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So then I said, "Yes, Chicago is a great city for shopping, but, I'm sorry, I can't help you get a visa."

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thelinuxEXP, to random
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Well that was certainly one hell of a storm!
160-190 km/h winds, about 800 000 people left without electricity in my Region alone, and roads are blocked around my city as so many trees were ripped out of the earth…

I live on the last floor of my building, and the flat was battered the whole night by these winds, it was insane!

Corb_The_Lesser,
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@thelinuxEXP I live near the coast of North Carolina here in the US. From reports I've read, that storm is equivalent to a strong tropical storm or weaker hurricane here. (I haven't seen any reporting of sustained wind speed but the gusts are certainly within range.)

Glad you and your building are intact. Hope the recovery effort goes well

billyjoebowers, to linux
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Probably the most annoying thing about Linux and my biggest problem is the lack of global menu support. Really frustrating.

Corb_The_Lesser,
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@billyjoebowers The Ubuntu Unity spin uses a global menu out of the box. One can be bolted onto KDE.

We won't see a universal global menu in Linux because there is no way to enforce the standards required to enable it on all desktop environments, windows managers, and applications. Plus there are thousands of old pieces of software that no one will ever modify for a global menu scheme.

pbump, to random
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Four in 10 Americans reject the idea of human evolution entirely.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/31/johnson-speaker-evolution-poll/

Corb_The_Lesser,
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@pbump People who replace knowledge with belief based on what they decide is revealed truth become a threat when they also decide their belief means they need to exert power over others to force them into a world shaped by their "truth".

This is a feature of both the right and left. It's not a big step from thinking you've acquired the secrets of the universe to thinking that means you need to be in charge.

mattblaze, to random
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Troll/reply guy tried to get me to back down from my unequivocal statement that there's no evidence the 2020 election was stolen, claiming it's better to "meet people halfway" if I want to convince them.

No. As a researcher and educator, I believe in providing clear, accurate information.

The "evidence" that the election was stolen is made up bullshit. To call it anything else is a disservice.

If someone claims that 2+2=5, I'm not going to try to get them to compromise that it's 4.5.

Corb_The_Lesser,
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@mattblaze I wouldn't bother trying to use actual evidence to change the minds of people who didn't use any evidence -- couldn't because it doesn't exist -- to arrive at their lunatic conclusions.

Doubly so for the lying trolls.

arstechnica, to random
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Fall COVID shot uptake is an “abysmal” 7%; wastewater testing impaired

Meanwhile, a quarter of the country's wastewater testing sites are offline.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/10/fall-covid-shot-uptake-is-an-abysmal-7-wastewater-testing-impaired/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Corb_The_Lesser,
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@arstechnica Get a shot or risk a virus infection killing me?

Amazing that most people opt for risking death.

I'd like to think the numbers would be different for vaccines against cancer and heart disease. But, they wouldn't.

boilingsteam, to Youtube
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And this is what you get after you "free" 3 videos: youtube blocks the playback of next videos. This is on Firefox with uBlockOrigin
#youtube #adblocker #block #ads

Corb_The_Lesser,
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@boilingsteam The notice is particularly arrogant because Google's corporate brain seems to think I'm obligated to obey its rules.

None of us is obligated to look at anyone's ads.

I'm a low intensity Youtube watcher. I can easily stop watching entirely.

vwbusguy, to linux
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Why do people insist on deploying new stuff on EOL versions of ?

Corb_The_Lesser,
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@vwbusguy I think 18.04 is still under Extended Security Maintenance. But I doubt many of those folks are looking to install new software.

taylorlorenz, to random
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He is absolutely so angry about his Wikipedia page

Corb_The_Lesser,
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@taylorlorenz Amusing to see a man who owns a batch of corporations allege the evils of being "inherently hierarchical".

The transparent arrogance involved in a public figure abusing the platform he owns to go after another web site in a spasm of offended ego is stunning.

And then he boosts the Broken-From-Day-One Community Notes scam.

