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heidilifeldman, to random
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He’s going to become more and more dangerous. https://www.mediaite.com/trump/this-is-the-final-battle-trump-posts-incredibly-dark-video-pledging-to-liberate-america-from-these-villains-once-and-for-all/

yacc143,
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@heidilifeldman Can we get him some nice bunker, and some cyanide capsules?

clive, to random
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Whoa

yacc143,
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@glennf @clive
And it's technically the swing voters who decide the election.

Safe states are precisely what the name implies, thus “fly-over country” for the candidates, when we are honest.

dangillmor, to random
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Just a reminder that if New York law enforcement had been doing its job decades ago -- among countless infuriating what-ifs -- the world would have been spared his malign presence in the past decade.

yacc143,
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@dangillmor 🤷

We don't want to go too far.

Generally speaking, the Rich are informally above the law in the USA. Seems like even many of the non-rich agree with that policy.

Trump just managed by running for President to put himself under a magnification lens, despite all tries by the media to be Pro-Trump.

Which led to the ugly discovery that Donald “The Mobster” Trump has the typical arrogance of the rich of being above the law.

skykiss, (edited ) to random
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Update: Florida was one of four states with a lifetime ban, the others being Iowa, Kentucky and Virginia. On November 6, 2018, 65% of Florida voters approved Amendment 4, which automatically restores the voting rights of people convicted of a felony—except murder or sexual offenses—after the completion of their sentences.

yacc143,
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@bamboombibbitybop @skykiss
Please note, the States are barred by SCOTUS from deciding who runs for Federal Office. But they are totally free to suppress voters in federal elections, that's totally in state hands.

ernie, to random
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I really don't get how people will put so much energy into removing ads on products willingly knowing that by doing so they're hurting small creators.

Not even on things like aggressive ad tracking. Like, podcasts.

yacc143,
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@ernie
Trivial. Considering that ads are generally at best media files, at worst code & media, injected into a site but sourced from a 3rd party.

Now considering that media files are read and parsed by a surprising small number of libraries, these surprisingly often statically embedded, security relevant bugs in these libraries are an issue.

So I consider ad networks more or less legal malware delivery networks.

And adblockers security software.

It's so trivial.

campuscodi, to random
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Microsoft not saying a peep about the Recall privacy scandal is a huge tell of how much the company is focused on security

We should have had a statement by now that Recall is either re-engineered or removed

yacc143,
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@campuscodi Or at least a pinky swear that it's safe.

jeffjarvis, to random
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Food writer weighs in.

yacc143,
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@jeffjarvis Oh it matters.

Especially if he manages to become President again.

What kind of country the USA are.

Trump is way past his “best before” date, from a political hygiene perspective.

ernie, to random
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A few years ago, a Reddit user asked for help in finding a “BOTTOM trackball,” which is an anecdote perfect for explaining how completely the optical mouse defeated the mechanical one.

Here’s how it happened: https://tedium.co/2024/05/19/optical-mouse-history-evolution/

new @tedium

yacc143,
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@ernie
Cool you found my first mouse :)

A Mouse Systems 3 button mouse with a grid pad :)

baldur, to random
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One of the things that the Stack Overflow brouhaha demonstrates is that it doesn’t matter if a service was founded by people trusted by the community (Atwood and Spolsky) and was broadly community-led. If it’s a VC-funded startup, they will sell out their users at some point.

yacc143,
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@baldur Worse, at some point the “trusted people” might want to retire, and will sell.

And then the vulture capitalists will be waiting.

JamesGleick, to random
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A state rep got caught committing securities fraud. A grand jury indicted him on felony charges. Years passed. The defendant was elected attorney general. Years more passed.

Now he has agreed to accept punishment. He must pay nearly $300,000 in restitution, take legal ethics classes and perform 100 hours of community service.

And he remains attorney general.

Given these impossible facts—what state are we in?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/us/politics/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-texas-plea-deal-securities-fraud.html?ugrp=c&unlocked_article_code=1.fk0.8BHi.hUSHim_e5rvK&smid=url-share

yacc143,
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@peachfront @JamesGleick
Well, surely legal ethics classes will help him in his job as AG?

And at least he fulfils his GOP politician entry requirements now, as a criminal.

RickiTarr, to random
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Trans people are "forever patients"?

So is literally everyone!

Fuck off.

yacc143,
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@RickiTarr One pill would be for starters. (Actually, I managed that as a teenager)

Nowadays, it's a bit more than a dozen per day, sigh.

So yeah, I'm a natural anti-prepper. My medication supply ends, and so do I.

yacc143,
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@RickiTarr I can see how that looks crazy to Americans because most Americans would go bankrupt on what my family just swallows daily in medications (I prepare the weekly pill doses, so I know), it will be easily 3 dozen different medications between us, but medicines are a) cheaper here b) paid mostly by public healthcare.

Literally for a small samples it looks like private insurance copay in the US is higher than what our public health system pays in total for the “same” pack of medication.

selzero, to random
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It's Friday night, no school tomorrow so your parents don't care what time you sleep. They are not home and Pizza delivery just arrived. You filled your fridge with Dr Pepper, have Ghostbusters on VHS, and Earthbound on SNES.

