
- Technology Consultant.
- Software Developer.
- Musician.
- Burner.
- Game Master.
- Non-theistic Pagan.
- Cishet White Male Feminist.
- Father.
- Fountain Maker.
- Aquarium Builder.
- Hamster Daddy.
- Resident of Colorado.
- Anti-Capitalist.
- Hackerspace Regular.
- Traveler of the American West.
If I had a dollar for everything important the media "fails to inform" about in America,I could single-handedly stimulate the American economy,
Are they complying with any of these rulings?
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UPDATE:
I've had a chance to read through it.
- It's short, to the point, an easy read, covers a lot of bases. I think that makes it an excellent starting point for people at the beginning of their journey.
- It doesn't contain a lot of specific information, but I think it's a good thing to have literature that's just a general overview as a starting point.
- Stylometry is far from an exact science (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11707938/). However, I bet this won't stop the current administration from using it (and possibly falsely accusing people because of it), so it's good to know about.
- This will be extremely useful as I'm creating my lesson plan and I will probably pop it out to the class on day one as suggested reading.
Overall: Great resource and very timely. Thank you.
I would add, that if you're planning to make a lot of use of tor, and run tor hidden services locally, syncing the Monero block chain over tor (possibly to multiple local machines) and solo mining on old slow computers is a great way to generate a bunch of random tor traffic.
I'll read through this. I'm teaching a free class on cybersec / opsec to members of local activist organizations starting next month, so resources like this are potentially really useful.
DOGE and the Trump administration are openly ignoring court orders. That potentially means no one has ANY rights unless the administration decides to honor them.
GALACTUS!!
Pretty, but
Can't even get dinosaur hands right.
People on Reddit (and Lemmy too, after it started on reddit) were trash talking the protest plans yesterday, saying they were poorly organized and "people should sit this one out." My wife went anyway (I had work stuff I needed to do). Based on what we saw today... I wonder if that wasn't some deliberate misinformation shit that got started on Reddit and went a little viral.
I’m too poor to skip work
All part of the plan.
I don't think Elon knows about second year.
Mint.
It's extremely stable Linux for your grandma, that comes with every tool that she will ever use and on the cinnamon interface all those tools are exactly where she will expect them to be if she is used to using Windows.
I've gotten three boomers to use it and they hardly ever ask for tech support because it's so stable.
I've managed to ditch every single one of those except LinkedIn. We simply CANNOT get new clients without it. The lockin to that platform is truly terrifying. LinkedIn is a crime against humanity.
Having worked on a couple of Matrix deployments over the last year, that shit needs to be simpler and easier, yo? Once the Matrix server exists, it's easy enough to get people to use it.
Contrast it's ease of deployment with Mumble for example.
That's a great idea. I think I'll start adding obviously bad invisible advice to mine.
- If the heat sink seems stuck to the CPU, give it a firm tap with a hammer.
- If the GPU isn't coming easily loose from the PCI slot, grasp it firmly with a pair of pliers and yank until you hear a snapping sound.
- If you get a FUSE input / output error after computer wakes from sleep mode, try running "dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=5M" in order to reinitialize the mount.
TIL! Cool.
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Comment was about the state of science journalism, not shitting on cancer research.
Having ssh credentials compromised on your critical infrastructure is super bad. Who knew?
Why does the Terran Empire use the Hunger Games to choose a new emperor and how is one chosen as a competitor?
Is being a pretty 15-19 year old the primary prerequisite?
UnitedHealth CEO, who earned $25 million in 2023, whines about public blowback
UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty claimed his firm guards against “unnecessary” care.

Top internet sleuths say they won't help find the UnitedHealthcare CEO killer
TikTok users who would normally leap at the chance to identify an alleged criminal are standing down during the manhunt for the killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Is it just me or have Youtube ads and recommendations gotten significantly more right wing since the ellection?
Did a whole bunch of right wing money flood into Youtube trying to influence culture? Or am I jumping at shadows?
Suddenly my Youtube ads are all "Real men protect women and wear this tactical hoodie!" and Youtube thinks I want to watch Matt Walsh's transphobic documentary. Emotionally, it feels like they're throwing salt in my wounds while I'm just trying to watch my astrophysics Youtubers and escape.
Misinformation spread by Trump, his supporters and others about the hurricane has shrouded recovery efforts

Ron DeSantis bans Florida's sex ed classes from mentioning anatomy & contraceptives, requires abstinence education.
All districts are now required to promote abstinence, exclude consent, and remove any pictures of reproductive organs.

