That’s why I stopped recruiting North Koreans for my mercenary group. They always want equipment and rations. Like, don’t you have fingernails and teeth? Eat a raccoon and quit asking me for help. Damn. I’m already paying you 500 won a day.
The ladies do love Splatoon 3.
I hate how the media treats the social security trust fund as some sort of autonomous entity that can go broke. It’s a government program. If what comes out of our paychecks doesn’t fully fund it, allocate money from the general fund or just get rid of the cap so high income people pay the same rate as everybody else. It might be the easiest problem to solve that we’re avoiding solving.
Oh, for fuck’s sake. Can we have a decent password manager that isn’t tied to a browser or company? I pay for Bitwarden. I’m not being cheap. But open source is more secure. We can look at the code ourselves if there’s a concern.
It’s complicated. In my state (Louisiana), there has to be 2 of the 6 congressional districts that are majority black. Republicans tried to make it one but got rebuffed by courts since the state is ~33% black. They don’t draw the districts to be rectangular or follow parishes (our equivalent to counties). They’re drawn to allow oppressed groups to be represented.
And since the two of the most powerful House Republicans are from Louisiana, they made sure they had safe seats. So, the elections are basically predetermined.
It takes way longer than that to smoke a brisket. You’re fired unless it’s fucking amazing, in which case you’re promoted to VP of Employee Happiness.
They will never stop. Give money to food banks and not one dime to politicians.
Can you use pyenv for the script?
Sometimes, you have to make sacrifices to stave off previously unknown levels of human misery.
The alternative is communities (like Louisiana’s “cancer alley”) impacted in way worse way.
The actual issue is that all the rich people under the corrupt Batista government, which was basically a U.S. puppet government, got their shit confiscated when they fled to Florida. The U.S. has never cared about democracy and human rights but we definitely didn’t back then.
If you need evidence, the “Helms-Burton Act” sponsors were scum. Here is part of the opening to the Wikipedia article for Sen. Helms:
On domestic social issues, Helms opposed civil rights, disability rights, environmentalism, feminism, gay rights, affirmative action, access to abortions, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
And Rep. Burton was corrupt as fuck. He’s still alive if anyone in Indiana wants to find his house and shit on his porch.
It’s not ableism. He beat sleeping people with hammers. He could have zero disabilities and he’d still be a violent loon. No other autistic people are going around hitting people with hammers.
They should Google the tracking number. That’s how I follow my deliveries of incendiary devices planted by Russian spies.
And that’s on top of all the Brazil users who fled to BlueSky when he refused to comply with a court order (and pay a fine) so they blocked Twitter for a few days. I’m not sure how many went back after he paid the fine but BlueSky was fairly popular in Brazil even during the closed beta so I’m sure a ton stuck around.
Election betting markets are notoriously unreliable compared to polls. They’re easy to manipulate and it’s generally younger men who gamble online. Even PredictIt (which limits bets to $850) has tons of stupid money. I know because I won hundreds of dollars on there by not being stupid.
And by stupid money, I mean extremely stupid. Like even after elections are over, you can often find races where people are buying contracts for the loser because of conspiracy theories or whatever.
I wasn’t saying Bell Labs wasn’t innovative. The “they” in that sentence was referring to average, non-tech consumers like my grandma. The monopoly AT&T had over the Bell System funded all that research and consumers paid higher rates and had worse service because it was a monopoly.
I’m not anti-research. I’m anti-monopoly.
They said they have no plans to deprecate v2 and if they ever do, will provide 12 months notice before doing so. So, I think there will be time to prepare for that switch.
According to caniuse.com, it works now in the Nightly builds and can be enabled in other builds via the media.wmf.hevc.enabled
pref in about:config
.
I use Firefox Dev Edition and I think it’s enabled there. But either way, you can enable it on stable.
You can always keep Chromium installed for the odd site that doesn’t work in Firefox (my daily driver). I do web development and test in every browser and I almost never encounter sites or features that don’t work in FF. The only one I can recall is something in the Azure Portal, probably because Microsoft wants you using Edge.
Typically, Safari is the laggard and any developer worth their salt would make sure their site works on iPad and iPhone. When a new web standard is released, usually Chromium supports it first but even then, not always. And web developers usually don’t use features that aren’t implemented across the board yet. I know I go to caniuse.com before I use something fresh out the oven.
