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PhilipTheBucket

@ PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

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

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  • I absolutely think the government has deliberately spread various conspiracy theories at different points to cover up specific things they were doing.

    “Chemtrails,” for example, became a thing with a bunch of wild accessory claims that were obviously wrong, at a time when people were discovering that the US government had done biological weapons testing by dropping viruses from airplanes over cities and in some cases hurt random people by doing it. If there’s a nutty conspiracy theory out there that sounds a lot like what actually happened, it makes it harder for people to talk about what actually happened without also sounding crazy.

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

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  • I don’t think I am going to take confident proclamations about how it works from someone who thinks “voltage” translates to “how much energy is left in the battery”.

    https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-903-how-to-measure-state-of-charge

    I don’t really know how this stuff works, that’s why it is my conspiracy theory instead of me just giving fun facts. But, I don’t think you know how this stuff works either.

    It sounds like coulomb counting (current sensors, as you said) is often the method. Personally, I suspect there’s a decent amount of bullshit inserted into that to make it look “normal” when people are looking at how the number behaves, at the expense of accuracy. You might move your phone from cold to warm for example, and the usable energy in the battery might increase when that happens (or something) but it’s definitely not going to show your battery percent going up, even if it could detect it properly which I don’t think it can. Whether to say that means it’s “bullshit” is I guess a matter of opinion.

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

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  • The battery level your phone shows is just made-up bullshit. It’s roughly accurate of course, but they can’t really check how much charge is in the battery with 1:100 accuracy, so it just counts down at a roughly constant rate making adjustments to the rate based on rough measurements of broadly whether the battery is “real full” or “mostly full” or “almost empty” or whatever.

  • Bots everywhere or am I losing it?

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  • Pretty unusual for five people to all vote within half a second of each other

    This is actually a consequence of how votes federate out. They go out in batches, all at once, after a little bit of a delay.

    I actually do also think that people are artificially trying to rig the votes about particular things (and frequently the admins catch some people doing it with careless obviousness), but this isn’t an indication, it’s more difficult to detect than that.

  • Detained immigrants at 'Alligator Alcatraz' say there are worms in food and wastewater on the floor

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  • Most of the people who died in Germany’s camps weren’t killed “on purpose.” They simply couldn’t survive the conditions, and died of disease, malnutrition, cold, and so on. This is a feature. Explicit killing “on purpose” is just the backup option if things aren’t moving quickly enough.

  • 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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  • Maybe you mean it’s use where people use it specifically as a package manager

    Precisely. Containerization is great and Docker does it well. Sending someone a reproducible script that can set up your software package for them is great. Marrying the two concepts unnecessarily and using one specific tool which is designed primarily to do the first, to instead do the second, is the only real issue I’m taking with it.

  • 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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  • Yeah, I honestly just strongly dislike the whole Docker ethos. It was designed for one thing (deployment at scale), at which it excelled, and then everyone uses it for a different thing (reproducible one-off deployment), at which it is fine, basically, but just kind of the minimum set of capabilities to get the job done.

    Nix can do what Docker does, in a much superior fashion (lower disk space, much better transparency, rollback ability, lack of towering chains of follow-on effects as you are talking about, and applications outside of mucking around with containerized images), but for some reason everyone uses Docker, and Nix is as far as I can tell unused outside of NixOS.

    Whatever. When they make me king, it'll be different, that's all I can say.

  • 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 don't think .ml should be ousted. I think they should stop being dickheads. It's a little tangential to this particular post (mostly only relevant in that it makes people suspicious of their motives when otherwise they would not be.)

  • 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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  • Yeah, it’s crazy how we all have more or less the exact same opinions, and the leader bans anyone who doesn’t have those opinions, and we’re all fine with it and in fact justify it and claim it’s right, whenever it comes up.

    It’s totally insane. I have no idea how or why anyone would decide to make an account in our stuff. In fact, it makes other people suspicious of our designated good leader, even in scenarios where there isn’t otherwise a ton of reason to assume any malice.

  • 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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  • Docker is a mediocre solution to a real problem. It doesn’t cost any money, it does the job, but also, it consumes lots more disk than it needs to and can’t do some things that a solution in this space really should be able to do.

    If the world had decided that Nix was the way to containerize their web services and make them reproducible, the world would have been a better place, but that wasn’t what happened (yet at least).

  • 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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    • “This isn’t even malicious, just look at it, it’s perfectly innocent”
    • “Besides, if they wanted to do something, they could disguise it way better than this”

    Pick a lane, .ml.

  • 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 know, we don’t want our software sending our secrets to the trusted good leader, and we don’t feel like participating in places where only the leader’s viewpoint is acceptable. Unlike the non-sheep, who are fine with both those things apparently, because who wouldn’t trust the good leader.

  • 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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  • They didn’t acknowledge it. They just silently fixed it (or, someone did, at least).

    They’re not obligated to come in here and get yelled at, of course, and what would it accomplish. But, on the other hand, it is relevant that they can’t handle being in any environment where people can just speak freely to them, and respect is earned rather than demanded by force. There’s a certain type of mentality that just can’t cope with being in any role other than “the boss” and being able to talk down to or punish whoever they want, with no one allowed to express anything other than respect and obedience in the other direction. That is, in fact, the exact mentality that makes people suspicious of this otherwise maybe innocent issue with the software.