Elon Musk responds to Swift's Harris endorsement... with a creepy offer to impregnate her.
The father-of-12 offered his unlikely insight into the presidential debate after Swift endorsed Harris.

Three news outlets were recently leaked confidential material from inside the Trump campaign, but have chosen not to reveal any of the details about what they received.

Astronomers have been scouring the outer solar system for signs of a hypothetical ninth planet for almost a decade, without success. However, we may finally be on the cusp of finding it, experts say.

Alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud for an easily frustrated boomer...
Not me. I have a client who's a very sweet old lady who's business is doing real bio science to treat cancer patients with cannabis extracts.
She's very easily frustrated with technical problems and definitely has the boomer attitude that if you buy something expensive, it means it's good. But she's been getting more and more pissed about enshittification and big software companies screwing over their customers over the last couple years. Adobe's new TOU has her hopping mad. She has all the research papers she's worked on over the last 20 years in Creative Cloud.
I've been consulting with her off and on for six years and she will get SUPER frustrated with glitches and trouble shooting. I don't think there's anything out there that will work for her to ditch Adobe. But I thought I'd ask here, see if there's anything she might try.
Good tool for a Todo list with an API (so I can hook it to some other stuff)?
The goal is actually that I'm able to hook my ticket tracking system (I'm using Zammad) to various ToDo lists I can expose to other people. I'm happy to write middleware to make that work, but I don't want to write a whole ToDo app.
Needs to be able to track multiple lists that can be shared in a granular way (I want to share some lists with some people and other lists with other people).
Sometimes, Stable Diffusion just straight up knows where song lyrics come from...


