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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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#Nobot

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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.

grrrr_shark, to random
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LB: If Musk is claiming Signal has unpatched security vulns while he at the same time is pushing Telegram (which is not E2E encrypted by default and does not support encrypted group chats), I have a two word explanation of Elon and his claims for you:

Russian Asset.

That's really all there is to say. Witting or unwitting.

StarkRG,
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@grrrr_shark At this point, Musk endorsing anything is enough to make me question if I want to be associated with something he endorsed.

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.

jacqueline, (edited ) to random
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apple’s next new product will be

StarkRG,
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@jacqueline I'm trying to think back to the last 'not bullshit' thing they released. Maybe the G4 era?

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"

#StudentProtests #USPol #BDS ..

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?

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.

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.

ColesStreetPothole, to AllStarTrek
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Risa?!!! Don't be so icky, Julian.
@allstartrek

StarkRG,
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@ColesStreetPothole @kcarr2015 @allstartrek For a Starfleet Doctor, he has the ethics of a Starfleet Admiral.

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.

StarkRG, to cars
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I know it's been over a decade since I lived in the US, but have things really deteriorated so badly that this is an actual concern Americans have when shopping for vehicles?

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/

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.

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).

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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Mike O'Laskey is an anagram of Ask Me My e-Kilo

StarkRG,
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@Binder Electronic kilogram?

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

Binder, to random
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There’s a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with a Tesla Hood Ornament.

StarkRG,
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@Binder Well, the man in me will do nearly any task, but I don't think Teslas have hood ornaments.

StarkRG, to DuckDuckGo
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Anyone else having this issue with at the moment?

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, to random
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It's interesting that the term we use for events that take place outside the narrative is "off-camera" which implies that discussions about such events are relatively recent or only recently increased in frequency. I can't think of any term for "off-camera" events in a book, audio play, stage play, or graphic novel other than "off camera". There is "off stage" for a stage play, but that refers to stuff that happens in the real world, not something related to the narrative.

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?

grillchen, to random
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"KDE is often criticized for the sheer number of customizing options in systemsettings and apps."

is it though? never saw someone disliking kde for having to many options.

bloat!=option

StarkRG,
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@grillchen I criticize KDE for being a bit buggy at times and having poor interactions with their devs (I no longer bother filling bug reports). I continue to consider KDE one of the best desktop user experiences available.

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.

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

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.

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