French doors are more impressive

there will be a harsh period of relearning shit but I proved to my IT that I can make a Debian laptop that follows most of the CIS benchmarks in less then a week. That system can be cloned and deployed to anything we want. The VPN client we use is a little tricky but given more time, I could make the GUI version work (currently it only works in the terminal, openconnect)

The users learning to use a new Office app might be a short pain but it will be so much better in the long run, otherwise ALL the M365 shit works in the browser, Firefox for me. Just need to ensure you enable the plugin for the webcam for Teams.

You arn’t going to get them to end thier use, so you can only draw a line for yourself and decide not to participate if they don’t go with Signal. It sucks but if they value your presense then they will need to decide to branch out and use another app. And JFK if they use those apps, they can fucking install another and use a better one

and recently they figured out how to use the OS’s notification database to collect some cache and read the notifications Signal sends

Signal is nonprofit

Whatsapp = Facebook (Meta)

thats everything you need to know about the striking differences of the two. One actually tries to respect your privacy while the other is exploiting you for using its product

The Doctor

The TARDIS 💙

I was caught in a massive rain storm in South Dakota once and it rained frogs

FROGS, EVERYTHING COVERED IN LITTLE FROGS

it was amazing and crazy and I also thought I was going mad

business users

Ubuntu is bloated

Debian requires at least 512MB of memory and 4GB of hard disk space for installation.

the natural stuff is in clumps that your not able to breathe, and yeah asbestos is natural and almost everywhere there’s rocks. it’s usually in long fiber like strings. even when it’s broken up, it’s not particle size and airborne. it’s usually bonded together.

it’s that stuff that was industrialized and refined. that stuff that can become airborne and inhaled. One particle that gets absorbed might stay with you forever but it’s usually the build up of many exposures that causes the problem.

so many older houses have it in the attic and siding. it’s not going anywhere

bellingcat is something else, best reporting journalism of our generation

i was in the middle of a story they were on top of and it was twisted by the GWBush government in horrible ways. Ever since I have had a lot of respect for them even when I didn’t like what they were saying

so if you don’t like this story or the headline, do yourself a favor and read it and then look deeper at with a critical mindset

at one time, Twitter was amazing

if you could catch the attention of someone you wanted and they replied, it was amazing

i found that moment a few times

talking to The artist you had wondered about for years answering the question you had

it was fucking special

and that is over. it is something that I am saddened by

i have had similar arguments, in the US. I welcome immigration. One of my grandfathers was famous for fighting the western expansion and our tribe is famous for being the only people to make the US Army sign a declaration of defeat but the killings of people on the Oregon trail was our failure. People with purpose will always move and fighting it is welcoming disaster. finding ways to coexist is what we should be focusing on. Trying to relieve suffering is what should be our end goal.

so when people tell me or other native Americans, we should go back to my country. We can’t, it’s gone. the rez isn’t a country. it’s a small safety net to hold off the erasure of our culture. there’s just the US now and we have to make it more welcoming for those that need to find a place.

only death and suffering will come from closed borders and isolation. stagnant culture and ignorance. hatred of the outsiders. it’s just a losing battle and the Lakota won their fight but they lost the battle because they didn’t understand the numbers of people who were willing to brave the risks of immigration

from my interpretation it’s not letting the user control anything except the prompt you give the AI, it then returns what it thinks you should build your list (and no doubt influenced by corporate interests)

tinnitus and hearing loss

excellent writeup, thanks for sharing

same, worked fine in Firefox on linux, with no-script and uBlock

Microsoft are masters of it, their whole business plan is dependent on it

I love soccer and this month has been a banger of live soccer for me. Bonus was one of my favorite players scoring during my chant ⚽

for the last few years it’s been building up, I started a chant at the 24 minute mark to celebrate the team and they all know me for it. They have come close and try to get a shot off but last weekend was the day it finally found the net, right as I was wrapping up the chant. I look forward to giving that guy a big shout out next game

I worked there in the 90s

it was ok, but yeah I had to do it all. Checker, bagger, bathroom cleaner, stocker, dairy, bread, produce, clean the meat department… .etc

I refused to clean the meat department after a time, it was just too much for me at the time and made me vegetarian for a bunch of years