mo_ztt ✅ @ mo_ztt @lemmy.world

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Hm, I checked in the community rules and they 100% agree with you - it's supposed to be news from established sources, and specifically not tabloid / blog stuff. Removing.

Fair enough. I do think it's a better analysis than most journalism I've seen about Prigozhin's death, and I couldn't find a really appropriate place to put it (it's closer to "news" than it is to "politics"). But, I've now posted in /c/war@group.lt in case that's better.

So this brings to mind one of the truly weird things that happened to me during the Trump era. The FBI, which was always one of the great villains in my personal cosmology, started to take on instead this kind of honored role.

So after COINTELPRO, Fred Hampton, Waco, Ruby Ridge, all the big-ticket stories of the federal government's law enforcement arm doing terrible things, I suddenly got to hear from people like James Comey who seemed genuinely interested in law and justice and wanted to work hard for those things, independent of any personal ends or personal loyalties.

Loyalty to a noble concept builds structures of government that are lasting, and draw genuine support from the people involved in them. Loyalty to a person or a personal interest builds structures of government that are more like a big mafia. I think every structure in the real world is going to have elements of both, but the Russian system seems doomed to fail in the long run because of which side it mostly represents, and the last few years in American history have shown me a lot more nobility in the American government than what I thought I would see it represent.

Federal prosecutors may already have cut a deal with them (or with Meadows at least). They may feel that after attempting to murder American democracy, the deal they cut with the feds to betray their former allies and escape serious consequences needs to be sacrosanct and protect them, and that to do otherwise isn't fair and ethical.

If I were a character in the ending to a Roald Dahl short story, I'd get close up to their face and say with a maniacal grin, "Look who's talking! Look who's talking!"

This guy is in the wolololololo school just like Steve Jobs. He's so addicted to feeling like he's smarter that he'll spout any and all bullshit that will give him an opportunity to be in the role of the one who's explaining it to his uninformed listener.

choosing to live on bread and water because he doesn't want to eat the food

Next you'll be telling me they won't let him leave, even though he wants to.

So, if I try to follow /c/technology@lemmy.world from my Mastodon account, then when I pop open my feed what shows at the top is this:

I don't want /c/technology to "boost" individual posts (edit: comments) from that sub such that they show up with no context in my feed. If what happened was that individual posts from the sub showed in my feed, and comments on the post showed up as replies under that post, that would be swell. IDK the technical details of the issue, or if there's anything I can do on my end to make this work better, but in my limited experimentation it looks like I just can't follow Lemmy communities from Mastodon without ruining my feed with these individual context-less comments.

The consumers? But how could one of them create an advertising? They don't even have an FCC license. I don't get it.

Dark Brandon is an internet character created by Biden’s White House

Certainly not...

"Can you remember any white people we've ever bombed? The Germans! Those are the only ones. And that's only because they were trying to cut in on our action. They wanted to dominate the world. Bullshit, that's our fuckin' job!" -George Carlin

To allay fears the short-form video app could be used as a Chinese surveillance tool, the federal government nearly transformed it into an American one instead.

Sounds bad.

The agreement would let agencies examine TikTok’s US facilities, records, and servers with minimal prior notice and veto the hiring of any executive involved with leading TikTok US data security organization. It would also let US agencies block changes to the app’s terms of service in the US and order the company to subject itself to various audits, all on TikTok’s dime, per Forbes. In extreme cases, the agreement would allow government organizations to demand TikTok temporarily shut off functioning in the US.

The agreements, if accepted as written at the time, would open TikTok’s US operations up to supervision by a number of external third-party auditors and source code inspectors.

Sounds... not at all like what the US government would do if it wanted to use Tiktok for surveillance (no automated collection of data? No mandated installation of monitoring gear like the NSA was rumored to do decades before Snowden came along?). However, it does sound like exactly what the US would do if it wanted to prevent the use of Tiktok for Chinese surveillance.

The US government is 100% comfortable with spying on its citizens, but IDK how they got from point A to point B in this particular instance. Well, actually I do; the article will get more clicks this way.

He's not completely, though. @marcos had it right about co-evolution -- leaving aside any issues of internationalization, the layout of letters came from typewriters, but the layout of punctuation available was different on different computers for a lot of the early history of programming. Some of the more extreme examples were the Space Cadet Keyboard used at MIT, and APL which more or less required you to use an APL-specific keyboard in order to be able to access all the special symbols that are part of APL. Here's an APL program:

    
⎕CR 'ProveNonPrime'
Z←ProveNonPrime R
⍝Show all factors of an integer R - except 1 and the number itself,
⍝ i.e., prove Non-Prime. String 'prime' is returned for a Prime integer.
Z←(0=(⍳R)|R)/⍳R  ⍝ Determine all factors for integer R, store into Z
Z←(~(Z∊1,R))/Z   ⍝ Delete 1 and the number as factors for the number from Z.
→(0=⍴Z)/ProveNonPrimeIsPrime               ⍝ If result has zero shape, it has no other factors and is therefore prime
Z←R,(⊂" factors(except 1) "),(⊂Z),⎕TCNL  ⍝ Show the number R, its factors(except 1,itself), and a new line char
→0  ⍝ Done with function if non-prime
ProveNonPrimeIsPrime: Z←R,(⊂" prime"),⎕TCNL  ⍝ function branches here if number was prime

  

Things became much more standardized when the IBM PC's keyboard became the norm, and were formalized in 1995 with ISO 9995. Then once it stabilized there was a strong incentive for both language designers and keyboard makers to stick with what everyone was used to so they could keep working with the other. But it wasn't always that way.

