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Former NY prosecutor accused of accepting bribes dies in apparent suicide as FBI came to arrest him (www.nbcnewyork.com)

A former leader in the Orange County, New York prosecutor’s office, who was facing allegations of accepting bribery payments, died in a shooting at his home Tuesday morning as the FBI arrived to arrest him, sources familiar with the matter tell NBC New York....

RememberTheApollo_ OP ,

Seems like they knew what he’d done, so hopefully they’ll be able to undo the damage.

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Isn’t that the kicker? Probably less than a year’s pay for that guy.

Wild guess that he may have had more skeletons in the closet than just this one.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

It doesn’t rehabilitate, either. Cheaper and more profitable to warehouse people than to offer psychiatric and educational care. Yes, before some pedants tell me that prisons do offer some of these things, I know they do. But they are not the default, and they are not always easily accessed.

Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code (cyberinsider.com)

Rockstar Games’ servers have been under heavy fire from massive DDoS attacks in recent days, causing widespread login and connectivity issues for players of GTA Online. These attacks come in the wake of Rockstar’s recent implementation of BattlEye, a new anti-cheat system designed to crack down on in-game cheating, sparking...

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Unpopular opinion…

Man, I wrote a whole WoT about this. Deleted it. Fuck the cheaters. I don’t know why it’s so hard to stop them. The kind of people that will DDoS a company for blocking them are the same ones that will cheat. No gold star for any honest players that DDoS, either. If there’s a server problem or a bad patch that prevents me from playing my first thought isn’t to DDoS the company and fuck up everyone else’s game in a fit of petty revenge too. That said, it’s sad that honest players are the only ones harmed after the cheat coders found their workaround so quickly.

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Because the conservative machine, despite the love of Elon’s right-wing antics, never stop talking about how bad EVs are. Funny, the only time they act like they care about the environment is when they talk about how bad the EV batteries are to manufacture. While they roll coal and drive gas-guzzling mall cruiser bro-dozers all over the place.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

They also made a crapton of noise. The hotels often didn’t change the filter, so you’d instantly get a stuffy nose when you walked in. They were always right under the curtain, so it would recirculate the air caught in the curtain and cycle off and on too much because the air temp fluctuated too much.

I spend a lot of time in hotels. It was always a mixed bag with these. If you got a good one it was almost an exception rather than the rule.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Interestingly the stripe along the east coast follows the I-95 corridor.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Interesting reading the responses here. I set static addresses all the time and have had zero issue over a decade +.

RememberTheApollo_ , (edited )

Kinda forgot the sides being parallel part. Like missing a step in assembling IKEA furniture, its not gonna turn out right.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Yeah, he’s soft-supporting trump. This quote plus the “trump is going to be strong” line are definitely pro-trump in some fashion, then not wanting to “mansplain”.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

What a disappointment this guy turned out to be.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

I think I count 46 shots. Missed a few weeks.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

A race to see what will kill the most of us first. The plastic or anthropogenic climate change.

The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it. (www.bunniestudios.com)

edit: after 20 comments, i’m adding a post description here, since most of the commenters so far appear not to be reading the article:...

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Even though your edit clarified it, I wish we’d stop calling them “exploding batteries”. The battery isn’t the explosive, it’s the explosives that were hidden in the device. I’ve already encountered far too many morons describing conspiracies where the big bad government could make your iPhone explode.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

You rang?

RememberTheApollo_ ,

People can refuse to bake a cake for a gay couple.

People get punished for not delivering hate mail.

Why is it so easy for hatred to do things but so hard for decency to push back?

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Lol, thumbnail pic of “FartMonster”… that’s a real hard 40 years. Dude looks near 70.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Think I kinda agree with this. Yesteryear’s software took training and experience, and business either hired or trained that experience. Now businesses don’t want to waste time or money on training, so thy hire experience, contract it out, or find some kit that is “easy” with minimal learning curve.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Perversely the rules that make cars more efficient and environmentally friendly have incentivized manufacturers to make absurdly sized trucks.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Have we not known this for years?

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Are the “oversimplified chalkboard economics” basically the businesses winging about having to pay people more?

