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Fucking windows updates... just threw away three days of debug progress. You can't just "save" stepping through assembly code. It asked me to reschedule - I did, and then a few minutes later it warned me it would reboot "soon", then did so WHILE I was rescheduling it again.
I am a full subscriber to the update system, but FUCK OFF. Don't kill my applications just because you decided it's time. If you're /that/ paranoid about threats, feel free to kill my /network/, but leave my apps running till I can close them safely!
I love it so much!
Firefox has made it SO EASY to switch to Firefox from Chrome, that you dont even lose your OPEN TABS.
Have you got 34 open tabs lol? And you lost uBlock ad-blocker today? (You did, you lost your ad blocker, because Google)
You dont even lose open Tabs! (And you get to install uBlock)
Fancy that.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-chrome-firefox
Firefox can automatically move bookmarks, passwords, history and other preferences from Chrome without deleting it or interfering with any of its settings.support.mozilla.org
What I don’t get about climate change deniers is what’s the worst that can happen if we fight it?
- Having cheaper energy from
renewable sources?
- Never running out of oil?
- Being independent from unstable countries with bad human rights records?
- Having cleaner air?
- Boosting local economy?
- Investing in local and domestic research, education and fabrication?
Yes, exactly
https://www.climateactionreserve.org/blog/2012/08/31/environmental-cartoons-by-joel-pett/
Joel Pett, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the Lexington Herald-Leader and keynote speaker at our NACW 2012 conference, celebrates his birthday tomorrow, September 1.Jennifer Weiss (Climate Action Reserve)
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Most people, when they think of Nazism, imagine a rigid dictatorship, in which Hitler gave strict orders to carry out a carefully engineered program of genocide.
They don't realize the degree to which Nazi functionaries improvised in an effort to curry favor w the Fuhrer by anticipating what they thought he might like to see.
IOW, they ramped up the violence b/c they believed they would be rewarded for it.
This is how "MASS DEPORTATION NOW" spirals out of control.
Hitler was not a "details" guy. He wasn't even a particularly hard worker.
What he was, though, was a "broad sketches" guy and a manic monologue guy.
Somebody who made HUGE and wildly unconventional pronouncements that excited curiosity and awe among a certain set of Germans, who then waited anxiously to see whether anyone might step forward to execute and put into concrete form the deviant ideas that peppered his speeches.
When people say "don't take Trump literally" or "he doesn't really mean what he says," that's completely beside the point.
It's what his speech unleashes in others.
It's the license he gives others to turn the crank, to up the ante, and to break conventions.
Trumpism is a permission structure.
It's an uncorking of violent animosities which have existed for a long time in our country.
Interesting paper- AI is not boosting your creativity
“We found that support from an AI image generator during ideation leads to higher fixation on an initial example. Participants who used AI produced fewer ideas, with less variety and lower originality compared to a baseline.”
Major tech companies are producing far more carbon emissions than they suggest in their sustainability reports.
They’re lobbying hard to rewrite the rules on how emissions are calculated to show net zero on paper, but not in practice.
https://www.ft.com/content/2d6fc319-2165-42fb-8de1-0edf1d765be3
#tech #climate #emissions #climatechange
I’m supremely annoyed that nearly all services now pin identity and authentication on an E-mail or Cell phone.
This does NOT stop illegitimate users. New E-mail and burner phones are easy to get.
It DOES however make legit users more vulnerable. Taking over someone’s Email account or phone number, even for a short period, may give an attacker easy access to take over your identity and accounts, sometimes in irreversible ways.
Authentication should be a Username, Password and TOTP. If you want to offer less secure/’passwordless/convenience’ options like email, phone, whatever, go right ahead. I can choose to NOT use those.
Don't mind me! Just hanging out overhead, waiting for someone cute to pounce!
Just walk right under here. I'm sure nothing will happen. >:3
Photo by np_sub.
