I don't know if I'm alone on this, but I just bought the biggest 5400rpm HDD that was in my price range when I set up. Might notice the slower speed when doing a big data dump, but for streaming purposes you can run many 4k streams concurrently and the bottleneck would probably be your network speed before you hit a drive read bottleneck.
Just search for "kneeling pad" or "gardening knee pad" and you'll find a bunch of pretty durable options for around $10. Or, hell, just get a pair of skateboarding knee pads. You might not be the pinnacle of fashion, but your knees will be well protected.
Trumps just testing the waters to see which Congressmen are loyal and which he still needs to get some kompromat on, so he's not stopped when he enacts the real fasc-ie stuff.
I blocked so many accounts over the past few months. The propaganda posters were freaking everywhere.
We pay more in taxes than the welfare states, have less representation... Seems like there was something in US History about taxation without representation.
Yeah, that's fair. US mindset, I'm just still processing our shitshow.
Theoretically, sure. Pragmatically, we just elected a fascist insurrectionist, and it's not going to happen in the near future.
Leave, if possible. If not, put your head down, continue to vote/support progressive candidates and ideas. Understand at the same time the futility of this when there only exist 2 right of center parties who will do whatever they can to stop any real reform. Also internalize the fact that a majority of voters actually voted for a convicted felon and insurrectionist fascist, just to maintain a perspective on this hellish reality.
Mosquito Coast is a classic for sure. I hardly ever see anyone mention Regarding Henry, and I don't think I've met anyone in person who recognized the movie when I've mentioned it. That's a solid recommendation!
I remember being blown away when I saw that movie when it was first released. Cruise actually showed some acting ability instead of just playing "Tom Cruise" as he has in most of his films.
When you vote in a Nazi, expect Nazis to be validated.
I can not imagine a sequel to Gladiator being as good as the original...but, damn, imagine if it was. That first movie is a classic.
It's below the first one now, according to the page's update. Not that rottentomatoes is super accurate on movie quality anyways.
They aren't wrong.
Clinton left a booming economy and projections to reduce, if not eliminate, the national debt in 10 years. Then came another Bush. Bush left a shitty economy for Obama, through bullshit tax breaks for the rich during a time of bullshit military spending among other dumb actions. Obama fixed things. trump inherited a booming economy from Obama, and slowly (maybe quickly) ruined it through gross incompetence. Biden inherited a shit economy and inflation from that moron, trump. After dealing with fallout from stupid trump policies (that's being generous), Biden managed to turn things around and the economy was once again doing pretty good. Now that dipshit trump will give his idiot voters and the rest of us another shitty economy that the next Dem will have to try to fix. The wheels on the bus go round and round.
That seems pretty ridiculous. I never had too much of an issue with visibility in the rain, and you can already buy gloves with a built-in squeegee blade on the thumb. That said, if it were a lot cheaper it might be worth trying out.
I wish y'all luck. I'll be way on the outside of this country watching it fall.
I'm in that country and can't disagree. I was just paraphrasing the line from the Joker movie to a friend of mine,"We're going to get exactly what we deserve."
Knowledge Request: Rewriting URLs
I can't seem to figure this out. I've been trying out different news aggregator sites to use as a home page. Right now I'm using skimfeed. I like it, but the links all have skimfeed baggage tacked on. Like this: https://skimfeed.com/r.php?q=1148&l=15649995&u=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F3006%2F
Well, the source looks like this:
``` <span class='boxtitles'><h2><a class='siteurls ts33' href='/news/xkcd.html'>XKCD</a> <a class='siteurls atat' href='http://xkcd.com' rel='nofollow' target='_blank'>+</a></h2></span>
<ul><li class='nl1 bd33'><a href='r.php?q=1148&l=15649995&u=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F3006%2F' target='_blank' rel='nofollow' title='Demons'>Demons</a> </li><li class='nl2 bd75'><a href='r.php?q=1148&l=15642742&u=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F3005%2F' target='_blank' rel='nofollow' </li></ul></div> ```
Which, to be honest, is Greek to me. I'd like to rewrite the links so that they just look like https://xkcd.com/3006/ I don't really care what the link looks like, per se, the encoded bits. I just don't like the extra skimfeed stuff. Aesthetically.
Is there an extension or something that will help me with this? The couple I've looked at are either too complicated for my caveman brain, or site specific (i.e., remove google tracking). If I'm just being a little too retentive, feel free to let me know that too.
