I think I did misunderstand then, sorry. At least I’ve hopefully made my position clear.

I don’t accept the premise that he is progressive in any meaningful way but you’re entitled to your opinion.

What other choice will there be in the next election? I don’t know, it’s too early to say. Maybe there won’t be another choice, but I think there will be plenty of interesting choices, which one is ideal is again much too early to call and you’re right we probably won’t achieve the ideal.

All I’m trying to say is, don’t trust him, and whatever ends up happening, whether he’s elected or not, don’t stop there. Job not done. He’s not going to fix this, he’s not a solution. More work needs to be done, so much more, by all of us. People need to learn civic responsibility again and start to participate in the democratic process beyond just showing up to vote. That means education, starting by educating ourselves first, which isn’t easy and it is being made harder every day. Then we can start to make progress towards unifying people, finding common ground, finding the things we can at least all agree on even if we don’t agree with the best way to do them, and starting to undo the merciless division that has been done to us. That also means outreach, that means activism, that means organizing, that means finding ways to change the system. Not all of them will be pretty. It might mean civil disobedience. It might mean violence. It might mean civil war. I don’t have a crystal ball to see what the future holds, all I know is that everyone who cares about the future of democracy in any way, shape, form or place, needs to start adjusting to the now hopefully clearly evident reality; it is not a given, we need to fight for it, and fight with everything we have, because there is clearly a lot stacked against us. But it does not mean we cannot win. In fact we must win, eventually. There is no other choice.

Oh, he’ll be moderate, you think? Good luck with that. You think they pulled him out of a time machine from the 70s? They didn’t. He’s a product of the current political situation, he’s PART of the current political situation, he’s in the same orbits as all these people and he’s got the same people orbiting around him. If you think he’s going to move things back to the center I don’t think you understand how broken things really are. They’ve been broken for a long time, and they’re not broken in a repairable way. He’s not your champion, he’s not going to save you. You think voting for him represents “trying” to fix the problems but you’re just being led astray by organizations and powers that don’t give a fuck about any of us and are not motivated by anything we care about.

Newsom is an opportunistic snake and will say whatever he needs to to get elected and then do absolutely whatever he wants and none of it will help you. He is not better than Trump, he IS Trump, for a different audience with different motivations.

For one thing, OP misspelled “crypto pump and dump scam” in such a confusing way that it appears to be 5 different words completely.

I think Louis Rossmann’s heart is in the right place, his work for right for repair is genuine, his disdain for New York’s intolerable bureaucracy is completely understandable and justified, but it is leading him in bad directions and has been ever since he linked up with FUTO. Never trust a billionaire and never let them delude you into thinking they care about you or anyone. He is being used for his reputation and his audience and when they are done consuming those things for the billionaire’s cause’s benefit he will be left with neither one and the billionaire will move on without slowing down or shedding a tear.

lol why is this posted in world news?

Yep physical media is for newbies. It has its place, for newbies, but soon enough you should graduate to a level where you don’t need it anymore. The Internet becomes a complete and easy to use library once you know where to find it. Yarr, matey, it simply be data archival an’ don’t let Davy Jones’ lawyers be tellin’ ye otherwise.

I think we have to be very careful who we vote for these days. All candidates and parties are leaning into dishonesty and misdirection even more than usual, as they can see it being so very successful in the recent past, and they will continue to use it and push the boundaries on how much and how blatant manipulations they can get away with. What they say and what they actually do are trending in very divergent directions.

On the other hand, when we start looking for non-establishment candidates who haven’t been vetted and groomed for most of their professional lives, we need to understand that many of them, being actual humans, are going to have been wrong and stupid in the past, as we all are sometimes, and some of those things may be forgivable and some may not. In the age of social media, this is almost guaranteed to happen. The internet always remembers, and oppo research is as easy as shooting fish in a barrel.

One of the things I think we need to remember in this case is that some humans are still genuine creatures of thoughts and feelings and emotions that don’t always immediately lead us to a good place, and that people can and should improve and change and grow throughout their lives as their experiences do. If I was going to be judged on the political ideology I supported when I was an idiotic 15 year old no one would ever take me seriously ever again. But that might be a mistake. Because I like to think that I’ve grown quite a bit since then. I’ve read Plato’s Republic, understood most of it, and agreed with some of it. I consume a lot of information from a wide variety of sources, some of that information is not so good and sometimes it leads me astray. I’ll take responsibility for those mistakes, and I’ll genuinely try to do better. And I think other people should be given at least the opportunity to own their mistakes too. Instead of immediately dismissing somebody that said some bad shit once upon a time, go to the next step and ask them what they think about it now. Then ask them why they changed their mind, which is the much more important part I think.

