Buelldozer

Buelldozer , 1 day ago

It’s not that the titanium metal is fake, it’s probably real. By “fake” what they mean is that the part made with the titanium isn’t what the documentation for it claims. It may have been made by a different company than what the documentation says or it may not have been tested in the way that the documentation says.

Every last piece, down to the tiniest screw, in a commercial airplane has a paper trail and for these parts someone is saying that the paper trail has been falsified. That’s the “fake” part.

Buelldozer , 1 day ago

This one got at least Airbus and Spirit as well and it’s quite possible that it’s related to the CFM / AOG Technics debacle out of the UK last year.

reuters.com/…/engine-maker-cfm-says-up-96-planes-…

Buelldozer , 1 day ago

it was the 80s/90s, windows didn’t exist

Wow, that’s a pretty narrow gap. The 80386 started mass production in 1986 and Windows 3.0 (the first actually usable one) came out in 1990.

I refused to use Windows until Win95 and even then I was experimenting with OS/2. In 1997 I installed Slack 3.4 and have been around every since. I’m currently running Linux Mint but I sorta miss SuSe and may go back to it.

Buelldozer , 2 days ago

What would you even do with a PC that never has internet access?

The idea that computers should always be online is less than 20 years old. Even in the early 2000s it wasn’t uncommon for most employees in a company to NOT have Internet access. Companies, and people, bought or wrote software and then ran it to accomplish the task. No internet needed.

I’d argue that many employees in regular non-technical positions STILL don’t require Internet access to do their job unless they have to sign into some kind of cloud portal

Buelldozer , 2 days ago

A solution would be for an extension to download the entire video 2x and delete the difference.

I don’t think that would work. It would be trivial for YT to put different ads in different time slots which would leave a differencing engine with no way to tell what was content and what was ad. However that thought gave me another one; the core problem is the ability to differentiate between content and ad. That problem is probably solvable by leveraging the NPU that everyone is so desperate to cram into computers today.

Nearly all of the YT content I watch, and it’s a lot, has predictable elements. As examples the host(s) are commonly in frame and when they’re not their voices are, their equipment is usually in frame somewhere and often features distinctive markings. Even in the cases where those things aren’t true an Ad often stands out because its so different in light, motion, and audio volume.

With those things in mind it should be possible to train software, similar to an LLM, to recognize the difference between content and ad. So an extension could D/L the video, in part or in whole, and then start chewing through it. If you were willing to wait for a whole D/L of the video then it could show you an ad free version, if you wanted to stream and ran out of ad-removed buffer then it could simply stop the stream (or show you something else) until it has more ad-free content to show you.

A great way to improve this would be by sharing the results of the local NPU ad detection. Once an ad is detected and its hash shared then everyone else using the extension can now reliably predict what that ad looks like and remove it from the content stream which would minimize the load on the local NPU. It should also be possible for the YT Premium users to contribute so that the hash of an ad-free stream, perhaps in small time based chunks, could be used to speed up ad identification for everyone else.

It wouldn’t be trivial but it’s not really new territory either. It’s just assembling existing tech in a new way.

Buelldozer , 2 days ago

I’d like to read the article but holy hell there’s over 700 companies in their tracking cookie policy!

Luckily there’s an archive of it: archive.ph/Yrcda

Buelldozer , 1 day ago

When I opened the page in FireFox I was prompted to manage cookies. I clicked on that and then clicked the “site vendor” tab.

Buelldozer , 2 days ago

Imagine if that was the headline…

Well that headline would be pretty damn accurate!

all the way to the entire country

China is no different. In fact there are NO countries in the world immune to the “you displaced a previous civilization” argument. They’ve all done it.

Buelldozer , 2 days ago

Another was born last year in Wyoming

This one probably was too since it was photographed in Lamar Valley.

Buelldozer , 2 days ago

The NRLB case didn’t erode anything. The decision followed precedent and kept things status quo.

Buelldozer , 2 days ago

Why would I, a right wing libertarian, lend my time to developing a piece of software that I am unable to make a profit from?

You are making a reductionist argument that the only thing that motivates a libertarian is profit. It is certainly a motivator but it’s certainly not the only one. Libertarian’s have a long history of association with FOSS, for example my own stretches back to the mid-90s. I have no desire to make money from it but I have a strong desire to stay out of the clutches of BigTech as much as possible and so I contribute to FOSS as I can.

Something like bitcoin is the kind of tech project of that mould that i think attracts the right wing libertarian.

A lot of libertarians push on cryptocurrency not because of a profit motive but because of the freedom and privacy aspects. To use myself as an example I don’t hold crypto as an investment but rather as a way of holding a currency that isn’t subject to the US Federal Reserve system.

