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TimLovesTech

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Hi I'm Tim.

I'm AuDHD - officially diagnosed ADHD and self-diagnosed (for now) with ASD. I also suffer from a great deal of Imposter Syndrome.

  • Why do you think voting is or isn't important?

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  • Trump has had several GOP "rhinos" primaried because they wouldn't bend the knee.

    • Rusty Bowers: The former Arizona House Speaker was censured by his state party and targeted by Trump after he refused to help overturn the 2020 election results in Arizona.
    • Liz Cheney: As the former chair of the House Republican Conference and a leading critic of Trump, she was a primary target. Trump endorsed Harriet Hageman, who defeated Cheney in the 2022 Wyoming primary election.
    • Doug Ducey: Trump called the former Arizona governor a "RINO" for not engaging with his efforts to challenge the 2020 election outcome in the state.
    • Larry Hogan: Trump has repeatedly labeled the former Maryland governor a "RINO," though Hogan has remained popular in his state.
    • Brian Kemp: The Governor of Georgia earned Trump's ire for certifying the 2020 election results in his state. Trump endorsed David Perdue in the Republican primary, but Kemp won re-election.
    • Mitch McConnell: Trump has repeatedly attacked the Senate Minority Leader, though he has not been able to directly replace him.
    • Lisa Murkowski: One of the few remaining senators who voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial, Murkowski has faced heat from Trump's allies and activists, though she was not successfully primaried.
    • Ken Paxton: When the Texas Attorney General faced impeachment charges, Trump defended him and called his Republican opponents "RINOs".
    • Ben Sasse: The former Nebraska senator was another Republican who voted to convict Trump. Sasse later left the Senate to become president of the University of Florida.
    • Pat Toomey: The former Pennsylvania Senator, who also voted to convict Trump, retired from the Senate at the end of his term.

  • Why do you think voting is or isn't important?

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  • Well, not entirely true. They do it in the US based on your public voter registration data, giving rise to companies that only exist to suck up and sell that data to groups looking to game the system instead of giving people what they want/need/deserve.

  • New York Mayor Eric Adams Signs Executive Orders Prohibiting Mayoral Appointees and Agency Staff From Boycotting and Disinvesting From Israel.

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  • [Disclaimer: I'm not Jewish] This seems more antisemite than boycotting Israel does, because this (IMHO taking into account the disclaimer) seems like someone that can't separate a government from a people, or basically "everything Jewish is the same". Similar to how many in government can't separate being Muslim, or Arab, from [insert US declared "terrorist country"].

  • Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand

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  • Doubling every year would be crazy unsustainable at Google scale, but to tell employees you need to do so every 6 months seems like a fever dream of someone that doesn't understand what they are asking (or knows they aren't responsible for actually doing it). The old "just throw it over the fence" approach that corporate kool-aid drinkers love because they can take credit and shift blame.

  • "Pro"gression

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  • ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬅️ ➡️ ⬅️ ➡️ B A START

    Never forget Contra, though I have forgotten the Mike Tyson code. 😭

  • It is now 89 seconds to midnight. Closest it's ever been. How concerned are you about global war?

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  • Oh man, the conspiracy theories that would have come out of Trump deep frying his paws. The Right wing propaganda machine went crazy when Trump had issues at his UN visit over stuff the UN said was at least partly due to his own team. If he burned himself they'd have put that franchise owner on a plane to El Salvador that afternoon.

  • It is now 89 seconds to midnight. Closest it's ever been. How concerned are you about global war?

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  • Thoughts and questions about distrobox/toolbx

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  • Also, I am not sure what security Podman under Distrobox is making worse. Got an example?

    From the site ...

    Security implications

    Isolation and sandboxing are not the main aims of the project, on the contrary it aims to tightly integrate the container with the host. The container will have complete access to your home, pen drive, and so on, so do not expect it to be highly sandboxed like a plain docker/podman container or a Flatpak.

    You are suggesting Flatpaks for security? Um. Ok.

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    But the question developed if it would be wise to use distrobox to execute random internet scripts without altering your base OS/putting your data to risk.

