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PhilipTheBucket

@ PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

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  • Trump Cognitively Declines In Front Of The World During Meet With NATO Leader

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  • Seriously. “Esprit de corps”? Where the hell did he get that from? He blamed everything on Biden and it didn’t make any sense, but that’s not anything new, that’s what won him the election.

  • Google is tracking you even when you use DuckDuckGo [privacy respecting search engines, via trackers on the websites that you visit]

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  • Yeah. I pretty much use Tor and Librewolf exclusively. Whenever I use something else, it's like the internet has become a parody put together by someone who's making a point about intrusive advertising.

  • Google is tracking you even when you use DuckDuckGo [privacy respecting search engines, via trackers on the websites that you visit]

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  • Because the site DDG sent you to is often partnered with Google

  • World News @quokk.au
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    South African police minister suspended over corruption allegations

    www.aljazeera.com /news/2025/7/13/south-african-police-minister-suspended-over-corruption-allegations
  • World News @quokk.au
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Russia's summer offensive has fallen 'far short of expectations,' Zelensky says

    kyivindependent.com /russias-summer-offensive-has-fallen-far-short-of-expectations-zelensky-says/

  • A few people are ruining the internet for the rest of us

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    1. At least on Lemmy, this is definitely what I've observed. If you look at any thread that's full of sturm und drang, it's usually a tiny handful of accounts that are creating all of it (and then roping other people into their hostility, like a little chain reaction, like Chernobyl.) If you look at the impact, it just looks like everyone's an asshole, but if you look at the root of the trouble, you realize most people are fine and a tiny minority are noisy and hostile and they can just get everyone else spun up.
    2. I agree, if you're in NYC right at this moment in history and you can't see a bigger picture of things worth getting heated up about than White Lotus, you should talk with people in your community more.
  • US News @ponder.cat
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    A heat wave hit New England’s grid. Clean energy saved the day.

    grist.org /energy/a-heat-wave-hit-new-englands-grid-clean-energy-saved-the-day/

  • YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process (Edit: Not anymore, it’s fixed now)

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  • I frequently make bug reports and contributions to all kinds of software. If this wasn’t something that impacted people’s security and trust evaluation, that’s exactly what I would have done.

    Put it this way: If Android, or Outlook or whatever, was sending your admin password home to Google or Microsoft, and then people showed up to say it was probably an innocent mistake and why are you even making a big deal about it, just report it and let them fix it instead of creating drama, that would be absurd. That’s how I feel about the people here telling me the same thing.

  • YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process (Edit: Not anymore, it’s fixed now)

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  • Well, part of the price I pay for being a consistent dickhead is that sometimes people aren’t enthused to respond to me. I get why they wouldn’t really want to respond here and get yelled at, whether or not it was malicious, and instead just fix it and go on.

    In my opinion it would be a healthier way to go about things if they were willing to meet criticism head-on, but the pro-authoritarianism position they’ve staked out for themselves is so widely and bitterly unpopular that I think that ship has sailed and they’re unlikely to engage with most of the free-speaking world at this point, because it would just be a torrent of abuse and mockery and so what would even be gained by it.

  • Who here was the family scapegoat?

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  • Not in the family but at a job.

    Leave sooner. You’re actually super qualified. If they don’t want it, don’t try to figure out how to get it done anyway, just start rocking with people that rock with you instead.

  • Trump posts message of support for Bondi amid Epstein probe fallout

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  • Inb4 Pam Bondi gets thrown under the bus

    She’s stupid and obedient enough to survive longer than most. But how many people who were close to Trump 2 years ago are still anywhere in his orbit now? You either leave voluntarily, or you get thrown to the Sarlacc whenever it serves the convenience of the day.

  • What's your harmless/low-stakes conspiracy theory?

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  • The first rule of fascism is, when it arrives, turn your guns against the fascists. Not against your friends who aren’t being anti-fascist enough, or weren’t in the past, or whatever.

  • Pretty

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  • I hear he used to play with Canned Heat sometimes.

  • What's your harmless/low-stakes conspiracy theory?

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  • The evidence for my secondary conspiracy theory grows stronger

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  • My new conspiracy theory is that a gang of people have teamed up to try to wind me up on this particular topic in what was supposed to be a lighthearted nonsense-question to which I gave an appropriate nonsense-answer.

    You’re the only one who actually did arrive at something which is pretty much the actual answer (“coulomb counting”), although you keep mucking it up by saying things like you “can get a voltage sensor” to get the energy left in the battery, or “current through the battery” when the battery is the only part current does not flow through during discharge, or by making up wild random guesses that something is “almost certainly” taken into account. Just take all that extra stuff away and stick with “the phone monitors discharge” and you’ll be pretty much right.

    Hopefully we can put this whole endeavor behind us now, and go back to talking about Chipotle and chemtrails.

