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tburkhol

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    Marjorie Taylor Greene: "Americans want rich powerful pedos and rapists strung up on gallows, even if it collapses our government"

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  • She is still a true believer - she loves the racism, the sexism, the LGBT-phobia, the tax breaks for rich, the church-instead-of-school, the two-tiered justice system... She's just also still on the Q-anon anti-pedophile train, where the rest of MAGA leadership is willing to overlook a few rapes if they get all the other stuff.

  • I wrote a blog post on selfhostesd software to be more organized

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  • You can start by experimenting on your current computer. Install docker, get some service that sounds interesting, and just access it on localhost. You'll miss out on anything the service does overnight or downtime, and you won't be able to access it from off-site, but it's a fine way to wet your toes and see how it goes.

    Docker: https://docs.docker.com/desktop/setup/install/windows-install/

    Photo library: https://docs.immich.app/install/docker-compose/

    Some maintainers even provide handy windows installers

    Media library: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/installation/windows

  • F.D.A. Reverses Decision and Agrees to Review Moderna’s Flu Vaccine

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  • They can still reject the application. This just means they will go through the motions of looking at it first.

  • Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel

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  • My nephew has a new baby. Her parents are constantly waving their phones in her face; sending pics back and forth; generally doing 'millenial things' with their phones when not actively attending the baby. Then proceed to get all freaked out when the baby expresses interest or curiosity in the phone.

    Kids mimic their parents behavior and interests. If you want kids with healthy internet use, you have to have parents model healthy internet use.

  • Top 10% of Americans Have Double Wealth of The Bottom 90%

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  • From @ava@piefed.blahaj.zone source, the 10%/90% ratio went from 1.55 in 1989 to 2.14 in 2025.

    Consistent with their criticism of choosing the top 10% vs the top 1-or-fewer %, the 1%/99% ratio went from 30% to 46%. The 1%/90% ratio went from 58% to 99, and the (10-1)%/90% from 97% to 114%.

    ed: Initially did this without noticing that the default view of the Fed data only showed 2010-2025. Over that range, the (10-1)% have actually lost wealth to the 1%. Over the 1989-2025 window, the (10-1)% have gained, but not nearly the pace of the 1%

  • Top 10% of Americans Have Double Wealth of The Bottom 90%

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  • The 'mostly safe 4% rule' actually includes inflation. It's based on the assumption that assets are invested in a mix of broad stock market and treasury bonds, and allows the retireee to increase their annual spending by inflation, It usually results in the retiree dying with substantially more wealth (inflation adjusted) than they started out with. The stock market is a natural inflation hedge and, in this day of multinational conglomerates, a currency hedge.

  • Okay.

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  • They're always the minority. They require an enemy to continue, so they create ever smaller circles of 'true believers' and ostracize everyone else.

  • Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State

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  • The trouble with living in a panopticon is that becomes suspicious to not be on a list.

  • How are curved wood tables made?

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  • If there's multiple pieces, there will be seams, although they may not be visible in a video. This is one of the reasons people 'fake' bends: build up the structural wood from multiple pieces, which gets good strength while minimizing material usage, then cover the bent surface with a thin (ie, flexible & inexpensive) veneer, and trim that the to final shape.

    Most of the methods mushroommunk described are good for curving wood along its long axis, making the visible/usable surface of the wood curved.

    If you mean the desk top is curved, like a C-shape around the user, then they've probably just cut the curve into a big sheet or two of engineered lumber (eg. plywood), and covered that with veneer.

  • Everything Costs More Because the Algorithm Says So | The Walrus

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  • You don't think that individualized price gouging will improve life for Jeff Bezos?

  • Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So

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  • I have a n ESP32 with a thermocouple stuffed down my (gas) oven chimney, so I can tell what temperature it actually is (about 40°F/20°C cooler than the dial).

    I have one plugged into an addressable LED matrix, which has yet to get mounted, but will eventually be a closet/dressing light. There's a few places where I'd like a 'normal' warm white light, with the option to switch to a blinding daylight for chores, and maybe a low-light, colorful animated nightlight.

