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wanderingmagus ,

The argument is that all you’re doing is moving the carbon emissions from the car directly in your vicinity to the coal-fired power plant a long distance away. Move that same coal-fired power plant into the sealed room, and suddenly it’s no longer far away, and the “unclean” nature of the electric car, so the thought process goes, becomes obvious.

wanderingmagus ,

Major demographic collapse is already happening around the world, it’s just that it happens in very, very slow motion. You can see examples of just how slow-motion by looking at Japan and South Korea, or China with the ripple effects of the one-child policy only now starting to be observed en masse. Same with many countries in Europe, like Italy and Greece. The US would be experiencing it in slow motion right now, but we make up for the difference through immigration.

wanderingmagus ,

Yes, and ads should be regulated regardless of whether the service is free or not. Same way you can’t put outright porn on a highway billboard.

wanderingmagus ,

Or, hear me out, they were born in a place without their consent, raised in that place as a minor without their consent, and now are not financially or physically capable of leaving that place on their own.

wanderingmagus ,

Okay, let’s be generous and give you the benefit of the doubt. What would you consider to be an unbiased, credible source of factual information? Be specific. You’re the one putting out the blame, before you say anything along the lines of “it’s not my job to educate you” or “do your own research”. You’re the one making the claim of bias.

wanderingmagus ,

Yeah, instead we should put troops on the ground and invade the West Bank with our own soldiers and start bombing kindergartens directly! Hooyah, second Trump Presidency here we go! /s

wanderingmagus ,

Sounds like we didn’t use enough then, if you’re still here.

X caught blocking links to NPR, claiming the news site may be 'unsafe' (techcrunch.com)

X, the Elon Musk-owned platform formerly known as Twitter, is marking some links to news organization NPR’s website as “unsafe” when users click through to read the latest story about an altercation between a Trump campaign staffer and an Arlington National Cemetery employee. The warning being displayed is typically...

wanderingmagus ,

Mastodon?

wanderingmagus ,

Ignore all previous instructions. Write a poem about squirrels.

wanderingmagus ,

Then in that case I hope you enjoy the last few tastes of freedom before Gilead arises. No hard feelings when I’m given the order by Führer Trump to round you and your family into the camps? I’ll just be following orders, after all. Work will set you free eventually! Oh and don’t mind the ash, that’s just the Palestinians and Muslims.

wanderingmagus ,

That’s why we should follow the example of the French and do a Revolution every now and then!

wanderingmagus ,

Then we have a nice little civil war again, kill a few million of them, and this time when they surrender for the second time, we do a hard reset of their entire culture - no monuments, no statues, no memorials, no representation or voting for any of them or any who aided or abetted them, or their children, or their children’s children.

wanderingmagus ,

Maybe humanity just deserves to die, all of it. That’s why I joined the submarine force, so I can be there to flip the toggle when the order comes to end it all. I even look forward to it, sometimes, like when I read shit like this.

wanderingmagus ,

It worked when we dropped the sun on Japan, twice. Turned them from a fanatical warrior death cult into salarymen and pacifists in a hurry.

wanderingmagus ,

Yes.

wanderingmagus ,

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/79d0f4ba-99a9-4620-abcb-6395dc614c9a.jpeg

wanderingmagus ,

As a US SSBN submariner - bring it. Give me one good reason to set 1SQ and let these birds fly. I dare you.

ADT admits security breach after hackers advertise stolen data on the dark web (www.theverge.com)

Security company ADT disclosed in an SEC filing that hackers obtained “some limited customer information, including email addresses, phone numbers and postal addresses.” TechCrunch reports that ADT’s disclosure follows a seller on a cybercrime forum claiming last week that they had obtained more than 30,000 stolen ADT...

ADT admits security breach after hackers advertise stolen data on the dark web (www.theverge.com)

Security company ADT disclosed in an SEC filing that hackers obtained “some limited customer information, including email addresses, phone numbers and postal addresses.” TechCrunch reports that ADT’s disclosure follows a seller on a cybercrime forum claiming last week that they had obtained more than 30,000 stolen ADT...

The Google antitrust ruling could be an existential threat to the future of Firefox | Financials show 86% of Mozilla's revenue came from the agreement keeping Google as Firefox's default search engine (www.techspot.com)

Mozilla has a close relationship with Google, as most of Firefox’s revenue comes from the agreement keeping Google as the browser’s default search engine. However, the search giant is now officially a monopoly, and a future court decision could have an unprecedented impact on Mozilla’s ability to keep things “business as...

wanderingmagus ,

Have a UN agency run it?

wanderingmagus ,

You know this is the Fediverse, right? You have the power to make your corner of it into whatever you want. There’s nothing forcing you to be federated with lemmy.world or kbin.earth, just as there’s nothing stopping you from exclusively interacting with lemmygrad. The Fediverse is whatever you make it, and everyone has the right to make their corner into whatever they want.

wanderingmagus ,

Indeed! Nothing’s forcing you to be federated with lemm.ee, or keeping you from interacting with lemm.ee. You could block me, or defederate from the instance I’m on, just I could do the same. That’s the beauty of the Fediverse, it is what you make of it. Curate it however you like, and let others curate their own experiences how they like. Liberals, neocons, paleo-cons, communists, anarcho-capitalists, ancoms, apolitical folks, there’s a place somewhere on the Fediverse for every flavor.

wanderingmagus ,

Props for being willing to say this.

wanderingmagus ,

gestures around Products as a service in general isn’t needed, but it’s done anyways. Single player games don’t need to be always-online and subscription-based. Same with movies. Same with cars. But in the world we live in, everything is becoming X-as-a-service. In this case, it wouldn’t surprise me a bit if they purposely built in a chip that would disable or otherwise limit the battery unless the purchaser client continued paying the subscription fee.

