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grumpybozo

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Dad, Husband, Sysadmin, Anti-Spammer, Disillusioned Radical Lefty|Old GenX-er|DREAD Pirate|
I'm fat and I have a headache|AntiFa Patriot|
BLACK LIVES MATTER!
Living on occupied land previously shared by many Anishnaabe peoples.

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mcc, to random
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If you ever feel like you're not good at anything, don't worry! Even if you don't realize it yourself, you are an excellent nuclear moderator

grumpybozo,
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@mcc But I don’t wanna be…

grumpybozo, to FreeBSD
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I will refrain from looking up who decided that #FreeBSD needed to lose a magic comment line from every init script and config file but didn’t need etcupdate (or whatever we're calling mergemaster now) to understand that change as a no-op, because if I were to identify that person I would feel compelled to find them and extract my wasted time from the front end of their remaining lifespan.

#Sysadminnery

grumpybozo, to ai
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Dear : What is needed to get Google to show me fun AI suggestions like adding glue to pizza sauce? How do I get the fake- results?

I am not kidding. Most of my searches are on macOS (12 & 14) using Safari and occasionally other browsers (I've got 7 installed...) but I only log into my G accounts on an as-needed basis and because I use a real mail client for email, I almost never need to log in. I wipe cookies on every browser restart.

I see no -generated summary...

grumpybozo, to llm
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I’d like to trust this story, but it fails to link to its supposed source or provide enough info to find it elsewise. A few clicks around the site makes me think that it may well be nothing but a -composed content farm. https://cosocial.ca/@kgw/112498693958537559

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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I dreamed I was in the goblin market, and everything was beautiful but I felt no desire to buy.

grumpybozo,
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@lilithsaintcrow Owning a goblin is a HUGE responsibility.

grumpybozo,
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@fuckingkangaroos @sneerclub Not because the planet cannot carry 8 billion humans, but because no known humane socioeconomic system can provably do so. That problem is exacerbated by the fact that all evidence suggests that the best first step towards a solution would be to lose the richest billion, not the poorest, and absolutely not the folks actually doing the hard work involved in directly feeding and caring for their fellow humans.

grumpybozo,
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@fuckingkangaroos @sneerclub The TESCREAL (I prefer “STREACLE” but that ship has sailed) worldview implies a future with far fewer actual humans on Earth, something also foreseen as necessary for a widespread sustainable high standard of living by people who don’t share their essentially fascist views. We should not get there by having any set of “elites” self-select their own survival. The inevitability of an outcome does not justify any arbitrary path to that end.

grumpybozo,
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@fuckingkangaroos @sneerclub I’m just glad that I’m old enough that I likely won’t have to watch the process by which we get to a smaller and more sustainable human population. I fear that what we’ll actually get is the first movers towards a smaller (and on average better-off) human species are those who salivate at the prospect of slaughtering “undesirables” for the good of the race. Those of us who just want to tax the rich to build better lives for all will lose.

grumpybozo,
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@gerikson I have some news…

theluddite, to random
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The point of solar panels is not to ensure "solar profitability," but to make for a greener, better world. Its profitability is only justified insofar as it moves us towards that goal. If we want to switch to renewables, then sometimes we're going to have surplus, because of how renewables work. This is well known and discussed ad nauseam. If that makes power markets unstable, then the problem is with markets, not with there being too many solar panels.

grumpybozo,
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@theluddite @vees And there’s an obvious market solution to “negative price” events: enhanced storage and transmission facilities. There’s no such thing as a demand shortage for energy, there’s only mismatched place and time.

grumpybozo,
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@feld @theluddite @vees Like I said… mismatched place and time.

justyourluck, to H5N1
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Clarification from the USDA re:

"...interstate movement for a lactating dairy cow from a sale barn directly to a slaughter facility requires only a Certificate of Veterinary Inspection (CVI) stating that the animal is clinically healthy; no testing is necessary."

I'll repeat that in case you missed it.

NO TESTING IS NECESSARY for dairy cows being sent to slaughter.

I suspect "clinically healthy" is a bit misleading in a similar way that "mild " is

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/avian/avian-influenza/hpai-detections/livestock

grumpybozo,
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@justyourluck Also: cows from dairy operations are mostly not slaughtered for human consumption. So this meat is going into stuff like dog food. Where it can encounter yet another mammal, if it somehow escapes thermal destruction.

rbreich, to random
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Impeach Justice Samuel Alito https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuHFFkezgVs&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

grumpybozo,
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@Loucovey @Radical_EgoCom @rbreich Impeachment is for whatever the Congress of the moment decides fits the slightly archaic phrase “high crimes and misdemeanors” which does not specify which acts could qualify. See the Federalist Papers.

