Sincere effort based on sincere beliefs, or cynical combination of fear-mongering and virtue signaling meant to secure the catbird seat for them in a highly regulated and closed source future?
To think that not so long ago, this authoritarian, grifting man-child was hailed as the real-life Tony Stark. If the mask slips any further, even his remaining fanboys are going to find it difficult to defend him.
President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed its weariness over pilot's training courses' on F-16 jet fighters, hinting at Western partners' lack of will, he said in a joint conference with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on July 1.
The ex-president praised the Supreme Court’s devastating decisions during a summit for Moms for Liberty — a right-wing, anti-government group — on Friday
The Public Prosecution Service (OM) and the police are "ready to enforce the laughing gas ban," the OM reported on Saturday. Since January 1 of this year, it has been illegal in the Netherlands to transport, sell, manufacture, or possess laughing gas for recreational use. However, enforcement of this ban has not yet occurred....
The only reason why we all used third party apps for Reddit, is because their app and website is abhorrent trash. It’s great to have a choice, but Lemmy’s website is smooth to use. I know it’s mind blowing not to use a app for everything in 2023 but Lemmy just works.
I could never log in to any of the Lemmy servers I tried using Firefox on mobile. All I'd get is an endlessly spinning circle. No error message or anything... just the online equivalent of the middle finger. Finally I installed Connect for Lemmy and now I'm at least able to log on to Lemmy World.
Kbin, conversely, has proven to be amazing on mobile Firefox.
I’m struggling to disconnect from work. I’ve been working on an interesting problem for the last couple of weeks (compacting change data capture events from sharded MySQL servers into BigQuery). It’s an interesting technical problem. There are lots of optimization opportunities and novel patterns I can introduce....
Put those technical chops to work building something you'll enjoy at home, like a bitchin' home theater system with media server. Set up a pi-hole for your home internet, roll your own VPN, etc. Maybe even expand into home improvement (lots of problem solving and creativity required).
“One of the things that I’ll call out is, it’s important for us not just to enable that, but to participate,” he said. “To make is easy for them, to make this where they can make it not just a hobby, but a career."
What they really want: a sanitized official mod store that dominates over the Nexus and Loverslab. I'm not sure how they're going to pull that off, but I fully expect them to try.
Now that you've all tried it ... ChatGPT web traffic falls 10% (www.theregister.com)
Slow June, people voting with their feet amid this AI craze, or something else?
News: OpenAI Introduces Superalignment
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1102882...
Elon Musk supports eliminating voting rights for people without children (www.independent.co.uk)
Anon discovers agriculture
Zelensky concerned over delayed F-16 pilot training (kyivindependent.com)
President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed its weariness over pilot's training courses' on F-16 jet fighters, hinting at Western partners' lack of will, he said in a joint conference with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on July 1.
Trump Threatens to Appoint ‘Maybe Even Nine’ Supreme Court Justices if Elected (www.rollingstone.com)
The ex-president praised the Supreme Court’s devastating decisions during a summit for Moms for Liberty — a right-wing, anti-government group — on Friday
Police ready to enforce laughing gas ban in the Netherlands (nltimes.nl)
The Public Prosecution Service (OM) and the police are "ready to enforce the laughing gas ban," the OM reported on Saturday. Since January 1 of this year, it has been illegal in the Netherlands to transport, sell, manufacture, or possess laughing gas for recreational use. However, enforcement of this ban has not yet occurred....
For the people coming in asking what app for Lemmy. You don't need it. Lemmy is great on a mobile browser.
The only reason why we all used third party apps for Reddit, is because their app and website is abhorrent trash. It’s great to have a choice, but Lemmy’s website is smooth to use. I know it’s mind blowing not to use a app for everything in 2023 but Lemmy just works.
How do people disconnect from work when they enjoy solving technical work problems?
I’m struggling to disconnect from work. I’ve been working on an interesting problem for the last couple of weeks (compacting change data capture events from sharded MySQL servers into BigQuery). It’s an interesting technical problem. There are lots of optimization opportunities and novel patterns I can introduce....
Starfield is Going to be “a Modder’s Paradise” – Todd Howard (gamingbolt.com)
Howard says Bethesda Game Studios is looking to keep expanding its support for the modding community with the upcoming space-faring RPG.
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Rainbow - Since You've Been Gone (youtu.be)
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