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some_guy ,

This is the part I would highlight:

By 9 PM on Monday night, NERV users were demanding answers to the questions raised by Gehirn’s decision. NERV responded to two questions.

Why not use other social media platforms?

“We are moving forward under the premise that our operations should move from platforms managed by other companies to those within our control. Our app of course works on Apple and Google but these are different in terms of API constraints. On the other hand, distribution on ActivityPub is where we can manage our content completely independently. For this reason, in response to requests to move our operations onto different platforms will eventually only result in the same outcome as this time and therefore will not be considered. As NERV posts are still accessible via social media linked with ActivityPub, we plan to continue sharing there.”

Bonbon-man is really doing a great job enticing people to stay on his shitform I mean platform

some_guy ,

Reminds me of House of Cosbys.

Tattle Tale Cosby - I knew you’d be useful or something to that effect. I haven’t watched it in years, but it was damned entertaining.

some_guy ,

I don’t want mass-adoption of Lemmy by more Reddit users (said a former Reddit lurker who likes it here and actually participates because it’s awesome at this stage).

some_guy ,

Not only will they find it, they’ll end up going to the sketchier sites that don’t do the age verification because they’re not well known enough and not following the laws and they’ll likely get something infected on the computer/network or worse.

It’s like that time we declared a war on drugs and then there were no drugs. Wait, actually that led to a massive black market and tons of violence.

Point being, you’re not gonna stop it. You’re just gonna make it less safe.

some_guy ,

Nah, it’s easier if I have the state do it for me while inconveniencing everyone else. /s

some_guy ,

This is a pretty stupid question. It’s obvious that Lemmy has real people posting.

some_guy ,

I recently came to the realization that staying alive to prevent my share of an inheritance from going to the greedy bitch who married my father late-in-life is a reason to stay alive. That’s fucking sad as fuck.

Don’t get me wrong. I love my life. But when something so dark and grim can be phrased as a positive, things are really wrong.

some_guy ,

I made a serious attempt once. I am anti-gun and didn’t have access to one. I tried a different way. If someone is serious, they will find a way. (I’m doing much better, thanks)

some_guy ,

He’s finally gone far enough out there that I now see this as more amusing than alarming. I’m sure I’ll get snapped back into anger soon enough, but I’m gonna enjoy this break from reality while it last. Clownfuck.

some_guy ,

And there’s also Occam’s razor. MAGA shitheads are hateful. This is probably true on that alone. But I’ve also seen a couple other articles of Christian’s alarmed at the same trend. The truthiness is strong. I can feel it.

some_guy ,

Red Hat for obvious reasons. Used to run and recommend CentOS before all the fuckery.

some_guy ,

Aliens was when I realized how perfect James Cameron is with sound. Got to see a film reel in a real theatre about five years ago and it was awesome.

some_guy ,

If a phone fits in a pocket, how will we sell women handbags?

some_guy ,

Lived in the dead center of the country for a decade. Never heard it said that way.

Anyway, I enjoyed this more than it deserved. Loved it and chuckled at the end.

some_guy ,

I’ve No More Fucks to Give

some_guy ,

I keep one cubby of my bookshelf empty for one of my kitties who made it her home. Congrats on finally getting that empty space filled the right way!

some_guy ,

I have taken an antipsychotic for insomnia at different times. Can you elaborate on what you’re saying? It isn’t clear to me. Severe side effects, however, have been extremely clear at different times. Are you saying those are downplayed to the point of gaslighting?

some_guy ,

Wow. I hadn’t heard of this. What a clever (and shifty) scam.

some_guy ,

Scams, all of 'em. But the medbed that I can sell you is totally real. /s

some_guy ,

There was a fantastic interview on The Jordan Harbinger Show podcast with a professional forger. I’d recommend searching for it. I’ve been meaning to give it a second listen for a few years, but have too much other content.

some_guy ,

There’s a documentary about this guy. I think I watched it on Netflix.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sour_Grapes_(2016_film)

some_guy ,

What’s the logic behind this take? I would think they’d stop him if they knew.

some_guy ,

There was some issue that came up relating to network shares on a Windows domain that didn’t make sense to me and a colleague. I asked GPT to describe why we were seeing whatever behavior and it defined the scope of the feature in a way that completely demystified my coworker. I’m a Mac and Linux guy, so while I could loosely grasp it, it was gone from my mind shortly after. Windows domains and file sharing has always been bizarre to me.

