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CNN got bought out by a right-wing billionaire. It's not even "blue hat Fox News;" it's soon to be just the same thing as regular Fox News.

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Now you do

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This is how you get less perceived Firefox marketshare and thus even more discrimination against it in the long run.

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Especially since they included copyleft code in the training dataset, which means that, by all rights, all of Copilot's output should also be copyleft.

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There have been some serious efforts (protests about school shootings, Occupy Wall Street, BLM, ANTIFA, Greta, etc) but they all kind of fizzle out when the next big culture war diversion comes along.

Either that or maybe the FBI has just gotten really good at disrupting them.

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I got banned from a web forum in 2015 for calling Trump a fascist. This shit should not have been any sort of surprise to anybody paying attention.

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https://alternativeto.net/software/duolingo/?license=opensource

Of the programs in that list, the only one I've heard of before is LibreLingo, and I'm not sure how good or bad it is. (It seems different enough from LinguaCafe that they might be complement each other more than compete.)

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destroying what little public transit there was

Hey now, let's not stray into historical revisionism. Make no mistake: there was a lot of public transit back in the early 20th century. For example, here's Atlanta's streetcar map from exactly 100 years ago:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/24/a4/3e/24a43ed098d83318cf3cbd147ef5c904.jpg

That's not just a fuck-ton more streetcar (or subway/other rail) routes than Atlanta has now; that was legitimately good coverage of most of the city!

Edit: Oh yeah, and that applies to intercity rail too, by the way:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/54/a9/f0/54a9f0a4593b55fee83853c56d662538.gif

Never forget the full breadth and scope of what was stolen from us.

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Food deserts are mostly not the fault of corporations; they're the fault of zoning. Some of that blame admittedly rests on misguided (to say the least) modernist urban planners back in the '30s, but most of it rests squarely on the shoulders of NIMBYs.

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while also not being in some dense urban hellscape 🇳🇱🇪🇺

Fun fact: Although Amsterdam (~5,000/km^2^) fails to match the population density of New York City (~11,000/km^2^), similarly-human-scale Paris manages to almost double it (~20,000/km^2^) despite not having skyscrapers. Because of things like progressive setbacks and the need to build parking decks to comply with minimum parking requirements, NYC-style skyscrapers really don't buy you as much extra living space as you might think, compared to mid-rise apartment buildings that can use the entire city block curb-to-curb.

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The most frustrating thing is being in a place with dense outwardly building urban development. Watching more and more copy/pasted strip malls go up with plans for “Subway. Smoke shop. Nails. Maybe gas station.” (Yes, every time)

If it's a strip mall with a surface parking lot (as opposed either having a parking deck, or having very little parking at all because it's TOD), it categorically doesn't count as "dense."

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Different countries regulate the radio spectrum differently, so transmitting on a certain frequency might be legal in country A but illegal in country B. They don't bother making different radios for different countries, though; instead, they just build hardware capable of transmitting on all the frequencies and then restrict what it can do via the firmware. The argument goes, if they allow device owners to modify the firmware, then they might modify the radio to transmit illegally. Never mind that there are myriad other ways an attacker could do that, that are almost as cheap and easy...

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I think $700-800 for a server with SFP ports sounds like good value in terms of price relative to capability, but the absolute price and capability are probably overkill for a residential use-case (even a homelab one). It's a no-brainer if you're the Other Linus (the Tech Tips one) and have unlimited budget for all the latest electro-bling in your house, but if you're any sort of normal person you don't need 10 gig networking yet.

Does Minisforum make anything with 4 ethernet ports and a <100W TDP in the <$300 range? If so, get that instead.

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Is it just me, or are the Lemmy fuck cars communities a lot more infested with trolls like this guy☝️ than the one on Reddit was?

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So, have you filed a complaint yet? https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/report-antitrust-violation

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Translation: business-types are salty about Wikipedia not toeing the line on the fiction that executive pay "needs" to be obscene in order to "attract talent."

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It should be blatantly obvious just from basic thermodynamics that carbon capture cannot ever possibly be cheaper than not burning the fossil fuels in the first place.

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  1. Yes. Yes, it is!

  2. McDonald's doesn't actually give a shit if you bring in food from other places.

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FYI, there are "yachts" and then there are yachts. For every billionaire's mega-yacht with helicopter pads and dozens of crew and whatnot, there are thousands of decades-old, sub-40-foot sailboats that some hippie bought for $1 and spent a year fixing up at the marina in hopes of doing the nautical equivalent of .

Unfortunately, the ones being attacked by the orcas tend to be closer to the latter.

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Please don't use endangered species for suicide missions.

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Meanwhile, my Windows partition back in 2017:

https://lassiterexcavating.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/home-demolition.jpg

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My desire to help archive.org preserve the Internet is conflicting with my desire not to have anybody tracking my browsing habits.

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