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I hereby denounce all priests and pastors on behalf of whatever group you think I represent lmao

I likewise denounce republicans, rapists, racists, and other rapscallions lol

This is really sad.

They have not yet announced a cause of death, but she did go through several mental health crises and had attempted suicide more than once.

Like Robin Williams and Anthony Bourdain, this is one of the rough ones.

I’m pretty sure there’s neither pastors nor priests involved, so you don’t have to worry about degenerates.

Good thing they’re not men pretending to be women, I guess?

I think it is very much a client thing.

The one I use - memmy - frequently has issues with widgets that stop responding, and currently is glitching such that the upvote/downvote buttons are superimposed over the posts. Search results show all communities as having 3k subscribers even if there’s actually only single digits. If you highlight text to make a link, it overwrites the text with the empty link rather than making the text into a link. Mlem and Liftoff - the other two I checked - have their own issues.

I think we can also do a better job hiding the complexity of federations from novice users and cut down on the impact of bot-based crossposting by detecting that the lines articles are identical. I could see, for instance, discussions being merged on the client side.

I found reddit neither usable nor interesting before Alien Blue, and I suspect there are a number of potential users out there who would onboard or increase engagement here with a better UX.

I’ve been out of the builder world for long enough that I didn’t follow the 2018 bug. I’m more from the F00F generation in any case. I also took a VLSI course somewhere in the mid-90s that convinced me to do anything other than design chips. I seem to remember something else from that era where a firmware based security bug related to something I want to say was browser-based, but it wasn’t the CPU iirc.

In any case, I get the point you and others are making about evaluating the risks of a security flaw before taking steps that might hurt performance or worrying about it too much.

I have a feeling a lot of the issues are introduced by people who are interested in taking public education private. There’s a strong push from the US right to spend tax money funding privately run charter schools or to simply fund religious education as opposed to public schools.

I think, like with health care, the US should look at models from other countries that work better than ours. For now, US universities rank among the best in the world, but politicians like Ron DeSantis are coming for them, too.

From the description, it sounds like you upload a picture, then show a face to a video camera. It’s not like they’re going through FaceID that has anti-spoofing hardware and software. If they’re supporting normal web cams, they can’t check for things like 3d markers

Based on applications that have rolled out for use cases like police identifying suspects, I would hazard a guess that

1. It’s not going to work as well as they imply
2. It’s going to perform comically badly in a multi-ethnic real world scenario with unfortunate headlines following
3. It will be spoofable.

I’m betting this will turn out to be a massive waste of resources, but that never stopped something from being adopted. Even the cops had to be banned by several municipalities because they liked being able to identify and catch suspects, even if it was likely to be the wrong person. In one scenario I read about, researchers had to demonstrate that the software the PD was using identified several prominent local politicians as robbery and murder suspects.

Thanks! That’s exactly the kind of insight I was hoping for.

I’m curious - does this kind of report make people less likely to go with an AMD cpu? The last time I was thinking about building a new pc, AMD had just definitively taken the lead in speed per dollar, and I would have gone with one of the higher end chips. I’m not sure whether this would have affected my decision, but I’d probably be concerned with performance degradation as well as the security issue. I’d have waited for the patch to buy a system with updated firmware, but Od still want to see what the impact was as well as learn more about the exploit and whether there were additional issues.

I ended up just getting a steam deck and all of my other computers are macs, so it’s hard to put myself back into the builder’s/buyer’s headspace.

Most Americans are dumb

This is pretty much why many of the founding fathers were against democracy. They wanted the rich, property owning men to be able to vote but thought that the poor and the working class (such as it was at the time) needed to be controlled lest they try to take away the property that rightfully belonged to the people who inherited it. They weren’t looking to secure the rights of ethnic minorities (obviously). They feared that popular elections would lead to a loss of property for the wealthy, whom they thought were the best positioned by virtue of education, influence, and an inborn sense of noblesse oblige to act in the best interests of the country as a whole. Rich people were obviously not going to be in it for themselves. The rich are the most likely to be selfless, and in any case their interests were most closely aligned with the interests of the country.

