dantheclamman

@ dantheclamman @lemmy.world

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7mo ago

‘It’s sick’: Trump administration uses mascot called ‘Coalie’ to push dirtiest fossil fuel
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dantheclamman @lemmy.world 7mo ago
Weighted companion coal

7mo ago

Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country

Yes, McConnell was a big factor, but Democrats went along with him, and that was probably NIMBY-related https://www.npr.org/2009/05/20/104334339/democrats-block-funding-to-close-guantanamo

WELNA: Like Majority Leader Reid, Indiana Democrat Evan Bayh is up for reelection next year. He, too, opposes sending Guantanamo detainees to the U.S.

EVAN BAYH: We have a supermax facility in Terre Haute, Indiana. I don't think the citizens of my state would look too kindly on having those folks housed in our state.

7mo ago

You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift

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dantheclamman @lemmy.world 7mo ago

It would be nice if they change the Office app back to its old name, rather than M365 Copilot or whatever insane nonsense they picked. They should also review their corporate culture, and how the way they set performance rewards leads to insane unintended consequences across the company.

7mo ago

Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country

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dantheclamman @lemmy.world 7mo ago

I took the same thing from this article as you. This is part of why Guantanamo Bay never closed; there was no place where the detainees' presence was tolerated. People don't want the object of their fear in their backyard. They want it as far away as possible. This is also why the six extermination camps like Auschwitz were not on German soil. Not in Germans' backyard.

7mo ago

After Years of Waiting Jellyfin Finally Lands on Samsung Tizen TVs

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dantheclamman @lemmy.world 7mo ago

It has had trouble with some subtitles. That's the biggest issue I've had

7mo ago

What else should I selfhost?

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dantheclamman @lemmy.world 7mo ago

It is a little convoluted how it's set up, but I have a debt of gratitude to the Calibre community for their various add-ons freeing my legally purchased books of their DRM! Which is what enabled me to have centralized library in the first place, since they were all on different services. But now I've quit Amazon and have everything accessible from KOreader on my Kobo, via Calibre-web

7mo ago

What else should I selfhost?

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dantheclamman @lemmy.world 7mo ago

Syncthing so you never have to mail files to yourself again.

FreshRSS for RSS reading

Readeck for saving articles for later (or wallabag, many alternatives)

HomeAssistant

Calibre-web for ebooks

PiHole

Joplin for self hosted notes

Searxng is fun for self hosted metasearch but has sadly been having trouble with Google lately

7mo ago

After Years of Waiting Jellyfin Finally Lands on Samsung Tizen TVs

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dantheclamman @lemmy.world 7mo ago

It's handy to share media with my family! The Roku app works OK

8mo ago

DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI

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dantheclamman @lemmy.world 8mo ago

I think LLMs are fine for specific uses. A useful technology for brainstorming, debugging code, generic code examples, etc. People are just weary of oligarchs mandating how we use technology. We want to be customers but they want to instead shape how we work, as if we are livestock

8mo ago

Yes, It’s Fascism | Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

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dantheclamman @lemmy.world 8mo ago

Stuff like this is why I unsubscribed. Just respectability politics.

8mo ago

Yes, It’s Fascism | Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

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dantheclamman @lemmy.world 8mo ago

It was fascism in 2016 when he promised to ban people from entering the US based on religion.

8mo ago

Just the Browser: tools to remove AI and other bloatware from Chrome, Edge and Firefox

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dantheclamman @lemmy.world 8mo ago

If you're familiar with the controversy around the Honey coupon addon, there are a lot of parallels in terms of privacy, ethics etc.

8mo ago

Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists

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dantheclamman @lemmy.world 8mo ago

Eh in my pretty touristy hotel I was not able to use Google or Meta sites on wifi. But I was surprised vpn worked and allowed me to access anything I wanted over wifi. I had prepared with shadowsocks configured as a contingency but didn't end up needing it. But people visiting a year earlier had reported vpn did not work for them.

8mo ago

Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists

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dantheclamman @lemmy.world 8mo ago

8mo ago

Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists

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dantheclamman @lemmy.world 8mo ago

They can't put the genie back in the bottle. Everyday Iranians know what the world outside is like. They can't suddenly become a black box like North Korea. But maybe a few decades of murdering protesters, like mowing the grass, will allow them to limp along in the East German model. Where people know what is available outside but are too afraid and demoralized to make an organized resistance

8mo ago

Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists

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dantheclamman @lemmy.world 8mo ago

China seems to vary. When I was there, VPNs worked, even Meta and Google sites were accessible on my T-mobile SIM. Other times those things are not accessible

8mo ago

Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions

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dantheclamman @lemmy.world 8mo ago

I am worried, because there are increasing cases where open source docs are going offline because they can't take the bandwidth costs of the big LLM bots recrawling hundreds of times per day. Wikipedia is also getting hammered. There is so much waste and diminishing returns

8mo ago

Permanently Deleted

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dantheclamman @lemmy.world 8mo ago

How the hell else are PMs going to get positive reviews this quarter? Waiting for Excel, Word, Powerpoint and Windows to all be called Copilot

9mo ago

China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns

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dantheclamman @lemmy.world 9mo ago

The article doesn’t single out Tesla. They call it Tesla-style since they pioneered this kind of design and most Americans associate Tesla with it, but as the article mentions, in China, various brands have adopted that motorized retractable handle setup, or the push to expose handle of the Model 3, or the complete lack of handle like the Cybertruck. I was in a couple EVs when I visited China and each time was completely mystified on how to get in the car, lol. Because these retracting handles are not standardized, it produces hazards, such as when people are rushing to pull a driver from a sinking or burning car, when every second counts.

9mo ago

China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns

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dantheclamman @lemmy.world 9mo ago

I still feel the handles where you have to press to make it appear are unintuitive and an example of form over safety. I have used them in Ubers and I always have a quarter second remembering how to open them. I don't want a first responder to have to deal with that delay.