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RegalPotoo

@ RegalPotoo @lemmy.world

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  • MAGA congressman says top priority is shutting down FEMA like the Department of Education

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  • Nah, fuck that.

    You know what humanity has done with its chances? Eliminated polio. Developed better crops and farming techniques to almost entirely eliminate famines. Slashed maternal mortality to a fraction of what it was 2 generations ago. Developed social and economic systems to tip the incentives in favour of peace and cooperation - even with gestures broadly at Russia and the middle east the current generation is less likely to be killed in war than in any other time in history. There are dozens of medical conditions that, if you developed then 50 years ago you just died where today it's a routine surgery to correct.

    Apathy is what kills us. If you want to die then go get help - personally there are a few billion people I give a shit about.

  • California officials reject more SpaceX rocket launches, with some citing Musk's X posts

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  • I agree with your analysis of the law, but I do get why people are a bit uncomfortable with this. Elon has been a shit human, rocket launches have impacted wildlife and SpaceX and Tesla have been toxic places to work for a long time, but that's only become a problem recently because he's been getting more involved in politics? The whole point of having a regulatory state separate from the rest of the government is so they can set and enforce rules fairly and impartially.

  • Congratulations to Tom!

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  • Imagine the most stereotypical Australian you can. Now imagine he has a PhD in chemistry but no money for a lab, so does all his work out of a literal tin shed full of spiders using stuff he found at the hardware store

  • Tesla unveils Cybercab: a $30,000 electric robotaxi coming in the next 2 years | Electrek

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  • But it's all the government's fault for having regulations that stop him doing what he wants - he'd be on Mars by now if it wasn't for the stupid government stopping him from poisoning a protected nature reserve and crashing rockets into people.

    Don't they understand? It's really important to get people to mars so there is a place for rich assholes to go when the environment on earth is completely trashed beyond repair

  • Trump has long blasted China's trade practices. His 'God Bless the USA' Bibles were printed there

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  • Oh, you could get them printed in the US by someone who knows what they are doing, but it'll cost $1/unit more

  • Alleged Switch modder takes on Nintendo’s legal might without a lawyer

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  • What the hell Proton!

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  • The only real use case for VPNs is to bypass geo blocking on streaming sites, and the VPN providers know this. They also know that if they lean too hard into that, eventually someone will sue them and their business model will evaporate - so they add the "iT MaKEs yOu mORe SeCurE" nonsense as a fig leaf so they can say with a straight face that they operate a product with legitimate uses

  • What's your personal little conspiracy theory?

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  • Not mine, but there is a certain compelling logic to this: https://bruces.medium.com/the-mysterious-visit-of-mr-babbage-by-bruce-sterling-2017-7c941028c4d8

    tl;dr - accepted history is that Charles Babbage designed a series of mechanical computers in the mid 1800s, and the underlying theory behind them would go on to influence work a century later when the technology had caught up to the idea, but they were never built. There are a bunch of coincidences and unexplained meetings that suggest that maybe he sold his plans to Italy who then built one of his designs in secret. This is also supported by modern attempts to build a computer from his plans - there was 1 measurement wrong across tens of thousands of parts, and it worked perfectly. Babbage was a skilled engineer but to get all that correct, on the first go, entirely from theory is maybe a bit much

  • UPS Recommendations

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  • Yup, this - batteries are consumables. They have a service life of ~2-5 years depending on load. If the manual doesn't tell you how to replace them then it's basically ewaste already

  • which VPS do you recommend?

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  • Depends on what you need:

    • As cheap as possible, but actually want a VM: OCI free tier will be way bigger than you will probably need
    • Happy paying money but still want to learn about Linux things: I've had good experiences with Scaleway
    • I just want something I can set up and not think about: don't use a VPS. Architect your site as a pure-static site, stick it in an S3 bucket. You'll probably be within the free tier unless you do absolutely bonkers traffic, and once it's running you can leave it alone for literal years without worrying about patches or upgrades

  • Trump wants an "American Iron Dome." Experts say that's ridiculous.

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  • Yup - anyone who is likely to try and hit the US is far enough away is going to be using long range ballistic missiles, and it's been pretty conclusively demonstrated that it's technically feasible to intercept a single missile, it sure isn't reliable enough to be a reasonable deterrent or cheap enough to build enough launchers to give you any amount of coverage.

    Iron dome works because Israel is small, with a concentrated population, and is being attacked with small, short range rockets that are easy to spot on radar - that isn't a likely scenario for the US to face

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  • They seem to be pretty good at making sure the military has all the finding they need

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  • I'd be ok with anonymous donations if they were truly anonymous both publicly and to the management of the institution receiving the money.

    Maybe this is something that the government could facilitate - pool these resources, then help distribute them where they are needed. Almost like how taxes work.

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  • Republicans Boost Jill Stein as Potential Harris Spoiler

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  • I guess my point is less about the party specifically, are more that your country might not be collapsing quite so quickly if 49% of the population didn't feel massively disenfranchised every 4 years, and if there were actually incentives for collaboration and compromise between different view points

  • Republicans Boost Jill Stein as Potential Harris Spoiler

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  • I vote Green.

    Because I live in a country with an actual proportional representation system, so my vote for a minor party still allows the major party that I most closely align with to gain power

  • Unpopular Opinion: Xitter going bad is the best thing that ever happened to the Web

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  • Even assuming 25% of Twitter users are bots (probably a significant over estimate), and even if half of Twitter's users quit in the next year, it would still be 150x bigger than mastodon

    (Mastodon has ~1m MAUs, compared to ~421m for Twitter)

  • What is a product that sounded promising but ended up being very underwhelming?

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  • 3D TV

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  • I'm going to use that next time I need to bail out of a story I shouldn't have started telling

  • Trump says change 25th Amendment to oust VPs who conspire to ‘cover up’ incapacity of president: ‘That’s what they did!’

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  • Meanwhile, JD Vance sits in the corner sweating

    And not just cos he's sitting on a particularly sexy couch