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hiya
Posted by: JT at January 23, 2022 04:01 AM (arJlL) 2
Hey JT!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 23, 2022 04:03 AM (MqQvv) Posted by: Braenyard saying, here's your new Cold War, zippers at January 23, 2022 04:05 AM (Mg8KB) 4
Hiya Pixy !
Posted by: JT at January 23, 2022 04:07 AM (arJlL) 5
The women in The Australia Crawl vid have too many clothes on and are contributing to global warming.
Posted by: JT at January 23, 2022 04:09 AM (arJlL) 6
The Feds know the media knows the score.
We are trying as a nation to outlaw patriotism while stumbling towards ww3, BRILLIANT! Posted by: Sven at January 23, 2022 04:14 AM (L8cCS) 7
Pine phone. Trash. Yew is where it's at.
Posted by: Druids at January 23, 2022 04:20 AM (KFhLj) Posted by: JT at January 23, 2022 04:22 AM (arJlL) Posted by: Biden's Dog at January 23, 2022 04:25 AM (lfJEy) 10
Awesome, thanks for the answers, Pixy!
(And much appreciation in general for the night owl thread here. I'm usually way too late to post in the other threads, but this one coincides nicely with my winding down time.) Posted by: Bitblt at January 23, 2022 04:29 AM (8n5xO) 11
Pixy, do you write all your posts? Come clean, sometimes its farmed out to an intern. Who may or may not be a wallaby. Yes?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 23, 2022 04:37 AM (KFhLj) 12
>>>They don't get explicitly political but in this benighted age that itself is a profound political statement.
This is a great observation. Posted by: m at January 23, 2022 04:39 AM (YbTYS) Posted by: m at January 23, 2022 04:42 AM (YbTYS) 14
m - was tempted to leave that as is, but fixed.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 23, 2022 04:46 AM (MqQvv) 15
We need to go all out in condemning these far right groups. Everything Pixy said, we should demand. We should demand it of Ray Epps.
Accountability for this racism, and accountability for those who encourage violence and crime. There are protests coming up. If someone calls for violence or other illegal acts, video, upload, call police. We are not racist, we don't condone illegal acts. We aren't the FBI after all. Posted by: David Prince at January 23, 2022 04:49 AM (dSbXx) 16
Braenyard asked the PinePhone question on my behalf. The new PinePhone Pro sounds like too much horsepower for me. I have no need, and certainly no desire, to use my damned phone as a desktop computer.
My fantasy Linux phone? Flips open like a book; screen on one side, physical keyboard on the other, with the 4 Essential Keys, and a numeric keypad, too. Small screen and dialing keypad on outer face when closed. Powerful audio amp, and speaker with a decent range; also speakerphone capability. Shoot for the audio quality of a Western Electric desk set. Or better. A hardware volume control. Hardware switches for all the privacy concern functions. Magnetic compass, accelerometers, GPS, of course. World-wide phone connectivity. Ports for headset, charging, standard USB ports, slot for memory cards. Ships with dedicated wireless mouse, but touch screen can substitute, if need be. User-replaceable battery, of course. Good front camera, no selfie camera. No games. Few native apps, mostly maps, weather, GPS. Ability to block MMS messages. Ability to transmit death ray to scammers and phone solicitors. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2022 04:55 AM (P3gRi) 17
@politicalmath is all over the fedfar right:
The next GOP president should run on investigating Patriot Front and unmasking every single member and publishing their names and employers, regardless of any government affiliations. "My opponent says I cater to the worst aspects of the right. I say we need to know exactly who these people are and I will spare no expense hiring private investigators to hunt down each one of these total non-feds." "Wait, so you think they are feds?" "No, I *don't* think they are feds. In fact I so much do not think they are feds that I will make it a top priority for the FBI to tell us exactly how many people they have embedded in this group." Posted by: m at January 23, 2022 04:56 AM (YbTYS) 18
A taste of Australia is a great thing.
Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2022 04:58 AM (2JoB8) Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 23, 2022 05:00 AM (KFhLj) 20
19 A taste of Australia is a great thing.
Vegemite? Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 23, 2022 05:00 AM (KFhLj) You're gonna "roo" the day you said that! Posted by: m at January 23, 2022 05:08 AM (YbTYS) 21
Better get moving and make coffee
Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2022 05:15 AM (2JoB8) 22
I haven't looked into that "Patriot Front video," except for watching that clip, but it looks to me like normal people (like us) role-playing feds-roleplaying-Patriot-Front-people.
