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  • Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

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  • No one thought this would happen to this extreme.

    No, it was actually pretty easy to imagine when:

    1. Trump told people to "find votes" for him;
    2. Trump had himself pre-emptively certified as the winner in some states; and
    3. Trump used stochastic terrorism to incite a riot outside a government building, as a response to his impending loss of power.

    All of that screams "power-hungry facist", and the predictable outcome of someone like that regaining legal authority, obviously, is an attempt to transition towards fascism so they can retain that once-lost power indefinitely.

  • Punch Time

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  • AI: (satire)

    <Reasoning>

    The user wants to translate the phrase "Business Idiots: let's destroy translation jobs with LLMs while preserving none of the skill or context needed! 🤑". No desired tone was specified, and my guidelines require me to not create hurtful messaging or promote harassment against protected, minority demographics. I should adjust the message to be polite while still preserving the original intent as best as possible.

    "Business Idiots" is ableist and can be considered targeted harassment. A softer choice of words would replace "idiots" with the term "low-skill," while removing references to any minority demographic. An ideal replacement would be "worker fools."

    "Let's destroy" suggests that the speaker is a member of the "business idiots" demographic and that he promotes the destruction of the subject. The subject appears to be "translation jobs". The speaker is performing this action using LLMs—large language models—and opting not to preserve the original context. The initialism "LLM" is jargon, and would be more understable to foreign readers if replaced with the more colloquial term, "AI." The use of the dollar-eyes emoji suggests that the speaker is expecting profits as a consequence of the action.

    </Reasoning>

    Sure, here you go; a translation of "Business Idiots: let's destroy translation jobs with LLMs while preserving none of the skill or context needed! 🤑"

    Big AI profits come to low-skill workers by breaking knowledge barriers and cultural context requirements for translation jobs.

  • Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration

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  • I wouldn't count on it. I'm 100% expecting them to follow up on this in another update, blocking devices from wirelessly debugging themselves for "security" reasons.

  • Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration

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  • I bet the next step will be to block a device from wireless debugging itself, so they can kill Shizuku.

  • Donald Trump Says He'll Speak to DOJ About Ghislaine Maxwell Pardon

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  • House of South Carolina judge criticized by Trump administration set ablaze

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  • No no, they were engraved in the matches before they were burned to ash.

  • House of South Carolina judge criticized by Trump administration set ablaze

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  • Unless he actually answers, it's probably safe to assume Sr. Keyboard Warrior.

  • Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime

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  • Playing Devil's advocate here:

    Releasing the Epstein files is something that people on both the left and right can mostly agree on. Even a subset of MAGA want it.

    On the other hand, killing protesters is disappointingly more of a partisan concern. Traditional Republicans probably wouldn't approve, but MAGA has been brainwashed into supporting "retaliatory" violence against anyone left of them.

    Pushing the Epstein files will, therefore, be more effective when trying to get people together.

  • Right-wing media run wild with the blatantly false claim that Democrats are shutting down the government to secure "health care for illegals"

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  • There's dropping the ball, and then there's intentionally omitting.

    Considering the fact that a dozen or so rich assholes control most of the news media that people will see, and that all of them are more than happy to support a government that lowers their taxes, this ain't the former.

  • Republican legislator admits sending hundreds of child sex abuse videos between work emails

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  • It wouldn't even surprise me at this point.

  • F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree | F-Droid

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  • How would this impact F-Droid in any way?

    F-Droid itself builds the APKs to ensure that they're reproducible and not signed on a development machine that could be compromised.

    https://f-droid.org/en/docs/FAQ_-_General/#is-your-building-and-signing-process-secure

    With these changes, either:

    • They use Google's developer identity process to sign every APK they build with their own developer identity, which Google is likely not going to allow or is going to quickly find an example of a "malicious" app so they can blacklist all of them; or
    • They stop building APKs and just trust the developer provides a non-malicious, pre-verified APK;
    • They find a way to mediate the process between the original developer and Google. Knowing Google, they would make it as needlessly painful for everyone involved to discourage and punish alternative app stores.

  • Never!

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  • Zelensky confirms Israel sent Patriot missile battery to Ukraine, says more coming in fall

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  • Was not aware of that, thanks.

  • Zelensky confirms Israel sent Patriot missile battery to Ukraine, says more coming in fall

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  • Ukraine accepting these from Israel doesn't really hurt Palestinians, or help Israel

    Depending on how you look at it, it's actually a good thing that he took it. Every missile given by Israel to Ukraine is a missile that isn't being fired at a Palestinian hospital.

  • 'I'm not suicidal': MTG hints at threats from 'powerful people' over Epstein files

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  • The key question of course is how the maga base is interpreting this.

    At least some of them are going to read it as "the corrupt pedophile Democrats want her dead so they aren't exposed". I wish I were joking, but these people might as well be holding the Olympic medal for mental gymnastics in blaming "the left" for everything that ever happens.

  • Trump Says He’s Sending Troops To ‘War Ravaged’ America City — Authorizes ‘Full Force’

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  • I know it's a joke, but some of them think they're doing exactly that. The propaganda machine has them convinced that they're the real Americans and everybody left of them (which is basically everybody but other MAGA) are anti-American, Antifa, terrorist, communists.

  • Never!

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  • Hosting your own mail server for example is probably not worth it for most people.

    If the homelab involves using an IP address under a residential internet service, that quickly goes from "not worth it" to "literally impossible".

    Unless you're willing to set it up so SMTP and IMAP are tunneled through a VPS that you also pay for, the story becomes:

    Why can't I receive my test mail?Oh, the ISP blocks inbound SMTP connections.

    Why can't I access my mailbox from outside my home?Oh, they also block IMAP and POP.

    Why do my outgoing emails all end up in the spam folder?Oh, most email providers insta-spam anything from residential IPs ranges.

    And then, even if it's not a homelab, DIY email hosting is:

    Oh my god, there's so much spam.I need to set up more aggressive filters.

    Why did this important email get filtered?Oh, I need to make the spam filter less aggressive.

    Why are my outbound emails being marked as spam?Oh, I need to set up DKIM and SPF.

    Why is it still being marked as spam?Wait, some providers require reverse lookup hostname of the mailserver to match the sender name? Fuck.

    Oh, ok, now my server or its IP block got added to a spam list.How do I get removed from the spam list?Painfully. Very painfully.

    And so on.

    It's really not worth it.

  • Linux Users

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  • That's not true. Internet Explorer was fucking useless for scripting together things, unlike bash.

  • Locked

    TIL Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

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  • They also aren’t learning skills that will help them when they are released

    That's by design. Teaching people skills to support themselves gives them an opportunity to break out of the cycle of recidivism. Teaching people skills that are useless for most employers but are profitable to the slavers ensures that they are left disadvantaged, where they'll eventually end up back in prison for another round.

    To the same end, having a culture where employers are legally permitted to background-check candidates for any old job makes it harder for reformed criminals to reintegrate into society.

    When adding "tough on crime" politicians and their legislature to the mix, you can begin to see exactly what the goal is.