thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 100%
It's not even itself overly broad, it's just been twisted into a global war on terror because the executives want to do that and no one stopped them.
Yes, therein lies the problem. It was a stupid mistake to make and those that voted for it should have known better.
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 66%
There were two AUMFs. One for "terrorism" and one for Iraq.
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 100%
I'm not in disagreement, that also wasn't what my initial reply was about.
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 42%
Yes, we call those "blank checks" to the executive branch. The Germans even have a word for it. We did it with Vietnam and it did not go well. One would have thought the generation in Congress would have learned their lesson given most of them lived through that shitshow.
It goes without saying that military resources can defend themselves when fired upon, there's plenty of precedent going back well before the formation of the US. The AUMFs were not that. They were very clearly blank checks to wage literal wars anywhere the executive desired while providing the flimsiest of evidence - and Shrub did just that. See: Iraq.
News
IRS has already collected more than $500 million in back taxes from delinquent millionaires
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 100%
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IRS has already collected more than $500 million in back taxes from delinquent millionaires
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 77%
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 93%
The last war by US Congress was declared in June 1942, against Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. US Congress has not made a formal declaration of war since then.
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School district bans the dictionary to comply with Ron DeSantis’s book-ban law
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 60%
politics
Trump businesses received millions in foreign payments while he was in office, report finds
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 100%
It renders for me now too, I presume the mobile app was updated. Star Trek cartoon Kirk for me.
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 100%
This is pretty Mississippi
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
Youtube has better anti-adblock now. Other than Invidious, any way around it? Purging and re-dowloading the ublock stuff didn't work
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 100%
yt-dlp and PeerTube.
[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation
How long before Windows becomes a subscription service?
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 100%
Watch out for direct injected cars, which is virtually all of them now except for electrics. Many don't have traditional fuel injectors in the intake manifold anymore, and because of poor PCV systems, oil vapor carbonizes on the intake valves, causing problems. This is generally around the 40k-50k mile mark, potentially sooner if people don't drive their cars on the freeway for extended periods after startup. Some newer cars have addresses this by adding supplemental fuel injectors in the intake (some audis, some Toyotas) but it's not a widespread practice, of it will ever be.
Hacker News
More Teens Who Use Marijuana Are Suffering from Psychosis
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 100%
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The CEO of the Internet!
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 100%
Classic Rock: A Journey Through Timeless Music
Pink Floyd - One Of These Days (1971)
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 100%
... I'm going to cut you into little pieces!
Technology
Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 100%
Systems with exposed SSHd, but also properly configured, are also not at risk.
Europethisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 92%
Trumpites aren't intelligent people.
Linuxthisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 100%
Install Ubuntu and be done. I'm able to print to my brother network printer with no special drivers. I installed a gnome tweaks package to do some minor tweaks in gnome, and I did rip out the Firefox snap thing to install Firefox from a package so I could use my kpxc plugin, but that's the only major change I made. Hell, Dell (laptop) even provides firmware updates via the package manager so your bios gets updated properly. Best Linux desktop experience I've ever had over the past 5 years and I've been daily driving Ubuntu since 2004.
Technology
Hobbes OS/2 Archive to shut down in three months – OSnews
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 92%
OS/2 was the first multitasking operating system I ever used. Ran my RemoteAcces BBS on it. I might have to do a site backup just to be nostalgic.
politics
RFK Jr. backs out of his own birthday fundraiser gala after Martin Sheen, Mike Tyson said they're not attending
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 66%
SBS was a totally cool and stable genius before MKULTRA got their hands on him!
Technology
HP customers claim firmware update rendered third-party ink verboten | Then the company cranked up the price of cartridges, complaint alleges
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 100%
I was thinking more along the lines of Megasquirt, but for a printer.
Technology
HP customers claim firmware update rendered third-party ink verboten | Then the company cranked up the price of cartridges, complaint alleges
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 100%
We need a properly-open sourced printer at this point.
politics
RFK Jr. backs out of his own birthday fundraiser gala after Martin Sheen, Mike Tyson said they're not attending
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 86%
First instance of domestic terrorism related to the middle East conflict.
Fun fact: SBS is a Palestinian Christian who watched his family members be killed by Israelis.
politics
If you're in support of protecting America from a fascist Trumpian decline, stop caveating your support of Biden
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 100%
Does your county/state still run elections in a FPTP process? If so, work to change it. Instead of doing nothing but holding your nose, work to change the process so you can actually realize better candidates.
politics
RFK Jr. backs out of his own birthday fundraiser gala after Martin Sheen, Mike Tyson said they're not attending
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 96%
Hacker News
X Bans and Then Unbans Journalists and Podcasters in Latest Free Speech Massacre
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 100%
*company-town townsquare
PC Gamingthisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 100%
Isn't modern gaming great? Can't run your own servers, you're stuck using some spoonfed services by an authoritarian corporation who also forces you to lease the use of your network connection even after you have paid for Internet access. The people who came up with these grifts are truly genius because plebs eat it up.
