kbal

joined 2 years ago
[–] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 44 minutes ago

You say "smart move that helps manage risk while having no real impact on anything", I say "foolishly craven gesture that demonstrates incompetent leadership while having no real impact on anything."

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 18 hours ago

Only if you're at war with neurotic foodies and your country is party to Protocol XVIIIc of the Geneva Conventions regarding taste-based psychological warfare.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

What does "?wprov=sfti1#" mean?

(Oh, it wasn't hard to find out. According to hacker news it's not giving away your wikipedia account id or anything, just the fact that you're an iOS user.)

[–] kbal@fedia.io 35 points 22 hours ago

On my fediverse accounts:

  • I don't have autoplaying media (and I do have noscript)
  • I don't have infinite scroll (although it's an option)
  • There is no "for you" feed based on tracking my behaviour
  • I view things sorted chronologically
  • I usually see only things posted or boosted by people (or groups) I chose to follow
  • I don't get notifications when someone "likes" things or whatever

And yet somehow it is addictive enough, whereas Facebook and Reddit made me angry enough to quit them forever.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 24 points 22 hours ago

Oh, Toyota will not survive. For a moment there I thought he was acknowledging the existential risk to global civilisation caused in part by his company's products.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The bank helped by being a bank and doing normal bank things.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tier list:

  • having good principles
  • being a regretful fuckup who didn't live up to good principles
  • having no principles
  • having bad principles
  • being a regretful fuckup who didn't live up to bad principles
[–] kbal@fedia.io 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Artificial intelligence may have it's weaknesses, but you've got to admit it does have some kind of strange power to drain all the human intelligence out of the minds of business and political leaders.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 0 points 1 day ago

I don't give a damn how fast you drive, if you're burning fossil fuels while you do it then you're doing it wrong.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From what I saw of it none of the many failings of Academy were the fault of the actors, and the best thing I can say about the show is that it was good to see Robert Picardo again.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago

Putin trying to imitate Trump? That's a bit of a role reversal.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

On those occasions where just letting Librewolf generate a random-looking one isn't good enough and I need to actually remember a password, I get them by picking some random words from /usr/share/dict/british-english-insane and putting them together with small but memorable changes that would be difficult to guess.

Every time I do it, it feels like the best password I ever came up with.

 

It doesn't grab your attention, it doesn't inform you about all the map markers in the area, it just tells you which way is north. I'm actually having to look around in order to see things. It's pretty great.

 

I'm so old I remember when people would read the newspaper.

Like, read every sentence in every story of each day's newspaper, trusting the editor not to print anything that would be too much of a waste of time.

 

AMD is spending record money on lobbying after decades of absence or near-absence from any form of political contribution and, in our opinions, is now joining the ranks of companies like Micron, NVIDIA, and Palantir in effectively bribing the US government for favorable deregulation, tax incentives, and safety bypasses for AI and data centers. We dig into AMD's millions of spending on Super PACs associated with President Trump, lobbyists, and in general, what we view as anti-consumer and anti-humanity efforts as AMD partners closely with the Federal Government to reduce safety nets around construction and development. Like NVIDIA and Micron, AMD is taking the same path of directly engaging in what we think are, effectively, bribes, while still maintaining an image of being the plucky underdog.

 

"We are not looking for sneaky ways to surveil Canadians" says minister, as he introduces a bill that allows him to demand that any web service they choose to victimize must assist them in the surveillance of Canadians and that they can't tell anyone about it.

https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/bill/C-22/first-reading#ID0EMBA

 

Prime Minister Mark Carney backed U.S. air strikes on Iran, saying Tehran is the main source of instability in the Middle East and must never be allowed to possess nuclear weapons.

“Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security,” the Prime Minister said in a joint statement with Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand Saturday from Canada’s trade mission to India.

 

I'm a skooma dealer for now, but it's just to make ends meet until I can become a bard.

 

The main reason not to drive in the snow is the way other people drive in the snow.

 

In terms of popular baby names, how long before "Rudolph" makes a comeback?

 
 

estimated audit backlog: 67560 lines

I started learning rust. Worried about trusting all the various code that gets pulled in from the interwebs to compile the first example project in the book (which depends only on "rand" to get random numbers, which requires 8 different libraries), I installed "cargo vet" so that I'd at least know about it if I accidentally added things that haven't been vetted by anyone at all.

Doing this installed a further 200 crates, with no indication as to whether they have themselves been vetted by anyone or not, and tells me that half the ones I already had just from adding "rand" have not been vetted by anyone.

Anyway, I'm learning rust.

 
 

The larger board of Squardle 34 means that difficult situations come up more often, so it's probably best to start with the original 5x5 version if you're not yet good at that. But if you are good at that, I find the new one has much the same feel to it. At my speed the 34-square board takes too long for me to want to do it every day, but it's fun.

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