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Last elections in The Netherlands I browsed the policy proposals of Geert Wilders’ PVV party and it struck me how a lot of them seemed more explicitly progressive than those on the liberal left. Then again, the outer facade of the NSDAP leaned into the same meme, which could be boiled down to: What if socialism, but not for those people?

People actually observing the PVV in action will note, though, that the ‘fight against the rights of undesirable people’ item on the agenda tends to take precedence over all the other campaign promises.

I’d envision sort of an inverse Pol Pot. Build a shit ton of commie blocks and march all the suburbians out of their cul-de-sac hellholes.

It used to be that conductors gave rhythm by banging a staff on the ground. Baroque composer Jean-Baptiste Lully killed himself this way, by impaling his foot with the staff and developing gangrene.

This is valid late 90’s critique on Windows. In the modern day, it’s valid critique on the entire state of computer software. There used to be a time where I could run “ps axuw” on a then modern Unix system and understand exactly what the fuck was going on and what each process was for. These days the nerd-favoured systems are also a big mess of complexity.

I think a lot of older nerds also under-appreciate the position tech has taken in the world in the meantime. Look at it like electricity. When that first popped up, people involved with it knew all the ins-and-outs, they -had- to know all the ins-and-outs. But by the time I grew up, electricity was a done deal. You flip the button, lights go on. Same has happened for the rest of the world with IT. You click the icon, facebook pops up.

LinkedIn pivoting as a VPN provider confirmed. Bet they figured they could never compete with X, the everything app.

Is this actually Linux gaining any significant new mindshare, or is it just that the use of desktops is in relative decline, and the holdouts are going to be the more linux-inclined?