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 100%
I knew asscraft was involved with this somehow.
Selfhosted
VPN vs VPS
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 100%
Not enough info. Those are two different things.
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 72%
That's a function both of poverty and the lack of quality public education. Most don't understand how elections are run, and most don't understand that in order to change our two party paradigm, they need to change the local election process. FPTP needs to be flushed down the unclean toilet of history and we need to implement RCV or STAR. Both will be complicated and either choice will require thorough education of the public, but it's the first step towards breaking the deadlock of the Democratic or Republican parties.
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thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 100%
Neat
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 100%
Just boys being boys! Smoking, snapping each other on the ass with wet towels, comparing Nixon portrait tattoos on our nether regions, etc.
thisisawayoflife 8 months ago • 100%
Don't worry, this was just locker room murder talk. NBD!
thisisawayoflife 9 months ago • 100%
I had to look this up. This is the meme started by the guy who wrote a book about Lee Harvey Oswald before he assassinated JFK. Crazy!
thisisawayoflife 9 months ago • 100%
I mean, it's the WTF community...
The comments legit made me laugh out loud. I can't tell if those people were serious but if they were, hoo lawd I'm afraid for it country if they vote in elections or have children.
thisisawayoflife 9 months ago • 100%
Garage, Inc, yeah. This and Breadfan were recorded during the preparation for recording AJFA and the original mixing was kind of terrible, you can hear a constant clipping of the cymbals throughout. This convinced LU and JH to fire their producer and go with someone else (Fleming Rasmussen?) for the album.
The AJFA remaster released a few years ago changed that up considerably. My intro to Metallica was AJFA and was astonished to learn this even existed when a friend of mine showed me his Japanese import AJFA in the mid 90s. I'm convinced this was Metallica's peak performance and solidified then as the 80s best cover band.
Interesting tidbit: they pa(y)id royalties to Diamond Head (and other bands) for the songs they cover. For as much shit as they got for the napster thing, they did those bands a huge solid by getting them paid, finding their lost recordings and pretty much putting them on the map for others to hear and learn about. Those bands inspired thrash metal in general and Metallica were showing their gratitude.
politics
The man supposed to stop Donald Trump is an unpopular 81-year-old with a net approval rating at minus 16 points
thisisawayoflife 9 months ago • 100%
politics
The man supposed to stop Donald Trump is an unpopular 81-year-old with a net approval rating at minus 16 points
thisisawayoflife 9 months ago • 50%
Because the electorate is doing little to nothing at the local scale to change voting methodology. Until that happens in a broad fashion, the two parties will continue to be a problem.
Edit: you can downvote all you want, it doesn't change reality.
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politics
On Jan. 6 many Republicans blamed Trump for the Capitol riot. Now they endorse his presidential bid
thisisawayoflife 9 months ago • 100%
Sounds like a good candidate for the frontpage of https://shitbagrepublicans.com.
Let's say I've got 100 episodes of NOVA. I've added one episode to a playlist about a certain subject, and there's a bunch of other videos in that playlist about that subject. I go into the playlist and click the play button. This is the play button on the playlist, not the individual video in the list. My expectation is that the next video it plays is the next video in the playlist. However, repeatedly, it plays the next NOVA video instead of the next video in the playlist. What am I doing wrong here? Clarifying: it finishes the first video in the playlist, but then continues on to a video that is not in the playlist.
What is everyone doing? SELinux? AppArmor? Something else? I currently leave my nextcloud exposed to the Internet. It runs in a VM behind an nginx reverse proxy on the VM itself, and then my OPNSense router runs nginx with WAF rules. I enforce 2fa and don't allow sign-ups. My goal is protecting against ransomware and zerodays (as much as possible). I don't do random clicking on links in emails or anything like that, but I'm not sure how people get hit with ransomware. I keep nextcloud updated (subscribed to RSS update feed) frequently and the VM updates everyday and reboots when necessary. I'm running the latest php-fpm and that just comes from repos so it gets updated too. HTTPS on the lan with certificates maintained by my router, and LE certs for the Internet side. Beside hiding this thing behind a VPN (which I'm not prepared to do currently), is there anything else I'm overlooking?
I have a P400 in my storage server which currently also runs some media containers like Plex, sonarr-sma, radarr-sma, Jellyfin, exploring Immich, etc. I have the GPU surfaced via docker and added it to each of the containers that needed access to the GPU for hardware acceleration needs. Is it possible to be able to leverage the Nvidia gpu container remotely (over the lan) without having the containers access it (pseudo) directly? I want to move the media handling containers to a Turing Pi 2 and keep just the GPU access on the storage server.