Edit: Here's what things looked like on an IBM 3276:

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his future as a warlord after the collapse of America

Society for American Civic Renewal

One of these things is not like the other. Freedom is slavery etc etc

A lot of people want to be conned in this way. Mein Kampf, of all places, was the first place I had this explained to me and got it. Like Trump, Hitler was genuinely very stupid, but he had this weird innate ability to tap into that side of people's psychology, and look where it got him. He explained it in the book: The people don't want democracy. They have jobs, they're busy with things, they don't have a good grasp of what's going on, they don't feel qualified to be put in charge of the country. They want someone to stand up and lead them and tell them what's what and say they're going to take care of things and it's going to be good. Their reaction, internally, is going to be to relax. Oh, thank god, I was really worried because things are bad and I don't know what to do. Now along comes this guy who can fix it and wants to take charge. Finally.

I don't feel that that's true of everybody, but a certain segment of the population really wanted someone like Hitler or Trump to come along. A lot of the GOP voters have hated all these mealy Mitch McConnell limp-wristers for decades now. That's why they fell in love with Trump. He is, finally, what they wanted.

Well, but it sounds like the author thinks that Trump's supporters know that Trump promised to show the fraud, but then changed his mind, and that Trump's explanation or lack thereof has any bearing on what they think happened. I think Trump supporters think he already presented all the evidence in detail, he already won in court (I've had multiple people tell me that every time it went to court, the evidence was overwhelming in favor of fraud, that they won XX out of YY cases in however many states), and I think they might easily not be aware of any of this beyond seeing Trump saying something related to the evidence he already presented.

I think we're in agreement that they're in a weird little bubble of reality, but I honestly think he's overestimating how much contact they have with reality (and how many they even think it's important that things be factual) by quite a lot.

“My lawyers would prefer putting this, I believe, Irrefutable & Overwhelming evidence of Election Fraud & Irregularities in formal Legal Filings as we fight to dismiss this disgraceful Indictment,” he wrote on social media.

See how that works? Now Trump has claimed that he has a lengthy report proving fraud but also offered a reason he can’t show it to anyone. It’s the “my girlfriend lives in Canada” play, but with a credulous audience. His supporters can now insist that he was right to engage in an effort to subvert the Georgia results because the evidence of fraud exists, evidence they haven’t seen and that, at this point, can’t be debunked.

There are always exceptions to any generalization, but I think it's fair to say that the bulk of Trump supporters insist that the fraud has already been documented and proven. There's video, there's mounds of supporting evidence, it's been proven a hundred times over, in court and with records, but the courts wouldn't act on any of it, and so Biden and the corrupt democrats have hijacked the office of the presidency in plain sight. They'll get extremely pushy about it and get mad at you if you try to tell them that that's not accurate.

They are far removed from reality; they mostly judge truth by how confidently you speak and how aggressive you're willing to get about it, and they consume media and interact face-to-face with people who confidently and aggressively assert these things all the time.

I think the writer of the article is overestimating how much exposure Trump supporters will have to any of this, or how much impact it would have if it did. It will all come and go without them even being aware of it. They already know that the fraud was proven, the ironclad evidence has already all been presented, and now the Democrats are brazenly and corruptly trying to take down this good man with made-up charges so that no one can challenge their theft of the election. If you try to tell them anything else, they'll get mad.

Well this can't possibly malfunction all the time.

Arévalo, the son of the nation’s first democratic president, Juan José Arévalo, was raised abroad after a military coup overthrew his father’s successor.

In a country with unstable democratic institutions — a situation aided by US meddling in Guatemalan politics under progressive leftist President Jacobo Arbenz

Bro, either just say it, or pretend you have no idea what happened. Don't try to take this weird middle path.

Hm, right, this is exactly what I want. My project is in Node, so a pure-Go solution might not be immediately usable, but maybe there's some way or another to make it work. It is at least a good place to start.

I 100% agree with this. I don't really know the solution or even understand all the federation details of why they don't interoperate better, but it's definitely irritating to me that as far as I know, I can't:

• Be on Lemmy and follow Mastodon people
• Be on Mastodon and follow a Lemmy community and start to see posts to that community in my feed.

It's, like, so close to just being a single global software-agnostic communication place that anyone can rock with. But it's not. If anyone knows any solution I can use that can do some facsimile of both of those things please let me know (someone suggested Friendica as a solution but I haven't really looked into it in detail yet).

(Edit: Be on Mastodon and follow a Lemmy community and start to see posts in a way that's not ridiculous. Just have the community show up as an Actor, posts come from the user that posted them and the community Actor "retoots" them or whatever. No I don't know the internal details of why that way is hard to do or doesn't make sense, that's just how I want it to be.)