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  • I’ll never understand the whole assigning blame routine. Blame isn’t a solution. It doesn’t fix a damn thing to know whose fault it is. If you want to solve the problem, figuring out who to blame is nothing but a waste of time and energy.

    That said, you’re wrong. There’s plenty of people and organizations to blame, from Rupert Murdock to the Heritage Foundation and beyond. Did refusing to vote for Harris help? Of course not. But this didn’t fucking start with “enlightened liberals” (which is a complete useless term, btw; why the fuck is everyone got such a hard-on for calling people liberals, anyway?).

    Besides, all your doing here is playing into the divisive rhetoric. Our only chance is solidarity amongst the working class, and this bullshit ain’t helping. Well, no, I guess if I’m going to be honest here it does help the sociopathic oligarchs maintain control. So congratulations - you’re fighting for the wrong fucking side.










  • Heh. Yes they’re similar, but on the technical side different in a very important way. It has to do with opening a file from inside another program. If you select a shortcut, the program with treat or as a separate file, so most of the time the action will fail. A link, though, you should end up with the program opening the target of the link. In other words, a shortcut is a file that points at a different file, where a symlink involves she filesystem trickery to accomplish almost the same thing.

    That’s a horrible, just terrible explanation, though - but I’m pretty sure this is the gist of it.




  • Whoah, no need to get defensive! That was just a guess based on my own observations, and I never said anything about whether they have the right to do whatever the hell they want with their own chips (which would be true regardless, I reckon).

    That said, given that their business model depends on their walled garden approach, I just find myself wondering if they might’ve seen the possibility of running any old ARM executable on their silicon as a potential threat to their business model? But there’s all sorts of factors in play, so maybe I’m wrong and that whole possibility is irrelevant.

    Do you happen to know if they strictly extended existing APIs?