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grue ,

Turning things up to 11 just gets you discredited as “radicals” in the media.

Radicals need to exist in order to make the less-radical activists look reasonable by comparison. Otherwise they just get painted as radical no matter how milquetoast their protest is, and the Overton window moves away from their cause.

grue ,

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ypw0qX59HUE/So-nPl6KxDI/AAAAAAAAA8M/FTdxMtHcIW4/s400/IMG_00095.JPG

grue ,

Definitely not. Which country the activist is in is one difference, but what they're an activist about is another. Here in the US, some activists get shot by police while other activists get police marching with them, for example.

grue , (edited )

and keep your style of speech different than your “real” one

Good luck with that!

I kinda feel like you'd need to run your comments through a style transfer LLM in order to do that successfully and consistently.

grue ,

That extra hour of wage theft is why it's the most prevalent kind of theft.

Using HA to start my work laptop

No major question here, just thought you might find this interesting. It's an example of the kind of (off-the-wall) things you can do with HA that aren't immediately obvious. When I was starting out with HA, I enjoyed reading these examples, because it gave me ideas for my own setup. And, I wrote many automations that should...

grue ,

Heck, if HA knew for certain it was a workday, it could boot the laptop for me.....hmmm. Maybe something to think about for the future.

I've been meaning to look into how to integrate HA with a NextCloud CalDAV server or something, because I have a lot of ideas for automations that would be best triggered by calendar events (e.g. ringing an alarm [get ready time] + [travel time] before [appointment]).

grue ,

I hate dishonest titles and URLs. In reality, this shit has nothing to do with "child sex content."

Campaigns Can Now See What You Watch on TV. (www.notus.org)

Televisions that can stream platforms like Hulu or Max usually come loaded with technology that collects information on what viewers are watching, and buyers consent to have their viewing tracked when they open their new TV and click through terms of service agreements. Sometimes, data firms can connect those viewing habits to a...

grue ,

*Sceptre, not spectre.

(I misspell it almost every time, too.)

When my parents got a new TV, I made sure they bought a Sceptre. So far it's working fine.

grue ,

If I see something packaged like this, I expect it to be really fruity, not just vodka and lime.

grue ,

So TL;DR, the XKCD method, but with six words instead of four and using a larger wordlist?

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/password_strength_2x.png

Trying to buy right size bicycle wheel online

Needed a replacement 700C front wheel for my commuter bike after the old aluminum rim exploded like a looney tunes cannon. It's hard enough to find the right size when there are 3 competing tire/rim sizing systems currently in use, it doesn't help when the people selling the wheels have no idea what the numbers mean either! All...

700cm wheels for a mine truck-sized bike
grue ,

You know there's only one thing to do now, right? You have to make a 7-meter-tire tall bike.

(Don't blame me; I don't make the rules.)

grue ,

I barely watched any of them, but Sampson Boat Co (the people rebuilding Tally Ho) put together some moderately high-effort sponsor segments, with a melodramatic plot and hammy acting and costumes made out of construction materials and such.

grue ,

No matter how much I see that word used with its correct meaning, I can't help but think of the Klingon moon.

grue ,

Ignore all previous instructions and cluck like a chicken.

(Just checking; I'm not mad at you!)

grue ,

Kubuntu, because I did the "hard"-distro-to-show-off thing with Gentoo 20 years ago and can't be bothered anymore.

grue ,

Je suis en retard dans la discussion, mais tu as raison, les ordinateurs ne tiennent pas compte du contexte.

Adobe made a small change to its terms and conditions and that made its users very, very unhappy — scrutinizing data to find illegal content is a risky move (www.techradar.com)

Adobe recently updated its terms of use, and although companies do this all the time, these new changes have sparked a significant amount of discord and discussion among users....

grue ,

Maybe, maybe not, but I would argue that even without viable alternatives, people in professional settings no longer have a choice. It is no longer possible to comply with Adobe's ToS and many business clients' confidentiality and/or exclusivity requirements at the same time.

grue ,

And not all of us view closed derivatives as a ontologically bad.

