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OboTheHobo

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  • Trump signs executive order renaming Pentagon 'Department of War'

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  • I have mixed feelings on this one, tbh

    On one hand, that was actually the original name. That changed after WW2 and to be honest I kinda think the name was part of a greater campaign to make it seem as though, somehow, the military actions that followed in the next few decades in the middle east, Asia, Latin America, etc. were actually all just "defending" the US. Which is bullshit.

    On the other hand, having perhaps the most insane president this country has ever seen saying that calling it war instead of defense because its more accurate to the current times is quite concerning to say the least.

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    TIL american public support for requiring vaccines against infectious diseases dropped from 81% in 1991 to 51% last year

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  • People have talked about this before, but it really does seem like people have forgotten how bad some of these diseases could get and how much vaccines helped us. In 1991 plenty of folk remembered polio, maybe even had a relative who got it. Good number remembered smallpox and/or got that shot themselves. But now less and less people really understand both the scale of devastation those diseases caused and the scale of how many were helped and saved by vaccines.

  • What do you think of imitation and lab-grown meats?

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  • I find it very promising. As much as I love meat, its pretty undeniable that raising livestock is super inefficient. It takes so much food to raise livestock that, iirc, more farmland in the US is dedicated to growing food for our food than to growing food for us. Lab grown meat doesn't completely solve this - there are still lost calories in the process to my knowledge - but its way more efficnient. Plus less land usage, less fossil fuel emissions, overall it would be more sustainable.

    I see 2 big problems facing it right now:

    The first is scale, which is the more significant. We'd need to figure out how to grow meat on a truly massive scale. Definitely doable though, just needs more research.

    The second is "realism" or how close it seems to natural meat. Lab grown meat has the advantage over like plant based stuff because it is actually meat. However, ifnits too perfect or uniform, or maybe doesnr have enough fat or variety, it might be seen as unnatural by many (even just subconsciously) and push them away from it.

    But yeah, could be awesome.

  • Hardware monitoring

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  • btop for sure. Shows current processes and their resources usage, us can terminate and kill them from the program kinda like windoes task manager, shows CPU usage/temp, and ram, storage, and network use. Only big thing it doesnt have that I use is GPU monitoring, I use nvtop for that.

    For stress testing, mprime is def best for CPU stress test. You may know it as prime95 on windows.

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  • The middle class still works to make a living. So they are part of the working class.

  • If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties?

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  • Yeah this is the thing that makes me really disagree with the whole "landlords are necessarily bad" thing. A lot of them are, to be sure, and there is so much wrong with our housing market, but there should still be a place for those who wish to rent to rent. I mean just speaking for myself right now, I would not want to own a home right now, even if it was affordable. I'd like to some day but where I am at life right now I would rather rent.

  • ‘Russia is targeting us deliberately’: how attacks on maternity hospitals fuelled a birth-rate crisis in Ukraine

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  • To some people "seeing through western propaganda" means deciding what to believe by whatever the opposite of western forces want

    Hate to break it to you but that's not thinking for yourself, in fact it takes no more self reflection and thought than it would to just blindly believe it all

  • Peter Thiel is delivering 4 private sold-out lectures at a club in San Francisco—about the Antichrist

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  • his concerns about technology’s potential to enable authoritarian control.

    I don't even know what to say at this point

  • The state of Linux phones in 2025

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  • Obviously this is subjective, but I use android auto all the time and something similar for a linux phone would be really nice for me. Don't dismiss them just cause you wouldn't use them

  • Boy, 11, shot dead after playing doorbell-ringing prank in Houston, police say

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  • Or are they so desperate to shoot someone that they just wanna blast some kid and say they feared for their lives?

    It is exactly this. These are deeply violent people who are actively seeking any reason to hide behind the excuse of self defense.

  • Israel hatches plan to kidnap Greta Thunberg into “terrorist-level conditions”

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  • Sure, but it still seems to be like a simply stupid move on their part. They're gonna turn one of the most influential activists of this generation from an outside observer to an eye witness

  • Israel hatches plan to kidnap Greta Thunberg into “terrorist-level conditions”

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  • Ah yes, because as everyone knows the best way to stop determined activists from talking about your human rights abuses is to show them first hand your human rights abuses. I'm sure they'll just shut up after that.

  • Proposals for commercial planes to operate with one pilot shelved after critical EU report

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  • I know a pilot and he mentioned a similar proposal he saw, he thought that the only reason anyone wanted them was so that they would have one less pilot to pay per flight.

  • /e/ OS does a little trolling and sends all your Text to Voice data to OpenAI for processing and Speech generation.

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  • Ok, the openAI thing is not great. However...

    they advertise themselves as degoogled, but instead let you connect to Google/Microsoft/etc services

    What the fuck are you talking about? Degoogled doesn't mean you shouldn't be allowed to connect to Google services. It just mean that it doesn't require Google services to function and that the default configuration shouldn't include any Google services. If the end user actively wants to use google/microsoft/etc services then they should be able to. It seems as though you are advocating for an open source operating system to lock itself down from allowing the end user to use certain features, which is against the FOSS ethos. Remember, "free" as in "freedom."

  • Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann

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  • Probably. But that might be under the umbrella of optional usage statistics/reporting that you can opt out of. Since this new tracking would be "necessary" for their "security" feature to work, there's no chance that it could be avoided.

  • Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann

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  • Could be, but that could also just be done locally. Like your phone checking the apps you have installed and seeing if the same ones are on the play store. Having an install limit for an app - assuming that means that the app can only be installed some total number of times globally (a local install limit wouldn't make any sense I think) - necessarily implies that when you install an app through an APK, it has to tell Google that you installed that app so it can track how many people have installed it and not approve installation of the app if it's over whatever the limit is.

  • Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann

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  • Something kind of concerning I just found - there's an option for "limited distribution" which is "Intended for 'students, hobbyists, and other personal use.'" One of the differences is the following:

    Has "capped number of apps and installs"(specific limits not disclosed)

    Doesn't this imply there's going to be global tracking of what apps people are installing even through sideloading or APKs? I can't think of any other way to enforce this. They would have to know how many times people installed an app even when its not through any kind of app store or even from the internet at all.

  • Colorado governor cuts spending on Medicaid, higher education and grants to plug $750M hole in state budget

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  • Huh? In the 2024 colorado election there was a ballot measure to retain excess tax from sports betting and it overwhelmingly passed. Year before there was a similar one for excess tax on tobacco, also passed by a ton. Are you referring to something different?

  • Almost Right

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  • It peaks in yellow/green, but its not a ton more yellow than the rest of the visible spectrum so its still very white, the yellow appearance from earth's surface is still more due to atmospheric filtering than the actual spectrum its emitting.