  • 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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  • Edited.

  • US aware of reported death of American after beating by Israeli settlers

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  • The Iranians attacked an American base during Trump 1 and injured some soldiers, and Israel had been killing Americans periodically since the USS Liberty. No one’s going to give a shit, in any way that matters.

  • 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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  • Yeah 100%, it's all Docker's fault at the end of the day

  • Who is impersonating everyone involved in Draconic NEO drama?

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  • I sort of suspect that, on Reddit, there were malicious people who got skilled at drumming up big vicious controversies to help to drive away people (especially moderators) who they didn't want to have around. There's a pretty popular reddit post where someone who did this professionally (so as to make it possible to shill for particular products in a non-Reddit forum, being paid by the people who made the products) explained some of the details of how it all worked and how little effort it took overall to make it work.

    I have no idea about this, I don't even know if Draconic NEO is a mod or what types of things they get up to. But any time I see senseless unhinged drama, especially if it's aimed at one particular person, I think of that reddit post.

  • 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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  • One of the .ml users down below volunteered to put in the PR later tonight if no one else has, so it sounds like both bases are covered now.

  • 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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  • Sounds great. Thank you, it sounds like a good idea.

  • US News @ponder.cat
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    'I can't drink the water' - life next to a US data centre

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/cy8gy7lv448o
  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    Internet extremists want to make all AI chatbots as hateful as Grok just was

    www.motherjones.com /politics/2025/07/grok-ai-antisemitism/
  • World News @quokk.au
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    US sanctions alleged North Korean IT sweatshop leader

    go.theregister.com /feed/www.theregister.com/2025/07/09/us_sanctions_north_korean_it/
  • World News @quokk.au
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Antarctic coalition wins €1m prize for safeguarding a fragile frontier

    news.mongabay.com /short-article/2025/07/antarctic-coalition-wins-e1m-prize-for-safeguarding-a-fragile-frontier/
  • World News @quokk.au
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Russia eyes USAID-type development model to expand global influence

    kyivindependent.com /russia-eyes-usaid-type-development-model-to-expand-global-influence-official-says-06-2025/
  • Legal News @lemmy.zip
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Only Criminals Don’t Want To Be Gassed By The Government

    www.popehat.com /p/only-criminals-don-t-want-to-be-gassed-by-the-government
  • US News @ponder.cat
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    L.A. activist indicted after handing out face shields to anti-ICE protesters

    www.latimes.com /california/story/2025-07-03/activist-indicted-face-shields-protests
  • US News @ponder.cat
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Video: ICE agents drive SUV through protesters at S.F. immigration court

    missionlocal.org /2025/07/video-ice-agents-brandish-rifles-drive-through-protesters-at-s-f-immigration-court/
  • World News @quokk.au
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    The entire command of Russia's elite 155th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade has been wiped out

    www.the-express.com /news/world-news/176859/russian-naval-brigade-wiped-out
  • Cybersecurity @sh.itjust.works
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    Browser hijacking campaign infects 2.3M Chrome, Edge users

    www.theregister.com /2025/07/08/browser_hijacking_campaign/
  • Legal News @lemmy.zip
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Trump Administration Wants to Enter into a Consent Decree that Would Allow Churches and Other Religious Organizations to Get More Directly Involved in Electoral Politics Despite the “Johnson Amendment

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

    Russia's transportation minister found dead in what officials say was an apparent suicide

    apnews.com /article/russia-starovoyt-minister-suicide-kursk-59babee35c7c1bae79c5becd51f52066
  • US News @ponder.cat
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Several in custody after North Texas police officer shot in neck outside ICE facility

    www.cbsnews.com /texas/news/alvarado-police-officer-shot-suspects-open-fire-fourth-of-july-johnson-county/
  • World News @quokk.au
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Albania’s for Sale, and Jared Kushner’s Buying

    jacobin.com /2025/07/kushner-rama-albania-sazan-israel-development-corruption/
  • World News @quokk.au
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Iran tells millions of Afghans to leave or face arrest on day of deadline

    www.aljazeera.com /news/2025/7/6/iran-tells-millions-of-afghans-to-leave-or-face-arrest-on-day-of-deadline
  • World News @quokk.au
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Party Fragmentation in the UK

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

    Death of top Russian oil executive fuels fresh scrutiny of elite's 'window falls'

    kyivindependent.com /out-the-window-another-suspicious-death-adds-to-russias-growing-body-count
  • US News @ponder.cat
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    ICE Is About to Get More Money Than It Can Spend

    jacobin.com /2025/07/ice-trump-bill-deportation-immigration/
  • US News @ponder.cat
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Kilmar Abrego Garcia Details How CECOT Is A Torture Camp

    www.techdirt.com /2025/07/03/kilmar-abrego-garcia-details-how-cecot-is-a-torture-camp/
  • US News @ponder.cat
    PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

    Workers died in high heat as OSHA debates protections

    www.eenews.net /articles/workers-died-in-high-heat-as-osha-debates-protections/