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ParadeGrotesque

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I wrestle penguins and spiky fishes for a living. Very cranky old *nix geek with a beard. You know the type. (now, get off my lawn!).

"I support transgender rights. Trans rights = human rights."

#nobridge

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dlakelan, to Economics
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@economics

Is there any downside to taking say the 99.5th percentile of wealth, and requiring anyone over that value to sell say 5% of their holdings of each stock or fund they own and pay the proceeds as tax?

ParadeGrotesque,
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@dlakelan @economics

Why not 50% instead of 5%?

This world isn't safe with billionaires around.

ParadeGrotesque,
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@dlakelan @economics

This can be answered easily: put a cutting off point to exclude everyone worth, say, 15 million or less. Most of these do not own stocks like billionaires. Their money is tied in brick & mortar businesses or independent careers (medical, legal, etc).

Taxing the billionaire stocks is nationalisation. The government is then able to reorganize the companies and make sure they align with public interest, without selling any stock, avoiding a market crash.

ParadeGrotesque,
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@dlakelan @economics@a.gup.pe

I think you badly underestimate billionaires and the power of nuisance they have.

As I have said, the goal of nationalization is to get rid of the billionaires. At this stage, I would say it is almost impossible in the USA, given the political power they have.

And I have no problem with nationalization at all: several studies done in Europe have shown that careful management by the state often brings companies much better returns than unfettered capitalism.

ParadeGrotesque, to random
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  • Me: Yum! What a great Greek salad, so tasty.

  • My FODMAP gut: Sure was, buddy.

  • Me: Uh... Was there some feta in that Greek salad?

  • My FODMAP gut: Yup. Yup, there was.

  • Me: Uh oh...

ParadeGrotesque,
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@log

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqSMk2IzK2o

ParadeGrotesque, to random
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Friday has been a blur.

Two hours meeting in the morning, including 35 minutes of me presenting.

3 or 4 shorter meetings, 30 minutes each.

One last-minute one hour meeting for 'alignment' that turned into a 90 minutes marathon. That was grueling.

Thank Cthulhu, it's over. Not touching the work computer for another 24 hours.

Enjoy your week-end, people!

mwl, to random
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For some reason, people stopped backing #ryoms at roughly 5pm EDT yesterday. It's like something sucked all the discussion out of the world. Weird...

ParadeGrotesque,
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@mwl

Weird... 🤔

matiu_bidule, to random French
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La tehon galactique de l'université "de rang mondial mes fesses au fromage tout ça tout ça".

Via > @gblanc05 🔗 https://social.sciences.re/users/gblanc05/statuses/112531013475249872

Une journée assez surréaliste organisée à l'université Paris Cité :

#dystopie #technosolutionisme #pédagogie #TeamESR

Avec en guest-star, Laurent Alexandre !! Climato-négationiste, eugéniste, technosolutioniste+++

https://u-paris.fr/%C3%A9v%C3%A8nement/innovations-pedagogiques-le-virage-immersif/

ParadeGrotesque,
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@matiu_bidule

Tes fesses, ok, mais avec quel fromage ?

(Pardon...)

@gblanc05

GayDeceiver, to random
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Spring time.

When the storms hit.

When the weather is like a fiery teen … unpredictable and capricious.

When I can’t sleep.

Spring can go jump on a lake.

ParadeGrotesque,
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@SailorDisco @GayDeceiver

Yet.

shaft, to random French
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Sinon ce matin, j'ai fait une légère déviation dans mon itinéraire pour aller au boulot et du coup, je suis passé devant une gargote qui s'appelle : « Marie Curry »

Je suppose que les gens qui tiennent ce truc sont rayonnants 🤔

ParadeGrotesque,
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@greenman @shaft

Mais surtout : très très très chauds...

RickiTarr, to random
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Friends: Who are you listening to right now?

Me, very hip: Oh, you wouldn't know them.

This is a song playing the piano and howling and barking, and legit, he sounds pretty good. I've heard much more insane Mingus albums

ParadeGrotesque,
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@RickiTarr

That doggo got the bluuuuuuues 😂

brokenix, to random
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#doas : multiple security issues
Buffer overflow (privilege escalation to root)
Broken UID parsing falls back to root (CVE-2019-15900)
Incorrect group change behaviour (CVE-2019-15901)
https://github.com/slicer69/doas/pull/23

ParadeGrotesque,
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@screwtape

He he he:

"On a side note, I'd like to point out that my testing shows this issue, keeping the group of the original user, appears to only affect Linux. On FreeBSD group permissions were already dropped, as they were on OpenBSD, and (I think) NetBSD. Linux was the odd one out for keeping the calling user's groups. And I think this patch is worthwhile to bring Linux into the fold so it is no longer an exception."

