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cmdrmoto

@cmdrmoto@hachyderm.io

Goblin digital hedge witch, chaotic good alignment. Subgenius & drive-by oracle. Resident of Uranus.

Ex- #SFBayArea #DevOps burnout
Personal digital sovereignty fanatic, #infosec dabbler, tinkerer of things. W0HNO

#InvisibleDisability #QueersOfMastodon

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cmdrmoto, to random
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Tidal, one of the less mainstream music streaming services, has chosen to terminate their veterans discount program (with prejudice?).

Just as well I cancelled after being dreadfully disappointed by their trial.

gwynnion, to random
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Biden playing follow the leader with Trump again by "protecting" Americans from cheap imports at a time when the US EV sector is marginal to nonexistent.

"Biden announces 100% tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles"

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/14/joe-biden-tariff-chinese-made-electric-vehicles

cmdrmoto,
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@gwynnion @cakeisnotalie So what tf domestic EV are Americans supposed to buy? Are we only permitted dangerous SUV-sized vehicles (or elmo-mobiles)?

https://www.fastcompany.com/91123174/detroit-killed-the-sedan-we-may-all-live-to-regret-it

cstross, (edited ) to random
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You know, if we ever detect a SETI signal with an LLM as its payload, I'd totally get behind any proposal to RSVP the asswipe fuckers who sent such a jack-in-the-box with a Nicoll-Dyson laser, because those things LIE (and can't actually be made truthful):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Nicoll#Nicoll-Dyson_Laser
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112378716387762959

@arstechnica

cmdrmoto,
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@cstross Was lobster. Now am Windows NT User Group.

Would you like to buy into an intergalactic pyramid scheme?

br00t4c, to random
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B.C. Housing accused of using affordable-home lawsuits for 'political purposes'

#bc #people

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vivid-victoria-housing-affordable-1.7190703?cmp=rss

cmdrmoto,
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@br00t4c “In Xin's response the flooring salesman insists he lives at the unit for which he paid a total of $513,400 "and travels extensively for work.”

A half-million dollar condo is “affordable housing”?!?

MaxPow3r11, to random
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I see the portland fascists

are out & about with

the LRAD

& whatnot.

Fuck these fucks.

cmdrmoto,
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@MaxPow3r11 Maybe they’re cranky about their cars? https://kolektiva.social/@nobonzo/112372295504531099

mttaggart, to random

When did you first realize the power of the internet?

For me it was very early. My dad set up a 14.4 modem and a CompuServe connection and we watched as slowly, line by line, images of the planets from Voyager appeared on the screen. Even at a young age, I felt a connection to the larger world had been formed. Endless knowledge was now at my fingertips.

I miss that feeling.

cmdrmoto,
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@mttaggart Pine and nn, man. Amber screen VT100 and alt.barney.purple.dinosaur.die.die.die.

Innocent young Moto’s first exposure to concepts such as “Black Rock Desert” and “Drive-by Shooting Range” and what happens when you pour liquid O2 on a barbecue grill.

Eventually these ideas would lead me out of the South, to seek my fortune out West.

Heady days indeed.

_xhr_, to linux
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TIL that you can redirect clear(1)'s standard output to a file and the use cat on the file to clear the screen.

$ clear > foo
$ cat foo

cmdrmoto,
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@hexehelicen @_xhr_ ANSI vs VT100 vs (etc) don’t all agree on what sequence to use.

The “clear” utility queries your $TERM environment variable to decide which control sequence to print.

In other words, this is neat, but not necessarily portable across terminal protocols

Holberg, to random
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Wait. Kristi Noem put the Cricket execution story IN HER BOOK? This wasn’t an ill-advised anecdote some outlet unfortunately picked up while she was talking to an audience she expected to be sympathetic—for some unfathomable reason—to such a story?

cmdrmoto,
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@artemis @Holberg What??!!? Oh, ferfucksake.

Really wish I could have given her a book recommendation.

https://www.lulu.com/fr/shop/karen-pryor/dont-shoot-the-dog-the-new-art-of-teaching-and-training-by-karen-pryor/ebook/product-e7e7jk8.html

LALegault, to random
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They’re treating Palestine protestors the way they would have treated Holocaust protestors.

cmdrmoto,
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@adrianfry @LALegault September is looming sooner than I expected.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bell_Riots

cmdrmoto, (edited ) to 3DPrinting
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Wow. I was printing a batch of these wire shelf hooks using my current favorite (cheap!) -CF from . I’d been going through the current spool faster than planned, and it ran out partway through.

Normally, I run all my new spools through the food dehydrator. This time I was in a hurry and just unwrapped the manufacturer’s packaging, dropped in the new spool, and walked away.

Dry your , folks. It can absolutely be this soggy even if it’s still factory-“fresh”

cmdrmoto,
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Hmmm. Next new spool, I’m gonna put it on the 0.1g resolution scale, to check pre- and post- dehydration weights.

If #Eryone is sending 1kg of wet filament, what usable filament mass am I purchasing per spool?

This better not be the next innovation in #shrinkflation

mzedp, to random
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Are the US Government and the oil industry tied at the hip?

cmdrmoto,
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@mzedp Yes.

(Take a look at international oil production figures, then remember the size of the US military industrial complex and just how much fossil energy all that crap must demand. Consumers filling up their SUVs aren’t the only people who want cheap gas)

cmdrmoto, to random
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It occurs to me that there is at least one upside to our Overlords’ transition from fighter aircraft to murderbots.