Are there some libertarians who fit your descriptions? Absolutely there are, and they are generally referred to as Anarcho-Capitalists, An-Caps for short, but just like every Democrat isn’t a Progressive not every libertarian is an An-Cap.

Buelldozer , 2 days ago

Libertarian here. According to you I don’t want to help the poor so can you please explain to me why I’m spending hours every month doing volunteer work that has positive impacts for the disadvantaged?

It’s long been said Libertarians are just Republicans that want to smoke weed and distance themselves from the outwardly racist rhetoric.

Some are but not all. The people who repeat that line really don’t like to be confronted with the reality that there’s a lot more to a libertarian than weed. As an example the party platform started pushing LGBTQ rights clear back in the late '70s, long before anyone else was.

There certainly are selfish bastard libertarians but undesirables exist in every party and I maintain that we shouldn’t define a group by its worst members.

Buelldozer , 2 days ago

Today’s $1,200 handset can be had 24 months from now for 1/4th of that. To forestall the “I broke my phone and need something NOW!” argument I’d point out that phones like the Samsung Galaxy A15 exist, are COMPLETELY usable, and cost less than $200 brand new.

Anyone forking out $1,000+ for a new phone either has some very specific needs or is stuck in a FOMO trap.

Buelldozer , 3 days ago

boysvswomen.com/#/

That’s about as straightforward and easy to understand as it can possibly be. Many times Women’s Olympic Finalists wouldn’t qualify for the boys high school varsity team!

Buelldozer , 3 days ago

I’m not impugning anyone in any way with this comment but the very best biologically female athletes in the world, literal World Record setting Olympians, in many cases aren’t fast enough to compete with High School boys.

This is an even worse outcome than “Top 10% female athletes…” because this is the top 1% of female athletes, the crème de la crème, compared to the top *under age male *athletes.

There’s a lot of events, such as 100m to 800m sprints, where the female Olympians not only lose they can’t even qualify for the race!

In other events, swimming in particular, the biologically female Olympic Champions set World Record times…that were beaten by High School Boys.

You can follow the links to the raw data and do the math yourself if you want a precision answer but there’s no real question that the Top 10% of biologically female athletes, the Olympians, would lose to the Top 10% of biologically male athletes 80% of the time or more.

Buelldozer , 3 days ago

Wow, the Kei truck does not fare well at all in that offset test!

Buelldozer , 3 days ago

Doesn’t mean they aren’t safe.

At just 31MPH a Kei truck gets absolutely clobbered in front offset and side impact safety tests, even against small vehicles like Smart Cars and the old (small) Ford Rangers. Like don’t bother calling an ambulance just the morgue kind of clobbered.

Kei trucks are neat vehicles and I’d like to have one but scientific testing shows that they are not safe.

Buelldozer , 4 days ago

Should’t it also be illegal for Hallie Biden to dispose of an illegal firearm by putting it in a trash can outside a grocery store for a random person to find?

It likely IS illegal to do so but she’ll never be prosecuted for it.

Buelldozer , 4 days ago

The NRA will not defend anyone if drugs or police are involved.

Leaving aside the NRA a lot of 2A Advocates were / are hoping that this case will bring an end to these questions being on the 4473 form. They are obviously unconstitutional and they should not be on there.

Buelldozer , 5 days ago

Good. It’s way past time for the United States to stop blindly supporting Israel.

Buelldozer , 5 days ago

The Russian and Chinese propaganda machines are making headway for two very clear reasons:

1. Liberal Immigration Policy.
2. Rapidly diminishing economic prospects.

The first one is nearly brain dead simple to resolve. Tighten controls on immigration. Like it or not that seems to be what many voters want and the continuing refusal to be responsive to that makes politicians out of step with their constituents. Are these Representative Democracies or not?

The second is more nuanced but also relatively straightforward; stop outsourcing Blue Collar / Manufacturing work to low labor cost places like China. In fact the whole trends needs to reverse and those jobs needs to brought back!

That’s it. Those two things explain the rising support for the “Far Right” in both the Europe and the United States. The person pulling the lever for a Right-Oid candidate isn’t doing it because they love Russia or Putin, they are doing it because they want meaningful employment that allows them to be at least somewhat comfortable.

Buelldozer , 5 days ago

Simple mechanisms for flagging/reviewing misinformation would be helpful

It would be helpful but it would only be a band-aid on the sucking chest wound of economic issues. There’s also the very real problem of who gets to declare something as “misinformation”. There’s absolutely no way I would entrust our Government with that power and I trust the private companies running Media and Social Media outlets even less.

Buelldozer , 6 days ago

Big truth right there.

