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gsfraley

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  • Apple’s China ties under Congressional scrutiny after Jon Stewart cancellation | Lawmakers demand that Apple commit to not censoring content critical of China.

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  • I'll make the "China bad" post. There are very few governments with an ego as fragile as China's. It barely even makes sense since they have the weight and soft power to lead by example, or develop healthy ties with the rest of the world. But they just. Don't. It really gives the impression that all is not well within their borders.

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  • Hell yeah! I basically could've written this myself word-for-word

  • Oh yea, that's the good stuff huffs glue

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  • For those interested, this is because of how Rust uses value gaps to represent its nullable/enum structures. E.g., like how None for Option NonZeroU8 [sic, can't get formatting to work] is represented internally by a 0 instead of a wrapping structure.

    When you have that many layers around a unit, it will start at 0 and bump the internal representation for each Some you turn into a None.

  • Mike Johnson's porn "monitoring" remarks spark national security concerns

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  • "Unadulterated porn mayhem" Thanks, stealing that for my new band name

  • Mastodon’s latest update makes it easier to follow the news

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  • Fediverse could absolutely do better on just that data, though I do want to note the really effective (or addictive) algorithms for TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, etc. work on a hell of a lot more data than that. Not just what you directly interacted with, but did you even just click on the link? Did you go to the comment section? How long were you in the comment section? What comments did you expand? When you follow a link or look at an image, how long till you go to the next post?

    Like I said, there are ways to do better with what we have, but the "ideal" behavior is secretly fueled by a whole lot of extra data collection that gets distributed everywhere.

  • Sarah Connor

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  • What was that saying park rangers had about people not understanding the handle on bear-proof trash cans?

    I think it was roughly "there's significant overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest humans".

  • Petition demands that Microsoft extends Windows 10 support

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  • So long, small phones

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  • Have the new Z Fold after years of owning borderline-phablets and the usability is much better. My previous phone (Galaxy S20+) felt too big and painful to use one-handed, yet typing with two hands felt awkward. This splits the use cases. Slim one-hand phone on the outside. Mini-tablet typing monster on the inside. 🤌

  • US intelligence report alleging Russia election interference shared with 100 countries

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  • That's true, but whataboutism is a tried and true tactic to deflect attention from Russia. We can do both. Fuck Russia for doing this now, and we should fuck ourselves/hold ourselves accountable and advocate for better transparency.

    But this is an article about Russia, now's not the time for tangents.

  • What games do you think should NEVER be remastered, because they're close to perfect as they are?

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  • I will say Tetris Effect in VR is a legitimately transcendental experience. I've had trips that felt less meaningful and awe-inspiring than that game.

  • Moms for Liberty meets its match: Parents in this swing suburban district are fighting back

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  • It's a rough definition, but astroturfing is usually rooted in goals separate from or even counter to the stated movement. E.g. in your example outside support for a labor movement wouldn't necessarily be astroturfing if it's genuinely supporting labor. A fake labor movement sprouted by the companies themselves to take the wind out of the sails of real labor movements would.

  • Upgrade to Maternity Plus™ today!

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  • Maybe it's the random 2?

  • “Yeah, they’re gone”: Musk confirms cuts to X’s election integrity team — “‘Election Integrity’ Team.. was undermining election integrity,” Musk writes

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  • I agree, I have some hope as common folk get more and more tuned in, especially as obscure runs like the Wisconsin Supreme Court judgeship and votes against the Ohio constitutional amendment process change result in overwhelming positive outcomes.

  • “Yeah, they’re gone”: Musk confirms cuts to X’s election integrity team — “‘Election Integrity’ Team.. was undermining election integrity,” Musk writes

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  • It's not...? It's literally just another social media site, it doesn't hook into ActivityPub or any cross-broadcast protocol. I don't know why you're throwing around the word "fediverse" here.

  • I wave my particle

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  • Fucking LOL

  • Tensions erupt between McCarthy and Gaetz at closed-door House GOP meeting as shutdown nears | CNN Politics

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  • I mean, they're all shit, but I found this part interesting:

    McCarthy’s outside counsel earlier this week sent a cease and desist letter to the person soliciting influencers to bash Gaetz and claiming to be doing so on behalf of McCarthy, according to a copy of the letter obtained by CNN

    Which to me, reads like Gaetz is setting up a social media false flag on McCarthy's side, which is an insane level to stoop to for pointless in-party infighting.

  • Supreme Court allows drawing of new Alabama congressional map to proceed, rejecting state's plea

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  • Note that this is likely a good thing, the new maps are being drawn by a special master to give black folk more representation. The "state" that's objecting here is Alabama lawmakers.

  • Microsoft's next-generation Xbox pitched as a "cloud hybrid" console

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  • As someone who has exclusively bought games for download this generation, it ain't economical lol

  • Introducing ONCE, a new line of software products from 37signals: Pay one time, own forever.

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  • I mean, I get it, but there's value in paying for support and updates, and it's untenable for an organization to do that for free. I'm optimistic for software running under this model, I'd 1000% love to go back to the pay once per major version model, but "pay once forever" software leaves some unanswered questions.