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  • Judge orders US to provide California ICE detainees with medical care, attorneys and blankets

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  • Is breathable air also necessitated? Is there a minimum or maximum atmospheric pressure allowed in detention areas? Just how specific do the laws and orders need to be to prevent malicious compliance bullshit?

    "You never said the blankets couldn't be made of steel wool and soaked in lemon juice.""Temperature-appropriate clothing, sure - but you didn't specify appropriate for the local climate and not somewhere thousands of miles away.""The medication supply was adequate, it sufficed for the rest of their life!"

    There ain't no rule that says a concentration camp can't be made entirely of asbestos coated lead!

  • People like this

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  • Sticking my neck out a bit to share my general views and habits on voting to maybe add some other things to consider.

    My general mindset is that each community sets rules on posts and comments, and that ideally only appropriate things should then be posted. So I typically only think to upvote stuff when there's an even greater than normal amount of effort or thought put into something, or to counteract dogpile downvotes to an appropriate post/comment.

    Say I'm browsing a motorcycle community and one user posts a meme about bikes, and someone else poses a story about learning to ride; if my preference is for text posts instead of images I could just upvote the story post and not the meme, but both posts are related to the community and belong there. I could upvote both (and by extension all posts) but then what's the difference if everything is +1 or +0? If memes are disallowed, I can downvote and report the post to push it down to hopefully keep others from having to see it or encourage them to post their own.

    I will also downvote nearly 100% of extremely low-effort pointless comments like "THIS", "lol", URL shortened or amp/tracking including links without context etc. A post in another language but marked as English I will also downvote, foreign language communities/instances I just block. I block most meme and shitpost style communities so I'm not looking to vote police what other people enjoy, but doing this stuff in science/news/hobby/etc. communities is inappropriate.

    So that's generally how I behave on Lemmy (and previously on Reddit) - I'm generally more "on the lookout" for bad content, and not looking to boost things that belong here. I don't rely on voting to maintain my feed, my block lists are also enormous.

    A more semi-recent phenomenon is accounts spam posting a bunch of (relevant) links and then self-deleting - I can't block that account to hide their posts, but as I'm scrolling through my feed I will downvote every single post they made regardless of its quality etc. I'm not going to rehash arguments about whether their behavior is acceptable or not ("they are posting relevant stuff, who cares if they're acting in bad faith!") but since there's generally 2-3 of those accounts per day spam posting junk that's a lot of downvotes from me to a lot of different communities including some I'm not subscribed to. I'm not going to bother reporting every single post, and until there's a method to easily directly report a user I'm not going to bother trying that anymore.

    Just wanted to put that out there that there might be other legitimate users that have wildly disproportionate voting numbers and that it might not be malicious or careless in nature. I don't know if Lemmy ignores them like Reddit (supposedly?) does, but I've never mass voted from a user's history. It's only from comments and posts that were presented to me during my normal browsing.

  • Why Does Driving Make People Crazy?

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  • Halligan’s ‘Correction’ of the Record Sparks More Intrigue About Comey Indictment

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  • How Cops Are Using Flock Safety's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and Activists

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  • How Cops Are Using Flock Safety's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and Activists

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  • Trump Shocks With Earnest Praise of Zohran Mamdani: He’s Going to ‘Surprise’ Conservatives

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  • I hope Mamdani has adequate security because my first reaction to this is that it's an attempt at plausible deniability for when some "unfortunate accident" befalls him. The emphasis on there not being a difference in parties, and how much they're all rooting for him, could be parlayed into encouraging everyone to just accept a republican replacement since our goals are totally in alignment, but clearly the democrats just can't take care of their own people or the citizens they represent.

    Any other president and administration I'd take the comments as either sincere or just friendly empty platitudes, but this group doesn't do anything seemingly human without ulterior motives.

  • Twelve Coffee Day

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  • Border Patrol arrests 81 as 'Charlotte's Web' operation starts

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  • How A Blast From The Past

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  • I hope in some fashion computers and related technology drop out of mainstream appeal and are relegated to actual nerds and tinkerers again. Not in a gatekeeping sense, but just where the goals are about pushing boundaries for the sake of exploration and not solely profit and personal data acquisition motivated.

  • How A Blast From The Past

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  • as my system chases it's tale in a silicon frenzy

    Nice proofreading, Lazlow J.

    I'm just a bit too young to have been part of the BBS scene, but I've certainly done plenty of Windows re-installs. I had a friend that would wipe his Windows 98SE drive every two weeks or so, whether or not there was any instability. I recently stumbled across an old backup of some screenshots and found one where I was apparently proud of the 31 day system uptime. Best part of the transition to NT based Windows was definitely the near complete elimination of BSoDs. Kinda blocked out the bad memories of random lockups and blue screens just being an expected part of daily computing life.

    fdisk, format, reinstalldoo-dah, doo-dah

    To be somewhat close to on-topic with self-hosting, the oldest service I have fond memories of running was a small Hotline server.

  • The President Stuns Reporters With Bizarre Comment About His MRI

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  • He didn't insist on a Steam Resonance Imaging test instead?

  • Scientists Created a Bulletproof Material 3 Times Stronger Than Kevlar—It’s Already Breaking Records

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  • A new day, a new cm0002 account to add to the block list (this one marks #25). I really hope the next Lemmy update includes wildcard filters or something.

  • 'Yo tengo papeles': Teacher detained by immigration agents in North Center day care

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  • I get that the quote about feeling despair is supposed to be read in the "look for the helpers" sense, but it could also be interpreted in the discouraging bystander effect way that there were hundreds of us and only four federal agents still succeeded.

    EDIT:Another possibility I overlooked, maybe instead of it being meant in the "look for the helpers" it was actually more in the "can you dig it?" & jury nullification sense...

  • Authors Guild Asks Supreme Court to Hold Internet Providers Accountable for Copyright Theft

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  • I'm guessing it wouldn't be a valid legal argument, but I liked the thought experiment of claiming that it can't be piracy if the rights holder is intentionally publicly sharing the content. Like trying to charge trick-or-treaters for theft when they took candy out of the bowl you left out with a "Free!" sign attached.

  • Police report describes Republican Nancy Mace berating airport police and TSA agents

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  • For everybody's sake, I hope you're right.

    I'd think sending tens of billions of dollars to foreign governments - plus spending hundreds of millions on aesthetic remodeling of the white house - while simultaneously threatening and endangering the food security and medical coverage of the entire country would be considered bad politics, too. At this point I honestly wouldn't even be surprised if they try spinning furloughed workers as attempting an insurrection or something and that the workers actually owe money to the government for their machinations.

  • Police report describes Republican Nancy Mace berating airport police and TSA agents

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  • Should I buy an Alienware X51 r2 for 100$?

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  • If nothing else, you should easily be able to determine the amount of RAM by watching during POST (might need to press esc/tab/etc. if there's just a fullscreen logo or something) or by entering the BIOS/UEFI (check mfg site for specific button, but usually delete or an F-key).

    Depending on the friend's willingness and aptitude there's also the option of booting a live linux environment with a flash drive (or disc) and using its tools to profile all the detected hardware.

  • Been trying to make an end of the world music playlist. Would love some thoughts on how I'm doing or if there's any missing music!

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