Buelldozer , 8 days ago

Someone once explained it to me like this:

The Ancient Hebrews really only had access to two types of fabric, linen and wool. A person could wear a garment made of one or the other or even wear two garments with one made of linen and the other of wool. The reason they couldn’t wear a single garment made of both was because the High Priests garment was made of Linen with a dyed Wool fringe and it was the only garment that was supposed to be made that way.

So anyone wearing a single garment made of both was trying to rise above their station by pretending to be something that they weren’t.

Buelldozer , 8 days ago

They’ll probably succeed in kicking out Churches that are too liberal but all the Southern Baptist Convention will accomplish is accelerating their speed run into irrelevancy.

I do want to point out that this isn’t universal among the Southern Baptist Churches and many of them are fighting it. This is coming from the Southern Baptist Convention which is a sort of supra-Church steering body.

Buelldozer , 8 days ago

Funner fact, they won’t let women be lead pastors for men

As a point of fact some Southern Baptists Churches do allow, and have, Women as Lead Pastors.

Buelldozer , 8 days ago

What Paul supposedly wrote in Timothy, if he even wrote it, was meant to address a problem occurring in that specific Church. As I was told that Church was being hijacked by one or two particularly wealthy and influential Women donors. As you pointed out Timothy was young and new to the work so he wasn’t able to handle the situation and appealed to Paul for guidance.

Paul then supposedly attempted to smack down the troublemakers with some Doctrine in his response letter.

However there’s long been contention that Paul either didn’t actually write that line or that if he did the surrounding context was cut out in order to make it seem much farther reaching than it was meant to be.

While there’s no way to really know the truth I personally find it impossible to believe that after the long and involved history that women had in the OT that the NT would suddenly require their total subservience. It simply makes no sense.

Buelldozer , 8 days ago

They may be removed from the Southern Baptist Convention but they will still be a Southern Baptist Church.

Organized religions are weird like this.

Buelldozer , 8 days ago

As they continue to boot what they see as overly liberal Churches it won’t be long and neither of those statements will be true.

The run towards irrelevancy is already in progress anyway.

Buelldozer , 9 days ago

The Russians are such fucking whiners. They’ve been importing weapons from several countries and using them in Ukraine for two years but when Ukraine does it then suddenly it’s a big fucking problem.

It’s like your brother punching you several times an hour for two years straight and when you finally slug them back they lose their shit and start threatening to cave your skull in with a bat.

Fuck 'em. If they didn’t want the smoke they should have stayed home.

Buelldozer , 9 days ago

The question I’d like to ask them is WHY they want to get involved in Content Moderation. They make a toolset, nothing more, so why do they care what someone is using the tools for? What could they possibly get out of this that makes it worth the time or expense?

Buelldozer , 9 days ago

Who are they going to invade? Cuba or Venezuela? There’s no point in that, they are already at least loosely allied with Russia.

They certainly won’t be invading the United States, they’d be destroyed before they could get within 10 miles of shore.

Russia is going to run a few ships around in order look tough. That’s pretty much it.

Buelldozer , 9 days ago

This is great, and I don’t mean that in a “fuck landlords” way either. It was good to see the DoJ start anti-trust action against RealPage and it’s great that it’s continuing. The Government has a true role to fill as Referee in the Marketplace and they’ve been absent for far too long.

Buelldozer , 9 days ago

All of which will eventually be overturned on appeal to SCOTUS.

Way too much cynicism. The current SCOTUS isn’t nearly as beholden to big money interests as many people love to pretend they are. Their recent upholding of funding for the CPB is a prime example of this.

Buelldozer , 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

Only of their own instance, they cant do this shit on other instance

They can when they bake it directly into the lemmy code.

Here’s the two primary devs arguing to do exactly that during a discussion on github regarding the slur filter.

The ended up allowing instance admins to enable / disable that filter as well as customize it but the discussion shows how much power they wield across all instances and their mindset about using that power. The comment about something not being in line with their view of the the project (lemmy) is particularly telling.

To be clear I’m not disagreeing with the filter nor am I necessarily bagging on the developers, what I’m trying to demonstrate is the breadth and depth of their reach. They are most definitely not confined to a single a instance nor is everything they do, or can do, visible to most users.

Buelldozer , 10 days ago

Ehhh, Win98 had serious issues but your argument would be mostly true for Windows 7 after it had been out for several years.

Buelldozer , 10 days ago

Sure, provided that the EU, pays reparations to the countries that it gouges the last 50 years, and provided that former colonial European countries, pay reparations to their former colonies.

Congratulations, you just succinctly demonstrated why Far-Right parties are rising. Turns out that many voters do not want to do either of those things.

Buelldozer , 11 days ago

On Windows, it “just works”. I don’t have to do anything.

It only “just works” if you are using the correct dock and the correct cables. My Surface Pro with Windows 11 refuses to do dual monitors at 4K unless I use the actual Microsoft Adapter cables (USB-C to HDMI) along with the actual Microsoft Dock.

