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Trump and Vance are confused why everyone else isn't behaving like sycophants because they run the US.
Ok, let's sum this up. The thing that gets to me about the Signal chats is the Vice President of the US talking about bailing out Europe. There was a comment about how only the US could drone a building, which is wild, I feel like I could probably throw a bomb at a building using the contents of most kitchens. Sure - maybe the US's bombs and drones are fancier - but I think we need to zoom in on that.
The US administration thinks that it's getting value for its money on defense. There's a theory that the US military budget is being spent on getting stuff rather than mostly just a slush fund for defense contractors. But this leads them to believe that they're the most powerful people in the world and that they're as much stronger than any other country by the amount more they spend on weapons.
And because of that they think that Europe couldn't stop terrorists. There's a belief that people aren't shooting drones at civilians because they *can't*, and they're mad that people are relying on them to fire drones at civilians. They believe that everyone else is just ungrateful for their droning of civilians. They can't envision a world where blowing up innocents in an apartment building is considered a bad move.
Trump and Vance are confused why everyone else isn't behaving like sycophants because they run the US.
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@Hypolite Petovan To be fair, this is partly me thinking about your own thoughts (I read your post yesterday). But tthis line definitely was most formed with yelling at Zelenskyy for not saying thank you. But it's all fucked, but it's such background noise in all the warcrimes vomit.
I think the fact that they killed 50ish innocent people who no theory they were involved in anything is also wildly important to this stry!
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I've been threatening to start a blog for a bit now. I guess the Signal War Plans forced me to do it. Fuck.
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They then start building wrappers around an interface that has all the same inputs as their interface. So now you have 2-3 layers of abstraction on top of every interface, all of which add complexity. Because they are Not Repeating Themselves where things aren't the same. BAAAAAH
I don't understand people's economic choices.
One of the worst parts of modern life is innovaton. One of the most annoying things that could happen in my economic life is if Kijiji Innovated. If Kijiji improved/changed it could only annoy me.
I see people being mad about "Dead Games", and I also see people mad about Live Service Games. My entire goal in gaming is for my games to never change. I don't want changes, I want to play, see the story, finish, or mess with systems.
I don't get the search for innovation in corporations, and I don't get why someone would want them to. I don't get why people get annoyed by a product not updating.
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I really don't understand people's existential horror at Star Trek transporters.
If you're a materialist - why do you care if your body is preserved alongside your mind. Why is it a problem that you get stored in a pattern buffer?
If you're not a materialist - why do you care about the body and not the soul? Why do you think your soul would become untethered because of changes in your body? I don't get it!
@Malin Interesting - so you think that it's about the ability to copy. Thomas Riker is the real prior art here - but also kinda the counter example. Mirroring the pattern was supposed to be impossible - the idea of copying something with the transporter is impossible properly.
Maybe it's true - the idea of digital information is what's causing the issue - computers can only properly copy - but as envisioned in the 60s there's this idea that you can be transformed into a "matter stream" and stored in a buffer and it's fine. But now people don't materially engage with that...
Riker's twin makes a great example, along with that guy with the fear of transporters.
I think the fear comes from really thinking about what the real process is, but you're probably right that people understand it more now from working with files.
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@Hypolite Petovan If your game has the coolest magic sword in the world, and the PC who swings a sword isn't getting it, it's a wasted detail. That sword should be in the hands of the villain or the hero, or else fuck it.
Maybe some games will have players who all hate swords and it doesn't come up, but the expectation is that the cool parts of the game are used in the game!
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@Hypolite Petovan If I'm playing A Game Of Magic Swords my sword can be cool because it's on fire instead of +1, and if I'm playing Grim Gritty No Magic my sword can be cool because the hilt is obsidian or because it helped fight off the Huns.
But don't say "Grim Gritty No Magic has the sword called Magic Sword and it exists but the GM shouldn't let a player have it because it's rare!
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A hacker is someone who studies and explores systems. Generally because they find it fun. Many posit this attitude is innate as opposed to learned. I think that that's complicated but I am willing to believe there are innate hackers.
My son is an innate hacker.
