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StarkRG

@StarkRG@myside-yourside.net

#Autism #ADHD #StarTrek #Farscape #Stargate #Astronomy #Engineering #FOSS #Linux #vim #selfhosted

I'm too unenthused to put together a bio right now, so that'll have to do.

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patrickworld, to random
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I wonder if there’s a dude somewhere named Pat Pending 🤔

StarkRG,
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@patrickworld There is, apparently, a Patrick Pending with credits for art direction on several music albums.

https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/patrick-pending/credits/

Crell, (edited ) to random
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This is sadly entirely accurate, and the whole problem...

(Edit: Original is here. Go follow the artist. https://mastodon.social/@workchronicles/112417993863156684)

StarkRG,
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@Crell This is why you need progressive fines, fines that aren't just based on the severity of the infraction but also the income of the culprit. It's still "legal for a fee" but the fee is properly punitive regardless of who's committing it.

StarkRG, to random
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The popularity of Reese's peanut butter stuff (cups, pieces, etc.) really goes to show that putting chocolate and peanut butter together is such a good idea that it barely matters if the chocolate is foul and calling it "peanut butter" is really pushing the boundaries of the definition.

petrillic, to random
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I'm not saying Boeing murdered the whistleblowers. I'm saying try not to run a company such that people think you MIGHT have.

StarkRG,
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@petrillic I think it might be possible to do that while still also murdering whistleblowers.

The United Fruit Company (now Chiquita) got away with hiring the CIA to overthrow a government, and most people didn't know about it until somewhat recently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

Oh, right, they also massacred their employees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Massacre

Murder by corporations is legal in the US, encouraged, even. It's embezzlement that's illegal because that's stealing from rich people.

PaulW, to random
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Are you there, God? It's a nice universe you got here, shame if anything happened to it.

StarkRG,
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@PaulW Is running a protection racket against God considered blasphemy?

DrALJONES, (edited ) to random
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Report

In a first potential concession from a US university on student protests, Brown U reaches agreement with protesters.

Protestors would remove their encampment in exchange for the institution considering divesting from Israel.

5 students will be invited to meet with five members of Brown in May to present their arguments, & the board will vote on the proposal in October.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/may/01/columbia-university-protest-live-updates-nypd-new-york-police-enter-campus-pro-palestinian-demonstrators-latest-news#top-of-blog

Note: "consider"; "vote in October"

..

StarkRG,
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@DrALJONES "We considered it. The answer is no."

That's not a concession, that's a delay tactic.

StarkRG,
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@DrALJONES Do you see that as an unlikely outcome?

rightardia, to random
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The Finnish approach to homelessness.

StarkRG,
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@rightardia The solution to homelessness was to give homeless people homes? Wow, what innovative, out-of-the box thinking. Next you're gonna tell me that the solution to world hunger is to give people food.

jacqueline, to random
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new favourite hazard pictogram

StarkRG,
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@jacqueline Are there any other hazard pictograms with a horizon? Seems unnecessary.

I mean, I'm assuming it's a horizon, I guess the tree might have stabbed the fish in the lower jaw with a pole.

StarkRG, to random
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So, lemmie get this straight, the people advising the US government on how to safely implement AI in critical infrastructure are the people who would most benefit financially from implementing AI in any way whatsoever? That's like taking advice from oil companies on whether climate change is an issue. Oh, they're doing that too, great.

#USPol

jeffjarvis, to random
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Gift link:
Stop trying to make language ‘funner.’ Grammar rules exist for a reason. https://wapo.st/49Wpllv

StarkRG,
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@jeffjarvis English doesn't have grammar rules, it has sets of common grammar conventions. Not everyone follows the same set of conventions, but it's still English. Example, the split infinitive "rule" was introduced by someone with a hard-on for Latin, but split infinitives have been part of English for longer than it's been Modern English. Same with ending sentences with prepositions.

Judging people based on their use of English is no less bigoted than judging them based on skin color.

Binder, to random
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Keith is short for Keither.

StarkRG,
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@Binder It used to be spelled Kæther but that spelling fell out of fashion after Einstein published “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”, his Special Theory of Relativity, making the long term reliance on the outdated concept unnecessary.

Something similar happened with the name Phil, which was originally short for Philogiston.

