Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

Maybe they could spend the money on more air traffic controllers? https://oldbytes.space/@pixel/113953455587682690

@lauren So much angst among folks who didn't vote Harris because "the democrats didn't do enough on Palestine"

Hitler: "I want Poland."
Trump: "I want Gaza."

Maybe I don't know how tariffs work, but I _think_ that if I want to sell goods for some dollar number that leaves me with one hundred dollars in hand, and there are zero tariffs, then I cross the border and sell those goods for one hundred dollars.

But with a 25% tariff, if I want to leave with 100 dollars in hand, what price do I need to set for my goods to end up with that 100 dollars?

I ask because 3/4 of 133 is about 100.

For a captive audience, a 25% tariff is just a 33% tax.

TIL that Sync is the only Canadian alternative to Dropbox, iCloud and Sharepoint. Canadian owned and operated. "With Sync, your data never leaves Canada. "

So I am now moving all my DropBox & Google drive files to Sync.
https://sync.com

🇨🇦

#ShopCanadian #FuckTrump #FuckElon #FuckSundarPichai

H: There was the curious behavior of Biden and the Democrats after the election.
W: But Biden and the Democrats did nothing after the election.
H: That is what was curious.

In light of a bit of snark I've been seeing here, please remember that (Conservative) Prime Minister Harper muzzled Canadian scientists in 2013 and Alberta has never rescinded those rules.

Wireless doorbells resting on their chargers.

It's difficult to view as anything but an essentially political statement that it takes editing source files and recompiling the #Mastodon stack to simply increase the maximum permitted post length at any given Mastodon site. This should have been made an easily configurable runtime parameter long ago, and the fact that it still hasn't is extremely problematic.

American Businessmen looking at cancer research: meh, I don't think we need this really

American Businessmen looking at a 5-slide powerpoint with a single line going up on the last slide that a twenty year old consultant made and labeled "five bazillionty dollars": give this man everything

Sometimes The Onion just writes the perfect headline.

#TheOnion

I recently broke the frames of my bifocals. Really aggravated about my eyesight. I use bifocals for driving, for distance (+2.5) and dashboard (roughly arm's length, +3.5), but I need about +4.0 for desktop computer, and about +5.0 for reading/phone/tablet/detail work. I find progressives unsuited for desktop computer due to the restricted size of in-focus area. Currently I carry around FOUR pair, the bifocals for driving, over-the-top sunglasses, +4.0 readers, and +5.0 readers.

Say it with me: "If you collect the data, you better have a plan for what happens when it's leaked."

Furthermore, the data broker industry must be destroyed.

https://www.404media.co/hackers-claim-massive-breach-of-location-data-giant-threaten-to-leak-data/

@adamshostack @karpathy all of the science in ML is being swamped by nonsense

The fact the richest man in the world is successfully meddling with elections all across Europe and America, should have you worry about all the other rich people that aren't publicly announcing it.

holy living fuck, it is amazing to be running #debian instead of #windows again after all these years. i feel like i'm alone with my computer instead of, like, being in the room with a bunch of adtech execs.

#foss #OpenSource

Them: Naww! Did you adopt a cat?

Me: No. That’s my biological cat.