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  • Touchscreens can be made at massive scale and then repurposed in batches for everywhere. They’re always the same (roughly speaking). Buttons are individual components, you have to lay the whole thing out custom how you want it to be, you have to put all these fiddly little components together… just having a robot make a big square object along with 199,999 other ones is cheaper, even if technically the big square object is orders of magnitude more complex than the chunks of plastic and springs and buttons etc.

  • What's your harmless/low-stakes conspiracy theory?

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  • You misspelled “resistance and time,” but close. The “A” part is the current.

  • What's your harmless/low-stakes conspiracy theory?

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  • Did COINTELPRO include planting fake conspiracy theories? I missed that part of it if so, maybe just because there was so much else in it that was so much worse

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  • Preach sibling

    Idk how multiple super assertive people all got the idea that “voltage = battery percent” and all wanted to yell it at me the same time lol

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  • I saw Ellen DeGeneres on TV long before the scandal and could immediately tell she was awful.

    Just watch her interactions, from any time period. She clearly is just brimming with hate under the tense, smiling face and the manic presentation. I was sort of surprised that other people couldn’t see it.

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  • We need the guy who posted on Reddit that he thinks all of Chipotle contains a money laundering front based on big phone orders that would sometimes come in that would wind up not getting either made or picked up, just a fake order that went into the list alongside all the real ones but got paid for over the phone. He said this happened at multiple Chipotles he knew and he couldn’t think of anything at all it could be other than money laundering.

  • Technology @beehaw.org
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    xAI explains the Grok Nazi meltdown as Tesla puts Elon’s bot in its cars

    www.theverge.com /news/706498/xai-grok-hitler-antisemitism-tesla-ai-bot
  • World News @quokk.au
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    'Impeccable results' — New Skynex video shows Ukrainian forces destroying Russian drones with German gun

    kyivindependent.com /impeccable-results-new-skynex-video-shows-ukrainian-forces-destroying-russian-drones/
  • World News @quokk.au
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Russia blames Western sanctions for collapse of UN food deal

    kyivindependent.com /russia-blames-western-sanctions-for-collapse-of-un-food-deal/
  • World News @quokk.au
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Ukraine's top anti-corruption activist faces charges in case his team calls political vendetta

    kyivindependent.com /antac-shabunin-case/
  • World News @quokk.au
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Ukraine introduces drone simulators and tactical medicine in school training

    www.pravda.com.ua /eng/news/2025/07/12/7521462/
  • US News @ponder.cat
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Water Utility Says It Can’t Meet Demand for Alabama Data Center Without ‘Significant Upgrades’

    insideclimatenews.org /news/12072025/bessemer-alabama-water-utility-data-center-upgrades/
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    AI coding tools make developers slower, study finds

    go.theregister.com /feed/www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/ai_code_tools_slow_down/
  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process (Edit: Not anymore, it’s fixed now)

  • Technology @lemmy.zip
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Europe on a Roll: Plans Open Source Alternative to Confluence and Jira

    news.itsfoss.com /europe-open-source-alternative-confluence/
  • Legal News @lemmy.zip
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Texas Mid-Decade Redistricting and DOJ Letter

    electionlawblog.org
  • World News @quokk.au
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Trump’s African summit was a masterclass in modern colonial theatre

    www.aljazeera.com /opinions/2025/7/11/trumps-african-summit-was-a-masterclass-in-modern-colonial-theatre
  • US News @ponder.cat
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    ICE is now hunting for clergy members willing to work in Guantánamo Bay

    www.the-independent.com /news/world/americas/ice-immigration-deported-guantanamo-religion-b2786738.html
  • World News @quokk.au
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    The South Caucasus is slipping from Russia’s grasp

    www.aljazeera.com /opinions/2025/7/10/the-south-caucasus-is-slipping-from-russias-grasp
  • Technology @beehaw.org
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    At last, a promising use for AI agents: crypto theft

    go.theregister.com /feed/www.theregister.com/2025/07/10/ai_agents_automatically_steal_cryptocurrency/
  • World News @quokk.au
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Defund universities that allow anti-Semitism, says Australia envoy

    www.aljazeera.com /news/2025/7/10/defund-universities-that-allow-anti-semitism-australia-envoy-says
  • World News @quokk.au
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    EU suspends Ukrainian language interpreter suspected of spying on Zelensky for Russia

    kyivindependent.com /european-commission-suspends-ukrainian-interpreter-for-allegedly-spying-on-zelensky-for-russia-le-monde-reports-06-2025/
  • World News @quokk.au
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    UK parliamentary committee seeks answers over US firm BCG’s role in Gaza

    www.aljazeera.com /news/2025/7/10/uk-parliamentary-committee-seeks-answers-over-us-firm-bcgs-role-in-gaza