Granted, some people are just predators and opportunists, and will say whatever they think their current audience wants to hear, including what you want to hear. Distinguishing these types of the people from the people who have genuinely changed is not easy and I don’t have an easy answer for how to do it. I’m wrong most of the time when I try too. I don’t pretend to be a good judge of character.

I’m preaching this point of view in the hopes that other people, who are perhaps better judges of character than I am, can find some way to identify the difference themselves. Because we desperately need to find a way to put some genuine people in leadership roles. Our current system of democracy clearly isn’t doing it. For this moment in history, I think we need a philosopher-king.

Sometimes it is helpful to summarize large unfamiliar codebases relatively quickly, provide a high level overview, quickly understanding the layout and structure and help me locate the particular areas I’m interested in but I don’t really use it to write or modify code directly. It can be good at analyzing logs and datafiles to find problems or patterns or areas that need closer (human) investigation. Even the documentation it produces can sometimes be tolerably decent, at least in comparison to my own which is sometimes intolerably bad or missing completely.

But as far as generating code? I’ve found the autocomplete largely useless and random. As for chat, where I can direct it more carefully, it might be able to accurately provide a well-known algorithm for something but then will use a mess of variables and inputs that interact with that algorithm in the stupidest ways possible, the more code you ask it to generate the worse it gets, getting painfully overengineered in some aspects and horribly lacking in others. If it even compiles and runs at all. Even for relatively simple find this/replace it with this refactoring I find I cannot fully trust it and rely on the results, so I don’t. I’m proficient enough with regex and scripting that I don’t find it any faster to walk a generative AI to the result I want while analyzing the fuzzy logic it uses to get there than it is to just write a perfectly deterministic script to do it instead.

As a general rule, I find it is sometimes better at quickly communicating particular things to my manager or other developers than I am, but I am almost always better and quicker at communicating things to computers than it is. That is, after all, my job. Which I happen to think I’m pretty good at.

As for the environmental aspect, that’s why I don’t use it in my personal life basically at all if I can avoid it. Only at work, and only because they judge my usage of it as part of my performance. I would be just as happy not using it at all for anything. And when I do use it for personal use, which is a point I haven’t really reached except for a bit of experimentation and learning, I am never willingly going to use a datacenter-hosted model/service/subscription, I will run it on my own hardware where I pay the bills so I am at least aware of the consequences and in control of the choices it’s making.

The cruelty is the point.

Individual human lives are no longer considered things of value. Only the ideology and the nation are allowed to have value. Welcome to fascism. Enjoy your stay.

I agree. Trump’s comments about Canada were beyond the pale. They were effectively a declaration of war in my assessment, and even if it is only ever a trade war and an economic war and an information war and a ideological war, and even if it never escalates to territorial seizure or armed conflict (and I’m not convinced those things aren’t in the pipeline) I am treating them like a hostile nation from this point forward until Trump and his allies are not just removed from power, but either punished or meaningful change is implemented to prevent someone like them from taking control of the country again.

I live in one of the safest countries in the world, and I put extreme value on that safety. Threats to our safety from our neighbor are going to be treated with the utmost seriousness, and we will defend ourselves. Elbows up.

I mean don’t we already have this? I thought it was called UFC. Granted they aren’t allowed actual weapons yet, but given that they’re having matches at Trump’s White House I figure it’s only a matter of time.

I disagree with the suggestion that there’s no technique. It’s not just trying to blow the water off your hands, it’s also trying to evaporate it, and both of these things are improved by mechanical action, and can be affected by environmental conditions, so even the super high power dryers sometimes need your help with that. Just like using soap is significantly improved by mechanical action, you have to put the effort in to rub your hands all over each other and get good coverage when you’re doing it because the blowing air is not going to do enough on its own.

Water has a tendency to bead up under surface tension which reduces its surface area to the minimum it can and protects it from evaporation. High surface area is what allows increased heat transfer and evaporation, so you want to maximize it to get dry. Rubbing your hands together continuously and thoroughly pushes the water around, breaks up the beads and the surface tension. Don’t neglect the areas on the back of your hands, sides of your hands, between your fingers, those are all additional surface area that is wet and are places where water can bead up, and that will protect it from evaporation.

Another issue is the human perception of how “dry” feels. Temperature and moisture are inextricably linked in almost every sense but particularly in our sensation of “wet”. Evaporation on wet skin causes a very real cooling effect, which creates the lasting sensation of moisture even when there isn’t any left. Hot air dryers can help combat this but it’s actually quite difficult to avoid completely and it’s possible to get hands dried in cool air that won’t feel dry at all (until they eventually warm up later). On the other hand rubbing your hands together creates friction which does in fact heat your hands, but also creates a sense of dryness even if there is a little moisture remaining. It’s a complicated balance and the point is that our perception of whether our hands are dry isn’t totally reliable to begin with. It’s much different than using a cloth or towel which wicks most of the moisture away without immediately evaporating it and doesn’t create the same cooling effect on your skin.

