I think there’s a misconception about elected officials. Many people believe they work to improve the lives of American citizens, but they don’t.

This. They want votes. They do what they think will get them votes. And yet, often -- and in the last election -- the democrats that help the people (like by walking a union picket line, supporting LGBTQ+ and basic human rights, legalizing cannabis, reducing penalties petty crimes, etc.) don't get the votes that are part of the bargain.

They vote for and enact legislation that helps the people, and the people don't re-elect them. The incentive shifts to satisfying wealthy donors.

5,719,123 subtitles from opensubtitles.org

Wanted to search the text of every subtitle

https://files.catbox.moe/lrmid1.torrent

Bless the data hoarders

The music industry welcomed the development, stating that a service that helps infringers evade prosecution through anonymization also acts illegally.

But a service that artificially inflates revenues with shady accounting of song plays while simultaneously withholding payments toward creators, that's totally not criminal.

-Also the music industry

Copyright laws based in the eighteenth century sure are awesome when applying analog scarcity to the digital world! /s

You just haven't met anyone like my partner. She pauses movies and TV to point out how my neck "is sexier" than the actor's. "Yours isn't little and thin like his."

"Thanks!"

She is definitely obsessed. Maybe not a fetish, but certainly a point of interest.

Shouldn't have [checks notes] exercised their rights.

Dumb.

"We are too corrupt to draft meaningful privacy legislation, but watch as we pretend CCP is the real problem."

Performative BS

Back in the 1980's they told me it'd trickle down.

...eventually.

coinciding with what would have been Trump’s 78th birthday.

If he isn't dead, it's still his birthday. Come to think of it, even if he's dead.

Making me hope he died...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/amazon-jacks-up-price-of-ad-free-prime-video-by-2-99-starting-in-2024/

News broke on this a few months ago, and I jumped ship. Their failed music app is another reason I ditched their ecosystem. Kept crashing; music would pause mid-song; couldn't play downloaded music offline without a data connection.

Video service had such poor title coverage and nothing compelling for the price. As many others have said, the value proposition didn't work. Enshittification is in full swing. Sail the high seas.

100% agree, but they charge for eyeballs, not clicks.

Not one price for either YouTube or any cable service in the "article." Feels like some reporting is devolving down to, "That thing you probably heard of has a guy you all know and he said a thing on that social media about another thing you all heard of. CLICK ME!!!!1"

Thanks! But I just found the former redditor/data hoarder who did all the real work.

Kamala’s Coconut Jubilee features coconut ice cream with swirls of caramel and red, white and blue star-shaped sprinkles. The flavor is inspired by a viral meme, in which Harris, during a speech at the White House, uttered the now-viral quote, “You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?”

My SO got a "job offer" from a nonexistent company that 20 min of research uncovered a single applicant being scammed out of $75k when they shared bank details, presumably for setting up direct deposit.

The "company" didn't even have a website, but just because they were lazy doesn't mean other scammers won't go the extra mile to make a real-looking website with postings. Its a tough world out there...

A literal shower thought

tl;dr for someone who doesn't come to Lemmy to watch YT videos?

Must be checking if you copied a phone number, but still creepy.

I just noticed a Disney film with the 100 years logo, and realized they still have copyright on their OG stuff. Too bad. It was never meant to establish a dynasty, just a bit of crumb before your work went into public domain. Sigh...

Those sound like things they need a warrant to learn about in a place with a reasonable expectation of privacy.

The eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, has proposed cloud and messaging service providers should detect and remove known child abuse material and pro-terror material “where technically feasible” – as well as disrupt and deter new material of that nature.

The eSafety regulator has stressed in an associated discussion paper it “does not advocate building in weaknesses or back doors to undermine privacy and security on end-to-end encrypted services”.

I so love these magic wand-waving legislators. "Spy on your users and control what they do on your encrypted platform, but in a way that doesn't break encryption or violate privacy..."

I'm pleased with activityPub beginning to make "protocols not platforms" a reality.

A few points:

• The redundant (second) PSU on the server is not using power (at least, not much) unless the other fails. Its job is to be available if the other PSU fails, or if power is lost (you typically have them on different PDUs and fed by different UPSs.
• Almost any desktop is going to use less power than a server, as servers don't bother with power-saving features or power states other than full tilt into oblivion.

I won't go into the research required to give you a quantitative analysis, but suffice to say that a server > desktop in terms of power usage IN MOST CASES. Of course, if the desktop is running four 250w GPUs and running crypto or other full-time workloads, it could exceed the server, but all things being equal, well, you get the point.

Bad journalism that doesn't explain the current state of things for the drivers. Not everyone is up on the sanctioned exploitation of drivers.

What are they getting now and how does this improve things?

Don't worry! The reader can find that in a different article.

