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Enkers

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local anti public transportation comment

Saw this comment on a local news post about the mayor's state of the city address and the mayor mentioned some of the new public transportation initiatives including adding another line to the train, I was under the impression that Amtrak was a success until the rails became denationalized and corporate greed limited the...

Enkers ,

I wouldn't worry about it. Nobody is going to read an essay in a single paragraph.

If you can't separate your thoughts into comprehensible, logical blocks, nobody is going to bother to parse them.

Enkers ,

I started finding DDG's results just as bad as Google's, so I switched to SearXNG and have been pretty happy with it so far.

Its open source so anyone can run an instance if they wish. I feel like this sort of model is much more resistant to enshitification.

Enkers ,

Yes you're absolutely right. The problem of aggregators is that if all the aggregated searches go to shit, then so does it. Garbage in, garbage out.

Enkers ,

Because the aggregated weighted result ranking provides a more useful page rank than any individual search engine, and if any search engine tries to (accidentally or otherwise) stuff specific results into the top ranks, it doesn't matter. It'll be deranked because no other engine displays those results highly. In a similar manner, it deranks targeted SEO attempts unless multiple platforms are targeted.

Don't get me wrong, it still has its problems. For example, if the individual search engines all get a bit too samey, then it will as well.

Enkers ,

The crazy part is the implication that the evidence destroyed was probably more damning than having a judge and jury assume anything reasonably suggested to have been implicated by those chats as true.

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However, in U.S. federal courts, updates to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in 2015 have resulted in significant decline in spoliation sanctions.

Oof. Five bucks says this change was driven by concerted megacorp lobbying efforts.

Enkers ,

*sigh* After reading some of the other comments, I have to agree. I'm not sure whether to be relieved or even more discouraged. It's a dreadfully boring dystopia.

Enkers ,

GReader was so good, now it's just another ghost in Google's graveyard. :( My guess is that they killed it because it was kinda in the same sphere as Google News.

Enkers ,

Gotta love the commodification of literally everything. Thanks, capitalism.

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I'd imagine it's quite a bit fewer tire micro-plastics too.

Enkers ,

I've never heard the term before, but my first guess would be someone who has a castle on wheels. So an SUV owner, or pickup owner who doesn't actually use it for its intended purpose.

Vancouver firm fined in grisly accident is repeat child labor offender (nwlaborpress.org)

After a 16-year-old boy lost both legs last June in a preventable workplace accident in La Center, a follow-up investigation by Washington Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) found that his employer Rotschy LLC has committed dozens of child labor law violations....

Enkers ,

156k for crippling a teenager is a pitiful slap on the wrist. How the hell is that the maximum penalty? What a sick joke.

Enkers ,

I wish 3rd parties were a viable federal election option. But they aren't yet to a point where they can realistically win in the US.

Here's the thing: as long as nobody votes 3rd party, that's going to continue to be the case indefinitely. Wishing won't change that.

Where I'm from we actually have a viable alternative to the centre / centre-right duopoly, and we still hear this sort of rhetoric, even when the outcome is nowhere near predetermined to be one of two options like it is for you guys.

The crux is, that voting for harm reduction cements you in a local maximum when there are better potential solutions out there.

Now I'm not saying that justifies voting 3rd party. There are a lot of unknowns. If more and more people started voting 3rd party, how long would it feasibly take to enact change? 2 election cycles? 4? 10? Does it ever even happen? And if so, is the harm caused in that period justified by the outcome? I'm dubious of that proposition.

Regardless, I think the rhetoric about this issue from both the pro and anti-3rd-partyists tends to be a overly reductive and/or myopic. I think both sides have valid concerns, and the answer isn't as straightforward as it seems.

That said, pragmatically, it sucks, but I feel like I do have to discourage voting for a 3rd party.

What are you all doing for android "provisioning"?

Hi! I'm swapping my daily android phone for the nth time today and going through my set-up "check-list". As apps are updating/installing, I thought I'd check in with the hive-mind, what are you all doing to make the process easier? Maybe you know of a way to self-host some sort of android profile server? I'll post my process +...

Enkers ,

Yeah, my list would end up being longer than some novels. Also, software churn makes it an ever evolving process, so having a list where half of it is wrong by the next time I need it seems less than ideal.

