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  • Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say | CNN Politics

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  • This is going to result in either the left arming themselves in a way that will give them political power comparable to the right.

    Or the courts will set a legal precedent for gun control regulations.

    While I'm disgusted by the fact that it's a targeted act of persecution, this could be the Trump DOJ setting up a long-term win for the left.

  • Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs

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  • Imagine you're finishing in 8k, so you want to shoot higher resolution to give yourself some options in reframing and cropping? I don't think Red, Arri, or Panavision even makes a cinema camera with a resolution over 8k. I think Arri is still 4k max. You'd pretty much be limited to Blackmagic cameras for 12k production today.

    Plus the storage requirements for keeping raw footage in redundancy. Easy enough for a studio, but we're YEARS from 8k being a practical resolution for most filmmakers.

    My guess is most of the early consumer 8k content will be really shoddy AI upscaled content that can be rushed to market from film scans.

  • YSK that you can usually tell news site's bias based on how complimentary the picture they attached is

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  • There was a very high profile case of this when Jill Greenberg bragged about intentionally duping John McCain into standing in unflattering light during a shoot for a profile piece in the Atlantic during his presidential campaign. She lit him from below with hard light to look old and and creepy. His team was clearly not that media savvy.

    The atalantic disavowed her actions and I think apologized.

  • Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end | Alyssa Rosenzweig stepping away from Asahi Linux

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  • That's just a remarkable level of talent and dedication. Mind blowing considering how much of it she did while working and studying.

  • Who agrees?

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  • Ad hominem aside... There's a reason we want these things to fall into one of these categories. Presumably it's so that we can actually recycle reuse or compost end of life products.

    So, either we want that sump pump disassembled into component level disposal categories so that we can achieve this goal, or we make peace with a disposal plan that involves chucking this in the trash as a fully assembled good that will almost certainly be cost and time prohibitive to dispose of in any other way than tossing it into a landfill.

    I'm saying this is a problem and you're saying it's not. You're not identifying a solution to that problem you just name calling... And I'm the troll?

  • Who agrees?

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  • So we don't want to achieve the recycling, repair, and re-use, we just want to know it's theoretically possible?

  • Who agrees?

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  • We banned them here too. I always forget my reusable bags and toss a loose assortment of goods in my trunk to tumble around.

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  • Companies largely respond to what their consumers expect.

    Snap on makes high quality buy it for life products with an excellent warranty because they have a consumer base that values these things and will pay for it.

    Red Wing makes decent boots you can buy for cheap or buy it for Life boots if you're willing to spend the money. Because they have both of those consumers.

    TCL makes disposable televisions with a 2-year life for consumers who are singularly concerned with the display size to dollar ratio.

  • Who agrees?

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  • I think most people agree with this idea. There are two basic problems preventing it.

    1. There is a giant gap between what people believe they should be doing and what they'll actually do voluntarily when faced with the slightest inconvenience.

    Basically you have to make people do inconvenience things. You can't ask.

    For example single-use shopping bags. Everyone understands why they are a problem. Every store sells a reusable alternative. Recyclable paper bags have always been an option. But unless it's regulated, people continue using disposable single use plastic shopping bags.

    1. The problem isn't just what can be recycled it's what WILL be recycled.

    Imagine going through construction debris trying to separate plaster, wood-lathing wire-lathing, screws, and insulation into separate piles for disposal.

    Picture the average grandma disassembling a sump pump to make sure plastic rubber Teflon and metal materials all end up in separate recyclable piles.

  • Do you guys just have flawless experiences or what?

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  • I had a lot of problems when I've used Ubuntu in the past. To be fair that was 2009 - 2012 and it was a much less mature product. But whether it's snaps, unity, or Ubuntu One integrations, they always seem to be doing their own thing in a way that's not particularly helpful.

    I've had a much more "just works" experience with Fedora and Mint.

  • Florida Mom Mad After Raw Milk Got Her Kid Sick And Ended Her Pregnancy!

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  • We don't need Russian disinformation or funding. The Secretary of Health and the worlds biggest podcaster will happily disinform the public on spotify's dime and entirely of their own accord.

  • Should Jon Stewart Run for President in 2028? The Movement Is Growing — and It’s No Longer a Joke

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  • There is no such thing as a qualified US presidential candidate. There's no job, or training, or comparable experience that can ready a person for that role. Anyone who honestly thinks they are the most capable person in the world to assume control of the largest military and the largest economy that has ever existed should immediately be disqualified from the role. You'd have to be a madman to think that. But that's all we ever get.

    There's no indication that a senator, governor, or vice president makes a better president than someone with no political experience (of which there have been 6). In fact, coming through that system seems to teach people to make peace with corruption, bribery, complacence, and protecting the status quo at it's worst.

