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toriver

@toriver@mas.to

On-off developer, mostly administrator of SharePoint, Teams, Jira, Confluence, PureService, Azure AD

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nora, to random
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it is not useful to tell people who do not control what operating system they use at work to use a different operating system at work.

toriver,
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@nora However, it is useful to tell people who use Windows at work that they should inform their security tesm that soon Microsoft will be adding opt-out spyware they should be planning for.

gwynnion, to random
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The UK is banning puberty blockers but only for trans kids. Cis kids can stay on them for years because they know there aren't any serious side-effects. They just hate trans people.

toriver,
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@gwynnion yes, it’s the same with «gender affirming surgery» which is fine when a cis woman wants bigger tits or a cis man wants a bigger schlong.

LauraKT, to random
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it was like getting Al Capone on tax evasion 👇

https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/americas-smartest-ever-leader-convicted

toriver,
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@LauraKT One loves to see Teflon Don turn into Felon Don

jeffjarvis, to random
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Google blew it. They could have stood back and said: "Ha! Microsoft is so desperate for hype, it is irresponsibly linking LLMs to Bing. Google instead stands for reliable search and won't do that." But instead, Google did. They knew better. They all knew better. LLMs have no sense of meaning. They should be nowhere near the expectation of credibility.

toriver,
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@raven667 @jeffjarvis sure Google+ was the biggest, but the Google graveyard is littered with abandoned and terminated ideas like Google Buzz, Stadia and others that had even shorter lifespans.

ayoub, to random
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So what do you call this level of hatred? This fanatical desire to annihilate an entire civilisation?

Image description: Israeli occupation soldiers set fire to Gaza’s Al Aqsa University library and took photos of themselves doing it

toriver,
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@ayoub Just continuing the Naqba years later. «What Palestinian Arab culture?»

thomasfuchs, to random
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USA! USA! USA!

toriver,
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@shoq @thomasfuchs Since it’s the new AI summary function on Google search one can assume it’s theirs, i.e. Bard.

w7voa, to random
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(AP) — A video posted to Donald Trump’s account on his social media network Monday included references to a “unified Reich” among hypothetical news headlines if he wins the election in November. https://apnews.com/article/31002afb91b642c0314223d19e51f427

toriver,
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@w7voa Well, when the only book he appears to have read is Mein Kampf…

jackofalltrades, to Collapse
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Look at the Pope going full doomer.

"Unfortunately, we have gotten to a point of no return. It's sad, but that's what it is. Global warming is a serious problem. Climate change at this moment is a road to death."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-urges-action-on-climate-change-its-a-road-to-death/

toriver,
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@jackofalltrades Yes but this bearded guy who gets paid for kicking a ball now and then said the Pope should just talk about Scripture…

ovid, to Lisp
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, , and are three powerful programming languages that share a common feature.

Nobody knows how the hell to capitalize them.

toriver,
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@ovid Since Perl is an acronym for Practical Extraction and Reporting Language it used to be PERL.

ProPublica, to Albuquerque
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#Albuquerque Is Throwing Out the Belongings of #Homeless People, Violating City Policy

The city has violated a court order and its own policies by discarding the personal property of thousands of homeless people, who have lost medications, birth certificates, IDs, treasured family photos and the ashes of loved ones.

#NewMexico #Southwest #Law #Police #Housing #Unhoused #News #Homelessness #CivilRights #HumanRights

https://www.propublica.org/article/albuquerque-homeless-encampments

toriver,
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@ProPublica the cruelty is their goal.

lovelylovely, to free
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Radicalized white Nazis pro-Hamas protesters spewing their HATE against Jewish kindergarten children and parents this is shocking And I challenge all the -Palestine propagandists to explain this And condemn these reprehensible acts.

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toriver,
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@lovelylovely Why should they explain it? The Nazis are not associated with the anti-genocide protests any more than the Boogalo Bois were associared with the BLM protests, they just use the protests as a background because they know people like you will manufacture an association. Remember, American right-wingers only like Jews in Israel, why not ask them for a condemnation, they are the Nazi enablers.

toriver,
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@TruthSandwich @lovelylovely they are not anti-Semitic - heck, many if the protesters are even Jewish. You could call them anti-Zionistic but mostly they are anti-genocidal. If you call pro-Palestinic views anti-Semitic you are just parroting Israeli right-wingers.

toriver,
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@TruthSandwich @lovelylovely No, «they» are not. Hamas is not Palestine. Hamas is an enemy propped up indirectly by Israel because if the PA ran both the West Bank and Gaza the support for recognition would be stronger.

I will be muting your genocide-cheering ass now.

jeffjarvis, to random
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Guess what Galloway has to say about DEI https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLV4kLE8/

toriver,
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@jeffjarvis George Galloway seems like someone who took Churchill’s «liberal when young, conservative when old» saying as an instruction.

