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by tomohawk 3y ago
libsystemd is too juicy of a target, especially with the code reuse that does not appear to take into account these attack vectors. Perhaps any reuse of libraries in sensitive areas like libsystemd should require a separate copy and more ri
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by tomohawk 3y ago
A better question would be to ask how technology companies are helping parents in the very hard and difficult job of raising their children, and also what measures they are taking to ensure they don't add any difficulties.
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by tomohawk 3y ago
In 1983, the US Capitol was bombed. The terrorists went on the run, but were known. In 2021, the current attorney general of the US, Merrick Garland, signed off on not prosecuting them. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news&#
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by tomohawk 3y ago
You used to see sci-fi paperbacks in the hands of people of all walks of life. Lit majors used to look down on it because it was not high falutin enough. Sci-fi used to speak to things most people cared about. Then it went fringe. I and
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by tomohawk 3y ago
It's disappearing because it caters to a very niche, elitist subset of society.
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by tomohawk 3y ago
> least reliable > most likely to create division and toxicity oof
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by tomohawk 3y ago
Realtors have a lot of power. In many states, they have enough power that they have outlawed a-la-carte brokers, but they can save you a lot of money. An a-la-carte broker charges fixed fees for specific services instead of getting a commis
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by tomohawk 3y ago
It was decades of mismanagement by the government that prevented ranchers and others from setting the yearly fires, starting in the 1960s. Now these same people, who often live hundreds of miles away and often have never even been there ar
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How Chinese Organized Crime Is Dominating America's Illegal Marijuana Market(propublica.org)
22 points by tomohawk 3y ago|7 comments
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by tomohawk 3y ago
Now that they've disarmed everyone, thieves are more willing to risk confrontation when breaking into people's homes to get key fobs. So much for not needing guns because, "the police will protect you."
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by tomohawk 3y ago
How is this not a bill of attainder? https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S9-C3-1/...
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by tomohawk 3y ago
Since big tech decided to censor so many things off of youtube, etc, it's one of the few places you can actually find out what's going on in warzones and other places that are not big tech reality compliant. As but one example, th
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by tomohawk 3y ago
Whether it was actually a suicide or murder, this (suing a large organization) is not the kind of thing an individual should take on alone. We are fragile. We can hurt ourselves, and others can hurt us. Without a companion keeping him co
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by tomohawk 3y ago
It's available on linux from the x/sys/unix package. You have to use the syscall.Syscall6
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by tomohawk 3y ago
The sendmmsg and recvmmg system calls can also boost performance significantly, especially when GSO is enabled.
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by tomohawk 3y ago
Sounds like a bill of attainder, which is explicitly forbidden in the Constitution.
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by tomohawk 3y ago
It's interesting how the reasons given to turn landscapes into hardscapes have changed over the years, and yet they rhyme. We used to justify building large dams to provide power, now we justify covering millions of acres.
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The Russia-Ukraine War has caused a staggering amount of cultural destruction(theconversation.com)
6 points by tomohawk 3y ago|1 comments
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Virologists at Canada's BSL4 Lab Worked for China(thecountersignal.com)
7 points by tomohawk 3y ago|0 comments
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by tomohawk 3y ago
Absolutely right - I'd forgotten about that. The fun of regulation driven services.
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by tomohawk 3y ago
To expand on that, AT&T had a regulated monopoly. You were not allowed to attach non AT&T devices to their network, and they had the only network (and no one else could set one up by law). You did not own a phone, but leased it on
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Chronic Freelancer Goes to Bat for Independent Contractors in America [video](youtube.com)
1 points by tomohawk 3y ago|0 comments
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by tomohawk 3y ago
More fallout from Kathleen Kennedy's missteps with the franchise?
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by tomohawk 3y ago
A "valid treaty" would require Senate approval - it did not have that. It was an agreement, and the US was not bound by it after the Taliban violated it. They wouldn't have been bound to it in any case, because it was never
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by tomohawk 3y ago
If you haven't failed, you haven't tried. It's more likely your idea won't work out than it will, but most people won't risk the failure to try.
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by tomohawk 3y ago
Dude, The withdrawal occurred in 2021. Biden was president. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/16/biden-afghanis...
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by tomohawk 3y ago
Nonsense. Biden was the president. He ordered this, over the objections of pretty much everyone else.
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by tomohawk 3y ago
Get rid of the TSA. Security theatre belongs off broadway, not at airports.
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I Was a Heretic at the New York Times(theatlantic.com)
9 points by tomohawk 3y ago|2 comments
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by tomohawk 3y ago
The government taxed and regulated this and other industries to the point where industry moved overseas. Only now they're seeing the peril of that overreach, and are trying to subsidize it to bring it back. Only, they're so inep

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