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Trump Signs Executive Order Making Official Language Of U.S. Remedial English
WASHINGTON—In a move designed to promote unity and establish efficiency at the federal level, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday making the nation’s official language remedial English.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
Speaker: Lesley Carhart, Cybersecurity expert and Director of Incident Response at Dragos | LAI
Lesley Carhart is a Principal Industrial Incident Responder at the industrial cybersecurity company Dragos, Inc.Lesley Carhart (Leading Authorities, Inc.)
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them: write a sad story using only 4 words
me: sudo rm -rf /*
#Today 28
Good day!
This is, literally, my view.
The place where I’m babysitting a handful of animals (Evie the Cat is here). Where my car battery died after 10-years.
I’ve setup collaborative hikes & my writing journal for March. Next, notes on the sequel to Deadly Stroll, which is Exhumed Reflection.
Be everwell.
#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #LandscapePhotography
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So the good news is that it's Friday.
The bad news is that Doug Ford and his conservatives won another majority and will be in complete control for the next 4 years here in Ontario.
Cheap booze, weed shops on every corner.
A depleted public health and education system. Private care that only the wealthy have access to.
All while his buds get rich and the divide between the middle and upper class widens.
The people of Ontario are stupid. We get what we deserve.
#ontario #ford #toronto #NeverVoteConservative #conservative
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Between
As the light erupts across the sky
your morning has just begun
as cries of avow are birthed
I sing to you my little one...
'tis not at this extreme
'tis between
You can endure no more of this abundance
Your girths limit has been reached
Ill content and miserable
I say to you my child...
'tis not at this extreme
'tis between
Your barren face has lost its color
You are barely there at all
starving and desperate
I reason with you...
'tis not at this extreme
'tis between
Not a thought for anything else can be
she is all that you will see
obsession overcomes thee
Will you hear my plea...
'tis not at this extreme
'tis between
Her softest touch has torn your heart apart
madness grips you to your core
grief has manifest rage
listen to my screams
'tis not at this extreme
'tis between
As the light dims across the sky
your twilight finally arrives
as sorrow finds its rest
I utter my last goodbye...
'tis not at this extreme
'tis between
Unus Nemo ~ aka Jamie Roy Robillard
Published: 2013 then again on 2014
Everything That Is Nothing
I am everything
that is nothing
I am nothing
that is real
everything surreal
is my ideal
my strength is my weakness
my hope is my despair
my voice is my silence
my life is unclear
the truth is a lie
the hope is my bane
the way is a myth
the joy is my grief
~Unus Nemo ~ AKA Jamie Roy Robillard
Server Update
I have managed to fine tune my instance for now. Though I will have to see how it handles heavier loads when new users signup. For now the logs only show anticipated issues. Such as graphics that are shared that are not to encoded to the standard and thus throw exceptions. I would rather those exceptions be handled though for now it is not a big deal as it does not affect the server performance.
I am still learning the Friendica codebase so it will be sometime before I can work out issues such as these. And there are far more pressing issues.
Interesting, apparently all those tariffs are expected to cause significant increases in the cost of beer.
"..Beyond malt, hops, yeast and water, aluminum is a key ingredient in the manufacturing process, used to make the cans for most of the craft beer sold at retail.... For the craft beer industry, which depends heavily on aluminum cans from Canada, the 25% increase will hit hard.... For us, in packaging, it’s probably the most expensive part of what’s in a six-pack... A typical Spiteful six-pack sells for $11.99 on store shelves, Klein said. He expects the retail price to go up at least $1 per six-pack after the tariff hits...."
#beer #tariffs #food #inflation
oregonlive.com/business/2025/0…
Craft brewers say Trump’s aluminum tariffs will raise the price of a six-pack
Tariffs may be another blow to already struggling craft brewers.Robert Channick (oregonlive)
Oh fasten your seat belts, because we're going to hit back with tariffs of our own, and TFP promises to escalate if we do, so that Aluminum tariff is going to go to 30%, 35%, 50%... whatever dumb number the moron thinks will do the trick, and when he does, we'll increase and/or expand our tariffs, so get ready for $18 six packs.
Oh, and $10/gal gas.
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Wow, SpaceBar (formlery called "Fosscord") looks a lot like Discord.
