My plan is to use the $20 Onn (Walmart store-brand) Android TV box LTT recommended as being eminently jailbreakable about a year ago, but I haven’t actually gotten around to hooking it up yet so I can’t authoritatively endorse it.

Corporate social media is an instrument of censorship and manufactured consent, controlled by the fascist enemy. It cannot be used, and must be destroyed.

Relevant to !selfhosted because one of the projects getting funding cut is Let’s Encrypt.

The Free Software projects in question: Tor, Let’s Encrypt, and F-Droid

WarGames. Everything but the AI was very realistic. (Well, also except for the fact that the movie’s NORAD headquarters was apparently way fancier than it was in real life.)

I’d be kinda embarrassed to be compared to Johnny Bravo, though.

I’m more a fan of identical triple monitors and keeping them all in the same orientation (all vertical for doing a lot of programming; all horizontal for everything else), but that might just be my perfectionism coming through.

The key is triple monitors so you don’t have a bezel in the middle of your field of view.

You need to… believe that global warming is real

No you don’t. There are plenty of chuds who like higher-end electric cars just because they’re extremely fast.

These are more like https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/City_Scanner

…For now.

Disappointment Island is far from tropical. That’s probably why it was a disappointment.

If a person plays as an opposite-gender character, it’s because they secretly wish to be that gender and are therefore trans.

If a person plays as a same-gender character, it’s because they like looking at same-gender ass and are therefore gay.

There are no other options.

like this

we were telling Kamala what she needed to do to win

No, you weren’t. Gaza was not the reason she lost.

And there was exactly 0% chance of screeching “don’t vote for Kamala” in October accomplishing that, and everyone knew it. The only motivation for continuing to screech at that point was to concern troll in favor of Trump.

No, in terms of proximate causes, failure to perform harm reduction did that.

If you wanted to actually fix the Democrats’ neoliberal bullshit, the time for that was in 2021-early 2024, not fucking October! Screeching about third-parties in October was purely pro-fascist concern trolling.

Okay, let me spell it out, yet again, since people still apparently don’t get it: making a tactical decision to avoid expressing criticism during an election is not the same thing as being perfectly happy with what the party is doing. It’s harm reduction, not agreement.

Reminds me of how Garry Kasparov fled Russia a decade ago.

In other words, waiting for the day when antitrust law is properly applied against Nvidia’s monopolization of CUDA.

If the co-op is purely doing contract work and the contract ends, how are they able to continue to pay workers on the bench?

I think this is the buried lede. How much is income reduced to tech workers vs traditional employers? Without strong social safety nets in the country a co-op with a much lower salary may not be a viable option because unemployment would leave the former workers without resources to live on.

I feel like the answers to these would be related. One answer could be that the organization maintains a large fund to act as a buffer to maintain salaries between contracts instead of operating “paycheck-to-paycheck.” An even simpler answer could be that the co-op chooses to take on a large number of small contracts instead of a small number of large ones, such that the revenue is relatively consistent to begin with.