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Cake day: June 30th, 2023
  • AbraNidoran@beehaw.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Trump’s Crypto Reserve Is Really Happening
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    1 hour ago

    Oh, certainly. And the military has much better weapons (and training) than most 2A advocates.

    My personal thoughts are that if even 5% of the population of large cities stood up and (even unarmed) said “no, you’re not going to destroy the country” that would have a significant impact.

    (for residents in the DC metro area, that would be over 300,000 people, which you’ve exceeded in past protests - across the country if you could hit the 5% (17 million) protest target, you would certainly have a significant impact)

    I know there’s a 50501 movement. I don’t know the size of it, (long way to go) but I think they’re still gaining momentum.

    Long story short though, I really feel like this isn’t something that can be fixed by legislation or voting. That can help later, and can help support outside movements, but the people need to act, not just the politicians.

  • AbraNidoran@beehaw.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Trump’s Crypto Reserve Is Really Happening
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    3 hours ago

    I believe the other user was trying to avoid explicitly stating that Americans need to use the powers given them by the second amendment to directly take back their country, without engaging in the existing (apparently ineffectual) political processes.

    Apparently I’m avoiding saying it directly too, perhaps I don’t want to be directly encouraging anything.

    Anyways, their intent seemed very obvious to me from their first comment (so I can see where their frustration came from), but I’m not educated enough in the US political system to be distracted by the details of 2/3rds majorities etc.

  • AbraNidoran@beehaw.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Walgreens Replaced Fridge Doors With Smart Screens. It’s Now a $200 Million Fiasco.
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    2 months ago

    That SMART acronym is for internal computer drives, has been in use since about 1995, and is a wonderful thing - the drive keeps track of how many errors it encounters reading, how many bad sectors on the drive, how many hours it’s been powered on, and a whole bunch of other stats.

    And then, you, the user (/sysadmin) can, while sitting at the computer, get a report of all these stats and notice if the drive is starting to fail so you can plan a replacement instead of it just dying unexpectedly.

    Someone might have made an acronym for “smart” light bulbs, but it would be completely unrelated to the internal computer drive acronym.

  • AbraNidoran@beehaw.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Was browsing through the Immich cursed knowledge library. This is quite interesting.
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    6 months ago

    So if I download an image from the web with GPS data, and then open it in an app that just reads images (so it doesn’t need location permissions)… That app (on some phones) gets a modified version of the file?

    Which could make me think that the image doesn’t have location information.

    Which could result in me uploading that file using a browser (that does have location permission turned on) to a website, and I think it’s safe to share because there’s no private information in the image, but my phone has conspired to mislead me.

    Yes, that is cursed.