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exanime

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  • No. There are still a lot of serious journalists on it. It is still a very important media for journalists to quickly share information.

    Sorry but It was never that. I joined back in 2016 because everyone said it was the best for fast news and that was a Canadian election year. I didn't last a week, it was just one liners from "journalist" and a plethora of trolls and people slinging shit at each other

    Imagine how bad it was for news, that I wound up liking Reddit more because there was a modicum of moderation

  • "PM, want a cracker?"

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  • I always thought project managers were useless until I got a good one. Then I realized the issue was that most I've dealt with were as useful as this parrot

    The key of a good PM is to know their job is to ensure you can do yours. My good PM had that internalized and his only goal was to remove obstacles for us... glorious times

    So if I were to say, "I'm playing phone tag with the vendors liaison because all he does is poorly repeat what I ask to others inside the company", my good PM would get on the phone with the vendor and get a list of contacts so I could skip the crappy middle man

    Another time I said, the network folks don't agree with the security folks on how to proceed. He would get everyone in the same room and get all ducks in a row, then let me know what the decision was.

    If I said, I'm wasting half my day asking for availability to book meetings, he would ask who I needed to talk to and book everything himself

  • Is Your Driving Being Secretly Scored? The insurance industry, hungry for insights into how people drive, has turned to automakers and smartphone apps like Life360.

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  • Indeed my good man. And it's not even like those cars are the best or only choice in the planet

  • Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are surging "faster than ever" to beyond anything humans ever experienced, officials say

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  • Only Canadians with Geese ancestry have immortality, their genes are just too angry to die

  • Is Your Driving Being Secretly Scored? The insurance industry, hungry for insights into how people drive, has turned to automakers and smartphone apps like Life360.

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  • Well, they are already mandating how you can use or modify your car... And Tesla did put financial penalties on reselling the cybertrucks so we are definitely not far from even your definition of ownership being hindered

  • Is Your Driving Being Secretly Scored? The insurance industry, hungry for insights into how people drive, has turned to automakers and smartphone apps like Life360.

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  • Precisely because the government drags their feet with proper regulation is why we are here

    The corporations keep eroding your rights to own anything in the contracts they make you sign (to buy a car for example)

    They reserve the right to turn features off or hide them behind paywalls without your agreement ... They reserve the right to spy on your with sensors you paid for and sell the data to whomever they want without compensation to you or liability over the consequences of that data being out there

    They reserve the right to terminate your warranty if you do anything to your car they do not approve of

    These measures literally dilute what "owning a car" means... This is what people refer to when they say ownership is coming to an end. It doesn't mean you can't have a car... It means the car is not quite yours and may be doing more work and money for someone else after you nicely paid for it

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  • But they are not even using said energy themselves.... that is like throwing my garbage right on the street but paying someone in India to pick some garbage over there (for at lot less)... if you are my neighbour, would you think it's fine?

    I don't need google "producing" clean energy... I want them CONSUMING clean energy... as it is, they are pollution just as much as ever (more every year) but they pretend to be clean by throwing money at it... at the end of the day, the planet keeps getting polluted and the climate nicely on its way to cooking us alive

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  • Sorry I was a little wrong. Apparently 100% of Googles annual electricity consumption is matched with renewable energy that is supplied back to the grid

    Not even... what they do is "pay" someone for renewable energy (not the energy they consume, nor do they produce energy on solar panels or anything renewable to go back into the grid)

    This is their own statement: "In 2022 – for the sixth consecutive year – Google matched 100 percent of its global annual electricity consumption with purchases of renewable energy" (source)[https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/cleanenergy/]

    And even that is not true since their actual report says that in 2021 they barely made it to 66%

    Globally, 66% of the electricity use at Google data centers was matched with carbon- free energy on an hourly basis, 5% higher in 2019 but 1% lower in 2020. We expected this fluctuation: in 2020, we brought a large number of CFE projects online, leading to a large jump in our 2020 CFE % and thus a high baseline for calculating changes between 2020 and 2021 (source)[https://www.gstatic.com/gumdrop/sustainability/2021-carbon-free-energy-data-centers.pdf]

    So, in a nutshell... they are throwing some money at it and pretending they are not polluting anymore.

