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alloydflanagan

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Professional software developer, amateur robotics tinkerer. Antifascist. Cat person. Dad.

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louis, to microsoft
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Microsoft's new PCs will constantly take screenshots and feed an AI to understand what you were doing. It's called "Recall" and is your worst privacy nightmare:

https://piped.video/watch?v=uHEPBzYick0&t=215

alloydflanagan,
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@louis The link didn’t play for me — tell me you’re not serious!

whitequark, to random
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today's helldivers 2 discovery: it has an unlockable revolver. makes sense, right? lots of games do.

you fire six out of six shots and reload. your character uses a speedloader. makes sense!

you fire two shots and reload.

  • if you're in a fight, your character uses a speedloader, and you lose four
  • if you're not, they reload it round by round, and you lose none

this is an incredible level of attention to detail holy shit. nobody does this!!

alloydflanagan,
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@azonenberg I’ve got to try this one. Still haven’t completed Sons of the Forest though.

pvonhellermannn, to random
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Wow, reading all these letters by NYU faculty to the office of the president is quite something. Do read them all. Highlighting one by History Professor Steven Hahn, as it encapsulates everything (in one screenshot).

https://facultyforpalestine.education/statements/faculty-letters-to-the-office-of-the-president-and-the-office-of-the-provost/

alloydflanagan,
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@FrankFrank ah. And what law precisely were these people breaking?

Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random
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If you read my weekend blog post, you know that I've been pointing out that the predicate crime in the Trump trial is not clear.

(For what I mean, see my weekend blog post).

Here is what the Washington Post reported.

See screenshots #1 and #2.

Here is the law: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/ELN/17-152?utm_medium=email&wpisrc=nl-nationalpopup&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=wp_the_trump_trials

To be clear: I have no idea how this trial will turn out. I cannot substitute my judgment for the jury because I am not seeing what they are seeing.

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alloydflanagan,
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@futurebird @Teri_Kanefield Yeah it might be a lot easier for a jury to understand and relate to their own experience. “Inciting an insurrection” is big and scary; business fraud they’ve seen before.

astrid, to random
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i remember buying into the patriotism shit as a kid

that was funny

alloydflanagan,
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@astrid Well of course when you’re that young they only tell you the things that make us look good. Even slander was something that happened a long time ago to people who are all dead, and doesn’t have any relevance to us now.

futurebird, to random
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"You'd expect this from Joe Scarborough he's a far left opinion commentator."

-Fox Anchor

Joe Scarborough served as a Republican in the FL house. And ... as a member of the far left I'm deeply insulted. As I think Joe would be too. We are in crazy town.

"far left"

alloydflanagan,
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@hazelnot @futurebird
> “literally no difference between neoliberalism and communism “

I can’t figure out whether conservatives who say stuff like this misunderstand liberalism, or communism, or just don’t care. Help a guy out and tell me?

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Am I the only one who finds the republicans in the house quitting a little ... ominous?

What is about to go down that the rats are fleeing the ship?

(with apologies to actual rats)

alloydflanagan,
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@futurebird I figure they’re just a few weeks away from cannibalism.

futurebird, to random
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"Crazy Legs" lives in Australia. he raises various bull ants, as I assume anyone lucky enough to live in Australia would. This is a video about moving his Myrmecia nigrocincta colony to a fantastic new nest of their own design.

It shows how the ants react to getting help from a giant (imagine a bunch of babies being dumped into your front door.) And the ways ants help each other when confused (happens often as they are just little ants.)

Captioned, with ambient sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIaVWfKx4vk

alloydflanagan,
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@Ppampolim @futurebird I was hoping they were called that because the islands are overrun by ants and not safe for human habitation. Oh well.

robpike, to random
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If we can charge everything with one charger now thanks to USB-C, why do some of my devices charge only with old charger blocks? (Seriously, why?) Leaving aside the whole debacle of unlabeled and widely variant cable capabilities. The idea that charging is "fixed" is risible.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/technology/personaltech/tech-smartphones-self-driving-cars.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Mk0.jS4l.tBs-vL-jr5U1&smid=url-share

alloydflanagan,
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@lauren where did you get this device, may I ask?

atomicpoet, to random

I prefer using adblockers not because I dislike ads, but because they help me protect against potential abuse. You see, most of the malicious and abusive experiences I come across on the Internet are actually through ads.