Musk grows smaller as he grows richer.

ComicContext, to comics
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Corb_The_Lesser,
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@ComicContext Captain America's wearing his Stick-To-Wing boots.

RollingStone, to random

EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump wanted to pull the United States out of NATO during his first term, but was repeatedly talked out of it by senior administration officials.

For a possible second term in the White House, the 2024 Republican presidential frontrunner is already discussing how he could actually get it done, if his demands aren’t met by NATO. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-u-s-leave-nato-1234860016/

Corb_The_Lesser,
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@RollingStone Trump pulling the U.S. out of NATO is exactly what America's enemies -- Trump's friends and occasional funders -- want.

When someone does what your enemies would do, he's your enemy, too.

popey, to ubuntu

Well, this is a rather hilarious trademark violation in a box. "Wubuntu" - a derivative of that looks uncannily like Microsoft Windows 11! :D
https://wubuntu.org/

Corb_The_Lesser,
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@popey Two Wubuntu iso's are on Sourceforge, one based on Plasma, one on Cinnamon. I booted a live image of the Cinnamon version. It had a Mate panel and menu on top, no panel or menu on the bottom, some preferences tools from Cinnamon, a 5.15 kernel, some KDE bits, menu entries for installing Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix 20.04 as well for LinuxFX utilities, which, as far as I know, is an entirely different Linux distro that copies the look of Windows.

A messy stew.

arstechnica, to random
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Elon Musk launches test to see if users are willing to pay $1 a year for X

"It is not a profit driver," X says.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/elon-musk-launches-test-to-see-if-users-are-willing-to-pay-1-a-year-for-x/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Corb_The_Lesser,
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@arstechnica A very significant percentage of humanity has no credit card. Does Elon wish to lose them as Twitter users?

design_law, to random
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"In a statement posted online Friday evening, Scholastic said it was necessary to segregate these titles because 'there is now enacted or pending legislation in more than 30 U.S. states prohibiting certain kinds of books from being in schools....'"

"What laws Scholastic believes would expose schools to liability for offering these books? Scholastic declined to answer the question."

https://popular.info/p/scholastics-bigot-button

Corb_The_Lesser,
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@design_law I wouldn't discount right-wingers threatening Scholastic executives.

utzer, to microsoft

when?

Corb_The_Lesser,
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@utzer A general purpose desktop release would make no money for the company and wouldn't keep people within the Microsoft universe.

thelinuxEXP, to random
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Wow, the Ubuntu 23.10 download has been temporarily removed because someone slipped some hate speech onto some translations.

Some people are just the f**king worst.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/10/ubuntu-23-10-installer-translations-hijack

Corb_The_Lesser, (edited )
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@thelinuxEXP If Canonical knows the identity and location of the miscreant(s), and that location criminalizes hate speech, it should consider passing the information to prosecutors. Wishful thinking won't stop this stuff.

Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random

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    Corb_The_Lesser,
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    @Teri_Kanefield Several services offer web-based feed readers with free/paid tiers used with a browser and/or app. This permits easy syncing between devices. I.e., if you read something on your phone, your laptop will show it as “read”. And they don’t care what operating system you use.

    Standalone apps do the same but all your data is maintained on that device, getting in the way of syncing. Reeder is a good app for MacOS and, I think, iOS.

    RollingStone, to random

    NEW: Since the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump has been absolutely furious with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for declining to publicly back Trump’s conspiracy theory-fueled efforts to overturn President Joe Biden’s win. This month, following the unprecedented terror attack in Israel and amid the escalating war in Gaza, the ex-president is trying to use the unfolding horror to get even. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-netanyahu-impeached-israel-hamas-war-1234852888/

    Corb_The_Lesser,
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    @RollingStone Trump is the guy who thought he'd changed the world 5 minutes after meeting Kim and getting love letters from the thug. He'd wiggle on the ground like a pup if Hamas praised him.

    thelinuxEXP, to random
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    I de-activated my Twitter account today. I had decided to keep it without posting a while back, just in case anyone would try to use my handle to write weird stuff and impersonate me, but I realized there’s no way I’m ever going back to Twitter and posting anything there.