    I have a Pi-0w reading temp/humidity/CO2 in a grow tent that's a good candidate for ESP32-ification. I have an air quality sensor plugged directly into a Home Assistant server that could go on ESP32 if I wanted it in a different location. Humidity in the bathroom, with a controller for the bathroom fan is another good candidate.

    If I can come up with a good way to put them on battery, with a 6-12 month lifetime, then temperature in the attic, and on the input/output sides of the HVAC would be useful.

  • Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So

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  • I only one I know about https://socprime.com/blog/cve-2025-27840-vulnerability-in-esp32-bluetooth-chips/ which is a bluetooth thing, presumably meaning that you'd have to be in bluetooth range to exploit it.

    My paranoid concern is that I'm going to buy these $2 ESP32 boards from some unknowable Chinese company, and how could I know if there's an extra, malicious supervisor element added. So, my ESP32 devices live in the 'untrusted' VLAN. They could, theoretically, discover each other and send their sensor data to some nefarious broker, but they don't have microphones or cameras. I don't even see how they could get enough information to discover my physical address, without cooperation from my ISP.

  • Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So

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  • I was really intimidated by ESP32. Liked RPi, back in the 3b days, because I could comfortably sit in the python interpreter, play with sensor interfaces, and get immediate feedback of what & where I screwed up. Familiarity led me to RPi4 for libreelec and 0w for more sensors.

    Recently took the plunge on some ESP32s, though, and, just...wow. I mean, I'm going through esphome, but every sensor and control I've checked is just a couple of lines of YAML away. And low enough power that I'm starting to think about batteries. ESP32 is still pretty intimidating for noobs, but the ecosystem that's grown up around it is fantastic once you get over that hump.

  • Brilliant, innit?

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  • Treat LLMs like "boss's idiot nephew," both in terms of whether the business should give them a privilege and whether the business should be liable for their inevitable screwups.

  • What are some of Kid Rock's healthy habits?

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  • So I should tell my fitness watch I'm doing cardio before I light up? Move those heartbeats from 'stress' to 'healthy.'

  • Home Assistant 2026.2: Home, sweet overview

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  • I started using HA to turn lights on and off on timer while I'm out of town, so it looks like the house is occupied.

    Then, because I am a nerd, I added some environmental sensors so I could see temperature & air quality.

    Eventually linked the air quality sensor to a smart thermostat, so it could turn the HVAC fan on when the air is dirty & off when clean, rather than leave it on 24/7 (like the HVAC people recommend) or on 'circulate.' That saved around 3.5 kWh electricity every day, or $100/year, while keeping the house dust and allergen-free.

  • Reading the Files got me like

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  • If I write a crappy email, I get reprimanded by the boss, or I lose a contract, or people just stop emailing me.

    If a billionaire writes a crappy email, their correspondent still wants their money.

  • The world is trying to log off U.S. tech

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  • The problem isn't necessarily corporate services - the problem is corporate services with no practical competition. If there's an actual marketplace, then enshittification is limited, because you can just hop providers when service degrades. If there's an actual marketplace, then you can hop providers when some government takes control your provider.

    Putting fun services behind the wall of 'you must be this technically competent to participate' isn't going to fix the broken system.

  • People espousing that unions don't work should have a look at police unions.

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  • I suspect that some of the 'lazy union worker' stereotype is workers following their contract and refusing to do non-contracted work, which is, of course, essential to maintaining the value of that contract. Pride in your own work/trade doesn't mean cleaning up after the other trades; professionalism in your own work doesn't mean unpaid overtime to fix someone else's fuckup.

  • Data is Beautiful @mander.xyz
    tburkhol @lemmy.world
    US 2018-2023

    What's going to kill you?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    tburkhol @lemmy.world

    Bind 9.18.18 dnssec key location and privileges?

  • Personal Finance @lemmy.ml
    tburkhol @lemmy.world
    US

    Brokerage with decent API?