nickwitha_k (he/him) @ nickwitha_k @lemmy.sdf.org

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Threatening action as a government official is taking an action. Under the rules of CU, he has standing. Then again, the Roberts court doesn't care about stare decisis or the letter of the law or the spirit of the law, just what can keep the grift flowing.

*uncanine-y

Unironically, depending on how the supply chain is arranged for your industry, it may actually be cheaper to move your manufacturing off shore and eat the tariff once instead of getting nickeled and dimed for every single item you need to assemble on shore.

And that's not even accounting for forecasting, which is still necessary in the stupid-frail JIT approach. Noone will want to sign a long-term supply contract when they could get screwed by sudden tarrifs and the JIT people have to rely on luck to avoid subjecting customers to sticker-price whiplash.

It's all just so fucking stupid.

Edit: Not sure what my auto-correct meant there. To be clear I was intending to state that JIT logistics is stupidly frail because it is unable to smooth out uncertainties in supply chains and a single distribution or price swing in a necessary component can result in the material costs of the product going so high that the business either has to sell at unpredictable prices, eat the difference, or set the base price higher and pocket the difference when favorable.

He's also had a lot of help due to being born with an emerald spoon in his mouth.

Maybe it's being neurodivergent but I have never understood his "charisma". He's always been a vile, crass, babbling, moron whose only "secret" to deal making had been finding rubes that didn't think his lifetime of theft of service, as well as just plain theft (that for was never prosecuted as it should have been because white collar crime) magically wouldn't apply to them.

I've done a lot of SysAdmin and DCOps stuff in the past so, thought I'd give you some plausible suggestions (haven't dug deep into Lemmy DB stuff and DNS/Federation of the stack, so not sure all is practical).

Scenario 1 - Preserve and merge when access is restored

Setup

• Spin up two VMs/VPS (or one that has enough grunt for two Lemmy servers). Call them robak.slrpnk.net and slrpnk.net and point DNS appropriately.
• Pull federated content from other instances and place it on robak, set as read-only.
• Sync important comms to (new) slrpnk.net without content.
• Allow users to sign up, vetting as possible (all mods). Keep a list of those that are vetted (call it vetted.list). Inform all users that any non-vetted users will have their content dropped when access is restored.

Merge!

• Once access is restored, ensure that (old) slrpnk.net is set to read-only.
• Schedule a maintenance window (announce more time than you are likely to need).
• During the maintenance window, put (new) slrpnk.net into R/O, or just block external access.
• Query the db on (old) slrpnk.net for all users.
• Subtract the vetted users from vetted.list from the list.
• Drop all records from the resulting list of non-vetted users from (new) slrpnk.net.
• Insert the records from vetted and new users (those without conflicts) into the DB on (old) slrpnk.net.
• Validate that everything is working
• Cut over DNS and spin down the new VMs/VPS.

Scenario 2 - Server is in DC or Admin able to facilitate access

• Get a db dump/backup.
• Spin up temporary slrpnk.net on a VM/VPS.
• Use backup of temporary server to restore data to original, when possible.

That sucks.

Like antibiotic resistant gonorrhea and clamidya. Noone wants to get those.

Exactly. The actual cost of durable goods tend to be pretty consistent, when corrected for inflation. It's just that wages are so terrible compared to what they should be, if they were not completely divorced from the value created by labor.

... You can probably just pair a Joycon 2 with the deck to get the functionality. Since the steamdeck does not feature detachable controllers in its design, an external controller is needed. Any controller that connects via Bluetooth or other wireless standard pretty much works - Bluetooth as a standard even allows a single device to use different profiles.

If the feature for "mouse mode" is implemented in the Joycon 2 hardware, there should be little effort needed to make it work with the deck. If it is a proprietary host/device driver interaction, it probably uses standard HID signals because those would take a good amount of time and money to reinvent, so, reverse engineering everything needed for the driver should be fairly quick and easy for people who deal with Linux device drivers.

Personally, I tend to just use the trackpad on the Dualsense controller as a mouse. It works, no bother.

No. Capitalists use technology to further their goals. Technology has no agency, makes no decisions, and is not a philosophy. It is literally just knowledge. Capitalism and human bad actors are literally the problem as they have been for all of recorded history. This is also seen in other primate species like baboons who are able to live relatively peaceful and low-stress lives when they organize in cooperative, pro-social troops.

Thanks, anti-electoralists/accelerationists and protest (non-)voters for doing your part to increase human suffering. /s

Nah. Johnny respected consent.

An oft-overlooked part of this is the fact that it is also a socioeconomic issue. Due to half a century of wage suppression, the diminished purchasing power of the majority of the population would not be able to handle the shift to more durable goods. Wealth/income inequality is a major hurdle for reducing single use plastics and disposable goods.

I do think that you'll eventually be held up there with the likes of Ken M. for your contributions to the art of classical trolling.

We've already kinda got that: !retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

Funny how you guys like to pretend that you are for denazification but hate it when people point out that Stalin was Hitler's greatest collaborator until the meth head betrayed him. Or that the USSR engaged in naked imperialism (and have to redefine imperialism to specifically omit countries that claim to be communist from the classification for reasons). Or when it's pointed out that violent, aggressive expansionism isn't exactly pro-prolitariat - it wasn't in 2020, or 2014, or 1939. Nor was it particularly pro-prolitariat when they murdered their anarchist allies once the White Army was defeated so as to prevent self-rule and centralize imperial power in Moscow.

It predates that, actually. Goes back to the USSR sending tanks into Eastern Europe to put down rebellion.

Unfortunately, I'm getting to the point where I suspect a fork or alternate compatible platform may be needed (rather than just nice to have).

Oh they're pretty awesome and about 5 mins away. DVDs, music, academic journal access, seed exchange, and several streaming services, free to library patrons.

There are a number of reasons that the far-right and corpos hate libraries. The number of services that the provide to the community (in the US) is a major part of it. Libraries in bigger cities even tend to have social workers on staff to help patrons who are homeless or have other needs. They are one of the few places that anyone is allowed to exist during daylight hours without paying.