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janxdevil

@janxdevil@sfba.social

"Hey now. We devils can do a lot of damage in a classroom armed with nothing but the clothing God gave us. Sometimes all it takes is a carefully chosen pronoun or a noteworthy historical date and next thing you know it's blood and guts everywhere."

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janxdevil, to random
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Seriously considering doing something radical to my physical appearance so that I don’t look on first glance like a Nazi mass shooter suspect. Need to figure out what viable options I might have. One option is to just stop wearing pants.

janxdevil,
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@paul Not until now… thanks!

danyork, to random
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Count me as one of the people who actually liked the on my MacBook Pro. It isn’t something I have to use.. it never became a strong part of my workflow. But now and then in different apps it provides a quick and convenient way to do things. I always kind of wished it was on the Apple magic keyboard so that I could program some shortcuts into it.

However, that is all going away…

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/31/23938841/apple-macbook-pro-touch-bar-discontinued-proof-of-concept

janxdevil,
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@danyork Yep. That I think was the big mistake. If there had been a TouchBar on the external keyboard, I would have paid the Apple Luxury Tax for it. Building it into the MacBook keyboard meant that it wasn’t available to me where I really need it. So I never bothered to train myself to rely on it.

danyork, to random
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AVFTCN 023 – What WILL happen with all the LEO satellites burning up in the atmosphere?

5:19 am What’s going to happen when 25+ satellites are burning up in our upper atmosphere EVERY DAY? In a really weird bit of synchronicity, after sending out my message yesterday where I ended saying that the environmental effects of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites was an entirely separate conversation… I was scrolling through Mastodon and the very first posts I saw were…

http://crowsnest.danyork.com/2023/11/04/avftcn-023-what-will-happen-with-all-the-leo-satellites-burning-up-in-the-atmosphere/

janxdevil,
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@danyork You might also be interested in the hash tag.

Sheril, to random
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Tonight my 10yo asked if a woman might run for president next year.

“Why?” I asked.

“Because if a woman runs, you should vote for her,” he explained. “In almost 250 years, there haven’t been any women presidents. We need someone to be the first.”

Couldn’t agree more kiddo.

janxdevil,
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@Sheril There’s one running right now. Her name is Nikki Haley. She’s the leading GOP rival to Donald Trump.

ElleGray, to random
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my ancestors: hunting a wild boar and grinding corn by hand so they can have breakfast

me: trying to stir a jar of natural peanut butter jesus christ will my suffering NEVER end

janxdevil,
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@ElleGray I am 58 years old and only a week ago learned how to do this without making a giant mess and bending my cutlery out of shape. I feel your pain. I’m sure our ancestors would be appalled at both of us.

b0rk, (edited ) to random
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what git jargon do you find confusing? thinking of writing a blog post that explains some of git's weirder terminology: "detached HEAD state”, "fast-forward", "index/staging area/staged", “ahead of 'origin/main' by 1 commit”, etc

(really only looking for terms that you personally find confusing, not terms that you think someone else might be confused about)

janxdevil,
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@b0rk “merge strategy”

JoshuaHolland, to Israel
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Two things are true:

There's been an explosion of really vile , some coming from pro-Palestinian protesters. It's terrifying.

Calls for a ceasefire and condemnation of Palestinian civilian deaths are being labeled antisemitism, even when they come from Jews. It's slanderous.

These things feed into each other.

It's a terrible time to be a pro-Palestinian, anti-occupation Jew. We're really getting hit from all sides right now.

janxdevil,
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@JoshuaHolland I’m a not-Jewish atheist who identifies as a socialist, and I’m wary about joining the calls for a ceasefire and condemning the atrocious crimes against innocent Palestinian civilians by the Israeli state.

Why? Because as an atheist and socialist, I’m automatically assumed to be not just antisemitic, but also aligned with Russia. Any sympathy I might normally have for the rights of the Palestinian people to armed resistance against systematic oppression and occupation by the IDF, is badly damaged by Hamas attacks on civilians, but it’s completely reversed by pro-Palestinian protests that don’t actively exclude antisemitic and fascist elements from affiliating with them. I simply can’t join with that, and the causes I care about would be damaged if they were seen to be supported by someone assumed to be antisemitic and aligned with Russia.

I don’t see how this war doesn’t end up tearing asunder basically all the various left and center-left coalitions.

TexasObserver, to Law
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Local boards have until March 1, 2024, to choose whether to allow religious chaplain programs in their . It's tempting in a state that's often short on counselors.

However, expert Charles J. Russo explains how the new program is pushing the limits of what could be constitutional. From our friends at @TheConversationUS:
https://www.texasobserver.org/public-school-chaplains-first-amendment/

janxdevil,
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@TexasObserver @TheConversationUS They gonna allow atheists to have a chaplain? Asking for a friend.

janxdevil,
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@TheConversationUS @TexasObserver Thanks for just! I have never understood why the U.S. military doesn’t allow atheist chaplains, and it’s depressing to find out that prisons and universities have opened up to them, while the military continues to discriminate.

janxdevil, to random
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Today I’m feeling especially demoralized about the state of politics, at all levels: local, state, national and global.

The impression I have is that a certain similarity can be observed in the dysfunctions at every level: an absolute refusal even to consider the possibility of long-term consequences of policy choices.

It’s like the entire world of human politics at every level has adopted the axiomatic view that the long-term future simply does not exist and therefore any reasoning that accounts for it is obviously invalid.

