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IratePirate

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  • Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden try to fight censorship with bipartisan JAWBONE Act

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  • A cunt, I see, he may not beBut what, I ask, could then be he?He's soft, so he can't be a dick,Not sociable, hence he's no pig,No fucker (I don't know - does he?)No arse - he lacks utility.There's no good name, but don't you fret -For now let us just call him Ted.

  • Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden try to fight censorship with bipartisan JAWBONE Act

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  • I do not like that man Ted CruzThat's why this news gets me confusedBecause I'm used to rarely seeHim on the right side of history.And so, in spite of this new stuntThat man Ted Cruz may still be a cunt.

  • Epstein file says Trump "knew and funded underage sex parties" at his golf course

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  • Self hosted portfolio tracking

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  • This is the way. It's a local application though, but then again, I don't see why you'd want to server-host this in the first place. Sync the database via Syncthing or Nextcloud and you're good to go.

  • Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case

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  • No. Dead law began with the supreme court (which I shall no longer capitalise) hand-waving presidential crime. Law has been broken ever since in the US, and it's been getting worse.

  • Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case

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  • "I get you're frustrated 🧨. That's perfectly legitimate. 👍 Here are five ways to make your concerns heard: ..."

  • New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses

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  • openmediavault 7 approaching EOL

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  • Wow, this went smooth! Just upgraded to 8 without issue! And I've done a ton of modifications on my system... Even pulled an image with Clonezilla just to be in the safe side. Very well done on OMV's part! 👏

  • openmediavault 7 approaching EOL

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  • You da real MVP mate! I'm still on 7 and completely missed this. Will go for Proxmox soon, but until I get round to it, I'll have to get this done.

  • Broken speaker? Finicky zipper? Anticonsumerist Repair Cafes urge you to fix it instead of pitch it

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  • Mmmmh! And ribbon cables that you need to manually fold so they'll fit into the slot - what a great chance to break the sub-millimeter copper wiring inside!

  • Broken speaker? Finicky zipper? Anticonsumerist Repair Cafes urge you to fix it instead of pitch it

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  • Just so you know, the larger gauge wires were to carry more current required by the old halogen bulb and are unnecessarily large for an LED light.

    Thanks for the insight! Yeah, I could've thought about that. Yet, thinner wiring also comes with much poorer wear resilience. Looking at you, headphone and charger cables...

  • Broken speaker? Finicky zipper? Anticonsumerist Repair Cafes urge you to fix it instead of pitch it

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  • Ugh, that description triggered my PTSD acquired during the latest repairs on a Lenovo Yoga. Tons of printed and taped-on PCB in place of once solid construction.

    I guess that's why nowadays, whenever I need to buy new, I first watch a teardown video to see the insides. If things look finicky and hard to access/repair, I'm not buying. Refuse > repair.

  • Broken speaker? Finicky zipper? Anticonsumerist Repair Cafes urge you to fix it instead of pitch it

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  • We're quickly moving towards a Warhammer40k world where "old stuff is better". Just like digital services become increasingly enshittified, late-stage capitalism incentivises companies to produce things ever more cheaply just to squeeze out some more of that precious shareholder value. Plastics, electronics, garments - everything is so thin nowadays that it will crack, break and tear quickly.

    Case in point: here's a picture of two types of copper wiring.

    On the left, you can see the original wiring of a defunct LED light. Further examination showed that the wiring had simply broken in parts of the cable. So I went to the scrapyard and scavenged the wires off an old 1960s lamp plug (that's the wiring on the right-hand side). These wires had 3-4x the amount of copper strands as compared to modern wires and will not snap easily. I soldered them onto the lamp - now the lamp lives to light another day.

    I can only encourage everyone to get a simple soldering iron, some screwdrivers, or a bit of sewing equipment and get to work. You have nothing to lose from tinkering with your stuff (almost*) . If something was broken before, chances are you'd have discarded it anyway, so you can't break it much more. But the dopamine hit you get when something previously defunct suddenly jumps back to life and serves you for several more years - that's priceless. Also, fixing your shit is an erect middle finger to the capitalist logic of ever-decreasing product life cycles and the ever-increasing amounts of deliberately produced waste - all that at a time where we're more painfully aware than ever that resources are finite, and the so-called first world is squandering a lot of them at the expense of everyone else.

    So do your bit. It's thrifty. It's fun. And it's the right thing to do.

    Unless you're dealing with batteries or high voltages, in which case you want to be careful and do your research; house fires are no fun.

  • Engineer turns disposable vape pen into a working web server

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  • OK, but can it run Doom?

  • Kittygram v1.1 has released

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  • would be a constant game of cat kitty and mouse.

    Come on, it was right there!

  • Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them

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  • Joke's on them. I'm not paying them a dime.

  • YouTube Premium just got more expensive again: now $16 a month, or $27 for families

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  • Good. Enshittify some more so more people will be driven towards adblocking frontends such as NewPipe and FreeTube. Eat big tech's bandwidth, but starve them of any revenue.

  • Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

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  • The effective countermeasures:

  • S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic

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  • I'm curious as well!