Drones are (mostly) electric! Less jet fuel emissions!

18+ cmdrmoto, (edited ) to random
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Oh my.

Mark Rober's most recent video is about creative drone defense tactics, and one of them is basically Deadly Bot Bukkake:

https://youtu.be/SrGENEXocJU?t=990
(link goes straight to the clip, bypasses Mark’s vamping)

Literally, they spray it with artificial jizz, as a way to give it such a shock (drone orgasm?) that it falls out of the sky.

(I mean. As long as you’re gonna go all out sucking the DoD’s …)

cmdrmoto,
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Charitably, I’ve decided the subsequent drone-stomping was meant as an editor’s commentary on where the funding for their video was coming from.

cmdrmoto, to random
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4.20 on 4.20

Tokin.

LALegault, to random
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So is Israel going to just bomb all of its neighbours until someone bites, remind me again why the West is arming that maniac to start 43 wars?

cmdrmoto,
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@LALegault War uses oil. Exact figures are “national security” data, so the best we can do is estimate - and no matter how you slice it, 20+ years of war … greenhouse gases more than doubling over the past 30 years …

The US and the Middle East are pretty bigly capitalized in oil. It’s not hard to imagine profit motives for more than just weapons manufacturers …

xek, to random
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Can you imagine working at four or more software startups and not being a Marxist?

Or, at the very least, agreeing with Marx's analysis (thus making you either a serial entrepreneur or a sucker).

cmdrmoto,
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@xek *Note: Serial entrepreneurship is not for everyone. If you don’t want to make new friends then mercilessly exploit them, entrepreneurship may not be right for you.

Entrepreneurial prospects null and void if you’re still poor after four startup gigs.

Of course, if four startup gigs’ worth of earnings haven’t left you with a well-protected nest egg, you sure look like a sucker. :blobfoxpatsad:

cmdrmoto,
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@tedward @xek Along with veterans, some less fortunate divorcees, people who get hit with sudden healthcare expenses …

In Corporo-Feudal America, all these life events qualify you for Sucker status.

timnitGebru, to random
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Not even 24 hrs after making history as the first company to mass fire workers for pro-Palestine protests, by summarily firing 28 people, Google announced that the “(ir)responsible AI org,” the one they created in response to firing me, is now reporting up the Israeli office, through an SVP there.

Seems like they want us to know how forcefully and clearly they are backing this genocide.

cmdrmoto,
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@unlambda @timnitGebru From https://www.dailywire.com/news/google-ceo-breaks-silence-after-firing-28-employees-this-is-a-business

(Only a fragment, and a pretty anodyne one at that, but it’s the best I could find so far)

Chris, to random
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Happy Holy-Shit-Trump’s-Trial-Is-Actually-Starting-Day to all who celebrate.

cmdrmoto, (edited )
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@Chris @DrFerrous First time I’ve woken up on Tax Day feeling like it’s Christmas morning.

Clarifying: I grew up poor, so when I say “Christmas morning” there’s more complicated stuff going on beneath the surface.

Including a nagging near-certainty that I’ll be disappointed.

SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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cmdrmoto,
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@SmudgeTheInsultCat The innocent face of Nordberg - turns out he was a POS in his private life!???!

annaleen, (edited ) to random
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Want to know where the idea of brainwashing really came from? Dive into my short, weird history of the mind control race. It's out now in the latest issue of @techreview https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/12/1090726/brainwashing-mind-control-history-operation-midnight-climax/

cmdrmoto, (edited )
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@annaleen @dangillmor @technologyreview I’d say all that “brainwashing research” was pretty effective.

To summarize: they figured out that you can’t just force a specific individual to adopt a belief of your choosing.

But if you control enough media outlets, you can create enough chaos that stochastic terrorism becomes virtually inevitable. (1/2)

DrJackBrown, to random
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Marjorie Taylor Greene's allegiance to Vladimir Putin could not be any more blatant if she had a hammer and sickle tattooed on her forehead.

cmdrmoto, (edited )
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@DrJackBrown @VeroniqueB99 Yeah, please don’t defame the hammer and sickle like that.

Though appropriated by the CCCP, it was (and is!) an icon representing the fundamental value of laborers (as opposed to those human-exploiter types whose worth is measured by the things they own).

Very much the opposite of Daddy Vladdie.

This is why it bugs me so: https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/in-defense-of-the-hammer-and-sickle-on-symbolism-and-struggle

freakazoid, to random
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Is a board like this safe to solder directly to a perma-proto board with no pins? I am guessing the bottom is sufficiently insulated that the pads underneath it on the perma-proto board shouldn't cause an issue.

(This is the board to charge a pair of supercaps from a <=5V solar panel.)

cmdrmoto,
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@freakazoid Pretty sure that’s the intended installation method, soldering straight to the substrate board. Though usually the sub-board would be a custom PCB, presumably with no exposed traces under the footprint.

If you don’t completely trust the solder mask? I argue kapton tape is acceptable in prototypes for these kind of belt-and-suspenders insulation applications.

evacide, to random
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I got a notification at the Bad Place informing me that they have reviewed my account and generously granted me Premium for free, along with a blue check.

I also haven't been able to log into the website on Firefox for about a month. So that's how things are going over there.

cmdrmoto,
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@mensrea @evacide Suppose it’s Firefox to blame? Or are those pages all using the same tracking / malware code, and Firefox is telling them NO, and they’re getting huffy?

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