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  • At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do?

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  • I'd love to see all kinds of resistance to this.

    If an armed militia shows up on the same street as ICE, but in greater numbers, there's a pretty good chance these imposters leave.

    I hope somebody's working on building an app for recording everything possible and centralizing that information - license plates, photos, videos.

    Perhaps homemade stingray devices that grab IMEI/IMSI numbers from agent's phones, so that it's easier to identify and link these agents between locations.

    More people following them around to report on location and activities. Report on where they stay so that protests and obnoxious deterrence can be set up so that fewer businesses are willing to service these people.

    There are so many more citizens than there are ICE agents. Doesn't seem like it takes much to overwhelm them and push them out, so long as it's coordinated.

  • At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do?

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  • If the country has another federal election, heck... if the country survives past this at all, I think there's going to be a major conversation about states rights versus federal rights. What we're seeing in Minnesota is wild, bordering on something that could spark a localized civil war if people start violently standing up against this. The states should be able to come together and defeat the federal government at any point.

    The Constitution grants the federal government the right to exist, and it belongs to the people. Not any one leader. Evidently some of that power needs to be pulled back.

  • Leaked Windows 11 Feature Shows Copilot Moving Into File Explorer

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  • I wonder if I'll soon be able to just lean back and bark orders at my PC.

  • China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible

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  • I'm no China expert but I lived In South China for a while between 2016 and 2024. The Chinese people I know are mostly hardworking, very motivated to succeed, and well capitalized. In their major cities you might be surprised to learn normal guys who earn half what you do are living a higher quality of life than you are, in terms of access to technology.

    Their government is no doubt using uncouth methods to give their country unfair advantages. They don't play well with others.

    But holy shit there is one thing this Chinese government is doing well: effectively driving growth with targeted investments in the economy. They have been focused on that one mission consistently for a long time.

    While democracies fuck around trying to decide if they should tax themselves to build public transportation, China installs 10 new ultrafast subway lines in just a few years in every big city. Covers the country in a network of high-speed rail. Drives the price of shipping goods around the country to almost nothing.

    A kind of monoparty like China has is very likely a net negative when we look at world history, but for moments of time, if it's the right one, amazing things can happen.

  • AI went nuts on my website and generated a $155 excessive bandwidth bill

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  • That would ultimately increase traffic. Infinitely. Unless the bot can figure out it's stuck and stop crawling.

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  • It's great to be prepared... But I don't think you have to prepare a stash sufficient for an alcoholic.

    For anybody new to this, perhaps assume 3-4 standard drinks/person, plus some factor to account for surprise extra guests, and then add a buffer of 20% or so of your good alcohol

    Then it never hurts to have a 12 or 24 pack in the bottom of the fridge of something cheaper.

  • Ancient traditions

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  • ZIP drives were a game changer at the time. We had no other (fast) way to move larger amounts of data in one shot without compressing / archiving over multiple disks.

    Last year I dug a couple hundred zip disks out of my parents attic and bought an old zip drive off eBay so I could read them. They all still worked. My old data got moved to the cloud and the zip discs + drive went back to the attic. Perhaps in another 20 years I'll dig it out again if we still have USB ports on our systems haha.

    Anyways, the USB thumb drive business killed iomega overnight.

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  • I have a laptop and a handful of desktops between my office and home. Some run Windows and some run Linux. I simply choose which one matches my task best.

    Systems where I'm writing server-side code are going to be Linux. Systems that run jobs in the back end such as my self hosting stuff are all Linux. Systems where I'm doing email, documents, and general web browsing are going to be Windows.

    Of course, my Windows systems have WSL, and my Linux systems can run Windows apps in virt. These days the line is super blurred and it would no doubt be possible to use only one if I were willing to give up some native app running.

  • Do you have strong opinions about universal basic income?

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  • No conversation about UBI is complete without also discussing the source of the funds and how other government programs might be effected.

    I think UBI sounds great on the surface but I worry that it could alter our basic survival incentives which may have unintended consequences for the group of people who aren't needing UBI.

    Should UBI replace existing food and housing programs? Should UBI replace other things that are designed to mold the economy such as subsidized public transportation or small business loan guarantees? What about income tax incentives designed to encourage saving and growing money carefully versus consumption (capital gains versus income tax, tax-deferred retirement savings accounts).

    I suspect there's a fairly significant carry-on effect from shifting resources away from these types of programs to a UBI program. But what I'm not clear on is how that might impact other behaviors from well resourced people who may start to play the game, so to speak, by a new set of rules.

    For example, do we see inflation around inelastic needs such as rent prices and grocery bills? If we did, UBI is not much more than a grocery store/landlord stimulus program. It's hard to imagine that we wouldn't see this unless controls are placed on those businesses which in turn, removes incentives to own and grow businesses.

