blobjim [he/him]

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blobjim [he/him] @hexbear.net 3d ago

If they weren't dumb enough to trust chatbots they probably wouldn't be clients of legal firms.

5d ago

History Teacher Fired After Opening Gate for Students During Anti-ICE Walkout ~ L.A. TACO

blobjim [he/him] @hexbear.net 5d ago

Of course it's a charter school. Working as intended.

5d ago

Pentagon prepares for 'sustained' war against Iran as Trump calls for 'regime change'

blobjim [he/him] @hexbear.net 5d ago

King 5 News in Seattle was doing anti-Iran propaganda.

It's so blatant because they barely do any kind of international news whatsoever but will report on petty crime and random nonsense in the Seattle area. And then they do some random thing about Shah supporters doing a protest and protestors dying in Iran and repeating Trump's rhetoric about Iran.

Like Americans get no understanding of the world by default from stupid TV news, but they'll get a narrative about why the US needs to murder people in places that people in the US know nothing about (at least if they only listen to TV news).

It's crazy how TV news is so much worse than every other kind of media.

Regime change propaganda from the NYT or CNN or on social media is infinitely more sophisticated than TV. I really don't get it. It's such a weird "time capsule". But newspapers have always published more sophisticated propaganda. I guess you meet people where they're at.

1w ago

New York Ignored Its Bladders For Bad Bunny, Then 761,719 Toilets Flushed At Once Like A Team

The article is just a link to a tweet from @NYCWater: https://xcancel.com/NYCWater/status/2020982316357603342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

1w ago

MOS Is a New Open-Source Server OS Aimed at Homelabs and Self-Hosting

It's built on top of Devuan which is a fork of Debian which uses Linux.

Apparently Devuan is "Debian without systemd". 🤡🤡🤡

I would stay away! systemd provides so many well-designed APIs that are helpful for server management.

Also most projects that promote not using systemd are weird ideologues at this point.

1w ago

By barring Bianca Mugyenyi, NDP shows it’s not interested in renewal | Canadian Dimension (Yves Engler is her husband)

WSWS article on her husband Yves Engler being barred from running https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/12/bzda-d12.html

So is the Canadian left going to form a new political party (aside from the communist parties they have I guess)?

1w ago

Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

hilarious

or maybe it was just a backdoor that the wrong person noticed

The 3 people who reported it are: Cristian Papa, Romanian in Romania, Alasdair Gorniak, slav (?) in the UK, Chen, Chinese person, https://x.com/chen9918b/status/2015688020356407548, "Chinese history and culture enthusiasts & market analysis"

its so over for the Amerikkkans. Can't even install remote code execution backdoors in peace.

1w ago

Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail' as it has become the number 1 site for tracking the Epstein files

yeah the dude is definitely doing it mostly for advertising purposes for his company (and personal reputation).

1w ago

Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail' as it has become the number 1 site for tracking the Epstein files

yeah I feel like taking free money from this guy or his company is a bad idea for a project's independence. It's bad enough that they've been hosting it on this guy's cloud service.

You can't accept anything for free without compromising it. That's how the entire NGO world works.

2w ago

As Feb. 7 Approaches, the U.S. Deploys Hard Power to Install a New Puppet Regime and Soft Power to Prepare Elections - Haiti Liberte

It's so bleak how little money they can spend to influence entire countries.

The NED is currently funding two programs in Haiti aimed at influencing political parties. It has contributed US$224,873 to its Strengthening Political Party Accountability and Civic Engagement program in addition to US$300 000 to the NDI for its Strengthening New Political Parties program.
While these sums may seem small, in a country as impoverished as Haiti they can have profound effects.

Of course the article says that isn't all the money involved

In May 2023, author Jake Johnston revealed that “USAID allocated $5 million to support elections in Haiti.” The funds were given to the “Consortium for Elections & Political Process Strengthening,” which is made up of NED tentacles, the IRI and NDI, and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES).

2w ago

Waymo turns out to be using remote operators from the Phillipines

It's such a ridiculously flawed concept to have remote operators. It seems like a way to make the work look better to "investors".

We already saw Waymos all stopping when the power went out in San Francisco recently (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36zdxl41jro). It has no resiliency in the case of any kind of failure whatsoever.

It's a bad idea to build anything on top of a foundation of things that can be disrupted so quickly. Like power, GPS, cell service and other radio communication. Data centers seem like another big failure point, although I think they still make a lot of sense to have.

But making your service rely on near-real-time internet access to another country is a whole other level of single point of failure. It's hard enough to make a one-way video feed real-time.

This obviously isn't a model for replacing all road vehicles with "driverless" ones. It will never happen. You can't remotely operate a 1 ton metal object moving at 20-80 mph.

2w ago

YouTube is doing A/B testing of the Subscriptions feed

The Pipeline app for Linux has an option to hide any video less than a minute long.

2w ago

There is an edit war on wikipedia trying to hide the meaning of "goy" and "goyim"

sorry what exactly is your gripe? You just posted two random screenshots.

2w ago

It's interesting how many North Korea YouTube channels have been banned

I think sometimes they're accused of botting.

Explore DPRK I believe is North Korean media, there's a webpage that explains what happened https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Explore_DPRK "On March 5, 2024, the channel was blocked in South Korea possibly according to the Article 7 (Praise, incitement, etc.) of the National Security Act and Article 44-7 of the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection[1][2][3]; the channel was globally terminated by Google minutes later due to "compliance with export and sanctions policy" with the decision not appealable."

2w ago

YouTube is doing A/B testing of the Subscriptions feed

I wish people would just run blogs (with videos if desired) on their own websites (with an RSS feed). But that is much harder to monetize. People make videos and put them on YouTube because you can make a lot more money off of video ads. But anyone not focused on monetization via video ads should probably not be relying on YouTube.

2w ago

YouTube is doing A/B testing of the Subscriptions feed