SCOTUS Justices haven’t been impeached but there have been impeachments of federal judges and if my memory serves me correctly, the most recent (Alcee Hastings) was for acts which which were not technically criminal.

grumpybozo,
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@Loucovey @Radical_EgoCom @rbreich It's not their political views that should earn them impeachment, but rather the fact that they have both made themselves the kept rentboys of billionaires and have both discarded the norms of their profession by openly joining one political "side.” It sets them apart from their peers.
I believe they both have written opinions (while on SCOTUS) which logically disqualify them but that’s a hard sell.

grumpybozo, to DoctorWho
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Is selling to the masses?

(No, of course not. OMG I hope not.) https://mas.to/@gavinwinters/112463488755833958

grumpybozo, to random
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I though crypto was safe? https://infosec.exchange/@screaminggoat/112446226057448933

grumpybozo, to random
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Tat Maslany is not in it and there is apparently not an equivalent polyrole. Probably the right choice, since that was such an outstanding tour de force and attempting it again would just lead to a focus on the comparison. I can’t imagine any actor would want to take on that sort of thing. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112435177663326709

grumpybozo, to Michigan
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This is how we get rapid scattered systemic collapse. We elect lawless people to positions which a large fraction of them believe to be the only legitimate law enforcement authorities and effectively above the law.
There are counties in that I would be unsurprised to see openly reject the authority of state or federal law enforcement. https://infosec.exchange/@nathans/112434989146661808

grumpybozo, to random
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I’m resigned to the inevitability of a "hot" civil war in the USA as the only way our current tribalism will be resolved.
Recognizing that leads me to thought patterns that seem callous, because I believe that we’re getting widespread poorly-targeted violence before we solve our big issues in any robust way.
I don’t want it, won’t participate, don’t want to live thru it. However, we do kinda need to be rid of most of the people willing to die before compromise…
… (1/2)

grumpybozo,
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And that is what convinced me. Hearing far too many people (especially on the Right but not exclusively) using "death before compromise" sorts of language and explicitly dehumanizing talk of their perceived enemies. Too much social and epistemic encapsulation. Too many fucking guns in the hands of people who bought them only intending to shoot (someday, as needed) another human. Chekov was right.

(2/2)

mjg59, to random
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Hmm got a response from CPUC saying that they're not responsible for enforcement of AT&T's Carrier of Last Resort obligations, and referring me back to AT&T. How is this actually meant to work? (Yes, I know all they're nominally obliged to provide is a basic copper landline service, that's all I'm looking for here)

grumpybozo,
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@mjg59 I thought that obligation was a Federal matter, i.e. FCC.

justyourluck, to H5N1
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Has it been proven that one cannot get infected with from non raw milk?

Because last I heard there have been no studies done.

Or am I wrong?

Because...

1/

grumpybozo,
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@justyourluck If 20% of the US milk supply has , then we've already effectively done the study, because we don't have a human pandemic. We would, if it were possible for pasteurized milk to be a significant vector.

Also, we’ve known for decades that pasteurization effectively kills influenza viruses. Pasteurization degrades both the protein capsules protecting viruses and their genetic material. What is in milk after pasteurization are fragments, not whole viruses.

grumpybozo,
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@feld @justyourluck Yeah, well, not much to lose there…

grumpybozo,
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@feld @justyourluck I’ve drunk raw milk too, from a literal family farm that had about a dozen Holsteins: decades before there was any sort of ideology attached or H5N1 risk. There was definitely some risk but it was unlike the modern circumstance. There is no good reason to not pasteurize milk and H5N1 is just one more pathogen in a long list that can appear in raw milk. I’d be MUCH more concerned by the risk of Listeria, Botulism, or enterohemorrhagic E. coli.

grumpybozo, to DoctorWho
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I thought the debut with Disney was fine.
Not great, not horrible, but good. In a way, it was a return to earlier (‘60s/70s) silliness and absurdity in basic plots. It also is clearly pulling back to being aimed at a younger audience. Fun. Don't think too hard about it; enjoy Ncuti dancing...

Also: all the people bemoaning how terrible this all is, the end of Doctor Who, blah blah, blah, makes for a great list of who to mute permanently.

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