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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • There’s another thing that frustrates me about Linux and its various philosophies. Should I be allowed to do what I want with my software? Or should the machine protect me from myself? It seems at conflict with itself to allow you to do stuff like delete system files without much more than a warning while also having protections in place as you describe. Windows tried doing this exact thing with S Mode and people get pissed about windows not allowing them to do whatever they want.

    I fundamentally disagree that users should not be allowed to install whatever they want from wherever they want.


  • Preface: I am a Linux user

    The Linux desktop needs to not require users to dig through config files to enable features that both windows and Mac have working by default. Fingerprint sensors, audio interfaces, broken bootloaders that you have to fix yourself. Requiring people to ever use a command line even once will keep people on Windows as the dominant platform.

    Every time I have to look at a Linux forum to figure out why something isn’t working and the answers are run these commands I am instantly reminded that this is the exact thing keeping Windows mainstream.

    Driver support still isn’t perfect. Software support as well. Linux needs to ship out of the box running exe files in compatibility layers. Linux needs to adopt executable installers for software packages that can be downloaded on the web. If Linux wants to be the way people use computers, Linux needs to fit the mould that windows has built for the people who have used it for the last 40 years.

    Doing anything differently is enough of a deterrent for 90% of computer users. And of those 90%, 75% of them will give up immediately trying to fix anything that doesn’t work and either call someone else or decide it’s broken and do nothing.

    Linux is incredibly powerful and I believe it should be the way we run computers, but I get exactly why it isn’t.


  • He donated to Prop 8 in California back in 2008. The bill intended to ban gay marriage in the largest state in the country. He resigned as the CEO of Mozilla after receiving a lot of backlash from the public. The man is openly against gay marriage. You don’t have to dig very deep to find that much.


  • Without knowing the entire context of this individual’s life, I could come up with a few things that the school could have done. I’m certain there are many many more things that could have been done that just weren’t. The school could have a vested interest in students’ interactions with each other through observation in classrooms and through faculty watching over them between class time. A school can and should be a place the students feel comfortable going to when other students are bullying them. A school can and should separate students who are unable to get along. A school can and should properly redirect antagonizing individuals and alert parents of negative interactions at some point.

    Maybe the school is actively doing all of the things above and this is still the end result. That does not change the fact that the school failed to protect the children in their charge.





  • That’s not a question for me to answer. It is, in fact, the school faculty’s duty to educate our school children as well as protect them. It is up to them to determine how to do that. It is also true that they failed her in this instance. There are preventative measures that schools can take to stop bullying both on campus and online. Every time a student is bullied into taking their own drastic measures has been failed by the system. In this case, doubly so as on top of her being bullied into retaliation, she was punished by the system for being failed by the system.




  • The headline could have punched so much harder with the truth because it is divisive and justifies multiple ideologies.

    “Preteen expelled for physical retaliation after school fails to protect her from AI deep fake nudes.”

    • Justifies zero tolerance believers
    • Justifies feminists who think she should be a protected class
    • Justifies home school proponents
    • Justifies public School reform proponents
    • Justifies anti-AI crowd
    • Appeals to people for whom children ought to be protected

    Give more truth in the headline and leave the opinions and slant for the editorial section.