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sylver_dragon

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  • What do you use for selfhosting cloud storage?

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  • I currently use NextCloud, but I have been looking to move away from it. My main use case is for syncing photos and videos to the cloud from my phone (Android) and this used to work flawlessly. But, some time in early 2025, it just stopped working. I can still manually upload files and sync still works for other folders (e.g. Documents) just fine. But, photos and videos just won't sync automatically. Not sure if there are other options which would work better, but NextCloud on Android just seems to be broke.

  • Anthropic Is Preparing for IPO and We Should Be Worried

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  • I'm curious to see the fallout of Anthorpic's books becoming public.

    Anthropic projects reaching positive cash flow by 2028, according to TechCrunch, a year later than originally planned.

    This IPO sounds like they are running out of people to give them money to set on fire and/or the current investors have realized the whole thing is a ponzi scheme and they are hoping to unload on public investors before the AI bubble pops.

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  • You come from nothing, you're going back to nothing. What have you lost?Nothing!

  • What favorite food has changed or isn't available anymore that you enjoyed as a kid?

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  • We used to get Trickling Springs Creamery ice cream from a local farm store. And it was really good ice cream. But, they had some problems and shut down. I'm not sure what they did to make the ice cream so good, but I've not found anything since which compared.

  • What favorite food has changed or isn't available anymore that you enjoyed as a kid?

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  • Cookie dough ice cream, without chocolate chips. Maybe it was a limited time thing, but I remember having this at an ice cream shop similar to Baskin Robbins in my youth. It was just plain vanilla ice cream with cookie dough in it and neither part had chocolate chips.

    I get that I'm likely one of very few people this would have sold to. But, I really do wish I could have this again.

  • A 45,000-person labor strike at Samsung's memory chip plants could throw a wrench into the AI boom | Fortune

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  • Good for them. If we're going to live through all the stupid of an AI bubble, it's good to see some of the insane profits making their way to the people who actually build the part and not just management and shareholders.

  • Man Found With Meth Pills Shaped Like Mario Is Going To Prison

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  • Oh no!

  • How to rid the Web of trolls, bad actors, misinformation, et cetera?

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  • Don't feed the trolls.It's a rule almost as old as the intranet. It doesn't work, but there isn't anything better.

  • About 10% of AMC movie showings sell zero tickets. This site finds them

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  • I was at a showing of Monty Python and the Holy Grail in a theater over the weekend. I was originally worried we'd have trouble getting tickets. Turns out there were only 10 people in the theater and half of those were in my group. What sad times we live in when there aren't enough people saying, "Ni" in a theater.

  • Microsoft Defender wrongly flags DigiCert certs as Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha

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  • False positives out of Defender?I'm shocked I tell you, shocked.Well, not that shocked.

  • Repurpose old glass bottles with this 5 minute print to grow food!

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  • They do use a good bit of filament, but I really like the look of them. I'm a bit of a sucker for geometric designs.

  • Repurpose old glass bottles with this 5 minute print to grow food!

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  • I've been using these prints (not my design) on mason jars for a few years to grow various plands using the kratky method. My most successful plants have been basil, though I did have some bell peppers happily growing in these for a while.

  • ICE is cutting back on cuffing immigrants in court and warrantless arrests: report

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  • They're "cutting back" because States are starting to push back by criminalizing civil arrests without a judicial warrant in courthouses.

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  • And through inaction said public is consenting to be ruled by nasty Christian predators.How (and/or what) should thoughtful people think about the public’s consent to be ruled by elite Epstein class pedophiles?

    The world isn't quite as black and white as you want to make it out. And the range of possible responses do not exist in isolation.Let's start with the absurd response of "Annie, grab your gun and let's go overthrow the government". This would stupid on so many levels. First and foremost is the simple unlikelihood of success. While the wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan have demonstrated that the overwhelming force of the US Military has problems dealing with a dedicated insurgency, such insurgencies require a fanatical level of dedication on the part of the insurgents. Do you really think you and a million of your closest friends area ready to get blown apart by an Apache Gunship to force Trump out of office? So this is just a dumb idea.