JoSuus, to random
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Eurovision desperately trying and failing to keep the Song Festival free from politics proves what every marginalized person already knows: Everything is political. Life is political.

toriver,
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@que @JoSuus You can never keep politics out of your life, you can only choose not to try and affect the politics for some reason. It’s like being ‘neutral’ when someone attacks someone else: in reality you are siding with the attacker.

jeffjarvis, to random
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Image of the kind of worm thought to have taken up residency in RFJ Jr.'s brain, according to the NY Times. NYT: "Several infectious disease experts and neurosurgeons said...they believed it was likely a pork tapeworm larva."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/13/brain-tapeworms-undercooked-bacon

toriver,
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@jeffjarvis It would not surprise me that someone opposed to vaccines would also be opposed to «bureaucratic» food safety standards.

jeffjarvis, to random
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Surprise, surprise.
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince may have bitten off more than he can chew with his plans for a futuristic city featuring twin skyscrapers stretching 105 miles through the desert. https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-neom-line-construction-99b3f54f?st=624u9iqg553n5q7

toriver,
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@lostdoco @jeffjarvis Patric Boyle’s videos are a treasure trove

dangillmor, to random
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The top editor of the New York Times makes clear that his newsroom won't take a stand on the increasingly likely end of democracy in America.

I'm sick to my stomach as I read this, but I think everyone should see what cowards we have running our most important media organizations.

https://www.semafor.com/article/05/05/2024/joe-kahn-the-newsroom-is-not-a-safe-space

toriver,
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@dangillmor question, after 9/11 did the NYT provide coverage of the views of bin Laden and Al Quaida or did the False Balance disease strike them at a later point?

jeffjarvis, to random
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Times op-ed buys Trump efforts to paint him as "the outlaw hero, a figure of defiance with deep roots in American culture who exposes the injustices and hypocrisies of a corrupt system."
No, he's a fascist.
Trump Embraces Lawlessness, but in the Name of a Higher Law https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/opinion/trump-trial-2024-election.html?smid=tw-share

toriver,
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@jeffjarvis next up from them: «The Unabomber, a misunderstood genius?»

DemocracyMattersALot, to random
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The hysteria over Palestine protests on campus that is being ginned up to protect US support for Israel’s war is the beginning of a new Red Scare. Liberals must resist it, because it will come for them, too.

Liberals Must Resist the New McCarthyism Over Israel Criticism https://jacobin.com/2024/05/israel-campus-protest-antisemitism-mccarthyism/

toriver,
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@notroot @DemocracyMattersALot When you destroy every university and hospital in an area, bomb civilians and plan settling in the area, then yes it is a genocide. Nice of you to put it in quotes to show that you are a muteable apologist for the right-wing regime of Israel.

rysiek, (edited ) to random
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May the Forth be with you!

toriver,
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@rysiek May the force live long and prosper!

AnarchistArt, to random
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toriver, (edited )
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@AnarchistArt Some Americans seem proud of their ignorance and lack of education. I guess if you told them English was not the official language of the US they would resort to violence.

QasimRashid, to random
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REPORT: 99% of pro-Palestine protests at US colleges have been peaceful, despite remarks from Biden & other politicians calling such demonstrations as violent.

This misinfo is exactly how they’ve tried to derail every civil rights movement in US history.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/may/01/university-protests-pro-palestinian-demonstrators-arrested-latest-news?page=with%3Ablock-6633bff08f081efe1175c36c

toriver,
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@QasimRashid apprently erecting tents on university grounds is «violence». A lot of opponents to the protests think that there is only a very specific form of non-disruptive protest that is permissible.

angusm, to random
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This excellent article by @molly0xfff reminded me of the sci-fi trope where everyone in the future lives in a domed bunker & gets told not to go outside because it's a wasteland filled with Bad People.

Of course the protagonists leave the dome & find that the reality is a bit different: outside can be scary, but it's not the hellscape they were told.

Big Tech walled gardens are the dome; outside them is a risky wonderland that’s ours for the taking.

Leave the dome.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

toriver,
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@jordan @angusm @molly0xfff They love the walled gardens just because they don’t know of the alternatives. Sure, the alternatives can be more complex, like driving your own car is harder than taking the bus. But that is basically what they are doing. They are the passengers, not the drivers.

DrALJONES, (edited ) to random
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In a standard fascist tactic, police enabled pro-israel attack on Gaza Solidarity camp

Report

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UCLA students at a peaceful encampment were pepper sprayed & beaten, while police stood by & watched.

Students blasted university officials & police for failing to intervene & protect them from pro-Israeli attackers.

"Several students said they had to rely on each other, not the police, for protection as they were attacked."

00.35 GMT May 2 AJ updates ...2

#StudentProtests #UCLA #USPol ..

toriver,
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@DrALJONES Makes sense, fascists have always used violent youths (brownshirts, blackshirts) to beat up people they don’t like.

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