ParadeGrotesque,
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@pkw @screwtape

OpenBSD is totally unaffected. And "doas" works on it as it should.

From what I understand, it's only the "portable" version of doas that has a problem, and mostly on Linux.

This said, I'd love it if was to adopt doas in base and make sure it works as intended.

:netbsd:

ParadeGrotesque,
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@netbsd

Thank you for reminding me I need to test 'priv' on my VMs... 👍

@pkw @screwtape

aral, to France
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“France’s President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that recognition of a Palestinian state was not a ‘taboo subject’ but that it should take place at a ‘useful moment’.

https://www.inkl.com/a/AgWrLrhlBMl

A useful moment… Like when, motherfucker? When they’re all dead? :0_goose:

ParadeGrotesque,
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@rad @aral

Just remember that Macron kept talking for months with Russia after it invaded Ukraine, and that he kept repeating that Russia "should not be humiliated" in Ukraine.

That tells you everything you need to know about this PoS who is unfortunately the President of my country.

larsbrinkhoff, to random
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First successful QR code output from a PDP-10.

ParadeGrotesque,
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@larsbrinkhoff

How long did it take to compute?

mwl, to sysadmin
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Figuring out next stretch goals for "Run Your Own Mail Server."

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/run-your-own-mail-server/

If you had told me a month ago that I would be thinking up $40k and $50k stretch goals, I would have laughed scornfully in your face. #sysadmin #ryoms #projectwelove

ParadeGrotesque,
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@mwl

I still laugh scornfully in your face, but it is because I am now waiting for my signed hardcover copy! 🧐

ParadeGrotesque, to random
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Americans cults these days are basically racist Christian Nationalists MAGA white power pseudo-political structures.

Thank Cthulhu, Europeans keep alive the tradition of the sex orgies guru-knows-best, one love, one planet cults.

What both of these have in common is a love of money, money, money.

I am definitely going to start my own... uh... "alt-religion" soon, as I need a retirement plan of some kind.

Praise 'Bob' and contact me for a low low price on new conversion!

athon, to random
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PC with asrock mobo stuck on boot with A2 error when openbsd ssd attached. tried different ssd's, cables, sata ports etc.

#OpenBSD

ParadeGrotesque,
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@athon

ASRock.

Cheap, and you get what you pay for.

cs, (edited ) to retrocomputing
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Favorite thing you never (or hardly ever) have to use. Something else?

ParadeGrotesque,
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@cs

I still use lynx.

RobertDuke, to random
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You guys reckon crop circles are just the alien equivalent of QR codes for UFOs to scan when they come visit?

ParadeGrotesque,
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@jasonpettus

I think Michelin would be slightly more critical than that.

Something like: "Mostly harmless backwater, unfortunately not as nice as it used to be, since the inhabitants have discovered nuclear cooking.

The diversity of dishes has been going down and the place now distinctly looks seedier than in the past.

You can stop there for a quick nostalgic bite if you saw it in better times, but it can be safely avoided otherwise. You won't miss much".

@RobertDuke @onan

thomholwerda, to random
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Rate my homelab. 🥴

ParadeGrotesque,
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@h3artbl33d @thomholwerda

Let's found GUA: Google Users Anonymous.

  • Uh... Hello everyone, I am Thom
  • (all together) Hi Thom!
  • And... uh... I... I am a Google user!

😉

Seriously, though, I suspect a lot of people use Google because hey, it works, and because a long time ago, they promised that they would not be evil, that they would be a different kind of company.

We won't get fooled again.

ParadeGrotesque, to random
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My little Python scripts can now spout "technical-oriented" nonsense...:

Another important detail the stripped-down Apache web server can secure SQL queries.

Surprisingly the rarely updated OSS sound server scrambles in most public clouds.

AI poison pill is now ready.

ParadeGrotesque,
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Digging into the HTML specifications, I am usefully reminded of the 'hidden' HTML function.

So, adding some (hidden) technical-sounding nonsense to every page of my blog could result in poisoning a very very small fraction of the AI scraping my articles.

Worth a try. Especially since generating a lot of nonsense is essentially instantaneous on my main machine.

ParadeGrotesque,
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In other news today, it has been raining almost non-stop since this morning. It is very depressing. 🌧️

GossiTheDog, to random
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For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

video/mp4

ParadeGrotesque,
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@GossiTheDog

Right. Because Microsoft never, ever, told a lie to a reporter before, right?

Right?

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