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[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 week ago (7 children)

cell phone providers can, they just won’t (would eat into their profits)

and most of the home internet sold as “unlimited” was a scam – if you started to get too close to some hidden value, they would start throttling your connection

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

“Itty Bitty Baby Hands and the Skipping Dipshit”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

the cherry on top: regardless of who’s at fault, the cyclist gets blamed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

need to educate drivers

this is one of the big ones that shows up in our car-centric worldview – just sticking to motorized vehicles: truck drivers are expected to know truck rules, car rules, and motorcycle rules – motorcyclists are expected to know motorcycling rules, car rules, and truck rules – car drivers are expected to know car rules and that’s it

when the majority of our population doesn’t know about (and subsequently doesn’t care about) anything else sharing the road with them … car drivers that are just as aggressive towards motorcyclists as they are towards bicyclists, car drivers are completely oblivious to stopping distances and momentum of big rigs …

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

after a 14 hour plane ride, the existential threat of transporters seems a lot less important …

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

even if you’re in a “legal region” you still have to use a third-party website or app to find out which service has that episode of that season of that show because no service can be bothered to carry a complete show

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

considering how much Finland loves rally racing …

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Australia’s Carbon Capture and Storage is a straight up scam

 

Media coverage largely sucked

When I just looked at my phone, the headlines were about an unfolding Microsoft global IT outage. My first thought, ransomware. So I logged in and started looking around at what was happening — I’m a CrowdStrike customer — and quickly realised two different, separate things had happened:

  • Microsoft Azure had an outage earlier in the day. This was resolved before I got up. Azure has frequent outages (don’t kill me, Microsoft) — this isn’t abnormal.
  • CrowdStrike had made a boo-boo and pushed out a channel update that had borked a decent percentage of customers.

The media connected these two events together and conflated them. They weren’t connected.

 

“One thing Myspace had going for it: it was exuberantly ugly. The decision to let users with no design training loose on a highly customizable user-interface led to a proliferation of Myspace pages that vibrated with personality.”

“The most febrile, deeply weird and authentic prompts of the most excluded outsiders produce images that feel the same as the corporate AI illustrations that project the illusion of personality from the immortal, transhuman colony organism that is the limited liability corporation.”

 

https://todon.eu/@CrimethInc/112782702007709408

The Trump campaign aims to use today's shooting as a sort of Reichstag fire to incite his supporters to step up street violence while calling for more state repression targeting his enemies of choice.

The Biden campaign has already paused all outbound communications and withdrawn their television advertisements, ceding the entire field of narrative to Donald Trump, who will have no compunction about using his status as a victim to advance his efforts to victimize others.

One of the classic mechanics of totalitarianism is that protecting the safety of the leader becomes a justification for violence against large swathes of the population.

As centrists join the far right in paving the way for totalitarian rule under Trump, we have to organize to defend our communities. If you have been in denial about the challenges ahead of us, this should be a wake-up call to find each other and prepare for them.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17078489

The Government™ has made an ad about the existential threat that AI poses to humanity, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative

 
 
  • Mekanisk Klippe case in Ultramarine
  • cinereus he PCB with assembly by JLC
  • FR4 plate in JLC Blue (missing Ultramarine’s hint of green)
  • Gateron Melodic switches
  • MTNU Susu keycaps
  • running Vial firmware
  • a BIG thanks to Noah Kiser’s PCB design videos and JLC’s PCB fab and assembly services
 

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