It doesn't matter that you are 46 years old and it's 2024, what is stopping you living this feeling...

yacc143,
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@selzero
A working device to play VHS tapes?

A working SNES? (well there are emulators)

Do you know how much pain it is to connect SCART cables to digital only TVs?

ThermiteBeGiants, to random
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Americans wondering how on earth all the Taylor Swift fans got to last week’s concert at the Melbourne Cricket Ground when there’s no sea of car parking next to the stadium:

yacc143,
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@thefathippy @ThermiteBeGiants
Ah, that so great:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/air-canada-must-honor-refund-policy-invented-by-airlines-chatbot/

These idiots used a bullsh$t generator to replace a live chat operator on their website, and now have to pay for it.

Now we need some US courts enforcing the $1 binding offers some car chatbots have offered and the whole AI hype wave will scale back to sane proportions.

davidzipper, to random
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Wow. Carmakers are going to hate this, but I think it's great:

A new California bill would require all new cars to contain speed governors that prevent them from going 10 mph+ over the speed limit.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/car-speed-governors-bill-18624126.php

yacc143,
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@davidzipper In the EU actually, AFAIK, it's been mandatory for all new car types for the last 3 years or so, but from July 2024 all new cars registered for the first time for road use will require this (and half a dozen other gadgets).

FluentInFinance, to random
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The wealthy avoid taxes using the “Buy-Borrow-Die” strategy:

Step 1: Buy assets and hold (to avoid capital gains taxes from selling)

Step 2: Borrow money from Banks for living expenses using assets as collateral, at low interest rates (while assets appreciate)

Step 3: Interest paid on borrowed money is a tax write off

Step 4: Wait and repeat. The long-term gains on assets outweigh the short-term cost of borrowing money

Step 5: Pass assets to kids, tax-free (with stepped-up basis) and repeat

yacc143,
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@FluentInFinance So how do they avoid estate taxes?

raymondpert, to cryptocurrency
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    yacc143,
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    @raymondpert Well, bankruptcies are like that.

    Any business that you had in the n months with the bankrupt business (n depending upon the jurisdiction) before they filed for bankruptcy is open for review and cancellation.

    And as there have been people who have profited from in the year before it collapsed, these people are all open to demands to return their profits, and get their "fair" share of the quota like everyone.

    yacc143, to windows
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    Sorry, 11 needs and a NPU to search for system settings? How come that & manage with a simple text search box?

    Tom's Guide: Windows 11 vs macOS in 2024 will be a mess, so I'm learning Linux

    https://www.tomsguide.com/opinion/windows-11-vs-macos-in-2024-will-be-a-mess-so-im-learning-linux

    > 2024 is the year I finally learn Linux, I swear

    yacc143, to random
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    So Broadcom, the new VMware owner in less than a quarter changes the licence model to subscription only, and kicks out most service and sales partner, informing them on the quick that their contracts will be terminated and not renewed. Or perhaps, nobody exactly knows.

    That literally screams build your business on closed source products, doesn't it?

    They call the anti business , but somehow the mainstream is quite okay to overlook unacceptable behaviour from the big players?

    yacc143, to random
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    Considering the AI-hype @pluralistic

    People tend to forget, that in the 1960s, non-techies were fooled by Eliza. And spent hours with the psychotherapist telling Eliza their personal problems.

    So the current psychosis with ChatGPT is not completely new.

    yacc143, to random
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    FULTON COUNTY INMATE NUMBER

    What a career.

    yacc143, to random German
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    Frage: wieso ist es für Spotify relevant WAS die Kunden hören? Ob ich jetzt mit Phil Collins oder White noise einschlafe sollte doch keinen Unterschied machen?

    Phänomen „White-Noise-Podcasts“: Weißes Rauschen kostet Spotify Millionen

    https://t3n.de/news/white-noise-podcast-spotify-wei%C3%9Fes-rauschen-1570959/

    > Weißes Rauschen wirkt auf viele Menschen beruhigend.

    yacc143, to austria German
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    Ohne in die Details zu gehen (leider indirekt betroffen, und ich wurde gebeten nichts zu sagen), scheint sich ein neuer Abmahntrend bei uns Österreich zu entwickeln, laut unserem RA:

    • ist es leider schon aus judiziert das Retweeter mithaften für den Tweet.
    • Das coole ist, dass man als Retweeter aber absolut nichts mitbekommt, dass wegen des Originaltweet Zivil- oder Strafverfahren laufen.
    • und wenn der Orginaltweet sich als üble Nachrede, etc also illegal herausstellt,
    yacc143, to random
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    That's what you get when you run public transit as a business.

    It's a public utility, thus it shouldn't be strictly run by bean counters. Things like how much of the population does not need a private car or can get away with car sharing should be also important criteria.

    Remote work is straining public transit — and many agencies are stuck https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/03/public-transit-office-workers-00094999
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    yacc143, to random
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    Funny how the Brits cannot understand that a common currency is important to a single market: Just was doing my travel reimbursements, and being holier than the pope, I did take the exact costs that were charged to my card for the train tickets in the UK.

    4 days difference, and 6 cent difference. €14.25 versus €14.19.
    0.4% in € price difference.

    One might argue that this is irrelevant, but with margins in many industries being way below 5%, these currency fluctuations are major.

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