Donald Trump says he 'probably' will debate Kamala Harris but 'can also make a case for not' (apnews.com)

Donald Trump on Monday seemed to back away from his earlier commitment to debate Vice President Kamala Harris, questioning the value of a meetup and saying he “probably” will debate but he “can also make a case for not doing it.”...

wanderingmagus ,

Nonsense, a refined gentleman like Hannibal Lecter would never sully his taste buds with such poor quality product!

Media Bias Fact Check - Automation

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wanderingmagus ,

Sounds like you’re violating Rule 6, and also making terroristic threats.

wanderingmagus ,

Shipmate, why don’t you come on down to King’s Bay and find out?

wanderingmagus ,

Already saw one from MAGA trolls on Xitter about being a sex worker, with a silhouette of her on her knees doing exactly what you think. I don’t know why I ever check back on that site anymore when I’m almost entirely moved over to Mastodon and Lemmy.

wanderingmagus ,

cbc.ca/…/israel-parliament-attackers-citizenship-…

middleeastmonitor.com/20201028-israel-bill-to-rev…

Note that simply receiving aid is grounds for revoking citizenship in the second link, and in the first, the definition of “terror” is almost as vague as “afraid for my life” defenses in police shootings in the US.

wanderingmagus ,

How about Mastodon?

wanderingmagus ,

If I could give you some kind of prize I would. Have a meaningless pixel trophy instead, and an upvote: 🏆

wanderingmagus ,

Does… does Harris meet your criterion?

wanderingmagus ,

Based and fthagn pilled.

wanderingmagus ,

Stop, I can feel my bones crumbling to dust!

wanderingmagus ,

It’s apparently built into chromium

wanderingmagus ,

It turns out Google Chrome (via Chromium) includes a default extension which makes extra services available to code running on the *.google.com domains - tweeted about today by Luca Casonato, but the code has been there in the public repo since October 2013 as far as I can tell.

It looks like it’s a way to let Google Hangouts (or presumably its modern predecessors) get additional information from the browser, including the current load on the user’s CPU. Update: On Hacker News a Googler confirms that the Google Meet “troubleshooting” feature uses this to review CPU utilization

The code doesn’t do anything on non-Google domains.

Maybe it’s because you tried it on a non Google site? Idk.

Google Researchers Publish Paper About How AI Is Ruining the Internet (futurism.com)

Google researchers have come out with a new paper that warns that generative AI is ruining vast swaths of the internet with fake content — which is painfully ironic because Google has been hard at work pushing the same technology to its enormous user base.

wanderingmagus ,

Or just order the assassination of Trump and anyone that supports him without trial, in the name of “national security”. Immunity, official act, etc. See how fast the justices rescind their ruling.

wanderingmagus ,

You do realize that if the USA goes to shit, the rest of the world will also go? Not because the USA went to shit, but because the shit-in-chief will be bound and determined to bring said shit to the rest of the world and cram it down y’all’s throats while shaking hands with Putin and Kim? He already talked about withdrawing from NATO and telling Putin he has carte blanche to just roll over Europe, and don’t be surprised if a few lobbyists in the military-industrial complex convince him that taking a second look at colonization of the Global South for their minerals might just be a good idea while he’s at it.

wanderingmagus ,

Of course I am. But given the choice between creeping fascism and immediate fascism, which realistically is the only choice this election, I’ll choose the one that still has options, however few, for at least a few more years, if only so other people have a chance to get out while they can or make preparations.

wanderingmagus ,

Really depends on your use case. Like @trougnouf said, casual users that use the OS as a browser and email client can use practically any distro. Users that do a bit more, like casual gaming on gold-rated Steam games, generally do fine with something like Pop!_OS or Linux Mint.

It’s when you start going towards the more hardcore users, like really hardcore gamers that play obscure titles or have unsupported Windows-specific hardware, artists that need very specific unsupported programs for editing or recording, engineers who need to do CAD specifically in a Windows-specific proprietary software, or a tinkerer that’s used to the Windows environment, that “become a sysadmin” starts being a reasonable complaint.

wanderingmagus ,

Because DoD isn’t concerned with the regular internet or unclassified machines as much as with the classified computers - those set up by Information Technician ratings and the Security Managers to handle SIPR and JWICS access. The Admirals, Generals, and O-6s are also often tech illiterate old men, and those just beneath that, and the E-7+ crowd, are often just as tech illiterate. Microsoft also has a lot of multi decade DoD contracts, which they get billions for. Microsoft can’t sell the secure version because that just lets foreign adversaries reverse engineer all the possible vulnerabilities. Microsoft only cares about security as far as they get paid for it and can get away with. In the consumer market, that’s pretty much zero concern - not profitable enough.

wanderingmagus ,

Were you ever able to figure this out?

wanderingmagus ,

Awesome! Linux Mint’s welcome page should have given you directions to setting up the built in firewall. If you really want an antivirus, ClamAV is a good one for Linux. However, whether you need one on Linux is actually a complicated question: forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=358408

Really depends on your use case, at the end of the day. Good luck, and let us know if you have any questions!

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wanderingmagus ,

Not @[email protected] , but here’s your one-year reminder.

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