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MAGA congressman says top priority is shutting down FEMA like the Department of Education
  • Nah, fuck that.

    You know what humanity has done with its chances? Eliminated polio. Developed better crops and farming techniques to almost entirely eliminate famines. Slashed maternal mortality to a fraction of what it was 2 generations ago. Developed social and economic systems to tip the incentives in favour of peace and cooperation - even with gestures broadly at Russia and the middle east the current generation is less likely to be killed in war than in any other time in history. There are dozens of medical conditions that, if you developed then 50 years ago you just died where today it's a routine surgery to correct.

    Apathy is what kills us. If you want to die then go get help - personally there are a few billion people I give a shit about.

  • Historic ICC War Crimes Complaint Names 1,000 Israeli Soldiers
  • Unless you've got an absolutely stellar CV, I don't see you getting a chance to explain that

  • What happens when the US runs out of SSNs?
  • I want to see the high-octane action thriller where the grizzled old hand and the renegade upstart trek to the remote compound in the woods of Montana to find Bob, the last man alive who understands how some obscure part of the IRSs core systems works and bring him back in from the cold for one last job... to save America(s neglected computer systems from decades of under investment)

  • California officials reject more SpaceX rocket launches, with some citing Musk's X posts
  • I agree with your analysis of the law, but I do get why people are a bit uncomfortable with this. Elon has been a shit human, rocket launches have impacted wildlife and SpaceX and Tesla have been toxic places to work for a long time, but that's only become a problem recently because he's been getting more involved in politics? The whole point of having a regulatory state separate from the rest of the government is so they can set and enforce rules fairly and impartially.

  • Congratulations to Tom!
  • Imagine the most stereotypical Australian you can. Now imagine he has a PhD in chemistry but no money for a lab, so does all his work out of a literal tin shed full of spiders using stuff he found at the hardware store

  • Tesla unveils Cybercab: a $30,000 electric robotaxi coming in the next 2 years | Electrek
  • But it's all the government's fault for having regulations that stop him doing what he wants - he'd be on Mars by now if it wasn't for the stupid government stopping him from poisoning a protected nature reserve and crashing rockets into people.

    Don't they understand? It's really important to get people to mars so there is a place for rich assholes to go when the environment on earth is completely trashed beyond repair

  • What do you feel is your ideal amount of storage for a phone?
  • I've used 85GB of the 128GB of my current phone after using it for 2 years and never deleting anything. I suppose if I took a lot more video I might burn through it quicker.

  • I'm radicalised by this photo
  • Personally, if I'd paid $1500 for 1000 of something and got any less than 1000 units I'd be kinda pissed

  • I'm radicalised by this photo
  • In highschool I worked a shitty job at a butchery, and one day the boss decided to "test how smart" I was or something by asking me to get him 1000 wooden skewers out of the box.

    Being an attention to detail kind of person, I spent a few minutes counting out 1000 cos I wanted to make sure I gave him exactly what he asked for - wouldn't want a customer to order 1000 and get 995 or something cos I miscounted right?

    Apparently not, cos that was the dumb way to do it - boss slapped 10 skewers on the scale then weighed out 100x that and was really proud until I pointed out that the certificate of accuracy only guaranteed the scale to +/- 2 skewers, then apparently I'm a "smart ass". Can't win with some people

  • Historic ICC War Crimes Complaint Names 1,000 Israeli Soldiers
  • "how do you explain this gap in your job/education history here?"

  • Historic ICC War Crimes Complaint Names 1,000 Israeli Soldiers
  • Makes it harder to get a job overseas though I'd hope

  • Historic ICC War Crimes Complaint Names 1,000 Israeli Soldiers
  • Idk, if I was in a position to be hiring people and I saw "served in the IDF 2023/2024" in the job history section of a CV that'd probably count against a person the same as a conviction for rape or murder.

  • Anon has a plan
  • I'd say that if all you want to do is scare the shit out of some scientists in Antarctica you probably only need 1 polar bear

  • Bracing for Hurricane Milton
  • Who would win: one of the most destructive natural disasters ever seen, or some strappy bois

    Those anchor points are going to need to be driven really deep to do anything - the ground is already waterlogged

  • Trump has long blasted China's trade practices. His 'God Bless the USA' Bibles were printed there
  • Oh, you could get them printed in the US by someone who knows what they are doing, but it'll cost $1/unit more

  • Cards Against Humanity continue to bring good into the world
  • Nowhere do they actually require anyone to vote or to vote a specific way

  • Having fun with text scams
  • Pig butchering

  • Self-described Nazi becomes first in Australian state of Victoria to be convicted over Nazi salute
  • Strongly agree. The fact that a nazi shithead felt safe enough to out himself in public means that more nazis need to be seeing public consequences for being hate filled oxygen thieves.

    Being a nazi should be like being a pedo; you should be living in constant fear that someone is going to find out and that when you eventually get out of prison your friends, family and society at large want nothing to do with you

  • KDE 6 fingerprint unlock

    The KDE 6 announcement says that

    > On prior versions you chose between either password or fingerprint authentication for the lockscreen. In Plasma 6, both are supported at the same time.

    I've updated my Neon install, what do I need to do to enable this? I've set up a fingerprint through the user settings, but when the screen is locked I still have to use my password to unlock - there isn't a prompt, and touching the reader doesn't seem to do anything

    Edit: follow up on an old post in case someone stumbles across it - I needed to install libpam-fprintd

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    Tool to manage CLI tools

    I'm trying to find a thing, and I'm not turning up anything in my web searches so I figure I'd ask the cool people for help.

    I've got several projects, tracked in Git, that rely on having a set of command line tools installed to work on locally - as an example, one requires Helm, Helmfile, sops, several Helm plugins, Pluto, Kubeval and the Kubernetes CLI. Because I don't hate future me, I want to ensure that I'm installing specific versions of these tools rather than just grabbing whatever happens to be the latest version. I also want to ensure that my CI runner grabs the same versions, so I can be reasonably sure that what I've tried locally will actually work when I go to deploy it.

    My current solution to this is a big ol' Bash script, which works, but is kind of a pain to maintain. What I'm trying to find is a tool where I:

    • Can write a definition, ideally somewhere shared between projects, of what it means to "install tool X"
    • Include a file in my project that lists the tools and versions I want
    • Run the tool on my machine and let it go grab the platform- and architecture- specific binaries from wherever, and install them somewhere that I can add to my $PATH for this specific project
    • Run the tool in CI and do the same - if it can cache stuff then awesome

    Linux support is a must, other platforms would be nice as well.

    Basically I'm looking for Pythons' pip + virtualenv workflow, but for prebuilt tools like helm, terraform, sops, etc. Anyone know of anything? I've looked at homebrew (seems to want to install system-wide), and VSCode dev containers (doesn't solve the CI need, and I'd still need to solve installing the tools myself)

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    Austrian supermarkets engaged in shady price manipulation

    mastodon.gamedev.place Mario Zechner (@[email protected])

    Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain. In Austria, inflation is way above the EU average. ...

    A whole bunch of this sounds really familiar for some reason...

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