Not rubbing your hands at all will take a silly amount of time for your hands to feel dry even under hot airflow, because it is just a slow process and because of the issues mentioned previously. But also keep in mind if you’re just rubbing the palms of your hands and flats of your fingers together that’s only like maybe 25% of your hands total surface area and you’re not even allowing the airflow to get in there, the combination of the two the evaporation of water will be similarly underwhelming. You have to really put some pressure down to flatten out all those little wrinkles of skin and you have to get a good rotation going with some wrap-around and between the fingers to get all the skin on your hands involved while also still exposing all the surfaces to the airflow at some point. As you forcefully spread the water into a thin film with high surface area more of it can evaporate quickly into the airflow before it can bead back up, as long as you keep doing this continuously you’ll keep exposing new spots of skin with super thin films of water left on them and it will evaporate much faster and after 10-30 seconds should give you almost completely dry feeling hands (that are probably actually dry). Give it a try. See how it works.

Don’t fall for it. I understand how appealing any lifeline in a storm can look.

But a billionaire is never on your side no matter how friendly they act. If they cared about your welfare AT ALL they would already be paying taxes, donating massively to real well-established charities they don’t run themselves, or just not squeezing money out of people and hoarding wealth in the first place. You don’t become a billionaire accidentally and without intention. His words are admittedly nice. He had me almost convinced for awhile. But you have to judge people by their actions, not their words. And having billions of dollars and giving nothing back is an anti-social action. I think he will turn on you the moment he gets what he wants. He might be mildly kinder and gentler about it, he might give you a few token breads and circuses to pacify you better, but only because he understands how to manipulate you better. He knows what he’s doing. He’s going to perpetuate the status quo, continue to hoard wealth, and will not solve any of our systemic problems. He doesn’t give a fuck about any of us.

Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I’m too cynical. Likely it’s better than any realistic alternative. But I’ve also seen it happen over and over again. You think they’re your fucking champion until they get your vote, then poof, they turn into someone else entirely as they find all kinds of interesting and exciting ways to get richer. The corruption goes way, way too deep in these rich bastards. You will never find one who hasn’t been corrupted by money. It is an addiction and it affects their minds, I’m sure of it.

It absolutely is possible to detect and that’s not an urban legend. While it’s theoretically possible to build a totally passive signal receiver, it’s not realistically how any kind of contemporary receiver will actually work. It will broadcast signals that are detectable and with the right knowledge and intuition about how that signal is getting produced can quite conclusively indicate all sorts of things you’d think would be totally private. CRT TVs in particular are well-known for absolutely blasting out electronic signals of all kinds as they seek, process, and display the image. There are many ways to detect not only that they simply exist and are turned on, but also what station they are tuned to and potentially even what’s on the screen without even being tuned to any over-the-air station.

It is even possible to detect what a car radio is tuned to, and it is in fact so possible there are even billboards and advertising companies that actually do this, roadside. For advertising, naturally. This is not new technology either. It has been known about for a long time.

We assume all these things are secure and not getting spied on because they ought to be, in an ideal world, but the reality is far from ideal and security through wishful thinking and obscurity is not security at all. The same kind of wishful thinking and obscurity on the other hand is an absolute playground for people want to detect and spy on things. Obscure tricks like this are widespread and it’s impossible to hide from what you don’t know about. Real security is hard work with diminishing returns, and perfect security is almost certainly unattainable.

And unless you think this kind of obscure observational trickery is limited to spying on us poor ignorant peasants, there was a report just recently that found a significant chunk of space-to-earth communication (including some military communications) is basically plaintext and being broadcast to everyone and anyone who knows where to look. Oops.

You can’t stop the signal, Mal. (Unless you build a Faraday cage, at least)

Replace CEOs with AI. They will be just as crazy and incompetent, but we can pay them a lot less.

Check your communities, and what instances they’re on. Not all are created equal. lemmy.ml tends to be pretty wacko unless you’re of their particular ideological alignment, lemmy.world is very very large and thus has a very very large number of obnoxious shitheads compared to other instances. On the other hand, beehaw.org is intentionally and pathologically positive. I also find lemmy.ca quite friendly, though I might be biased.

In case anyone is misunderstanding, they explicitly say this is not a new phone or piece of hardware at all, it is simply a project (and for now, more of an investigation than a project creating actual deliverables) into the scale and scope of closed source binary blobs being used on phones, so they can start work to address them.

It’s an important and necessary project, and I support the FSF in most of the things they do, but if you’re picturing them riding heroically to the rescue by Christmas with a new phone-of-freedom they’re going to sell to you, it’s a very very VERY long way from that.

Librewolf. You’re welcome.