HarkMahlberg

Little bugger

So the cats were in the bathroom, with no one else inside, with the door closed? Cats are flexible sure but I’ve never seen one get under a door jamb.

It’s a Jeep thing.

Just the ones run by fascists and grifters. RIAA is here because discord is popular and not indexable, not because discord is somehow uniquely suited for facilitating piracy.

I’m not allowed to say “huh, would ya look at that?” Calm down.

100% with you, well put

Sure as shit, there he is, lol

That is why I get tired about the “individual action” suggestion, that I alone could stop using Amazon and hurt their sales, I could de-Google my life and keep my privacy, or recycle plastic and save the ocean, or swear off AI to fuck with Nvidia.

But all that is a drop in the bucket compared to the millions of people who all readily handed over their lives to these companies and haven’t left (or can’t). And governments who abdicated regulatory authority to them, which have allowed them to run rampant.

They’re still making it so these massive companies have force in my life. I alone can’t do anything about that.

So here’s the hot take I took from his video: yeah, an internet connected dishwasher is dumb, but so is a LAN connected dishwasher. “I don’t want to have to maintain my own app to run this thing, keep this thing secure,” damn straight. That little open source app is probably gonna get abandoned at some point, I don’t want to have to fork it and fix things and patch vulnerabilities. I want a strictly Dumb dishwasher.

The part of that video that makes me empathize with his experience is the fact that Luke took on the same challenge, happened to choose Mint, and had no problem installing Steam. So you run into this catastrophic failure, and even your friend can only tell you “worked on my machine, I don’t know what to tell ya.” Then you search the internet and just keep finding the same instructions you just followed, to the letter. So you share your experience, and then half the Linux community blames you for “not heeding the warnings.”

That’s kind of my hope yeah.

They went to unmask the editors so they can send their cult followers to harass them. They would love if it turned violent too, because the goal is to silence opposition and make them submit.

understand that you do not need to use vacation hours for statutory holidays

Our HR software already accounts for federal holidays. When you put in the request for time off, you give it a start and end date on a calendar control, and it calculates the number of hours you plan to use, working around holidays, weekends, even existing PTO requests.

I’m not saying you should buy that software, but I am saying it’s a solved problem… It’s automatic, the user doesn’t need to do anything special.

Now we have other forms that COULD be automatic but AREN’T which causes big issues when people make simple typos… But I don’t see the need to run an energy consuming LLM to implement that feature.

I’m gonna take this comment, blow it up to poster size, and put it in my office, right in front of my webcam so I can watch my boss squint trying to read it.

I used to think that was a good idea too: sequester 4chan, make it the sin-eater of the internet at large.

But as we learned through 2014-2016, from Gamergate to the alt-right to MAGA, 4chan didn’t need to break for them to go elsewhere. And not just elsewhere, but everywhere. A single 4channer could make multiple reddit accounts, twitter accounts, and fake facebook profiles. But what allowed their work to reach larger audiences was to use /pol/ to coordinate their brigades across the internet. 4chan’s anonymity and lack of persistent logs made that easy.

Russian state actors infiltrated their ranks as other anons. As obnxious trolls looking to get a rise out of people, they had huge blinds spots and failed to see this for what it was (or looked the other way). Once installed, they could launder propaganda by making it look like it was coming from seemingly American sources, all across the internet, all at the same time. The anons were Putin’s useful idiots.

The argument of sequestering the social pariahs to 4chan implies they are physically locked up there, imprisoned but satisfied, uninterested in engaging the internet at large. But clearly that isn’t true. You can’t leave the Nazis in one corner of the bar - it becomes the Nazi bar. If you want to fight them, you have to remove them from the common spaces, and then remove their own spaces. Unfortunately, the cancer of fascism has metastasized all across the internet, now originating from people who have never heard of “this four chan.” Fighting that is going to require us to stop falling for the paradox of tolerance and start kicking the Nazis out, whether we have laws to do so or not.

4chan has been all too eager to spread Russian propaganda for over a decade, and has been a festering sore on the internet even longer still. I wouldn’t let the paradox of tolerance bind us to 4chan of all places. OP is right, nothing of value would be lost.

Quantum huh? I was gonna guess it would be brain chips given Muk’s obsession with it.

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https://ratfactor.com/tech-nope

Meltdown is MSM’s new Slam. Everyone is slamming someone else. MAGA is melting down about everything. When are they not melting down?

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