heritage Foundation, er, I mean, Trump Administration controls all 3 branches of government and has all the freedom in the world to power a resuscitation of public education in America, except they're not interested in that at all; quite the opposite, they want to further fragment education baselines and make secondary education less desirable.

New comment by diffrinse in "Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised"

diffrinse — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:42:01 +0000

I had just seen some guy on TikTok pushing `mcp-knowledge-graph` the other day

New comment by diffrinse in "macOS Tahoe"

diffrinse — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:16:13 +0000

So the Gnome 3 gang were ahead of their time?

New comment by diffrinse in "Ripple – A TypeScript UI framework that takes the best of React, Solid, Svelte"

diffrinse — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:45:11 +0000

This looks really well thought out

New comment by diffrinse in "A visual introduction to big O notation"

diffrinse — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 20:22:18 +0000

In the example function that calls `indexOf` in a for..of loop, my mind went straight to the `join('\n')` when the newline delimiter could've been included in the string concatenation operation in the loop.

New comment by diffrinse in "Customizing tmux"

diffrinse — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 20:33:16 +0000

I'd actually inquired with the dev on rather that change also applied to plugin bindings but he'd replied that it did not

New comment by diffrinse in "Customizing tmux"

diffrinse — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 07:53:15 +0000

You can't rebind plugin key maps and creating a new session conflicts with my preferred custom mode bindings. It's clear the devs are both rather opinionated and want to ship features, but they gotta clear stuff like that up, I'm not interested in doing that from CLI when tmux does this without issue.

New comment by diffrinse in "Helix Editor Release 25.07 Highlights"

diffrinse — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 20:46:12 +0000

Yeah that's not a good way of describing, its more like Verb-Direction-Subject, e.g. `d3f(` means "delete up to the 3rd opening paren"; `2f.` means "move cursor to the 2nd found '.' character"; but there are exceptions when the subject is implicit, like `5j` means "Move down 5 physical lines".

Helix reverses bindings so that subject is first and verb is second

New comment by diffrinse in "Helix Editor 25.07"

diffrinse — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 20:44:00 +0000

Maybe Evil-Helix[0] is what's called for. Still seems like it has lots of edges.

[0]https://github.com/usagi-flow/evil-helix

New comment by diffrinse in "Helix Editor 25.07"

diffrinse — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 20:41:43 +0000

I terribly need a vim-like with Helix all-in-one comprehensiveness. Neovim distributions are too loosely coupled and always have some odd sharp edge. Vim and its interfaces needs some rethinking anyway, but keep Action-Object modal orientation.

New comment by diffrinse in "Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed by holiday gatherings"

diffrinse — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 17:53:16 +0000

But I bet they had their mask on when they tried. I could look outside my window in my urban American city and see people walking around without a mask, especially when the weather is nice. Last night my downstairs neighbors had a big loud party and another tenant yelled at them to turn the volume down. In the summer, not one pre-teen or teenager was wearing a mask in my neighborhood. Are we really gonna compare the limited instances of people being weld into their apartment to sheer collective wantonness going on stateside? And I live in a blue city.

New comment by diffrinse in "Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed by holiday gatherings"

diffrinse — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 17:34:52 +0000

> We need to face the reality that on average people make bad choices which leads to substantial negative outcomes for any group. In particular, the COVID-19 pandemic again confirms empirically that humans on average don’t have self-responsibility.

None of this has to be accepted or conceded to, somehow East Asian countries are able to do to this right, even New Zealand just so we don't start hovering on West vs East, this is absolutely not "humans on average don't have self-responsibility", this is a specific culture that has promoted entitlement, selfishness, materialist hedonism, and ruthless, hackneyed individualism since the late 60s and now the bill has come due

New comment by diffrinse in "The U.S. Divorce Rate Has Hit a 50-Year Low"

diffrinse — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 03:03:02 +0000

Ask Dr Dré

New comment by diffrinse in "Xi Jinping is fighting a new enemy – Genghis Khan"

diffrinse — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 21:02:31 +0000

Xi is exacting specific cultural violence as an administrator, neither the Mongols nor the Romans were as ridiculously obsessed with building an ethno-state as Xi once conquest was largely complete. Somehow, antiquity, immensely cruel and violent as it was, understood cultural/religious tolerance as an administrative principle better than a number of governments do today

Grouping Xi and Ghengis Khan is also an affront to the way in which modern state violence is exacted, we're comparing a confederation of nomadic horse warriors already habituated to raiding as a lifestyle vs a rational state organizing targeted cultural purgation

New comment by diffrinse in "Burnout can exacerbate work stress, further promoting a vicious circle"

diffrinse — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 07:51:40 +0000

Continuous delivery, amirite?

New comment by diffrinse in "Of OnlyFans and Intimacy at Scale?"

diffrinse — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:03:11 +0000

I dunno about unbiased, seems pretty concerned about 18 year old girls specifically might be "at risk" but then wants to say "well maybe that 18 year old comes from an abusive household and so she could use the money", like come on

Women profiting from OF is not some bubble-like behavior that might sabotage American society down the line if we're not 'careful', sex work has existed since the beginning of time and in much much more liberal forums than American society, and will continue to exist to a non-trivial degree wherever urban populations exist. Like no shit, lotta single people stuck in front of their screens so its a gold rush at the moment; who cares.

The more concerning problem is the growing puerility of hetero men for lack of a better term and porn trends in America tend to confirm that. These women aren't putting a gun to anyone's head, and Jordan Peterson had a very big audience for a reason

New comment by diffrinse in "Introducing the next generation of Mac"

diffrinse — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 23:19:03 +0000

If the heat/cooling story is here for the Mini, that thing is exactly what I need

New comment by diffrinse in "Could a Peasant Defeat a Knight in Battle?"

diffrinse — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 01:46:24 +0000

You won't have to deal with an army of knights but litigation backed by an army of lawyers on retainer now