VegaLyrae

Since you’re talking specifically about the presidential election, I actually am helping my candidate, since if I and others can get 1% of the popular vote for someone, then they can get easier access to ballots, debates, and federal funding next time.

Sometimes I have to write someone in, but it still counts as a vote!

You guys were voting based on “lesser of two evils” and not based on who you actually like?

I’ve always just voted for the guy I like best. I never felt that voting tactically was truthful.

If everyone was like me we’d have a nicer political climate, I think.

I’ll keep doing that so you can feel free to join me in doing that until we reach the critical mass point.

Very true, there’s no standards beyond each tech’s personal ethics.

Former tech at an indie shop (in the USA):

I didn’t want to dig into people’s personal shit, especially not their niche porn collections.

Browsing history was one thing we actually would look at in order to determine infection vector (when doing virus removal). We would usually counsel the customer on how to avoid it in the future. Obviously didn’t do that on non-virus issues because that would be wrong and a total waste of my limited time.

The only time we would look at any images, erotic or not, is if they looked suspicious on a scan or by filename.

Because of prior incidents, we also would check files that might be CSAM and report those to the cops. Usually a thumbnail in a scanner/explorer/etc program would bring that suspicion.

I personally wouldn’t want any files from a customer PC, and the only USB I’d be using is the shop one with all the antivirus on it.

Phone-as-EPIRB is truly one of the biggest benefits.

I would suggest only having instantaneous location history or very short like 10min to avoid the temptation to pry.

Just softening them up for 2027

Everyone does it eventually

Only superpower left who hasn’t tried to invade them at some point in time.

Oh and I forgot, a big one, I engage the cats if they show interest in my task.

When cooking they can smell safe things, if I’m working on tech i have a very large screw and bolt for them to play with/try out instead of my small ones.

Cats are social and want to be included, if you give them the option to do “parallel play” I think it will improve what people see as problem behaviors that are really just begging to be included.

Fetch: grab the toy if they play with it and it ends up close by, use verbal reinforcement

Names: the cats recognize everyone’s name in the hous thanks to reinforcement learning

Locations: the cats know where I’m going and can beat me there because I tell them where I’m going, sounds like reinforcement learning again?

Activities: set phrases like “let’s go”, “come on”, “let’s get some food”, “jump up”, etc, all by reinforcement training.

Paw-touching: slowly touch more and more often, for longer, until nail clipping is a breeze. Hmm… Might be reinforcement training again.

To end bad behaviors, hiss, it’s a built-in “no” for cats.

It sucks and I canceled it and subscribed to it through YouTube which means paramount gets 30% less money.

I am floored no one mentioned the original Ratchet and Clank

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwxLlSv5mvIa1WGSK3wH3o2Y9I4D-rqFi

David Bergeaud did such a standout job with it, it’s so varied but cohesive, it’s engaging and synthy but real and groovy.

It MAKES the environment just as much as graphics.

It seems like we’ve actually grown further from treating it as such.

For the first half of US history the constitution was more often than not tightly interpreted.

I imagine many things we take for granted today would not stand under the same level of constitutional rigor without an enabling amendment.

Honestly I wouldn’t mind going back to a stricter interpretation, but we do need to get back to making amendments.

Not to say that the 2nd amendment, as written, isn’t totally wild.

However I do want to mention that the Continental congress was petitioned by John Belton in 1777 to purchase his 16-shot musket. It also had a not-quite-magazine that could be replaced very quickly. The 16 shots could be fired as quickly as the user could pull the triggers (yes it had multiple).

Given this, it seems likely that the people writing the constitution ten years later had some idea of rapid fire weaponry.

Just 20 years after that, they sent Lewis and Clarke expedition out with a relatively rapid firing airgun.

It is reasonable to say that rapid fire weaponry was contemporaneous to the constitution writing era.

Looks like a covered utility trench, ironically with the cover off.

So a trench.

Eggs are expensive and I’ve never seen anyone wear a kimono to high school.

A cowboy kimono sounds kinda interesting Mashup tho.

Yes this soy sauce stuff is really neat

I explicitly support this and encourage the cultural exchange.

If someone wants to come to America and wear a cool cowboy hat and shoot a wheel gun, please, enjoy. Have fun. Welcome.

Thankfully RHEL/Centos/Fedora also get attention thanks to the large corporate influence.

Anything else can just be compiled from scratch, after spending 6 hours trying to figure out what ajfiwn-0-libs-dev is in redhat land, only to find out it was libfiwn-devel all along.