    As much as I hate Donald Trump's policy, and flagrant disregard for the law, it would be hard to argue that his experience as a narcissistic game show host hasn't proven more effective at the day to day politics of implementing his policy than almost any other president of the last 40 years. It's hard to keep up with how fast he's getting disastrous shit (that we voted for) done.

    And he's only in office today because 50 years of "qualified" stuffed shirts have wrung all the money, opportunity, and hope out of the middle class. Then the "qualified" people told America to vote for a clearly senile "qualified" candidate.

  • The dangerous push by Canonical to rewrite GNU coreutils as Rust code without the GNU license

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  • Which is all well and good except for now it's just a baseless paranoid fantasy. And if that was laid out up front I would have no notes.

    Over here in reality, if Canonical deployed a closed source, paid, spyware laden version of it's OS it might take a little while for some of the server business to disappear, but they'd loose almost all their market share overnight. They'd be a cautionary tale in the FOSS community and the software industry.

  • The dangerous push by Canonical to rewrite GNU coreutils as Rust code without the GNU license

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  • I'm struggling to connect the dots between "X person used to work in electronic surveillance" and an immediate risk to the open source software being developed by a different employer. Is there some reason to think this person is still working for their old employer? Or is the speculation that they are a idologue out to destroy Linux from the inside?

    If there's something unsafe in the code, especially a rust rewrite of the coreutils I'd expect it's going to be found immediately. People are going to go over that code with a fine toothed comb.

    If the central idea of the article is "I don't think there's a place in the FOSS community for people with different ideas/beliefs/history than me" then the author should come out and say that (many have in the past). Claiming we're at risk because of some wild speculation about a nefarious plot between the military and Microsoft to attack Linux and privacy... it really does require something more firm than this.

  • What problems does Linux have to overcome to get more users

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  • I think the hardware compatibility issues may be overstated. It seems (to me) that besides apple silicon, the support for most consumer hardware is pretty robust. this seems especially true of the kinds of hardware casuals use. Im not a tester, but havent seen a dell, hp, or Lenovo with a hardware issue in ages.

  • What problems does Linux have to overcome to get more users

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  • While I think that could be really helpful it is worth pointing out that schools in the US have been shoving Chromebooks into the hands of kids for over a decade and the market share sits at about 4%. Now Google's planning to merge Chrome OS into Android.

  • What problems does Linux have to overcome to get more users

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  • I think the gap between what the average Linux user thinks is ease of use and what the average non Linux user thinks is ease of use is probably much larger and many devs seem to understand.

    I think it would be beneficial to have a completely idiot proof installer that doesn't ask you about partitions or formatting or basically anything just point it towards a drive and it will set up a default installation.

    More GUI based means of doing basic stuff. A casual who wants to access some photos from his laptop does not want to figure out how to manually configure samba shares by editing config files in their terminal based text editor.

    I think codecs are a much bigger pain in the ass than is ideal. As I understand that there are legal reasons for this but the first time some casual goes to play a video and gets an error message their first thought may not be "let me search Google and figure out what this error message means" their first thought maybe "Linux sucks and can't play videos".

    The permission structure that makes Linux so secure makes it a little annoying for casuals. For example, you actively and intentionally go to the default software store, navigate to the updates tab, update a package you've already installed and clearly want, and do so from the official OS repository... This requires that you enter your password to protect you from what exactly? It's not a big deal it takes one second to type my password, but how would you explain this to a casual in a way that makes sense? Your OS is protecting you from potentially rogue acts of official patches to your default text editor.

    I think the folder structures are pretty big challenge for converts. On Windows you can find most of the files associated with any given program in your program files folder. On Mac there's an applications folder. On Linux... it's somewhere, don't worry about it. That's not really a fixable one it just is what it is.

  • [Unpopular Opinion] There are too many distros. The diverse distro-landscape hindering Linux adoption.

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  • Kinda. It's not hard, but it's also not idiot proof.

    On Fedora for example you just need to use RPM Fusion instead of the standard Fedora repos. The problem is that you need to know that you need to use RPM Fusion.

    Fedora is a pretty common recommendation to new users (with good reason it's excellent) but plenty of casual users will run into that problem and decide that videos don't work right on Linux.

  • CIA Pete explains why Zohran Mamdani is popular

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  • I'm not a huge fan of his, but I don't entirely disagree.

    If someone genuinely wants to pass universal healthcare, tax the rich, or has a great plan to drive down the cost of living... I'm significantly less concerned with the specifics of their ideology than I am with their policy goals.

    People generally vote around kitchen table issues.

    Unfortunately for Pete and the DNC, everyone currently in office has demonstrated that they will actively oppose any policy that would help the working class. They've burned through all their good will.

    If I see one more DNC hack yammering about how city run grocery stores wont work, I'm going to loose my grip. Maybe they will, maybe they wont. But people would rather the government fail trying to help common citizens than succeed at fucking us over.