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rekabis

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  • The Vanishing Men of Vancouver Island

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  • Fuck right off, misogynist, can’t even acknowledge the boot comes from above, no, got to “other” women instead

    Men are the vast majority under that boot. Read the fking article, ya dingus.

    Across Canada, the number of missing and murdered Aboriginal men is almost 5× that of aboriginal women. And yet, where are the nation-wide initiatives to solve aboriginal men’s murders and disappearances?

    Suicides of men are over 5× that of women. Yet where is the pearl-clutching over those deaths?

    Homelessness is almost ¾ men. And yet, homeless shelters for only women outnumber those for only men, and men’s shelters frequently have to empty out completely if there is any overflow from women’s shelters at all.

    Workplace deaths of men are more than 9× that of women. And headlines only occur when it is women who suffer.

    Plus, of all the jobs that aren’t at parity between men and women, the only ones women ever clamour to target are those with air conditioning and great lumbar support. Where are all the female lumberjacks? Where are the female crabbers? The coal miners and oil rig workers and the framers and plumbers and roofers?

    crickets

    Yyyyyup. Thought so.

    You look at pretty much any personal calamity except those which are purely gender-specific, and men almost always are the vast majority of victims.

    And yet, it is only those solutions that address women which are not “misogynistic”. Hell, it took nearly 40 years for “men’s mental health month” to gain traction against exactly those accusations of misogyny.

    So fuck right off back, you flaming gender bigot.

  • The Vanishing Men of Vancouver Island

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  • Feminism ≠ misandry.

    Strange, because that is 100% the source of all misandry, like how any attempt to bring political attention to men’s issues is painted as “misogyny”, simply because it’s men who are being paid attention to.

    Such as domestic violence. Did you know that if you look at only non-reciprocal physical violence - as in, only one person is doing the physical striking - 71% of victims are men?

    And yet, who is protesting the most loudly when people try to open up DV shelters for battered men using the same public funding that women’s shelters enjoy? Small clue: they invariably identify with the term you mentioned.

    71%. You’d think there would be more shelters for a 71% proportion of physically-assaulted victims. And yet, while North America has tens of thousands of shelters for the other 29%, it has only three for the 71%.

    Three. In all of North America. Because public funding for it is lethally radioactive to political careers.

  • Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops

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  • Read it again. It occurs even with a full system wipe and re-install from Microsoft-direct media, or even a full hard drive swap. It is wholly independent of what is on the hard drive, the only restriction being that it can only successfully run when injected into Windows.

  • The Vanishing Men of Vancouver Island

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  • You are fueling the gender war.

    So true equality is “fuelling the gender war”, eh?

    Why call feminism “equality”, then, if it is nothing of the sort?

  • The Vanishing Men of Vancouver Island

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  • Pipeline

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  • OpenSUSE user since about 2005/2006.

    My headcanon (in this theme) is OpenSUSE being a tall androgynous-y female tomboy cosplaying as a strait-laced male exec done up in the latest tailored pinstripe German banker fashion, including matching waistcoat and fedora, with black trenchcoat suavely draped over the shoulders and hands in black leather gloves. And with the hair having just enough length and curl to be barely toeing past the line of decorum.

  • Military police called in to investigate leak of F-35 fighter jet information

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  • F-35 dominated the Gripen in terms of military capabilities.

    …And?

    In WWII, the German Tiger absolutely dominated the American Sherman. To the point where an average of 8 Shermans were needed to reliably take out a Tiger. There were frequent reports of Sherman ordinance just bouncing off of the Tiger’s armament like rubber balls, and it took a precise hit in just a handful of hard to target places in order to disable a Tiger, much less destroy it. Shermans needed to get stupidly close - frequently just a few tank lengths away - to make those shots count. Which means most were destroyed just trying to get close enough to actually be useful in the first place, or as distractions for other tanks to slip in.

    And yet, America helped win that war. Because when 10, 20, or even more Shermans came boiling out of the woodwork for every Tiger that was fielded, the tide turned very quickly.

    Canada’s initial quote for 88 F-35 fighter aircraft could obtain about 420 Gripen aircraft at current market prices.

