Kid_Thunder @ Kid_Thunder @kbin.social

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Now watch them run out of supplies or something mundane about the organization or just leave after a couple of days saying 'job done! we raised awareness to everyone that was already aware!"

Then they'll all be called some sort of undercover false flag by the extreme right to make the rest of the trash look bad, small, disorganized and criticized for not being violent enough.

Remember at first they were going to the border to role play as border patrol but now they just want to it to be a peaceful awareness raising thing -- probably because they are a mixture of AARP members and guys in big trucks with cowboy hats that live in the suburbs.

Reminds me of when Riverside Sheriffs busted a special ed student (he had been diagnosed with Aspergers)....and then did it again to another one (who apparently had the cognitive level of a 3rd grader) the next year after having and undercover officer befriend them (along with others) and pressure them into buying or stealing drugs for them. Also, the case is crazy because somehow a minor regardless of having Aspergers can apparently waive their Maranda rights as well as their guardians not be contacted.

Why is the guy smiling while the teddy bear/fox/cat thing is eating his fingers?

Yeah though I just checked and all of that, including the "thought-provoking stories" and the sponsored stories plus shortcuts are all on by default.

Even turning it all off, you still can't set a homepage. I think the closest you can get is set up a "collection."

I get what they're saying but really, I think the reason they are losing so much market share is because FF just isn't compelling enough versus its competition from a technical sense. The only thing keeping them relevant at all is Manifest v3.

Speaking of which, Mozilla when are you going to let Android users set their homepage to whatever they want? Perhaps I don't want recommendations from Pocket shoved down my throat or I'm sure utilizing my analytics to facilitate that to myself and others. Why is your half a billion USD a year in donations not enough and you fill you need to make the experience worse on your users?

The browser market is really prime for a newcomer to really shake it up...again.

Yeah funny, right? I thought the same thing. It'd just be the older people and the younger would be more technically literate. But companies started abstracting a lot of things now and it's both the older and younger that struggle with IT literacy.

I think thin clients with VDIs will be the future and both make this stuff even more abstracted for users and also bring in the age of subscribing to workstations. At work, it'll start by just plopping stuff in your documents folder or personal folder or whatever and/or the desktop. They'll live on a network share and the VDIs will revert to snapshots to be 'fresh' every time but the users won't really know that. Their stuff will be plopped down like it is local every time and 'follow' them from VDI to VDI.

Then I think this will push to the home market and instead of spending a lot of money up front, you just get a cheap thin client, probably eventually a small little box with USB ports and mini-DP or whatever. You'll then pay for the tiers you want. Want just a workstation to check mail on and do 'web apps' type stuff? $5 with a whole 5GB of personal space or whatever. Then there'll be "productivity tiers" with pretty much the same stuff but more CPU, RAM and a small amount of vGPU allocated and you can install programs with something like 500 GB of personal space. There'll be a "pro" version with more of everything and a "gamer" version with a lot of everything probably costing something like $30/$40 a month starting out per device.

And of course eventually, you'll be getting ads to "keep the prices increases down" and then that won't matter anymore and you'll be given the option to pay for ad-free add-ons, time on the workstation and so-on. Prices will raise nearly every year. Thin clients will turn into all-in-ones and be basically tablets where you buy based on screen sizes and probably able to wireless connect more displays.

Technology in computing will become more abstracted and IT's specialists will shrink once again because actual tech literacy will decrease.

I think the only reason it hasn't started yet is due to Internet throughput availability but that's quickly changing.

A boring dystopia indeed.

I lived through Hurricane Hugo. Before it came about, most people didn't worry about tornadoes much in my area when there was a watch. More people took warnings seriously but a significant amount of people would "know the signs" and go about their day anyway. Hugo hit and devastated everything. Trees through houses and everything. It is hard to describe in a small sentence how much the wooded landscape changed for over a decade but it was common for trees to just be laying down everywhere in the woods. It was now common trails were cut through swathes of logs.

For a time after people would take tornadoes seriously again. Slowly but surely though, you'd see that neighbor that never mows their lawn think the best time to finally do it is when there's a tornado that touched down near just to show they can defy it. Driving during warnings is one of the worst things you can do because the roads are static and traffic won't just abide for only you. The road doesn't just stay clear of obstructions from trees, powerline poles, fences, etc. You can very easily become trapped very quickly.

I think like anything else when people deal with tornadoes regularly, they become complacent. People think about them like they can just see them a bit off and have time but tornadoes will hop around or form just wherever very quickly. Some people's attitudes become "this happens every year and I survive around 15 tornadoes a year and it doesn't really effect me much personally, so it's no big deal really. You just have to know what you're doing." when it was just luck all along.

