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rainynight65

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I dabble. Mostly in trains - H0 scale and live steam. Sometimes in games. Professionally in tech.

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mcc, to random
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Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

rainynight65,
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@mcc it's horribly grating that the websites who are most eager to make their content available for AI trading are the ones who are almost entirely reliant on user-generated content.

Daojoan, to random
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90% of people cannot tell the difference between an opinion piece, a news article, and the Onion.

rainynight65,
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@Daojoan Insee a lot of headlines these days that not even ten years ago would have been exclusive to something like The Onion. But these days reality is trying to outdo satire so hard that all lines are perpetually blurred.

I literally just saw a German election poster where I thought 'you can't make this stuff up, this must be satire' and yet here we are.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. I was 10 years old. Put in perspective the fact that until I was 10, abortion was illegal. So, I began my life without bodily autonomy. I had it from ages 10 - 60, and now I’m back at square one, without any. This RIGHT didn’t even exist for one person’s entire lifetime.

rainynight65,
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@StillIRise1963 East Germany legalised abortion in 1972. West Germany followed two years later, but that was repealed again after another year by the constitutional court. So as of 1975 abortion was legal in East Germany (had been for 3 years), illegal in West Germany.

East German women therefore lost their legal right to abortion when the two German countries were reunited in 1990.

The current German law against abortion goes back to the 1930s.

Edent, to random
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10 years ago today!

Google Glass was probably the last time I felt genuinely excited about a piece of consumer tech.

It was obviously a flawed beta, but showed so much promise. The right amount of "this is so crazy it might just work!"

Wherever I went, people wanted to try it on to see for themselves how it worked. They wanted to discuss ethical issues and it's vast potential.

Today, it is barely more than a punchline like Google+.

But, for a brief moment, it was the future.

rainynight65,
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@Edent my employer at the time had a pair of Google Glasses to work on a really exciting use case. We were providing car-related services to members (breakdown assistance etc) and the idea was that when a service person pulls up to a breakdown, Google Glass could read the plate and display all relevant information about the car.

Sadly Google pulled the plug on Glass before the idea could gain any traction.

Daojoan, to random
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Kate, 23, said it wasn't as hard to buy a house as people made out.

"I just cut my expenses. Unlike my friends, I didn't go out, I ate at home, I watched free to air TV instead of Netflix and I thrift shopped. Add that to the $500,000 my parents gave me for a deposit, and I was able to achieve my goals in just 6 months"

This story sponsored by realestate dot com dot au

rainynight65,
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@Daojoan Yeah, and they run a story like this every few months. It's almost too transparent.

cstross, to random
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Shocked and baffled to see Jacob Rees-Mogg writing an op-ed in The Spectator that I actually AGREE with:

"Shamima Begum shouldn’t have lost her British citizenship"

I mean, WTF?

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/shamima-begum-shouldnt-have-lost-her-british-citizenship/

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rainynight65,
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@cstross thing is, I've never taken Rees-Mogg as someone who would know sense if it kicked him in the teeth, never mind someone who could actually talk sense.

glynmoody, to Ukraine
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'Shame on you': Polish prime minister hits out at US Republicans - https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/feb/08/shame-on-you-polish-prime-minister-tells-us-republican-senators-after-ukraine-bill-blocked-europe-live?page=with:block-65c4894e8f08b8fa87cc80b9#block-65c4894e8f08b8fa87cc80b9 "Ronald Reagan, who helped millions of us to win back our freedom and independence, must be turning in his grave today. Shame on you."

rainynight65,
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@glynmoody Ugh. I respect Tusk, but to lionise Reagan like that and credit him with the liberation of the eastern bloc is just revisionism, and a huge disrespect to all the people who put their lives on the line in those countries to protest the regimes and fight for freedom - that includes Solidarność in his own country.

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to australia
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🇦🇺 Australia: "The Burnet Institute says Australia’s aggressive approach to suppressing COVID-19 in the first 2 years of the pandemic has been vindicated in saving thousands of lives, leading to a death rate 33 times lower than the United Kingdom and 46 times lower than the United States."

@auscovid19

Source: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/aggressive-measures-in-covid-early-years-credited-for-saving-thousands-of-lives-20240112-p5ewxi.html

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rainynight65,
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@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 Australia was doing well until New South Wales, the state with the most lackadaisical handling of outbreaks, lost control of a Delta outbreak and forced the hands of the other states, which had been able to keep outbreaks under control with snap lockdowns.

Once Delta was loose, all bets were off.

In addition, the federal government at the time thoroughly bungled the vaccine rollout, making Australia lag behind other countries for some time.

mattblaze, to random
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In 2020, the emergence of COVID-19 gave us a stark, terrifying, but very valuable lesson in how thin our collective values are once push comes to shove. Within WEEKS after lockdowns started, the op-ed class repeatedly suggested that

  • We should suspend child labor laws (they claimed, incorrectly, that children weren't harmed by COVID)

  • The elderly have already lived long enough and should be willing to die now to help the economy.

  • The weak and compromised should be regarded as expendable.

rainynight65,
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@mattblaze that whole 'children aren't affected by COVID' claim still drives me up the wall today. At the time that idea surfaced, we had nowhere near enough information about this disease to confidently make such a claim (I suggest we still don't). A lot of people tried to tell me that COVID is really just a problem for the elderly and immunocompromised. I was so angry that these people were basically willing to sacrifice children. The pandemic brought out the worst in society.

rainynight65,
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@mattblaze And I think the main problem was that it was clear these people were not talking about their own children or parents. They were protected, their kids wouldn't have had to work in a factory. They were probably first in line for the vaccines despite railing against them (see also Fox talking heads). It had some serious Lord Farquaad vibes.

