#DigitalRightsForLibraries

54m ago

What’s the currently best way to manage TOTP tokens?
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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 54m ago
Though development seems to have ceased for a few years now

2h ago

Lutris is AI slop now

It sure fu#$ing is. I've tried multiple times to get any of my games working in Lutris, but I'm 0 for 3. It looks like ass, works like ass, and now I see it is maintained by an ass with a victim complex.

4d ago

Catdog

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 4d ago

Came to say the same. G'mork!

5d ago

Linux dual boot

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 5d ago

Clonezilla is great, and simplifies the use of dd

6d ago

Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it?

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 6d ago

Just because a rock falls down doesn't mean it "naturally follows" that some rocks fall upward too. There is no way to invoke a system that stores excess energy as fat if there is no excess. Could some energy that is actually needed get stored as fat? Okay, but... Not for long, as the body would need energy, since it isn't getting calories. Unless it is getting calories from food.

I went from 175lbs to 125lbs in four months during divorce proceedings. My metabolism didn't change. I wasn't on a new miracle drug. I was depressed and didn't eat, and I took up running a 3.2mi circuit around the bay where I live.

To your point, I bet OP's diet would help you bulk up, just not likely with muscle. Chow a few gallons of ice cream each week. Eat American fast food three to ten times a week. Put cheese on everything. Ignore the "added sugars" part of the nutrition label. My weekly intake fits in a single shopping bag. I doubt OP can say the same. They weigh 2.5 times my weight.

Willpower is much harder to muster for a whole year, and its exceedingly difficult to avoid bad calories in this country.

ETA: Ozempic isn't prescribed because doctors found patients whose bodies are non-conformant to the basic principles of caloric intake. It's because doctors know patients have no willpower, and its likely the only way they will accept to lose weight.

6d ago

Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it?

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 6d ago

And our bodies are just machines. We can't create fat if were using the calories we consume. I don't really get anyone who "tries" to lose weight for years. If you keep putting more food in your body than you need, your body converts it to fat. The idea of since "strange reason" that a body won't lose weight is silly. There's just no way for a body to keep weight on unless they are taking in more calories than they are using. So if OP can't bear to eat less, they need to get really active. There really isn't a mystery here. Its math. If you only add to the equation, the figure only increases. This is a willpower issue. ... Or maybe we found the one obese American whose body defies caloric mathematics.

6d ago

"No right to relicense this project" - on changing the license of Mark Pilgrim's chardet from LGPL to MIT after a vibe-coded rewrite

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 6d ago

That was a fun scroll. Will be interesting to watch this play out.

1w ago

Letting users fill out a form before notifying them that they need to sign in to submit it is scummy and needs to end.

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 1w ago

Charge backs aren't just granted arbitrarily though. I spent almost $1k on getting my wheels refurbished. When I got them back, they had done more damage rather than repair them, and now the wheels cause major vibration.

Visa denied the charge back because a "service was provided." Despite the owner telling me on a recorded call that he'd never refund me or make it right, and sending over forty pictures of before and after. I'm out the money and Visa couldn't care less.

1w ago

Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 1w ago

So... Journalists just push stories without an editor reviewing them? I always assumed publications like Ars had someone in the Gandalf role (you shall not pass!) making sure articles were "correct" in many ways. ... Guess not?

1w ago

Jinx

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 1w ago

And her middle finger back

2w ago

Did I discover a fake conspiracy theory?

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 2w ago

I saw the same "barely" articles you mentioned that reference the CST as a source. They didn't actually describe the event the way your discussion partner did. She supposedly stepped in front of his car, and his grabbing her arm seems more out of frustration. He didn't save her from an accident. He was the driver of the car that would have hit her. He avoided an accident, got out of his car, grabbed the girl and "lectured" her. Seems like a slightly harsher consequence than necessary, but it does sound like an assault of some degree.

That said, I help people -- and even in public!!!

2w ago

Stop the Spin: How to Spot 9 Types of Auto-Industry Disinformation

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 2w ago

tl;dr it lists 9 things but not "how to spot them." A better working title would be, "9 lies we've known about and ignored for almost fifty years."

3w ago

Linus Torvalds and friends: how Linux evolved from solo act

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 3w ago

No. A Mac becomes a non-personal computer. And NPC...?

3w ago

Trump’s EPA Just Deregulated Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Vehicles

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 3w ago

Make sure the twig ... Uhhmm... I hope those rats are... Sighhhh. I got nothing. This timeline truly is the worst timeline. Like, my beard only grows into a goatee now.

3w ago

Trump’s EPA Just Deregulated Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Vehicles

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 3w ago

Also this is my first post after 3 years here, so let me know if anything needs to be fixed

We need a better president and house of representatives. No wonder it's so fucked up if you've been gone three years. Get on it and get this fixed ASAP, please.

3w ago

Why does non-profit Upsolve.org, a free bankruptcy tool for the poor, need facebook analytics in a bankruptcy evaluation tool?

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 3w ago

This is correct. The folks adding these trackers to their sites usually have little to zero tech knowledge. They see a plugin or other way to provide them with the metrics they think they need and its "so easy" to use tag manager or the Facebook pixel.

I knew someone working for a nonprofit that was building out a form for indigenous troubled families, and they used both google and meta tools. Their intended cohort actively avoided it based on their initial finding that it was tracking them (they apparently had a tech person on their side of the table). This prompted a whole board level meeting, which resulted in the removal of the trackers, which were later re-added in another,less skeevy way, after the data they wanted stopped flowing) and the immediate enrollment in the program by hundreds of families.

In the end, they decided they need those tools, as alternatives were to clunky for them. Google and Meta make it seem easy for you, since they have much to gain and little to lose by making their data collection tools easy to implement. I went round and round with my friend about how bad this was, and they got it, but their higher-ups overrode them.

And Meta and Google lived happily ever after...

4w ago

A Tesla illegally parked in the Chicago Avenue bus lane at 5pm. Chicago, Illinois.

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s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 4w ago

Kind of funny to see, "only" used to describe 3/5 of a whole. That's most states, though even the ones that do require it rarely use it as more than a pretense for a stop.