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New comment by zitsarethecure in "The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies"

zitsarethecure — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:42:29 +0000

It's already a system where unaccountable private monopolistic moralizing multinational middle men have the power to tell you what you can spend your money on.

New comment by zitsarethecure in "My dad could still be alive, but he's not"

zitsarethecure — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:59:12 +0000

Sorry for your loss, but this experience is not universal in Toronto. I was visiting my (sick) older brother about a year ago when he woke me up calling out about chest pain. I called an ambulance and they were there within about 10 minutes and saved his life, for which me and my family are so very grateful. Had he been visiting me here in Ohio when he had his heart attack, the results may not have been as good.

https://fox8.com/news/i-team/i-team-more-people-waiting-30-m...

New comment by zitsarethecure in "The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful"

zitsarethecure — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:14:48 +0000

It always was.

New comment by zitsarethecure in "Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race"

zitsarethecure — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 13:54:58 +0000

Interestingly "no government" also appears to be exactly what is happening in the US with what some people might describe as end stage Capitalist society.

New comment by zitsarethecure in "Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race"

zitsarethecure — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 13:50:21 +0000

New Mexico is experimenting with free child care. Canada has nationalized its own system and while it isn't free, it is heavily subsidized.

New comment by zitsarethecure in "Former US Vice-President Cheney Dies"

zitsarethecure — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:53:16 +0000

Odd that so few folks supposedly opposed to those wars appear to be speaking out against war with Venezuela.

New comment by zitsarethecure in "Canva’s affinity strategy: Normies over power users"

zitsarethecure — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 13:00:39 +0000

ESR was pretty clear about their stance on it in this interview:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/article_246jsp/

Personally, I think the argument that "open source is a better way to engineer software" has largely proven to be untrue and FOSS' only advantage has been in protecting the rights of end users (who may also be developers).

New comment by zitsarethecure in "Canva’s affinity strategy: Normies over power users"

zitsarethecure — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:07:16 +0000

IMO FOSS "lost the plot" when we accepted the false argument that source code sharing was purely an engineering issue rather than an ethics issue.

New comment by zitsarethecure in "Affinity Studio now free"

zitsarethecure — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:58:30 +0000

If it works well enough for the people who use it, why does it matter?

New comment by zitsarethecure in "Greenland’s national telco, Tusass, signs new agreement with Eutelsat"

zitsarethecure — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:51:54 +0000

Many people are saying it. Unfortunately the small minority of nasty people opposed to it are using violence to stifle free debate.

New comment by zitsarethecure in "Tron: Ares Set to Lose $132M+"

zitsarethecure — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:11:54 +0000

It's the Stonecutters. They did it before with Steve Guttenberg.

New comment by zitsarethecure in "I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens"

zitsarethecure — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:56:43 +0000

Absolutely. RTO mandates. Blanket AI adoption for developers. All these asinine trends done solely to make executives feel like they are still relevant.

New comment by zitsarethecure in "Amazon RTO policy is costing it top tech talent, according to internal document"

zitsarethecure — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 12:41:41 +0000

The blanket RTO mandate is peak cargo cult thinking and a great example of why executives should be the first employees that should be replaced with "AI", rather than the last.

New comment by zitsarethecure in "Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained""

zitsarethecure — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 12:04:42 +0000

I've been using btrfs on my NAS for years and have not had any problems. I suspect there are a hell of a lot of people like me you will not hear about because people don't generally get as vocal when things just work.

New comment by zitsarethecure in "Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police"

zitsarethecure — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:14:46 +0000

A fun game is to replace "Donald Trump" in news stories with "Hillary Clinton" and to imagine the reaction if they were otherwise identical.

New comment by zitsarethecure in "Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations"

zitsarethecure — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 11:56:27 +0000

I've been running a MythTV backend to record OTA content since the early 2000's and PBS is, by far, my most recorded channel.

New comment by zitsarethecure in "BYD Bets on Budget EV Boom with Atto 1 Debut in Indonesia"

zitsarethecure — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 11:25:44 +0000

I am following the development of a new company called Slate who are specifically trying to build low cost EV's by shunning gimmicky BS like "self driving" and selling them with only an extremely limited number of options from the factory.

https://www.slate.auto/

New comment by zitsarethecure in "France launches criminal probe of X over alleged algorithm ‘manipulation’"

zitsarethecure — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 12:50:39 +0000

France's freedom of speech is as strong, or stronger, than the US.

New comment by zitsarethecure in "Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system"

zitsarethecure — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:49:33 +0000

Out of curiosity, is it a "smart" appliance that requires an app to function?

New comment by zitsarethecure in "ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral"

zitsarethecure — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:12:43 +0000

ICE just got a massive boost in funding, so the money is obviously there to pay for it.