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pluralistic, 4 months ago to random

In any scam, any con, any hustle, the big winners are the people who supply the scammers - not the scammers themselves. The kids selling dope on the corner are making less than minimum wage, while the respectable crime-bosses who own the labs clean up. Desperate "retail investors" who buy shitcoins from Superbowl ads get skinned, while the MBA bros who issue the coins make millions (in real dollars, not crypto).

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tzimmer_history, 1 month ago to random

This is the type of comment I’ve been getting a lot for my latest piece: Always from self-regarding liberals who never want to grapple with the fact that the civil rights protests of the 1950s and 60s – the legacy of which they surely want to claim – clearly violated those principles.

vorlon, 1 year ago to random

I have been uncomfortable with boosting these kinds of messages, because

It's not okay to just care about the software.

It's not ok to decide to care about the fate of trans people only because they give you something.

They are PEOPLE. You should care about them because they're PEOPLE.

If seeing these messages helps you understand that they're people IN YOUR COMMUNITY, then that's good.

If you need to be told this in order to care what happens to people, that's bad.

https://mastodon.online/@danirabbit/110421372391376663

vorlon, 5 months ago to random

The 7yo has learned the word "cyberpunk" and after a Dad symposium about its true definition, wants to know if there are any cyberpunk movies he could watch.

Anyone have any ideas? By the nature of the genre it's going to target more mature audiences. Something with a PG-13 rating might be ok depending, but definitely not R. And I'm having a hard time thinking of many that are true cyberpunk. Johnny Mnemonic is about the only one I can think of that unconditionally qualifies.

vorlon, 7 months ago to random

Can you explain this gap in your CVE

vorlon, 7 months ago to portland

Portland parents! Earlier this year, PPS placed an order for additional in-classroom air purifiers, with input from the school communities, from the Oregon Health Authority; at no cost to the district; to help combat poor air quality affecting our children's learning environment.

The air purifiers have arrived at the district office.

And the district has decided not to distribute them to the schools.

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#PortlandPublicSchools #PPS #Portland #CovidIsntOver

vorlon, 10 months ago to random

XR in the UK had (has?) serious problems, trivializing/glamorizing incarceration in the name of the cause. Ruining golf courses, though, looks like some good praxis. https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/04/europe/extinction-rebellion-golf-course-spain-climate-intl/index.html

vorlon, 10 months ago to random

Apparently all the fine folks from #FOSSY have been sharing the Oregon Convention Center the past few days with https://www.hervoicemvmt.com/

Who had as one of their speakers Lou Engle, who traveled to Uganda and spoke in support of their anti-homosexuality legislation.

So how's that going, folks

vorlon, 10 months ago to random

#FOSSY

QR code for Union position to the OCC

vorlon, 14 days ago to random

Ahahaha happy 16th birthday to CVE-2008-0166, still going strong
https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/112428503842956186

Andres4NY, 2 months ago to random

"wait, you keep saying 'the 80s'.. Do you mean the 1800s?" -- my #11yo

Andres4NY, 4 months ago to random

Week #2 of my spouse being on a business trip. The children have gone feral. I'm subsisting off tree bark and random snacks I find under the couch cushions. The neighbors are complaining about a smell, but I'm afraid of what I'll find if I go looking for it.

juliank, 9 days ago to random

One thing that becomes really interesting are versioned Recommends. Consider

X Recommends: A (>= 2) | B

Let X become available before A=2. The solver will install B.

Arguably a better solution is to ignore lower bounds on Recommends and instead optimize for "eventual satisfaction". i.e. we install A=1 now because A=2 will become available later and then satisfy the Recommends.

juliank, 7 days ago to random

Getting triggered each time I go to an Italian place and they pronounce pistacchio wrong. It's pi-stak-kio (/piˈstakkjo/).

Sorry but if you work in an Italian restaurant you should learn to pronounce the words correctly.

As a helper, this is the Italian version of πιστάκιον. That might make it more clear to you if you can't follow the Italian pronunciation from the spelling.

juliank, 3 days ago to random

It's very hard to find stuff about SAT solving, you just get "how to master your SATs"

juliank, 4 days ago to random

apt-cache can't tell you here why pbuilder is installed:

$ aptitude why pbuilder
i ansible-role-devel Depends ubuntu-dev-tools
i A ubuntu-dev-tools Recommends pbuilder | cowbuilder | sbuild

$ apt-cache why pbuilder
pbuilder:amd64=0.231build1 -> pbuilder:amd64

That's because pbuilder is autoremovable under the current solver3 regime, so it didn't find a reason to keep it - it picked sbuild to satisfy the Recommends above (as sbuild is manually installed).

vorlon, 1 month ago to random

For Ubuntu 24.10, we should patch bash so that when it's given content on stdin, it checks the process tree and if the sending process is curl, launches x-www-browser with a page on basic Internet safety instead of executing the command.

juliank, 8 days ago to random

Why is Boulogne-sur-Mer not a partner city of Bologna, this is a missed opportunity

vorlon, 5 months ago to random

A lot of people pointing out that the sudden scrutiny of executive compensation at Mozilla is driven by someone with an ulterior motive, and that's good information to have.

But, look. That is not a reason to DEFEND a CEO being paid $7 million. The reason Lunduke zeroed in on this is because it is ACTUALLY DISGUSTING AND HE KNOWS PEOPLE WILL BE BOTHERED BY IT. When surveyed about CEO compensation, people say a good ratio is less than 5:1.

https://www.corporate-rebels.com/blog/ideal-ceo-to-employee-pay-ratio

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juliank, 20 days ago to random

The whole "illegals vote I'm US elections" discussion is funny as a German because here

• everyone needs to register their home address with the city within a week or two of moving there, you are automatically "registered to vote" by this and assigned the closest place to vote when an election happens.
• to vote, you need to present ID and it's checked against the people allowed to vote in that place.

juliank, 5 months ago to random

I'm afraid to say I have not been tracking the state of the Ukraine war the past 3 months or so. Does anyone have a summary to get me up to speed?

I got lost in travel and sickness and work a bit.