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  • Pledge of Allegiance

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  • I was 8 when I moved to the US. It was bizarre. Obviously, as an outsider, I felt I had to fit in. I never questioned it. I didn't understand it. I just said the words.I guess at some point you understand the words (I left the US before then), but by that point it's probably become a habit. It's still the thing that everyone else in the class does. And you still want to fit in.Never mind understanding the politics of the US that you have the right to not do something that is habitual and seems completely normal.

  • ‘If Ukraine fails, war will come to the streets of European cities,’ former foreign minister says

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  • Loose type coercion.Should always use === for a strict comparison in loosely typed languages.Seems like europe and european union are equivalent when implicitly coerced.

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    If I choose "No default configuration" when resetting a MikroTik router, will I lose that default configuration "forever"?

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  • Default config is defined in the firmware. It can't be deleted or changed (well, easily. I think there is a reseller option to have a custom default config).The "no default config" means the default config will not be applied after the reset.If you reset it again without checking "no default config", then the default config will be applied.

    "No default config" is very useful for applying your own config script. It gives you a blank canvas, making scripting a lot easier!

    I have my "config.rsc" file that has the required configuration. And I have a "reset.auto.rsc" file that only has the command to reset the mikrotik with no defaults and to run the "config.rsc" script after reset."filename.auto.rsc" will be executed as soon as it gets FTPd (it's a feature of mikrotik).I use a bash script that FTPs the config.rsc file to the mikrotik, then the reset.auto.rsc file.Makes it trivial to tweak the config then apply it, and I get all the config for the devices in easy to edit/diff script files.

  • ‘Brexit problem’: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down

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  • Not just in Glasgow. Water is a flat rate covered by council tax across all of Scotland.It's likely because we don't pay for units used, and awareness of water conservation hasn't happened/stuck.

  • ‘Brexit problem’: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down

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  • Rusting them girders has become harder since they painted the forth rail bridge with that anti-rust coating!

  • ‘Brexit problem’: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down

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  • Scottish tap water is a public/government company.They do a good job.Unfortunately, climate change is impacting the level of reservoirs & water ways (ie, going down), and Scottish people use more water than English people (like 30% more, a substantial amount).Hopefully Scottish water continues to be great, and continue to get the funding they need to do a good job

  • Trump says he can't guarantee tariffs won't raise US prices and promises swift immigration action

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  • "Dreamers" are undocumented youths brought to the US by their guardian who are in education.https://wikipedia.org/wiki/DREAM_Act

    There are a whole bunch of caveats, including "good moral character".

    Many laws create a paradox by placing the burden of proof of good moral character on the applicant while such a proof, but not the law, necessitates that the evaluators assess the beliefs and values of the applicant.

    I bet this is the "loophole". Dreamers are allowed, except when denied by "this certain bullshit Texas judge who judges everyone to fail the Good Moral Character test". Surprise surprise, that's where all cases of dreamers is held.

  • Musk spent over a quarter of a billion dollars to help elect Trump

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  • UK police forces quietly withdraw from X platform amid content concerns

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  • 99% of the police, yeh.There are a few dodgy ones. And the system generally works to get rid of them. There are miscarriages of justice, and excessive use of force.

    But, generally speaking, UK Police police by diffusing situations instead of eliminating them.I've never had a bad encounter with the police. They've always been helpful, had some banter, or been polite but firm.But I've never been on the wrong side of them. And I've never encountered them in a situation where the population is in the right but the laws are against the population (like a protest that gets "managed"). And it probably helps that I'm native etc.

    I have no doubts that it's different for other UK residents. So, I still judge news by the ACAB.Withdrawing from X reinforces my beliefs that UK Police police in a good way.If they move to Donny's site, then I'm cooked.

  • Russian disinfo is trying to spark a boycott of Stalker 2 by claiming it's going to draft you into the war in Ukraine somehow

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  • What you are describing is pretty much just stalker games.They are hard, they are punishing, they are moody and spooky, and they are immersive .The last couple patches have rebalanced some of the economy and bullet-sponge. But it isn't a casual "run & gun" exploration game. Gotta treat the Zone with respect.

    Having said that, worth waiting until ALife gets properly implemented (or at least partially implemented) and it should feel more immersive overall.

  • Best OS for Arr suite, Proton VPN, and Plex

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  • The best thing is: if something doesn't work, you tweak the compose file instead of having to retype or edit a command.

    And you can have a GitHub of your compose files and any supporting config files.

    I don't get how some people can raw dog a docker run command!

  • xkcd #3018: Second Stage

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  • I enjoyed this one a lot.Not all xkcd are good. Not all xkcd have me as a target audience.But this one is equally absurd and relatable

  • Elon Musk has "taken over" MAGA, Democratic strategist suggests

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  • Politics and corruption is much cheaper than buying out an established & popular company

  • Does GitHub Copilot Improve Code Quality? Here's How We Lie With Statistics | Jadarma's Blog (2024-11-20)

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  • A commercial no-brainer means it makes such financial sense that even someone with no brain would make the same decision.For $100/year subscription, it has to save something like 2 hours of dev time per a year for it to make financial sense.

    It doesn't mean that anyone gets to switch off their brain

  • France gives Ukraine licence to fire long-range missiles at Russia

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  • Turns out you never actually own the missile

  • All the other brands went along

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  • If most devices had a usb-c loop through, that would be amazing.Like, a stackable connector would be cool

  • Windows VS Linux

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  • Yeh, it's there.But Linux installers would straight up ask you. So you don't even need to hit the CLI

  • Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe

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  • Twitter operates servers in the EU. They will have at least Frankfurt server. Probably UK and probably elsewhere.It's geographically closer, so reduces latency and server load (faster to complete a request, faster to discard allocated resources).It also gives redundancy. If Frankfurt DC explodes, the system will fall back to the next closest DC (probably London).

    So let's say that the EU DC stops existing. And requests go over the ocean to the US.Twitter still has customers in the EU. They are still making money from EU citizens. Because twitter isn't free. It costs money to manage, develop and run. Twitter tries to recoup those costs via adverts and subscription services.So let's say that twitter is no longer allowed to extract money from the EU. The EU bans companies advertising on twitter.Any companies that have business in the EU (like selling to EU citizens) are no longer allowed to advertise on twitter.Paypal, visa etc is no longer allowed to take payments from EU citizens for twitter services.Any EU service that has twitter integrations is no longer allowed to charge for twitter features.Basically, twitter has no way of getting money from the EU.

    Why would twitter spend money to access the EU population. It's a cost sink. Dead weight.There is no growth. Getting 50 million new EU users means a massive cost increase.Plus paying for that extra load on (say) US based servers, and their international backbone links. (Just because you can reach a server on the other side of the world for "free", doesn't mean commercial services can pump terabytes of data internationally for free).

    So yeh, the servers could stay located in the US where twitter operations HQ is. Twitter could disband their international headquarters, so they no longer have companies in the EU.But they wouldn't be able to get any money from EU citizens. And if they tried to circumvent the rules, then they can be blocked by DNS and BGP. So the only way to access twitter is by a VPN.That didn't work well in Brazil, and twitter caved in to the demands of the Brazil government.

  • Are you sure you want to almost destroy the ship? Yes/No

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  • The enterprise would just stop working completely.Picard would be rummaging around his ready room looking for the handwritten scrap of paper "backup" of the original prompt.Maybe my experiences in IT have jaded me