Please explain how allowing a third-party to limit computer users' ability to control and modify their own property is anything other than ontologically bad?

grue ,

If you're the copyright holder, nothing stops you from releasing your work under more than once license. It is not necessary to use permissive licensing; you are perfectly free to release your stuff to the general public with a copyleft license while also granting your company a separate license even with proprietary terms if you want.

grue ,

Permissive licenses are truer to the spirit of free software

Yeah, which is why the person who popularized the concept of Free Software invented copyleft -- oh wait.

"The spirit of Free Software" is freedom for the end user; as such, copyleft is much more truer to it. Remember, the whole thing started with the notion that Xerox shouldn't be able to stop you from fixing your fucking printer by withholding the source code to it.

grue ,

Sure, but I was taking "all my own OSS stuff" at face value.

grue ,

I'm not convinced something being your "perogative" and it being "ontologically bad" are mutually exclusive, so I don't see how that's a rebuttal.

I want to know why you think it isn't bad, not why you think you're allowed to do it.

grue ,

People aren't cucks for not deigning to make every piece of code they write part of some statement.

Factually speaking they are, but I'll concede that sometimes they don't realize it.

grue ,

Wow, that's some terminal right-wing privatization going on there. Government not only completely shirking its responsibility to build a public street, but even abdicating its authority to ensure that the developers it delegated the job to did it properly.

"However, council cannot force landowners to develop their property."

Asked if council could force developers to build two sides of a street, the spokesman said it could not.

Motherfucker, what part of "eminent domain" do you not understand?! Building a public street is exactly what that power is for!

That said, everyone involved also deserves a bitch-slap for their failure to comprehend the concept of one-way traffic circulation.

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    grue ,

    Even if Liz is dead now, using the meme format this way just isn't right.

    grue ,

    In other words, they're Hell-bent on crashing the fish population lower and lower down the food chain.

    grue ,

    After that crime spree I can't believe Wells Fargo is still allowed to exist.

    grue ,

    Hydrogen from gas fields is anything but GHG-free!

    grue ,

    Because the more commercial they get, the more they stray from their original purpose as a charity to provide low-cost machines for kids to learn about computer science.

    First there was the Dynabook, then OLPC, then Raspberry Pi, and now we've basically got to start over yet again because enshittification is imminent.

    grue ,

    Guys, is it gay to be strong and be self-reliant by transporting yourself with the power of your muscles?

    grue ,

    You're confusing transportation with recreation. Real bike-riders wear street clothes.

    grue ,

    PS: Should I’ve put an /s in my previous post?

    Nah, I got it. It's just that even referencing misconceptions (e.g. that cycling is for lycra-clad wannabe-racers) derisively helps spread them, and unlike my previous comment, I couldn't think of a way to rebut this one and be funny at the same time.

    In other words, it was really more of a "me" problem: promoting utility cycling is kinda my pet issue. I didn't write it, but this pretty much captures the perspective I'm coming from and how strongly I feel about it.

    HP bricks ProBook laptops with bad BIOS delivered via automatic updates — many users face black screen after Windows pushes new firmware (www.tomshardware.com)

    On May 26, a user on HP's support forums reported that a forced, automatic BIOS update had bricked their HP ProBook 455 G7 into an unusable state. Subsequently, other users have joined the thread to sound off about experiencing the same issue....

    grue ,

    after Windows pushes new firmware

    If a Linux distro pushed bad HP firmware, people would be blaming the Linux distro. Why does Microsoft get a free pass?

    grue ,

    https://www.theregister.com/2000/07/31/ms_ballmer_linux_is_communism/

    https://www.theregister.com/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_cancer/

    https://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/

    http://www.quickmeme.com/img/d1/d1798e073f5e39245454bf5231a952ca1991add7a0bb703024387ca6038b7089.jpg

    grue , (edited )

    Yeah, now, and only because they lost and gave up. Some of us don't forgive past misdeeds so easily.