A couple terminal utils
I don't know if anyone could use these, but I thought I'd share two commands I use sometimes while trying out different terminals. In my .bash_aliases file I have:
alias whatterm="ps -o 'cmd=' -p $(ps -o 'ppid=' -p $$)"
example:
$ whatterm alacritty
and I have the following script saved in my local bin directory as testterm. I don't know how great of a test it is, but it shows the capabilities of different terminals and I like the pretty colors.
``` #!/bin/sh
echo "# 24-bit (true-color)"
based on: https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
term_cols="$(tput cols || echo 80)" cols=$(echo "2^((l($term_cols)/l(2))-1)" | bc -l 2> /dev/null) rows=$(( cols / 2 )) awk -v cols="$cols" -v rows="$rows" 'BEGIN{ s=" "; m=cols+rows; for (row = 0; row<rows; row++) { for (col = 0; col<cols; col++) { i = row+col; r = 255-(i255/m); g = (i510/m); b = (i*255/m); if (g>255) g = 510-g; printf "\033[48;2;%d;%d;%dm", r,g,b; printf "\033[38;2;%d;%d;%dm", 255-r,255-g,255-b; printf "%s\033[0m", substr(s,(col+row)%2+1,1); } printf "\n"; } printf "\n\n"; }'
echo "# text decorations" echo '\e[1mbold\e[22m' echo '\e[2mdim\e[22m' echo '\e[3mitalic\e[23m' echo '\e[4munderline\e[24m' echo '\e[4:1mthis is also underline\e[4:0m' echo '\e[21mdouble underline\e[24m' echo '\e[4:2mthis is also double underline\e[4:0m' echo '\e[4:3mcurly underline\e[4:0m' echo '\e[58;5;10;4mcolored underline\e[59;4:0m' echo '\e[5mblink\e[25m' echo '\e[7mreverse\e[27m' echo '\e[8minvisible\e[28m <- invisible (but copy-pasteable)' echo '\e[9mstrikethrough\e[29m' echo '\e[53moverline\e[55m' echo
echo "# magic string (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Web)" echo "é Δ Й ק م ๗ あ 叶 葉 말" echo
echo "# emojis" echo "😃😱😵" echo
echo "# right-to-left ('w' symbol should be at right side)" echo "שרה" echo
echo "# sixel graphics"
printf '\eP0;0;0q"1;1;64;64#0;2;0;0;0#1;2;100;100;100#1{wo_!11?@FN^!34^NB
@?ow{$#0?BFN^!11}wo!34?o{}^NFB-#1!5}{o!12?BF!25~NB@??ow{!6~$#0!5?
@BN!12~{w_!25?_o{}~~NFB-#1!10~}w_!12?@BN!15^NFB@?_w{}!10$#0!10?@F^!12~}
{o_!15?ow{}^FB@-#1!14}{o!11?@BF!7~FB??ow}!15$#0!14?@BN^!11}{w!7?_
w{~~NF@-#1!18~}{wo!11?_rFB@??ow}!20$#0!18?@BFN!11^K_w{}~~NF@-#1!23~M!4?
_oWMF@!6?BN!21~$#0!23?p!4~Nfpw}!6{o_-#1!18^NB@?_ow{}wo!12?@BFN!17$#0!
18?o{}^NFB@?FN!12}{wo-#1!13^NB@??_w{}!9}{w!12?BFN!12~$#0!13?_o{}~~F
B@!9?@BF!12~{wo_-#1!8~NFB@?_w{}!19{wo_!11?@BN^!8$#0!8?_ow{}~^FB@!19?BFN
!11~}{o_-#1!4~NB@?_ow{!28}{o_!12?BF^!4$#0!4?o{}^NFB!28?@BN^!12{w-#1
NB@???GM!38NMG!13?@BN$#0?KMNNNF@!38?@F!13NMK-\e\'
```
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In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, major newspapers are giving former President Donald Trump’s federal criminal indictment for alleged crimes related to the January 6 insurrection a fraction of the coverage they gave former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email se...
Report about the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post —
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26 Articles in the week following Smith's indictment of Trump for his attempted coup
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100 Articles — nearly 4 times as many — that mentioned Clinton’s server in the week after then-FBI Director James Comey’s notorious October 28, 2016, letter on new developments in that probe--
The US media has learned nothing and is doing a disservice to American voters.
Magats in NB
Nothing much to say other than I had to drive down PCH today and it would have been a better idea to drive around back bay. So many deplorable magats waving their stupid flags, driving in circles. I showed my support by yelling "We love proven rapists who are convicted felons!!" at them when stopped. It's just so embarrassing seeing these anti-democratic, anti-Constitution morons in my city/county/state/country.
