Nothing else you said mattered. 🤷

Also, even within the one option, if at some point I upgraded my Linux system and I got an empty /var/www directory, it would never in a million years occur to me to say “Well that’s stupid I don’t want that directory” and remove it.

Because frankly you don’t know enough to know any better. Sorry if that sounds condescending, but it’s the truth. You should be able to delete /var/www without it causing any security problems. That you don’t know that isn’t your fault, it’s experience.

I’m just being serious. If your software has some files and directories, and you start fucking with them, it might react badly. It doesn’t really matter if you feel like the existence or layout of them is unjustified in some way. Just let them be, or else switch to some other software, or else take responsibility for making sure stuff won’t break from you fucking with them. Those are the options. “Delete it on purpose and then whine about how it shouldn’t have been set up that way in the first place, if stuff breaks” isn’t one of the options.

“Never delete anything on your computer because it might be needed”?

This isn’t “some random directory” as you’ve claimed before. It’s a specific directory used by IIS. It’s akin to /var/www for apache. If you uninstalled apache you would, and should, delete /var/www to cleanup afterwards.

If you uninstall IIS you should be able to delete C:\inetpub to cleanup.

That it causes a security problem you didn’t know about is not your fault. It’s Microsoft’s fault. That is a stupid bug to have and they need to fix it properly.

Generating dependencies is a huge weak point of ai right now. Version numbers are typically made up or very out of date at best. I just assume they’re wrong from the start now.

I feel like this is parody and I’m not getting the joke.

Yeah… This reeks of stupidity, though. It’s a folder used by iis but you need it even if iis isn’t installed.

Same, have a good one!

I feel, personally, that it needs to be a bit of both. If people don’t speak up it’s difficult for others to find they may not be so alone in their views. Discontent needs to be visible and heard to start a movement. Sadly (as shown in the video referenced - and in recent elections) simply “playing the game” has resulted in this death spiral we appear to be in. What is to be done? Disproportionately congress is still occupied by boomers who refuse to pass the torch and tragically are out of touch with reality. Gen X and Millennials make up very few seats thanks to the death grip held on many of these seats. They’re old so you need to speak up ;) Jokes aside - to gain any traction on subjects such as these we need to be vocal.

Yeah - I hear that. I wouldn’t say “don’t speak up” so much as don’t just speak up. Speak up but also work the system as it is, Losing the vote to somebody like Trump is counter-productive, maintaining the status quo would have been better even if it’s still imperfect.

I disagree somewhat here. I believe both parties put a fairly significant effort into their particular candidate.

I’m thinking more of Trump’s first campaign which set this all in action. That’s when he was truly still an outsider.

Other than that I think we mostly agree.

There is no such thing as a “best candidate”.

Forgive me, I’m confused as to what your point was then. Your figures of speech seem to have muddled the water enough to make this conversation cyclical… so perhaps some clarification would help. Care to provide some insight on the two times you used it?

Always glad to clarify when it’s asked for.

I agree that we should have a more multi-party system. Period. Good idea - lets do it. But we don’t have one.

So how do you effect change? Pitch a fit and claim the system is unfair and scream into the void? Or find a way within the existing system to change it? The latter is what I mean by “playing the game”.

Hard-line racists conservatives have been similarly disillusioned as liberals about the two party system, both feeling unrepresented. The conservatives worked within the system to elect Trump who is effectively a 3rd party candidate within a 2 party system by co-opting one of the parties. They “played the game” as it were and they’re changing the system now.

Republicans hated Trump during (and only during) his initial run for the presidency.

Yes, that is my point.

Speaking of games - as far as I can tell MAGA isn’t playing any game at all: they are simply a hate group with a figurehead.

“Playing the game” is a figure of speech.

MAGA played the game better than liberals. They got Trump. He’s effectively a third party candidate. Republicans hated him. But liberals whine about “lesser of two evils” while maga voted.

What does “pretending we have a different system” get you?

Yes. But until it does you play the game as it currently works.

That’s his “humor” that so many of his cultists find just hilarious. 🙄

He has no fucking idea how anything works. Even his own EO has nothing to do with water pressure, it’s about flow rate. The guy is a moron.

“But I think Donald Trump’s concerns are somewhat out of date, to tell you the truth.”

Back to around the '30s from what I can tell.

Oh man, I’d forgotten about trac!

Yeah - the decentralized nature isn’t that big of a deal, most people treat it like it’s centralized anyway…

The most amazing thing about git was they way they track changes (file contents rather than names) which allows it to branch and merge almost effortlessly. Search for “SVN Tree Conflict” for an example of what I’m talking about. Oh, you renamed a file that you modified on a branch? Your life is hell now.

And point at the leader! No, with your whole hand!