hankg

@hankg@friendica.myportal.social

Software developer and (sometimes) blogger trying to figure out secret to living a healthy and content life into his 100's.

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EricKHoward, to random
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‘A Governor Who Doesn’t Seem to Have Much Interest in Governing Arkansas’
Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ increasing number of critics think she’s too worried about her national profile.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/05/17/sarah-huckabee-sanders-arkansas-maga-trump-00156647
#uspol

hankg,

@EricKHoward So the same archetype as Noem and DeSantis, modeled off of their Dear Leader, Former (for now and hopefully forever) President Donald Trump...

claralistensprechen3rd, to random

Stock market hit a new record after a number of winning weeks. Talk about delusional.
♲ pubeurope.com/

hankg,

@claralistensprechen3rd Among many many positive economic indicators. It's not that things are perfect. It's that if Trump had been POTUS and control of congress for the past four years much of this wouldn't be happening. He's already made clear what he plans on doing if he wins, and the only winners are big oil and billionaires. Everyone else is going to get the shaft

arstechnica, to random
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Twitter URLs redirect to x.com as Musk gets closer to killing the Twitter name

X.com stops redirecting to Twitter.com over a year after company name change.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/twitter-urls-redirect-to-x-com-as-musk-gets-closer-to-killing-the-twitter-name/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

hankg,

@arstechnica I still call Facebook "Facebook" not Meta. I still call Google "Google" not Alphabet. Twitter will forever be "Twitter", unless I'm in a name calling mode and then I call it $8chan.

glennf, to random
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The puzzle company The New York Times shows stories on the main page of its app that I, as a subscriber, have to pay extra to read without any marking until I tap on the story. Great strategy.

hankg,

@glennf They don't even let you see the writer's name or the sub-title. With the NYT penchant for shitty title writing that makes it even more egregious. It's even stripped out of reader mode. Ah well. I'm not inclined to give them a dime under their current ownership, management, and modus oprandi anyway.

thibaultamartin, to random
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We reached the point where my brain autocorrects "AI" to "pollution".

All the companies touting AI in their products are now telling me they don't care about making human life more difficult if it can earn them a few extra dollars.

hankg,

@thibaultamartin I was thinking in my head last night that IIRC crypto is using more energy than Argentina and now AI using more energy than France, Silicon Valley alone has already reversed what little gains we've had in fighting climate change. All to do absolutely nothing useful except trying to put more billions of dollars in the hands of a few dozen people. It is pure insanity. And just recently Sam Altman was saying we need to invent new energy sources to power AI. Not fight climate change. Not live sustainably. Just to feed this beast.

hankg, to tesla

Record scratch! Tesla in court said the lack of LIDAR should have made their FSD claims being BS self evident?!?! Have they added ditched the camera only plans because they sure as hell never dropped claims of having FSD “next year” as recently as last month. Granted they never applied for more than Level 2 while claiming they had Level 5 already (at the Semi event) or will have it “next year” for almost ten years now. They are way past needing a legal and liability comeuppance. #tesla
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

arstechnica, to random
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Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves

Lawsuit targets 2016 claim that all Tesla cars "have full self-driving hardware."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/tesla-must-face-fraud-suit-for-claiming-its-cars-could-fully-drive-themselves/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

hankg,

@Nonya_Bidniss @arstechnica So are the rest of us surrounded by their vehicles when they are in motion :(

hankg, to random

I honestly don't get it. Sometimes the water pressure in this house is like a garden hose with a kink in it and other times its like this scene from Club Paradise. If it was on a well I'd understand but with city water I'm surprised.
Club Paradise - Shower

evacide, to random
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"Cisgender is a slur" has some real "people pointing out racist behavior are the real racists" energy to it.

hankg,

@evacide We never even saw a fraction of this level of freakout when gay people referred to non-gay people as "straight people" or the term "heteronormativity". I wonder why the pearl clutching orders of magnitude greater over this very bland term.

18+ gsuberland, to random
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at some point I should really write a blog post about my experience with burnout and the factors that led to it (undiagnosed ADHD being a big one, but not the only one), and how I began the recovery process, because I'm certain it would be helpful to a few people. it's very emotionally draining to write about though, and when I think about the things I want to say I end up in analysis paralysis because the story inevitably involves other people who I want to be respectful of.

hankg,

@gsuberland Until one has had burn out, previously called nervous breakdowns, I don't think they understand the depths of what it means. An exploration of the experience and how to dig out of it over time could be very helpful. A common means of respecting people is to revert to a fictionalized story based on the real events. It's more than just a name swap, which may not be sufficient to mask identities. Another alternative is to ask if they mind being included in it and then revert to the fictionalized version if necessary.

bigzaphod, to random
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I got a real life loupe to use when trying to read some of the SUPER TINY print on integrated circuit packages, but after a quick test, I think it's too powerful. Or maybe the focus point is fixed in a bad spot for what I wanted to do because the chip has to be flat on the table with the loupe flat on the table over top of it to work.

So I'll probably have to get a less powerful one or maybe a basic magnifying glass or something like that.

But in the meantime I can see the pixels on my iPhone!

Extreme closeup of the Iconfactory logo with visible lines between columns of pixels.

hankg,

@bigzaphod That reminds me of a printer's loupe which is optimized to be used exactly as you stated.

hankg, to science

Why we can't have nice things...We've known about paper mills and lack of sufficient reviewers being a problem for a while now. It's been getting worse and worse. That's before we start seeing the expected massive increase from ChatGPT-style word vomiter crap. "Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures" msn.com/en-us/money/markets/fl…

parslii, to HikingPics
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The view from our cabin first thing this morning. Boiled water on a wood burning stove for tea.

