The blog writer got his account on SO restricted.

As I said elsewhere earlier today, the admins and mods there do not like to be told they are wrong and will shut things down fast if it starts looking like they’ve made a mistake.

Here the mistake appears to be treating Mangione’s account differently to those of other alleged and actual felons, but secondarily, taking retribution against anyone having the absolute audacity to point that out.

We should all be praising the Emperor’s new clothes and none of that truth stuff.

It doesn’t help that some of the duplicates aren’t duplicates at all but some SO admin or mod hasn’t read or understood the question properly and points the asker at something that’s actually only vaguely related or irrelevant.

I’m pretty sure I’ve also heard of askers providing links to other questions that are similar to but not quite what they’re interested in, explained why their question is different and yet it’s one of those linked questions that ends up being identified as being identical to the asker’s question.

There may also be at least one pair of questions that each point back at the other as being the original, and there’s no useful information in either. (I don’t know why this idea is in my head though, so maybe it was a joke I read somewhere.)

Either way, the admins and mods there do not like to be told they are wrong and will shut things down fast if it starts looking like they’ve made a mistake. Unfortunately for them, stories like this get out anyway.

Petty little overlords of the toxic waste dump of their own making.

Need you be reminded that German carmakers were among those who rigged cars to cheat on emissions tests?

They got caught, but it proves they’ve been willing to lie and cheat and there’s no reason to believe that they’re not still willing, even if they fixed that particular problem.

Relevant, but also not relevant at all: The North Pacific Deckpecker

DuckDuckGo currently provides free access to four different LLMs. They say they don’t store user conversations, but I’m not sure I trust that, or that that won’t change at some point even if they don’t right now.

Most of them have the strawberry problem (or some variant where that word is explicitly patched(?)), fail basic arithmetic and apologise repeatedly and often without being able to better themselves when mistakes are pointed out. Standard LLM fare for 2024/5.

Certain molecules have “handedness”, and life on Earth is based around one of the two possible states.

Scientists experiment with the other handedness because there’s no reason it shouldn’t work that way around and it was just by chance that it happened the way it did on Earth.

The two forms are largely incompatible, and so no-one really knows what would happen if a wrong-handed life form was to escape the lab. Maybe nothing. Maybe really bad things.

Feel free to write your own apocalypse movie.

At some point the thickness of the stack will exceed both the width and breadth of the “faces” of the paper, at which point you seriously have to consider in which dimension the folds should continue.

I’m genuinely confused how my advice to minimise harm has itself caused harm. And sometimes, someone’s “best” isn’t much at all. That’d be me most days.

I should probably have put a conditional on “Look at yourself” to tie it in with the “might” in the lead sentence, though, that’s on me.

Someone or something has clearly hurt you and you appear to want to hurt others in turn. I’m not the brick wall you’re going to run into one day, but I can tell you that if you keep this up you’re going to hit it sooner rather than later.

Male loneliness is as much a symptom of the “suck it up” toxic masculinity that pervades your comment as it is the content of your comment.

Men are taught to be stoic, to rely only on themselves, to suck it up and get on with it, and for some, they’re trying desperately to conform to something that seems frighteningly easy for others. They’re expending all their energy on that unnatural - for them - attempt to conform rather than being able to simply exist as they might otherwise be.

Your instinct might be to attack me for pointing this out. That’s toxicity at play. Look at yourself.

But I haven’t made my main point yet. It’s this same toxicity and trying to “be a man” that turns men into the monsters that women fear, and so it becomes a vicious cycle of negativity breeding loneliness and on and on.

My advice would be “Do better. And if you can’t do better, do your best. And whatever you do, minimise harm.”

It’s a lot easier to complain than it is to make the world a better place. And before you think that that’s a complete agreement with your reasoning, note that 1) Your comment is also an easy complaint and 2) Does this mean that people who can’t produce quality content shouldn’t be allowed to complain when there’s a lack of it?

The big irony here is that OP actually went to the effort of creating content, even if it was “only” a complaint.

Sadly, I doubt anyone will get to use it any time soon. His faithful are our contemporaries and they won’t let that happen.

I am reminded of the joke about the chihuahua that killed a Rottweiler, with the punchline being “it got stuck in its throat”.

Hmm. And Hungarexit is at least a syllable too long.

Could combine the Hungarian name for their country with something else maybe. Magyexit is three syllables, for example.

But I reckon I have a winner: Magyeet

No, it’s more like each extremist Muslim doesn’t want any other man looking at any of his women, because he knows what he’d be unable to stop himself from doing if he saw someone else’s woman and assumes every other man is like that.

And that line of thinking breeds generations of men who rather than might think that way, actually do think that way, making the rule even more necessary.

It’s also a lot easier for a man to punish or beat a woman than it is another man, and it’s that line of thinking which turns women into property rather than people. And property can be treated however you like.

And the big question is: Which will happen first; Linux being adopted by the masses or fusion becoming a viable power source?

In which Russia tries to drag everyone else back to the dark ages so they can beat us with experience.

Self-burns are rare and this is an especially subtle one. ~chef’s kiss~

I assume the qualifier “…that makes sense to anyone else” was implicit.

Look, if you’re “not racist” but are willing to allow or use racism as a means to an end, you’re actually pretty frickin’ racist.

All the same harm is done.

“But I don’t believe it in my heart!”

Wonderful. Do something that mitigates all the harm you’re causing if not improve the lives of the people who are being harmed.

Can’t do that because it would undermine your process? Time to accept it. You’re a racist.

Shirt colours are, or need to be, swapped. Blue guy’s shirt is more like the Arch logo’s colour and green guy is signalling Mint or maybe SUSE.

I guess this means this is the perfect time to say: I use LMDE, btw.