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  • AOC slams Republican Sen. over mockery of her bartending work: ‘Makes me 1000x more qualified to govern on behalf of working people’

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  • Agreed. That retort was spot on.

    • No attacking his personality.
    • No attacking his physical characteristics.
    • No strawmen.
    • No name-calling.
    • Just a direct cut at his oxymoronic qualifications and lack of care for the working class.

  • Key Witness Who Disputed ICE Account of Fatal Texas Shooting Dies in Car Accident

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  • But, I think a capability that hasn't been fully revealed to us yet is the ability for manufacturers and (presumably intelligence/law enforcement agencies) full remote takeover of some of these vehicles.

    Assuming it is a Tesla, if they do, it's likely only implemented in a targeted OTA update package. Tesla's regular firmware packages are heavily scrutinized by white-hats for datamining and jailbreaking purposes, and it would be far too risky to leave something like that accessible to people with reverse engineering experience.

  • Key Witness Who Disputed ICE Account of Fatal Texas Shooting Dies in Car Accident

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  • [The dad,] Mr. Arriaga got an alert on his phone about the crash and headed to the scene.

    Not a message from one of the passengers, an alert. Probably a Tesla or some other always-connected electric vehicle.

  • He's so close to getting it...

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  • Because they think they're hot shit and have an ego the size of Jupiter. In their mind, they're the catch and someone would have to be a (insert slur) to turn down such a gracious offer from the world's most attractive "alpha male".

  • Student who punched another student holding pro-ICE sign at Lake Zurich High School received 2-day suspension

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  • Spud also has a blue Twitter checkmark. If it walks holding signs like a Nazi and quacks on a Nazi-owned platform it pays to use...

  • EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko

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  • Why days worth of farming? To help give the player a sense of "pride and accomplishment" of course.

  • Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too | TechCrunch

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  • Don't forget the energy needed to produce the humans who:

    • Produced research leading to the creation of LLMs.
    • Figured out how to design the GPUs that AI run on.
    • Extracted the raw materials for the chips.
    • Processed the materials into products.
    • Transported the materials and products.
    • Installed the GPUs in datacenters.
    • Built the datacenters.
    • Operate the civil infrastructure providing power and water to the datacenters.
    • Planned and designed that civil infrastructure.
    • Congregated into a single area to create the town/city where that infrastructure was planned.
    • Birthed that population of people.
    • Etc.

    Hint: It's the same cumulative energy that his own stupid argument is hinged on.

  • rule

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  • No need to swap lol

    A flake-based configuration: [am I a joke to you]

  • rule

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  • htop, ytop, and ranger (or something similar).

    And just based on the info those show, the computer is a ThinkPad with some 4-core, non-SMT Intel CPU and 8 GB of memory with 512 MB of that reserved for the integrated GPU.

  • Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site

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  • It wouldn't even work on paper. All it would take to twist this into something dystopian is requiring cryptogtaphic attestation for the age range, and knowing lawmakers, they would justify it as a countermeasure for kids lying about their age. Expand the feature as a web API so websites can use the "easier" and "more secure" system-level age verification process and—oh look, now we can't use important websites without a commercial operating system.

    It would be like Secure Boot but worse. At least with that you can turn it off or enroll your own keys.

  • Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

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  • The blogger in question doxxed the owner/maintainer of Archive.today who in return doxxed the blogger.

    Did you actually read the two articles posted by the blogger? The archive.today owner wasn't doxxed. No personally identifying information was provided; it only aggregates already-known info including a couple of fake aliases. The most it concludes is that the guy is Russian or operating out of Russia.

    https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-a-ddos-attack-against-my-blog/

    https://gyrovague.com/2023/08/05/archive-today-on-the-trail-of-the-mysterious-guerrilla-archivist-of-the-internet/

  • Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk

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  • With conservatives—or rather, the people lacking morality and empathy who flock to the ideology—it's always projection. They can't imagine having the integrity to not do what they would do when given the opportunity so they cry foul.

    In their zero-sum way of thinking, it sets them up to be ahead of the scandal. They use it as "proof" to justify their DARVO statements and whataboutisms. Morality be damned, as long as the other side takes a bigger hit, they still feel like they win.

  • Trump attacks Supreme Court justices after he is handed a major tariff loss

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  • I wonder if anyone from MAGA could actually define what "checks and balances" or "separation of powers" means.

    I guarantee both would lack self-awareness and instead be defined with a generous sprinkling of "woke", "antifa", or "liberal" in the definition.

    Maybe:

    "Checks and balances make it so a woke liberal president can't take away our freedom by himself."

  • Name this band

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  • Alejandro in Chains

  • States Are Expanding Trans Bathroom Ban Bills to Encompass Private Businesses

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  • Oh, no, no. You misunderstand. They want small government as in physical size, not organizational size. The smaller it is, the more places they can fit it in your daily life. /s

  • Morge continvoucly

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  • Well, that explains a lot about the product quality. Their entire development workflow is a complete fucking mess.

    • Long-lived feature branches.
    • Creating merge commits to main just for the sole purpose of tagging them as releases while also maintaining separate release branches.
    • Force-pushing tags to incorporate post-release hotfixes instead of releasing minor patch updates.
    • Taking bugfixes from releases and merging them back into the development branch (have they not heard of cherry-pick?)
    • Always using merges even when a rebase would be easier to follow and keep the history more straightforward.

  • DOJ may have only released 2% of Epstein cache — despite Bondi’s claim ‘all’ files released, report finds

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  • I am a different person. For the record, I don't condone making the uncensored videos public either.

    Investigators need to see them

    The ones at the DOJ, which is led by a corrupt loyalist?The ones at the FBI, which is led by a different corrupt loyalist?

    The public doesn't need to see them, but investigators won't do shit if/when they see them.

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    Pro-Trump CEO Left Reeling as His Dream E-Bike Company Files for Bankruptcy Under Trump Trade Policies - WTF Detective

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  • “I’m pivoting now to focus on e-bike safety — with all my knowledge of building here in USA — I’m going to now use that to make e-bikes safer, especially for kids, and get laws and legal requirements to be enforced,” he said. “Without proper tariff protection and legit safety standard enforcement, no one will ever be able to make an e-bike in the USA in my opinion.”

    Suuuuuure. It's totally about safety, and not just you throwing a tantrum of "if I can't have it, nobody can."

  • The Media Can't Stop Propping Up Elon Musk's Phony Supergenius Engineer Mythology

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  • To be fair, he has some things going for him: the uncanny ability to get away with false advertising and stock manipulation.

    Somehow, "{Super far-fetched thing} will be available NEXT YEAR!" manages to keep working despite the clear history of his promises being even more overhyped and overpromised than even Peter Mollineaux's.

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Leave it to a Bezos-owned company to confuse customers and mislead them for profit.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Settlement for the Yuzu Nintendo Switch emulator also resulted in takedown of the Citra 3DS emulator created by the same developers.

    overkill.wtf /switch-emulator-yuzu/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Nintendo Switch emulator, Yuzu, developers settling lawsuit from Nintendo with $2.4M payout, handing over its domains, and agreeing "Yuzu [is] primarily designed to circumvent [DRM]".

    www.theverge.com /2024/3/4/24090357/nintendo-yuzu-emulator-lawsuit-settlement