I read that they temporarily (and apparently accidentally) removed the uBlock Origin Lite extension but they’re not getting rid of Manifest v2 that allows normal uBlock Origin to work.
The developer released the lite version on Firefox because it might be better for Android Firefox users. I guess there was some confusion.
Ditka vs. a Hurricane? Who would win?
Hold on! Hold on! Hold on! The name of the hurricane is Hurricane Ditka.
Moab Night Sky w/ ISS
This isn’t a great photo. I was sitting outside in Moab, UT playing with the night sky app. The bright dot right above the hilltops is the ISS. Taken with an iPhone 15 Pro on default settings (3 second exposure in the dark) so it’s not that far off from the actual view.
I live in a city but I’m near a dark sky site right now so I’ve been having a ball with just my binoculars and a camera phone.
I’m curious if a team that scores late in regular time is more likely to win in extra time or penalties. Does anyone know the answer or where I can find data about knockout rounds?
It seems like there would be an advantage because of the type of subs that happen in that scenario. Making defensive subs in the final minutes of regular time would at least hurt you in penalties, if not in added time. But maybe it’s not an important factor.
I tried googling it but nothing came up. But it’s 2024 Google so maybe I just asked the wrong way or it wanted to sell me stuff.
<i>Editor’s note: This article deals with topics of police brutality.</i>
Columbia University’s student newspaper has an editorial about what transpired.
Are there any Windows-exclusive programs you use?
I had to test/fix something at work and I set up a Windows VM because it was a bug specific to Windows users. Once I was done, I thought, “Maybe I should keep this VM for something.” but I couldn’t think of anything that wasn’t a game (which probably wouldn’t work well in a VM anyway) or some super specific enterprise software I don’t really use.
I also am more familiar with the Apple ecosystem than the Microsoft one so maybe I’m just oblivious to what’s out there. Does anyone out there dual boot or use a VM for a non-game, non-niche industry Windows exclusive program?
Lingonberry Pancakes
Waitress: You folks ready?
Dieter: I have lingonberry pancakes.
Kieffer: Lingonberry pancakes.
Franz: Three pigs in blanket.
Woman: [asks for blueberry pancakes in German]
Dieter: [translating] Lingonberry pancakes.
Who are your favorite overlooked historical figures?
Lots of people were way more important than history books give them credit for. Do you have a favorite?
Mine are Ibn al-Haytham and Mansa Musa. For very different reasons. Ibn al-Haytham basically invented the scientific method. And Mansa Musa was such a baller that he caused inflation when he visited places.
I was just telling someone about how the loyalty plan for groceries was that you got the next letter's edition of the encyclopedia.
I remember Funk and Wagnall’s at A&P but was that universal before we got computers?
How much power do older mainframes need (if they're actually even run)?
I’ve never worked with major enterprise or government systems where there’s aging mainframes — the type that get parodied for running COBOL. So, I’m completely ignorant, although fascinated. Are they power hogs? Are they wildly cheap to run? Are they even run as they were back in the day?
Does Pi-Hole disrupt anything important?
I ordered a Raspberry Pi 5 so I have a Pi 3 that’s about to be redundant. I haven’t used Pi-Hole so I was thinking it’d be good for that but I’m curious if there’s any downsides for users. Are sites blocked if you dont whitelist them? That sort of thing.
Basically, I’m not worried about me having issues but I’m worried about a maintenance headache if friends and family can’t access things.
Can Far Cry 5 be played stealthily?
This weekend, I watched a 13 year-old play Far Cry 5 and the game just seemed like wave after wave of enemies to shoot or blow up (or hit with a shovel). But he also has the patience of a 13 year-old and has no concept of beating a stealth mission by throwing a rock or waiting for a guard to turn around.
It made me curious: does Far Cry 5 have a hidden “GTA police level” system where violence begets violence? Or is the gameplay always basically a shoot ‘em up like Asteroids?
After 9 months, the New Orleans Police Department’s use of facial recognition has resulted in zero arrests and multiple false positives
Facial recognition technology was used by the New Orleans Police Department only 13 times from Oct. 1, 2022, to July 1, 2023.
Does Elon Musk (or CEO Linda) know about FedNow?
The Federal Reserve will release a research paper this summer that explores a move to a central bank digital currency.
The Federal Reserve has already launched a small test of near-instantaneous financial transactions. Every time they talk about payments as a future feature of X/Twitter, I wonder if they know that’s getting Sherlocked.