@corbin It's quite simple, really!
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I give you my current phone camera, but also somehow the semi-disposable one I had in 1997
"Why did I refrain? A datum has come to our attention. Those in power often ask for the 'truth', or even the best guesses of their underlings. But in fact, they seldom truly wish to hear contradictions."
"It will be our gift—we happy damned—to those who know no joy in heaven."
'It’s unclear what exactly this is referring to, or what “trust” needs to be rebuilt between conservatives and Twitter, a site that more or less lets anyone on the political fringe run around with their eyes closed and ears plugged, screaming at the top of their lungs with impunity.' https://theintercept.com/2018/06/22/the-american-right-wing-had-another-great-week-online/
@art Software written in Ruby does have this tendency to require an eye-popping number of Ruby packages, eh?
@xor If I was annoyed by duplicate posts I wouldn't be on birdsite anymore anyways—my timeline there is often full of people retweeting the same tweet! Selective reposting is 100% okay.
(Such bifurcations and slow migrations inescapably include duplication, no real need to fight it.)
My two-year-old read the "bot-written Olive Garden ad" and asked me, "If it's a compelling joke, why does he have to put it into the mouth of a constructed naive speaker?"
@ajroach42 Okay so looking into it, seems like there aren't even actually firmware images yet available for the WiFi-only model, weirdly. So it isn't yet officially possible to install Debian on it at all! Alas!
@ajroach42 So far sadly not good---the flashing tool mysteriously isn't letting me actually download the flashing image :/
Also it took me ages to realize that the button on the side is *not* the power button and that I have to turn it on by pressing Esc, haha
@ajroach42 Very interested in this myself; mine just arrived in the mail today!
Planning on flashing a dual-boot with Debian on my own WiFi-only model later today once I get home from work (mostly because, due to a somewhat perverse sense of guilt and honor, my PC at work still only has USB 2.0 ports because I try and make sure everyone *else's* PCs are upgraded before mine is, heh).
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"Well, what of it? This new reality is simply the old one, spoken truthfully."
I knew our immigration lottery in Canada was kindof fucked up, but . . . wow. https://gizmodo.com/canadas-random-immigration-lottery-uses-microsoft-excel-1826711895
@bhtooefr Trademark law *is* probably the least silly facet of IP law!
@elomatreb Hell I leave my doors unlocked 24/7, heh, but that's only partially how low-crime my Canadian city is; mostly I'm just pathologically adverse to worrying about such things!
@elomatreb Ah, I have the opposite experience, DHL is nothing but trouble and fails delivery on the first attempt a shockingly high fraction of the time (often with vague weather-related problems listed, once even on a completely cloudless day!)
@elomatreb Wait really? I get stuff delivered via UPS all the time to my work, and it's almost always the secretary that signs for it.
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"The show received only a plurality of support amongst Bell Media voters, but thanks to the network’s ‘first-past-the-post’ system of selecting shows, the Beaverton’s writers and creators will have near total authority to pursue their agenda of making fun of people." https://www.thebeaverton.com/2018/06/bell-media-prepares-for-doug-ford-era-by-renewing-the-beaverton-for-a-third-season/