[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

You really think that her going hard on that issue will increase her chances of winning in the swing states? Who would that change the minds of, the "undecided"?

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

I said if you're this defeatist about the outcome, why not put on a pair of jackboots and join the ranks of the thugs in uniform? After all, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Then in that case I hope you enjoy the last few tastes of freedom before Gilead arises. No hard feelings when I'm given the order by Führer Trump to round you and your family into the camps? I'll just be following orders, after all. Work will set you free eventually! Oh and don't mind the ash, that's just the Palestinians and Muslims.

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

That's why we should follow the example of the French and do a Revolution every now and then!

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

I suppose then you would enjoy the resurgence in foreign blood when Trump ascends the throne and begins launching nukes into Gaza and the West Bank?

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

I've got several actually, but this is the one that's most fleshed out:

The entire "world" is set on an enormous dial, which itself is set on top of a massive mechanism of gears, all supposedly created by a Watchmaker and the Watchmaker's Servitors, which have all disappeared after the mythical War of Shattered Gears. By the time of the story, it has been eons since those mythical times, and anthropomorphic feline Basteti live at peace alongside humans in cities built out of salvaged materials and relics from the Gearworks deep below. However, a shadowy Rustite Cult has emerged with the goal of spreading the eldritch Rust across the entirety of the Mechanism, and have corrupted the Tickbeasts and Clockroaches into horrific abominations. Only a plucky group of adventurers, from sneaky Nimblemitts to powerful Steamguards and eccentric Alchemists will be able to save the world from Rust.

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

It turns out Google Chrome (via Chromium) includes a default extension which makes extra services available to code running on the *.google.com domains - tweeted about today by Luca Casonato, but the code has been there in the public repo since October 2013 as far as I can tell.

It looks like it's a way to let Google Hangouts (or presumably its modern predecessors) get additional information from the browser, including the current load on the user's CPU. Update: On Hacker News a Googler confirms that the Google Meet "troubleshooting" feature uses this to review CPU utilization

The code doesn't do anything on non-Google domains.

Maybe it's because you tried it on a non Google site? Idk.

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

Seems like you're trying to address systemic problems of learned human nature at this point, which is something that can't really be done through software alone. There needs to be a fundamental culture shift for that. Yacy is mostly good because it's self-hosted with the option to federate to a decentralized index, and so is able to be tailored to your own needs without any external entity. However, the tailoring process means that the initial search results are absolutely atrocious compared even to Google at first, and then get much better over time. SearXNG, on the other hand, is a sort of self-hosted aggregator of search results from dozens of other search engines, rather than being a search engine in itself. It also serves as a proxy, since it is doing the searching and not you.

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

What if we pegged minimum wages directly to prices? So it doesn't matter how much prices rise - the wage is pegged to them, so it rises accordingly.

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

There's no good guys. The world is a shithole and has been a shithole since the first human picked up a rock. There's plenty of people who want to convince you they're the good guys, of course. But at the end of the day, it's all a whole bunch of hypocrites or outright sociopaths running against another bunch of hypocrites and outright sociopaths. If someone out there thinks they can fix this place, more power to them - but we've seen how that goes, multiple times, throughout history. If I'm missing anything, lemme know - I'd be glad to see some hope in this forsaken mess of a world.

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Same. I could have the point highlighted, bold, all caps and underlined, and still get a reply all asking about it.

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Isn't this a bad thing for conservation of the reef?

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