the pie is getting smaller but the oligarchs are getting bigger slices.

is there a matrix client for Android? last I checked there was like, one, and it wasn’t very good. whereas there’s like 14 different Lemmy apps, many of which are fabulous.

usually when politicians use Signal it’s because they don’t want their messages FOIA’d or audited. I can’t really imagine Vance or Hegseth worrying about that, though, which makes me wonder if it’s just horrible opsec, if they can’t be bothered to use a SCIF or what?

fun fact: Windows uses 9p for bridging the Windows and Linux filesystems with WSL2. the devs had excellent taste in protocols.

Isn’t jfx still actually using HTML and CSS, though? like it’s cool that the UI logic is in Java, but doesn’t using CSS mean you still need to lug a rendering engine around, even if not a whole browser?

you’re right, apparently. from Wikipedia:

The U.S. Army defines assault rifles as “short, compact, selective-fire weapons that fire a cartridge intermediate in power between submachine gun and rifle cartridges.”

AR-15 is semi-auto rather than selective fire, so it’s not an assault rifle. I had mistakenly conflated assault rifles with “assault weapons,” which is a separate (and more vague and contested) term.

you can still buy an M-16 or AK-47, but it has to be transferrable (grandfathered in before FOPA) and you need extra paperwork.

you can buy an AR-15 in any gun store. they even make a “JR-15,” for kids. no, I’m not kidding.

Java (and Object Pascal, I’m assuming) have very old-looking UIs. Discord’s gonna have trouble attracting users if their client looks like a billing system from 2005. Also, what do you do about the web client? Implement the UI once in HTML/CSS/JS, and again in JForms?

So if you’re picking one UI to make cross-platform, and you need a web client, do you pick JForms and make it work on the web? or React and make it work on desktop?

that they’re willing to let some of their kids die rather than get a vaccine they think might turn them trans or autistic shows how much they value the lives of trans and autistic people.

My passport got “corrected” to M after being stuck in weeks of bureaucratic limbo and waiting hours at the passport agency. One of the agents even told me I should just accept it so that way I’d be able to leave the country.

Yeah, I dreamed of EZIC.

j00 r t3h f1r57 p3r50n 1v3 s33n 70 u53 1337 5p33k n s00 l0ng, h4xx0r!

perhaps followed by a Butlerian jihad against OpenAI and Tesla.

uh I just picked lemmy.ml pretty randomly when I moved from Reddit, though I specifically picked it over lemmygrad because I’d heard lemmygrad was full of tankies. personally, I’m a left libertarian. I’m not auth at all.

I think you might be overestimating how much a user’s home lemmy indicates their ideology.

damnit, I saw this too late! I remember torvalds_says_linux.wav being a rite of passage for getting ALSA to work, along with days of strife and increasingly desperate modprobing. ahh, the bad old days.

I really hope RFK Jr keeps drinking raw milk.

in a way, Trump is actually succeeding in getting NATO member countries to reach the 2% GDP commitment for military spending… by scaring countries into arming themselves against the United States.

it’s like convincing your friend to install an alarm system by threatening to rob them at gunpoint.

I’ve heard that some people have difficulty with hypotheticals in general. not just on political issues, like it’s a surprisingly common cognitive issue.

I’m too much of a coward, honestly. I’m trans, so if I get arrested I’ll be made to detransition and sent to a men’s prison and assigned to a violent criminal as his prison wife. I’ll serve Canada though, if it comes to it.

I don’t get it. Reddit’s so much more egregious than digg was - why haven’t more users jumped ship? the soul of the platform was broken with the API change, yet most users stayed, and the ones who did leave haven’t shown up here.

was Lemmy just not ready?

right, you said it was stupid because:

Just imagine that you’re in a conflict, then the enemy hacks your command and control systems and disables/hijacks all of your aircraft. Yeah, that’s pretty dumb.

I’m saying that scenario wouldn’t be possible. for the enemy to exploit a backdoor like this, they’d have to either:

1. break the encryption (quantum computer, classical sub-exponential discrete log or factoring algorithm.)
2. break the protocol or encryption (unlikely, since it’d be simple, the NSA is full of competent cryptographers, and they’d probably formally verify it to EAL-5.)
3. steal the private key (most likely imo, but the government also safeguards the nuclear codes, and it’s hard for me to imagine F-35 kill switch keys being more dangerous than those.)

I don’t think any of the above are very likely, or at least not likely enough to outweigh the strategic benefit of being able to ground your enemy’s air force in the (hitherto unlikely) scenario one of the US’s customers became its enemy. so I don’t think it’s stupid, and I don’t think I straw-manned you.