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Ecco the dolphin

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I am a time-traveling dolphin. An entity made of giant balls gave me the ability to breathe underwater, but this ability was recently stolen from me by aliens.

Sometimes I turn into a bird.

  • Not incorrect.

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    We can reject the null hypothesis that you are not a nerd at significance $\alpha < 0.001$.

    oh wait, shit let me run that again, my data frame is full of NA somehow, again.

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  • All federal employees have been reclassified to political employees instead of nonpartisan civil servants, meaning they are closer to at will employees.

    This has never happened before.

    All federal employees now serve at the will of the party in power. There will be loyalty tests. There will be entire departments defunded and dismantled.

    They are reviewing social media posts as we speak to decide who to keep. That's right, that includes folks at the CDC, FDA, EPA..... every paperwork jockey, no matter how minor their position, is now subject to the whims at the party in power in a way they were not before.

    All these firings will be contested. They'll go to the courts. Say... Who owns the courts right now?

    You have no idea what is happening. The purges begin 90 days from now.

  • How do/would you stream from Jellyfin to a TV?

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  • This is how I do it. I don't recommend roku though, its covered in ads and it crashes sometimes and requires reboot (Amazon app, not jellyfin)

    I'm not purchasing another.

    Yes I have a pihole for the ads. The thing is always trying to radio home.

  • Proton is dead (for me). Let's collect and discuss alternatives! ✊🛡

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  • Trump's terrible politics aside:

    1. the Republican party is pushing legislation which requires you to identify yourself to view porn
    2. you can get around this with a VPN
    3. proton is a VPN (nonprofit, but still).

    I'll be switching email providers when I can... I can't remember when my subscription ends.

  • New Rule

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  • If we're gonna armchair-diagnose people based on their OS, we should do it for all of them

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  • Ohhh... I'm a Krita enjoyer so I didn't know this about gimp. TIL, haha

  • If we're gonna armchair-diagnose people based on their OS, we should do it for all of them

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  • You made this image with a green pepper? That's impressive, great work.

  • I am researching the claim that Chromium is more secure than Firefox

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  • Thank you. That answers my question. I figured you wanted to remain anonymous, but I liked your answer and I'll be interested in what you find.

    I was trying to word my initial post in a way to prevent you from becoming defensive, perhaps I failed. Though, I do feel quoting yourself is a bit... gauche, no? Especially since you are remaining anonymous.

  • I am researching the claim that Chromium is more secure than Firefox

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  • Are you a single person or a group of people? Do you have any credentials that you'd like to share that might give some context to your research?

    Where is the quote in your bio from?

  • 7 Things You Should Know Before Switching to GrapheneOS

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  • I'm not touting removed. Its just a fact.Graphene has you check boxes so you know you're giving permissions to your car. It informs you what information you're giving to android auto. And, if you've installed apps through alternate sources, you do have to go through developer mode in Android Auto to enable apps from alternative sources. It takes less than 5 mins and you only have to do it once, but if you don't, you'll end up thinking android auto is broken in graphene, like the poster I was responding to believed.

    I don't think there is a better solution for graphene - it works fine after minimal setup. I'd gladly do that to preserve my privacy when it matters.

    removed doesn't give a shit about informing you what it does with your info so it doesn't do that. I'm not saying its better I'm just being honest. Its quick and dirty.

  • 7 Things You Should Know Before Switching to GrapheneOS

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  • Android auto also works fine for me. I haven't used an android phone in years so I can only compair it to removed car play. There are extra configuration steps to make it work but its not hard (just have to read some messages and go through some menus)

    removed car play "just works".

  • Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?

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  • Ah yea, everyone that has an opinion that isn't mine is dangerous and deserves to be silenced. I totally agree. I think lemmy.world should refederate, and then defederate a second time, just to make sure they get the message.

  • Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?

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  • There wereultiple cross-posts daily pointing to specific threads posted on hexbear to organize brigading.

    Yeah, I do remember that. That's why I'm not signed up there. They weren't changing anyone's minds with their shitstirring and were doing it for their own enjoyment (which is damaging to all communities, even nonpolitical ones, if people avoid your platform due to trolling).

    That said, it was a past problem, and posters on lemmy.world are still out there complaining about Hexbear like they're relevant. I'm speaking about the current situation.

    I'm not advocating for them to re-federate with lemmy.world (I have no dog in the race, anyway, being a part of neither instance) but I do remember watching the Hexbear mods/admins shutting down the actual brigading of threads before lemmy.world de-federated. Not sure it was a solvable problem, anyway, Hexbear is rather antagonistic in ways I don't agree with.

  • Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?

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  • Have you considered you are just observing this:

    Hexbear is for communists to talk to communists. They get plenty of the "default" liberal opinions from waves hands around vaguely and are entitled to their own community, no?.

    Obviously if you go into Hexbear and just start posting anti-China stuff they're going to ban you. It's not like the English-speaking world is bereft of anti-China news articles.

  • Poorly socialized rule

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  • ….theres a dead bug on the counter and you call this nigh impeccable?

    I’m never eating dinner at your house

  • Removed

    Putting Privacy Focused Free Speech VPS Providers To The Test.

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  • There's a newer article on the website about this person getting booted(?) off Privex because one of their business partners found Privex's response to this writer objectionable. Here is the other article. From just what this person chose to post, it seems they host loli/shota content (drawings). Uurg.

    (I did not do any further research than skim the articles he put on his site).

    The research itself is... a nice resource. But... if you thought the image the blog writer chose for his article was a red flag, your instincts were good.

  • Found a security bug in LMDE6, need some help

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  • Thanks for taking the time to reply, that makes a lot of sense.

    I haven't switched to Wayland yet. It makes sense why xscreensaver wouldn't work well with an entirely different window server. I was just surprised it was so difficult (for me at least) to use with modern window managers despite being relevant and mature, haha.

  • Found a security bug in LMDE6, need some help

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  • I tried Linux briefly in highschool (around the year 2000) before going back to Windows (I love video games). I switched about 2 years ago back to Linux (Debian). Your comment made me remember xscreensaver and I went and installed it again. The matrix screensaver is a huge throwback, I love it and I missed it.

    But it was a pain to do this. I'm using KDE/Plasma on Debian, and I had to follow this process to get it done. My lock buttons built into KDE menus still don't work despite replacing kscreenlocker_greet like the manpage recommends. I'm not sure it's worth my time to try to figure out, since the page warns an update will revert this. I'm not going to remember how to fix it later. I choose to lock my computer with super+L so this isn't a huge issue for me.

    The process to use xscreensaver with gnome looks equally bad.

    WHY is this so tough, though? Debian "just works" for me, so needing to fumble through this manpage feels pretty lame. The process looks similar on other distros, from a quick google. I'm not an IT person or a programmer, and this doesn't feel very "linux" that it's this way. Why would these window managers replace something that just works?

    I suppose it does look a bit dated?