If you are willing to use Signal, you already don't mind a tiny userbase, so why not use Session (or maybe Matrix) and enjoy privacy, security, AND anonymity?

Signal has always been clear that privacy!=anonymity and regards people who want both as both stupid and unusual. Its always been a weird dance to watch.

I happened to catch a message on Matrix from @ruud@lemmy.world that he didn't like the way mentions work when you're offline and lots of messages build up, but I didn't realize that meant discord was replacing matrix, especially for community notices.

Add me to the list of folks who won't use discord.

Jerry Nixon definitely said Windows 10 would be the last big release of windows, and for years, sourced reporting parroted that there will be no Windows 11.

"Right now we're releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we're all still working on Windows 10," said Jerry Nixon, Microsoft's developer evangelist, at the Ignite tech conference.

There's no shortage of the claim being made by MS staff during keynote speeches, and those same people being quoted saying as much in reporting by TechRadar, The Verge, PC Mag, Ars Technica, CNET, for example.

Breathe in... Good... Now please enable location access in settings, and be sure to -- exhale -- enable background data access... Feel better?

Seems there's still some work to do to remove tracking and Google notification services. When it's on F-Droid, maybe more folks will try it.

https://torrentfreak.com/fbi-austrias-c4-hit-z-library-with-a-massive-new-wave-of-domain-seizures-231108/

tl;dr - USA and Austria

Wary or weary?

One means you're watching carefully, expecting a problem, while the other means tired.

rsync even supports Alien vs Predator? What doesn't rsync do???

Garmin has so many different trackers for different niches. Scuba, hikers, bikers, runners, pilots...

I switched after getting my third Fitbit replacement under warranty. Affordable and standard watch band parts, though some high-end trackers are a bit pricey for me.

Just no reason to stay with Fitbit with Google's history of product longevity and support.

My tip would be to try a few distros before you settle on one. Ubuntu was it for me about seven years ago, but I used mint for a few years and am using MX with xfce now.

Also, sudo !! is pretty useful when you forget to sudo the previous command. It means "super user do the last command I just boneheadedly forgot to do that to"

Nailed it!

When I finally got a center channel in my audio setup, suddenly dialog/speech was no longer too quiet. Game changer.

People aren't afraid of what will happen if they quit a job they don't like anymore after COVID taught us that we can weather some down time and find employers that match our values.

This is a great post! I don't use immich; I use ente.io and I don't host it, but I do know they use OSM, as confirmed in #14 of their privacy policy:

Open Street Maps

• Use-case: Maps and geodata
• Privacy Policy:
• Contact:

I don't self host presently, but if I get my server hardware back (moved out of the country a while) I want to dabble with a self hosted photo solution, so I'm glad to have found your post that keeps this fresh in my mind.

A band is not the same as a luxury fashion brand.

One is exploited by massive corporations, gets a single digit percentage of the profits they generate, gets known by word of mouth (or T-shirt) among fans, and creates a piece of culture.

The other is a (usually massive) corporation, exploits low paid workers, is a status symbol for the rich and the people who want to appear as rich, and sometimes they make an item that could technically be considered a piece of culture.

Advertising for and/or showing your support for them are very different things that imply different things, for different reasons.

Wearing band merch implies support for their musical stylings, a connection with the creative output of the band, and possibly their world view.

Wearing a logo-festooned piece of couture clothing implies wealth and status, and (often) complicity with sweat shops.

While the two previous paragraphs seem to be similar, because of the first two paragraphs, they are quite different.

"Embrace and extend," Google with XMPP.

Going to spend a few days poring over this trove!

This seems like a fun rabbit hole to go down with regard to capacitors vs condensers, but a rheostat and a resistor are not the same, and both are used by these names in electronics today.

Another player is the potentiometer, which handles low power variability. That's about the extent of my ability to shed light here though. I look forward to other more knowledgeable than I am adding to (and likely correcting) my comments.

Edit: typo and clarification

Edit2: A family member was re-assembling an audio amp and set a 1-farad cap on his just wiped countertop (which happened to be damp still) and blew a crater in the cheap Formica. We laughed, and nobody was hurt. I was 14, and learned that a capacitor sure can discharge quickly!

Looks to me like you got (temp) banned for posting apparent incel comments in a hateful way. Not to mention your advice was exactly what the OP said they were avoiding from their own friends.

Perhaps reading the room is a good start before you click reply. Doubling down when called out for hateful comments will rarely go well, and defaulting to name calling and reducing well-received advice to a "lib salad" (whatever that means) won't either. Perhaps stop behaving like the internet is some place where manners and respect are optional, and you'll feel more welcome wherever you go.

I'm not trying to call you out or rehash that relationship advice here, only pointing out that you can disagree with people politely if you truly do desire respectful discourse. I hope you reflect on the ban and the comments replied to you. The world needs fewer, not more hateful incels or "alpha males."