Luke (Shiv)

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Civil Servant; the people come first. I am interested in systems of all types; there are so many ways we could make things better. Sincereposter.
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Luke (Shiv)23h ago

Gavin Newsom is requiring all state employees to be back in the office 4 days a week, right before his term ends. This will cost the people of California money, as the state was in the process of reducing office rents prior to his previous turnaround on RTO. It will however benefit his buddies with properties in downtown Sacramento. It will also cost the state in terms of hiring and retention, which is already an issue given how low the wages are compared to the cost of living in CA. He is doing this right as the union is up for a new contract, having used the previous RTO order as leverage to prevent a negotiated pay raise from going through, at the same time that all of us are dealing with record inflation.

Gavin Newsom is not on the side of people, or workers. He is not worth supporting.

Luke (Shiv)2d ago
Show threadDag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎2d ago
@mcc What about the part where a frustrated man threatens to kill a health executive in 2024 and becomes a huge folk hero and internet meme?
Luke (Shiv)2d ago
ptoothfish (but beige)3d ago

“gIvE kIdS tHeIr cHiLdHoOd BaCk”

so… you mean fund recreation centres and out of school activities? NO

sports clubs and increasingly walkable cities? HAHA NO

playgrounds, green spaces, skate parks, libraries, any non-commercial spaces where kids don’t have to pay to exist? WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

oh… enforce realistic safety standards for urban SUVs and light trucks? WHAT HAS THAT EVEN GOT TO DO WITH THE PRICE OF EGGS?

so how exactly does one give kids their childhood back? BAN SNAPCHAT TIKTOK AND INSTAGRAM

oh… what about 4chan or stormfront or kiwifarms? DON’T BE OBTUSE WE CAN’T BAN THOSE HOW WOULD THAT EVEN WORK??!?

Luke (Shiv)4d ago
Linux in a BitJan 29

 What's the most common complaint I've heard about Linux?

Not the installation process.
Not finding a distro.
Not getting programs to work.
Not troubleshooting.
Not hardware compatibility.

The most common complaint about Linux I've seen is this:
For a normal computer user, asking for help is just about impossible.

They ask a simple question and:
People respond "Did you Google it?"
People complain that the question wasn't asked "correctly".
People respond "RTFM"
People get mad??? at them for making an easy mistake.

We can't expect normal people to know to, or even know how to deal with any of that stuff.

Search engines these days are awful, manuals are hard to read for most people (especially stuff like ArchWiki), and normal people make mistakes we think are easily avoidable.

The solution to making Linux more popular is not ruthless promotion. The solution is to actually help the people who are trying to use it.  

#Linux

Luke (Shiv)6d ago

Technically (but a fight that is long lost):

When written, "Identity" should be shortened to "Id." not "ID".

I wonder how many things are shaped by old computer systems frequently putting everything in caps/blockier letters.

Luke (Shiv)6d ago
🌍Peter 🔥 Antifa✊6d ago

88 Corporations That Paid No US Federal Income Tax in 2025 Spent $852 Million on Recent Lobbying, Elections | Common Dreams, Jun 11, 2026

“The result,” said the author of a new Public Citizen analysis, “is a self-reinforcing loop where corporate cash buys policy, and policy pays cash back.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/tax-dodging-corporations-spend-big-on-lobbying

88 Corporations That Paid No US Federal Income Tax in 2025 Spent $852 Million on Recent Lobbying, Elections | Common Dreams

"The result," said the author of a new Public Citizen analysis, "is a self-reinforcing loop where corporate cash buys policy, and policy pays cash back."

Common Dreams
Luke (Shiv)6d ago
heyheymomoJun 11
What a guy
Luke (Shiv)Jun 10
feliks✨Jun 6
meow. (human voice)
Luke (Shiv)Jun 10
Show threadDan Fixes Coin-OpsJun 10
Frankly I also wonder how many thousands of hours of human time and effort was wasted by not just saying "Right, we don't care where you're from or how you write it on paper, it's YYYY-MM-DD any time you touch a computer, and frankly y'all can just deal with it"
Luke (Shiv)Jun 10
ARGVMI~1.PIFJun 9

The biggest threat to child safety, by far, is poverty.

When I was growing up, the future was bright. You'd go to school, get a good job, buy a house and car, raise some kids, all that. It was gonna be great.

That's all gone now. Kids these days have nothing to look forward to except unemployment, spiraling debt, and homelessness.

And governments are now crowing about protecting children? BS! They don't give a rat's ass about children. If they did, THAT ⤴️ wouldn't be happening right now.