Posted by: m at January 23, 2022 05:18 AM (YbTYS) 23
You don't want to believe the feds are that bad at their jobs, but then you look around and it's pretty clear that they is.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 23, 2022 05:22 AM (MqQvv) Posted by: JT at January 23, 2022 05:22 AM (arJlL) Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 23, 2022 05:25 AM (EZebt) 26
RE: privacy mobile
Any thought about the Teracube just versus attempting a Pixel , Moto Ubuntu conversion? Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2022 05:26 AM (zWpOF) 27
Law enforcement largely succeeds because (a) most criminals are not very bright: and (b) as an institution, it has tremendous resources.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 23, 2022 05:27 AM (KFhLj) 28
We have vegemite in the cupboard. That's where it will stay.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 23, 2022 05:30 AM (EZebt) 29
So does the FBI counterpart in Australia emulate the American FBI?
We are not sure how bad we can be. Let's do what the yanks do. Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 23, 2022 05:30 AM (pwQsd) 30
I've had Simple Minds "Don't You (Forget About Me)" running in my mind ever since it was featured here a few days ago. Not a bad background soundtrack for life.
Posted by: m at January 23, 2022 05:35 AM (YbTYS) 31
We have vegemite in the cupboard. That's where it will stay.
Posted by: San Franpsycho Ya got any of this ? https://tinyurl.com/unmh4zec Posted by: JT at January 23, 2022 05:38 AM (arJlL) 32
g'mornin', 'rons Posted by: AltonJackson at January 23, 2022 05:41 AM (DUIap) 33
Just poured first cup, coffee takes awhile here.
Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2022 05:47 AM (2JoB8) 34
Those guys aren't even feds. They're too young.
Posted by: yep at January 23, 2022 05:50 AM (4XlIB) 35
I mean, among these options:
1) that's Patriot Front people 2) that's feds 3) any other option it's absolutely NOT Patriot Front people. Posted by: m at January 23, 2022 05:50 AM (YbTYS) 36
How's Mrs. Skip doin' ?
Posted by: JT at January 23, 2022 05:52 AM (arJlL) 37
Seig is fucking Heil now? These feds have really taken it up a notch.
Posted by: Coquettish Haberdasher at January 23, 2022 05:53 AM (buTO7) 38
Was up a bit, but back in bed, way better that Thursday and Friday
Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2022 05:54 AM (2JoB8) 39
zero degrees out there, shoveled enough snow to accommodate the dog (when she decides it's worth getting up), coffee is required at this point in time.
yeah, the Pinephone Pro looks good, but pricey; odd how no megacorp will underwrite some of the costs for me .... patriot front, lol, yeah, uhuh ... pull the other one, it's got bells on ... Posted by: sock_rat_eez (9CuDT) at January 23, 2022 05:54 AM (9CuDT) 40
So Patriot Front-who seem to be everywhere- which we thought was a troll, is a troll.
Imagine that. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 23, 2022 05:54 AM (dNqv+) Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 23, 2022 05:56 AM (dNqv+) Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 23, 2022 05:57 AM (EZebt) 43
22 I haven't looked into that "Patriot Front video," except for watching that clip, but it looks to me like normal people (like us) role-playing feds-roleplaying-Patriot-Front-people.
Posted by: m at January 23, 2022 05:18 AM (YbTYS) Wait, are you trying to say it is a false-false-flag? To what end? If it was a fed operation, it would be used to discredit any opposition to the commies, what possible benefit would be making a false video as non-racists to make the right look like racists as part of a fed operation? To make the right hate the feds more? Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 23, 2022 06:00 AM (dNqv+) 44
That it's a false flag proof is the media who is out looking for white supremacists under every rock couldn't care there is a white supremacists looking organization staring them in the face.
Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2022 06:04 AM (2JoB8) 45
Ok, that seemed confusing, so let's try this:
1) Normal Rightee 2) Fed posing as a Nazi/Rightee 3) Normal Rightees Posing as Feds Posing as Nazi/Rightees <==== ? Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 23, 2022 06:05 AM (dNqv+) 46
Actual white supremacists don't look like that. The are-you-fucking-kidding-me factor here is stratospheric. It's like a high-school theater version of Aryan Nation.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 23, 2022 06:06 AM (KFhLj) 47
44 That it's a false flag proof is the media who is out looking for white supremacists under every rock couldn't care there is a white supremacists looking organization staring them in the face.
Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2022 06:04 AM (2JoB That says more to me that it is either antifa cosplay or a fed operation than it is genuine. Which is what you are saying, but I am not sure we are all on the same thought and that's mine. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 23, 2022 06:06 AM (dNqv+) Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 23, 2022 06:06 AM (EZebt) 49
Evidently I managed to format blank part of 45. Yay.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 23, 2022 06:08 AM (dNqv+) 50
Exactly! I think...wait...yeah! Those assholes!