SpaceBar is an open-source alternative to Discord.
#Discord #Fosscord #OpenSource #SpaceBar #SpaceBarChat
Does it federate though?
revolt.chat/ is also an open source Discord clone, but doesn't federate, so you end up with a single super server anyway, so the open source and self-hostable part becomes rather moot.
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@collectifission
Why do you think you would end up with a single super server? It is enough when the client can connect to multiple servers at once. Your chats would be on your servers, and mine on mine, and each of our clients would connect to both.
Why would you even want to federate a chat server? It only complicates things – you do no longer have an authoritative timeline, and you invite spam the way Google Hangouts died in spam before it defederated random Jabber servers.
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"A woman is like a child": MAGA quickly turns its sights on stripping Republican women of power | Salon.com
salon.com/2025/02/26/a-woman-i…
MAGA men are already coming for GOP women
Conservative women believe complicity will save them, but an emboldened far-right is gunning for their rightsSalon.com
One more time: if you want your data safe, secure and available in two places DO NOT USE CLOUD SERVICES.
'Cloud service' = 'exposed to the eyes of the guy who runs your cloud server'.
Use Syncthing. Opensource. Free. Bomb-proof. syncthing.net/
Unless you're an iphone person, because iOS wants to keep you locked into -ahem 'incentivized'- to pay for iCloud.
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Good Morning. The Woof Crew and I are thinking of Spring, so here's a photo of them on green(ish)grass.
Have yourselves a deliciously happy hump day!
Born here? Sorry. Got cash? Okay, sure.
#CitizenshipForSale
#Trump floats $5 million '#GoldCard' as a route to #US #citizenship
Trump on Tuesday floated the idea of replacing a #visa program for foreign investors with a so-called "gold card" that could be bought for $5 million as a route to American citizenship.
#NationalSecurity #law #immigration #MafiaState #kleptocracy #USpol #idiocracy
reuters.com/world/us/trump-end…
Because #terrorists apparently don’t have money. They finance multimillion dollar operations on multiple continents FFS.
Then there’s the #RussianOligarchs, #DrugCartels, you name it.
#Trump is such a f⁕⚠︎ing idiot it is painful.
#NationalSecurity #law #immigration #GoldCard #citizenship #CitizenshipForSale #MafiaState #kleptocracy #USpol #idiocracy
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Your rare millionaires yearning to be free from regulation"
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FBI Warns iPhone, Android Users—We Want ‘Lawful Access’ To All Your Encrypted Data
UK forces Apple to provide encrypted data to security agencies—is America next?Forbes
after scrolling a bit, I got this lame error taking up the whole screen:
Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the
browser console for more information).
That makes no sense, but I'm on a mobile, so how the fuck am I supposed to look at a console?
The web page was looking fine until that popped up and obscured everything!
Crappy site!
As usual, archive.is saves the day: archive.is/ein6g
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The Egg Price Crisis: More Than Just Inflation (Bird Flu & Animal Welfare)
The egg price discussion is everywhere, and I'm diving in! Inspired by The Daily Show's segment, I'm tackling issues behind the rising cost of eggs. It's not...YouTube
@unusnemo Definitely get it - I bake too (and use flax personally)
The most common complaints I've heard is around breakfast & meals, not baking. Not to discount that issue as well. But it's a long video and hard to cover every use-case!
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@Henry Fisher 😀 Okay, I know it was a long video, I watched it. I guess it is just the dynamics of the society we are in. For me more people are concerned about how this impacts all of their meals not just breakfast. In your case people are just concerned about breakfast.
Typically, I use flax if I am making it for an event with vegan friends though for my house it is usually eggs. Though with the price of eggs it is flax at home too for the foreseeable future.
As one of the original March for Science organizers, I couldn't be more excited to support a new team that is organizing another day of mass mobilization in support of science at a time when we need it most.
scientificamerican.com/article…
‘Stand Up for Science’ Rallies Will Protest Trump Attacks on Research
Amid President Donald Trump’s attacks on government scientists and science funding, researchers are arranging rallies to “Stand Up for Science” in Washington, D.C., and nationwide on March 7Meghan Bartels (Scientific American)
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The #StandUpForScience2025 rallies will be held in DC and around the US NEXT FRIDAY.
