The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
— A.A. member https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/23/same/

When Imperial forces take out your sandcrawler.

OP is not dishonest. JB is opting everyone in, and the fact that they say you can opt-out doesn’t change that fact.

And stop caping for corporations. They are not our friends. There are no good corporations.

“Anyone who disagrees with me is a paid Russian shill.”

• IT Pro: Cambridge Analytica models were exaggerated and ineffective, [UK Information Commissioner’s Office] claims
• Wall Street Journal: Mueller Doesn’t Find Trump Campaign Conspired With Russia
• Jacobin: Democrats and Mainstream Media Were the Real Kremlin Assets
• Washington Post: FEC fines DNC, Clinton for violating rules in funding Steele dossier
• Washington Post: Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters
• Jacobin: It Turns Out Hillary Clinton, Not Russian Bots, Lost the 2016 Election
• Matt Taibbi: Move Over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork
• Jacobin: Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal On the Left, there’s been a temptation to dismiss the revelations about Twitter’s internal censorship system that have emerged from the so-called Twitter Files project. But that would be a mistake: the news is important and the details are alarming.
• MSNBC Repeats Hamilton 68 Lies 279 Times in 11 Minutes
• Matt Taibbi: CIA “Cooked The Intelligence” To Hide That Russia Favored Clinton, Not Trump In 2016
• Aaron Maté: Under Trump, the CIA is still covering up its Russiagate fraud
• Matt Taibbi: Note on New Trump-Russia Disclosures Thanks to explosive new document releases, the Russiagate hoax is now exposed, commencing a new era that will be about accountability for the guilty
• Matt Taibbi: No Doubt Left: Russiagate Was a Cover-Up
• Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away The cynical con the Democratic Party and the F.B.I. carried out to falsely portray Donald Trump as a puppet of the Kremlin worked, and continues to work, because it is what those who detest Trump want to believe.

I believe we need dedicated spaces for political discussion that are not based on algorithms optimized for engagement (aka outrage).

So do we, which is one of the reasons why Lemmy was created, and why Lemmy does not have algorithms for rage engagement. Lemmy is all cost and no revenue, so there is no financial incentive for it to “maximize ‘engagement.’”

The first is a way to limit bots or bad actors from participating in discussions.

Where are the actually-existing the “bot problems” on Lemmy? While it could happen, I don’t think it actually is happening to any significant extent presently.

Yeah, this is community rule 2. I’ll leave this up, but please refrain in the future, @ExtremeDullard@piefed.social.

Those states owning the means of production is exactly why bourgeois states call them authoritarian. The bourgeoisie are supposed to own the MoP, not the state.

Thank you. You are now mod of c/fosscad.

Fighting “taxpayer dollars” is Sisyphean.

I’d never heard of NOTUS. Seems it’s a vanity project of Robert Allbritton, who’d founded Politico. The guy’s never worked a day in his life.

Allbritton also served as the chairman and CEO of Allbritton Communications, which owned several ABC-affiliated television stations in Washington, D.C. Allbritton was previously the final CEO of Riggs National Corporation, the parent of Riggs Bank, from 2001 to 2005, when PNC Bank acquired the bank amidst the money laundering scandal that involved the Allbritton family with the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, which led him and his family to agree to pay USD 1 million to a fund for victims of crimes against humanity during Pinochet’s rule.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/07/17/politico-breakup-vandehei-allbritton-allen/

Robert Allbritton didn’t need to climb his way to the top of Washington journalism—he was born there.

His father, Joe, had barreled into town in 1974 when he bought the Washington Star, the city’s afternoon paper. A banker from Houston, Joe proceeded to build an empire that included eight TV stations, most notably Washington’s ABC affiliate, WJLA. In the ’80s, he took control of Riggs Bank, the city’s largest and most historic financial institution.

Joe’s fortune swelled to more than $2 billion, and he and his wife, Barbara, socialized with President Reagan and George H.W. Bush. “He was probably the most powerful businessman in the city,” says Bill Regardie, the former publisher of Regardie’s, Washington’s monthly business magazine at the time.

Robert Allbritton was Joe’s only child. As a boy, he spent afternoons in front of his Atari 800, writing code for knockoff Space Invaders games and tinkering with a so-called bulletin-board system that was a precursor to the internet. “Robert was always better than I was [at programming],” remembers Face the Nation host John Dickerson, Allbritton’s childhood friend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Allbritton

The Riggs Bank was also investigated for concealing Pinochet’s money, an investigation that revealed direct ties between the dictator and Joe Allbritton. He remained a member of the board of Riggs Bank’s parent company Riggs National Corporation until 2004.

We’re all centrists now.

• extremism on migration,

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/07/1004074139/harris-tells-guatemalans-not-to-migrate-to-the-united-states

• extremism on race,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Dolezal

• extremism on gender

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_(Saturday_Night_Live)

Fewer casualties was not the real reason.

• https://liberationnews.org/u-s-dropped-nuclear-bombs-hiroshima-nagasaki/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gar_Alperovitz#The_Decision_to_Use_the_Atomic_Bomb

Bullshit that one pulls out of one’s ass isn’t “criticism.” It’s just bullshit.

Ji had the families of everyone in the picture held as hostages to their good behaviour.

Reddit-ass comment.

^{no u}

obvious bluff is obvious

That is good news! I wouldn’t have guessed Swift, but I can see why Swift 6—which has been GA for a year—might make sense: https://www.swift.org/blog/announcing-swift-6/

C++ interoperability

Swift 5.9 introduced bidirectional interoperability with C++ to seamlessly bring Swift to more existing projects. Swift 6 expands interoperability support to C++ move-only types, virtual methods, default arguments, and more standard library types including std::map and std::optional.

C++ types that do not have a copy constructor can now be accessed from Swift 6 as non-copyable types with ~Copyable. And for those times when it’s useful to expose a C++ type with a copy constructor as ~Copyable in Swift for better performance, a new SWIFT_NONCOPYABLE annotation can be applied to the C++ type.

Swift now also supports calls of C++ virtual methods on types annotated as SWIFT_SHARED_REFERENCE or SWIFT_IMMORTAL_REFERENCE.

When calling C++ functions or methods that have default argument values for some of their parameters, Swift now respects these default values, rather than requiring you to explicitly pass an argument.

Platform Support

Swift is designed to support development and execution on all major operating systems, and platform consistency and expansion underpins Swift’s ability to reach new programming domains. Swift 6 brings major improvements to Linux and Windows across the board, including support for more Linux distributions and Windows architectures.

I’m not going to have interest in any new browser that’s written in security nightmare languages like C or C++.

NSA Releases Guidance on How to Protect Against Software Memory Safety Issues

Commonly used languages, such as C and C++, provide a lot of freedom and flexibility in memory management while relying heavily on the programmer to perform the needed checks on memory references. Simple mistakes can lead to exploitable memory-based vulnerabilities. Software analysis tools can detect many instances of memory management issues and operating environment options can also provide some protection, but inherent protections offered by memory safe software languages can prevent or mitigate most memory management issues. NSA recommends using a memory safe language when possible. While the use of added protections to non- memory safe languages and the use of memory safe languages do not provide absolute protection against exploitable memory issues, they do provide considerable protection. Therefore, the overarching software community across the private sector, academia, and the U.S. Government have begun initiatives to drive the culture of software development towards utilizing memory safe languages.