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toriver

@toriver@mas.to

On-off developer, mostly administrator of SharePoint, Teams, Jira, Confluence, PureService, Azure AD

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jeffjarvis, to random
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Image of the kind of worm thought to have taken up residency in RFJ Jr.'s brain, according to the NY Times. NYT: "Several infectious disease experts and neurosurgeons said...they believed it was likely a pork tapeworm larva."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/13/brain-tapeworms-undercooked-bacon

toriver,
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@jeffjarvis It would not surprise me that someone opposed to vaccines would also be opposed to «bureaucratic» food safety standards.

jeffjarvis, to random
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Surprise, surprise.
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince may have bitten off more than he can chew with his plans for a futuristic city featuring twin skyscrapers stretching 105 miles through the desert. https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-neom-line-construction-99b3f54f?st=624u9iqg553n5q7

toriver,
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@lostdoco @jeffjarvis Patric Boyle’s videos are a treasure trove

dangillmor, to random
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The top editor of the New York Times makes clear that his newsroom won't take a stand on the increasingly likely end of democracy in America.

I'm sick to my stomach as I read this, but I think everyone should see what cowards we have running our most important media organizations.

https://www.semafor.com/article/05/05/2024/joe-kahn-the-newsroom-is-not-a-safe-space

toriver,
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@dangillmor question, after 9/11 did the NYT provide coverage of the views of bin Laden and Al Quaida or did the False Balance disease strike them at a later point?

rysiek, (edited ) to random
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May the Forth be with you!

toriver,
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@rysiek May the force live long and prosper!

DemocracyMattersALot, to random
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The hysteria over Palestine protests on campus that is being ginned up to protect US support for Israel’s war is the beginning of a new Red Scare. Liberals must resist it, because it will come for them, too.

Liberals Must Resist the New McCarthyism Over Israel Criticism https://jacobin.com/2024/05/israel-campus-protest-antisemitism-mccarthyism/

toriver,
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@notroot @DemocracyMattersALot When you destroy every university and hospital in an area, bomb civilians and plan settling in the area, then yes it is a genocide. Nice of you to put it in quotes to show that you are a muteable apologist for the right-wing regime of Israel.

QasimRashid, to random
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REPORT: 99% of pro-Palestine protests at US colleges have been peaceful, despite remarks from Biden & other politicians calling such demonstrations as violent.

This misinfo is exactly how they’ve tried to derail every civil rights movement in US history.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/may/01/university-protests-pro-palestinian-demonstrators-arrested-latest-news?page=with%3Ablock-6633bff08f081efe1175c36c

toriver,
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@QasimRashid apprently erecting tents on university grounds is «violence». A lot of opponents to the protests think that there is only a very specific form of non-disruptive protest that is permissible.

AnarchistArt, to random
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toriver, (edited )
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@AnarchistArt Some Americans seem proud of their ignorance and lack of education. I guess if you told them English was not the official language of the US they would resort to violence.

angusm, to random
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This excellent article by @molly0xfff reminded me of the sci-fi trope where everyone in the future lives in a domed bunker & gets told not to go outside because it's a wasteland filled with Bad People.

Of course the protagonists leave the dome & find that the reality is a bit different: outside can be scary, but it's not the hellscape they were told.

Big Tech walled gardens are the dome; outside them is a risky wonderland that’s ours for the taking.

Leave the dome.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

toriver,
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@jordan @angusm @molly0xfff They love the walled gardens just because they don’t know of the alternatives. Sure, the alternatives can be more complex, like driving your own car is harder than taking the bus. But that is basically what they are doing. They are the passengers, not the drivers.

jeffjarvis, to random
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Times op-ed buys Trump efforts to paint him as "the outlaw hero, a figure of defiance with deep roots in American culture who exposes the injustices and hypocrisies of a corrupt system."
No, he's a fascist.
Trump Embraces Lawlessness, but in the Name of a Higher Law https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/opinion/trump-trial-2024-election.html?smid=tw-share

toriver,
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@jeffjarvis next up from them: «The Unabomber, a misunderstood genius?»

