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ptz

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I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

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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....

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What are they going to switch to?

Most orgs will just put up with it because of inertia: existing software that has to work, employee’s having to learn new skills, “sysadmins” who only know Microsoft, etc.

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Nothing personal, lol, but I stand by my quotes.

I feel like sysadmins need to be comfortable in multiple environments. I also work with some really crappy ones who only know how to reboot a faulty system or crawl to Microsoft for support. No reviewing logs, no digging in at all, just “welp, a reboot didn’t fix it. Gonna submit a support ticket and make no further effort”.

Arizona Democrats attempt to repeal the state’s 19th century abortion ban (apnews.com)

For a third straight week, Democrats at the Arizona Legislature are attempting Wednesday to repeal the state’s near-total ban on abortions, again spotlighting an issue that has put Republicans on the defensive in a battleground state for the presidential election....

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Arizona Republicans have been under intense pressure from some conservatives in their base, who firmly support the abortion ban, even as it’s become a liability with swing voters who will decide crucial races including the presidency, the U.S. Senate and the GOP’s control of the Legislature.

It’s really telling that what’s best for women isn’t a contributing factor to their decision-making process, just what’s best for the party’s chances at maintaining power. 😠 (yeah, i know, the sky is blue, water wet, etc)

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I’m convinced Dr. Spaceman was based on a real Hollywood doctor.

Dr Leo Spaceman offers Jenna meth to lose weight

(If you can see the pamphlet because of the caption, it says “You do the meth!”)

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Delta or Jenna?

I haven’t heard much about Delta Burke since the early 90s, but no major controversies come to mind (YMMV).

Jenna definitely, though. lol

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I wonder how credible this Politico article is and what the stories in Spanish outlets are.

Not sure about how the Spanish outlets are covering this, but overall Politico Europe has a high credibility rating and is scored “high” for factual reporting: mediabiasfactcheck.com/politico-europe-bias/

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If they could, they would force it down our throats and noses too.

Throats are still safe (for now?), but hate to break it to you about noses: dennisfoodservice.com/the-smells-that-make-custom…

(Warning: has an autoplaying video at the very bottom).

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“Please watch the ad on the included smart book accessory device to dispense the solvent that will un-glue the next 10 pages”

Relevant Simpsons Joke:

https://y.yarn.co/8eb0bc34-3a09-464e-bae5-d95fa02ee5cc_text.gif

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Yep. I see popups asking to disable adblocker the same way as that.

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To be fair, Joe Manchin was also doing a lot of heavy “sitting in the way”.

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When I was in elementary school, one of my classmates pronounced it “thermo meter” and I had to watch the science teacher struggle for a good 30 seconds to decide if he was going to correct him or not.

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Corrected him. lol.

UN labor agency report warns of rising threat of excess heat, climate change on world's workers (apnews.com)

The U.N. labor organization warned Monday that over 70% of the world’s workforce is likely to be exposed to excessive heat during their careers, citing increased concern about exposure to sunlight. It also warned of air pollution, pesticides and other hazards that could lead to health problems including cancer....

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Don’t worry. The US’s two hottest states are totally going to take care of their workers.

texastribune.org/…/texas-heat-wave-water-break-co…

www.usatoday.com/story/news/…/73355824007/

Oh.

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archive.ph/…/north-korea-amazon-max-animation-exp…

Just add archive.ph in front of about any link.

Also, it’s not paywalled, at least for me.

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“After that, let’s met up at the malt shop, listen to some doo-wop songs on the jukebox, and go see a movie at the drive-in.”

The Guardian US: Trump cancels North Carolina rally due to storm in first public address since New York trial (www.theguardian.com)

Trump follows with postings about how the beautiful mother nature whom he’s always respected has joined the witch trial by continuing to keep him from speaking. But at least he could catch up on some rest.

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Can’t he just draw a new path on the map with a Sharpie and carry on? /s

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The Tuvix-ing has begun.

Oh, I have another:

For the first time in one billion years, two lifeforms truly merged into one organism

https://tesseract.dubvee.org/image_proxy/dubvee.org/pictrs/image/dc68c244-4715-4bc9-86de-9fc1481fee22.webp

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Same. Definitely my favorite. 🖖

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Heh, yeah. I tried. Was on a long call earlier and was pacing, so couldn’t keep it on charge. Had to get back up from about 44% at 3:45. I even cranked the brightness, turned on all the wireless radios, and tried to drop it by 1% before the minute ticked over, but to no avail.

Ah, well. Try again next year. lol

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Then it would be on 4/21 (I’m going for the triple word score or nothing lol).

I could get a last minute flight to California and maybe make it, but I’m not that dedicated. I’ll just wait till next year.

