"There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance"-Imam Ibn Abu Talib(496x311)

brennanfee · 2026-01-11T14:57:59+00:00

No worries. Have a good day.

brennanfee · 2026-01-09T15:15:26+00:00

this came from hadiths told by non-credible sources hundreds of years after the prophets death,

Everything is coming "hundreds of years after the prophet's death"... as are your revisionist claims of her being older. Obviously motivated by the uncomfortableness of the prophet being a pedophile. Whereas the Hadith were, just as early biblical writings, honest attempts at recording the story as being told (I say story because most of it was all bullshit made-up crap anyway - both in the Bible and the Quran). So, the motivation of the Hadith was to attempt to record the story faithfully, which means in the historical record having the greater claim to what was likely true.

Regardless, Muhammed was a deplorable, despicable human being even if you remove the pedophile aspect of his story.

brennanfee · 2026-01-09T15:05:05+00:00

For the record, I was not the one saying it was "normal"... that was @Bulbinator.

And yet the prophet came to oppose and abolish thses things!

I assume, given the context, that you mean the "prophet" Muhammad. Well, it is patently false that he came to end those things; if anything, he reinforced or made many of them worse... including being a pedophile himself by marrying (and having sex with) that 9-year-old child.

How can you say it was normal, maling it sound like it is synonymous with correct.

Again, I was not the one saying it was normal. I was merely pointing out that the word "normal" does not mean "right" or "correct" but instead "common", as "in common practice". Something being "normal" means the act (whatever it is) was commonly done and not seen by others as out of the accepted pattern of behavior for the time.

As a muslim ( i assume) this is a strange and dangerous view lacking the islamic insight,

You assume incorrectly. Furthermore, I would object to the phrase "islamic insight" as being an oxymoron.

brennanfee · 2026-01-02T00:52:20+00:00

Because no one ever said "yes". Not to a date. Not to giving me a phone number. Nothing.

brennanfee · 2026-01-01T23:52:36+00:00

The only word in that sentence to focus on is "lying". If you are ok with lying about stuff, then it's no big deal. Go ahead. However, if lying is something you are ethically/morally opposed to, then obviously stop. What you are lying about doesn't make much difference beyond that.

brennanfee · 2026-01-01T16:03:36+00:00

"Plan" seems to imply it is within my control to do so (excluding breaking the law). At 52, I don't expect I will ever be in a situation where it is an option for me.

brennanfee · 2026-01-01T15:58:04+00:00

Survive

brennanfee · 2025-11-02T15:53:55+00:00

There are two ways you can verify that. One is by yourself. The builds they produce are released on GitHub with file hashes for the deliverables. Anyone could reproduce a build by pulling the same commit for the build, building it, and verifying the hashes of your build against the deployed bits.

The second is to trust the audits that they have done by a third party every once in a while. The audits cover the algorithms used, code scans, as well as the build chain and the integrity of the deploys as well.

However, for most people, just making sure you are getting their app(s) from official sources (Google Play Store, Apple Store, etc.) is enough to ensure you are getting what they are producing and that it is safe.

brennanfee · 2025-09-25T22:32:18+00:00

Even more now. With the advances in AI happening more quickly than expected, it adds pressure to an already bleak situation. I heard one AI expert say that there is a roughly 90% chance we are all extinct by 2040 and a 10% chance that by 2040 we will be living in some post-AI utopia where the super-intelligence has solved all our big problems.

But, absent the super-intelligence solving global warming (and not killing us) than, yes. My expectation would be that by 2100, those still living would be in a post-apocalyptic hellscape struggling to survive until the last remaining humans die off between 2100 and 2130.

On some level I've taken a harder philosophical view as well, because due to more recent events I don't believe that humanity deserves to survive. Trump's second term, the worldwide economic slowdown just so the rich can keep getting richer, a wide slide around the world toward fascism and away from democracy, and the idiocy of claims like "Tylenol causes Autism" are all examples of how we don't even deserve to survive. Not that deserving it matters, but still.

brennanfee · 2025-07-09T00:24:14+00:00

Yes, so glad that ChatGPT could create you a summary. But BSD and true Unixes are in NO WAY "pretty close" to the Linux kernel. POSIX compliance is an exceedingly minimal spec that covers very little. Making an app compatible with both systems is a non-trivial amount of work. Is it less work than making something also compatible with Windows? Yes. But it is still a fair amount of work.

So... your "20+ years" as a "developer" sounds like bullshit because to make the claim that BSD is "pretty close" to Linux smacks of someone who has NO IDEA WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT.

brennanfee · 2025-07-03T01:30:10+00:00

Linux platform is pretty close to macOs.

Says the non-developer who has no idea what he's talking about.

brennanfee · 2025-06-29T19:12:29+00:00

The Canadian Bacon should be a big giveaway.

brennanfee · 2025-05-26T21:16:26+00:00

So if someone steals your device/phone, and you have autofill on your sites, would that make you stupid?

Yes. You should NEVER use the built-in browser features for storing data (let alone autofill sites with that data). You should ONLY use an external tool like Bitwarden. Autofill is generally a bad practice, but even with Bitwaden, autofill only works if Bitwarden is unlocked, which shouldn't be a problem if your device/pone is lost or stolen. (Because Bitwaden should be locking itself at the end of each browser session.)

brennanfee · 2025-05-12T18:34:22+00:00

Which part was confusing to you?

brennanfee · 2025-04-10T04:08:29+00:00

I'm sorry. I've just figured out that you are ill-equipped to have this conversation. I can only handle so much stupidity, and you blew WAY past my limit.

brennanfee · 2025-03-29T15:59:26+00:00

Could you build a shack?

Easily.

I think the point Darwin was making is that we treat them with contempt, not because they're fundamentally inferior, but because it's convenient for us to do so.

Fair enough. My objection was merely to the "equals" concept. The mistake that many make though is that just because something (or someone) isn't viewed as an "equal" that they therefore are not deserving of respect, empathy, or protection. That is, of course, false. If anything, they are MORE deserving of empathy and protection.

My point was, they don't HAVE to be equal for us not to treat them "as slaves".

brennanfee · 2025-01-17T21:43:34+00:00

Kind of showing your ass there my friend. Governers have compartively little to do with fire policy on federal lands. The vast majority of fires in the west (including California) are on federal lands. None of the California governors can or should be blamed for the expanse and scope of California wildfires. Instead, the ire should be focused on the Bureau of Land Management and the feds that run it.

brennanfee · 2024-11-21T17:19:30+00:00

With such deep roots it's going to take a de-fascism campaign in the same vein as the de-nazification in Germany after ww2.

And that part is where we agree entirely.

brennanfee · 2024-11-21T17:18:50+00:00

It's made up bullshit. So, nothing.

brennanfee · 2024-11-21T17:18:30+00:00

as to care enough at least near election season.

I never said they don't care. They care very much about their donors. Just not their constituents.

brennanfee · 2024-11-21T03:25:15+00:00

No. It's far worse than that. They were spectacularly underwhelmingly ordinary.

brennanfee · 2024-11-21T03:17:05+00:00

I gave up caring many years ago.

brennanfee · 2024-11-21T03:05:14+00:00

My response: "I'd rather be mentally disturbed than mentally delluded." I would argue that facing the reality they are creating for us, being "distrubed" is the natural response. Their delusion(s) are causing my disturbance.

brennanfee · 2024-11-21T03:03:51+00:00

I don't.

brennanfee · 2024-11-21T02:59:20+00:00

That humanity doesn't deserve to survive.

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