DrALJONES, (edited ) to random
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In a standard fascist tactic, police enabled pro-israel attack on Gaza Solidarity camp

Report

1/2

UCLA students at a peaceful encampment were pepper sprayed & beaten, while police stood by & watched.

Students blasted university officials & police for failing to intervene & protect them from pro-Israeli attackers.

"Several students said they had to rely on each other, not the police, for protection as they were attacked."

00.35 GMT May 2 AJ updates ...2

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toriver,
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@DrALJONES Makes sense, fascists have always used violent youths (brownshirts, blackshirts) to beat up people they don’t like.

jeffjarvis, to random
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American conservatives' (here AEI) creepy obsession with making babies gets space in the Washington Post instead of analysis of the roots in white eugenics.
The ideal number of kids in a family: Four (at a minimum) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/30/family-size-big-families/

toriver,
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@SharG @jeffjarvis yes, they fear becoming a minority because they expect to be treated like they treat current minoroties…

exchgr, to random
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speaking as a jew, it’s not antisemitic to call for the end of a genocide. it is antisemitic to use accusations of antisemitism as a cover for carrying out genocide

toriver,
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@vy @exchgr your argument is on the level of some Holocaust deniers, that since the Germans were so super efficient and skillful, then they would have managed to kill all the Jews if that was their intention. That many survived is seen by them as proof that Nazi Germany did not commit a genocide.

toriver,
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@vy @exchgr well, Dresden was not a conclave controlled by the allies (the way Israel controlled Gaza), and the allies did not target the refugees fleeing the destruction.

Face it, the systematic destruction of hospitals, universities and, well, people fleeing is hard to not call a genocide unless you are a heartless apologist. Israel knows where everyone in Gaza lives and could have sent in special forces to take out Hamas and rescue hostages. But vengeance was the goal.

toriver,
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@vy @exchgr So then mass murder is the solution? The Israeli military estimate that maybe 10% of the killed were Hamas. If someone abducted people in Tel Aviv and fled into a mall, would the IDF bomb the mall? No, because some people are "better" than others.

Israel had the chance for peace after the Oslo accords but chose to create an enemy. Because it has a cadre of politicians from right-wing US immigrants with no connection to the Holocaust, destroying good-will.

EU_Commission, to random
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🔴 We designated Apple’s iPadOS as a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act.

Our investigation shows that its tablet operating system is an important gateway for businesses to reach consumers due to its large and commercially attractive user base and its importance for specific use cases.

We also discovered that Apple leverages its large ecosystem to disincentivise end users from switching to other tablet operating systems.

We will keep monitoring compliance very closely.

toriver,
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@EU_Commission Can’t wait for when you get around to Microsoft.

Richard_Littler, to random
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I see he's reached 'Gulling the Gullible', chapter 2 of 'Big Con: The Right-Wing American Grifters Playbook'. If Jesus existed, he'd sue this unctuous, mock-spiritual, sham-Dickensian hustler. Would you buy a used cardinal from this man?

toriver,
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@Richard_Littler Part of me wants to think he’s still a chaotic-neutral liberal and all the right-wing-sounding nonsense is a bit. But it is more likely he has morphed.

lycophidion, to Palestine
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Across the US, Campus Protests for Palestine Face Intensifying Police Crackdowns

The authorities seem to be taking their playbook from Obama's take-down of the Occupy movement.

https://truthout.org/video/across-the-us-campus-protests-for-palestine-face-intensifying-police-crackdowns/

#gaza #Palestine #genocide #genocideenablers #genocidejoe #policestate

toriver,
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@palin @lycophidion Not a fan of the First Anendment and the right to «peacefully assemble» are you? Entitled MAGA it seems.

gulovsen, to random
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It is highly unlikely that anything which happens between now & November will prevent the former President of the United States from running again.

If you want to get worked up about things like the Supreme Court, or whether gag orders are being violated, or whether he spends time in jail, that's fine, but please don't let that distract you from what you could actually be doing between now & November to make sure that he never sets foot in the White House again.