Anyone done this? Got a set of repeatable instructions? My understanding is that the root docker image needs to switch from alpine to ubuntu and that hasn't happened yet.
How do you configure your webfingers to support multiple subdomains that host AP services? Edit: looks like someone filed this issue. If you have a GitHub account, please thumbs up/bump it! https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/3563
I can install and run pixelfed on a subdomain, for example, pixelfed.example.com. However, I also run mastodon.example.com. My webfinger points at mastodon. How do I configure a webfinger for both pixelfed and mastodon? How do you all have your webfingers setup when you run multiple activitypub-based services? Edit: I should also add that I'm trying to tie my mastodon account to user@domain.tld, not specific to the mastodon subdomain, but specific to my user email identity. My mastodon domain would be sometime like mastodon.domain.com, which would normally make my user user@mastodon.domain.com. I do see this as a potential solution - I could route the specific service based on user agent to the correct webfinger: https://serverfault.com/questions/775463/nginx-redirect-based-on-user-agent#825725 So here is the issue on github: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/3563 If folks have GitHub accounts, could you please bump this/thumbs up?
My background is backend development with Java and Kotlin for the last decade. I have a little bit of HTML/JS experience but I'm not a pro. I would like to build a modern Sierra game, of sorts. I have no problem investing the time, it just seems overwhelming to jump into and while I've looked at a couple of tutorials, I still seem a bit mystified by the process. I'm interested in multiplayer design and function twofold, as I'm intrigued at both how to make it work efficiently and the reasons some game companies claim their game servers cost millions a month to run and have to shut them off (looking at you, Gun Media).
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www.oregonlive.com
Now that Bandcamp has had huge layoffs, what about an opensource, Fediverse-friendly replacement? What can a FOSS product bring to the community and do better than Bandcamp? * Discoverability? * Broader selection of payments platforms? Direct transfer to avoid processors? (I'm ignorant about the processing system, plus international considerations) * Ease of spinning up (SaaS?) * Content deliverability (on the fly transcode from sourced FLAC or WAVs? Rich video/multi track audio?)
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Vacancy taxes here should be painfully high here. $3m property vacant for years? Should be paying about $300k/yr in vacancy taxes.
I have some metal film 1/2w 2.2ohm resistors in some car wiring. I'm concerned about the durability of this install and am seeking advice on how to protect the resistor once it's soldered in place. The obvious is heat shrink tubing, but it's there anything more substantial? I'll be using these resistors in a custom pigtail that will plug into the car wiring. 3D printed housing? I have tried searching and I haven't found anything like that.
www.portlandmercury.com
I'll reiterate: Mingus Mapps is a fucking liar. He's also terrible at being PBOT commissioner. We want open data and we want it yesterday. I want to see report metrics. I want to see the PBOT budgets for their teams, their headcount allocation and how they are planning work as well as dealing with emergency problems (eg reports).
Folks in various neighborhoods could quietly dispose of fentanyl and meth dealers without fear of legal system repercussions.
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Ted Wheeler is an cretin, and so is the commissioner in charge of PBOT. Sweep this shit.
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Classic horror slasher. Needs a sequel. 6 out of 5 stars.
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I'm ok with this. He was a fucking shithead for letting people drive around with no tags, functioning DMV or not. He was a shithead for not replacing Eudaly and subsequently Hardesty as head of PBOT. He is ultimately responsible for the derelict cars and RVs left all over the city and a bureau that would take months, or years in some cases, to deal with major problems. Fuck Wheeler.
This is why you never trust closed source, for-profit companies with anything important.
How does this work? How do you host pixelfed.domain.com and mastodon.domain.com together in the same domain, with queries for "@user@domain.com" to the webfinger host path? I'm other words, how does the querying application know which resource it needs? How do you know that a pixelfed instance will get the pixelfed resource versus the mastodon resource?
Do I need my original signing keys? The server ran out of space due to huge pgsql table size, and I don't feel like trying to salvage any part of it. I want to move most of the processes into my home infrastructure with maybe a vps in front of the public connectivity. Doable?
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My preference would just be axing PPB and letting folks handle things with street justice.
When tapping on the image of a post from the post feed screen, user will frequently get a placeholder image rather than the image in question. 
The pod on 52nd disappeared, but also, the pod that's a block or two east of the Mercado also shut down. What gives? Hopefully those lots are turned into housing rather than just sit as vacant lots...
When scrolling through posts, user will lose the top bar in the UI when scrolling through top level posts and in subs. Statically setting it allows quick reference to the sub, sorting, searching and other functions in the context menu.  
Reddit, and it's clients, have had the ability to suggest a title from the destination URL. According to several GitHub issues, Lemmy also has this ability. Connect should surface this functionally in the post-creation UX.
katu.com
Did anyone else get the lockdown calls and texts?
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