Distant green mountains under a partially clouded sky. A village is nestled in a valley below.

hankg,

@parslii Amazing view!

New Jersey? ;)

arstechnica, to random
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John Milton’s handwritten notes make this 16th century history book a rare find

Poet crossed out one racy passage, deeming it "an unbecom[ing] tale for a hist[ory]"

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/05/john-miltons-handwritten-notes-make-this-16th-century-history-book-a-rare-find/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

hankg,

@arstechnica This scene from Animal House came to mind as soon as I read the headline (but cool finding these notes!) :)
AnimalHouseTeacher

hankg, to tesla

The mass layoffs and downscaling of Tesla charging network team and plans is even more bizarre as more details come out. It was their one actual differentiator. They are in the position to be essentially the gas station company of EVs. These changes undermine all of that and contrary to Musk's tweets thy aren't reversing course on it at all. Again though, what will happen to their contractual obligations to the US government that just gave them yet another boat load of money to build out more stations? Are they going to take the money and run with it like they did to California way back in the day? #tesla #ElonMusk
The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff

HunkThunderzone, to random
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Hey, what's your experience with LibreOffice and Collabora?

I have been writing a lot of stuff that's erotic and smutty, and I saw a post suggesting that google might lock me out of my own files because of that.

So it's time for a different place to keep and write my smut.

Also, if there are alternatives to GoogleDocs/Microsoft that I haven't heard of, please share.

I'm hoping for open source, free or one-time purchase situations. No subscriptions.

Thoughts?

hankg,

@HunkThunderzone LibreOffice has been my primary office software for over five years now. I'm not a power user so don't stretch the software at all. I also don't do a lot of document collaboration so any of the interactive collaboration stuff that MS Office has I don't miss. I did a full novel for NaNoWriMo in it and it worked great. The biggest issue with document sharing is that the standard font set is different. It's possible to install the Microsoft fonts if you need to, or stick with universal fonts like Arial, Times New Roman, etc.

More general cloud tools that are available would be NextCloud with Collabora. I've dabbled with it but haven't used it in production. A more specific cloud tool system for writers is Novlr. That has some neat futures as well including direct syncing to Dropbox or Google Drive at the Pro level. Import/Export is possible even in the free tier though.

parismarx, to tesla
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Tesla charging chief Rebecca Tinucci cut 15-20% of her team after Musk demanded it.

She felt that would justify a major Supercharger network expansion, but when she met with Musk he wanted more layoffs. When she pushed back, he fired the whole team.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inside-story-elon-musk-mass-100216178.html

#tesla #tech #elonmusk #layoffs #ev

hankg,

@parismarx @tony Did she go back or did she tell him to go pound sand?

Dr_Bombay, to random
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kind of not surprised, but also very surprised. i mean, i can see (jokingly) flipping each other off -- but flashing footage of 9/11 to NYC? that's horrible!

Dublin-NY portal temporarily shut due to 'inappropriate behaviour' https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-69006674

hankg,

@Dr_Bombay Has the Boaty McBoatface episode taught no one anything...lol...

hankg, to vmware

Cue the "It's a trap!" meme, especially in light of recent developments post-Broadcom acquisition..."VMware giving away Workstation Pro, Fusion Pro free for personal use" #vmware #programming
VMware giving away Workstation Pro, Fusion Pro free for personal use

crumbler, to random

With today’s announcements at Google I/O, the web has entered a state of managed decline https://www.platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-pichai/

hankg,

@crumbler Reading the coverage my one dominant thought was, "Thank god I switched to Duck Duck Go years ago." Granted since the heavy lift there is Bing and MS seems to be wanting to go all in on this whole thing too we may soon see the same crap there. Fingers crossed no though.

arstechnica, to random
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AT&T paid bribes to get two major pieces of legislation passed, US gov’t says

Payments helped AT&T obtain key legislative wins in Illinois, prosecutors say.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/att-paid-bribes-to-get-two-major-pieces-of-legislation-passed-us-govt-says/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

hankg,

@arstechnica With essentially unlimited legal bribes thanks to Citizens United I don’t know why they needed to do anything illegal to grease the skids…yet the over laxity still isn’t good enough for these mega corps apparently

lolgop, to random
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The right has spent tens of billions attacking Joe Biden – and of course, it’s working
https://www.patreon.com/posts/104249086

hankg,

@lolgop Amen to this! (The whole article really though): “You don’t even need to pretend these two men are comparable in any way. Biden is a standard 20th-century American public servant imbued with all the imperfections that come with that. Trump is the worst president in American history. A demagogue with dictatorial aspirations. A fraud whose greatest accomplishment was avoiding any indictments for his first 76 years.”

shoq, to random
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Uh oh! Secret Hamas Files Show It Spied on Everyday Palestinians.

Hamas monitored political activity, online posts, and apparently even love lives. Palestinians were stuck between an Israeli blockade and a repressive security force.

Gift link. No paywall⏵

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/world/europe/secret-hamas-files-palestinians.html?unlocked_article_code=1.r00.SyuV.wI82fvcHrooS&smid=url-share

hankg,

@shoq This isn't surprising in the least. The Palestinian people have been totally f'd over by everyone around them over and over, including Hamas. I don't envy their position one iota.

hankg, to tesla

Not surprising in the least: "Tesla threatened to fire law firm in bid to block Musk pay critic – court document" #ElonMusk #Tesla reuters.com/legal/transactiona…

hankg, to retrogaming

Another 3dfx mini-documentary, but this one put out by them at their height in 1997/1998. It's an interesting comparison. Kind of sad knowing that a few years later they will be out of business :(
3dfx Interactive (Documentary / Interview)

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