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IratePirate

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  • European countries reject Trump’s call for help to reopen strait of Hormuz

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  • A man is allowed to dream, right?

  • Trump Warns NATO of “Very Bad Future” if Allies Don't Help in Iran War

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  • He's a cancer and we need to deal with this threat ASAP. Clear enough?

  • Europe’s ‘tech sovereignty’ ambitions carry security risks, military warns

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  • Wellesley must be spinning in his grave (he probably was already at the lack of hats in parliament, but that's besides the point)

    I strongly disagree. Parliament is chockful of asshats.

  • Trump Warns NATO of “Very Bad Future” if Allies Don't Help in Iran War

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  • Quiet piggy! You don't have the cards. Also, have you ever said 'thank you'?

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  • Tbh, I've never bothered to figure out how SSHing into an Android device works.

    You're right about the security of older versions of Synching-Fork if you remember to configure it to only do syncs locally (it's not configured like that by default).

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  • I share your sentiment about Syncthing-Fork and the botched handoff to researchxxl. I have yet to implement the Termux-based workaround that allows me to use Syncthing from the browser without the Android app / wrapper. It looks pretty clean as it's just pure Syncthing with a little starter script.

  • Age verification is the new digital ID

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  • The advertisement goons are now incapable of determining who is a bot and who is an actual human.

    Bullshit. Social networks track the living shit out of everyone and know exactly what's human traffic and what isn't. Device identifiers (user agent, IP ranges, browser fingerprint, (lack of) ad id, etc.) and behavioral patterns (including purchase history) differ wildly.

    Advertising to children is a general no-no from politicians, or something,

    Bullshit. Even advertising to kids were outlawed (it isn't), politicians could be just bought off by advertisers to turn a blind eye. This is particularly true for the land of their formerly free and home of the formerly brave where corruption is now an above-the-counter item, practiced out in the open by the president himself.

  • :3 :3

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  • This. That's why I have stuck with Mint for almost a decade now. It's the perfect workhorse: it fits my workflow, is stable as heck, just quietly does what it needs to do and gets out of my way the rest of the time. Hence, I don't see why I should switch to anything else.

  • Google Chrome is (finally) coming to ARM64 Linux

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  • "Thou shalt not use the Chrome, unless thou wantst be hung from yonder tree by thine ballsack!"

    Leviticus 13:37

  • How do you handle backups?

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  • If Graphene stops removed about things, it's a sure sign the project's dead. ;D

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  • More generally: driver support on par with Windows. To be fair, Linux has come a long way and driver support is pretty good most of the time. But if you happen upon a piece of hardware that does have driver issues, you're still in a world of shit, with no or no easy fix.

    Case in point, I have been battling with a weird S3 sleep bug on Lenovo Yoga L13 Gen 2 notebooks recently. I've come to the conclusion that it's not even a kernel error, but something in Lenovo's mainboard/BIOS firmware. Fix: write Lenovo an email and hope they'll fix the firmware of a 5-years-old just for desktop Linux use. (And, no, I'm not under the illusion that this is going to happen.)

  • Do you protect your USB port?

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  • Yo, dawg! I heard you like Linux! So we removed all the windows from your car!

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    NEW POLL: Majority of Americans Believe Trump Launched Iran War to Cover Up Epstein Scandal

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  • If you are incapable of prioritising what you want to be true over what your senses and your common sense tell you to be true, I'm afraid to inform you that you're no good MAGA material.

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  • So... People don't believe that Operation Epstein Fury is not about aiding the Iranian people topple the mullah regime? Bummer!

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  • Who knows which of the voices drives the orange shitgibbon at any given moment? And frankly: who cares any more? We know the voice of reason is not among them.

  • Monitor brightness control app for linux ?

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  • How do you handle backups?

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  • I have a friend who was telling me awhile ago how great Google Photos is and how he has like a decade of photos in there.

    It's useful to remind those folks that a backup also needs to be accessible when you need it, and it isn't really if your account can, at any time, be banned because Google's AI flagged one of your kids' nude baby pics as CSAM. (Also... what business does Google have with your kids' nude pics in the first place?)

  • How do you handle backups?

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  • What do you mean by "phone backups"?

    • Contacts? Synced to my Nextcloud instance via CardDAV.
    • Calendar? As above, CalDAV.
    • Browser bookmarks? Floccus > to Sync to Nextcloud.
    • Apps? My custom ROM has Seedvault baked in. If I didn't have that, I wouldn't care much though, and just reinstall.
    • Photos? Immich.
    • Other Files? Nextcloud, Syncthing, or good, old-fashioned USB transfer.

  • After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

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  • Precisely. From Cory Doctorow's latest, very insightful essay on AI, where he talks about the promise of AI replacing 9 out of 10 radiologists:

    "if the AI misses a tumor, this will be the human radiologist's fault, because they are the 'human in the loop.' It's their signature on the diagnosis."

    This is a reverse centaur, and it's a specific kind of reverse-centaur: it's what Dan Davies calls an "accountability sink." The radiologist's job isn't really to oversee the AI's work, it's to take the blame for the AI's mistakes.