Any keyword filters available that work. Userscript or extension.
The only one I've found is this one, but it doesn't work. It only triggers if I open the keyword interface and save it after every page load. I don't know enough to fix it.
Ryan Garcia failed to make weight ahead Saturday's fight against Devin Haney. And while the boxing match will go on, Haney is now $1.5 million richer.
I have the feeling tomorrow won't end well for Garcia.
Directions on life
Any advice for a regular smart 27 year old youngster, who has chronically underachieved and is motivated to turn their life around. They have a couple years of JC completed, and has no idea what path to take, or really what paths exist.
EDIT: OK, I see I gave slim pickins here. It's not me, it's my neighbor's kid. I've known his parents since before he was born. He's a super smart kid, but like a lot of smart kids, he got kind of jaded about...well, everything. I was visiting the other day and he asked me for advice, and my retired ass has nothing. Any relevant personal experience I may have, became dated years ago.
He's good at just about all subjects. His longest lifelong hobby has been video games. He took a few programming classes and liked it, but the thought of doing it full time as a career would quickly become torture.
He's kind of half-assed things and just realized he needs to get his shit straight. He was thinking something like finance, just numbers. Something solid that's just a career direction. He is going back to school, well most likely he is, but he needs an idea of what path to take. Most of his friends are unemployed/underemployed with computer degrees.
India is sending back thousands of Myanmar refugees, whom they blame for ethnic violence erupting in Manipur state.
Nobody seems to be talking about the continuing genocide of Rohingya in Myanmar nor India's heartless and illegal current actions.
>“Refoulement is against international human rights law, regardless of if you’ve signed the refugee convention" - John Quinley III, director of international rights group
Kim Stanley Robinson
I read Kim's Mars trilogy years ago and liked it. I decided to pick up The Ministry of the Future a couple days ago. It's very different, and without any spoilers, I have to say it's made me hate humanity even more than I already did. If you haven't read it, it's a near-future climate disaster book. Well written, interesting structure, and just pissing me off. I'm about halfway through it, so maybe it'll swing the other way in the second half.
Borderlands (2024) Official Trailer - Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black
Well this looks more awful than I could have imagined. Incredibly shitty casting.
Data is consistent with bosses using RTO to reassert control and scapegoat workers.
Nothing we all didn't know.
How to pull rocks out of pipe in the ground?
My mom has a hole in the ground that she puts her clothes drying hanger in. Like this. The hole in the ground is a 2" or so pipe, set in concrete. The pipe has filled with gravel. Anyone have a tip on getting the rocks out? I can only get so many out using my fingers and then trying to use a set of chopsticks.
Fury vs Ngannou, who do you have?
I put a little on Ngannou, but I think Fury will just toy with him before finishing Ngannou off. Heavyweights though, you never know.
At least 200 Israelis have been killed and 740 wounded, according to reports from media and health officials. Gaza health officials say nearly 200 Palestinians have been killed with more than 1,600 wounded.
This seems far more serious than the typical lobbing explosives at each other in which Hamas and Israel habitually partake.
Effect of a gravity assist on person, or whatever, in spaceship
OK, this is dumb, but it's gone through my head a couple times. I've seen a few science fiction movies and shows where the people in the spaceship use a gravity assist and lean into the turns like they're driving NASCAR or riding a roller coaster.
I think they wouldn't feel the acceleration (vector change) because gravity is doing the acceleration on every molecule and there would be nothing to lean against. I'm often wrong though. Someone smarter than I am have some insight?
EDIT: For what it's worth, I guess I shouldn't have used the Expanse clip as it upset some people. I just used it for an example of what I was asking. The question is this: Under little or no thrusters, would you feel a gravity assist? Even a radical one that changes your direction 90 degrees and greatly increases your velocity?
Canelo Alvarez defended the super middleweight undisputed title with a clear victory over Jermell Charlo.
Have to give respect for Charlo coming up 14 pounds. The real ones are wiling to take those chances. Canelo is a brick.
Is Paddy Pimblett vs. Tony Ferguson cynical booking from the UFC, or just the right fight? Brendan Schaub has thoughts.
I would love to see Ferguson take the win. It would be hilarious to me.
Taking place over three days, the Airshow delivers an action-packed lineup of events, from live music festivals on the beach and VIP offerings, to over-the-water aerobatic demonstrations from the world’s best display teams – all backed by Southern California’s most iconic beachfront destination, Hun
If anyone else freaked out about the jets doing low flyby's today. It's that time again.