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dhork

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  • Upgraded my shower rack turned server rack with dust filters

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  • The metal will block some Wi-Fi signals, but not completely, because the gaps between the bars are too wide to block it all.

    2.4 GHz also happens to be the frequency that microwaves operate at. Every microwave oven has that mesh in its window, because those holes are precisely the right size to let you look through while still blocking all the 2.4 GHz emissions inside the box.

  • Yann LeCun says xAI is "kind of a failure" – and the whole AI industry might be headed for a reset

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  • What is the Pope is a Bears fan?

  • Not my fault every single coffee shop is closed today

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  • Those types of movies aren't my thing, but maybe I'll give the soundtrack a try

  • Report: White House delaying release of voting machine security study

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  • The key thing for elections is that all counts ought to be auditable and verifiable. It doesn't matter whether the count is done by humans or electronically. Enough information from each individual vote must be preserved so that counts can be verified, during the legal window for races to be confirmed.

    I am old enough that when I first started voting, we used lever machines. You pushed a lever for your choice in each race, then you pushed a big lever, which "recorded" your choice and resets all levers for the next person. But, it recorded your choice on manual dials that showed the vote total. Sometimes, the dial has issues rolling over from "9" to "10", or "9999" to "10000". If your vote got swallowed by the mechanical dial, it's gone! There was no remedy. At the end of the election, the poll workers reported the counts off the dials. If they needed a recount, they looked at the dials and said "Yup, that's the count".

    Today, I vote on a paper ballot, which gets fed into a machine. I can see right away if my vote is accepted -- if it is not, I can get a new ballot and try again. All those paper ballots are retained so if there is a recount, they can either be run again or physically inspected by hand. It is much better tha it used to be.

  • Not my fault every single coffee shop is closed today

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  • I know the Swedes have a big festival for Midsommar. I think someone make a real killer of a film about it not too long ago....

  • Trump claims vandals damaged D.C. Reflecting Pool, and says it will be drained again

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  • Trump claims somebody covertly took a knife along the entire pool.

    That doesn't even make sense. Does he think it has a vinyl pool liner or something?

  • Trump threatens to charge US tolls in Strait of Hormuz if final Iran deal not reached in 60 days

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  • Those tolls are gonna find their way into his pocket. It's how he works....

  • Iran shuts Strait of Hormuz over Israel's attacks on Lebanon, deepening the Middle East crisis

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  • Are we tired of all the winning yet?

  • Meloni slams Trump's claim she 'begged' for a photo with him as Italy's top diplomat cancels US trip

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  • She's not his type. She's 49, that makes her about 35 years too old for him.

  • Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand

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  • The videos are never associated with a user's identity and are deleted after the verification process. Audio is never recorded.

    I actually believe them. It's gonna start out this way. But in a year or two, they'll quietly slip in a provision stating they will hold on to the images for a short time for security purposes, then they will say that they will associate your image with your identity to make it more secure, then Google's AI will know everything about everyone (and sell the info to the highest bidder)

  • Trump shares post saying he tops every conqueror who ever lived

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  • The author of the post that Trump is the "most powerful man that ever lived" is probably correct. Think about it: the US has the largest military in the world, and can project power anywhere. Historically, while this power has been built up, in America the ability to wield it has been carefully constructed so that it has to go through several layers of responsibility before being used, and different parts of government can perform their own checks on that ability.

    Then Trump comes along, and many of those checks and balances dissolve. Somehow, he has successfully aligned enough of our government to his agenda that he can launch a war (and lose it!) without being held responsible for the result.

    That is Trump's superpower - the ability to do whatever he wants, with impunity. That's not supposed to happen in our modern society, but he figured out how. Perhaps the key is having no shame, so he can ask for things that no other politician would think is appropriate? But with that kind of power, he really is ruling like a king, with the largest military in history (and all those nukes) at his command. Who's gonna say "no" to him at this point? He got rid of everyone who might.

  • Bernie Sanders Introduces Legislation to Create $7 Trillion AI Sovereign Wealth Fund

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  • Lol, good one, who actually thinks AI companies are profitable?

  • Hillary Clinton: Biden reelection campaign a ‘terrible mistake’

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  • And Clinton should know, she is an expert on campaigns that are terrible mistakes....

  • OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion

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  • Exactly. My terminology might not be correct, but my point is that their books can be perfectly balanced, and they can also be losing a shit-ton of money, as long as investors keep shoveling money in.

  • OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion

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  • I'm not an accountant, but you can certainly balance books while showing a loss. Double-entry bookkeeping simply means that every transaction has two parts, and "balancing" simply means that all the transactions cancel out properly.

    I joke with my accountant friends that their entire job is counting to zero.

  • Experts alarmed as Trump launches broad-front attack on US voting rights

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  • Sigh. Donald Trump did not become President (Twice!) by listening to experts....

  • OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion

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  • That's quite easy, the books are balanced, there are just more debits than credits. "Balancing the books" doesn't mean that the net result is zero, it means that all the money going in and going out is accounted for.

    OpenAI can keep bleeding money as long as there are fools willing to fund it in exchange for the illusion of future profits.

  • Christian right calls James Talarico "demonic" — for quoting Jesus

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  • That's because the problem is not whether or not he was exact in his quotation. He could have been reading those passages directly from the book and they would have still had a cow.

    And the article actually nails the reason why quite well: those passages are inclusionary, and really points out how these Nationalist Christians are distorting that message. They have turned their form of American Christianity into only caring about abortion, guns, and how evil immigrants and trans people are. But the Jesus in that book loves everyone, unconditionally, and calls his followers to love everyone too.

    If Jesus were alive today, the Nat-C's would have sent him to CECOT already. (It doesn't help his case that he's a brown-skinned Palestinian Jew....)

  • Eric Trump messaged UFC insider asking if White House fights were 'rigged': report

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  • He wasn't asking, he was confirming it.