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  • The fact he is old is actually more dangerous to US democracy than if there was decades ahead of him.

    When time passes, a dictator is caught up by politics, and his power decrease because other factions will have consolidated their power so an equilibrium that satisfies all factions is necessary, and is thus more complex than a dictatorship.

    If it’s too soon after the start of the dictatorship, then the chaos still reign, and power still fall in the hand of the one who controls armed forces. Which is usually the last dictator alive after the succession war.

    Everything goes down to what your army will be loyal to.





  • It does not reduces maintenance. And it costs hard drive, and with heavy use, probably ram too

    Redundancy of dependencies in different versions, might also be loaded in ram in different version, which can add its own kind of problems in some circumstances.

    Maintenance is only reduced on the surface level. The complexity you don’t see as a problem is the actual maintenance problem. It’s not a problem only if you’re not the one dealing with integration, maintenance or security.




  • There are a lot of things an average consumer don’t wa’t to deal with, but that’s true for windows as much as Linux. The question is not what they want to do, but what they need to do and if it seems difficult.

    A command line can also be distributed as a bash script btw. The difference with an obscure executable that will edit the registry on windows it that the bash file can be checked much more easily.


  • I have a brother who is not into computers. But he has a shitty laptop (with only 3gb of ram) so windows stopped working on it (because Windows update). So I installed a Linux on it, and he is very happy with it.

    He even managed to change the desktop by himself. Installing some stuff was not obvious (like making a scanner work), but I did it guiding him by phone and text.

    Command line is in fact much easier in this case than any gui. In a gui, you must know it by heart to correctly guide the person. A command line you can fine tune it on your side, send it on discord, and he only has to copy/paste. That is much more powerful.

    And the security is not less than downloading an executable on a dubious website.

    It is true that specialist tend to overestimate the skill of unknowing people. But when it come to computer, people also forget that normal people always went for the help of specialist for their technical needs. Nothing changed.



  • Except that’s entirely false. Even now they are pretending they do nothing, it’s the intermediaries who force things.

    Mastercard sells absolutely nothing. And they have no responsibility for anything sold. And no one ever thought it was mastercard selling or even allowing to sell illegal things.

    In fact, most people will believe no one sound of mind will buy something illegal with a credit card because mastercard and the likes will give your identity to the police.

    So it’s not about illegal things, and it’s not about their image.







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    6 months ago

    Censorship is always the first step. Genocide is the last step. People getting mad when the first step toward fascism is crossed is a very good thing to fight fascism and try to prevent a future genocide. This is exactly what the poem is about : react on the first step, because it will be too late when the genocide starts.