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LesserAbe

@ LesserAbe @lemmy.world

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  • Salt daddy

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  • Not sure that improves the joke

  • NATO Ended Russia's Estonian Air Incursions

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  • With respect, if you had read it you'd know this isn't about drones, and it's not about active combat like in Ukraine. This is sort of a decades long testing of boundaries, and the article is about a move that NATO made to potentially stop that testing.

  • NATO Ended Russia's Estonian Air Incursions

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  • I didn't get AI vibes from this. I took it as a guy a little overpleased with NATO military prowess but still i very nteresting information. What made you think it's AI?

  • Open Source Power

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  • Thanks for sharing. Although I'm an enthusiastic open source user, I haven't written any code of significance, so I'm not aware: has anyone made a license where use is restricted to individuals and democratically controlled organizations? I'm picturing that would allow for some degree of profit motive while encouraging things like worker co-ops and excluding venture capital controlled entities.

  • What open source project is the most exciting for you right now?

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  • You're welcome! I'd be interested to see your list if you share it somewhere.

  • What open source project is the most exciting for you right now?

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  • A buddy and I were playing with Sonobus this morning. It lets you collaborate on music remotely.

    Musicians will know already, but if you're not aware, the latency (lag) between participants makes it impractical to play in time together. But if you can get it below 30ms then it's roughly equivalent to playing with someone across the room. Needs a hard wired connection and the other people probably can't be more than 500 miles away. But for me eliminates a two hour round trip to work on a song.

  • Trump posts AI video of himself flying KING TRUMP jet and bombing protestors with brown liquid

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  • Don't be a dick

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  • What is a digital concentration camp?

    Also I have no idea what this image is trying to convey

  • Blue states should come together to declare an emergency. Here’s how | Thomas Geoghegan

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  • Interesting idea. Sometimes it's easier to act and come up with something first, then ask other people to join later.

  • That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus

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  • I think about the difference between early Bitcoin mining computers and professional mining equipment. At first people just used a desktop machine with a beefy graphics card. Then once people realized how much money was in it they iterated, and people started manufacturing devices custom designed for mining, and building operations in warehouses that were close to cheap power sources.

    Same here, initially people have individual cell phones and are doing things manually, then they start to refund the process and use devices specifically made for that purpose, including arrays of sims which can be controlled centrally from a master computer. Just because it's sophisticated doesn't mean it's a state actor or terrorism. (Of course still good it's shut down)

  • That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus

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  • It's like those stories about "we seized enough fentanyl to kill 1,000 people." Sure, maybe that's true but that's not what they were going to do with the fentanyl.

    Used in a certain way you use those sims to shut down cell towers, but there's not much money in that, and there is in sms scams

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    Charlie Kirk in his own words: ‘prowling Blacks’ and ‘the great replacement strategy’

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  • I don't generally think "we already know" is a useful response to a news story. Just because you already know doesn't mean there isn't a wide audience who is being exposed to information for the first time.

    Specifically for Kirk, I remember mentioning him to my wife a week beforehand and she didn't know who he was.

    Now that he's dead, MAGA people are trying to make him into a martyr who was such a great guy. It's helpful to have countering voices saying loudly, no he was not.

  • Putin’s morality police ‘send teen girls to gulag’ for twerking in front of cathedral

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  • Unclear why that article ended with a couple paragraphs about Putin's bodyguards collecting his feces

  • Democrats threaten charges for troops who commit crimes at Trump’s direction

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  • I get that things are concerning and stressful right now, but read the thing and think about it - they have to actually commit a criminal act to get arrested. He's trying to head them off from doing it before it happens. The governor of California didn't say something like this, but the governor of Illinois is saying it.

  • Democrats threaten charges for troops who commit crimes at Trump’s direction

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  • They have to commit the crimes before you can arrest them. He's saying if you do get deployed in Chicago don't fuck around or we'll hold you accountable. Yeah, have to actually see follow through, but this is more of a warning shot

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    there is a solution

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  • Thank you for clarifying you didn't intend to be patronizing. That said, I invite you to re-read the content of what you wrote:

    Hey, OP. Welcome to your 30s. 🎉 New to the US, or just seeing it for the first time?

    After OP just expressed emotional distress, you said "Welcome to your 30s", which implies you think that has something to do with what they just said. "This feeling is part of being in your thirties, when you start to notice things are wrong in the world." Not a stereotype I've heard before, but reading it as a straight welcome doesn't make sense either because OP didn't say "I just turned 30," they said they're 32. This isn't a new age bracket for them.

    That reading is bolstered by the next part. After OP is crashing out about the state of the world, you asked if they're new to the US or just seeing it for the first time. The "or" implies these are the only two reasons why OP might be bringing this up. "Are you new here or did you just start paying attention?"

    Even if you were going for a "Welcome to the club friend, things have been fucked up for a long time," I don't think it's an effective comment because of the tone, and you're assuming this is the first time they've thought about it, and that they don't know that things have been bad before. That may be true, but sometimes people just want to vent. I understand it's common to become jaded over time if only just for self protection, but it's valuable to still be able to be outraged and to experience injustice fresh.

    I appreciate you having good intentions. I think a sincere reading of the words can end up with the impression I shared.

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  • For me I've been involved in an anti gerrymandering group, which definitely fulfills the "like-minded" category. But there's still value just in connecting with people outside work even if it's not ideological, so things like classes, hobbies, casual sports/exercise, anything that has regular meetings.

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  • If you read the OP it doesn't say anything about it being a new phenomenon. Even if that's what this comment "accomplished" is it worth shitting on someone for sharing their emotions? It comes across as self congratulatory, like the commenter is above the OP because they've experienced negative circumstances for longer.

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  • I feel overwhelmed a lot lately.

    I think one of the causes for the situation in the U.S. is isolation. Both that the bad actors are too isolated from their fellow human, and that people of good will feel alone in facing rising assholedom.

    It's helped me to physically go to gatherings of people who are like minded. To be reminded that you're not alone. We'll never get everyone on our side, but I believe we can get enough.