November is all that matters.

toriver,
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@gulovsen Dunno, if the SC for some reason should conclude that the President has full immunity, then Biden can just send Trump to Guantanamo and dissolve the RNC, banning the party on the national level as a Russian spy agency. (Did you know the Constitution doesn’t even mention parties? They formed some years after it was written.)

carnage4life, to random
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A Tesla owner has been charged with vehicular homicide for killing a motorcyclist while browsing the web on their phone while the car was on Autopilot. According to the driver he was “putting the trust in the machine to drive for him,”

The naming of this feature kills people.

toriver, (edited )
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@carnage4life names do not help, people are dumb, like the person who bought an RV, started driving, activated «cruise control» and left the driver’s seat to go make a coffee or something because they thought that, too, was supposed to act like an autopilot, but ended up in a ditch.

heidilifeldman, to random
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Honestly, the Supreme Court justices today sounded even more deranged and clueless than I even expected. They are just too worried about hypothetical future presidents to focus on the fact that we have a former president indicted for attempting to overthrow an election who is now running for reelection on an explicitly authoritarian, anti-democracy platform. 1/ #LawFedi

toriver,
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@bahrta @heidilifeldman Why are you parroting lies that have been debunked for ages now and that only MAGA believe? He told them to «go home» hours after the invasions had started - up until the point where it became obvious the coup had failed he watched the attack on the Capitol on TV without doing anything to stop it. And prior he had told the crowd repeatedly to «fight». You just believe his imaginary excuses.

parismarx, to tech
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Meta lost $3.85 billion on the metaverse in the first quarter of 2024 alone. You know, that thing we all laughed about a couple years ago and next to no one actually uses.

It’s burned $45 billion on the metaverse since the end of 2020.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/24/metas-reality-labs-posts-3point85-billion-loss-in-first-quarter.html

toriver, (edited )
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@anne_twain @parismarx back when the fad had media traction, anything that had multiplayer and avatars was counted as «metaverse» by the tech-bros. «World of Warcraft is part of the metaverse!» they cried before pivoting into crypto instead.

jon, to Vivaldi
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This month it is 30 years since I started working on browsers. April 1994 is when Geir and I started working on the Opera browser. We founded the company a year later.

Initially I made the UI, while Geir did a lot of the core.

Since that time I have dedicated myself to making the Web live up to its potential. First at Opera and now at Vivaldi.

If you ever used Opera and you have not tried Vivaldi, I invite you to give us a try!

If you never used Opera or Vivaldi, you are invited as well!

@Vivaldi

toriver,
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@jon @Vivaldi Ah yes, I remember buying a floppy with Opera from you at some computer fair (in Lillestrøm?) back in the 1990s.

molly0xfff, to random
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"Infra stack: from AWS to on-prem. AWS was becoming too costly, so #Bluesky moved over to dedicated data centers and bare-metal machines."

That's not something you read every day.

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

toriver,
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@molly0xfff Well the cloud is only other people’s servers, from tech-bros that have reinvented 1970s mainframe timesharing.

nixCraft, to random
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Laws are never equally enforced or applied especially when you have tons of investors money. It is a sad reality. https://bsky.app/profile/lonestartallboi.bsky.social/post/3kiib4qnjt324

toriver, (edited )
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@nixCraft Indeed, Midjourney is an artist the same way Napster was a record collection.

baldur, to random
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“WSJ: The AI industry spent 17x more on Nvidia chips than it brought in in revenue”

Linking to a reddit thread just for the headline quote they found in a paywalled WSJ article feels a bit weird but…

This 17x number is just for chips so the actual cost x revenue multiplier is much higher in reality https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1bs1ebl/wsj_the_ai_industry_spent_17x_more_on_nvidia/

toriver, (edited )
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@jimgon @baldur But keep in mind this is one of a dozen different Copilot products. Copilot for Github? That’s extra. Copilot for security? Also costs extra. Etc.

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