Sure, I could see that. But on the other hand, this is ostensibly a photo of a building that exists IRL, so clearly it can’t be topologically impossible in an Escher-esque way.

Escher used a lot of repeating patterns. This is more like a Picasso.

Exactly, which is why designing the language to allow it is incompetence.

the programming language that had a stated design goal to do its best and try to keep running scripts that make no sense…

…itself makes no sense. It is wrong and bad that Javascript was ever designed that way in the first place.

Which “1” did it remove? And did it search the string to find a “1” to remove, or did it remove whichever character happened to be at array index 1?

It is ‘comprehensible’ in the sense that it’s possible to figure out how it happened, but it absolutely does not “make sense” in terms of being a reasonable language design decision. It’s 100% incompetence on the part of the person who created Javascript.

“Self-destructing” is like fetch: it isn’t gonna happen. Stop trying to make self-destructing happen!

(No, seriously: the ability to enforce self-destruction of a message on a computer implies a pervasive Hellscape of DRM. You really don’t actually want that.)

This is not a “how do I be polite” situation. This is a “how do I cover my ass legally” situation. Mistake it for the former at your peril.

GNU. Just GNU; IDGAF which kernel it is (as long as it’s copyleft and supports my hardware).

Nah, not a rowboat; go for a sailboat.

Also, regarding the FOSS part: https://opencpn.org/

(You’re trying to shitpost, but I’ve actually been considering the issue seriously, LOL.)

He didn’t and still doesn’t, but he absolutely cares about rewriting history to support his Big Lie.

Can confirm:

• When I bought an RX Vega 56 on launch day seven years ago and installed it the same day, I had to go with the proprietary AMDGPU-PRO driver (on Kubuntu) because the Free drivers didn’t support it yet.

• When I bought an RX 9070 XT on launch day two months ago but took a few weeks to install it (because it was wider than my old Vega I had to get a different case, which I spent a little while deciding on), I had to upgrade to the actual latest mainline kernel instead of the one Kubuntu shipped with, but then it “just worked” without any proprietary drivers. (The same would’ve been true had I installed it immediately on launch day as 6.13.5, which added support for it, came out before the card was released.)

Of course, it suddenly occurs to me upon reading this thread that I haven’t tried the new card out with GPGPU or LLM-type stuff yet, and since I’m not using the proprietary driver this time I guess I still need to install ROCm. Oops, LOL.

KDE gathered a lot of initial hate because the Qt widget library it relied on used to not be proper Free Software. (That was fixed about two decades ago, though.)

I’m pretty sure that the vast majority of hate for KDE back in the day was because Qt started out with a non-Free Software license, not because it was bad in terms of quality.

That’s money you quickly recoup by not paying any US taxes.

You’ve said that twice now. I was under the impression that if your US tax liability is $X but you already paid >$X in foreign taxes, you file a form saying so and your US tax liability drops to $0. Is my understanding incorrect?

And as of Apr 14, 2025, the safety of not living in a dictatorship where the rule of law doesn’t apply anymore is also a big plus.

That’s an excellent argument for not living within US jurisdiction, but how is it an argument for not keeping US citizenship as an ex-pat? Are first-world countries like the ones you mentioned likely to force you to return to US jurisdiction even with you being a citizen of the other country?

[Listing of various qualitative benefits, concluding with…] Not being American is mostly a matter of refusing to be associated with - and finance - an amoral society.

No argument from me on any of that! (In particular, as a Not Just Bikes fan, I’m well aware and extremely envious of superior European quality of life.)

Are there any other concrete reasons why having secondary US citizenship would be a liability, though? For example, does it cause problems crossing borders even if you’re traveling on the other country’s passport, or some other practical issue like that? Or maybe I vaguely remember reading something once about it being problematic to open foreign bank accounts as a US citizen…? Those are the kinds of things I’m hoping you could expand upon.

But it paid for itself many times over in that I never had to pay US taxes for income I generated outside the US

Did it really? I was under the impression that foreign taxes paid reduced US taxes owed, so (unless you were in some low-tax country, which doesn’t seem likely given that you’re talking about countries with better government services than the US) wouldn’t your US taxes have been minimal, if not zero? I also understand that filing each year to claim that exemption could be a hassle, but it doesn’t seem like enough of one to be worth the “racket” of renunciation over.

I’m open to the idea that renunciation could be better than maintaining dual citizenship, but you haven’t convinced me yet. What other pros/cons are there?

They’re already setting up to ratfuck AOC out of it again.

From another article on the topic, https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5273998-democrats-oversight-connolly-ranking-member/ :

While Connolly has stepped away from the daily rigors of the ranking membership amid a fight with esophageal cancer, he hasn’t stepped down from the position altogether. Instead, he’s tapped Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), another senior member of the Oversight Committee, to serve as interim ranking member for the indefinite future.

That move places Lynch as the top Democrat on the panel, but without the formalities — including a vote of the full caucus — required to seat a permanent ranking member.

Emacs has a text editor???

We shitpost on Lemmy and start flame wars about vi vs. emacs, X11 vs Wayland, sysvinit vs systemd, snaps vs flatpak, etc.