    It seems like a UBI program would promote an economy based on consumption and not on savings and investment. Why save your money if you'll get topped up again next month, and every month for the rest of your life? By investment I'm not talking about Wall Street, I'm talking about finishing college degrees, investing in new ideas, chasing startup ideas, those people who stay up late at night working on inventions that they think could bring them rewards.

    Perhaps the most fundamental question to be answered is this:

    To what degree do we, as the human race, find benefit in helping the less capable of our species survive. Potentially at a cost - not to the strongest and most capable - but instead placed mostly on the shoulders of the slightly-more-capable.

  • Cops Stunned as Waymo Cruises Through Active Police Standoff

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  • That's pretty much how it's going in that industry too

  • Programmers are no longer needed!

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  • After shovels were invented, we decided to dig more holes.

    After hammers were invented, we needed to drive more nails.

    Now that vibe coding has been invented, we are going to write more software.

    No shit

  • Hi guys, how many of you are here as an alternative to Reddit?

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  • Me too. RIP rif.

  • Congrats on living long enough to complain about it

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  • I was born at the tail end of Gen X but we were definitely getting up to some crazy stuff.

    It was a normal afternoon to take our bikes off the highest jumps we could build in the middle of the road, constructed from the neighborhood wood pile. When a car came speeding through we'd yell out "car" and quickly move our stuff to the side. We used skateboards on vertical ramps built from whatever, and roller skates on shoddy pavement. Our playgrounds were made of reflective metal hotter than lava attached to towers that seemed to reach 20 ft above the ground.

    We built dangerous tree houses with rusty scrap in the ravine behind the neighborhood, next to place where the neighborhood's older kids were surely taking all the drugs and hiding from their D.A.R.E. officers.

    I used to load my sisters in the back of a red radio flyer wagon and we'd all ride down the neighborhood's steepest hill, occasionally tipping at high speed and then sliding the rest of the way down likely removing several layers of skin and rolls of gauze from my mom's medical kit in the process.

    In primary school, I don't think there was ever a moment without at least one kid on crutches or with a limb in a cast.

    While it did harden us up, and provided some amazing memories, just about everyone I know who was a kid at that time knows of some kid who died while digging a tunnel, or got hit by a car, or spent half of his early teenage years in a cast, or who always seemed to have a finger splint.

    Somehow through all of this we moved from thinking this is normal childhood stuff to blaming anyone and everyone by way of lawsuits.

    There was nothing "safe" about that time. The debate seems to hinge on whether a dangerous childhood results in better adapted adults, perhaps by culling a few unlucky kids who hadn't learned their own limits, and who know how to be creative in the absence of almost any artificial or algorithmic stimuli.

  • ‘Jmail’ is like any other inbox, except this one has Jeffrey Epstein’s emails

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  • Should have been Jeemail. Lost opportunity....

  • Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away

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  • A lot of FOSS projects are freemium based which seems viable for larger more complex projects.

    In these projects it's common to see the developer get paid for adding features on top of the core version, for a SaaS version, for custom development, or for offering support.

    Other projects with a lot of community interest - and a good "community manager" style organizer can attract contributors in the form of pulls, bug testing and reports, and widespread use which generates valuable marketing. These projects only exist because of the labor of love from the whole community.

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    TIL: There are 27.4 Empty Homes for Each Homeless Person in the U.S

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  • The problems of the group of people whom we call "homeless"... has it ever really been a lack of homes?

    There are homeless shelters with empty beds at night. Some people who probably really need them refuse to go there and instead sleep outside because they don't want to be sober.

    It's amusing to think that if we just assign one empty home to each homeless guy - thus eliminating homelessness - all would be right. In the world. But I don't think it works that way.

  • Waymo says its self-driving taxis will take customers on freeways for the first time

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  • I used Waymo half a dozen times or so when traveling to San Francisco this year.

    The experience was actually quite good. The cars arrive within a minute or two, they're clean and high-end (for what amounts to a taxi), and you can set up the atmosphere according to your mood. The driving was smooth and uneventful.

    Unless they raise the prices significantly, I would continue to choose Waymo over human drivers.

  • They even do Price Discrimination on video games now

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  • This is something travel agent websites do too.

    If you're logged out, they'll show you a price that's really attractive. But if you log in with an account that's got some history, they'll suddenly say that price is no longer available now you need to pay the higher price.

    Agoda.com I'm looking at you

  • So I'm out here like "Kamala Harris y'all" and then she goes ahead and posts some shit like this

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  • No, it's an educated take. Anything else is probably not an environment you want to live in unless you find yourself inside the privilege party.

    Humans will always have vast differences in opinion, that's the whole point of the USA.