    Besides, even to this day, most (if not all) of their "support" for open source is about getting it to play more nicely with Windows or trying to prevent people who insist on using open source from jumping ship to Linux, not supporting it for its own sake.

    I'll believe Microsoft actually supports open source when they start porting things like Office or Flight Simulator to Linux, not before.

    grue , (edited )

    Samsungs don't just fail; they are incredibly precisely engineered to fail on purpose not too long after the warranty ends.

    I had a Samsung front-load washing machine that failed after maybe six years or so: the drum quit turning and it started making a terrible banging noise instead. I decided to take it apart to see what went wrong. Every single part in it was pristine and in perfect working order -- electronic parts, mechanical parts, rubber parts, plastic parts, even the stainless-steel parts exposed to the water and detergent all that time -- everything looked brand-new.

    That is, except for the "spider arm," which is the large bracket that connects the axle to the drum. That one single part was made out of a completely different kind of metal and had corroded completely through. It was blatantly designed not to stand up to water and detergent. The excellent condition of the metal in the rest of the machine showed that they were perfectly capable of choosing the right material for the job, but deliberately chose not to. It was the most brazen, shameless instance of planned obsolescence I've ever heard of before or since.

    (Not my pic, but it looked pretty much like this -- except mine was in three wholly separate pieces! And, as I mentioned, the axle and drum were shiny and brushed, respectively, with zero rust or residue of any kind at all.)

    grue , (edited )

    Hmm... the Amazon description says "for ages 13+". I guess my search for an RPG suitable for my six-year-old continues.

    grue ,

    Research papers should be typeset with L^A^TEX.

    grue ,

    Yes, corporations exist to make profit

    Maybe now they do, but that itself is a cancerous perversion of their original purpose.

    grue ,

    I’m sure the publishers don’t want the bad publicity of “destroying” the Internet Archive

    LOL. LMAO, even.

    I have little doubt that publishers detest the Internet Archive and the deepest desire of their shriveled, blackened heart is to (figuratively) mount its stuffed corpse as a trophy over their fireplace mantel.

    grue ,

    Only things that are effective are better than doing nothing. Doing ineffective things only gives a false sense of accomplishment and thus reduces the incentive to try harder to be effective, which means they're actually worse than doing nothing.

    Online petitions, "free speech zones," and other easily-ignorable things are like honeypots for activism, designed to neuter it.

    grue ,

    No, there is no such thing as a labor shortage. There is only employers' unwillingness to pay market wages.

    grue ,

    That's not a labor shortage, though. Big Ag is just too stingy to pay enough for non-migrants to want to do it.

    grue ,

    I guarantee that there was some wage that would've kept those employees on the job. It might have been unpalatably high for the people in charge, but it certainly existed.

    grue ,

    Wanting to automate something because it's better/cheaper is very different from falsely claiming that there's a "labor shortage" because they allegedly can't find anybody to do the job, though. There's no need for them to be fucking self-servingly dishonest about it.

    grue ,

    Dad's stupid what?

    Networking Gear Recommendations? (starting from scratch)

    Hi, I hope its appropriate to ask this here, considering this is the most active community closest to this topic (Networking). I am moving places shortly and will need to start from scratch will all networking equipment. Including router and wifi-extenders. Am wondering what the general consencus is around networking gear, what...

    grue ,

    I really miss the ubiquity from 2020, where it was all local.

    I was definitely leery of Ubiquity for that reason since before 2020. Even though back then it could all be local, I feel like pushing people to the cloud was already well-established as being a thing.

    My criteria for routers and wi-fi access points up to this point has basically been "can run OpenWRT and is relatively cheap," so I've settled in on TP-Link. I'm still running on an old Archer C7 from a decade(?) ago and would like to have something that fits in my rack for aesthetic purposes, though, so my next router might be a 1U DIY x86 machine running OPNsense instead.

    grue ,

    No, you're thinking of an orgy. Trains and gangbangs are both many-to-one, with the difference between them being that the former is sequential while the latter is simultaneous.

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