He has figured out that if I'm leaving for something, he can always get more time with me by asking for another hug. If he's had 3-5 hugs I'll eventually give up. Meaning he offers me a hug, which always works. If I'm in my office because I'm "at work" he can offer to make me a cup of coffee and then he gets to see me (even if briefly).
The problem is that cutting off these behaviours make him sad and I can't do that.
This means I have a hacker child figuring out how to exploit me. This is really fun but also really weird.
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find / -name pip3\* -exec {} install boto3 \;
I think I've finally managed to wrangle pip
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"OriginSslProtocols": {
"Quantity": 2,
"Items": [
"SSLv3",
"TLSv1"
]
Oh I like seeing that.... it's very good... that's a great thing to see
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As a creator, hacker, father, and security lead I want my data stored in the EU.
This is because the EU has basically the only functional privacy law that's not wrapped in a group of byzantine laws.
I can't understand how people think that privacy law is bad or useless, or why people want their data in places that aren't as safe.
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I am listening to Better Offline and 10 minutes in it's 1:1 Ed to Ad.
Is this an area of podcast I'm not aware of? A world where podcasts are more ads than content?
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@sungo Exactly! The pyramids are wonderful beautiful things.
The phone system is the ultimate joy of humanity. It's communication, connection, and millions of people working together to make that happen. They're paid and unpaid. Phreak and cop. People who are talking, communicating, and agreeing. So I can put to wires into a line anywhere, and find connection to any other line in the world. As long as we all agree that communication matters.
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I need an extention or something to ban websites from binding /
If I know what / is for, you overriding it annoys me. If I don't you overriding it is worthless. Stop fucking with me.
also - JavaScript must be destroyed
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@Darcy Casselman I *very* have my wife's password and vice versa. It makes our lives so much easier.
This friend had stored their digital life on my systems as a backup, and only just today finally figured it was time to roll those keys.
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The problem with parental controls, is that my kids are 3 and 5. I don't want them exposed to raw unfiltered internet. But I also know that they *will be*.
This means that parental controls are a war I'm trying to figure out how to let my kids win in the most gentle way possible. I want them to win without feeling smarter and better than me, and like they're invincible. I want them to become aware of the fact that the internet is a complicated place, I don't want them to fear, but I also want them to respect. I dunno - parenting is hard.
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sooo been there myself! My kids are now 12/13. We started slow, with unconnected devices (old phones) and a few games, kinda like just a different toy. As they go through school we try to draw analogies with familiar things.. Internet is kinda like 'outdoors'. Some areas are safe for you, some are not. Running around when you should be in bed is also not good. Trying to present family controls as helping, not a war you will lose...
But. Yeah it's hard 🤪 good luck!
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Fuck yes.
Server migration went off without a hitch.
If I disappear from you for 24 to 48 hours - flush your damn DNS cache
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I'm not in the UK anymore! I've slain the Online Safety Act
Ironically one of our users is a UK citizen, and out of 6 people that might be significant!
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Ah, my domain registrar enrolled me in WHOISGUARD, gave whois a bogus domain. And then required me to get an email to change the email I use on my domain, or change the DNS. They didn't grab the email from my account for this. Oh no! They grabbed the whoisguard bogus email!
How wonderful! I guess server migration isn't happening today >.<
I have two main laptops I use right now. Both of them display a corporate logo for an OS (Microsoft and Apple) when they boot and then do not boot that OS.
Every single time I look at them and think "Stop embarrassing me"
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I'm trying to make a small device autoplay the playlist on a CF card when the CF card is plugged in.
Linux is garbage now - is that the lesson I've learned?
@sungo Yeah - so I've tried a few different options
So I'm kinda stuck in Armbian land because I'm doing this on a raspi knockoff (after they hired a cop I swore them off).
So I started trying with just putting things on fstab, and found a tool for autoplaying CDs - but it didn't really work. So I moved to a udev rule which works on and off - but wont kick off sound because it's not able to subscribe the audio daemon. I've started looking at stripping out pulse and replacing it with alsa directly. But now I'm just trying to find a tool that will play an m3u without a session (cvlc seems gone from packages).
There's more - but I've spent a few hours on this and I'm mostly just frazzled.
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