manxu
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- Comment on Life as a food delivery worker: ‘Sometimes men open the door naked’ 6 hours ago:
Question: why would ban delivery apps instead of forcing them to hire drivers and give them benefits?
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 2 weeks ago:
There is the weirdly pushy way the police officer tried to get her to confess that seems to imply that, too. They had a hunch, and hoped the person would be dumb enough to incriminate herself. It’s a real shame she only exonerated herself, I am sure they would have loved it if she had tracked down the real thief.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 2 weeks ago:
So many reasons to re-consider.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 2 weeks ago:
Go Colorado Sun! Proud sponsor for many years!
Reading the article, I am very confused. It appears that they simply decided a random person was the culprit because she was recorded as driving through town during the time period of the package theft, and that’s all they had?
- Comment on Navy loses two aircraft from USS Nimitz aircraft carrier within 30 minutes 2 weeks ago:
Thank goodness they fired all those terrible DEI hires and now there are only competent and qualified people in the US Military, starting with the absolutely not an alcoholic Pete Hegseth! /s
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I think Obama got it simply for not being George W Bush, imperial war monger of international note.
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 4 weeks ago:
The rare comment that is so good, I upvote all comments that applaud it!
- Comment on Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China 4 weeks ago:
Wall Street only cares about the current and next quarter. Everything else is a stock sale away and doesn’t matter. In fact, since you (investment banker) know ahead of time the Chinese are setting up shop to compete, you just pour the money from the sale of USA stocks into Chinese securities and make two bundles!
- Comment on Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China 4 weeks ago:
were they supposed to just work for you for fraction of a cost forever and don’t learn anything?
It was a rhetorical question, but they actually really believed that. Racism may have been a huge part of it: People as backwards as “China man” would never be able to come up with complicated tasks like setting up a factory on their own.
Anyone not racist saw it coming a thousand miles away. It’s weird how much bigotry there was and is in the C-suite of major corporations.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 1 month ago:
I never wanted him to be wrong more than right now. Except for tomorrow, it’s probably going to bé worse, tomorrow
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 1 month ago:
They do not produce content, but they share 70% of revenue with the creators. You can argue that’s not enough, but it’s definitely more than Netflix et al pay their content creators.
- Comment on Amazon faces US trial over alleged Prime subscription tricks 1 month ago:
The first step in cancelling Prime must always be switching to monthly charges. The dark arts demand their sacrifice!
- Comment on Looking for a simple personal homepage 1 month ago:
I suggest one of the many wonderful one-page templates available on GitHub, Codeberg, et. al. GitHub has a whole topic on them at https://github.com/topics/single-page-site. You pick one that matches your requirements and that looks good to you, change the text, and serve.
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 2 months ago:
And that's what men the world over use to measure their appendage!
- Comment on How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone | Innocent sites are being delisted from Google because of copyright takedown requests against rampant OnlyFans piracy. 2 months ago:
The DMCA is what you get when you get greedy media and Internet companies to write legislation for lawmakers that have no idea what any of that means, while in the background the people have not had a chance to use any of it. It should have come with an expiration date 10 years from signing and should have been redone now that we are actually using the stuff.
- Comment on MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs 2 months ago:
Happiness is not shared as a goal. For some people, happiness is so distant, the only thing achievable is to make everyone else equally misérable. Think Fundie Christians talking about the Valley of Tears.
- Comment on House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias 2 months ago:
Scientific proof that we are in the dumbest timeline.
- Comment on Reeves considering tax on high-value homes to help plug hole in finances 2 months ago:
Well, finally something out of the Labour government that doesn't sound like they copied their notes from conservatives the world over.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 2 months ago:
Honestly, a lot of modern copyright law is very shady. You can get in major trouble for ripping a CD or DVD? That sounds insane. And what about not being allowed to repair your own tractor? Do you remember the baby dancing to some music, that was then DMCA-ed away?
My favorite is still the absolutely bonkers almost 100 years on copyrights. That has absolutely nothing to do with "the Progress of Science and useful Arts," everything with lining the pockets of copyright holders.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 2 months ago:
I speak German legalese (don't ask) so I went to the actual source and read up on the decision.
The higher court simply stated that the Appeals court didn't consider the impact of source code to byte code transformation in their ruling, meaning they had not provided references justifying the fact they had ignored the transformation. Their contention is that there might be protected software in the byte code, and if the ad blocker modified the byte code (either directly or by modifying the source), then that would constitute a modification of code and hence run afoul of copyright protections as derivative work.
Sounds more like, "Appeals court has to do their homework" than "ad blockers illegal."
The ruling is a little painful to read, because as usual the courts are not particularly good at technical issues or controversies, so don't quote me on the exact details. In particular, they use the word Vervielfältigung a lot, which means (mass) copy, which is definitely not happening here. The way it reads, Springer simply made the case that a particular section of the ruling didn't have any reasoning or citations attached and demanded them, which I guess is fair. More billable hours for the lawyers!
- Comment on Judge blocks FTC probe into Media Matters, calls it government "retaliation" that should alarm Americans | FTC probe blocked in escalating X dispute 2 months ago:
The Americans that care have LONG been alarmed.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 2 months ago:
What happened next will SHOCK you!!
- Comment on Europe’s power grids under pressure amid record-breaking heatwaves 2 months ago:
Very, very true. Although at the rate French households are installing cooling capacity, that might change before long.
- Comment on AOL to discontinue dial-up internet service after 34 years 2 months ago:
Man, AOL is so anachronistic, I thought for sure they had just misspelled AOC and was wondering why she had offered dial-up internet service in the first place.
- Comment on Neanderthals Spread Across Asia With Surprising Speed—and Now We Know How 4 months ago:
I'll save you the read: they invented the Segway.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 4 months ago:
I mean, why would a guy that started a car rental company know anything about radio waves?
Gotcha!
- Comment on Facial recognition error sees woman accused of theft 4 months ago:
"No one should find themselves in this situation."
No one would if the corporations making the mistakes actually faced consequences beyond, "Oopsie!"
Fine companies real money if they make an "honest mistake." They will make dramatically fewer of them.
- Comment on Majority of Australians think China will be world’s most powerful country by 2035, poll finds 4 months ago:
I don't think they really cared if China took advantage of it. America's CEOs are only invested in the next few quarters, at best. Something that might take a decade or two is entirely not relevant to their planning and actions.
- Comment on Simple Blog options? 5 months ago:
Did you look at Pelican? I share the frustration with much of Hugo's infrastructure: the template language is buggy and inscrutable, and the plugin architecture wanting.
I ended up with Hugo, but I considered Pelican. It uses standard Jinja templates, which I find much more rational (but it might just be me) and I recall there were plugins for a lot of things, including different source formats. The code is written in Python, so that even if there isn't a plugin for a format you need, there probably is a Python library for it and it should be relatively easy to make it a plugin.
Crap, now I want to switch to Pelican...
- Comment on Simple Blog options? 5 months ago:
Hugo watch mode (both server and build) does not produce accurate sites on change and is really meant for development. I find after a developing for a while, I have to kill the process and restart it and then things are "fresh"
From reading the documentation, I strongly have the impression that hugo focuses on being fast on re-render and that the idea is to build and deploy to public site each time there is a change. The big difference is probably whether to render locally and push the generated content, or to push the source markdown and render remotely (which I chose).