StarkRG, to random
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Well this is a rather interesting discovery. If you're finding that your search results are all AI-generated garbage, try excluding the word "Amazon" (on duck duck go you tack -"amazon" to your search, google used to do that too, not sure now). There's still AI garbage in there, but it definitely seems to have improved the quality of the search results.

I tried this out when I realized that each and every AI crap page was an Amazon affiliate and I wondered what I'd get if I excluded them.

amiserabilist, to random
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@Mrfunkedude

my friend has asked me this

"Can you do some research for me. I need to know the best server/hosting site/ software etc for publishing audio & film files...like an audio book or podcast hosting site"

he is not on the fediverse but am thinking it would be appropriate.

i would be grateful for your opinion.

thank you for your consideration on this matter.

StarkRG,
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@amiserabilist @Mrfunkedude Peertube should work for video, it might work for audio too. If not, even just a plain ol' mastodon server can be used to publish a podcast since each user profile has an rss feed (just add .rss to the end of the URL).

SrEstegosaurio, to random
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People who think that any human creation can be apolitical are just ignorant and need some philosophy lessons.

I'm incredibly tired from "can we keep politics outside FOSS?".

StarkRG,
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@SrEstegosaurio Where did this idea that FOSS should be non-political come from and when? I feel like it's always been heavily political from the beginning (at least, since I first started getting into it in the early 2000s). I'm not sure how you could possibly take politics out of it, it's referred to as the "open source movement", politics is kind of integral to the concept.

ColesStreetPothole, to random
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  1. An ex-president's lawyer is arguing in front of the U.S. Supreme Court that presidents can assassinate U.S. citizens with full immunity.
  2. Nearly a dozen universities have called the cops on peaceful anti-war protestors, resulting in hundreds of arrests and clear instances of police brutality.
  3. Texas anti-DEI bill has led to firings of dozens of staff at public universities.

If you don't think fascism is a real threat in the United States, I don't know what to say.

StarkRG,
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@ColesStreetPothole At this point, the US is more fascist than not. It's like metastatic brain cancer and probably just as inoperable.

MissingThePt, to random
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Breaking: Donald Trump reads about being named an unindicted co-conspirator in Arizona criminal case as he is being driven to his New York criminal case ahead of Supreme Court oral arguments later this morning pertaining to his D.C. criminal case.

StarkRG,
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@grrrr_shark @MissingThePt He can read, but only if it's about him or written by Hitler.

futurebird, to random
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If the supreme court jumps in and overturns the Jan. 6 convictions of 100s of people who attacked the capitol it will be one of the most politically charged actions taken by this court and in a politically charged environment.

There are many laws that might need revision, scrutiny, but they reached out through space and time to grab this hot potato.

It's a joke.

StarkRG,
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@futurebird The Supreme Court isn't legitimate and the fewer people continue to pretend it is, the weaker they are.

StarkRG,
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@futurebird First we need more people to just acknowledge that a quarter of the Supreme Court was inappropriately appointed and that rampant corruption has been taking place for decades. Equate the supreme court with an elitist social club issuing decrees. Make common responses to any news related to the Supreme Court be scoffs and derision.

Politics in the US is completely broken and I'm not smart enough to see a way to fix it, but I can at least acknowledge that it is, in fact, broken.

grrrr_shark, to random
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Notes from the daughter quotes file: "I think you're a linguist on crack."

So nice to be loved XD

StarkRG,
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@grrrr_shark Ouch, not even a cunning one?

DJDarren, to random
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Windows is wild.

Just installed Win11 in a VM from an iso downloaded from Microsoft this morning. Twice during installation it stopped to look for updates.

I restarted it to finish installing something, and it had to install updates.

WHAT UPDATES?

StarkRG,
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@DJDarren You need to update the updates to prepare the updated updates to be updated with updated updates prior to the updated updates updating.

StarkRG, to random
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Any company that is so important that its collapse would cause extreme harm to society, it shouldn't be privately operated. It also shouldn't be a for-profit organization since other things obviously must take priority over profit.

StarkRG, to random
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AI search DOES NOT WORK. A working search engine, upon finding no results, tells the user that it has found no results. An AI search engine just chooses things at random.

StarkRG,
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Not "Show users what they want" but "we know better than your users, we show them what they need."

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