I don’t think anyone could look at the evidence and come to a different conclusion, honestly.

I’d hoped nobody would come to the conclusion that was the core argument, but it is a consideration.

And I would like to draw attention to the totalitarian nature of our attitudes towards suicide. It’s been enforced heartlessly for a very long time - if you commit suicide, you’ll go someplace worse. It’s this, it’s that. All ultimately to remove the last escape for people who are in some form of extreme physical, mental, emotional or existential pain to the point where they don’t believe there’s another solution.

I’d sooner discuss why we have those attitudes - maybe it’s so we get a free pass to be extractive and shitty whilst simultaneously denying the people we abuse even the dignity of leaving on their own terms.

Suicide is not assisted, leaves a mess for those that discover a corpse, EMT’s and others to clean up. Someone’s suffering might end when they jump in front of a train but the train driver’s suffering only just begins at that point.

Suicide is often an unmanaged, chaotic process which causes trauma. It also often fails whilst leaving those that attempt it in bad physical shape. A law like this reduces the necessity of discussing, normalizing or enabling suicide because there is a safe and properly counseled path out of a no-win situation for those that truly need it. A policy on containment when there are probably household cleaners that could do the job effectively with a small amount of chemistry knowledge is absolutely insane - and if someone truly is in that much pain, they’ll find a way. Families and loved ones also have time to work through grief and loss rather than getting the wind knocked out of them when they hear the news.

The fact that we’ve hit a point where we can even have a discussion about this is probably something that should be celebrated, rather than being so totalitarian and controlling that we effectively force people to live even when they’re in enormous pain.

Despair is useless

I tried to get this up and running back on my K6-2, unfortunately I couldn’t work out how to get the X server running with my 3Dlabs FireGL Pro card at the time.

This. People exercised their consciences.

At least we have Bitwig for music production now (if you can work out how to use it… I still haven’t had the time :-/ )

Matrix

…yet another reason to not use that pestilence.

I managed to migrate all mine to libvirt when I dumped esxi. They dropped support for the old opteron I was running at the time, so I couldn’t upgrade to v7. Welp, Fedora Server does just as well and I’ve been moving the VM hosted services into containers anyway.

Ofc… well, we’ll see what IBM does with RedHat. Probably something like this eventually. They simply can’t help themselves.

CUNTS.

isn’t riccitiello the same fuck who was behind EA’s sharp turn bitchwards? and who even Sleepy Joe called “A creep”

[ohgod]

But seriously… i burned out of EVE many moons ago, just too grindy.

I wish they’d give SteamVR on Linux a long overdue upgrade.

And by upgrade I mean “Make it look like it’s a project which is even alive”

I’m sure they must be feeling a great sense of pride and accomplishment.

I’ve already decided it is, so I don’t care what they say. I also refuse to purchase games with digital restrictions management like this - franky, these days I have better things to do with my time.

OneAPI also looks quite juicy… from someone currently suffering under ROCm and in refusal to give the green goblin any business.