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- Comment on 2025 trailer be wild 2 days ago:
It doesnt make a difference for the definition of a mass shooting (really any of them, there are multiple definitions).
- Comment on lemmy should tots let you post things to your own user profile 2 days ago:
Mod, not admin.
Mod is community level, admin is server level.
- Comment on 2025 trailer be wild 2 days ago:
The majority accepted is 4 or more injured or killed, not including the shooter (gun violence archive).
The DOJ version is 4 or more killed, which is just the mass murder definition with a shooter, leaving out a lot of incidents.
In either case though, the motive is irrelevant because its not going to be known at the time.
- Comment on 2025 trailer be wild 2 days ago:
It doesnt matter the reason, its still a mass shooting.
- Comment on 2025 trailer be wild 2 days ago:
10 shot outside of a club in queens, ages 16-20
- Comment on Magnus Carlsen: Chess champion quits FIDE tournament after being told to change jeans 6 days ago:
This really isn’t a high bar
Just an unnecessary one, yes.
what do you think athletes spend on running shoes, baseball gloves and ice skates?
Last I checked, chess isn’t played from the trousers. Though maybe that would make it more fun, I don’t know.
- Comment on In Germany, a Man Who Was Stabbed by a Jihadi Has Been Fined for Criticizing Islam 4 weeks ago:
Wild, its almost like both people got in trouble for their respective crimes.
Just crazy.
- Comment on Firefighters Struggle to Break the Tesla Cybertruck’s “Transparent Metal” Glass During Emergency Response Training 5 weeks ago:
Oh absolutely.
The cybertruck is a safety hazard and then some.
- Comment on Firefighters Struggle to Break the Tesla Cybertruck’s “Transparent Metal” Glass During Emergency Response Training 5 weeks ago:
No, it doesn’t, though I understand why you would think that, I didn’t note what you’d do with laminate without a frame, t highlighted what you would do which is remove the entire window if its damaged.
With a laminated window, like a windshield, you want it as much in one piece as possible. Given that its a laminated window, what you’d want to do is remove the whole assembly - and in this case its a single pane - I’d want to remove the whole thing in one piece, not smash it to pieces.
If the windshield is damaged, what you’d be doing is removing as much of it together as possible, not swinging an axe at it to drive pieces in. So instead I would punch it at the corners and pull it out using a halligan to pry it.
If there is no time, and given that its laminated, I’d skip the window entirely and just use the spreaders on the door. Can’t say I’ve used them on a cybertruc obviously, but I can guarantee they have the power to pop that door off.
If the door gap isn’t enough to get the spreaders in for a bite, I’d drive a halligan in first, pry it open, an shove the spreaders in.
Obviously this is all my opinion, but I stand by mine that driving an axe at a window like that would be really stupid to do.
- Comment on Firefighters Struggle to Break the Tesla Cybertruck’s “Transparent Metal” Glass During Emergency Response Training 5 weeks ago:
I have no idea.
Not only because a punch is a smarter glass break, but also because an ace at a car with someone in it is a FUCKING STUPID IDEA.
Spent years as a volunteer firefighter, near a major highway so ive done… A lot of extrications.
- If the windshield is still there, we remove the whole thing. Its laminated, a punch is just going to make a hole. So we’d remove the whole damn windshield to keep glass away from victims.
- if its a side window, that’s getting broken - not to get in, but to keep the glass clear of the victims while we force the door open with big ass spreaders or the combi (I always preferred the combo - pinch cut then spread was much faster).
If you notice, the consistent thing there is not smashing a window toward the damn victim in the car.
Side note, I highly recommend a seat belt cutter, an automatic punch, and a light be in every car for emergencies. The holidays are coming, make them a stocking stuffer. They even have those combo ones that are ridiculous looking, but have all three features, and they fit in a glove box.
Also, please be safe when driving during the holidays. The day before thanksgiving was almost as bad as new years eve, so please, be careful. And if you are going out get a DD or an uber/lyft/whatever.
Its never fun getting dead kids out of a car. Its much less fun when you know they were in town to visit their parents.
/rant-ish.
- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 1 month ago:
It might not be as good a brag down at the country club
That depends on if you’re buying new or you have a classic roadster.
- Comment on Watching passport bros get bodied by SEA women is a complete mood. Get rekt manlet. 1 month ago:
I see you’ve met my moron of an uncle. Who is in his late 50’s.
- Comment on Never thought I'd write these words before the last few years 2 months ago:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nimbus
Project Nimbus is cloud computing specifically in support of the IDF, not an operation.
Wolf Pack is the storage of every Palestinians details, including biometrics (well, the goal for them at least. You know, a special kind of list. Nothing sounds wrong about that, right? Ugh)
It runs on AWS.
- Comment on Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says. 2 months ago:
Still the agents mistake.
They could set the start/finish area to be masked, they could set their run info as private, they could have just the run stats (but no GPS) shared, etc.
