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byacoustix
2025 @12:02AM
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Attached to: Daylight Saving Time: Still Happening. Still Unpopular
Not only that, but it hasn't been 6 month periods for a long time now. It's 8 months on DST and 4 months on standard time. We're on DST more than not.
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byacoustix
2025 @09:25PM
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Attached to: Jim Acosta Interviews AI Version of Teenager Killed in Parkland Shooting
how is this journalism? None of this is based in reality or fact......which does lend itself to the liberal dream.
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byacoustix
25 @04:11PM
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Attached to: Microsoft Is Opening Windows Update To Third-Party Apps
It's no different that app auto-update on your iPhone or Android phone.
Yes, there is a big difference. iOS and Android apps, for the most part, handle *all* installations and updates through their own app stores.
Windows doesn't (I don't know of anyone that uses the windows store app at all). In fact, sometimes apps can't (shouldn't be updated) due to compatibility issues - sometimes because of peripheral compatibility and stuff. Updates can go very bad if the conditions aren't right.
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byacoustix
24 @08:05AM
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Attached to: Video Game Voice Actors May Strike Over AI
AI doesn't strike, take breaks, etc.
Human workers need to show their value, not what a pain in the ass they can be.
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byacoustix
3, 2024 @05:21PM
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Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Can You Roll Your Own Home Router?
If the concern is *ACTUALLY* that there are back doors then he can't trust any existing product our there, proprietary or open source binaries. So everyone that's suggesting existing products wasn't paying attention.
A person *COULD* use an open source product. But again, if the concern is back doors then they need to download and inspect the code and then compile from the inspected code. Or a person could build from the ground up.
But if a person's concern is that their firewall has back doors, then are they also concerned about their OS and other products having back doors? If not, why? If so, what are they willing to do about that?
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byacoustix
2023 @12:43PM
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Attached to: US Inflation Falls To 3.2% in October
prices went UIP, again.
but keep being a shill and the whole "but they didn't go up as much"
That's like saying the government cut costs when in reality they cut the amount that it went up. They're still spending more...and spending a lot more than they bring in.
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byacoustix
2, 2023 @09:41PM
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Attached to: Apple Launches iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max Featuring Titanium Bodies
That's it??
No 1TB option? Obviously no removable storage because apparently that too complicated or whatever..
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byacoustix
23 @07:43AM
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Attached to: German Government Rejects Bavaria's Offer to Reopen Its Closed Nuclear Plant
Even if you believe that Solar, Wind and storage tech X can solve the problems in the longer term, any sane person would keep as many nuclear facilities running as possible until these technologies become mainstream.
And there's the problem. We don't have sane people making these decisions. We are shooting ourselves in the foot. We are cutting off our nose to spite our face. What is happening world-wide in regards to energy generation and it's policy is madness. The cart is being put before the horse. It will be disastrous and the policy makers will have blood on their hands.
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byacoustix
23 @02:41PM
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Attached to: Florida Bill Would Make Bloggers Who Write About Governor Register With State
Healthier how?
Every law that was passed to disclose lobbying has only made lobbying easier to hide.
Free speech should not be impeded, even if someone wants to yell fire in a theater.
I agree completely. And per usual the public is misled to think that a law does one thing when in reality it has a completely different effect.
Also, a case could be made that many of the press/journalists out there are just as much of a paid shrill as the lobbyists and bloggers out there. I'm *not* suggesting that they pay too. Not at all. Free speech is free speech. Having to register is a clear violation of the 1st amendment.
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byacoustix
2022 @12:56PM
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Attached to: France Bans Short Haul Domestic Flights in Favour of Train Travel
Can't wait to see the list of exceptions to the rule. There always are exceptions, and they always include a certain class of people. Like the ruling class. Rules for thee, but not me.
Just wait.
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byacoustix
2021 @02:38PM
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Attached to: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus Have Been Suffering Global Outage For More Than 3 Hours Now [Update]
According to downdetector.com many major ISPs and services are having issues. BGP? Major attacks?
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byacoustix
21 @09:53AM
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Attached to: Companies Push Employees To Prove They Are Vaccinated for Covid-19
>If you're fully vaccinated, you shouldn't have anything to worry about since the vaccine is designed to lessen the severity of the disease instead of outright stopping it. You won't die from it, but you can still pass it along to someone else.
To me, the risk of passing it along to someone else, for example my friend with the organ transplant whose vaccination may not have worked because of the immunosuppression drugs, is something to worry about.
Being vaccinated doesn't stop you from:
1) Being a carrier
2) Infecting another person
3) Becoming infected
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byacoustix
020 @10:40AM
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Attached to: Racism Is Rampant on Reddit, and Its Editors Are in Open Revolt
In general it seems to mean anything that opposes the left point of view now. Just this week I saw a video of a black man carrying an american flag is being called a racist and run out of the area. How batsh_t crazy is that?
But that's different...
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byacoustix
20 @11:19AM
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Attached to: 'Globally It's Worsening,' WHO Says of Coronavirus Pandemic
Where do you get that only 20% are asymptomatic? All studies I've seen suggest half or more infections are asymptomatic. You can still have largely presymptomatic spread with largely asymptomatic infection.
Correct. Many serology studies are showing asymptomatic rates approaching 80%. USC's study was very interesting.
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byacoustix
0 @08:57PM
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Attached to: Golden Gate Bridge Starts To 'Sing' After Design Fix
Wouldn't this qualify as noise pollution? I mean, if this wasn't something that was naturally occurring and then this man made structure started making a noise that can be heard miles away then I can see people getting upset. Just like an airport, racetrack, etc.
I'm 1,800 miles away so I really don't care. But it will be interesting to see if there's a big fuss made.
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