Posted by: yep at January 23, 2022 06:08 AM (4XlIB) 51
50 Exactly! I think...wait...yeah! Those assholes!
Posted by: yep at January 23, 2022 06:08 AM (4XlIB) Thanks! Stands out in a crowd, huh? Posted by: Josh Brolin at January 23, 2022 06:11 AM (dNqv+) 52
>Python. Ruby if you prefer it.
Ugh. Both Python and Ruby have the same problem that Node does, which is a batshit insane package ecosystem. Ruby still doesn't have a language spec or static typing. Every time people talk about Node.js I flash back to Zed Shaw's _Rails is a Ghetto_ essay. Nothing's changed. The problem with Crystal and Nim is that they're niche languages without a large ecosystem and their web frameworks are not really up to enterprise quality. If you're just doing personal projects that doesn't matter. Posted by: Daniel Ream at January 23, 2022 06:11 AM (ArYuy) 53
52 >Python. Ruby if you prefer it.
Ugh. Both Python and Ruby have the same problem that Node does, which is a batshit insane package ecosystem. Ruby still doesn't have a language spec or static typing. Node is an order of magnitude worse because JavaScript doesn't have a standard library. So everything becomes part of the batshit insane package ecosystem. And Python and Ruby don't have the same destructive ethos of putting out thousands of tiny garbage packages for imaginary internet points. While all the alternatives have their own issues, they are all orders of magnitude better than Node. Swift might be an option now; I should take a look. The JSON handling in early versions was such a nightmare that I stopped thinking about it entirely. Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 23, 2022 06:22 AM (MqQvv) 54
43 22 I haven't looked into that "Patriot Front video," except for watching that clip, but it looks to me like normal people (like us) role-playing feds-roleplaying-Patriot-Front-people.
Posted by: m at January 23, 2022 05:18 AM (YbTYS) Wait, are you trying to say it is a false-false-flag? To what end? If it was a fed operation, it would be used to discredit any opposition to the commies, what possible benefit would be making a false video as non-racists to make the right look like racists as part of a fed operation? To make the right hate the feds more? Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 23, 2022 06:00 AM (dNqv+) To what end: Mocking the Feds. Posted by: m at January 23, 2022 06:43 AM (YbTYS) 55
42 https://tinyurl.com/unmh4zec
I take mine every day. Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 23, 2022 05:57 AM (EZebt) heh Posted by: m at January 23, 2022 06:58 AM (YbTYS) 56
Pixy, thanks for the Hololive explanation! You just outdid Wikipedia. Last weekend I read their entry on it and was just as confused as before. Not any more.
Question for next week. Can I use my 1660 TI to mine etherium? Should i? How? Is it just a program that I download and let it run? Or some other crypto like Chia? I have a spare TB HDD, but is it just a simple download, install, and run? Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at January 23, 2022 07:27 AM (OssQ4) 57
I think this Patriot Front thing is a troll of a moby.
Someone dissing someone who's trying to incite trouble to blame on someone else. And someone decided to troll them as that other group. It's really messed up and makes you wonder who the heck has the money or the time for this stuff? They will be gone before the arson season. Posted by: jakee308 at January 23, 2022 07:45 AM (ZHNfk) 58
I would advise the guy with the touch device sensitivity to use a glove or a stylus or buy an external and plus in as a pointing device as that would allow greater sensitivity (maybe)
Posted by: jakee308 at January 23, 2022 07:49 AM (eYV9L) 59
>>>It's not so much that they're feds, as that they are incompetent feds. They trust in the fact that the mainstream media is even more incompetent and corrupt than they are, and for the most part, they're right.
lo effin' l. They claimed pepe was a racist cartoon frog and that the OK hand gesture was secret white supremacy finger oppression. They are incompetent feds, but they know their audience. Posted by: Martin Bashir at January 23, 2022 08:14 AM (SH2Zi) 60
And nice work on the bumper crop of tech stuff, Pixy. I read this thread and, most of the time, the comments every day.
Posted by: Martin Bashir at January 23, 2022 08:15 AM (SH2Zi) 61
>>>I'd suggest giving Ubuntu a try. Mint is also popular for desktop/laptop use for normal humans.
Linux Lite, based on Mint (which is based on Ubuntu), is very good, also. Install is easy, and you can try before you "buy," by installing it on a USB thumb drive and testing it out. IMO, linux support for laptop hardware is very good, these days, especially for relatively mainstream hardware such as what a Thinkpad should have. Linux Lite is spec'd for lower end or older hardware, and I am very fond of the XFCE desktop, which is fast and it very Windows-like in appearance. Posted by: Martin Bashir at January 23, 2022 08:35 AM (SH2Zi) 62
My mother in-law can talk non-stop on the phone 10 hours a day in a constant, uninterrupted drone and could probably compete with that virtual youtuber Gawr Gura.