Please sign up to attend at standupforscience2025.org
To effectively push back the attacks on science happening now, it is critical to show mass support for science by gathering in the streets!
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
March 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Great video by the always excellent Kurzgesagt, on meat prices.
youtube.com/watch?v=5sVfTPaxRw…
This Is NOT An Anti Meat Video
Are you getting the full story? Go to https://ground.news/KiN to access world-wide sources and compare coverage. Subscribe for 40% off unlimited access .Supp...YouTube
@unusnemo
Yeah, it's just a little tough with Nvidia driver performance, gsync monitors, and persistent shader caching when I'm trying to click heads =P Some games work great, just not all of them.
And I still have to get familiar with the large amount of packages I need to install to have a lightweight, but efficient Linux install for gaming, especially when not using a distro pre-built for gaming.
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@startswithbalint
Is this the new "I use Arch, btw"? =D lol
But yeah, I've heard of immutable distros but haven't really looked into it. I assume NixOS is one.
@It's FOSS I have been using Gnu/Linux since 1995. When I started using instructions from usenet to home roll a Gnu/Linux system, which would be equivalent to LFS today. It was not until 1998 when I got a copy of Debian on a Boot Magazine CD (Now Wired). That I started using X . As downloading The X System on Dialup was a bit adventurous.
I left MS/DOS and MS/ Windows behind, at least in my personal life, and never looked back. I have kept up with MS/ Windows for work and to help family and friends though I would not consider installing it on one of my own machines, except on VM to do compatibility testing for my development.
Today installing Gnu/Linux is as easy, if not easier than a MS/ Windows install. People have it easy today 😀.
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@Trivial Einstein I have MS Office 365 strictly because it gives me and 5 of my family members 1 TB of backup space. I have tried to force myself to use MS Office (via WUI). It is just to obscure. I prefer LibreOffice and my Open Source Tools.
I have used Gnu/Linux as my Daily Driver for over 30 years so I am used to not relying on MS products. Today I use Fedora 41 on my laptop, Arch on my Workstation and use Rocky 9 on my VPS. I have worked with Windows systems at work, and for friends though Windows is just not reliable enough for day to day use in my opinion.
@queerthoughts not that I've been able to spot.
Although on Windows (work pc) it's got this weird thing going on where if you're in dark mode on your pc, it won't correctly render some in-doc elements and some stuff will literally just be invisible. Switching to a light theme manually doesn't fix all of it either and despite following online guides I can't get some of it to go into light mode at all.
No such issues on Linux, where I'm also using a system-wide dark theme.
@Luna @Trivial Einstein No, it will not force any AI on you and LibreOffice has no intention at this time to add AI support to LibreOffice.
There are community projects that would allow you to use AI if you wanted to. Most importantly locally hosted AI such as Ollama or Llama.cpp so your information is not being shared with a corporation.
Be careful out there.
wildhunt.org/2025/02/concerns-…
Concerns Over Targeting of Pagan Community in Pickens, SC
Reports indicate that a Christian church allegedly harassed a Wiccan vendor, sparking community backlash in support of both the vendor and the market. The church now frames this response as an act of Christian persecution.Manny Moreno (The Wild Hunt)
@nini
It's not even that it is AI #slop, but that it takes an idea I think most folks here already agree with, and tries to present it with fake bona fides.
The implication is that someone cared enough to pay to put up a billboard on a public place. Social proof.
The message itself could have just been text, posted, even as a big image.
But whoever the original creator was chose to present it this way for more impact.
I'll agree with the point, but not the delivery
Hell's Kitchen Bitches! 🦮🔥
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in reply to Jennifer • •@Jennifer I Have never been proud or ashamed of an accident of birth. I did not chose nor have any influence in being America. Nationalism is just another form of prejudice.
I am proud of the fact that I voted against what is transpiring today in America. That I did everything I could do to avoid it. It is unfortunate that I failed; though I did what I could reasonably do.
If you also have done what you could then you have no reason to be embarrassed. You did the right thing. We are not responsible for the rash and irresponsible behavior of others. Even if we must live with their mistakes.
We can get through these four years together. Stay strong.
Take Care
Jennifer
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