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How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet
  • They tried and failed to control Internet porn in the 90s. With Trump, conservatives think they're more popular than they are, so they're trying this shit again. As with lots of things in Project 2025, they're quickly discovering that they're not as well liked as they think.

  • Trump backs out of debate as camp says it's 'inappropriate to schedule things with Harris'
  • "There is a strong sense by many in the Democrat Party - namely Barack Hussein Obama - that Kamala Harris is a Marxist fraud who cannot beat President Trump, and they are still holding out for someone 'better.'"

    One thing I learned from the Bush II Admin was that you can run on stirring up rhetoric for a while--worked well enough to make him a two term President--but at a certain point, your policies have to align to reality or you will have catastrophic failure. There are also levels of making shit up, and the statement above might be more making shit up than anything Bush II ever pulled.

  • Chicken wings advertised as 'boneless' can have bones, Ohio Supreme Court decides
  • Just wait until you hear about "synthetic" motor oil.

    (It's been made from regular petroleum sources for a long time. It was argued in court that "synthetic" refers to a certain level of quality, not that it's actually built synthetically from something other than oil out of the ground.)

  • Author left the job
  • It's not just pay. Things like pensions that would encourage long tenures have been all but eliminated from compensation packages. The idea of staying at a job for more than 3 years, especially in IT, is crazy to people. If you're there for >5 years and then look for something else, interviewers wonder if something is wrong with you.

    Which is insane. Companies lose a lot of value by not having long tenured "company [wo]men" anymore. I keep waiting for some convoluted explanation that shows this situation is better in even a strictly capitalist sense, but that explanation doesn't seem to exist. The best I have is that people coming from outside organizations will cross-pollinate ideas and technologies instead of being stuck with whatever that particular company is doing. But there are other ways to handle that, and you don't have to push it on everyone.

    No, companies just seem to have decided this is how they're going to operate.

  • US Public Rapidly Sours on Project 2025 as Awareness Grows
  • It's funny. When you laid out the individual points of Obamacare and ran some polls without the context of the name, they were quite popular. When they're bundled together and called Obamacare, the popularity plunged.

    In this case, you drop an 922 page pdf full of conservative agenda items, people will largely ignore it, because who the fuck has time to wade through a 922 page pdf? But somebody reads it, and its agenda items start to be laid out individually, and everyone hates it.

    So basically, progressive policy is popular until conservatives give it a nickname and pretend it says something else. Conservative policy is not popular, and they can only get it through by obfuscating it.

  • JD Vance is the least liked VP nominee in decades, according to polls
  • Trump has to have some dirt on Vance. Trump chooses people based on loyalty first. Vance used to be a Never Trumper, and he's being put in a position where he could Amendment 25 Trump straight out of office on day one and take the job for himself (and even has some plausible reasons for doing so). I don't see Trump giving the job to him without having some insurance.

  • A Solarpunk Internet: How Much Bandwidth?

    www.wumpus-cave.net Wumpus Cave

    Musing about programming

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    Link broken in app

    Not 100% sure if this is a Summit issue or something in Lemmy more generally. Here's the post in question:

    https://midwest.social/post/10123989

    The link to the blog works on my instance for the desktop. Several other users were reporting the link being broken, and it does break for me on Summit, as well.

    When I hit the link on Summit, the requests on the server are GET /api/v3/post?id=2024 and GET /api/v3/comment/list?max_depth=6&post_id=2024&sort=Top&type_=All. It looks like it parsed out the "2024" from the original link and tried to use that in a Lemmy API call.

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    Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml frezik @midwest.social

    Post link sometimes goes to the wrong place

    Here's the post in question: https://midwest.social/post/10123989

    Which linked to my blog here: https://wumpus-cave.net/post/2024/03/2024-03-20-moores-law-is-dead/index.html

    On my instance (midwest.social), this works fine. However, some other users were reporting a broken link, and I also see a broken link when using my mobile app (Summit). When it breaks, I see these calls in the server logs:

    • GET /api/v3/post?id=2024
    • GET /api/v3/comment/list?max_depth=6&post_id=2024&sort=Top&type_=All

    Which appear to be Lemmy API calls with some of the actual link data built in.

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    Moore's Law is dead, but not for the reasons everyone says

    wumpus-cave.net Wumpus Cave

    Musing about programming

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    Nothing strange about a tornado in February in Wisconsin rule

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