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oatscoop ,

I’m a 7 minute drive from downtown and my options are satellite, cellular, or fixed wireless. Everyone around me has gigabit ethernet, but due to costs involved in running fiber and the fact my little community is mostly old folks (and thus likely not going to buy in) ISPs don’t want to “invest” in us.

oatscoop ,

Before any tankies claim the word is a blanket slur against communists: “tankie” was coined by British communists that were disgusted by the attitudes of some of their so-called “fellows”.

oatscoop ,

Oh, is it because decades of incompetence and corruption weakened their already crumbling military? Their lack of a strong economy to support the war effort? Is it because they’re relying on Soviet leftovers instead of modern equipment? The fact their enemy is a motivated, supplied with actually decent munitions by modern/rich countries, and has a competent chain of command?

What do I win?

oatscoop ,

Because they’re arguing in bad faith.

oatscoop ,

They’re not insane: everything they’ve done are things they sincerely thought they could get away with, and up until Ukraine Putin has been correct in that regard.

Pretending to be crazy is an effective strategy: ironically Nixon popularized it during the cold war.

Attacking targets in NATO countries (even if “justified”) is going to drastically increase the odds NATO gets directly involved in Ukraine – something Putin absolutely doesn’t want.

oatscoop ,

I bought a run down, 900 sqft “starter home” in 2018, with the original plan of doing repairs and selling to upgrade in several years.

Now? – fuck that. I’ve fixed it up and I’m going to live here until I die.

oatscoop ,

Predators? That sounds expensive, complicated, and could negatively affect profits.

Can’t we just spray the trees with massive quantities of something cheap and effective like DDT?

oatscoop ,

It’s like they say: when you’re making an orange juice you’ve gotta break a few eggs.

Trump supporters try to doxx jurors and post violent threats after his conviction (t.co)

“We need to identify each juror. Then make them miserable. Maybe even suicidal,” wrote another user on the same forum. “1,000,000 men (armed) need to go to washington and hang everyone. That’s the only solution,” wrote another user. “This s— is out of control.”...

oatscoop ,

Communism: an economic theory where the stated goal is achieving socio-economic equality.

Social conservationism: a social theory based on returning to regressive “traditional values” and oppression of “deviants”.

Totally the same thing.

oatscoop , (edited )

I don’t allow lunix in my house because it’s an illegal hacker operation system. I can’t believe an American hero like Elon would endorse something invented by the notorious Soviet computer hacker Linyos Torovoltos.

oatscoop ,

Huh, they actually do:

And Matt Monson — who moved from the Dragon project to SpaceX’s satellite internet service Starlink — posted that Starlink uses a lot of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), and that they too have a lot of experience with Linux. “For some level of scope on Starlink, each launch of 60 satellites contains more than 4,000 Linux computers. The constellation has more than 30,000 Linux nodes (and more than 6,000 microcontrollers) in space right now.

thenewstack.io/the-hardware-and-software-used-in-…

oatscoop , (edited )

Yeah … good luck with that considering how entrenched AT&T is is.

For example after 9/11 it was decided the country needed an interoperable public safety broadband network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Responder_Network_Authority.

I’ll give you one guess as to which carrier got the contract to build and operate it.

oatscoop ,

https://midwest.social/pictrs/image/1f81f01c-cd30-4d83-9bfe-b527443aab84.webp

oatscoop ,

Then add a layer of air a few feet wide between the armor and the crew compartment, duh.

oatscoop ,

My toolbag calipers are cheap hardware store ones. They’re accurate enough and I’m not out much when they inevitably get damaged or lost.

oatscoop ,

Not really, unless the house was built incredibly cheaply with thin studs and crappy drywall.

Wood is pretty decent at blocking sound – it the voids between the studs that’s an issue. Filling them with sound deadening insulation solves that problem.

It’s not as good at blocking sound as a masonry wall obviously, but it’s “good enough” at a fraction of the price.

oatscoop ,

They almost certainly have in house legal teams and those lawyers are salaried.

oatscoop , (edited )

Bubba here.

I’m a nice guy: I give some small, cute dude a compliment and he acts like a total bitch about it? I’m the “creep” because I jokingly asked him if he wants to come back to my cell? Oh, my comments make him uncomfortable? Give me a fuckin’ break.

Maybe if he doesn’t want guys checking him out he should stop acting and dressing like such a slut.

oatscoop ,

That saying holds more truth if you’re using the “non-political” definitions of conservative – i.e. moderate, cautious, or resistant to change.

Moreso “set in your ways” as the world changes around you.

oatscoop ,

I don’t get it: a bear just makes more sense. Despite their intimidating appearance most are gentle creatures. Their fur and mass can provide warmth, and if you’re injured they can easily carry you out of the woods.

If you pick “random man” you might get a twink and I feel like they’re more of a liability in a survival situation.

oatscoop , (edited )

Oh, they’re talking about bear bears – the animal.

… I feel like the original scenario didn’t make that clear.

oatscoop , (edited )

English (like any other language) likes to take loan words and apply its conventions to them, regardless of what the original language does. “Samurai” is singular and plural in English.

“The Last Samurai” is vague in who it’s referring to.

oatscoop ,

I’m with you on that. What makes the Steam Deck so appealing is it’s a handheld PC.

oatscoop ,

As someone 10 minutes outside of a major city, my (slow, unreliable, expensive) options are:

  • Cellular
  • Satellite
  • Fixed wireless

Americans are entirely at the whim of ISPs and what areas they determine are worth investing infrastructure in.

Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....

oatscoop ,

I’d suggest a cheap used or spare laptop/desktop with a beginner friendly distro like Linux Mint Cinnamon to learn on. Just use it for casual stuff – you’ll pick up what you need to learn as you go.

