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Cake day: August 7th, 2024

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  • Then why are most “uncivilized” societies have more egalitarian and non-violent than “civilized” ones?

    Uncivilized societies engage in violence much more frequently than civilized societies.

    That’s the case for individual/personal violence, and also for institutional/mass violence.

    Civilized societies are better than uncivilized society in anything they do collectively, be it science, production, or murder.

    Since civilized societies are so much better at murdering, the few cases where mass murder does happen are much more significant.

    However, such cases remain an exception, as opposed to what is the case for uncivilized societies.

    Uncivilized societies may be harmless, but they are certainly not peaceful.

    Civilized societies are more powerful, but they yield their power much more carefully.






  • Windows 11 doesn’t even support first gen Ryzen CPUs. The amount of hardware that runs Windows 11 without tinkering is a tiny fraction of the hardware that runs Fedora Workstation without tinkering.

    Linux is much better with drivers and hardware support than Windows. Windows only works well if you use the very small subset of hardware it supports.


  • My cat likes to jump on my shoulders. When I wear clothes, she uses her claws to keep her balance. But when I’m topless, she doesn’t use her claws (and instead awkwardly tries to get down). It seems like she knows that clothes mean I’m protected and that she can use her claws without hurting me.





  • Providing expiration notifications costs Let’s Encrypt tens of thousands of dollars per year

    Not doubting them, but I don’t understand how that’s possible.

    Storing the email addresses and expiration dates takes an irrelevant amount of storage space, even if they had billions of cutomers.

    Sending the emails should also not cost thousands, even if a significant amount of customers regularly let their certificates expire (which hopefull isn’t the case).

    So where are the tens of thousands of yearly costs coming from?