Yeah.... How many times does the lesson need to be learned? The worse deal the consumer is given, the more likely they'll just pirate instead. This is in both price and usability/frustration level.

I still remember when Sirius/xm was actually popular. Ad free good quality radio where you could tune in to specialized stuff for a good price.You could generally get it for around $6/7 per mo/device. At the time I was going to buy a new stereo head just for better navigation of my flash drive with my music (I was already off of burned discs). But Sirius/xm was so cheap and it had an added bonus of some discovery and stuff that why bother? I'll just primarily use that!

The prices raised a couple of bucks and commercials for their top 10 channels but they are very quick.

Then prices raised and it was commercials for every channel and so on. I cancelled when it was $18/mo/device with commercials everywhere long enough that it wasn't as bad but close enough to being as bad as radio, except I'm paying for it. My friends told me "yeah but you just call them when your time is up and they'll always make it like $12/mo/device for the first year and sometimes if you complain after it runs out they'll do it the second year too.

But why bother when by then you had great alternatives like Pandora and then Spotify and so-on. You get the same experience as Sirius/xm but it is free. Don't want ads? It's just a few bucks a month!

Now streaming music is going down the same road that every popular service of everything always does. Worse experience and ad revenue. The price point for the pay options rise and won't atop. It won't be but maybe a decade until you can't pay for no ads. You'll pay to be able to pick exactly what you want to play and to decrease ad time I'm sure.

In the background as the deal gets worse and there is no alternative offering a good deal with a good consumer experience then piracy rises. It always does. Companies will always complain piracy hurts them and the artists but all they have to do is be more reasonable.

It has barely existed for years anyway. Anyone can remove the Google caching from their website and most major websites and many small ones do.

Now I just have an archive.org extension to do the se thing basically.

LibreOffice is compatible with Microsoft's OOXML spec. They sold every suite on it in the nearly 20 years ago to stop fines from the EU. They sold competing suites on it instead of using anything else available.

Microsoft however never actually fully supported their own spec and will save as "OOXML Transition" or whatever they call it now because they've been in 'transition' for nearly 20 years but still have proprietary blobs inside of it. You can however make MS Office save in OOXML Strict which is supposed to be compliant to the now ISO spec that LibreOffice actually supports.

This isn't LibreOffice's fault.

GOP just showing that once again they're in it for their constituents and not for power for themselves.

she has accused the Satanic Temple of making filings that “are only meant to evoke strong emotions and incite others.”

Uh yeah, it isn't a secret or anything.

What's next? Is she going to say "I don't think they actually believe in Baphomet either!"

I imagine an argument in my head like this:
Comcast: 10G doesn't confuse customers. Obviously we are saying they can buy up to 10 Gbps on our network.

Somebody: Do you call your 1 Gbps plans Xfinity 1G?

Comcast: No

Somebody: Why not call it that instead of Xfinity Gigabit?

Comcast: Because customers might think cell plans at 5G are bett....oohhhhh you almost got us!

I know it didn't go like that but it would have been a good laugh.

It doesn't 'resolve' to Russia. The IP was allocated to yandex who's record for that block is listed in Russia. Any IP addres in that /24 can literally be used anywhere in their infrastructure anywhere in the world.

I have a VPS for example that RIPE shows is allocated to a company in Germany but the physical server sits in a datacenter on the west coast of the US.

Paranoid extremists get together and become paranoid that everyone else in the group are feds trying to trap them. Trip starts with group praying for guidance and immediately get lost.

This could have been an article in The Onion.

You're asking for someone to transcribe it for you?

Remember when Tucker Carlson's text messages were released and he called his fans 'especially dumb....cousin fuckers'? Remember when they still revered him anyway?

Trump could probably be at a rally in the deep south in a factory and call them all a bunch of good-for-nothing lazy losers and they'd still vote for him. They'd probably say "He speaks his mind and doesn't care what anyone including us thinks. He's so badass!" or like I've actually heard more than a few times "He says dumb things that I don't agree with but I agree with his politics" which is ridiculous but it doesn't matter.

Can't wait for a story from a developer or sysadmin that knows how all the duct tape is held together, gets laid off and refuses to come back to fix everything. Then the former employer doubles doubt and threatens to sue them for loss of revenue. It would be absurd but I expect the absurd now.

I just want to say that the screen call function is so good that I don't think I'll buy another phone without that feature if at all possible. Also creating the automatic menu for calling some customer service numbers is fantastic too.

Probably nothing happens at all.