NevermindNoMind @ NevermindNoMind @lemmy.world

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We continue to recommend Wyze lighting, since we consider them lower-risk, lower-impact devices—a security breach of a light bulb, for instance, wouldn’t give someone a view of your living room.

Call me paranoid, but I don't want a company I don't trust plugged into my network at all.

Side bar that I found kind of interesting. Politico wrote about how senators in particular will not call for each other to resign, even members of the other party. With Fienstein, Republican senators were mum. With McConnell, Dem senators were the same. Politico had a bunch of other examples of ailing senators wandering around the building and senators of both parties just shrugging, but I don't remember them. The reason is they generally are all old, or expect to still be serving when their old, and they all share a sense of "there but the grace of god goes I." Just a neat little anecdote I read.

You could take it negatively and critize the Senate for having so many old people, and there's some validity to that for sure. Personally I'm more in the age is just a number camp, and I'll point to congressman Don Beyer who is 72 years old and pursuing a master's degree in machine learning so he can better help congres regulate AI. I'm also not going to tell 82 year old Bernie Sanders to get off the picket line. Being old and being out of touch are correlated (highly even), but it's not necessarily causation. As for health concerns, I've had mine own and I'd err on the side of letting people decide for themselves when they are too gone to be effective. At least until it becomes a problem. Imo it's a problem for Feinstien.

Anyway, the other way to take the acedote is that at least there is still a chamber of Congress with some decorum and respect for the people they work with. It's refreshing compared to the shit throwing freedom caucus monkeys running the house.

Cowards

Right? The precedent has been set, the president can use the pardon power for favors or profit or whatever. Biden should just call it a witch hunt, pardon Hunter, and everyone will forget in 2 weeks.

I'm sure you'd be fine, the baby will absorb most of the impact.

Shroyer interrupted a Congressional hearing I think in 2018 or 2019, I'm fuzzy on the details but I believe it was part of Trump's impeachment. When he refuses to stop disrupting he was arrested. He entered into a non prosecution agreement with prosecutors where he agreed to do 30ish hours of community service and to stay off capital grounds for some period of time. He did zero of his required hours of community service. Then went on capital grounds, which he agreed not to do, for January 6. This is basically why he's fucked even though he didn't trespass on J6,, he violated his own nonprosecution agreement, which he voluntarily entered into. He's a fucking moron.

Meanwhile Alex Jones is spinning this as the government trying to silence Infowars. All of my information is courtesy of the Knowledge Fight podcast.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made clear to Breitbart News on Friday that if House Republicans move forward with an impeachment inquiry into Democrat President Joe Biden, the move would come not as an announcement from him or anyone else, but from a formal vote on the floor of the House. From Breitbart on September 1 https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/01/mccarthy-details-impeachment-inquiry-process-if-we-move-forward-would-occur-vote-house-floor/

Here's McCarthy's full letter to Pelosi about the importance of a vote on impeachment: https://twitter.com/SpeakerMcCarthy/status/1179778155340603392

For those fortunate enough to be out of the loop, one of the qanon catch phrases is "Where we go one we go all" which is some bastardized version of the three musketeers "all for one, one for all." It's often abbreviated as WWGOWGA, which you'll see on bumper stickers to helpfully let you know the driver has completely lost touch of reality so you should give them plenty of space. I've never seen it shortened to WGA, but that is plausible.

It's not even that.

California: "Please tell us if you allow nazis or not. We just want you to be transparent."

Elon: "California is trying to pressure me into banning nazis! If I disclose I'm cool with nazis, people will be mad and they'll want me to stop. Also, a lot of hate watch groups say I'm letting nazis run free on X, and I'm suing them for defamation for saying that, but if I have to publicly disclose my pro-nazi content moderation policies I'm going to lose those lawsuits and likely have to pay attorneys fees! Not cool California, not cool at all."

You seem to know things and I'm curious, I have it in my head that it's somewhat typical for university researchers to be able to profit off their own research by spinning up startups and whatnot. My recollection is the university typically has a contractual right to a cut of that. I don't remember if that is common, or just something in the drug research kind of sector, or if my understanding of research is based more on the Ghostbusters movie.

I agree with everything you said though.