Posted by: SamIam at January 23, 2022 09:30 AM (oasF3) 63
That the Patriot Front are Nazis doesn't mean they aren't controlled by the Feds.
Posted by: WarEagle82 at January 23, 2022 10:42 AM (+Kpte) 64
Thanks for introducing us to Hololive. I'm hooked on Gura and Ina. And I refuse to watch the others out of self-defense, since the based on the small clips I've seen I'd get hooked on most of them too.
Posted by: Davie at January 23, 2022 10:42 AM (AT+sI) 65
When the Patriot Front account showed up on Gab and started following people, I was immediately suspicious. "Front" is exclusively used by Left-wing, collectivist, totalitarian groups.
They use red, white, and blue, but then evoke fascist symbolism. They post mainly pics of their "grafitti, tagging the pics with names of major cities to give the impression of a large/prolific group, but you can tell the walls have been painted over before being "tagged". There's a Freinds of Patriot Front group now, and it's all self-proclaimed NatSocs, those are either barely functional subliterates or likely feds. I knew the moment I saw your post they wouldn't actually reveal their identities in the video. That's performance art for Stalinists. Posted by: insurgens ad opus at January 23, 2022 11:22 AM (MofO9) 66
Thought I'd throw this out there, the last week I've noticed that on Brave 1.34.81 after right clicking for the save box it's taking 11-12 seconds to appear. I'm guessing it a problem with the latest upgrade but the Brave help page is less than ... well, helpful.
Any tweaks in setup or just wait for this to get fixed in a future release? Posted by: John the River at January 23, 2022 11:56 AM (/3goP) 67
Patriot Front = FBI agile pod
Posted by: Bang-a-gong at January 23, 2022 11:59 AM (O0e/C) 68
I took a look at their website. It was written by a fed or a contractor as a simulacrum for a training exercise to give the feds granularity in their scenario for countering "right-wing" anti-government groups. The information in the web-site is carefully written to avoid certain controversies that an actual group of this type would not shy away from.
I used to write scenarios for military and civilian government exercises. The most obvious elements had to often be finessed and the exercise would ignore the elephant in the room and replace it with a marsupial. The hardest part of designing the civilian exercises was making sure that it didn't incur overtime. This has fed-stink all over it. Posted by: Minuteman at January 23, 2022 12:34 PM (LaNzR) Posted by: Minuteman at January 23, 2022 12:35 PM (LaNzR) 70
Linux should work fine on most any system out of the box; the thing to understand about it is that most paid-for software like games is very slow to adopt Linux so your selection will be limited without the use of things like Wine and VMs that I don't recommend to a non-techie. If your computer use is defined by web, email, and MS Office type tasks then Linux is fine. If you're a a gamer or do something that's only supported by one really old application from back in the day, it's not so great.
Re: resin printing, the tl,dr is that the visual quality is excellent but the part strength is not as good as other technologies like FDM/FFF, and cleaning the parts and maintaining the printer is messy. Posted by: CppThis at January 23, 2022 01:34 PM (UewuT) 71
to steal a comment from another site- That's an "outtake" like how Pixar has "outtakes" at the end of their movies.
Posted by: JoshO at January 23, 2022 01:35 PM (Z9wz+) 72
You know, one of these days I should write up 3D Printing For Morons and send it off to the cobs; an insider's overview of all the various technologies, the major companies behind them, and which applications they're good and bad at. I don't have a lot of personal time right now, but...maybe eventually I'll get to it.
Posted by: CppThis at January 23, 2022 01:48 PM (UewuT) 73
There was a tactical MMO I used to play. One of the ground units could be either set up as ICBM launchers, or anti-aircraft. Everyone inevitably set theirs up as ICBM launchers because Big Damage! and relied on friendly air cover to keep from getting wiped out.
Me, I enjoyed setting up mine for anti-aircraft, and asking for air cover in the wrong team's chat... Posted by: Voyager at January 23, 2022 02:25 PM (u5PZm) 74
Checking hash
Posted by: hash check at January 23, 2022 02:44 PM (lD3vL) 75
19 A taste of Australia is a great thing.
Vegemite? ---- Pretty good but I prefer Marmite, the South Arican one is best. Bovril too but a bit pricey. Posted by: Ciampino at January 23, 2022 03:03 PM (qfLjt) 76
Hololive saved me from all the gloom of the past year and a half. Miko and Pekora got me in the rabbit hole. Coco's graduation was a gutpunch, but I've recovered (mostly, except for Haachama's tribute a few weeks ago that punched me again.) When I feel down, Miko singing the ditty brings me back up.
Yagoo is truly the Best Girl. Posted by: cheshirecat at January 23, 2022 05:12 PM (TwA+r) 77
Everyone I disagree with is a fed.
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