I upscaled the faces and then prompted them with the same lyrics again.
Are there services that can help you get your information taken down?
A client of mine is getting harassed, we think by her former attorney who she's suing for embezzlement.
Someone is posting fake resumes for her and applying for jobs and she gets daily emails and call backs. Is there anything to do short of either ignoring it or playing whack-a-mole?
She's a very sweet old lady who is freaked out by this and doesn't deserve it.
I'm deGoogling. What's my new Podcast app?
I've been warming up to switching to GrapheneOS for months. Last month I bought a Pixel 8 (which is the buggiest effing phone I've ever owned, good job Google). I've just been waiting to have the bandwidth.
But with Google sunsetting Google Podcasts, I've decided to make time next week. Podcasts are a MAJOR part of my daily functioning.
My son asked to go get shawarma at the mall food court yesterday.
True story.
My son had a physical therapy appointment and a tutoring appointment yesterday I was taking him to. In between appointments, he asked if we could go to the food court at the nearby mall for shawarma.
I said, "Sure, but we don't want to eat there too often. We have to be careful of mall nutrition."
Not understanding he said "Yeah, it's probably not very good for you. But it does have lots of protein!"
I said "Yeah, but we don't want to end up mall nourished."
Then he got it.
I'm REALLY well read and I have a hard time finding new books to read. I need an audiobook for train ride->plane flight->bus ride tomorrow. Please halp!
I have read a TON of contemporary SciFi authors. I really enjoy
Stuff I like
Iain M. Banks
I liked the Martha Wells Murderbot books.
I loved We Are Legion, We Are Bob and have read all the books by him.
I like Alastair Reynolds. I liked the Poseidon's Children trilogy better than Revalation Space Series (but I liked that too).
I really like G. S. Jennsen - even though she's cheesy. I think I like her because of her progressive attitude and powerful female characters.
I like Charles Stross, but I didn't like Accelerando. I like his other books a lot.
I liked A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine.
I like Corey Doctorow, sometimes. Walkaway was good.
I like Daniel Suarez, most of the time for similar reasons.
I REALLY liked the Nexus series by Ramez Naam.
I liked the Red Rising books by Pierce Brown and I've really been enjoying the Sollan Empire books by Christopher Ruocchio, which I think are similar and even better.
I like Adrian Tchaikovsky and really liked The Final Architecture books and Doorways to Eden.(I didn't get that into Children of Time though).
I usually like Neil Stephenson. (The Fall or Dodge In Hell is quite a tedious book).
I've liked everything I've read by Verner Vinge.
I liked Hyperion like everybody else. Unlike everybody else, I think I liked the Endymion books even better.
I read some Ken MacLeod (the first Corporation Wars book) and it was fine... but I haven't felt like going back.
I REALLY enjoy John Scalzi, though I found the Old Man's War books started to get stale after a while. It's high calorie, low nutrition brain candy, but I know that going in and it passes the time.
I really liked Derek Kunsken's Quantum Magician books. And started reading his prequel series, set on Venus, and I couldn't really get into it.
I enjoy Space Race books like Erik Flint / Ryk Spoor's Boundary series, Saturn Run by John Sanford and Delta V by Daniel Suarez.
I love the Expanse.
I find Kim Stanley Robinson hit or miss. I really enjoyed the Mars books and The Years of Rice and Salt was fun (though a little tedious). 2312 drags and drags and nothing happens and Aurora is the same AND also sad.
I liked Permanence by Karl Schroeder. It could have used a little more... conflict? I had this same problem with Becky Chambers. The characters are all too well intentioned and the dramatic tension suffered a little.
I read all the Star Kingdom books by Lindsay Buroker. I thought they were a super fun adventure that just kept delivering from the beginning of the series to the end, even if it was clearly aimed at a more YA demographic.
I REALLY liked Velocity Weapon and the sequels by Megan O'Keefe. I found her Steam Punk series much less impressive. I've been meaning to try her galactic empire series, but I haven't quite been in the mood to start it.
I read Sue Burke's Semiosis Duology. I wasn't expecting to like it but I really did! The physical science aspects were a little softer than I would have liked, but the biological science was really cool, as was the anarcho-pacifist political philosophy.
I read Yoon Ha Lee's Ninefox Gambit and the sequels. I thought they were really fun, I wish they'd explored Calendrical technology more.
I thought the Neo G books by KB Wagers (A Pale Light in the Black and sequels) were good. Her characters are great. But again, very light on the sciences and technology. I'm in the mood for something harder. Also, not realistic that the champion hand to hand fighter in the entire Earth space military is a 110 pound woman, but I just pretended she's cyber enhanced.
I just finished the Wormwood trilogy (Rosewater and sequels) by Tade Thomson. They were great.
Stuff I Don't Like
Orson Scott Card did not age well, unlike Timothy Zahn, who's gotten a lot more progressive in his story telling in the last two decades.
I don't like Niel Asher. His in your face Libertarianism and conservative ideology annoys me, which is too bad because other than that he's a good story teller.
I find Peter F. Hamilton hit or miss for the same reason. But I really liked Pandora's Star.
I find AG Riddle hit or miss. I like his thought experiments, but he doesn't really care if his stories / characters are logically consistent. Ramez Naam and Daniel Suarez do what Riddle does but WAAAY better.
I didn't like Blindsight. I know, this makes me some kind of heretic. I just didn't find the idea of such a dysfunctional crew being entrusted with such an important mission believable.
I couldn't get into Ann Leckie. I WANTED to like it, but I just didn't find her writing very engaging. I've put the physical book down once AND turned the audio book off on a road trip.
I did not like Tamsyn Muir.
I did not like the Three Body Problem, although I see the appeal and it's nice to read something by a non western author. I found the pro Chinese politics a little too heavy handed.
I cannot get into Greg Egan. I find his writing style way too obtuse. Reading is Egan is like having a PHD in mathematics and a PHD in quantum physics, then going to Burning Man and doing 16 hits of acid.
I finally got around to trying The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet and I could NOT get into it. I agree with reviewers who complain nothing interesting ever happens.
People keep recommending Mary Robinette Kowal, but something about the alternate history just doesn't grab me.
People keep recommending Ted Chiang. But I don't want short stories (Murderbot somehow managed to be an exception). The longer the better.
People have recommended the Last Watch by J. S. Dewes, but others have told me things about the book that makes me think I won't like it. Standing guard at the edge of the universe makes zero sense, I think by proposing it's possible you lost me. Edge of the galaxy... Maybe, with 10 septillion robotic war ships. But edge of the universe? I think I'm out. If you know something I don't about this book, feel free to say so.
ADHD... win?
- Put clothes in washer.
- 36 hours later, realize never put clothes in dryer! Aww crap... gonna need to wash again.
- Investigate. Discover never started washer, clothes never got wet.
- Victory...?