TIL there is vim for Windows.

https://www.vim.org/download.php

“Mark Zuckerberg made more than $28 billion this morning after Meta stock makes record surge” https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/02/business/meta-stock-surge-mark-zuckerberg/index.html

seems fair.

“It was obviously really tough, we parted with a lot of talented people we cared about" - Mark Zuckerberg

“Mark Zuckerberg made more than $28 billion this morning after Meta stock makes record surge” https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/02/business/meta-stock-surge-mark-zuckerberg/index.html

Kid at school named Miles Long.

Dude should have picked up some tips from Badger: https://piped.video/watch?v=I6_yFJuA6gk (Breaking Bad clip - Badger arrest scene)

ahem - nobody I know will use X.

Sorry for the misunderstanding, I didn’t say anything like that - go easy on those quote marks ;) - I’m just talking about Australian history, not the current events. I am cautious discussing history in this contentious thread because I’m really just interested in the discussion about indigenous Australians, who did resist occupation, to the extent they could. The colonial response to that became “The Frontier Wars”. Which was quasi-official genocide.

There are parallels in colonization throughout history, of course, which is presumably how this particular discussion came about, but today’s situation is obviously a vastly different time and place to early Australia and I’m not informed enough to opine on what’s happening now. I’m just here reading stuff on Lemmy.

Having said all this, indigenous Australians were living for thousands of years without any formalized state, political or military structure. No metal, wheels, writing or permanent dwellings. Had there been less difference in technology and logistical capabilities between aboriginal Australians and the British in the early 1800s, then Australia would probably look very different than it does today.

For the first years of Australia’s colonization, there was militant Aboriginal resistance - of course, given their technological disadvantages, it was not successful and the indigenous population were slaughtered at every turn.

The most well-known and feared of the early insurrectionists - a Bidjigal man named Pemulwuy - is today celebrated by white Australian culture - one of Sydney’s suburbs is named for him. The British were somewhat less charitable in 1802, when he was finally captured, shot and beheaded after many years of fighting against their presence in early Sydney.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_frontier_wars

https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/pemulwuy

The mining lobby in Australia is behind everything.

https://www.mining-technology.com/features/in-numbers-how-mining-came-to-be-australias-most-profitable-sector/

thanks - to save other cheapskates’ time - these are supported on Linux: Handshakes, OpenTTD, Cave Crawler

not all of them.

Academy award-nominated actress Margot Robbie does actually spend most of her free time modding an android group on Lemmy - but you will never see that mentioned on mainstream social media.

you’re right. I wasn’t necessarily disagreeing with you, sorry to come off that way. I just think that any money from the public treasury given to an entity associated with Elon Musk is going in the wrong direction.

I understand that having lousy internet service sucks. I’d just prefer if no part of public spending whatsoever was going to an individual as malodorous as Elon Musk, who already has abundantly more than his fair share.

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Try, try again.

SpaceX becomes NASA’s second-largest vendor, surpassing Boeing

NASA obligated $2.04 billion to SpaceX in fiscal year 2022.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/10/spacex-becomes-nasas-second-largest-vendor-surpassing-boeing/

SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are about to ruin stargazing for everyone

With the naked eye, stargazing from a dark-sky location allows you to see about 4,500 stars. From a typical suburban location, you can see about 400. Simulations show that from 52 degrees north (the latitude of both Saskatoon and London, U.K.) hundreds of Starlinks will be visible for a couple of hours after sunset and before sunrise (comparable to the number of visible stars) and dozens of these will be visible all night during the summer months.

https://theconversation.com/spacexs-starlink-satellites-are-about-to-ruin-stargazing-for-everyone-149516

Boondoggle

Friends don’t let friends support fascists.

You mean the ancient old farts who invented the internet? Yep. Couldn’t even use a mouse. No wonder the world wide web is so enshittified. Idiots.

Same shit, different century.