"The Mafia" is... many different things.
From self-defense post-war southern-italian village organisations to pure-evil predatory psycho-clans, to anything in between.
> IN “The Godfather”, Don Vito Corleone refuses to engage in the heroin trade because he considers it “a dirty business”.
The movie was well-planned by Francis - but the mafia is a mass-murder organisation, without exception. Japan finally got the better of Yakuza for the most part (it is nowhere near as powerful as it was once); Italy still struggles, in particular with regards to Ndrangheta. So any article that attempts to white-wash the mafia in Italy - nope, sorry, not even good movies such as the godfather should disguise the mass-murder organisation. See how they bombed Giovanni Falcone to death, let's not forget that; and more recently how Ndrangheta executed women (2026; see https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39mr81j2j1o) who stopped being silent about the genocidal activities of Ndrangheta. Let's put it short: the mafia needs to be eliminated completely. It's not easy since they infiltrated so much in Italy and in parts elsewhere (just study how Capone in the USA got big, then you realise that the USA has an even bigger problem here - plus, fentanyl too), but it has to be done. There is no alternative unless you want organisations to undermine the state and continue its genocidal tendencies. You can be sure they are also involved in smuggling weapons, thus contributing to genocide outside of Italy directly as well.
Please no more white-washing articles of the mafia as glorious heroes "because they keep fentanyl out of Italy". (Besides, this is not even correct to begin with; fentanyal at the least right now, plays a very small role in Europe at best; in the USA this is different. See how Trump tries to blame Canadians for Fentanyl, smuggled via eggs, which is another one of his non-stop lies about Canadians.)
The first two seasons are great, watch it with subtitles (fun fact: in Italy it was also shown in tv with subs because most people cannot understand neapolitan dialect).
it is absolutely critical to watch Gomorrah in Italian. The English dubs are comically poor quality (think of how MS Word used to emotionlessly read text aloud).
That's not true. Trump no longer has a majority (see the coming elections) yet continues to be of inferior quality at all times. MAGA no longer supports Trump as they did two years ago, he lost million supporters already, and continues to lose more. He is now a sinking ship.
> No matter how toxic you are, you can amass support at the speed of light.
That is true. We see that with Trump, where he tries to force the EU to open markets to the US corporations who will just steal data from EU citizens.
Why can't the EU learn more from Canada? Canada realised that with Trump there is no way to make a deal. So cut things down where possible, diversify - the EU still has to learn this lesson. In particular Germany is totally US-addicted - no idea why, other than, of course, the obvious answer ("we need to export into the USA", aka selfish greed from Germany here).
First off - decoupling from Trump-USA is a must. Canadians noticed
this; european countries are still slow. The Netherlands is faster;
the biggest slow-ass behemoth is Germany - no clue why. Germany is
a big reason why the EU fails, but also the expansionistic agenda
and what not (why do only poor countries want to join the EU;
UK left, Switzerland and Norway are not going to join, so there
are indeed INTERNAL problems, but let's go back to the dependency
on the USA).
So while more alternatives here are the logical answer, as well
as eliminate the greedy US corpoations, I am not sure NixOS as
it is right now is ideal. On paper, NixOS should solve EVERYTHING.
For instance, if a build status works for one user, the environment
guarantee should mean it works for EVERYONE ELSE. Same with other
problems and hardware, so in theory, NixOS should be perfect.
In practice, though, I found working with NixOS annoying, for many
reasons. A static system that has issues, is not good. A static
system that restricts me in problem solving, is not good. Plus,
Nix is ugly to no ends - I have no idea why the NixOS team thought
a new programming language is required. Why do I need to define
static elements in Nix? Why not make that more free form? I already
describe my whole system via yaml files, which in turn ruby uses
to generate everything I need. Then there are smaller issues, like
why do I need to use systemd on NixOS, why can I not used versioned
AppDirs with a name scheme similar to GoboLinux (hashed program
directories on NixOS are, of course, also versioned app-dirs, but
I hate reading 7897389nughuewz789gewh2t93h923-hghwugeiw73, that
simply tells me nothing. Why not have /Programs/Python/3.15.0/ ?
It can't be simpler than that.)
Anyway - good for the Netherlands to push here, Denmark, Sweden,
Finland will also push, even France, though slower. Now please
everyone, help us convince the german government to stop being
such a tool for Trump. Merz is a failure anyway, but the problems
go far deeper than merely Trump, and with the AfD going to seize
power, idiocy will again dominate in Germany. That's very bad.
Germany is soooooooo slow here. Microsoft even managed to kill
LiMux years ago. They have placed their economic hitmen in Germany,
so the whole EU does not work anyway because Germany will keep on
dragging every other country down. It is thus very understandable
why real innovation comes from the smaller countries in the EU, as
they are quicker to innovate. Unfortunately the big german behemoth
will roll over them and again cripple many required things in the
EU.
> TLDR: DHH isn't anti-rails, he is pro-agentic coding.
That's an opinion, not a summary though. The way how DHH behaved is really awkward in the last years. See the "let's shoot down wolves" blog entry here:
That DHH is into AI agents everywhere is easy to see, but if you go to rails-con, would you not expect this to be about rails as such, and people? Now it's about rust - and AI. Controlled by big corporations. Yikes - some people must be upset about having gone there to listen to DHH preaching about an agentic future.
Edit: I also watched parts of the recent youtube video about rails. I could not focus on the content because DHH's style was so strange. I've seen that style before - nothingburger talks. Look at phrases he used such as "I have retired from being a professional programmer/software engineer". This is all aimed to hype up "agentic coding is the future". Rails is dead - that video is all the proof one needs. DHH shifted gears to AI, and it is quite similar to when he first promoted rails. But now it is about AI, not rails.
But he himself promotes such a future too. This is a conflict of interest.
You can say "ride the wave", but this is more - this is helping the wave become huge. And cashing in too. Sorry, but I no longer buy any of what these guys do. To me they seem like BigBro ad-clowns.
> Agents do currently work well with Rails
According to whom? And not everyone wants to become dependent on corporate-agents sucking them dry financially. We all know the increase-in-cost will come with regards to tokens, after the get-hook addiction phase is over.
I agree that the article is quite short, but it is not true that the article said nothing at all.
For instance, the article quite clearly makes a connection between money being pumped into Omarchy, and this, in turn, most likely leading to a linux distributions that would quite possibly be beneficial to various Big Bro agendas (plus, advertisement for AI in general, aka "look ma, AI slop produced this AWESOME distribution"; and by the way, rails marketing was EXACTLY like that in 2007 or 2008 too). This in turn points to the possibility that Omarchy is a Big Bro project. Another connection made is that this will be used to maximize costly token sales. Now - the author does not provide strong statements on the latter, but the former is already known. Look at the "donors" and "sponsors". Tell me this has zero influence? We could already see this before with shopify, and DHH is part of that group. Look how much influence they bought in ruby; see how developers got whacked out of ruby due to that, who then built https://gem.coop/about/faq/. There is definitely an influence via money - there is no denying that.
As for not having much to say about a five hours interview - well. That could be the fault of the author. Or perhaps DHH does not have anything substantially to say for five hours. Who knows. I don't think I can afford 5 hours of my life having to listen to DHH ever since his "I hate wolves and hobos!" entry: https://world.hey.com/dhh/wolves-sheep-and-gypsies-ba44af6a
The Mafia kills people directly. That's a sudden-death right there.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39mr81j2j1o
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