    It’s not 100% carbon neutral.

    Google declared itself carbon neutral (whatever they think that means) back in 2007

    There is worse things than that.

    this is literally the lowest bar to clear

  • Linux really has come a long way

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  • BTW, told my kids about your comment on my abuse of the "..." and they choked laughing for like half an hour. So there is that hehehehe

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  • Google promised to be carbon free by 2030.... Just as other have done and never even moved an inch towards that goal

    The point is exactly to get gullible people like you to think it's all good until 2030 when some responsible people will battle to out that Google did nothing in reality to get there... Then they'll promise it again for 2050

  • Is Your Driving Being Secretly Scored? The insurance industry, hungry for insights into how people drive, has turned to automakers and smartphone apps like Life360.

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  • Hmm I hope this is not a veiled threat of suicide.... Because the disappearance of ownership is almost here

  • Biden supporters mostly back him in 2024 election because they oppose Trump, poll finds

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  • Isn't this the general sad state of democracy? Specially in America and it's 2 party system?

    Rarely people get to vote for whom they want, they vote against the one they dislike/fear the most

  • Biden supporters mostly back him in 2024 election because they oppose Trump, poll finds

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  • Republicans have a shitty pre-election plan in the run up to every election.

    This understatement is right up there with the 'Tis but a scratch scene from Monty Python

  • Apple refused to pay bounty to Kaspersky for uncovering vulnerability in 'Operation Triangulation' - 9to5Mac

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  • Yes agreed... I was trying to point out that just not paying is a dick move

  • Apple refused to pay bounty to Kaspersky for uncovering vulnerability in 'Operation Triangulation' - 9to5Mac

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  • Or put the money in escrow pending resolution of the embargo ... This is, I think, the easiest, most responsible solution to show good faith

  • Linux really has come a long way

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  • I'm going to try to take this in the spirit that it was provided, but you're using a lot of "..."s,

    No ill will intended. You must be young and I'm old, my kids constantly complain about my abuse of the "..." They say I always sound ominous

    The only part my intention was to sound like "well, yes that's obvious" was the part where you missed some windows specific GPU functions

    For the rest I was meaning to say that I recognize those problems but didnt find them insurmountable at the time I had to face them.

    I still have to deal with windows today because of work and I find the amount of orphan issues (or issues with no solution 3 years after reporting) saddening because I rarely see that in the Linux community

    True, I may be "over the hump" in terms of the initial learning curve but I encourage you to keep at it, you'll find it enjoyable in no time

  • Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0 Preview

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  • It's mandated? How come? Sorry I'm out of the loop

  • Linux really has come a long way

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  • I’m not having a great time with DisplayLink driver support, personally

    We used this for work and I had a bit of a hard time setting up 4 years ago when covid hit... I eventually was able to but later on moved on to a different set up.

    We still use it on Windows when I go to the office (once a week) and it still shit there

    If you post specifics I may be able to help you.

    Various applications I use with mixed levels of support too, along with missing out on Windows specific GPU features.

    well yes... Windows specific stuff is not usually available in Linux... unless we are talking about gaming which is catching up really quick

    The biggest difficulty is that my accumulated support knowledge of like 20 years is useless and I am relearning basic issue identification and resolution processes.

    Yes, it's a different OS... not sure if you were expecting any differently but this is the power of the walled gardens... you learn to live in them and then find it hard to do anything differently... IMO the transition was worth it for me... I hope it is for you

    The internet being a raging dumpster fire, support is kind of patchy on more niche topics. All the good, useful discussions are largely happening behind closed doors at this point on everyone’s Discords and whatnot.

    This is what I disagree with... that has not been my experience AT ALL. The worst I can say about online support for Linux is that, some communities, are a little caustic (looking at you Arch support, although you do have great online help posted).

    If anything, when I can't seem to find anything regarding something I am looking for, I have defaulted to realizing I may not be asking the right question... RARELY discussions for Linux support happen behind closed doors... it's just not even in the spirit of the Linux communities. Again, if you'd like to post specifics maybe we can help

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  • You may have misunderstood my point... All I'm saying it's stupid to compare species based on the attributes of one.