They often try to steal my bandwidth, take up valuable screen space, or even take control of my browser. Some ads have even tried to install software without my consent, which is downright alarming. Honestly, browsing the Internet can sometimes feel like a battle against the ad industry's hostility. So until the ad industry starts behaving better, which unfortunately doesn't seem to be happening anytime soon, I'll continue relying on adblockers to ensure a safer browsing experience.

alloydflanagan,
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@atomicpoet Publishers don’t want to hear this. They’ve been sold ads as “just drop this bit of script in your page and make money”, and have no idea what those scripts can do. It’s just like 5 lines, right?

arstechnica, to random
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Tumblr is reportedly on life support as its latest owner reassigns staff

"600+ person-years of effort" have not stopped the site from losing $30M a year.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/tumblr-is-reportedly-on-life-support-as-its-latest-owner-reassigns-staff/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

alloydflanagan,
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@arstechnica They betrayed their most profitable and consistent users by throwing them off the platform. Every major social media platform is hurting for the same reason: they think they can screw their users over.

mcc, (edited ) to random
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I dunno if 1:30 PM EST on a Saturday morning is the right time to reach someone who cares about this, but: I really have problems with the Rust LSP. I use it with Sublime and on all platforms I use it on it seems to create huge problems with absurd memory use that compounds more and more with the number of windows you have open. The indexing when it opens a new project is very slow, it seems to take much longer to come to the conclusion "oh, this doesn't compile" than actual rustc

alloydflanagan,
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@mcc chokidar on node package manager lists 11,868 dependents, but no one bothers to update it in two years? Like, for example, Microsoft who could afford to?

alloydflanagan,
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@mcc So many people are eager to use open source infrastructure but so few support it.

AnnaAnthro, to random
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    alloydflanagan,
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    @AnnaAnthro Hilarious.

    whitequark, to random
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    go fuck yourself Microchip

    alloydflanagan,
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    @whitequark A phrase well used by anyone who’s tried to program their chips.

    arstechnica, to random
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    Biden AI executive order requires safety testing for AI that poses “serious risk”

    Order details US admin's approach to AI safety, media authenticity, job loss, and more.

    https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/10/biden-ai-executive-order-requires-safety-testing-for-ai-that-poses-serious-risk/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    alloydflanagan,
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    @arstechnica I wonder how they define “AI” when the software industry can’t do it consistently? And will this inhibit companies from claiming everything they do is AI or “enhanced by AI” ?

    georgetakei, to random

    In case it wasn’t clear what kind of person the new Speaker Mike Johnson is, here is an OpEd he wrote advising that states should “discriminate” against “homosexual conduct” and suggesting they pass laws around “sexual conduct outside marriage.” He is a Christo-Nationalist zealot. Of “The Handmaid’s Tale” variety.

    alloydflanagan,
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    @georgetakei There’s sober and logical legal analysis, and then there’s this pile of garbage. “Well we’ve done it this way for a long time, it can’t be wrong.”

    mcc, to random
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    Hey

    • Do people over 40 keep telling you you should use IRC and IRC is better than Discord and Slack?
    • Did you try IRC and it wasn't better at all?
    • Do you need to use an IRC channel but IRC is a pain?
    • Use irccloud.com
    • It's free, it has a website interface that's like Discord, it has a phone app, it even lets you paste images into IRC
    • Downside: If you connect only from phone, they DC you after a bit unless you're on the paid plan. Get around this by leaving a web tab open on a desktop
    alloydflanagan,
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    @mcc or “dammit, how much free disk space have I got today?”

    ElleGray, to random
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    alloydflanagan,
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    @ElleGray Things I Really Needed But Never Knew

    mcc, to random
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    Downloading Android Studio for Linux

    "Note: Linux machines with ARM-based CPUs aren't currently supported."

    Wait… what? But Android is technically an ARM Linux o_0

    alloydflanagan,
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    @mcc is that specific to Studio or Java apps in general?

    mcc, to random
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    I've been told people on this website enjoy me trying to think through computer problems out loud while in incredible pain, so good news: I'm taking my new Thinkpad T14 (https://mastodon.social/@mcc/111218408629532857) out of the box and I'm going to install Linux on it first thing. So expect a LOT of complaining.

    alloydflanagan,
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    @mcc Launchpad is generally a real PITA. Almost as though they don’t want bug reports.

    georgetakei, to random

    Just imagine if she tried this as a racial minority in America.

    https://www.comicsands.com/suzanne-laprise-gun-bristol-police-2665979781.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

    alloydflanagan,
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    @georgetakei But at least she wasn’t selling contraband cigarettes, or walking through a neighborhood in a hoodie.

    jeffowski, to random
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    alloydflanagan,
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    @jeffowski Strangely enough, one kind of candy is pretty bad for kids. So of course they’re banning the other one.

    JamesGleick, to random
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    The NY Times seems to think that the way Republicans have been running the House of Representatives is normal. It’s not normal.

    Republicans invented the “Hastert Rule,” preventing the House from passing bills that have the support of a bipartisan majority. It’s an insult to the Constitution. It puts the crazy far right in control.

    All they have to do is return to a semblance of regular order, and they could get Democratic support for a moderate Speaker.

    alloydflanagan,
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    @JamesGleick The Times has a bad habit of pretending things are normal and fine even when they clearly are not.

    mcc, to random
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    So Miguel found an NES visual novel that is about kawaii idol girls, except if you pay more than two seconds of attention you realize that it is, literally, intentionally, unsubtly, an adaptation of King Lear

    alloydflanagan,
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    @mcc When in doubt, steal from the very best.

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