Your problem isn’t that Linux can’t do what you want, it’s that you have to have the correct hardware setup…and so does Windows.

Buelldozer , 14 days ago

SMR is being built in Wyoming. Construction has started on the first one. It’s replacing the coal plant in Kemerrer.

Buelldozer , 23 days ago

Republicans passed a law to keep this information private.

They passed a law requiring the Mexican Government to keep it private? Fascinating…tell me more!

Buelldozer , 23 days ago

This shit is why 2A Advocates were so pissed off about Operation Fast & Furious and wouldn’t shut up about it for years. The BATFE forced the gun shops involved to sell the weapons even when they didn’t want to!

Seriously, the whole thing was a shitshow from start to finish and when the manure caught fire everyone involved from the Field Agents through AG Eric Holder lied their assess off about it.

Buelldozer , 23 days ago

Nothing to do with the Mexican govt.

I’m interested to know how the Mexican Government, who also had / has the trace data, is bound by the Tiahart Amendment.

I know it’s going to be an unpopular opinion but I really see no problem with the Tiahart Amendment shielding Firearms Manufacturers and Gun Stores. The Manufacturers are already regulated and monitored directly by the Federal Government and Gun Stores can only make sales in compliance with Federal Law. They should not be culpable in either Criminal or Civil court for that reason. The truth is that most of the organization who want that data aren’t working in Good Faith and only want it so they can launch lawsuits meant to force Manufacturers and Sellers out of business.

It gets even worse at the individual level. There is absolutely zero cause for firearm transaction records to an individual to be publicly available. It’s not only a gross violation of privacy but it’s also a security concern.

What you SHOULD be mad about is why the BATFE, who clearly and provably does have this data, isn’t doing something with it. They already know literally everything in this article and yet they don’t seem to be doing much about it. Why?

Buelldozer , 23 days ago

But if a dude is buying 95 semi-automatic rifles in a short period of time you bet your ass I think that should be public knowledge.

I disagree, I really don’t see why it’s any business of the PUBLIC (nor is there anything you could do about it.) But hold on…

No one should be able to secretly purchase enough firearms to arm a small malitia.

That’s the thing, it’s NOT “secret”. The FBI and the BATFE both know they are just choosing not to do anything about it. I mean they literally KNOW, and not in some vague / abstract manner that is time delayed. They know in near real time that one purchaser has submitted a 4473 with multiple firearms on it and they also know if a single purchaser submits multiple form 4473s.

So when Craig Adlong was showing up to the Gun Store and buying 15,16,17 Rifles at a time multiple times a week both the BATFE and the FBI KNEW and chose not to do anything. They could have delayed or denied any of the transfers (sales) and / or sent out a Field Agent to figure out what was going on. They didn’t.

This is the foundation of my “The public doesn’t need to know” argument when it comes to individuals. Assuming the Gun Store is complying with Federal Law then this isn’t happening in secret. At least two different Federal Law Enforcement Agencies know about it.

Buelldozer , 23 days ago

If it is what I think it is then they are intentionally being vague about what the app does so they don’t draw attention from the service that it works with. If you put that in context with the article then the answer to your question is clear.

Buelldozer , 23 days ago

Arguably more important

I don’t think that’s arguable at all. The impact of the hundreds of millions of dollars that AIPAC has spent is by far and away the largest problem. In fact its quite likely that it’s their money that’s keeping the “Zionist Christians” on the boil and in office to begin with. Take away that delicious AIPAC money and the support of “Zionist Christians” will quickly dwindle.

Buelldozer , 23 days ago

After reading the entire decision, all 26 pages, the head scratcher here is why the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany is doing this. Their challenge is, basically, that the Religious Exemption is too narrow but when you read the definition it would almost certainly apply to them

“An entity for which each of the following is true: (1) The inculcation of religious values is the purpose of the entity[;] (2) The entity primarily employs persons who share the religious tenets of the entity[;] (3) The entity serves primarily persons who share the religious tenets of the entity[;] (4) The entity is a nonprofit organization as described in section 6033 (a) (2) (A) i or iii, of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended”

What’s even weirder to me is that not only would it seem that the Diocese already qualifies for the exception that it seems to want but it has never claimed it!

That’s right, on pages 5/6 of the decision the Court writes “Plaintiffs, who have neither tried to invoke the “religious employer” accommodation nor expressly stated that they do not qualify for it, commenced a second action against DFS challenging the amended regulation.”

So what is the Diocese spending all this time and money litigating for exactly?

Buelldozer , 25 days ago

Welcome to the Club!

Buelldozer , 25 days ago

Yes you could say that…if you were on /.