Anyway, we didn’t hide it. He gave it credit when explaining the answer to the rest of the team in a meeting. This was around the end of last year. The company since had layoffs and I’m looking for a new job, but I did have it reformat my resume and it did a great job. I’ve never been great at page-layout stuff, as I’m a plain text warrior.

some_guy ,

I dunno, I’d consider it a moral failing on the part of the person who couldn’t be honest and direct, even if there’s a cultural issue in the workplace.

some_guy ,

Run llama locally: github.com/cocktailpeanut/dalai

some_guy ,

More like it took blocks of text and formatted them as bullet points and cleaned up muddled presentation. Sorry for not being clearer.

some_guy ,

I remember that paper had an article or op-ed on a subject that is close to my heart and my father was a subscriber. When we discussed whatever it said (this was years ago), I was lamenting to him that they had absolutely no idea what they were saying. Completely off base. They’re probably accurate about how to increase existing wealth, but likely not much else.

some_guy ,

Article:

Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump on Wednesday asked the judge overseeing his prosecution on charges of risking national security secrets if he could discuss the classified discovery evidence in the case in the “secure facility” that he once used for classified material when he was in office.

The request to the federal judge, Aileen M. Cannon, was an attempt to get around a stricter provision contained in a protective order proposed by the government that would require Mr. Trump to discuss and review the classified evidence only in one of the highly secure locations run by the federal courts in Florida.

While Mr. Trump’s lawyers refused to offer many details about their preferred location, they told Judge Cannon that it was “a previously approved facility at or near his residence” — an apparent reference to Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s private club in Florida.

Christopher M. Kise, a lawyer for Mr. Trump, said the request to allow the former president to re-establish “the same secure area” for classified material would cut down on the “immense practical and logistical hurdles and costs” of having Mr. Trump travel to one of the sensitive compartmented information facilities, or SCIFs, run by the courts.

“Limiting any discussions with counsel to the government-offered SCIFs is an inappropriate, unnecessary and unworkable restriction, given the unique circumstances of President Trump’s access to security — namely that he resides and works in a secure location that is protected at all times by members of the United States Secret Service,” Mr. Kise wrote.

The discussions about the protective order over discovery in the classified documents case came as Mr. Trump’s lawyers were fighting a similar, but more contentious, battle over a protective order in the other federal case he faces — the one accusing him of three conspiracies to overturn the 2020 election.

Late last week, prosecutors in the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith, who is handling both of the matters, asked the judge in the election interference case to bar Mr. Trump from making public any of the discovery evidence related to that indictment.

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As part of their argument, the prosecutors cited Mr. Trump’s longstanding habit of attacking people connected to the criminal cases against him and drew the attention of the judge, Tanya S. Chutkan, to a threatening message he had posted on his social media website, Truth Social.

Seizing the opportunity to bring the case back to their chosen defense theme, Mr. Trump’s lawyers responded that prosecutors were infringing on the former president’s First Amendment rights and seeking to squelch his ability to communicate about the election case with the public as he mounts his third bid for the White House.

Judge Chutkan has scheduled a hearing to discuss the protective order in Washington on Friday.

Prosecutors in the documents case had initially proposed barring Mr. Trump from even reviewing some of the classified discovery evidence — a position that seemed to outrage Mr. Kise. Even though the government has since backed away from that suggestion, Mr. Kise expressed shock about it in his filing to Judge Cannon, writing that it was unusual given that Mr. Trump was “the 45th president of the United States and, as such, had access to and knowledge of each and every one of our nation’s most sensitive secrets.”

The indictment filed against Mr. Trump in the classified materials case accuses him of illegally holding on to 32 documents in violation of the Espionage Act. It also charged him with conspiring with two co-defendants — Walt Nauta, one of his personal aides, and Carlos De Oliveira, the property manager at Mar-a-Lago — to obstruct the government’s repeated efforts to retrieve the sensitive materials.

Mr. Kise also raised objections in his filing about the “voluminous” unclassified discovery evidence the government has provided since June. That includes more than one million pages of records, he wrote, including about 240,000 emails and 315,130 other documents.

The trove of discovery evidence also includes some 76 terabytes of raw surveillance camera data — or what Mr. Kise described as “more than eight years of CCTV footage.”

The footage was instrumental in the government’s investigation into whether Mr. Trump conspired with Mr. Nauta and Mr. De Oliveira to hide boxes of documents at Mar-a-Lago and then to cover up their movements.

some_guy ,

AHA! An oubliette. I know this one from The Labyrinth.


