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ernie, to random
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Cannot get over that BuzzFeed wrote a piece today with a headline mistaking Ernie Hudson for Ernie Smith.

kkeller,
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@ernie you were great in Ghostbusters!

MikeBeas, to random
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sMaRtPhOnE mOnoPoLY

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kkeller,
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@dalfen @MikeBeas that's only because Apple forbids evil people from using iPhones

lauren, to mastodon
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My intention is to block any activity from Threads that appears on my timelines here. I will not reconsider this until such a time as it is fully a two-way system where replies from are seen on Threads, not just a way for Zuck to spread Threads gunk one-way beyond his own platforms.

kkeller, (edited )
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@billyjoebowers @lauren tl;dr: Threads is pseudo-one-way federating a very small subset of its users via ActivityPub. The most charitable explanation is a very long beta test before they decide how to federate fully. The least charitable is that they intend on partial federation indefinitely.

dalfen, to apple
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~ U.S. Sues Apple, Alleges Tech Giant Exploits Illegal Monopoly ~

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#GiftLink #GiftArticle
#Apple #business
https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-antitrust-lawsuit-16066694?st=58h97zqeb6exxzd&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink

kkeller,
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@dalfen as someone else mentioned, DOJ did sue Google last year. It wasn't over their phone stack, likely for a few reasons.

  • There are multiple Android hardware vendors, not just Google.
  • Their phone hardware is much more open than Apple's (you can run a third party OS on a Pixel, for example).
  • Their app store is less draconian than Apple's.

There may be other factors I don't know about, like phone-watch interoperability, as well.

kkeller,
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@dalfen I am not a Google fanboi, but I strongly prefer my Pixel phones over an iOS phone. That could just be that I'm a huge nerd and prefer the customizability that the Pixel provides, not just when you have Google's Android on it, but the ease with which I can put a third party OS like LineageOS on it after Google's OS support is EOL. (I have a Pixel 2 running LineageOS 21 with Android 14 well after Google stopped supporting it, which is very usable except for the battery.)

kkeller,
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@dalfen that all being said, I don't really know if DOJ's claims have any merit to them. Me disliking a platform isn't necessarily civil liability! :)

lauren, to random
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So all the talk about eclipses brings up a very old joke. Traditionally it's an ethnic joke, but those are now prohibited of course. So we'll try make it generic.

At an astrophysical conference, different countries announce where they're going to send their manned space missions. (Note: use of "manned" in this context can indicate a crew of men and/or women. Don't want to upset anyone with the wrong words today.)

Country A says, "We're going to land on Mars!"
Country B says, "We're going to orbit Venus!"
Country C says, "We're going to the sun!"

And the other countries say, "You can't go to the sun, you'll burn up!"

And country C replies, "No we won't -- we're going at night!"

kkeller,
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@lauren I think I learned this one from my grandfather from Country C.

lauren, to random
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At rally today, Trump declares "there's gonna to be a bloodbath" if he's not elected.

kkeller,
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@lauren so, he is already ramping up for his next insurrection?

w7voa, to random
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“Now, If I don't get elected, it's gonna be a bloodbath. It's going to be a bloodbath for the country,” predicts Donald Trump at a rally in Dayton, Ohio.

kkeller,
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@w7voa "predicts" or "calls for"?

lauren, to random
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Today starts a new feature, "Ask Leela!" I will pass your technical, policy, and political questions on to , and she will answer them via me to the extent that she feels is appropriate. She reminds me however to ask you not to send any questions that involve feline proprietary information.

kkeller,
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@lauren Leela: why are people so inferior to cats?

lauren, to random
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I have yet to see any indication that the TikTok app is any worse in terms of privacy than any of the other major social media apps and a vast number of other apps both in the iOS and Android ecosystems. What we're seeing in Congress now is just protectionist China-bashing. There's lots of legit stuff to be concerned about with China, but these attacks on TikTok and DJI, for example, are political bipartisan grandstanding of a very bad kind, and it's disgusting.

kkeller,
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@Gregnee @lauren if the issue is national security, then the government can ban TikTok on federal networks and devices (and perhaps already have). Banning it for all Americans is a massive overreach.

kkeller,
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@tdietterich @lauren there are, but they are difficult and complicated, which is why Congress would rather take the easy scapegoaty way out.

SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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kkeller,
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@SmudgeTheInsultCat if only you could see what I've seen with your wais

lauren, to random
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Tonight on my usual Monday evening national network radio tech segment, I'll be updating about all the evil things being done by AT&T. The mobile outage. Not building fiber they promised to build. Telling people to use landlines in emergencies while trying to kill all the landlines (including now here in California). Stuff like that. I'm just getting started with them.

kkeller,
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@lauren you may need years to go over all the horrible things ATT is doing recently.

lauren, to twitter
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A friend of mine -- who has never before used -- created an account there because they wanted to follow a local emergency agency. They were immediately bombarded with Musk's disgusting Twitter garbage, and contacted me for help in immediately deleting their account -- a procedure that is now essentially hidden and convoluted.

While it's obvious that various agencies continue to use Twitter because no other platforms have similar reach, the situation is still a horrific disgrace.

kkeller,
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@ChuckMcManis @lauren the "One Weird Trick" to avoiding that garbage is staying off Twitter entirely.

lauren, to random
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Presumably he'd keep score of how many children he killed with that policy. And smile that sick grin of his whenever another one died from a preventable horrible disease. The diseased mind of Trump speaks! Trump promises to end all federal funding of schools that require vaccines. BRING ON THE DISEASES! - https://www.rawstory.com/trump-public-school-threat-vaccines/

kkeller,
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@powersoffour @lauren Trump probably can't even remember what polio is.

nixCraft, (edited ) to random
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Linux lovers, let's get real! Even with all its greatness, there's GOTTA be that one thing that drives you a little crazy about it. What's your biggest pet peeve?

kkeller,
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@flyingsaceur @nixCraft systemd for the loss!

lauren, (edited ) to random
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Discuss: To avoid the hassle of leap years, we should constantly adjust the orbital period of the Earth's solar year to eliminate the 0.2422 fractional days per year.

kkeller,
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@lauren why stop there? If we're changing our orbit, let's make it a nice round number of days, like 400. As an added bonus, the longer orbit will move us farther from the sun, thus reversing global warming!

I gratefully accept any Nobel Prize nominations.

kkeller,
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@lauren specs were written to be rewritten

kkeller,
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@lauren curses, foiled again!

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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I spent 5 years writing FAQ pages and "talking people off the ledge" each time there was a collective meltdown.

I stopped doing that because it is never ending.

I keep saying the same things over and over.

In 2021, when people were demanding indictments, I said, "indictments are the start of a long harrowing process."

I explained that trials are harrowing.

Judges make bad decisions.

Juries don't always get it right. A person can be guilty but be acquitted.

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kkeller,
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@Teri_Kanefield haha, love your line about fiction and appellate briefs!

lauren, to random
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BREAKING: Trump offers court less than a quarter of required bond, only $100 million on $454 million judgment.

kkeller,
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@lauren LOL! Apparently the court said "too bad", but is allowing him to obtain loans in NYS.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/28/politics/donald-trump-appeals-court-new-york/index.html

lauren, to random
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Comments citing this AT&T mobile outage are already hitting the CPUC site page where AT&T wants to end landline services in California (hearings this month and next). I couldn't have possibly timed this any better even if I had god-like powers.

kkeller,
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@lauren I thought you do have god-like powers!!!

dalfen, to Parenting
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I told my daughter I didn’t want to eat more.

She said, “Why?”

I said, “Well, because I’m full and I don’t want to explode. You don’t want Mom to explode, do you?”

She said, “No, because that would make a big mess!”

…can’t say the kid isn’t practical!

kkeller,
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@dalfen when my kids were much younger (say, elementary school age), I went on a week long business trip. It took them three days to ask their mom where I was!

ernie, to random
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I think all of us are more like this than we're willing to admit

kkeller,
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@ernie except we're not stupid enough to post that publicly! ;-)

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