RememberTheApollo_ ,

What’s this got to do with libs? Comparing TikTok or other Chinese goods to a literal bomb doesn’t make sense, but whatever.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Gotta admit, that’s pretty creative.

And the kids are rolling their eyes at it. Skibidi is no longer cool.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Absolutely, lol.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Heh, my generation’s slang seems so boring compared to other generation’s. Rad, Totally, Awesome, etc. The words were almost straight out of a dictionary. Earlier in the century it was Cool Cat, bee’s knees, dogs, flippers, speakeasy, but as we approach Gen X it gets mundane. Now we’ve got weird shit every influencer and Vtuber tries to make stick so they have a “thing” to stand out with.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

You can certainly tell Harris’ color and varied ethnicity is close to the surface of that campaign. The trumpets can’t help themselves.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3f381d64-1961-469e-a739-119b9c2f7c6a.gif

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Wanna know why prices everywhere went up so much? They had to pay all the advertising companies for the billions of ads they’ve been trying to force us to watch everywhere, from tv to internet to roadside billboards. So the consumer had to pay.

(No, not really, but it sure feels that way)

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Plain white basmati rice.

One cup rice. If it’s not washed, wash it.

2 1/4 cups water.

1 heaping teaspoon salt.

Put rice, salt, and water in pot.

Bring to boil. Stir a little to keep rice from sticking too much.

Soon as it boils, take off heat, put heat to low, then put pot back on heat and put a lid on it.

~ 20 minutes later, check. Should not be any water in the bottom of the pot. If no water, eat!

[rant] I want computers to become personal again

There was a golden age when computers were something you owned, not like before when they were big machines your employer or university would give out access to, nor like after when they went to the cloud, you bought what was essentially a thin client and every software became a service....

RememberTheApollo_ ,

I grew up with computers since the ‘70s. I know this golden age well - and the golden age of the internet before it was monetized, tracked, ad-ified, walled off, etc.

We’re never going to get the old days back.

There’s always some business that’s going to insert itself between what you want and you and try to extract profit from it. Doesn’t matter if it’s tracking you or subscription fees.

I hate being taken advantage of like that, but unfortunately if you want to play with some of their toys you have to pay.

Just do it judiciously and take control where you can.

I build my own PCs. No pre-loaded crap. I download driver-only software when needed, not bloated corporate-ware like what HP or canon does to pester you about ordering ink. I have several Linux boxes doing free things for me like running a 3D printer, running a CUPS print server, running openHABian, a Jellyfin server, and the best of all - Pi-hole (block ads, block devices from phoning home). I run Firefox with all the ad blockers and anti-trackers. Facebook containers and YouTube ad blockers.

But I run windows 10. Why? Because it was free and it works. Take advantage of the system that takes advantage of you. I also run it dual boot with Manjaro, for all those tasks windows might make difficult.

My LAN has a separate network for all IOT and similar devices so they can’t see the rest of my network, and most are blocked from phoning home as needed. They don’t get to sell that data.

I take advantage of all free good software; Gimp, LibreOffice, OBS, VLC, 7zip…

Some things we’ll never get back, like ownership of top-tier games that have to phone home.

Anyway… like I said, there’s no way to wind the clock back. However, with effort, you can control what you can and at least not give them what they’re trying to extract from you. Be in charge of what you let them have. It’s really all we’ve got.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

You’ve reiterated pretty much what I said, but directly contradicted some of the most obvious points.

Not sure what a “cute girl” has to do with anything, I gave a pragmatic explanation. Do you treat cute girls like they can’t handle realistic information?

Your idea is to reduce functionality of popular devices. That’s not going to work. Like I said, if you want to play in these businesses’ little proprietary gardens you’re going to have to play by their rules. If you want to be a Luddite, great, but for the vast majority of people such limited devices will never be adopted and any business producing them will either be niche expensive or fail.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

I didn’t assume we were speaking of the general public in c/technology, maybe that was a mistake. Most of what I said can be done without too much effort, especially browser extensions. The openHAB and various other tools are only going to apply to those who need them and probably have experience enough to try to tackle them. The only major one that I think people should take advantage of but is beyond most folks ability is Pi-hole. It’s not hard at all, but if you don’t know where to look or what the instructions mean it’ll be impossible for them.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

They all suck anymore. Google fell the furthest though.

