For those who only have a few AUR packages installed, if you looked at the list and are still concerned, you can view the changelog at https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/log/?h=yourpackagenamehere. If it was secretly malicious but got missed, you’d see it there.

But look at all the Prdecessors it has!

Yeah, but I don’t think the person wishing “I hope I get hit by a bus” – unqualified – is wishing that they somehow survive and get lawsuit money. I mean maybe if you take the “survive” part out and still assume it’s the operator’s fault, the lawsuit money could go to the estate…

Buses, trams, and trains in their great efficiency would also be more efficient at traumatizing more people. And cars are by far the most likely thing to randomly hit you out of nowhere while still having the capacity to easily kill.

I think “car” is reasonably common; I’ve definitely at least heard it a few times before.

Sky Map appears to be vibe-coded to hell and back.

Say the line, Rollie!

I’ll bet they’re using dirty rounding tricks too to misrepresent the price. For all we know, it could be as high as 6600 Iranian rials. Outrageous.

Also tells me this is 100% a barely functioning piece of trash they whipped up with an LLM like a whiny, shit-smearing toddler.

Well the banner of this comm is too, so it’s not out of place.

Okay, if you want to be exceedingly pedantic and call me on using “standard of living” in place of its hypernym “quality of life”, then by all means. I’m glad your 15-second glance at Wikipedia has enlightened you that one of the main concepts in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (which measures things like access to social services, food, clothing, etc.) is filthy capitalist propaganda; I meant quality of life.

Edit: If I had to add to the list, it’d be animal agriculture destroying the environment and torturing and murdering billions of sentient, emotional creatures across the world (let alone commercial fishing) for superfluous human enjoyment. Something you statistically take part in for no good reason, although I’m proud of you if you don’t.

How is the headline ragebait? Ragebait is the cynical production of content to increase clicks and engagement. The author clearly actually is that passionate about FOSS self-hosting over paid gatekeepers like Plex, and the tone of the article is adequately reflected in the headline.

An opinion author stating a strong opinion in the headline isn’t automatically “ragebait” just because you personally aren’t as passionate. And I say that as someone who isn’t as passionate as the author.

and at whose expense?

If you think anarchy is some kind of substantial deterrent to an underclass when we’re talking about the same people with functionally the same underlying morality that create and enforce them in democratic systems, I have a bridge you can barter for. More equal e.g. economic systems can thrive under democracy; democracy is not the problem.

for how many?

Difficult to quantify given it’s difficult if not impossible to decouple life-changing advances in quality of living from the nations and systems that facilitated them. For how many, though, compared to before? For near-basically everyone. Life is still unbelievably shit in major swaths of the world, and yet human life overall is still improving in most areas, still has obvious room for betterment, and is still markedly better than before. There’s still plenty of Return to Eros shit we need to fix and C-suites to jail, but we obviously can fix it under democracy. We of course have minimal data for actual anarchy, which leaves a convenient argument from ignorance for anarchists to cling onto.

I guess what I was getting at earlier, come to think of it, is a subtype of the argument from ignorance. “Well we’ve just never tried it, which is why it’s way better than this thing that’s tested and has problems.”

what have you gentlemen accomplished?

I mean the highest standard of living in human history and arguably a system whose current problems are mostly fixable, but moreover, “your shit’s not working right so clearly [thing] is better” isn’t an argument. Humans have this bizarre cognitive bias of “this thing isn’t working, so clearly my idea is the future”. See: the far-right.

Not sure why, but you accidentally linked directly to the comments, OP. Deleting the URL parameters will fix that.

If you can’t know if it’s right or wrong, and have to double check it, why use it in the first place?

“If you can’t trust that a friend solved a sudoku puzzle for you without checking it first, why even bother?”

The obvious answer being that it’s much easier to check the solution to a sudoku puzzle than it is to solve it yourself. If you have reasonable means to check compared to going out and starting from scratch, then even a modest enough rate of correct answers can save a ton of time. LLMs don’t have that for me, but that’s also because I’ve been doing research as a hobby for 10 years.

If you know anything about computation theory, there’s an entire class of problems for which checking a solution is (relatively) trivial but finding a correct one is highly non-trivial.

Very quick and probably wrong guess: might be Carlotta Zanettini? If nothing else, you might like her art if you like this. The EFF doesn’t credit the banner anywhere that I can tell.

Edit: My best guess is that I’m wrong and that it’s in-house.

Hippeas cheese puffs or the like. Cheetos are made of cheetahs, which would therefore be cannibalism, while Hippeas are made of hippos, a great source of protein for your guest.

I’ve had the Unhook extension for years, and YouTube’s decision not to make Shorts hideable was the catalyst. I still won’t uninstall it because it gets rid of a bunch of YouTube’s other trash, but this is at least moves the needle so it’s no longer unthinkable to uninstall it.

The sheer existence of this acts as a warning and hurdle for politicians

This will never be seen by federal or state-level legislators or executives. If you visited the website, you saw the unanimous support in California for the age verification bill. In the event it’s sent to legislators as a link, there’s almost zero chance they’ll visit, let alone read it through. In the narrow chance that, like, one out of thousands actually reads it, it will not act as a warning to them, let alone a hurdle. It doesn’t materially threaten anything they’re doing – not in a technical sense and not in the sense that anybody but an excruciatingly tiny minority will actually adopt it.

Niche communities like this wildly overestimate their reach and influence among the people outside of them. I don’t like it either, but I try to be mindful of it.

See also:

I don’t agree at all with adding age “verification” parameters to Linux (in reality, the parameters just exist; I don’t think you ever have to interact with them, so they verify nothing, but I hate the creeping surveillance anyway). This “project” nevertheless just seems like impotent dick-wagging preaching exclusively to a tiny choir and doing nothing useful technically. It comes across as petulant prattle from an LLC otherwise uninvolved in the Linux community and selling merchandise.