Also, on a different note: I dig the term 'op-ed class'.

rainynight65, to random
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If I said:

"I am extremely worried about the election wins of hard-right populists around the world, and the resurgence of authoritarianism and fascism"

That would be considerably understating just how worried and anxious I am about it.

rainynight65, to animals
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This cat loves having the high ground.

Daojoan, to random
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The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video. Every code tutorial. Every design tutorial. Nobody actually writes out a guide anymore.

It's just "hey guys welcome to my tutorial" and watching 10 minutes of content that mostly isn't relevant...

rainynight65,
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@Daojoan Drives me bloody insane.

No, I don't want to watch a 10 minute video when finding the information I want in a text would take less than half that. No, I don't want to watch you fumble your way through a poorly rehearsed process. No, I don't want to 'like and subscribe'.

Unfortunately, with the rise of Medium and similar companies, textual information is also becoming less accessible. But give me text over a video any day of the week.

jeffowski, to random
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rainynight65,
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@jeffowski they're the ones who want him to come back. Why don't they do the hard work?

jeffowski, to random
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rainynight65,
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@jeffowski it pisses me off to no end when people look down on fast food workers. Fast food work is a grindstone and many people wouldn't last a day in that job. I once had an argument about the 'value of work', and my last counter was that when the star surgeon is hungry at 11pm after a long shift, that 'burger flipper' at McD's is suddenly very valuable.

lisyarus, to random
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Apparently cppreference got hacked by some rust fanboys. Jesus, this attitude is exactly the reason I'm never going to use that language.

(jk, this is only one of the reasons)

rainynight65,
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@lisyarus sheesh, what a bunch of children. Why is it impossible for some people to just not be shoving their own preferences down everyone else's throats?

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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There should be a reverse Indiana Jones film where a South American tribe sneaks into the Vatican, steals some relics, and gets away on a boat while a bunch of men in golden robes shake their fists and shout their strange language.

rainynight65,
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@ZachWeinersmith I want the same as a video game - where Lara Croft breaks into famous museums to steal artefacts and return them to their rightful owners.

grumpygamer, to random
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It's not just kids. I have a huge disdain for people who pull pranks or do comedy at someone else's expense. I know a game dev that mocks and ridicules people for laughs and then victim blames them for not being able to take a joke (his exact words).

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230829-why-young-children-dont-understand-pranks

rainynight65,
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@grumpygamer as a wise friend of mine once said, if you're making a joke, then we both should be laughing. If it's only you who's laughing, you're not joking, you're being a dick.

Goes for 'pranks', too.

rainynight65,
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@grumpygamer that is... very shitty indeed. And a deplorable use of group dynamics, where the target likely feels they have little choice but to play along in order to not 'ruin the fun'.

shoq, to random
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May every penny he ever makes go to his victims, before he’s run over by a MAGA bus driver aiming for some homeless dude on the corner.

Kyle Rittenhouse Sued by Estate of Man He Killed in Self Defense

https://www.insider.com/kyle-rittenhouse-sued-estate-man-he-killed-self-defense-2023-8

rainynight65,
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@shoq I love how he whines that lawsuits are making it difficult for him to move on with his life.

No, dipshit, it's the fact that you murdered two people that makes it difficult to move on with your life. As it bloody should!

Somebody needs to sit him down and tell him "there is no moving on with your life. You illegally procured an assault weapon, inserted yourself into a violent situation, and murdered two people. This is your life now."

georgetakei, to random

Maybe someone should have asked him before assuming he was MAGA.

https://www.comicsands.com/oliver-anthony-song-gop-debate-2664552222.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

rainynight65,
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@georgetakei perhaps he shouldn't have gone public with a song that made it easy to assume he was MAGA.

tilvids, to mastodon
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Not a surprise to see some of this starting to happen. It actually makes sense for corporate entities to start their own instances of for sharing out information and building a network of followers that can't be capriciously switched off when some billionaire decides they no longer like you. 👏

Good on you @BBCRD Now how about a instance for your online video presence? I know a guy, if you're interested... 💙

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

rainynight65,
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@tilvids unrelated, but I started requesting an account on tilvids.com, but stopped when I got a banner saying my account would not be able to upload videos. Is that as intended? I am looking for a decent Peertube instance to share train-related videos. So far the only instance where I was able to create an account also had a 5mb daily upload limit.

grumpygamer, to random
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Dear Steam: Use fucking standard 2FA so I can put it into 1password. WTF. Seriously. W.T.F. You made $3b last year. I'm sure you can hire a programmer to do this. It's a solved problem.

rainynight65,
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@grumpygamer I'm not a fan of keeping my 2FA codes right next to my passwords in 1Password or equivalent. I know it's generally safe - but that just means nobody has breached it yet. And if someone gets in, they have everything. I prefer a degree of separation of my auth factors.

evacide, to random
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Of course if she was being nominated to the Supreme Court and her debts were suddenly paid off by some unknown party, that would be fine: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/15/kemba-walden-nomination-cyber-director/

rainynight65,
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@evacide she'd probably also need to be nominated by a Republican President in order for all that to fly.

rainynight65, to random German
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Aktuelle europäische Modelle kriegt man in Australien nur sehr selten als Schnäppchen. Diese Lok von Piko war eine rare Ausnahme. Modell von 2019, neu und unbespielt in Originalverpackung mit allen Beilagen, und zu einem sehr attraktiven Preis. Somit habe ich jetzt auch eine Taigatrommel in meiner Sammlung.

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