<span style="color:#323232;">Hoggle : This is an oubliette, labyrinth's full of 'em.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Sarah : Really. I didn't know that.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Hoggle : Oh don't act so smart. You don't even know what an oubliette is.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Sarah : Do you?
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Hoggle : Yes. It's a place you put people... to forget about 'em!
</span>

Pastor alarmed after Trump-loving congregants deride Jesus' teachings as 'weak' (www.rawstory.com)

Evangelical Christian leader Russell Moore revealed this week that many evangelical pastors have become alarmed that their Trump-loving congregants have become so militant that they are even rejecting the teachings of Jesus Christ.In an interview with NPR, Moore said that multiple pastors had told h...

some_guy ,

Reminds me of the South Park ep Hare Club for Men, when Bill Donahue, of the Catholic League (read: assholes with persecution complex), says to kill the Jews (Jesus was Jewish). Jesus wasn’t hardline enough.

some_guy ,

No, the Republican party co-opted evangelicals to win votes. Abortion wasn’t a major issue for evals until conservatives started pumping it in the 70s (I think that’s the timeline?). Both are abhorrent, but we should be accurate about who tantalized who. Now, evals are in control of the Repubs.

some_guy ,

Bad Faith Podcast had an excellent interview with a couple of industry types who did a great job of explaining what’s going on. They discuss the financials and all the ways the studios are offloading costs onto show runners and fucking would-be future producers. Very educational.

Here’s a tube link, but the RSS feed is easy to find if you prefer to listen to podcasts rather than watch them (like me). I’m only doing this link because people are fractured in terms of preferred apps and such.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rSHAhXJ0ZQ&amp;list=PL1V…

some_guy ,

I watch Audit the Audit and CodeBlueCams, but I don’t subscribe to them. And Mark Rober, sometimes. I don’t have a Goog account, so I only browse as a guest. This is by choice.

some_guy ,

FTA:

Russell Dye, a spokesperson for Jordan, denied the whistleblower’s allegations that the committee was cherry-picking witnesses who claimed to be able to implicate Biden.

“We would under no circumstance ever tell a whistleblower that we weren’t interested in their story,” Dye said. “We have had plenty of whistleblowers come forward about issues not relating to the President.” Dye said the committee was still weighing what to do with the information that the whistleblower had given them.

Surrrrre, I believe that you’re impartial…

some_guy ,

While I was happy to see someone point out the strike prevention, I do appreciate your response. It’s a nice reminder to appreciate what we can.

some_guy ,

Rando: Well I believe I’ll vote for a third party.

Kang: Go ahead! Throw your vote awaaaay.

Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration (www.businessinsider.com)

Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration::Some tech workers questioned whether UPS drivers deserved high pay — others jumped in to note the importance of the jobs and harsh working conditions.

some_guy ,

I have a pro-driver pro-union UPS placard in my window and a “Unionize Amazon” sticker on my hoodie. I’m happy for UPS workers. They fought and won a much better contract. It’s genuinely exciting that there’s so much positive union activity in the USA right now.

some_guy ,

Be prepared to take a temporary hit in productivity as you learn. There will also be a degree of learning curve. Don’t get discouraged. When you do, take the advice that someone else pointed out of having a dual boot system so you can switch back to Windows. This way you won’t be tempted to nuke it and go back just to have a temporary break.

Good luck!

Teen sent 'hobo hunting' text before killing homeless woman with pellet gun: prosecutors (www.rawstory.com)

Prosecutors say that 18-year-old William Innes, who was charged with first-degree murder in the killing of 68-year-old Annette Pershal, sent the text to a group that includes his co-defendant, 19-year-old Ryan Hopkins, reported KNSD-TV.

some_guy ,

I went looking for more info and found this much more comprehensive article.

theguardian.com/…/san-diego-teens-arrested-killin…

These people are monsters. Imagine knowing that someone is living in absolute misery on the streets and saying to yourself, “I want to target them and degrade them even further while causing them physical pain. Sounds like fun!”

some_guy ,

I had to delete that app because it made me hate my neighbors.

some_guy ,

It’s in his client’s interest to speak kindly of him in the media before jury selection. He’s still doing his job.

some_guy ,

Everything said above can be true in parts or at the same time. Obviously, this kid had access to a gun and shouldn’t have. Likely, the kid has other problems at home. Possibly, the kid has a neurological divergence that hadn’t been fully investigated.

Fuck the parent for not securing the gun. Fuck the school for not showing more caution. Fuck the teacher for getting shot… wait… (/s on the last one, of course)

But also, how can a kindergartener choke an adult to the point they can’t breathe? I’d think anyone who isn’t elderly could throw a child that age. I probably don’t have all the facts about that.

some_guy ,

It’s way easier to get cheap labor by simply loosening immigration laws.

But that cheap labor would be “the wrong color.”

some_guy ,

What would be the correct government agency to complain to that might result in pressure and fines? FCC because it’s a comms platform? SEC (though I don’t know the justification)? Other?

some_guy ,

It’s not nothing. This is similar to if BBC stopped using it, only on a smaller scale.

What made you choose your instance?

Following the spirit of spreading across the Fediverse (and because my main instance is down so many times, because diverse reasons) I’m intrigued about the joining instance process, because I honestly don’t know what criteria to have in order to join another one if I ever want to do it....

some_guy ,

Unix-flavor.

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