MrSpArkle @ MrSpArkle @lemmy.ca

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So there weren’t people with guns intimidating voters by monitoring polls for “suspicious activity”?

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/06/election-officials-facing-armed-militia-presence-at-some-polls.html

Uh, why not just call the police? They’re here to protect us so we don’t need guns.

You gotta have more empathy for the average person.

If the average person cared about binary size in terms of bloat, then being that smartphone apps are almost all statically linked, why are smartphones the most popular computer in the world?

To them bloat would feel more like apps you can’t delete, or say ads in a key gui component.

The bloat most people will care about in terms of Linux is facing down a software update prompt with 1000 packages and feeling anxiety over the last such dialog box destroying the use of their favorite apps.

I’m glad there are hundreds of successful distros, their complexities will serve well the hundreds of Linux desktop users.

Yeah, there is definitely a delineation between system and user, and like most things the line will be fuzzy.

But in that end-user software space, 300mb is a pittance to pay for a minor system package update not breaking their favorite application, or a user not being able to use software because their distro is one version behind on libfoo.

What if who cares?

When I used to build app packages internally I also built packages for our own python and ruby versions for our in-house software. The motto was: “system packages are for system software”. We weren’t writing system software, we were writing business software and shipping it, so why be dependent on what Redhat or Debian provided?

Universal packages are just an extension of this philosophy, and is why things like docker and app stores are such a success. Burdening the user with getting system dependencies right is worse than the DLL hell of the old windows days.

It took the US 10 years to track down Bin Laden, all the while he was still communicating with cells. In your example that is a LOT of quality holocaust time for Hitler.

There is no easy way out of the trolley problem of slippery genocidal targets popping up with a limited time window to execute.

Not exactly true. If you enable "Advanced Data Protection" not even apple can look at your data (with the exception of data which has to be interoperable like calendars and mail)

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

Did the EU force Apple to switch the iPad to USB-C? For that matter, didn't Apple have like 20 or so engineers on the USB-C spec?

I don't know how much more hate Apple can get, their mere existence enables an entire tech-journalism ecosystem dedicated to laying out their evils and predicting their demise. It's good for the economy!

Apple got shit on when they went all in on USB on the Mac. People complained they couldn’t use their mice and keyboards anymore.

They shit on FireWire and thunderbolt and called them proprietary, even those were both industry standard ports. Same for DisplayPort.

They switched to USB-C exclusively and then people complained that they had to buy dongles.

In the modern era, they have had maybe 3 or 4 proprietary ports.

It doesn’t seem so ruthless to me.

The media circus around columbine has certainly contributed to mass shootings. Every loser knows how to be remembered now.

Discrimination is still a factor, but yeah, society corrals women into certain fields that don’t pay as much.

Yeah this one’s an unintentional blessing.

I did but nothing seemed to support the claim.

Source on half of homes destroyed? That is a LOT of bombs.

Intel is a licensed ARM manufacturer. They’re just doing PR but are capable of playing both sides.

Nobody has a monopoly on stupidity, but the right is pretty close to an anti-trust lawsuit.

You put "effectiveness" in quotes because you have come to believe the vaccines aren't effective. You pump "natural immunity" because your information sources told you the vaccines are dangerous, while ignoring that the health risks of getting that natural immunity is way higher without a vaccine than with.

Letting the virus burn through the population to acquire immunity is how we get Spanish Flu numbers. It’s inhumane and dangerous to the fabric of society. Catching covid after vaccination is the far superior option.

The vaccines kept people out of hospitals, prevented many infections, and newer studies are confirming with high certainty now that they reduced transmission:

Initial VET of booster-vaccination (mRNA primary and booster-vaccination) was 87% (95%CI 86–89) against Delta and 68% (95%CI 65–70) against Omicron. The VET-estimate against Delta and Omicron decreased to 71% (95%CI 64–78) and 55% (95%CI 46–62) respectively, 150–200 days after booster-vaccination. Hybrid immunity, defined as vaccination and documented prior infection, was associated with durable and higher or comparable (by number of antigen exposures) protection against transmission.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10073587/#:~:text=Vaccines%20reduced%20susceptibility%20of%20HREC,contact%20completed%20BNT162b2%20primary%2Dvaccination.

What part of these findings show a lack of effectiveness?

There is a long history of governments enforcing vaccines, and it's because individual freedoms DO NOT trump the wellbeing of the country at large. People complained about freedom when they banned indoor smoking and enforced seatbelts too. Same stupid shit from stupid children.

But it's ok, throw your lot in with stupid racist plague rats who are afraid of proven, tested, effective vaccine.

Keep consuming media so warped that you actually think Trudeau is anywhere near as dangerous as Trump.

Ask some racist and non racist people if they believe vaccines work, you’ll get an interesting diagram.

What the two movements have in common is the absolute willfull ignorance of scientific evidence contrary to their views.

The “Medical Freedom” crowd is dangerous both for the stupidity of their “cause” and the unexpectedly effective camouflage they provide for other right wing racist bullshit.

Pat king isn’t facing charges related to his leadership role in the convoy? Coulda sworn he had a court date the same day as Chris and Tamara’s a while back.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/tamara-lich-christopher-barber-pat-king-crown-lays-new-charges-freedom-convoy-1.6396145

Anyway. I’m not in favor of people protesting to end my right to exist in a country, or dividing a country so they can have a place for “real Canadians”. That should be illegal, because once protests get enough momentum they can enact laws to enshrine their ethnostate.

I’m sorry you’re naive enough not to see this. Protesting is a tool for open societies, those who want to destroy such open societies should not have access to the tools to dismantle it, for then the society will cease to be open.

Pat King was the biggest leader of the convoy, he is for sure a white supremicist per his own recorded words.

And why let Tamara collect money to basically fund a civil war?