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@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange And noise. There's a local breakfast place here with a great reputation. People line up on the sidewalk. Inside, it's a brick-walled box with continuous high-decibel music AND panel TVs. You cannot hear the person on the other side of the table. Painful. I don't get it.

@SeanCasten@mastodon.social Without right-wing gerrymandered control of state legislatures, Republicans wouldn't be proposing anything to increase alleged state sovereignty. It's not 1789. Why should a state have more sovereignty than a county within a state? When 21st century anti-democratic extremists leverage claims of state sovereignty to attack rights, as they did in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, they're attacking the legitimacy of the US.

@arstechnica Do physicians and hospitals make parents who deny their newborns appropriate care waive their right to sue?

@mcnado@mstdn.social The alleged rights of states have been used as a safe harbor for Americans opposed to US democracy since the nation's creation. It's the reason the Declaration of Independence was issued without its draft grievance against Britain's establishment of slavery in North America. It's the reason hundreds of thousands of Americans were killed by pro-slavery traitors. It's the reason for Jim Crow and its successor, the Roberts Court. State rights are the armory for fearful white men.

@tezoatlipoca@mas.to It's the people behind that site lying. They've paid to have their site display that lying message when an ad browser is detected. Once they've identified themselves as liars, why would they expect to be believed by anyone who disabled their adblocker?

@JulianOliver@mastodon.social You can't do journalism when the people who own the business want to sell ad-luring "content" and don't care if it's journalism or gibberish. The sites I've walked away from after they've switched to AI produce posts so awful and pointless and weird that it's obvious that they're only targeting clicks from the junk sites that litter Google search results.

@malwaretech There's probably no van-owned-by-a foreign-power on the street outside the kiddie SCIF's on the left, unlike the kiddie SCIF's on the right.

@tagir_valeev Just me, but I would not start a thread when my building's fire alarm goes off. I'd go stand in the parking lot.🚒

@pdmckone@mstdn.ca @ulfurinn@mastodon.online @grumpy_website@mastodon.online Great song, bad GUI.

@Richard_Littler@mastodon.social Historians will be reluctant to give credence to images that can't be proven to be non-AI produced or altered.

@pojntfx Equating the risks of using the products of Big Tech with the risks of consuming alcohol is... interesting.

@scalzi The first film's success opened the door to more films and the "New Hope" label. The rather odd of idea of making prequels to provide backstory for "Star Wars" triggered the name change. That backstory might have been provided via flashbacks in sequel films.

@georgetakei@universeodon.com Inside US borders, the FBI is responsible for counterintelligence. So if the FBI director is personally involved in firing people, he really ought to know what kind of expertise he's kicking out the door. And he really should have sense enough to refresh his memory on that before showing up to a hearing he knows will ask about the dismissals. Unless, of course, he's an arrogant fraud.

@realGulDukat Nerys for president.

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Thousands, approaching 30,000, were executed, legally and extra-legally.

@cstross@wandering.shop If I find the book compelling, fiction or nonfiction, about 3 days. Closer to 7 days if it isn't so compelling and I finish it out of a sense of duty. Bedtime reading, though, is a paradox. I want it to be both interesting and to put me to sleep.

@cstross@wandering.shop Who would have done such a thing?

@grumpy_website@mastodon.online The thing in the top right corner of the Insider's image looks like a little clock. Don't suppose it is, though.

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Can I use my Gmail account in Kmail now?

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Apparently, the answer is "No, I can't use Gmail with Kmail in Plasma 6". Booted the current Fedora 40 nightly KDE ISO. Using "Online Accounts" did not set up my Gmail account in Kmail. Kmail found the account in Mozilla's database when I tried to create it directly in Kmail. I was led through a dialog that ended with a display of server info with a "Previous" and a "Quit" button. The account was not created. #KDE #Plasma6

@feditips@mstdn.social I'll look. I'm typically not happy with apps compared to using a browser.

@TechDesk Might be useful, might not be. Might not happen at all. Why, though, the tech media assumption that a change to a software product is always something for users to look forward to? Sometimes, a product is just "done" from a user point of view. At that point, new capabilities will be pointless inanities or efforts to exploit users.

@Bro666@lemmy.kde.social I tried it on Fedora 40 with Plasma 6. Don't know if it's broken there or not. In any case, the account wizard repeatedly showed me a screen with only a back and quit button when the account hadn't yet been created. Also kept telling me I had set up 2 accounts and asking if I'd like to unify them.

@mcnado@mstdn.social They're white racists. That's *why* they're Republicans. White supremacy cannot exist in a democratic US. Pretty obvious what they see as the threat. It's the same threat they've seen since 1776. They have never changed and they never will.

@cstross@wandering.shop I never signed up to Facebook. This annoyed my family, who had to resort to doing obnoxious things like phoning and texting me. Then they wised up and quit Facebook.

@FluentInFinance Map that against wealth distribution upward since 1960.

@alfiekohn@sciences.social No one needs to be on Facebook.

@evacide@hachyderm.io When I was in high school people said they didn't go "downtown" because it wasn't safe because "they" were there. The best book and record shops were there so I went the 10 miles on the bus.

@samlitzinger@journa.host No way her husband reads it. Too many words.

@feditips@mstdn.social If I follow X, I want to see all X's posts, whether or not they are replies. if developers want to give users an option to hide replies to others by people they follow, that's fine. Developers should not arbitrarily hide posts from users.

@feditips@mstdn.social That's a weakness. If users want to see everything posted by an account they follow, they should not need to find that account's profile page and go looking. Especially for time sensitive matters and events. If I follow someone specifically to see their posts about a news event, I want to see them in my timeline, along with posts from the other accounts I follow for the same reason.

@taylorlorenz Age verification laws are a step in the direction of governments banning individuals from using computers, i.e., effectively licensing computer use. The core of the right wing is the conviction that behavior must be controlled, that the exercise of rights must be constricted, not protected and expanded. When age checks fail, some legislators will begin thinking about requiring logins to be vetted against national registries "proving" age.

@bert_hubert@eupolicy.social Why doesn't Satya Nadella just ask Microsoft's AI how to increase AI's adoption?

@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social We ought to have the same reaction to the Russian foreign minister wearing a sweat shirt emblazoned with "CCCP" as we would if the German foreign minister showed up wearing a swastika armband.

@TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.Gmail may have worked with Kmail occasionally in the past. I think sometimes that involved going back to your Google account and telling it to accept an "unsecure" app. To be honest, I wouldn't do that for an email app. Elementary has the same problem with its mail app.