This isn’t a strava issue, just Secret Service Agents being bad about Secrets when doing their Service.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t say jabber is dead, xmpp is still pretty well used. Not enough IMO, but still in use and with readily available modern servers. Jitsi is xmpp+jingle (sip signalling) after all.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 2 months ago:
Not advocating for defederation, I’m just pointing out that blocking an instance isn’t going to achieve their goal.
Obviously defederation is too large scale. Ideally, there would be an option for people to block users from the instance when blocking an instance, or something like that.
This would avoid the exact scenario you mention because it would come down to the user level, so that troll would have to put in quite a bit more effort to get around that. Unfortunately, that’s not currently an option, along with some other features I’d love to see on Lemmy.
Again, I’m just pointing out that blocking an instance does not achieve their goal.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 2 months ago:
You can block the instance, which blocks those communities, but that doesn’t block those users on them to be fair. That has to be done individually.
Personally I am comfortable ignoring individuals (and not painting everyone on an instance with the same brush) and would prefer metas/groups/whatever you’d like to refer to them as for my subscriptions, so I’m definitely not the target user of this post.
But just being clear, a user blocking an instance doesn’t block the users from that instance, so if that’s their goal, no, that’s not enough.
- Comment on Five flavors 🤤 2 months ago:
A series I personally love listening to while working out. Especially the 80s pop covers.
- Comment on Steps to repurpose old laptop as home server with Debian 2 months ago:
The nice thing about some battery backup is not keeping it running during an outage, but safely shutting it all down.
I agree on the laptop battery, I’m just disagreeing on battery backup. It serves a purpose, as does decent surge elimination.
- Comment on I'm as white as snow but I'm still not white enough to eat this. 2 months ago:
Unfortunately, I am. Too much capsaicin messes with digestion (slows it down), and causes more stomach acid.
So with my gastrointestinal system’s hatred of my body (including food allergies which wreak havoc on me), I am at the top tier of too damn white to get to enjoy the heat anymore. So, I guess thanks for a new pepper I can check out!
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 2 months ago:
Considering our use is not to the general public, we’d be better off with an entirely different strategy.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 2 months ago:
Yeah… I didn’t choose it, but some of the services from my employer run there. May be a good time to make some moves, we’ll see.
Not really going to be an issue I can fix obviously, but I’ll be making even more backups than normal…
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 2 months ago:
I have a feeling the big impact is going to be in other services, namely AWS. Makes me wonder if some new global outages are coming, which are always fun to deal with.
- Comment on Rental System? 3 months ago:
There is nothing native (though a few options have been played with, AFAIK never completed because…), but there are a ton of integrations. You can use webhooks to teams, there are python wrappers for the API, even a google docs integration.
Probably the lowest code option would be to find someone else’s tool for snipe-it (sorry I’ve never looked), or do something like snipe it to google sheets to be imported as a CSV or something.
Or take a peek at some others in the same territory, or maybe ticketing systems with simple asset management.
But i think something like snipe-it, if not exactly, is going to be the right territory of what you’re looking for
- Comment on Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text 3 months ago:
Its about $2.6 billion per week in revenue, even by the weekly numbers its not an impact
(based on ~$135b in revenue for 2023, according to financial disclosure reports)
- Comment on Rental System? 3 months ago:
What about asset management software, like snipe-it? Or are you trying for payment in there too?
- Comment on Bungie will compensate an artist after its Destiny 2 Nerf blaster ripped off their work 3 months ago:
The rip off
bungiestore.com/bungie-rewards-nerf-ace-of-spades…
The original design that was ripped off: www.deviantart.com/…/Ace-of-Spades-573764211
And the tweet:
- Comment on Mudita Kompakt - E-ink (truly) dumbphone with FOSS OS. 3 months ago:
…so you just made it up then.
No, the phone industry made up these terms.
No one has done that. The only comments I’m downvoting are the ones spreading disinformation.
So how I read that is “Anything that isn’t what I want it to say is disinformation”.
Well, enjoy your day buddy, my participation in this thread is over. Its a neat feature phone, and that’s where I’ll be leaving that.
- Comment on Mudita Kompakt - E-ink (truly) dumbphone with FOSS OS. 3 months ago:
Several decades of phone technology as it developed…
- Comment on Mudita Kompakt - E-ink (truly) dumbphone with FOSS OS. 3 months ago:
While I get your opinion, these things have definitions. Here’s a super simple version:
- A dumb phone does not connect to the internet. Its a phone. Just a dumb device.
- A feature phone is what you’re referring to here, where it may connect to the internet, but isn’t part of some larger ecosystem and is certainly not an app-first approach. Its a phone first, ancillary features are a bonus.
- Smartphones are your android and iOS devices, which connect to the internet, is part of a large ecosystem of applications, is an internet first oriented device, etc.
So yes, this is a feature phone from what I’ve read of the translation.
