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2024-09-02 17:06:56

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Is anyone checking him, or are they just letting him run rampant?
Sometimes, it's better to make the environment such that the uncle cannot wait to get away from the party, rather than make the party feel uncomfortable with the uncle.
I understand polite company and all that, so maybe it's not the right time/place. I've got an uncle like that, though, and he just won't talk anymore if I'm in the room. I've checked him enough, in front of everyone (except grandpa... polite company and all) that he's just given up.
Family gatherings are far more tolerable in this state.

2024-09-02 15:11:52

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wait, what?? Is this a real thing people believe, or is this just absurd hyperbole set to illustrate the ridiculousness of the white right’s propaganda in general?
I don’t know if I should be proud that my timeline curation doesn’t even let these rumors reach me, or ashamed that my social media bubble is too small to even pick up people talking about this.

2024-05-06 17:56:53

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One thing that worked really well for me fitness-wise was getting into Krav Maga. It's a self defense style that's focused on practical street fighting. There are no competitions, which means you're less likely to have to deal with egos and that macho BS (at least at the Krav Maga Worldwide schools and events I've been to). It's an amazing workout, and it never hurts to know how to defend yourself. Beating the sh*t out of a pad/bag has the bonus of being therapeutic as well, which is an added bonus if you've got stress in your life.
I find I'm much better at working out if I can trick myself into thinking I'm doing literally anything other than working out. Telling myself I was learning Krav Maga, not working out, was motivating enough for me to go 2-3x weekly for 4 or 5 years. I've never managed that consistency at a normal gym. Unfortunately, the pandemic caused my school to close down and I'm still looking for a new one.
If there's a school near you, you might consider checking it out to see if you like it.

2024-04-29 16:57:41

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I feel like this should be a standard courtesy in all homes. You supply your guests soap, towels, and toilet paper; keeping a few feminine hygiene products under the guest sink should be a given.
I've been doing this for as long as I've had a guest bathroom. It has come in handy on multiple occasions, both for their traditional purposes but also for other things (turns out tampons are great for bloody noses).
I've had a number of guests thank me for doing that... and I'm sure plenty of others who wanted to keep it private but were also grateful, based on rate of depletion. You do need to periodically check to make sure they're still stocked - they deplete faster than you'd expect.
Also, location may need to vary if you have cats who can open cabinets, or you'll find shredded cotton all over the house for weeks.

2024-04-28 06:05:23

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Side note: does Martha’s Table still operate in VA? I remember volunteering for them when I was a kid and we lived out there. As I understood it, they would rescue food from grocery stores, and volunteers would assemble it into bag lunches, which they’d then pick up and take to a designated food distribution site. They had a different group of volunteers for each day of the month.. so like my church only did it once/month, but with 30 other groups going at the same rate they had consistent, daily food delivery at the same place and time every day.
If nothing else, if they’re around they might have resources for approaching businesses, etc.

2024-04-28 06:01:40

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SB 1383. I googled for it after making my comment, on the chance i remembered incorrectly.
There’s a whole section there on food recovery.
https://calrecycle.ca.gov/organics/slcp/

2024-04-28 05:47:32

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I don’t know where you are, but donating to food recovery is legally required of certain businesses in CA (or maybe it will be later this year… I remember the bill passing, but don’t remember the dates).
Interestingly enough, this was required as part of a climate action bill, not a poverty assistance one. It turns out that food in landfills pretty quickly turns into methane, which is a pretty nasty greenhouse gas.
Seems like a no-brainer on multiple fronts.

2024-04-23 14:50:05

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I would be surprised if there were any at all - socially, rodents aren't generally put in the same category as cats and dogs. It's too bad... I had this wonderful mental image of a building with an elaborate hamster cage setup... tubes running everywhere connecting different cages and tanks, little mice and rats scurrying from tank to tank to find different snacks.
I'm glad to hear there's a community that self-organized around fostering, though. It hadn't even occurred to me that would be a thing!

2024-04-23 05:40:50

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when you say foster and keep - are these fostered pets also live-trapped? Or is there some local rodent shelter near you that you adopt from?
I know in my area, hantavirus is pretty prevalent in the local rodent population (well, the deer mouse and similar that carry it anyway. I doubt I’d be able to tell the difference, tbh). I’m not sure I’d want to start adopting wild ones.

2024-04-17 08:38:24

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this is way beyond my understanding, but there’s a step in there where they quantize an fp32 to an int8. I don’t know how much of the fp32 range a model typically uses, but int8 is a hell of a lot less precise. I’d be curious to see a side by side comparison of outputs of a model trained on the same data, running on this vs on a GPU or whatever they typically run on.

2024-04-16 17:42:49

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I will die of schadenfreude if the SEC does an investigation and finds out board members and/or family/close associates were shorting stocks for a company they're running. It'd be like Oprah, but with arrest warrants.
You get a pair of handcuffs! You get a pair of handcuffs!

2024-04-16 17:30:35

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While not actively watching the ticker, I'm taking great pleasure in these little mastodon updates from various people.
If I knew more about the market, this seems like a pretty great stock to short. Sadly, there's a pretty good chance plenty of TFG's cronies are making money shorting this stock.

2024-04-10 20:22:02

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Fair enough. There wasn't a sales support rep on there with them? Usually these guys call with their salesman and one technical nerd, and the technical nerd runs the demo and answers anything relevant, while the sales rep puts on a friendly face and tries to keep the nerd from being too weird. The nerd should know... and if it's written by nerds that don't know, we're back full-circle to suspicious product quality. I wouldn't trust a software nerd who didn't have at least some working understanding of GPL and its implications.

2024-04-10 19:24:22

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Also, that "secret sauce IP" was probably just a minimal amount of poorly-written glue code to stick stuff together. The Secret is that there's nothing intellectual there.

2024-04-10 19:23:11

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Let them burn.
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2024-04-10 19:15:25

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Name and shame! Name and shame!
Were the open sources products definitely GPL, or were they one of the many permissive, non-copyleft licenses?

2024-04-04 02:28:56

We all know about the xz backdoor. Big news, very scary, got really lucky, etc.
Legitimate question: is what Jia Tan did illegal?
Ignoring that “Jia Tan” is probably a team and will never likely be caught, etc, is it illegal to deliberately plant a backdoor into software? Jia Tan was an authorized maintainer of the repo. All of their changes were made in the open (except that one .m4 file, but post-build tarball modification isn’t uncommon in open source).
No question, actually exploiting the backdoor would violate any number of laws, but the more I think about it, the more I think embedding the backdoor, while shady as hell and certainly unethical, may have been perfectly legal, even by US CFAA standards.
If you don’t think it’s legal, what law did they violate? Is it illegal to add unwanted features to code you legitimately maintain? What about undocumented features? What about bugs? Where is the line?
I see people talking about the FBI going after him, etc, but I’m not even sure what they’d charge him with.
#infosec #law #xz

2024-04-03 21:45:41

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It's because the majority of Texans can't fathom high speed rail INSTEAD of a 4-lane highway. It's always yes, AND.

2024-04-02 03:19:38

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Just be glad you didn't stumble across Jian Tan Rule 34 content.