    Combine the gratuitous F-35 cost overruns, the maintenance that costs many multiples of what Gripen maintenance costs, and the massive cost savings inherent in building Gripens domestically, and we could conceivably field 7× or 8× as many Gripens as we could F-35 aircraft for the exact same cost.

    Plus, Gripens can be fielded from many more places in Northern Canada than F-35 aircraft can. Sometimes as little as a straight section of highway.

    And numbers win wars. Always.

  • Kamala Harris might run for president again in 2028. Please, no | Arwa Mahdawi

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  • He’s already looking to disenfranchise many tens of millions of voters if he’s unable to cancel the midterm elections wholesale.

    I’m sure that if there ever will be elections again, they will be purely performative and with a foregone conclusion, just like how North Korea has “elections”.

  • Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops

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  • Global sea levels have been underestimated due to poor modelling, research suggests

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  • Wheeeee!

    Faster than expected, sooner than expected, and greater than expected. Fun! /s

  • Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops

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  • If you have the money and want simplicity, reliability, and interoperability, go for a Mac. Just clench your sphincter and maximize the RAM; min. 32Gb ought to be minimally appropriate for a 7-8yr lifespan of basic duties. And FFS, go for what your current data uses up ×2.5 or 1Tb, whichever is larger (vital performance reasons in that). Don’t get the smallest storage unless third-party upgrade options exist like for the Mac Mini M4. And remember: all RAM and a lot of storage is integrated these days, which is why you should always max it out; there is no upgrade path except wholesale replacement of the machine. CPU is largely immaterial unless you are doing truly heavy lifting like video editing or AI, so that can often be the lowest choice.

    If you want freedom and truly unconstrained system, some form of Linux/BSD on a Framework system is the way to go. Or if a desktop, hand-assemble it yourself.

    If you are going to stick with Windows, go for a business-class Dell. Trust me, it’ll be almost as $$$$ painful as a Mac, but these little f**kers are built to last. At least you can upgrade the RAM and on-board storage, although I honestly recommend not going under 32Gb for anything other than basic tasks. It’ll be a lot more zippy with 32Gb even if you spend the first week tearing all the AI and built-in spyware out of Windows.

  • Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops

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  • You are correct, however they were malicious in nature and loaded on every boot from the UEFI/BIOS. They required Windows and auto-terminated the install if they already existed.

  • Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops

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  • Goldfish memories by most muggles and normies.

    Plus the latest shiny and feature FOMO.

    And then you have procurement who are told to get the most at the least cost, allowing state-owned companies to undercut most competition. Without clearly-specified guidelines that exclude dangerous tech, most rank-and-file salarymen will be told by Dilbert bosses to order the hardware or look for a different job.

  • My enthusiasm for tech is basically gone.

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  • I disagree with humans being the CNC machines. In both cases, humans instruct the technology to create the designs, but it is the machine which is digging into the product to create the visual patterns.

  • Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops

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  • Yes, but if you are running Windows on them, do they still inject Chinese state-sponsored malware into Windows on every boot from UEFI/BIOS storage?

    They were caught doing this on several occasions, to the point where Lenovo products are forbidden across significant swaths of the U.S. government and military.

  • My enthusiasm for tech is basically gone.

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  • But as cars became more reliable and complex, fewer and fewer now know how.

    There is also DRM and other shenanigans going on.

    For example, just to replace your brake pads - something that most everyone should be able to do - requires, on most average modern cars made in the last 2-3 years, a $1,000,000 piece of software with a $6,000/mo subscription package.

    Why? Because until the vehicle manufacturer authorizes that brake pad replacement, that vehicle will refuse to even turn on, much less move. It needs to obtain cryptographically-signed approval from the manufacturer for the work that had been done to it in order for it to even turn over the engine.

    Now your average car owner isn’t going to have these means, so everything gets pushed off to manufacturer-authorized repair depots, invariably car dealerships, where everything can be nickel-and-dimed to maximum revenue.

    This lack of repairability is one of three major reasons why I will never personally own a vehicle manufactured after 2006.

  • My enthusiasm for tech is basically gone.

