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nostr:npub1azknckv754uk29p35ydkes8gqv443ea8470jkqpauf2n6wl5kefq7wlv23 This story is a schadenfreude bonanza. If only Nvidia and Microsoft were somehow involved.

nostr:npub1lm3mycesgk0uvhlsesnty9w62rmfrd5avqsha9kvfykery2gll8qlpkg7j nostr:npub1a73wyr3s8ffagwsnlfd548d0nsaqcwdnn6550akehaxglw3kzc8qce7y6q Back in the 90s, it was often pronounced LIE-nucks for that very reason. But then some people pointed out that Linus isn’t pronounced LIE-nus in Finland, so they started trying to pronounce it the way Finns would. But there’s a bit of nuance to the vowel in Linus. It’s closer to LEE-nus, but there’s just enough of a diphthong that it has a hint of the “IH” sound to it as well. So that’s what it became.

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nostr:npub1z06laf0rhhwzd7h0y303hfp6e7r29e8p6vyl2yr7nv5uefdgtcfslny3q9 This reminds me of an interesting leak-type thing about ufo tech I found a while ago. In a nutshell, it claimed that the reason the us gov is hiding the tech is because it would basically make anarcho-frontierism a reality - but at the expense of encryption, which would be rendered useless. The average schmoe could just weld together their own ufo and become Han Solo, never paying taxes again. (There was also something about immensely-powerful WMDs being made possible....)

nostr:npub1z06laf0rhhwzd7h0y303hfp6e7r29e8p6vyl2yr7nv5uefdgtcfslny3q9 nostr:npub1yuw48yr8dmftpspfxd2xeccz8jtqlmwkwtjxdjw40vescelr6wdqj28dz7 What they really fear is something much simpler: that ordinary people will stop trusting them en masse. That’s the true source of their power. No need for alien spacecraft or advanced technologies. Just plain old faith in the legitimacy of institutions and a lack of curiosity about the character of those who control them.