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AnarchoSnowPlow

@ AnarchoSnowPlow @midwest.social

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  • Prediction: Microsoft Is Going to Do the Funniest Thing Imaginable

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  • My primary issue with windows is that teams and outlook are getting less usable, and their "updates" regularly break my workflow and/or toolchains.

    It's done nothing but get worse and feel more predatory, there's ads in the start menu now. This wasn't a thing like 5 years ago.

    So I take umbrage with the sentiment that there's nothing functionally wrong with windows.

  • Gov. Walz mobilizes Minnesota National Guard amid heated protests

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  • I talked to a mn guardsman I know this morning about it. He said that the way they do the activations is in phases starting with MPs.

    My understanding is that it's basically a warning and a plan for where you're at on the list of getting called up, so you know what to expect as the situation changes.

  • My “daughter” identifies as “masc”?

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  • I'm a dad of a 17 yo trans masc son.

    It has been something like 5+ years now since he came out.

    Some things I've dealt with, that may or may not be part of your and your family's journey:

    I felt loss for awhile. Like, I felt like I had somehow lost the child that I had, and though I'd gained a new son, it was still hard. I felt so guilty. I wanted to be supportive, I didn't understand, but I wanted to be supportive and grieving didn't feel like support. So I did my best to keep that to myself because as he became more himself he became more joyful.

    Eventually I realized that I was suddenly seeing a kid I hadn't seen in years, he had been very depressed even self harming at times, but with therapy, and gender affirming care it was like we got the kid we had lost back.

    There will be people, especially online, who doubt your story, will openly call you a liar, or in some cases a child abuser.

    Our home state, where most of our family lives, started aggressively pursuing legislation to criminalize us and the lengthy and thoughtful process we went through with our sons transition.

    He dealt with violent threats from other students at school, to the point where kids threatend him on the school bus with baseball bats, even chasing him from the bus stop.

    We moved across the country to try and find safety, even that is not guaranteed.

    All that said, you will have moments of joy and moments of sadness in a world that is at best imperfect and at worst actively seeking to harm you and your loved ones.

    Our jobs, as parents from my point of view, is to build our kids up and give them the tools and confidence to be successful when we're not there for them anymore. The world will give them plenty of hate and tribulation, we should give them acceptance and love.

    Do what you can to protect and accept your kid. Use their name and preferred pronouns. When others have been brought into that circle keep them accountable, don't let them slip. You will see those acting in good faith and in bad, give grace where it's deserved and be prepared to protect your child from people you may have thought you could trust with your life.

    Beyond that, remember they're still your kid lol, you're still gonna deal with the same old teenager/parent relationship as usual. Honestly, besides the name change, the only real issues we have come from the outside.

  • Americans are gonna be here for a while...

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  • I live in a fairly conservative area that's working class.

    People intuitively understand when you describe how much capitalism sucks because they're living it.

    If you say "capitalism sucks", you are going to get reactionary thought and action. You have to say things in a way to engage their experience and understanding without tripping the propagandized brain worms.

    If you can do that, you'll find that they're primed to reject capitalism, they just don't know it yet.

    "These rich fuckers don't give a shit about us, but they have no problems helping each other out."

    "Everybody's boss is the same, they want you to work harder, more hours, and do it all for less money. They want us to be able to barely survive."

    "The only way we can make them change is to all work together. They'll screw over each one of us individually, but if we're together they'll know it's actually them who needs us."

  • Is it a red flag that your boss asks you to explain yourself in front of other coworkers?

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  • This is a shitty leader.

    Praise in public. Correct in private.

    Not that I even agree correction was warranted.

  • ;DR blame the dev

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  • I believe you and I'm sure they were fine.

    I wrote an XML parser in LabVIEW once. Just because you can doesn't mean it's the right thing to do lol.

  • ;DR blame the dev

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  • That's ridiculous. Everyone knows its best to write modern bootloaders in Matlab.

  • You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands

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  • Programming languages, much like the jackass in the middle, are tools. Different tools are for different things. The right tool for the job can make your day. The wrong tool can make you question your entire career.

  • You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands

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  • "We have decided that we will use deck screws to build our deck, it's the right pattern and architecture for the job. Now get started with this hammer, the tool you use doesn't matter as long as it's functional as a tool. If it's not working well that's an optimization problem because you're bad at your job."

  • GUI library for C?

