When I was a kid, Strokin’ by Clarence Carter was a super popular wedding song (at least where I grew up) and it had a fun line dance so we all knew every word and had no idea what it was about.
Aside from small scripts and stupid joke images, I used ChatGPT on a vacation for extra details about the area I was in. It was when it first came out and Wikipedia and Google were obviously better for facts or finding restaurants but being able to ask follow-up questions was sometimes useful. You can be more vague and slowly zero in on what you’re actually asking about.
So, I don’t rely on it for anything important but it’s handy for a number of edge cases (sometimes, if only to figure out what you need to do a regular search for).
Lots of western companies are. Not everything is subject to sanctions — the U.S. government still buys uranium from Russia and there’s cooperation on space launches — but even the companies that tried to divest for moral reasons found it challenging, to say the least. The ones who tried often had their assets essentially stolen or sold for pennies on the dollar to a Putin loyalist oligarch.
I’m not sure what Apple is doing there besides having the App Store. They did stop all exports so any new Apple products there are smuggled and probably way more expensive. On balance, I think it’s better keeping the App Store and software updates available to Russians. Some dissidents and journalists use Apple products too and you don’t want their devices left insecure.
Because she was getting death threats? They might have been credible and specific for all we know.
Why? I know why far-right Republican bozos want it — all the bribes (or “donations”) from the crypto and oil industries. But how would anyone else benefit from this? We don’t pay our taxes in random things that have a perceived value, whether it’s Mexican Pesos, airline miles, gold doubloons, futures contracts, corn, land, etc. for a reason. Individuals sell those assets (and often pay capital gains taxes on the sale) to get dollars, the national currency that has a known value and doesn’t need to be sold.
Then, the U.S. government would have to sell them all anyway and the price fluctuations make that very risky. Why put that risk on the government? And only for Bitcoin, which is by design1 super volatile. It doesn’t even have a central bank. The U.S. government collecting and selling loads of BTC every April would probably make it even more volatile and speculative.
1 Probably unintentionally since Bitcoin fanboys all seem to have found their Economics knowledge in a Cracker Jack box instead of a textbook.
chown
changes the file owner. chmod
changes permissions. So, if a file or directory is owned by root but a user should have access, you could make them the owner or you could keep root the owner and just allow read/write access.
They come up more on servers where you often have multiple users with different access levels. Some users might not have sudo
permission but do have full control over their home directory and whatever else they need. And web servers, for instance, will usually have a user called www-data
or similar and it’s shared by all the users in the “developer” group.
chmod
is the command to change user permissions. The numbers mean user, group, and others and the value allows read, write, execute. So, 000 means no one has permissions to get rid of the mount point. 777 means everyone has all permissions. (4 is read, 2 is write, and 1 is execute and the numbers are added. So, 644 would mean you can read/write, the group and other users have read only access.)
You don’t have to use the numbers but eventually, almost every Linux admin does because it’s faster, a bit like a keyboard shortcut. But, for instance, you can add Execute permission with chmod +x /some/file/location
.
Here’s more details on the how to chmod and the historic reasons for the 0-7 system (spoiler: it’s 8 bits): https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/linux-file-permissions-explained
Your move, Monaco.
The most sociopathic thing about all these careerist sociopaths is that they’re doing time for Donald fucking Trump. I’d be willing to do a little time for Civil Rights, labor unions, protesting war(s), etc. But I’ll be damned if I go to jail for a corrupt politician. And I’ll especially be damned if I get locked up for Donald Trump, the famous racist sex pervert who is allowed to do crimes for some reason.
My favorite drink is usually a crisp white wine like Pinot Grigio but I’ll order a Sazerac or Old Fashioned (or a specialty cocktail) at nice places. At a dive bar or music venue or whatever, I typically stick to gin and tonic or vodka soda, the main reasons being just that they’re simple for a busy bartender to make and also don’t make me as miserable the next day.
In 2003, The Onion had an “article” with no text that was just the headline “Taste Acquired” and a picture of empty beer cans.
I suspect the main upside will be that you can argue shitty regulations aren’t valid. Like if Trump decides to allow the dumping of poison in the waterhole, it’s very clear that the the EPA is allowed to act when somebody poisons the waterhole.
Or maybe it’s just a Calvinball ruling where they decided the Supreme Court is the only branch that doesn’t have checks and balances. It is a mystery.
At least it didn’t break in the middle of fighting a Lynel.
The funniest thing they could do now is make a really shitty Wario game using only generative A.I.
How the fuck is it even possible to sell a vehicle that sucks more than US car companies already proudly advertise here? They’re already like, “This truck gets 4 miles to the gallon and has a grill specially designed to plow through a bus stop. Also, you can’t fit an adult bike in the back. MSRP is $75,000.”
The Atlantic isn’t left wing. Its editor was a fucking Israeli prison guard despite being born in NYC.
The future of humanity rests on everyone, regardless of nationality, being able to ask Midjourney to generate an image of an Ewok with big naturals.
Molto bene.
Can his 78 year-old diapered ass even throw a football with a teenager? He’s basically as bad off as Biden in my expert* opinion.
- I’ve met over five old people.
print “Fine. Fuck y’all.”
<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.