And it seems like it completely disregards search modifiers like quotes or the minus sign at this point. The modifiers are overridden by the algorithms pushing preferred sites, or Google just gives few or no returns as if there are no sites featuring your search criteria, which is completely false because it’s perfectly happy to return paid sites with the same but incorrect search term.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Lol, well they had no problems seriously wounding the unarmed BLM protesters by shooting them with “rubber” bullets.

They wouldn’t touch the right wingnuts showed up at protests with guns.

They also wouldn’t touch an armed group distributing food to homeless and needy

They didn’t touch the Bundy’s when they took over the wildlife refuge offices in an armed standoff.

So cops are fine shooting at unarmed people, but if they’re going to face well armed threats they play nice.

RememberTheApollo_ , (edited )

Way to minimize the point by interpreting it literally.

Canada had a total of 64 police shootings in 2021 (quickest year I could find) and over 1000 people were shot to death by police in the US in the same year.

So let’s keep the spirit of the argument and say comparatively that yes, you are far more likely to get killed by a cop in the US, especially if you’re a minority. A 2022 article puts 6400 people killed by police in the preceding 5 years

I could find no data on how many bystanders were shot by police, however it’s plainly obvious that as many times as police fire guns at people in the US the likelihood of being struck as a bystander are far more likely. One study put the number killed unintentionally by law enforcement at 6%, so it can be guessed that if you’re in the vicinity of police shooting at someone there might be a 6% chance you’ll be killed as an innocent bystander. That’s killed, not just wounded, so possibly getting shot but not killed is more likely. There are plenty of articles on the internet of bystanders being shot by cops that sue the municipality or state.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

I vote we test it on Billionaires first. Especially their financial activities.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

15.5 years. Amazing.

Pets pass through our lives, but we are all of theirs. Sounds like Bear had a good life with you. Sorry for your loss.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Just a joke? Which of his wives will he blame for posting that? Isn’t that what conservatives all do? Blame their wives?

Funny enough, two posts away from this one it sure sounds like someone is threatening Harris’ life.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0d7acc92-8b0f-44c8-a967-2ac4eb2e5ca9.png

RememberTheApollo_ , (edited )

Everyone thought AI was going to kill us via some Terminator-like Skynet.

Nope.

It’s just going to let us kill ourselves via greed and accelerate destroying the environment.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

You think I would be working in a place like this if I could afford a real coral?

RememberTheApollo_ ,

When you’ve got an arsenal of hammers you’re always looking for nails.

These people are scared of everything.

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Yeah. This is bullshit. The person took a gun out and pointed it at someone. There’s nothing accidental about that. You’re 100% right, you never point a gun at something/one you don’t intend to shoot. So this soft apologist language of “accidental” doesn’t fly.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

You can’t train out the stupid.

I’ve taken regular gun safety classes. They’re less stringent than a driver’s ed class. It’s like taking the driver safety class after you’ve gotten a ticket. Yeah, yeah…let’s just get through this shit so I can get back to whatever.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Giedi Prime melon.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Yet more proof that Apple has ceased to be an innovator that adds features to phones and now takes things away and leaves it to fans to make up justifications for it.

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Those were replaced with better tech that did the exact same thing. VGA - DVI - HDMI - Display Port.

I don’t know about you, but I still have one DVD hooked up. Because I have the option to. Not because the motherboard maker took away all the SATA ports and told me I had to buy a special proprietary dongle or plug to fit the replacement.

Jellyfin newbie

I just started setting up a Jellyfin server and am moving all of my old DVD backups off of an ancient NAS that doesn’t play well with modern TVs or Chromecast. Can’t cast half the videos anymore because crhomecast says F you to certain audio and video formats, but jellyfin has zero trouble talking to my TV. It was going so...

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Any chance of bricking a drive with libredrive?

EDIT: My drive isn’t supported anyway. Thanks, though.

RememberTheApollo_ OP ,

It’s what jj122 posted… Click the link, then the link in the comment s/he linked to.

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