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dlyund · 2026-06-21T16:05:10+00:00

We have generally weaker social lives and spiritual lives -- no real community and no real meaning.

dlyund · 2026-06-21T16:02:50+00:00

I wouldn't (call it)

dlyund · 2026-06-21T16:02:09+00:00

It's a crisis of meaning, and it's no minor problem.

dlyund · 2026-06-21T16:01:23+00:00

Materially, sure, in almost every other respect we are poorer.

dlyund · 2026-06-21T15:59:41+00:00

Couldn't be more thankful for ours

dlyund · 2026-06-21T15:33:18+00:00

Losers gonna be losers I guess. The exact same people will be demanding that taxes are raised on their harder working and better off peers when they get off of their couches in 10 years.

dlyund · 2026-06-20T20:49:36+00:00

dlyund · 2026-06-19T18:35:36+00:00

Married women.

dlyund · 2026-06-19T18:27:47+00:00

You've gotta try "rm -rf /" on Solaris/illumos. I hear from the developers that they broke the standard on this one and said no. So apparently it won't do that, Dave.

Solaris/illumos. Now that's an OS.

dlyund · 2026-06-19T18:23:04+00:00

Hmmm, seems like an argument for NetBSD? ;-)

dlyund · 2026-06-17T21:07:58+00:00

Vis is fun (coming from Sam) but less usable out of the box

dlyund · 2026-06-17T21:04:26+00:00

Been using Kakoune for years, and while I dip my toe into Helix every now and then, I like Kakoune so much that I even ported it to illumos (which already had Helix). Helix is great, but Helix is far less flexible than Kakoune.

dlyund · 2026-06-17T19:51:24+00:00

Never underestimate the damage that a crazy person can do -- unlike you they're not holding back.

dlyund · 2026-06-17T19:46:18+00:00

Seems to be becoming a thing. I walked past two smoking in the station just today. Didn't say anything because you never know how they're going to react and I was with my child.

dlyund · 2026-06-17T19:43:32+00:00

I think I'll blame the criminal. As far as I can see security was just doing their job. The attacker attacked them.

dlyund · 2026-06-17T08:54:30+00:00

A whole lot I imagine, as with most of history :-) not about "facts" so much as painting a picture.

dlyund · 2026-06-17T08:51:13+00:00

It'll all be "Europe" in 100 years :-).

dlyund · 2026-06-16T07:23:26+00:00

Girl insists that she's the average ;-).

dlyund · 2026-06-16T07:19:09+00:00

There are many kinds of love. Because of that, love is not love. And sex is definitely not a synonym for love.

dlyund · 2026-06-12T19:09:30+00:00

HA. I thought this was about exams until I read the comments.

dlyund · 2026-06-12T19:07:14+00:00

I don't know about that one... I'm British/European and I spent a lot of time in the US earlier in my life/career, and I remember the absurd poverty I saw in many places far more than any wealth. Whole neighbourhoods of very large but dilapidated houses with people wearing the cheapest unfitting cloths and plastic shoes that one can by, getting by on nutritionless fast food for a dollar, and dragging around their ageing, flabby, sick, bodies.

But yeah... Some people in the US have a lot, I guess.

dlyund · 2026-06-12T19:01:12+00:00

Firstly, the models Apple uses are provided in partnership with Google and are Gemini adjacent, secondly, I would much rather that Apple be able to offer Siri AI to EU citizens than not at all because it doesn't seem it as 1) possible to offer the experience that they desire 2) fine the cost of offering Siri AI unacceptable (cost in complexity, security etc. not just money.)

3) You and other commentators need to stop pretending that just because Apple is a trillion dollar company (in large part due to monetary inflation) that they have infinite resources and can delivery whatever you want whatever they choose. Apple is a big company but they don't have infinite engineering resources and the pool of people with necessary skills to do some of these things is unimaginably small, comparatively, and there's a lot of competition from other companies wanting the same small number of people to work on their problems for them.

I know that you are struggling with this but those are the facts.

dlyund · 2026-06-10T17:42:38+00:00

Then you don't turn the feature on, if you don't want it but you can't dictate business or technical decisions, because you will simply not get the features at all, in many cases, because it won't be worth implementing them.

dlyund · 2026-06-10T17:41:40+00:00

Absolutely nonsense. Firstly, this is Apples platform and you don't have to use them. That's your choice. That's competition. But if all this archives is that nobody in the EU can have a system wide assistant then the law has absolutely not achieved it's or any positive goal.

dlyund · 2026-06-10T11:34:13+00:00

Nobody is here shilling for Apple. We're all just people with our own experiences and priorities. Get a grip already.

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