Enkers ,

You should generally think similarly about anything you post anywhere on the internet that has open access. If it's viewable anonymously, anyone could save and mirror it.

The only difference is it's almost guaranteed on a federated platform.

Fast food restaurant Wendy’s plans Uber-like surge pricing, with digital menu boards that change prices depending on demand (edition.cnn.com)

Fast food restaurant Wendy’s plans Uber-like surge pricing, with digital menu boards that change prices depending on demand::The price of a Wendy’s Frosty could soon fluctuate throughout the day as the chain looks to introduce Uber-like surge pricing on its menu.

Enkers ,

They recover by everyone else realizing there's profits to be made, and following suit. Once greedy corpo assholes come up with an idea to fuck the consumers harder, there's usually no going back. Hopefully I'm just being cynical.

Enkers ,

Murdering cultists and monsters while traveling through time, all while trying to save reality from the void. Hopefully the Hague will give me a pass on all the murder, even if it doesn't exist in my timeline.

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    Enkers , (edited )

    They were thinking that lbs and kgs are different types of measure:

    Lbs measuring weight, which is characterized by the amount of gravitational force applied, and having SI units kg⋅m⋅s⁻² . And kg measuring mass, which is an intrinsic property characterized by the sum of all of an object's atom's masses, and having SI units kg.

    But they realized in the U.S. a lb is now directly defined by a mathematical proportion to the kg, and therefore is now a measure of mass, not weight. Thus, they are indeed the same type of measure.

    Enkers ,

    That's definitely part of it, but the lb dates way back to before there was any conception of difference between weight and mass. Nowadays, the kg, and thus the U.S. lb, is defined in terms of universal constants (the Planck constant and the speed of light), but traditionally the lb would have been defined by some sort of standard physical object, whereas the kg was defined as the mass of a litre of water. There was an implicit reliance on the force of earths gravity in the measure of the lb, which wasn't part of the measure of the mass of a kg. So, I think historically speaking it's understandable to think of the lb as a unit of weight, not mass.

    Enkers ,

    Not always, though. Some apps save images to /Pictures, and in there, some of them make their own folder. It really is kinda half baked.

    Enkers ,

    Both. If you strip off the thick, outer skin of the shaft, the interior is moist, fleshy, and delicious. The florets are super good for soaking up flavourful sauces. I just want it all in my mouth. I love broccoli.

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    Enkers ,

    Oh no... You've conjured a previously unthought possibility for me: the MAGA femboy. 🤢

    Enkers ,

    That slide is kinda wild to me. It simultaneously dismisses one philisophical concept as unfounded (dualism) but then suggests the existence of some true human state which sounds equally bogus to me.

    I'd be curious to hear what the heck they were trying to get across here.

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    What in the ever living hell...

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    They canceled it after Konsi won for the 12th consecutive year.

    Enkers ,

    Using SPA firewall knocking (fwknop) to open ports to ssh in. I suppose if I was really paranoid, the most secure would be an air gap, but there's only so much convenience I'll give up for security.

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    Enkers ,

    Bridget?

    Enkers ,

    That's good. Maybe they can use their newfound ingenuity to get contact with their helicopter back.

    Enkers ,

    https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/56844662-b86d-4064-be46-f5b51f6864eb.jpeg

    Enkers ,

    That's.... weirdly wholesome.

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    This seems like you're introducing selection bias. Do you really want laypersons to influence your code? You should poll a representative sample of coders for a random number, and use the mode of that.

    Here, I'll start you off: 7

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    I'm giving searx a try. There's a list of public instances here: https://searx.space/

    Enkers ,

    They're usually the two spots directly next to a shopping cart chute.

    Well that works out well. Nobody else usually wants those spots, presumably because you're more likely to get nicked by an errant cart there. Seems like a win-win.

    Enkers ,

    As a software developer, I do want to see software developers lose their jobs to AI. This shouldn't be surprising, as the purpose of a lot of software development is to put other people out of a job via automation, and that's fundamentally a good thing. The alternative is like wanting a return to preindustrial society. Automation generally raises quality of life.

    The real problem is that we still haven't figured out how to distribute the benefits of society's automation efforts equitably so that they raise quality of life for everyone.

    Enkers ,

    Thank god, I thought this was about the herb.

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