Chuck Schumer is working towards some waffle bullshit “compromise” where ICE pinky promises to be less nazi-ish, and taxpayers cough up another $10 billion to fund the guys beating the fuck out of people and shooting people on the street.
Chuck Schumer is a fucking coward, a collaborator, and an accomplice.
Breaking News: bad things continue to happen in such great numbers that it’s impossible to keep track of it all
@ghalldev @justincox I wonder if they’ll add the Apple Creator Studio to Apple One Premier. That would be nice.
@ramsey @justincox Or have a tier without Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Logic. It’s so bizarre to have to pay for those even if you’re not doing video or audio production.
I like the #XFCE desktop on #Linux and #FreeBSD as it is full featured, bug free, and lightning fast. I noticed the battery life on my new laptop was ok, but found it odd why the CPU was running at high frequencies at all up to 5GHz. So I set the maximum CPU speed at 500MHz, which is faster than the insane speed of a #DEC #Alphaserver in the early 1990's. And this is still that fast, but with 8 cores. And now the battery is on the second day at 86%. Even when compiling code, 500MHz is insanely fast. The battery charge might last longer than some calculators I had...
"500MHz ought to be enough for anyone"
It's almost Febuary!
This new collaborative organization brings together ChimeraOS, Nobara, Playtron, ASUS Linux, and more to streamline the work of creating amazing Linux gaming distros.
https://gardinerbryant.com/bazzite-announces-open-gaming-collective
Today is Data Privacy Day 🔒✨
On this day, remember that privacy isn't some luxury we can live without.
Privacy is a fundamental right that
is essential to safety, to community, to freedom of speech, and to democracy.
Authoritarians are trying to
undermine our privacy rights because they are well aware of this. Do not let them ✊
This year, let's fight for our privacy rights like we never did before. So many of our other human rights depend on it 🔒💚
#DataPrivacyDay #Privacy #Democracy #DigitalRights #HumanRights
It's really interesting hearing @waffles talk about the weird early days of the internet. Like, people scrounging computers, fumbling their way online, figuring out how to eke out network bandwidth in some sketchy co-lo. None of this was done for some big profit, it was just fun becaues the internet was cool and exciting. Just to nerds at first, but then thanks to nerds, to everyone!
I still sense some of that weird spirit alive in this Mastodon instance, and Mastodon in general.
@tommertron @tchambers @waffles Proud to be a so-called "nerd"! Someone who believed and still believe in Internet as a bridge rather than a series of islands full of obstacles, like the monsters in Greek myths.
We can still be alive and strong, and we must take this responsibility in hand. Crying on "what OTHERS turned Internet into", is not the solution. I feel responsible myself in first person, for having underestimated the huge marketing campaign Facebook made in early 2008, Zuckerberg touched a couple of weak points in me: the fact I could restore contacts with old friends (being blind in the 90s meant barriers in corresponding with folks coming from other cities or countries); and Facebook fooled me even with the mechanism "just write without thinking of templates, graphics, etc". Not to talk of alternative texts in photos which worked not so good but Facebook knew how to exploit them.
I've contributed in first person to enshittification, and now I'm a proud fighter to help other (younger and older) human beings, to restart exploring the world for what it really is.
I don't think people understand how spicy #Upscrolled is going to get. The CEO professes to have a "once it's not illegal" policy. Even if you have enough mods, that's not going to wind up great.
They seem to have no cap or rate limiting of registrations and are "blowing up" at the cost of a Discover feed that's got some fairly fucked up shit in right now. Gore, porn, propaganda for extremist groups, plenty of bigotry. If it was on fedi I'd have it blocked.
Adam Schiff means well, but this is just not going to cut it.
After an entire year of the US administration going full Hitler, Schiff is still appealing to the conscience of those who have none.
Don't bring logic to a Nazi fight. Bring punishment. Tell this administration it will be crushed by the forces of freedom, and then set an example by using the powers of Congress to remove Kristi Noem from the chessboard.
Her piece is not glued to the board.
@randahl Thank you. Agree 100%.
If anyone in #Portland Oregon has experience repairing a charging port on things, I'd be open to considering paying someone to repair my PS #Vita. My workbench area is in shambles due to chaos (and quite frankly, so am I).
I don't particularly care if it's a replacement USB Micro, or a USB C mod, as long as both charging and data work, and it's as close to stock appearance as possible.
I love my Vita, and there's going to be a period of time where PS4/5 and Portal won't be usable.
"Meanwhile, the company’s remaining performance obligations (RPO), a closely watched measure of contracted future revenue, more than doubled to $625 billion. OpenAI accounts for roughly 45% of that backlog, reflecting the AI company’s long-term commitments to use Microsoft’s Azure cloud infrastructure under their renegotiated partnership.
The rest of Microsoft’s RPO balance grew 28%, which the company said was aided by a commitment from Anthropic... "
@catsalad@infosec.exchange big same
@jiub The "Fill out carefully as you only get one form" notice does NOT help my anxiety!!
Damn rip Dan McQuade
@HamonWry pizza
Fun fact. February 9th is National Pizza Day.
It sounds exciting at first, and then you realize they’re wrong because every day is National Pizza Day.
🤷🏻♂️
I had thought the L scale meant "logarithm" since it's the base 10 logarithm of the C scale, but it actually stands for "linear". It's the A, B, C, D, and K scales that are logarithmic!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule has a good description of all the scales. The letters are apparently standard across all slide rules. Which is good, because this one is Japanese!
Oh geez I just learned what the ST scale is for, and it blew my mind. ST means sine and tangent. It starts at 40 minutes (a lot of slide rules use hexagesimal for angles) and goes up to six degrees. This is the arctangent *and* the arcsine *and* the conversion from radians to degrees of the C scale, because they're all basically the same within the precision with which you can read the slide rule! You have to divide the C scale by 10 to use it with this scale, so 5.7 degrees on the ST scale lines up with the 1 on the C scale. 5.7 degrees is approximately 0.1, and the sine and tangent are both approximately 0.1.
Word to the wise - Tarkovskys Stalker is available free in full in HD with subtitles on YouTube (if viewed on DuckDuckGo you'll have no ads). I'm glad I finally got around to watching it (even if I was supposed to be working). Did I enjoy it? Yes I think so despite it being impenetrable and extremely Russian and also not understanding the ending. Sort of gorgeous and achingly... something. An exploration of meaning and humanity or..... something. I'll be honest - it seemed quite a lot like the existential ramblings of grief and despair of..... well, me. Am I a Tarkovsky? Could be. Maybe I went into the room and this is what happened. My base desires laid bare. And I don't want any of it. Anyway! Watch it if you want. Or don't. But if you do watch it you MUST NOT DEVIATE FROM THE PATH. (little inside joke there for all the Tarkovsky-heads out there).
Does anybody want a dog?
@TheBreadmonkey Genius as it is, I always felt it lacked that most Russian of things - a clip of a speeding bus narrowly missing a very drunk man who is trying to cross the road while carrying a paper bag that the bottom has fallen out of.
1. US government does something terrible.
2. People are outraged.
3. People start posting one weird trick think pieces on how Dems can fix it.
4. A Democrat says justice will be served.
5. People are less outraged.
6. 2-3 years later, 200 word, page-10 write-up about how justice was not served.
7. US government does something terrible.
8. People are--
What would you from the day after George Floyd's murder say to you today knowing how nothing was done? I think 2020 me would be devastated.
@puhuri Totta. Onhan näitä.
