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IcePee

@ IcePee @lemmy.beru.co

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  • Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers

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  • Not gonna lie, this is kinda a refutation of the whole open source model. I was led to believe that it shouldn't matter who writes the code, as long the code is able to be interrogated/corrected.

  • Trump says if he takes office, he'll fire special counsel Jack Smith 'within 2 seconds'

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  • Let me paint a picture that, I think is plausible within the law. Trump directly orders an assassination. With it comes a carrot (a general immunity for the killing). And the stick (a court marshall for disobeying a direct order from your superior, plus your name on a hit list). Then, he just has to go down the line with the same offer until someone bites. Once that happens, he will order them to go down the hit list with the same offer. Hell, he could deputise a militia to do the dirty. Not saying he would, I'm just pointing out the outer bounds of what is perfectly legal. And if the Republicans have a clean sweep nothing can or will stop him. Even without a clean sweep, he could threaten the life of any politician.

  • Trump says if he takes office, he'll fire special counsel Jack Smith 'within 2 seconds'

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  • Yep, a root and branch routing of anyone who won't pledge their allegiance to Trump above all else.

  • Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media

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  • If this is any guide, maybe there should also be an upper age limit, too.

  • Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media

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  • Well the devil is in the detail. However, what appears is being mooted is it will only affect big social media corporations. A Lemmy instance is hardly big business. Not that I'm discounting creeping regulation moving into the fediverse.

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  • "Again"? While Hilary won the popular vote, Trump won the college. Or are you referring to electoral interference by other state actors? While I don't deny that it happened, I'm not convinced that had a material impact over, say Hillary's unlikability with the electorate, coupled with her dreadful campaign messages, and pissing off likely voters with her high jinx during the primary. Also, she was a target rich environment for oppo research. The whole having a private and public position had real cut through.

  • The Group Translating Project 2025 Into Spanish to Warn Old Latinos About Trump

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  • Maybe, but it's like the Brexit referendum. During the run up to the vote, the rightwing government at the time swore that it wasn't binding, instead it was advisory. But, when the opportunity to vote again when it actually became clear what the Brexit deal meant, it was dismissed. We had our vote. Even though there was no way of knowing that people actually voted for the form Brexit they actually got. Instead those that advocate for a final binding vote was castigated for being anti Democratic with vested interests and hidden agendas.

    If they can do that to Brexit skeptics with all the uncertainty and doubt surrounding that decision, imagine what they can do surrounding a much more cut and dried prospect of Project 2025.

    I should imagine the line will be: "you, yourself advertised what Project 2025 will be. You said if you vote us in, we'll implement it. Now we're in, we see that as a democratic mandate to implement it".

  • The Group Translating Project 2025 Into Spanish to Warn Old Latinos About Trump

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  • Slightly off topic, but I worry that this election has, amongst other things has turned into a referendum on Project 2025. So, the Democratic Party won't have a leg to stand on when it gets implemented in full. They can't really argue that the electorate was ignorant.

  • Ted Cruz really could lose

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  • I remember similar being said about Beto O'Rourke. In the end he floundered on the rocks of Cruz's candacy.

  • Inside the TikTok documents: Stripping teens and boosting ‘attractive’ people

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  • I was told that it was convention to use the highest government title that a person received once they leave government. Personally, I don't think that explanation holds much water. We don't really hear, for example of President Obama any more. Nor do we hear Secretary of State Clinton. On a practical matter, it can cause confusion so outside propaganda, I don't see much utility in it.

  • Republicans threaten to punish colleges that allow pro-Palestinian protests

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  • Translation: Republicans don't want protests contained to one place. Or, they believe out of sight, out of mind. You can't legislate moral positions.

  • What is S3 storage?

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  • It's a storage agnostic protocol for sending, receiving and enumerating to/from cloud storage. Think off it like email. Email service providers allow for a number of ways to access your email, be it pop3, IMAP or web. The underlying technology is abstracted away. In the same way cloud storage allows for web, s3 and/or WebDAV. Amongst others. And likewise the back end is abstracted away. The s3 client you use doesn't need to know how the data is actually stored. And there's some pretty whacky storage back ends.

  • Supreme Court shockingly sides with Jack Smith on a January 6 case

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  • Yeah, specifically when you consider Elon's troubling interference about the use of his Starlink during the Russo-Ukrainian war. Potentially hobbling the Ukrainians to the benefit of the Russians.

  • US Fascism Has Arrived Thanks to 30 Years of Right-Wing Talk Radio Dominance

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  • Whilst the act for which you speak definitely accelerated the bullshit, it wasn't peaches and cream back in the day. Just look at the film Citizen Kane a fictitious (and lawsuit resistant) depiction of William Randolph Hearst. In it an exceptionally wealthy business man uses the media to promote his political aims. And to skew narratives outside of strict politics. A man who craves love and adoration but can't reciprocate. Remind you of anyone? I would say Musk's purchase of Twitter fills at least one of those molds, Trump the rest.

  • Youtube has fully blocked Invidious

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  • I wonder if some kind of mesh might work. Maybe like a secret Santa type deal. By that I mean everyone who connects, gets a randomised, anonymous partner or partners. Everyone in the swarm streams for each other.

  • Trump rushes to fundraise off second assassination bid

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  • Or Gators.

  • The $700 PS5 Pro doesn’t come with a disc drive

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  • I'm not sure. If that is their strategy they're dancing on a razor. I mean, the market is pretty slim. Basically, you can get a pretty sweet gaming PC for the price they're offering. And if you project the amount of games you'll get and estimate the price differential with prices of the same games on a PC you might be able to uprate the specs a few times. I would say that a PS5 with a reasonable amount of games is probably worth a similar amount to a $1k PC.

  • The $700 PS5 Pro doesn’t come with a disc drive

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  • Without knowing why people change their wallets, it's hard to nail down a solution. But, perhaps a smart contract wallet whose access is controlled by an underlying wallet that can be swapped out may help. In any case, all transfers or smart contract execution attracts a fee. Even sending money between wallets.

  • The $700 PS5 Pro doesn’t come with a disc drive

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  • You're right. But, all this good stuff is to obfuscate the central fact that you don't own the property you bought. Sure, Valve has claimed that should they go away, as their last act, they'll provide the ability for users to own their purchases, but who actually believes them?