That way if something breaks or you don’t know how to do something while you’re learning you’re not “stuck”.

Potassium depletion in soil threatens global crop yields (www.ucl.ac.uk)

Potassium deficiency in agricultural soils is a largely unrecognised but potentially significant threat to global food security if left unaddressed, finds new research involving researchers at UCL, University of Edinburgh and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology....

oatscoop , (edited )

No. It goes into the people/animals eating those plants, and from there to a million different places that aren’t farm fields.

That’s the problem: that potassium doesn’t cycle back to the soil it came from. Farmers have to rely on adding mined potash to the soils to compensate for that loss. The entire point of the article is potassium is being removed from the soil faster than it’s being added back in.

oatscoop ,

We put nitrogen in fertiliser and for some reason you think it’s impossible to put potassium in? Really?

… Did you miss where I wrote

Farmers have to rely on adding mined potash to the soils to compensate for that loss.

Maybe read the actual article.

oatscoop ,

I own my own home now, but I’ve rented in the past. Eliminating rentals is an awful idea.

I moved a lot when I was younger: for education, jobs, etc. Buying a house every time I moved (knowing I was likely in an area temporarily) would have been a fucking nightmare – rentals fill a legitimate need.

Sure: fix the problems of price gouging and profiteering. Put strong limits on the number of single family homes one can rent, and outright stop corporations from buying single family homes. Increase protections for tenents and drive slumlords and absentee landlords out of business. But the idea of “just buy a house, lol” is absurd.

oatscoop , (edited )

Yeah, the majority of them aren’t “bots”. It’s mostly people acting as useful idiots, parroting talking points put forth by Kremlin backed trolls. The shit reeks of 2018’s totally organic “Walk Away” movement – the arguments and slogans practically rhyme.

I don’t like the “bots” thing either since it’s inaccurate to what’s actually going on, but at the same time I don’t know a concise way to call out pretty obvious Russian state backed AstroTurfing.

oatscoop ,

I agree that there’s a lot of direct trolling online, but I wouldn’t discount the number of “useful idiots”.

Remember Q-anon? The core of that entire “movement” was a handful of people on an obscure website steering discourse and pumping out conspiracy theories to a few hundred dedicated direct followers. That audience served as both a testbed for ideas and a free “localization service” – they’d take an unpolished core idea and through discourse transform it into something marketable for wider consumption. Said followers obscure the source of the messaging, amplify it, spread it to traditional social media / the real world, “fight” dissidents, etc.

Those “useful idiots” are a fundamental part of an efficient, cost effective, and successful disinformation campaign.

oatscoop ,

$50 says Putin demanded an audit of their military from top to bottom several weeks into the invasion of Ukraine, and he was very upset to learn the true state of their nuclear capabilities.

“Appear strong where you are weak” is 90% of Putin’s MO.

oatscoop ,

You know it’s bad when you recognize the user name.

oatscoop ,

You made me realize I haven’t fired up my Windows 11 machine in a while, so I went to check it – even re-enabling the copilot toggle … which weirdly did nothing. Then I remembered I had lobotomized all the AI and assistant “features” a while ago.

I’m a little disappointed: I wanted to ask Copilot “How do I purge you from my machine?”

oatscoop ,

If you had actually read the Wikipedia article:

In 1973, a federal district court in Arizona decided that the act was unconstitutional, and Arizona could not keep the party off the ballot in the 1972 general election (Blawis v. Bolin). In 1961, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the act did not bar the party from participating in New York’s unemployment insurance system (Communist Party v. Catherwood).

So yes, the law passed during the the McCarthy era … and was afterwards declared unconstitutional.

The Communist Party USA is still around and even have a website.

oatscoop ,

AZ always struck me as “the retirement state for new agers and hippies”.

No doubt there’s a lot of right-wing dirtbags, but I’m not surprised there’s a lot of decent people there too.

oatscoop ,

Mormons tend to be nice … to your face. As soon as you leave they’re likely to act like you’d expect followers of an extremely socially conservative, regressive, patriarchal religion would.

And I’m not saying all Mormons are like that – there are good people that are mormons, but it’s in spite of what the church teaches about gender, sexuality, and sin.

oatscoop , (edited )

Huh. I thought it was because I’m familiar with LDS teachings, culture, and the church’s extensive, sordid, and recent history of sexism, abuse, and bigotry.

Which is extensively documented by people that have left the faith.

oatscoop ,

Blocking it would require a screwdriver, and a razor blade to cut some traces on the cellular modem.

oatscoop ,

the only good reason to own a printer is photo/art prints

… how do you read your emails without a printer?

oatscoop , (edited )

Some people have zero spatial awareness and/or an inability to judge speed and distance – their brains just aren’t wired for it. They can be perfectly normal in every other way, and some don’t even realize (or are willing to admit) it’s a problem.

oatscoop ,

Unfortunately in huge swaths of America a driver’s license is practically a necessity – there are no realistic alternatives. A 30 minute to an hour drive to go to work or get groceries isn’t uncommon.

oatscoop ,

They are used for planes. The problem is the usable ones are stupidly expensive and/or classified millitary hardware.

oatscoop ,

You know you’re old when young people confidently explain to you things you witnessed first hand. Like Dee Snyder testifying in a Senate hearing.

oatscoop ,

You can’t just mention D&D and Satanic Panic without sharing the Chick Tract.

oatscoop ,

Dolly Parton

oatscoop ,

Every generation uses old slang they mistakenly believe they invented.

oatscoop ,

Fax, no printer.

oatscoop , (edited )

Having read the paper, there seems to be a glaring problem: nothing is stopping the attacker from forcing the trusted user into replicating the “password”.

Sure, the user can’t tell them the password, but they can still be forced into describing the system well enough into making a mock-up, then forced to enter their password on it.

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