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  • I generally don't do GUIs for C. But I'm also an embedded C person.

    When I have I'll generate DLLs for the C portion then just pull them into a python based interface or something with easier to deal with gui implementations.

    Programming languages are tools. Would you use a wrench to drive a nail? You could. But it would be painful, you're gonna miss and whack your hand at least once.

    If it's a learning exercise, go for the C implementation, why not? I've written an XML parser in LabVIEW. (I never stopped to ask whether I should...) Is that the right tool for the job? Fuck no.

    If this is an exercise in software engineering be an engineer and use the 99% already built and verified system to do the job it's meant to.

    Or you can write an entire theme park simulator in assembly because you like pain or something.

  • Claude Code's DX is too good. And that's a problem

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  • I'd rather let a junior engineer loose in my codebase. At least I know their intent and where they live.

  • Shout out to my engineering homies.

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  • Some of us turned down Lockheed and Raytheon.

  • Suggestions for a USD100 2m/70cm HT

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  • I can't tell you that a baofeng is gonna outperform any of these radios. I can tell you that I've got two of them, a programming cable, a mag mount vhf/uhf antenna, a nagoya antenna, and an antenna I made out of some leftover Romex and a painting pole. All this was well within that budget.

    I can also tell you that I, not without some antenna placement experiments, can consistently activate a local repeater from around 15 miles. And have been complimented on audio quality on multiple occasions.

    You are not going to find an ht with a rubber duck antenna that's going to perform the way you'd like. You will need to try out some different things.

    Save yourself some heartache and get an sma to BNC adapter for the radios you wanna play with some antennas on and some whatever your antennas have to bnc adapters, get a few antennas instead of another ht, and just try stuff out. Or hell, throw $16 bucks at a gt-5r, they're clean transmitters now, the build quality is surprisingly good (on mine anyway) and even if it's hot garbage you didn't spend a fortune on it.

    You will always wonder if you're screwing things up, you just get better and faster at diagnosing the issue through practice.

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    Stop cramming everything onto one Pi: treat your home lab like a tiny ISP - hardware, stack, backups and an update plan

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  • Off lease corporate thin clients with fresh ssds. You can get something that runs off a laptop power supply, will handle more than you're going to throw at it, and they're insanely cheap.

    I moved to one from a pi when I got serious about home assistant.

    I also run a stack of networking utilities on my OPNSense router.

    Jellyfin has been a bit more difficult to transition, I'm still running it on my wife's gaming computer. I've pre transcoded most of our collection, but not all of it. I need to find something very cheap but also capable of handling the odd 4k transcode.

  • a stupud ad made me realize how unappreciated I feel

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  • Our system, the US, but also the west in general, is designed to make you feel alone. It is designed to fragment and alienate the working class. It is designed to exploit and extract as much from you as it can.

    The fact that we don't all feel like this constantly is a miracle. There's been a war on since this place was founded and it's always been the rich vs the vast majority of people.

    Therapy can help and I highly recommend it. Understanding your enemy can also help. Ultimately, I find the most relief in connecting with other people. Talk to your spouse, talk to random strangers, talk to your kids. I'm an introvert and socializing is exhausting, but it's also the only cure for the malaise of a sick society, in my opinion.

  • #RatFuckTheTimes

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  • Take a look at their coverage of the Holocaust. Hasn't gotten better since.

  • US supreme court issues emergency order blocking full Snap food aid payments

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  • 42 Million people on the brink of starvation.

    We have the food. Our government could remedy this situation easily. It is currently mid-own-goal and If it continues it will radicalized an entire generation against capitalism.

    They will not be able to hide the contradictions of capital accumulation from regular ass Americans. It will be obvious, even to those not paying attention that the system is violent and it is violent along class lines most especially.

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    Fever dream phone. Also, no apps.

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  • The problem with windows 8 is that with the initial release they wanted everything to be a mobile OS, even your desktop.

    "Metro Design" lol

    But it seemed decent for tablets and phones.

  • Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like

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  • The door monitor mostly helps when a kid walks off leaving it open thinking they closed it.

    The freezer temperature monitoring has saved the contents several times. A breaker had tripped once and I didn't notice, it let me know that I needed a generator during a power outage, and one of the kids snuck an ice cream and left the lid wide open.

    So yeah, it's been useful. It's not needed 99% of the time.

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    My Best Ever Tolerance Test

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