I think political science has moved past that model and has generally come to recognize that oligarchy is anti-democratic. Democracy would recommend free and widespread public education to try to make Americans less dumb.

There’s a party that is in opposition to that.

It was 1979. The Bakshi Lord of the Rings rotoscope movie had come out, and I was in love with it. I had already read LotR a few times and, as terrible as it might look in hindsight, it was fantastic for very young me. It was part of a small collection of action figures released in support of the movie. I probably should have wanted Gandalf based on the character, but he made for a pretty crappy action figure.

It was literally the only thing I wanted that year. Honestly, I’m not sure I wanted anything quite so badly before or since. Christmas morning came and went and although I got any number of presents I’ve since forgotten, I didn’t get the ringwraith.

My parents pulled a Christmas Story on me more than a decade before that movie came out. I was doing the complete Ralph thing where I was trying not very hard to hide my disappointment. Then they sprang on me, and the day absolutely transformed.

Not only did the Nazgûl wade through Star Wars action figures like a farmer in a field of wheat, but I convinced my friend that it was a limited edition figure of the yet-to-be-seen Emperor from Return of the Jedi, which would not come out for a few more years.

Pen boy : Do not try and sell the pen. That’s impossible. Instead… only try to realize the truth.

Neo : What truth?

Pen boy : There is no pen.

Neo : There is no pen?

Pen boy : Then you’ll see, that it is not the pen that sells, it is only yourself.

I have a problem with Reddit

There’s a huge number of these kinds of homes in the southwest. They’re pretty inexpensive and they usually sit on the market for months. They’re in no way investment properties - mine sold a decade later for what I paid for it after sitting on the market for a year.

You have to go into it with eyes open, though. If you’re lucky, you will have your own well on the property. If not, you’ll have a shared well or have to haul your own water. That changes the way you think about showers and laundry. You’re in the middle of nowhere, and your neighbors may range from the nice folks who live a mile over that way to the black helicopter conspiracy theorists. You’ll probably see them rarely but hear them doing target practice in their backyard. Wildlife will very much be a thing. Winters can be rough because if you get snowed in, you’re not going anywhere without owning a plow or snow vehicle. Summers are freaking hot. Water will increasingly be an issue. Internet will be unavailable unless you have a satellite service. You’re going to potentially have a problem with cell service, too.

Some of the problems can be solved by throwing money at it, others are just things you have to adapt to.

I can’t talk about google, but I do recall at launch that increased provacy was a widely touted feature of apple pay. If you’re using a credit card, all of your purchases are tracked, and your credit card provider is able to mine and sell all of that data.

In addition, the merchant can do the same if you use a credit card. With apple pay, your phone anonymizes the number by only sending the merchant an authorization. In addition, apple does not store your transaction info.

If I recall correctly, one of the reasons walmart originally failed to implement apple pay at their terminals was their loss of the ability to track customer purchases. They tried implementing some janky thing with qr codes.

I’m choosing to ignore the idea of sticking to categories as I think it makes it more limiting than it needs to be, and because some of the best films cross or defy genres.

I’m also going to say in passing that these questions inevitably get dominated by recent films. Whenever someone asks for a list of the greatest movies or albums of all time, we tend to respond with the ones we remember from our teenage years. It’s interesting as a social question, but there’s a definite recency bias that’s driven both by our memories and by the fact that tastes change.

With that all said, I think that the Jaws poster is probably one of the best I’ve ever seen. It is simple and immediate. There is no way to see it and not get the point of the movie.

Pulp Fiction and The Graduate were both great with their dirty book cover style aesthetic. Sort of similarly, Star Wars reproduced a very iconic book cover/movie poster format but executed it brilliantly.

Full Metal Jacket with the “born to kill”/peace sign helmet is more toned down, but captures the film very well.

Fear and Loathing also had a brilliant poster - that one where it looks like an acid trip.

Several states have laws against cutting off people’s utilities during the winter in order to prevent this kind of incident. I think there are other need based programs to provide lower cost (below market) utilities, and that just disallowing people’s utilities from being cut off doesn’t remove the debt or prevent them from being shut off after winter ends, but it’s the kind of program we need to establish more year round, especially with the weather moving to further extremes year after year.