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  • Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics

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  • The leaks that 2% of the population got very excited about for a while, but try not to think much about? The leaks judged by many on the reputation of an obscure man living in Russia? Those leaks?

    I trust my government and not things only nerds understand. Also they sound weird and made up and very scary ( said most of the people)

  • What is a creepy or weird fact that would scare even the bravest person?

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  • When I was growing up in the 1970s there were thousands of lightning bugs at night. Any time going outdoors after sunset I could see hundreds of lights winking on and off every few seconds, in fascinating patterns that I loved to look at. Later at night the bugs would fly higher or stop flashing

    It was such an ordinary part of life, but movies and tv at the time don’t capture that very well .

    Now its gone, for most areas

  • What is a creepy or weird fact that would scare even the bravest person?

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  • Each year, is about a 1/2 of 1 percent the sun will give out a flare so big, it will not only destroy all power distribution to the half of the earth exposed, and destroy the internet there, but cut off food distribution, starving most of the population in any county . Last time it happened was in the 1800s but no stuff to destroy then. And food was local.

    It would be years before things were normal . Our current setup is literally doomed to failure for a random half of the earth

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  • Something I talked about earlier in political discussions was that the Usa has a problem of neighborhoods not being as social as they used to be.

    Fewer bars, ymca, gatherings. Neighbors stay inside more. Children do not play in the street so much. Very few adults walk in the streets ( compared to Europe). Religious attendance is down .

    That makes grassroots and revolutionary fever hard except on the internet. And the internet is showing it sort of sucks doing that, getting people outdoors, regardless of their creed, religious or political beliefs.

    All that show up are usually elites , and some people in cities.

    If you look at any modern revolution, there are healthy neighborhood dynamics driving it allowing a parallel bottom up growth

    In the USA, People will probably have heated comments on social media, except in some small areas of cities, with only a few casualties

  • draw.io no longer free and open source software since August 27, 2024

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  • Its because I get irritated by such views, and am bored. I had a lot of fun, but done now

  • draw.io no longer free and open source software since August 27, 2024

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  • I honestly do not care, there are too many open source organizations doing their own plays for money and influence, honestly, in large, they are the best for progress

  • How do you solve/deal with procrastination?

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  • Its not too exciting, am computer programmer

  • draw.io no longer free and open source software since August 27, 2024

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  • I think anyone arguing that would eventually fall back to not so defined standards to make their point.

    Ultimately, from my point of view, I am a developer who makes software that others will take advantage of to make their own profits. I have not made any ground breaking projects yet, but I am working on one the past year, and hope to have it widely used. Maybe it will, maybe not

    But, my viewpoint is that users are greedy, they want everything for nothing. I also need users to want to use my stuff. Its a delicate balancing act.

    I think ultimately, the op source code did it wrong in the beginning, if they had layered their work more, some of it open source, some closed source, they would not have the backlash now.

    Maybe one day my own stuff will have similar controversy, or not! Either way, if people call my own stuff not open source enough, and I am looking at my bank account, I do not care

  • draw.io no longer free and open source software since August 27, 2024

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  • I have a totally different view, if I can use it in my own projects, that are released with an MIT or Apache 2 or similar license, then its open source.

    Not that I want to, but I could contribute to draw.io, or fork it and privately make changes, then make money off either the original repo or my fork, and its legal.

    I could sell one line of code change for a million dollars and then start writing daily taunting letters, daring them to sue me, and I would be fine.

    How is that not open source?

  • draw.io no longer free and open source software since August 27, 2024

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    1. None of the Work may be used in any form as part, or whole, of an integration, plugin or app that integrates with Atlassian's Confluence or Jira products.

    its just the apache 2 license with a restriction to not sell this project on one marketplace. Can still sell the code elsewhere. Its still totally open source, and honestly Confluence is not something I would loose sleep on. Jira has been a cash cow for a long time, and I have a beef with them anyway

  • LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences

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  • Wtf??! Wow

  • How do you solve/deal with procrastination?

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  • My superpower is avoiding too much work, and do only the work needed at the last minute. Obviously this simply will not help in many places.

    But high risk, high reward, last minute changes to the job, high stress deadlines fit me pretty good . Don’t ask me to work steadily on a task each day, I’ll probably quit. But I can do the above better than most

  • How do you solve/deal with procrastination?

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  • I never solved it, but I realized earlier that I can play to my strengths instead of fighting my nature. Does this irritate, confuse and inconvenience myself and others sometimes ? Yes

    But it has allowed me to do a lot of stuff and be truer to myself over many years. I am less of a conformist , and totally shaped my life and career for this to be an advantage .

  • LightDM, Pop_OS and Monitor Timeout

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  • xset?

  • Why Harris Remains Unlikely to Break From Biden on Israel and Gaza

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  • I’ve leaned so much from example here, and other media, how genocide can be normalized and ignored.

    Ignore in one location, and it’s not hard to imagine being ignored elsewhere later. It’s not so much as a moral irritation for me to see the reporting, as hearing a promise of violence closer home. Should circumstances permit. A wake up call.

    But this did not come out of a vacuum

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  • Another issue I had was hundreds of saved toots having had awesome pictures, important data or things to do.

    I saved them hoping to use some later, but it all remained an unorganized glop: unusable unless I looked at each one again, in order, to find the 75th one back, about a cat

  • Internet Archive Services Update: 2024-10-17

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  • Trump family gets 75% of crypto coin revenue, has no liability, new document reveals

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  • My big issue is the hidden vote counting, lack of recounts, and the exit polls being so unreliable in many states to choose the winners. So, unreliable, that all the major networks stopped using them after 2018 to call elections and fewer exit polls are being done. Exit polls have been established as good tools since the past 300 years. And when they consistently give bad calls, that area has always had ballot stuffing, or the electronic version of that

    In my opinion, hidden ballot counting with bad exit polls will outweigh any other issues

  • Trump family gets 75% of crypto coin revenue, has no liability, new document reveals

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  • Many people who gamble big money go by past divergences between polls done before, and exit polls done after. These can vary between 5% to 10% , which is important when the published count is almost 50:50 in some states.

    Many US states violate UN practices for free and fair ballot counting, and while this is blindly ignored for decades, it shows up in the odds. People in the USA tend to talk about this as the shy republican effect, and other names.

    At the same time, I do not trust the polls being done now, because most people do not answer phone, text or email about asking, given there are so many scam polls out, so I have to wonder how this skews the results.

    I would totally use the bookie odds and ignore the polls