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My phone is way too ancient for that to be an option, but I’m trying to actually upgrade this year, so 🤞 for that being an option next year. But I’m also trying not to cheat (too much lol)

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That was right when I grabbed it. I got distracted and forgot to check it earlier.

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Bout as good as having T-Mobile (uses their network). Will definitely vary from place to place, though. Kinda “meh” here since they mostly use band 66 for large cells which has pretty crap penetration into buildings.

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I looked, and it only seems to exist as a temp file somewhere on my phone. I guess I just clicked “Set as wallpaper” years ago and it’s been there since. I cannot find the original on my phone, and my Google searches for that are coming up dry (even reverse image searching from my existing screenshot).

Here’s the closest I can find: deviantart.com/…/USS-Odyssey-NX-94276-322656168

It’s the USS Odyssey (Intrepid Class) but the framing is similar to the one I have as my wallpaper.

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T-Mobile uses a lot of different bands, depending on the coverage area. Some areas are on 700 Mhz, others on higher PCS bands (former Sprint bands). I used www.cellmapper.net to see what frequencies were used and confirmed with LTE Discovery app on my phone.

In my case, it was band 66 for a fairly large cell. I’ve also got a brick house, so that doesn’t help. AT&T’s 800 Mhz band worked well here but they were jerking around my plan so I switched to Mint.

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Nah, lol, going for an honest triple word score. Has to be legit. 😀

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LOL. Must be hereditary.

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You’ve got many good points, and I’m not defending the Tiktok ban (or whatever technical thing it is), but counterpoint your last one:

Look what Facebook did to the boomers. Do we want to go through that again but with Millennials and Tiktok? Our generation has more experience with social media, granted. Still, that’s part joke and part something I think about as an older, non-Tiktok millennial.

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Israel, however, is the matter of getting enough of Rs to vote Yea to outweigh the Maggots. I don’t like it, but the feds spend billions of dollars on tons of stuff I dislike. If allowing a continued genocide in one country means that the same won’t happen in two others…(sigh)

Thank you for actually understanding that there is nuance to all of this. The people screeching about it are rightfully upset, but they seem to completely miss the point that all of these aid packages have to make it through a highly dysfunctional congress.

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Again, wasn’t defending the ban. Just addressing the other elephant in the room. :)

But yes, agreed. Critical thinking and media literacy skills are key.

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Eww. No thanks. I’ll stick with drinking bleach, thank you.

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archive.ph/…/ukraine-is-ignoring-us-warnings-to-e…

Just put archive.ph/ in front of the URL.

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Also Microsoft…

Microsoft warns deepfake election subversion is disturbingly easy

I know the genie’s out of the bottle, but goddamn.

Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits (www.nola.com)

A Louisiana House committee voted Thursday to repeal a law requiring employers to give child workers lunch breaks and to cut unemployment benefits — part of a push by Republicans to remove constraints on employers and reduce aid for injured and unemployed workers....

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“The SoUth Will RiSe AgAiN!”

We really fucked up on Reconstruction, and now the bill is coming due.

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I have no idea what the meme is about, but I’m upvoting it because of the funny dog.

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House Speaker Johnson plans to package TikTok legislation with critical aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, and send it to the Senate. President Joe Biden vowed to sign it into law.

So it’s a rider with some important and time sensitive other things that need to pass. Headline is totally (and probably intentionally) misleading.

He could veto it, but it would cause actual harm because those funding bills would have to go back to Congress delaying much needed aid to Ukraine and Taiwan.

If you're selected for jury duty (US), should you give up your anonymous social media accounts?

I have old Facebook and Twitter accounts, maybe some others. I’m old so there’s a MySpace account out there. But I’ve mostly been using reddit the last decade or so, and have migrated to Lemmy. Now, Lemmy is the only social media i use. Recent news got me thinking about this question.

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Legally, wouldn’t you have to?

When you’re answering the questionnaire, you’re already sworn-in and under oath, so I would assume you’d legally have to. Not sure what the penalty would be, though, but I’m not really interested in finding out.

I guess they’d also have to prove it’s yours, though. Still, even though I use a pseudo-anonymous name online, I don’t post anything I wouldn’t want my real name next to.

Edit: OTOH, you could probably refuse to answer which would likely get you dismissed. IANAL, though. The last time I was summoned for jury duty, they didn’t ask about social media accounts or anything like that. Just a few questions that would have indicated whether I could be impartial.

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Yeah, that’s why I added that bit at the bottom. You could probably safely decline to answer, but they’d likely dismiss you for that. Which, if you just want out of jury duty, may be a way to do it lol. Either way, you should definitely not lie and say “no”.

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“What do we want?!”

We don’t know!

“When do we want it?”

Now!!

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I feel like if you look back at yourself when you were in middle school and don’t cringe, you did it wrong. 😆

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I prefer “Ku Klux Karens”, myself. 😆

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They probably paid extra for that exact keyword placement 😆

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