    Moving on, you could always just go for targeted assassinations. You can be John Wilkes Booth all over again, though I don't suspect Trump is as much a fan of live plays as Lincoln was. Maybe stalk him to a McDonalds? Ignoring all the logistical issues of actually getting to and assassinating a sitting President, it's not like you would get much done. JD Vance isn't all that much better (couches everywhere beware!), and the GOP has demonstrated that they are quite willing to keep coughing up horrible people for leadership positions. Really, the problem here is that we have a very divided country at the moment and a significant enough part of the electorate is just fine with a rapist, pedophile grifter as President.

    So, let's take political violence off the table. The best outcome it offers is a civil war with maybe your side winning and maybe the US under the direct control of Ya'll Qaeda. Or worse, a balkanized US locked in a modern version of the Hundred Years War.

    That leaves us with civil disobedience, general strikes and other protests. And I don't want to downplay the impact these things can have; however, the US is a large, diverse place. A general strike in one State is unlikely to have a major impact in another. And coordinating a general strike across the entire US is very, very hard. Maybe that is the answer to your question, but the fact that it hasn't been done yet lends some credence to the idea that it's not really possible. If you think this is what is needed, then by all means, get out and start trying to organize one. Or work with existing groups to try and get one going, I wish you the best of luck, but I'm not going to be putting money down on your chances of success. Protests and civil disobedience can get attention, though that will only get you so far.

    All that above leaves the quiver pretty empty. And I'm going to point out the answer you don't want to hear and will complain about: organize, advocate and vote when the option becomes available. Yes, the GOP has been running full throttle trying to hijack elections. And working within the American Democracy is slow, marginally effective at best and endlessly frustrating. But, unless you think you have the gumption to win a civil war (you almost certainly don't), this is the system of government for the United States for the foreseeable future. It's a terrible system, but better than the other stuff humans have tried.

    Of course, that means you are also stuck in the situation of "through inaction said public is consenting to be ruled by nasty Christian predators". And that is partly true. One of the downsides of democracy and elections is that the people you disagree with will occasionally get into power and be able to push their ideas on society. That's part of what it means to live in a functioning democracy. That the whole thing doesn't devolve into civil war the minute one side or the other loses. We have boundaries written into law which define exactly how far any one party can go in implementing its agenda while in power. And we have some levers for the out of power party to push back on. But, the system is built on the idea that the peaceful transfer of power between parties who disagree is a far sight better than the non-peaceful transfer of power whenever one side of the other manages to out-violence the other.

    So ya, I hate that it's true, but since I value a stable democracy, I consent to the orange shit running the country. Because the alternative isn't some left-wing utopia, it's constant civil war. If we want our country to look more like a left-wing utopia, we need to win enough people over to our ideas and implement those ideas when we hold power. It's not hopeless, and it all entirely possible. But, it's easy to just complain, give up and scream into the void that "voting never fixes anything". But cynicism doesn't solve problems, hard work does. And hard work isn't fun, it isn't sexy and it doesn't play well on social media.

  • Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat seeking his 13th term in Congress, dies at age 80

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  • Dead men have won elections before. In 2000, the people of Missouri had an election for a US Senator. Their choices were John Ashcroft and a dead man. And the people of Missouri said "Sorry John, but the dead guy scares us less". 1

  • Major Tech company urges universal national service

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  • If that "national service" includes Mangione's service to the country, perhaps we should have that conversation.

  • White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets

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  • Somewhere there is a Russian Intelligence Analysts whose primary assignment is watching prediction markets. And he's probably providing solid intel from it.

  • Microsoft wants Edge to automatically open by default every time you turn on your Windows 11 PC

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  • By "de-shitify" they meant removing all the shit which isn't owned and controlled by Microsoft.

  • [War and Peas]

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  • The real miracle in the Bible is that Joseph didn’t fuck for his entire marriage and was ok with that.

    According to Christian mythology Jesus has several brothers and sisters from Mary and Joseph. So no miracle there. One just has to wonder if they waited until after Jesus was born to start fucking.