I simply don’t know how to live in a world where that’s the dominant mode of thinking. And today I’m despairing more than usual about it.

janxdevil,
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Clearly it’s a world where billionaires have arranged everything to suit their own preferences for thinking about the long-term future, which is to say not at all. At a basic level, billionaires understand they have no real control over what happens to their vast wealth after they die. All their efforts at shaping their legacies are dependent on unreliable systems they cannot totally control in life much less after death. So they’re organizing around simply denying the importance of having a legacy at all. Allowing billionaires even to exist was our greatest mistake. I used to think it was the hydrogen bomb and the fossil fuel refinery. Nope. Those were just consequences of allowing billionaires.

evacide, to random
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"Three years ago, Apple introduced a privacy-enhancing feature that hid the Wi-Fi address of iPhones and iPads when they joined a network. On Wednesday, the world learned that the feature has never worked as advertised."

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/iphone-privacy-feature-hiding-wi-fi-macs-has-failed-to-work-for-3-years/

janxdevil,
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@evacide Oh FFS, they were using the HW identifier in mDNS advertisements? That makes me extremely sad.

petergleick, (edited ) to random
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You have to admire how totally on brand it is for the Republicans to choose a climate-denier, gun-loving, anti-democratic insurrectionist, homophobic, anti-woman, religious extremist as House Speaker.
Oh, and anti-contraceptives...
🤯
Checks all the boxes.

janxdevil,
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@petergleick also too: an activist for creationism.

CliftonR, to random
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For those of you who know what T.BOBs are (or were once) - does anybody remember what year HITT.BOB was? '93 maybe? '94?

I know that's where/when I first met some of you F2F, including I think Ceej & Annie & Dr. Strychnine/Janx & Dominus & of course NJ & Morrisa & many more.

janxdevil,
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@paul @CliftonR It was. At Chez Iguana.

cstross, to random
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What COVID19 has taught us about the Zombie Apocalypse is that there will be zombie denialists, zombie virus infection parties, zombie conspiracy theorists, and politicians ruthlessly exploiting lies about zombies to kill off demographics who won't vote for them—and when a vaccine against Z-virus is invented there will be zombie anti-vaxxers (some of them funded by the Kremlin for shits and giggles).

janxdevil,
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@cstross Re: Your Brains, by Jonathan Coulton was not a satire. It’s how your Return To Office policy will actually work.

GreatDismal, to random
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Haven’t been here for a while, but hope to be here more frequently. A good friend has offered to help me with some aspects of the mechanics of the place that puzzled me earlier.

janxdevil,
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@GreatDismal hooray!!! So glad you’re here!

dangoodin, to random

I am so jealous of WhatsApp users now that they can have more than one account on a single phone. I so, so, so want Signal to do the same thing.

https://about.fb.com/news/2023/10/multiple-accounts-on-whatsapp/

janxdevil,
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@SteveBellovin @mattblaze @dangoodin It’s not just hard to do, it costs money to operate that scales linearly (at least) in the number of accounts. This is why I have a monthly donation to Signal, and I would willingly pay for subscription service that would protect the privacy of my phone number. Because fixing this vulnerability will not come for free.

QasimRashid, to random
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We need an Israel-Hamas ceasefire immediately, and I'm extremely disappointed that my opponent for US Congress in IL-11 refuses to support a ceasefire.

Here are the facts. So far, at least...
•1,403 Israeli civilians have been killed, another 3,800 injured
•3,547 Palestinian civilians have been killed, another 13,365 injured
•More than 1,000,000 Palestinians have been displaced, including nearly 500,000 children

1/4

janxdevil,
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@QasimRashid You say that like any of those things are actually desired by any of the people charged with managing this crisis. Seems pretty clear their intention is to trade all of those away to exploit the opportunity to use this crisis expressly to achieve the exact opposite of all those things, because they perceive each and every one of them to be threats to their intimate personal interests.

taylorlorenz, to random
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NBC News partners with "two right-wing media companies that have a history peddling and profiting off extremist rhetoric." https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1697503130593ffd4bf7dcb31/raw

janxdevil,
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@taylorlorenz This is the same NBC that is owned by Comcast, am I wrong?

mattblaze, to random
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Sorry, I don't take seriously anything labeled as a "manifesto" unless it credibly proposes an influential new art movement.

janxdevil,
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@mattblaze This one is apparently just trying to rehabilitate an old and very disgraced one: Futurism.

marcprecipice, to random
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“‘There tends to be a willingness to agree that robot driving will make public transportation obsolete,’ said Norton, on how politicians address robotaxis. Not so much because people actually believe that, but because politicians try to appeal to suburban voters — and it’s easier to promise investment in roads rather than public transit, he said.” https://missionlocal.org/2023/10/autonomous-vehicles-threaten-to-worsen-congestion-experts-say/

janxdevil,
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@marcprecipice @MLNow I’m a software engineer employed by a robot taxi company and I’m intimately familiar with the tech. If there is something about it that makes it unsuitable for use in a public transit system, then I’d really like somebody to explain it to me. I cannot see it.

Teri_Kanefield, to random

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    janxdevil,
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    @SteveBellovin @mattblaze @Teri_Kanefield Probably worth noting at this point that a significant proportion of the members of both the House and the Senate were elected on a campaign platform that expressly promised to subvert the norms of Congress and operate as faithful and loyal agents of a movement with a basic antipathy to democracy in all its forms.

    We’re getting the House majority that a majority of the voters deserve. Which is what you should expect in a system that still has reasonably functional elections.

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    janxdevil,
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    @marcelias Or as I call them, the Feral Pigs and the Domesticated Hogs.

    marcprecipice, to Cruise
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    I’m interested to see the 2023 reports when they get released. These are all (for and , at least) from before they were driverless. I have a suspicion disengagements happen pretty often for the “driverless” cars, and I’d love to see how often. https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-industry-services/autonomous-vehicles/disengagement-reports/

    janxdevil,
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    @marcprecipice I’ll be honest. That miles-per-intervention score is suspiciously low to me. I have a tough time believing it was that low, but if it was, hoo boy, no wonder they got creamed.

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