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  • Let me give an example that matches my own discouragement and might also explain yours.

    In the middle of last century, the woodworking industry that created fine furniture started experiencing a shift. Due to the sudden explosion of wages and wealth and population in the late 40s to 70s, products had to be made faster and cheaper.

    One method was to lower the quality of inputs. Plywood instead of hardwood. Then fiberboard/chipboard instead of plywood.

    We see the same system in play now, with AI automation and it’s gratuitous hallucinations. It is essentially garbage materials in order to save time and money.

    But another method was also in automating the work. Whereas before craftsmen used hand planes and chisels, newer craftsmen used electric shapers and planers. And later, CNC machines stepped in to produce delicate and complicated designs in a fraction of the time - and frequently even more precisely and more cleanly - than anyone with a carving chisel could do.

    And that is the part which is NOT being effectively duplicated in IT.

    Sure, AI can automate the work, but instead of maintaining quality, said quality of work is also taking a nosedive in tandem with the quality of materials.

    And that is what is discouraging me six ways to Sunday. It’s garbage on both sides of the coin, and not just one. There is no part of the equation in which I can still take pride in. It’s all depressive, disgusting slop that I would be ashamed to put my name to.

  • Myrient is shutting down

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  • And even if the Core Storage held everything straight out of the gate, you could do initial storage configured via RAID-10 using only 28× 30Tb drives.

    In Canadian Pesos, that’s $34,000 before taxes for those drives. If the operating costs were in USD, that’s only 5 months of operating costs. Get a pair of used 4U 16-bay server boxes, and almost anything built within the last decade will work well as a SAN/NAS, especially if you use a specialized FOSS NAS OS.

    A good strategy for migrating to BitTorrent would be to migrate the high value content first, so that bugs and failures ooze out of the woodwork as rapidly as possible. This would also allow you to build the NAS/SAN data storage boxes over time, one at a time, instead of all at once. And you can start with repurposed desktops as the seedbox itself and upgrade to more RAM once the BitTorrent client grows beyond the box’s initial resources. This stepwise growth would also give you the opportunity to work out any kinks and gotchas that you failed to anticipate.

    For example, the BitTorrent client you choose to run on the seedbox itself will be a critical importance. I have found, through my own use of multiple clients, that by far the most aggressive BitTorrent client I have ever come across has been BiglyBT. I am able to achieve a ratio in weeks and sometimes even days the most other clients require years or even decades to achieve. For something seeding out, there is literally nothing better.

    As an example: when MyAnonamouse banned BiglyBT, I tried an experiment, downloading the same movie file with several different torrent clients. After a full year of seeding, the runner-up was qBittorrent, with a ratio of 0.2. BiglyBT? A ratio of 870.

    Same file, same super-seeding, but a massive difference between BiglyBT and pretty much anything else out there.

    It’s a shame that so many closed trackers ban BiglyBT. It is absolutely an overall benefit to the ecosystem.

  • Myrient is shutting down

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  • …What is Myrient?

    googles name

    390Tb of history

    …Oh. Oh, no. This loss would be painful.

    I mean, not a gamer, but daaaaaamn.

    A structured BitTorrent system could keep most high-demand files offline after initial seeding, especially if seeding rules like the ones MyAnonamouse uses were implemented. And the low-demand ones could remain online via a seedbox from anywhere, even from the operator’s basement.

    Honestly, while I don’t have funds to take over normal operations or even provide seedbox space, I can see many paths out of this problem.

  • What’s your most controversial opinion?

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  • purposefully infecting your child with chickenpox for future immune protection

    Vaccines are infinitely safer than doing that. Your premise a bad example to give, as it’s the riskiest possible path to immunity, and an example of exceptionally harmful parental care given the vaccination options.

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
    rekabis @lemmy.ca

    U.S. ambassador gives prime minister the cover he needs to cut Canada’s F-35 order

    ca.news.yahoo.com /u-ambassador-gives-prime-minister-090011096.html
  • Flippanarchy @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    rekabis @lemmy.ca

    Is anyone collating and curating a list of the fascists behind the current American coup?