Judas, Trismagistus, Skrillex, Hideo, Jamboree, Moonbeam, Barry, Ganon, Hadjar, Boromir, Grendel, Jesus, Annana, Jone, Bess, Roger, Sugarloaf, Ponder, Basil, and Ernest. Those are the best ones, but there are many others.

Sometimes I see posts from some kind of anonymous confessions bot, I think it’s on mastodon. They are often amusing.

What do I look like, an RSPCA Badger Inspector?

That depends. Are we sure the badger is woke? Not all badgers, but some of them can be quite small-minded.

With a title like that you know it’s going to be 100% FUD. Not that Canonical doesn’t deserve some of it.

Easy. Never run windows.

In a situation where there’s a natural monopoly, perhaps it should be nationalized.

It should not happen often. If it does, something’s wrong with your system of regulation.

How about any firm that hits a 15% share of any significant mature market gets declared the winner and is abolished.

As wikipedia puts it: “The assassination failed to achieve its immediate objective of restoring the Republic’s institutions. Instead, it precipitated Caesar’s posthumous deification, triggered the Liberators’ civil war (43–42 BC) between his supporters and the conspirators, and contributed to the collapse of the Republic. These events ultimately culminated in the rise of the Roman Empire under Augustus, marking the beginning of the Principate era.”

If that day says anything about the end of tyrants, it’s that murdering one can sometimes be futile and counterproductive.

Capitalism.

Fuck all the cars, regardless of how obnoxiously loud they are.

That goofy artificial “Mario Kart” stuff does make it difficult to tell how much of a difference the aero changes make in terms of overtaking, but I feel like it might be the more substantial change.

Invading the Ukraine.

No. The less carbon that is added to the atmosphere, the less severe the damage will be. Economic collapse will only increase the motivation to rely on cheap and dirty fuels, not to mention the incentives to cut down all the trees and exterminate all the wildlife.

Don’t fall for it, Germany. There’s never going to be a convenient time to stop burning fossil fuels. The economists will never tell you it’s a good idea, unless it’s in some comfortably distant future that will never come. Do it now.

That’s a different type of server, but I guess it too would be at risk if you had someone else hosting it for you — any service at all could be given orders to install secret wiretap facilities for cops and spies, according to they way they’re written the law.

Looks like I’ll have to find a non-Canadian VPN provider. What a pain.

It seems like that would be a pretty good shower thought if I could make any sense of it at all. Profile says “prompt engineer.” Did an LLM come up with it? Or is there something I don’t know about David Mitchell and/or Slavoj Zizek?

Sure you could ban VPNs — just as easily as you could ban newspapers.