    If someone impersonates me, well, since Twitter has become so ridiculous and toxic, I’m sure people will accept that it’s not me talking.

    I wasn’t using this account, and hadn’t for something like a year, so, bye « X »!

    Corb_The_Lesser,
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    @popey @thelinuxEXP I've been there primarily for breaking news and reaction from folks I know are competent. Those people are leaving. So, even though what I see is still relatively palatable, probably because I block, preemptively and without mercy, it's dramatically and increasingly less useful.

    I joined, then ignored, Post. Bluesky doesn't seem to be inviting anyone on the wait list, and I won't go near anything re: Facebook.

    cliffwade, (edited ) to fediverse
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    Do you celebrate Halloween in any way?

    Please BOOST for maximum exposure to the

    Corb_The_Lesser,
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    @cliffwade Halloween is an innocuous fun day for kids. I just go through a bag of candy corn.

    arstechnica, to random
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    HP wireless all-in-one has 83 Wh rechargeable battery, handle for portability

    A 24-inch Windows PC weighing 9 pounds.

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/hp-wireless-all-in-one-has-83-wh-rechargeable-battery-handle-for-portability/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    Corb_The_Lesser,
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    @arstechnica I'd much rather have an NVME and a couple of fast USB-C ports in my phone, plus a dock to fit it in.

    Teri_Kanefield, to random

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    @Teri_Kanefield I think Musk holds on to the notion that it's stupid and bad business to send users to other sites, that making it harder and harder for users to follow links will somehow magically, encourage the people who post at those external sites to post on Twitter, instead.

    RollingStone, to random

    Donald Trump is considering making a trip to the Capitol amid calls from loyalists within the lower chamber for him to assume the position of House Speaker. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-considering-first-capitol-trip-jan-6-1234841398/

    Corb_The_Lesser,
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    @RollingStone Would be great if the Capitol police could find a reason to arrest him.

    pbump, to random
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    Twitter was good at providing one of the most useful things on the internet: surfacing interesting stuff elsewhere. But Musk doesn't get the internet or why that's useful.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/05/musk-twitter-news/

    Corb_The_Lesser,
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    @pbump I suppose it's possible, after all the damage he's done to Twitter, that Musk still believes that making it difficult for users to read what they choose will have no impact on Twitter revenue.

    He's wrong. But, if he was smart about all things Twitter, he wouldn't have bought it in the first place.

    cassidy, to linux
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    OS devs: please provide regularly-refreshed install images/ISOs with your cumulative updates between major releases.

    I don't love downloading your entire multi-GB OS image just to have to wait for hours for all the updates to the OS and included apps to download and install.

    Also, security updates! If CVEs have been fixed since your release, you're shipping known-insecure software, expecting a user to install all updates before they do anything on the web.

    Corb_The_Lesser,
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    @cassidy Some nice people in a Fedora SIG put out ISOs of the current Workstation release and all the spins, that wrap up all the latest updates, approx every 2 weeks. More people should know about it: https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/live-respins/

    malwaretech, to random

    I do wonder how many people are staying on Twitter due to follower count alone. Having had an account for over a decade, I'd have previously estimated about 20% of my followers were dead accounts. Based on now leaving and making new accounts on other platforms, my estimate is closer to 90%.

    As a blogger I've always known only like 1% of people who retweet/like a post actually clicked the link and read the article, but I assumed that was just a social media thing. Having experimented with basically every other platform, I learned it's more likely that a significant number of Twitter engagements are fake, and those that aren't don't really care enough to read your work, they'll just give you a retweet/like for appearances.

    Corb_The_Lesser,
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    @malwaretech If a tweet publicizing an article posted elsewhere has its own standalone value, there's no harm in retweeting it without reading the article.

    FWIW, I routinely unfollow accounts that only hype something the account holder has written.

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