    I was suggesting a Flatpak from a supported project over a random package from wherever being run as root on their box, yes.

    And how is calling the entire Freedesktop platform just to run an app better than the much more limited dependencies that Distrobox will pull in? And, if I already use Podman, Flatpak is a lot of extra complexity compared to Distrobox.

    And I just don't see why I would install another insecure layer that is just going to use Docker/Podman, why not just install Docker/Podman and be done. And for a desktop app installing a Flatpak seems like a better tool than a pod/docker container if you can't get a native package.

  • Thoughts and questions about distrobox/toolbx

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  • Just go CachyOS if you can't be bothered with Arch proper. Running an insecure container layer that brings another whole distro so you can run an app is weird when flatpaks exist for this purpose, and are much better suited for this. Seems like you're creating a "problem" that doesn't exist and then coming up with the most complicated way to solve this made up "problem".

  • It is now 89 seconds to midnight. Closest it's ever been. How concerned are you about global war?

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  • If he actually goes through with it, everyone will know because it shows up on seismographs, something he's apparently ignorant of...

    Remember, this is the same man that thinks the stealth bomber is literally invisible, or that you neutralize a magnet simply by getting it wet, or that you take fries out of the boiling oil with your hands (he learned you don't while doing his pretend day at McDonald's).

  • FCC to rescind ruling that said ISPs are required to secure their networks

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  • When companies have to start funding their own networks because ISPs are all down, or just known to be compromised due to bad actors, it's going to hit capitalism over the head pretty hard. This is a great way to tank the stock market though if you are betting against "Tech" companies.

    1. Short all Tech stocks
    2. Allow "free market" to regulate itself (because less regulation and capitalism always work so great together)
    3. Make $ hand over fist when market begins to tank because ISPs can't be trusted to route their traffic because of all exploits

     

    Carr said the vote scheduled for November 20 comes after “extensive FCC engagement with carriers” who have taken “substantial steps… to strengthen their cybersecurity defenses.”

    Well if they say their doing it, then surely they are, and not just because the law your trying to change required them to. It's like when Republicans want to deregulate the banks because they are doing so well not exploiting predator loans and/or over leveraging loans trying to make even more $. Deregulation cannot, and will not, work in a capitalist environment. Regulation is the guard rails required to keep capitalism from cannibalizing itself.

  • fuckfuckfuckfuck

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  • Yeah, but that is a task made more difficult by my reluctance to be social.

  • fuckfuckfuckfuck

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  • I will perseverate on a topic going back to it because I need to info dump, but most people just don't care about things to the same level of detail. =(

  • Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever

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  • I meant changing to Linux doesn't make sense for you if the games you play have 0% compatibility on Linux. I was agreeing with you! I guess I could have worded that better, sorry about that.

    The big issue is I think a large percentage of that group of gamers would love to drop the overhead of Windows but devs are making games designed around Windows lock-in because that is where the user base is. It's like a circular scenario where unless one of them is willing to break the circle it's going to continue for the foreseeable future.

  • Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever

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  • I think the point is that they outnumber us by many billions, but humans see themselves as ruling the earth because of our size.

  • Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever

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  • I agree that for you it doesn't make sense, but outside of the "competitive" FPS genre compatibility covers most everything else, minus things with crazy kernel level DRM rootkits. But you really shouldn't be playing those on Windows either IMHO. And if more people didn't support them on Windows devs might be forced to use compatible anti-cheat that would benefit gamers on all platforms.

    I'm also a casual gamer that will just move onto something else in my backlog if a dev breaks proton compatibility.

  • What are your preferred alternatives to Amazon?

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  • Depending on the product, the manufacturer themselves might link you to their "store" on Amazon. =(

  • Every other week

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  • Yeah, follow through is not always the same dopamine but that the idea/planning was for sure. I have a continuous list of things that I think of, and research the hell out of, then move onto the next oh shiny! ...

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    A Question For the Folks at Rogers.

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  • Well your only going to be as fast as the slowest server in that chain, with all the latency/any dropped packets/etc. driving down your speeds. Also, if it's built for security it almost certainly isn't prioritizing speed test traffic of all things.