though they’d probably spell it as Kiev

Oh yeah, that’s another one I still do out of habit.
And Bombay
And Rangoon
And Calcutta
And Gorky
…

Funny how you learn a lot of stuff in school that becomes increasingly irrelevant and incorrect 🙂

Didn’t the corrupt SCOTUS give him total immunity for any crime committed while in office? Or does this cover crimes he committed while not in office?

UK saves ‘millions’ of pounds by ditching Palantir

They might even relieve their conscience too.

When I go on a road trip, I’m not at work. So what I wanna know is: what did the taxpayer pay Mr. Duffy for for 7 months? Can I have a job like this too?

Hint: if your boyfriend suggests doing something naughty, don’t say you have a headache.

That’s great.

Now go after Google, Amazon, Microsoft, CloudFlare…

No. That’s what happens when the United States deliberately chooses to let its monopolies capture markets unchecked.

Google, like Microsoft, Amazon and a slew of egregious, predatory Big Tech monopolies, would have been broken up into harmless pieces years ago - if not decades - in any other country.

I use a MNT Reform with the RK3588 module and 32G of RAM. It’s for general browsing, working remotely, light CAD, light video editing and retro-gaming.

Performance-wise, it’s equivalent to a bad laptop from 6 years ago. But I’m not a demanding user. It’s fine for what I do, and it has other advantages I paid the huge premium for - one of which is the ability to upgrade the CPU module, and there’s a new one in the works from MNT.

I’m sort of considering splurging on a System76 Thelio Astra, but I haven’t opened my wallet yet - and probably won’t - because it’s an American company and I refuse to buy American whenever possible. So I’m still looking at equivalent machines from Europe or Asia. But I’m not looking very hard because computers don’t interest me much anymore.

Well, all three Abrahamic religions originated from that general area, and everybody everywhere who believed their magical guy in the sky told them to take it back descended on them for centuries.

And then for the past few decades, the magical thinking started to decline, and westerners started to descend on them for the black stuff in their ground - which turns out to be just as addictive as magical thinking.

And now, the magical thinking is back with a vengeance, and the westerners descend on them under both pretexts. Because if there’s one thing Pete Kegbreath made very clear, it’s that the Iran War is as much about christy bullshit as it is about oil - maybe with a dash of Quentin Tarantino 🙂

The problem with this comic is that the term gaslighting has nothing to do with that defunct profession: it comes from the 1938 theater play Gas Light, in which the dimming of the lights every night causes the woman to doubt her own sanity:

Jack goes to the flat each night to search for the jewels, and lighting the apartment’s gas lights causes the lights to dim in the rest of the building. His footsteps in the supposedly empty apartment persuade Bella that she is “hearing things”.

Poor middle-eastern peoples. They have two things that have been drawing westerners to them like locust for centuries: religion and oil. Talk about a curse…

I suppose it should work if you compiled it for arm64. But the demonstration exploit is x86 only, and has inline x86 opcodes in the source. So no, that particular demo executable won’t work on arm64.

More generally, what I meant was that I prefer running less common OS on less common architectures, so I’m less likely to be a target of malware. People who write malware usually aim at the biggest and easiest targets to maximize their return, and that’s x86 Windows. By running arm64 Linux, I’m not immediately in the crosshairs.

where did you… where did you try it?

Clone the repo, build the program as per the README.md, run, get root.

I tried it on a x86 / amd64 test machine I have here for that sort of thing. It only works on that platform. My main machine is arm64 for exactly that reason.

Just tried it. It’s impressive.

I don’t drive much anymore, but keep my low-mileage 2008 minivan in good condition in the garage, although selling it would make more financial sense and free up space in the garage, because I know one day I might need a car more often again, and I want one that isn’t a rolling corporate surveillance nightmare.

This post reminds me I need to change the oil.

I think a wet mop that’s been in the bucket for a whole week would beat Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries for popularity.

Those two’s nauseating incompetence and lack of energy are just as responsible as the GOP for what’s happening right now. They should have been flushed out by their party a long time ago.

The American hegemon won’t die quietly. No declining empire in history ever did. The fall of the Roman empire created 5 centuries of dark ages. The fall of the American empire will do worse.

Yep. Signal on mobile Linux - or the lack thereof - is entirely what’s still keeping me on Android. Other than that, UBPorts is perfectly usable for me. It’s just that one thing…

LLM assisted moderation to analyze users

Oh puh-leeze no…

Is there no place that’s safe from this shit? ☹️

Signal won’t run in the background in Waydroid in UBPorts: as soon as you close Waydroid, whatever runs inside dies.

Also, if you want to run something else in Waydroid, it can’t run in parallel for some reason. So I’d have to kill Signal to run my banking app for example, then restart Signal - and be careful never to close the window as I use the cellphone throughout the day.

Not super usable…