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Pumpkin Escobar

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  • In 'Abandonment of Public Education,' Louisiana to Allow Tax Dollars to Pay for Private Schools

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  • Without looking I’m sure Louisiana is already bottom state in at least a dozen major education metrics. This ensures that ten years from now it will be even more.

  • NYC's 'Portal' to Dublin to temporarily close after incidents of joy, mischief, occasional nudity

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  • Oh no, not titties!

  • Linux-only (ex-)LOL players: what did you swap to after Vanguard landed?

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  • Battle.net running in bottles works Ok. I did have an issue with battle.net running under X for a while, switching to Wayland worked. Whatever the problem was seems to have been fixed

  • #AsahiLinux: Fedora 40 now available for Apple M1/M2 machines!

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  • Asahi only partially supports the M3 and I guess now the M4 is out (though only in iPad)?

  • BTRFS for Linux gaming?

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  • Btrfs will be fine, I use btrfs on a standard arch install, timeshift for managing snapshots, works well.

  • Its a hard fate : (

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  • Fwiw they’re able to do the same thing by the sound of someone typing a password across the room. Not advocating for fingerprints or anything, just these exotic hacks are everywhere

  • Republican Congresswoman Greene launches effort to oust Johnson following passage of Ukraine aid

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  • I thought I saw a headline last night that the democrats in the house said they would vote to table any effort to remove Johnson.

  • Fox News takes down Hunter Biden ‘mock trial’ miniseries after lawsuit threat

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  • I just blue myself

  • Fox News takes down Hunter Biden ‘mock trial’ miniseries after lawsuit threat

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  • The Trial of Hunter Biden('s Penis) - In this 6 part miniseries we'll be lending our usual journalistic excellence to uncovering the throbbing truth...

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  • Agreed, the meta+arrow shortcuts to move windows around are great. That defaults to half/quarter windows. You can also define a custom layout (meta+t to configure). The meta+arrow shortcuts still work on half/quarters of the screen, but you can shift+drag a window to drop it into one of the custom layout tiles/areas... gives a lot of flexibility.

  • California could ban Clear, which lets travelers pay to skip TSA lines

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  • Just to check, is the suggestion to get rid of TSA and not replace it? i.e. no security screening at the airports?

    Is there any country on the planet anymore where that's a thing? Any example of a working version of what you're proposing (if I'm reading it right)?

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    Disband TSA. It’s never been shown to improve safety

    That sounds pretty far from true. The only way this is true is if TSA procedures have never prevented a single gun, bomb, etc... past a security checkpoint.

    As reported by the TSA they stopped 6737 firearms, 93% of them loaded from getting into secure areas... in 2023 alone. They also conducted a passenger survey where 93% of passengers said they were satisfied with experience, 94% confident in TSA's ability to keep air travel secure

    Conducted a passenger experience survey with a sample size of 13,000 travelers at multiple airports across the nation. Survey results revealed that 93% of travelers were satisfied with the passenger experience and 94% of the respondents were confident in TSA’s ability to keep air travel secure.

    I'm not sure what percentage of the 93% would feel the same way, but I will say if the TSA went away tomorrow with no replacement I'd no longer be flying on any airline that was unscreened.

  • California could ban Clear, which lets travelers pay to skip TSA lines

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  • Can I ask what the better working system would look like? I've seen plenty of the stories about TSA lapses, obviously security at the airports isn't fun, but I'm not sure what an alternative system that works would look like.

  • Modi Calls Muslims ‘Infiltrators’ Who Would Take India’s Wealth

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  • Almost every time someone tries to lump this many people into one basket, the rest of what they’re saying is going to be dumb as hell.

  • Sen. Elizabeth Warren's bill would end trading in water futures

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  • There are times I think I’m the lefty-ist person I know, then I see something like this.

    I do think she’s not quite as lefty as her image from 8-10 years ago but she’s a far cry from Sinema. I like 60ish percent of the things Warren says and does, that’s a decent start.

  • Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads

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  • I like that. If there was a site that did like The Razzies for movies but for technology enshitification, I would definitely watch, and probably follow a blog if it was done well

  • How do we tell him ?

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  • Real answer, learn how to paste several code snippets from stack overflow into a ChatGPT window and ask it to do what you need. Sprinkle in some copilot to tweak as needed. Congrats, Mr Programmer.

  • Offline alternatives to Roku / Streaming boxes

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  • Just a note, the orange pi drivers are not in great shape. It’s getting better but I have a cluster of raspberry pi’s for development, bought an orange pi without first checking out much about them and it’s rough. Rockchip CPUs are great, and the driver / firmware situation is getting better, but something I’d read up on before buying one.

    I’d still look at the N100, it’s about 2.5x the performance of raspberry pi 5, and being x86 you have more options than arm.

  • Offline alternatives to Roku / Streaming boxes

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  • There are a lot of tiny PCs these days that can output 4k video and audio. Look for something with an N100 or N200 CPU if you want to go as cheap as possible, they tend to be super-cheap and perform well. I've got one of the GMTecs and this wireless keyboard+mouse, works really well from the couch.

    There are cheaper/other options but to get you started: https://www.amazon.com/GMKtec-Windows-Computer-Business-G3-dp-B0CQ4XQ2WG/dp/B0CQ4XQ2WG https://morefine.com/collections/pc-box (specifically the M9)

  • Why do OpenRC, runit, Sysvinit not Use Config File as Their Init Script Like Upstart/systemd?

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  • I'm far from an expert in init systems, but there are some benefits to declarative approaches for configuration. It's one of the main reasons yaml and toml are as popular as they are. The short version is, declarative configuration tends to be less verbose, and the declarative contract defines what state you want things to be in, not how to get there which makes it easier on the person writing the unit file, and on the implementers of systemd in that there's a smaller surface-area to test

    Generally declarative:

    • requires less verbose configuration files, less room for error
    • is easier to document and easier to understand
    • leaves the implementers more freedom to improve their system as long as they live up to the agreed-upon contract
    • is easier for implementers to test/validate. They don't need to support a scripting language and every single crazy thing someone might try with one but still consider valid