Me with interest, but no technical knowledge reading your comment:

which can be as easy as

:-)

running syncthing or resilio sync on your NAS

:-(

I didn't understand any of those words

I feel like if I ever become an audiophile, I'll probably be looking at getting a separate music player with a DAC, a Tidal subscription, and a pair of kickass wired headphones. But for now, I'm mostly listening to podcasts and for music I use Spotify for it's discovery features, and their audio quality is subpar already. Even if I had a headphone jack, I'm not really benefiting from superior sound quality but I am getting frustrated with tangled cords and getting caught on doorknobs. I'll take the convenience of Bluetooth, especially while working out. And Bluetooth standards have been getting better anyway, in a few years it might be on par with wired.

They could just break it or break your windows.

This is why you need backup measures. For example, if they break in through my windows, they'll be foiled by the micromachines I placed strategically on the floor. If they break through the door, they'll have to contend with the blowtorch I have rigged just inside the entryway. Always remember, "this is my house, I have to defend it."

I'm interested in whether McCarthy is going to pull out his back moving the goal posts on expulsion if there is a guilty plea. He's been sticking with "we'll deal with it if there's a conviction" so far, and I'd imagine he was planning to switch that to "we'll wait until the appeals are exhausted" after that. If Santos straight up admits the crimes by pleaing guilty, then where do you go? He already can only lose 3 votes in the house, is he going to expell Santos and go down to a 2 vote margin? With government funding about to shutdown if they can't pass a continuing resolution by the end of the month? Good luck fucker, you deserve the shit stew your swimming in.

I agree, but if it makes you feel better part of the punishment is the reputational hit to the law firm. It's one thing that they defending Trump in the first place, you might be able to waive that away with a "everyone is entitled to a competent defense" argument. But being fined for raising frivolous arguments multiple times in the same case just shows poor judgment and shit attorney work. You own a start up and are expanding and looking for legal counsel, you want to hire the firm that did such shit legal work that they and their client was fined because of it? Nah, fuck that.

It's an interesting article and worth a full read. But I'll bullet point the main problems with mental healthcare it describes (based on my comprehension of the article):

• Over and misdiagnosis - since mental health disorders are based on symptoms which often overlap with other conditions, misdiagnosis is common. Also, diagnosis is inherently subjective and depends on the therapists impressions and the quality of information the patient gives
• Therapy itself doesn't work for everyone, and when it does it often takes a lot of time. People expect to head into one or two therapy sessions and have all their problems solved. Also, some forms of therapy have less evidence of effectiveness.
• Since therapy is hard, time consuming, and costly, therapists often resort to prescribing meds. Antidepressants in particular are far less effective than people perceive. At best antidepressants can slightly help improve your mood, but the hard work of therapy is needed to address the underlying issues, which often doesn't happen.
• What often has the biggest benefits are strategies that help people manage the stressors, habits, and circumstances of their lives. Traditional therapy often isn't geared toward that, and there is only so much any therapy can do because...
• A lot of our mental health is based on societal factors and our circumstances, and you can't just talk your way out living with all of this gestures vaguely at everything
• The rise of app based mental healthcare is good in that it expanda access, but the quality is shit.

It's a shitty position to be in so I almost feel bad as well, except literally everyone knew this was going to happen when she joined. But I doubt she thought, "What's the worst that could happen? I have a bland conversation with the ADL, and Musk spends the weekend retweeting self deacribed antisemites and threatening to ban/sue the ADL?"

She is scheduled to be at the Code Conference hosted by the Verge/Vox at the end of September. I'm really interested in how she answers when asked about being undermined, especially now that the undermining has taken the form of her boss just being an outright antisemite.

For context, this all started Thursday when the ADL xeeted that is had a "frank and productive" conversation with X's CEO. She replied with some warm and fuzzy PR bullshit about working together to improve the platform blah blah blah. But the right wing nutjobs weren't happy with the implication that X was in anyway cooperating with the ADL and there was immediate backlash. "Ban the ADL" became a trending hashtag, because, according to the racist majority on X, the ADL is the actual hate group and they pressure advertisers who in turn pressure platforms to "ban free speech." Musk, always quick to undermine the sad sack holding the title "CEO" jumped on that bandwagon and been xeeting about it all weekend, threatening to ban them, generally talking trash, and now threatening to sue.

I find it depressing that I'm aware of all this.

If I'm being generous, maybe that was his last ditch attempt to get Trump to give him a pardon. Of course that's not going to play well with the parole board down the line, so probably not a smart play. Or he's just a fucking moron. Yeah, probably that.

You can stop the trolly anytime, but it's unfair for the people not on the train tracks.