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CosmicTurtle

@ CosmicTurtle @lemmy.world

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  • New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now

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  • Sending an email is much much better than sending a literal hand written letter.

    I had one opt out where you had to hand write the letter and envelope. Absolutely no way it was enforceable but didn't want to risk it at the time.

  • but your increased productivity paid for (checks notes) approximately 1500 miles of your ceos private jet flights so isn't that worth it

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  • It's because all those people think that if they work harder, maybe, just maybe, they will be like him.

    Source: I used to be one of those rubes and now I know better.

  • Boats can't bend steel beams!

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  • There is a saying in engineering.

    Anyone can build a bridge.

    It takes an engineer who can build a bridge just strong enough to let cars cross it.

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    Whoa there buddy, calm down

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  • There was an encryption system a few years ago that offered this out of the box.

    I can't remember the name of it but there was a huge vulnerability and basically made the software unusable.

    Crypt box or something like that.

  • It's more interesting when self-directed

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  • I think that's part of it. The other part is that primary school teachers have to teach to the curriculum and not what they want. So if they want to teach about how whites got preferential treatment but the county school board says "No CrItIcAl RaCe ThEoRy!1", they can't teach it.

    My college history professors were far more engaging. Especially my military history professor.

  • Christian TV evangelicals fire up Trump support with messianic message

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  • Dead Man Switch

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  • They don't need to be a techie. Just someone who can click a button.

    I am remembering Julian Assuage has/had a payload that was distributed via BitTorrent. The file was encrypted with a private key and his public key was posted either as a file in the package or on the site where the magnet file was downloaded.

    Before he was arrested, he encouraged everyone to download the file and sit on it and to keep seeding it. He said in the event of his untimely death, the password would be released for everyone to decrypt.

    That would be another option but you sort of need the notoriety to make this work.

  • Dead Man Switch

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  • I've actually given this a lot of thought over the years. The biggest issue for me is all my AWS services that no one in my family knows about.

    So the idea would be to, at minimum, let my family know what services are being used.

    Unfortunately there isn't a turn-key solution. I've seen a number of well-meaning solutions and some that are quite novel but they all suffer from the same problems: how do you deal with false positives and how do you verify your deadness.

    I imagine that the problem is similar to the Yellowstone trash can problem, in that any solution to mitigate one will make it harder on the other.

    The best solution I've found is to have a two-person solution, similar to launching a nuke. You have automation that tests if you are active that emails a close friend or relative to verify you are indeed dead.

    Ideally there would be more than one person on this list a confirmation from two people would kick off all of the automations you code.

  • I took the control of the internet

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  • Who exactly is this 4cat?

  • Black student at Hawaii Mormon school says he’s fighting order to cut hair

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  • Mormonism has very strong ties in Hawaii. They sent missionaries there when the state was annexed by the US.

    While not as strong as Utah, it very much is there.

  • “I would be forced to mortgage”: Trump melts down on Truth Social as lawyers admit he can’t get bond

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  • People don't admire the fact he's a liar.

    They admire him because he's a racist, homophobe, and transphobe.

    They admire him because he says things they wish they could say without getting yelled at by liberals.

    They are okay if he's a liar, sexist, misogynist asshole so long as he's also racist, homophobic, and transphobic.

  • Standard pregnancy care is now dangerously disrupted in Louisiana, report reveals

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  • It's their fault for being sluts. If they were strong Christian women, God wouldn't have punished them.

  • democracy in Russia

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  • No GOP wet dream is basically what North Korea does.

    You stand in line to vote and are handed a card. There is one box for the "candidate". You vote by putting your card in the box while everyone watches.

    You have the choice to not vote.

    Guess how many don't vote b

  • Trump is making the Jan. 6 attack a cornerstone of his bid for the White House

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  • The first year, I was like, "They need to shore up their prosecution."

    The second year, "Probably waiting until next year, so not to cause an issue during an election year."

    The third year, "Come on....do something. Anything. Charge him for littering..."

    The fourth year, "It's not happening. Not when he's running for office."

  • Mar-a-Lago Judge: Jury Sees Top Secret Files or Trump Wins

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  • Playing a bit of devil's advocate.

    We have a tendency to over classify things in general. When I was in a TS SCIF, we would mark things S/TS because we were lazy and didn't want to go through the process to see if something was subject to disclosure.

    Assuming, with a great heaping serving of salt, that there is validity to Trump's claim, I can sort of understand putting to a jury to see if the files that Trump took were in fact classified. I can see him stealing the documents simply because it had a cover sheet and not because it was valuable. While I'm sure that he absolutely took sensitive and classified information, I'm equally sure that there is probably a take out menu or two in those boxes.

    The problem is that the run of the mill citizen isn't equipped to properly classify a document. I don't know what probative value exists in giving the documents to jurors outside of forcing the prosecution to put them in the public record.

  • Pro-Trump lawyer arrested on bench warrant in Washington, D.C.

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  • “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

  • Starbucks accused of violating Americans with Disabilities Act by charging extra for non-dairy

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  • That's not how the ADA works. You could say the same for wheelchair ramps, but ultimately it's on the store owner to reasonably provide accomodations to people who want to use their services. It's not on the disabled person to pick and select who will accommodate them or not. It's why businesses are required to reserve a portion of their parking lot to those with handicap placards. It shouldn't be up to each disabled person to figure out which business they can go to.

    What Starbucks is doing would be akin to Walmart charging an extra buck for you to use one of their mobility scooters or an extra $5 if you require the assistance from an employee because you can't reach something.

  • Biden’s populist budget marks the overdue end of trickle-down economics

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  • Maybe I'm cynical but I just don't think any amount of facts are going to change the fact that next quarter's earnings report needs to be higher than last quarter.

  • “It’s a Silent Fire”: Decaying Digital Movie and TV Show Files Are a Hollywood Crisis

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  • This exactly. NAS+RAID gives you a backup of your local media. It can account for one of your three copies and one of your storage mediums. But you still need something off site.

    So assuming you had a copy on your computer proper, it could work. Better than no backups.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    CosmicTurtle @lemmy.world

    Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    App that tracks prices on websites?

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Internet providers say the FCC should not investigate broadband prices

    arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2023/11/internet-providers-say-the-fcc-should-not-investigate-broadband-prices/
  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Shrinkflation hits IKEA Family by removing 5% discount

  • Boost for Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    I'm new to Boost. Quality of Life questions