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OMG. James O'Keefe https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1866928457537540508
Two months after Hurricanes Helene and Milton devastated North Carolina, thousands of survivors remain in dire need of assistance. Frustration boiled over during a recent Buncombe County Commissioners meeting, where one resident warned, "We don't want to have an epidemic of people freezing to death." Another attendee echoed the community’s despair, stating, "I've never seen the lack of public officials coming out and actually trying to help."
While federal agencies and mainstream narratives suggest recovery is underway, the reality on the ground tells a starkly different story. One resident explained, “FEMA money runs out, and all the help I’ve seen has come from people out of state.” Even more troubling, a FEMA employee admitted, “Every delay means another night that a child sleeps in a car.”
Determined to uncover the truth, our team visited FEMA Disaster Recovery Centers across North Carolina. In Polk County, we met Rosanne Walters, the facility’s manager, who asserted survivors were receiving assistance “in various ways.” However, the scene told another story entirely: employees standing idle in a nearly empty center, while survivors waited for the aid they desperately needed.
So far I've been very impressed with the #Windows11 -> #LinuxMint migration. Haven't really delved too much into getting some of my legacy apps to work other than just trying to get things reinstalled and things set back up properly.
My biggest challenge now is jockeying data around on all my direct-attached storage drives so I can re-partition them and re-format them. They were all encrypted with #BitLocker under #Windows. So now the decision I need to make is... A) Set up #Cryptomator volumes? Benefit is it's cross-platform and the data is readable across Windows, Mac, and Linux and the encrypted data can be stored on any medium. B) Set up #LUKS volumes. Benefit is it's built-in to Linux requiring no additional software. But not supported outside of Linux. C) Set up #VeraCrypt volumes/ whole disk? Benefit is it's been battle-tested. And supports #FDE like BitLocker.
I'm kinda leaning towards Cryptomator if for no other reason than the data can be stored on any media. But, I like the fact I can set up FDE with VeraCrypt which certainly helps with CIA triad (confidentiality, integrity, availability). FDE I think increases availability since it's pretty much impossible to fuck with one of the encrypted files.
On the other hand, I already use Cryptomator to create personal secure volumes on public cloud storage providers....
Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10 Imagine how quickly a properly run country would deport foreign criminals - yet in broken Britain, we’re ridiculously arguing about the ethics of doing so.
Honestly speaking, I don’t care about their right to a family life or whatever other nonsense. They sacrificed that when they raped, murdered or assaulted a British citizen.
If it were up to me, this lot would be out of the country before any poisonous left wing lawyers have a chance to go in to bat for them.
I don’t want them in British prisons. Learning yoga or how to lay bricks. I don’t care about their rehabilitation. It is NOT our problem.
Send them back to where they came from. They can rot in some African prison or wherever else - agreements can be reached with these countries. We’ll take our prisoners back, and they can have theirs. I suspect it may be a one-sided exchange…
Britain is a soft touch. We need to get real and put the safety of the British people above the human rights of foreign offenders.
A mass deportation scheme for these criminals is required.
Holy shit! Is the point of calling a warranty claims centre to get you to give up and pay cash for the problem? I swear to God, I spent nearly 2 hours on the line and the phone getting a claim filed and approved. Unreal.
Today I switched my web server from Apache httpd to Caddy on FreeBSD 14. I've never seen a simpler web server. All you need is one Caddyfile to manage Caddy itself and all websites.
When Hurricane Helene tore through the Appalachians, it left destruction unlike anything locals had prepared for, a devastation that raised more questions than answers.
Boots on the ground testimony & solutions of someone who is there helping people.
In episode 712: Poison, Secrets, and Cover-Ups, William Bond from The Permaculture Consultant, who exposes the toxic aftermath, government failures, and shoc...
#Programming tip: technical debt is job security. Build software that works and needs to be maintained. The bosses want software quickly, give it to them. This means cutting some corners and building up some technical debt. Let them know, they actually like to hear that you are moving fast. They don't want a perfectly polished diamond in a month, they want something that kinda works in a week. And they'll need to keep you around to pay down that debt.
Le combat devient épique entre les camps du totalitarisme et de la corruption et celui de la véracité et de la liberté.
Le chemin passera inévitablement par des durcissements, des manœuvres dilatoires, des événements tragiques et des persécutions.
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(it's the Fillmore Safeway, the one @deanpreston has been trying to keep open until construction is ready to start / make sure the development will have a grocery store. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-…)
Oh man, I remember when Walgreen's was crying about "crime and safety" a couple years back and they insisted they were closing stores because they were losing so much money from theft. Turns out they just weren't being profitable due to taxes or something like that, it had nothing to do with the crime narrative they insisted on pushing, very frustrating
we have reached a point in time where "no ai" is actually a valid marketing tactic that makes me want to use something. my toaster had no ai, but assuring me on the box? mm
We bought a toaster/convection/air fryer oven a couple years ago, not only does it not have AI, it doesn't even have digital circuits, it's all knobs and springs and switches. When the timer ends, there is a little actual metal bell that gets struck, instead of those insidious beeping piezoelectric speakers. Anyways, it's glorious and I don't have to update the fucking WiFi password, or set the clock when the power goes out or anything.
A federal judge is blocking the sale of Alex Jones' Infowars to the satirical news outlet The Onion. A bankruptcy auction initially forced Jones to sell off the conspiracy theory platform.
Question for trackball users: Should I get a trackball mouse? I need a mouse that doesn't move.
I have never used one. I'm willing to deal with the learning curve.
Most of the time I'm a keyboard-only user, but I like to work on photography from time to time. Photo processing software is, of course, very mouse intensive.
My desk is very small and the mouse with its mouse-pad don't fit very well, specially when a notepad, a cellphone or camera is part of the workflow and it's on the desk too, next to the mouse. But, on the other hand, a trackball doesn't move.
I'm trying to do my own research, but the paid reviews are getting in my way, and I can't always differentiate between a genuine user reporting the benefits of a trackball or a "review".
Trackball users, will it solve the "my desk is too small" problem?
Gary Player, the legendary South African golfer, has long been an ambassador not only for golf but also for the social and economic potential of his home country. At nearly 90, Player continues to inspire with his resilience, global perspective, and unwavering commitment to fostering positive change. In a wide-ranging conversation, he offers powerful insights into South Africa’s challenges, his relationship with Donald Trump, and his vision for the future. youtube.com/watch?v=OReamkTg-Y…
Gary Player, the legendary South African golfer, has long been an ambassador not only for golf but also for the social and economic potential of his home cou...
@Alec_Zeck: Are you confused by those who say "COVID doesn't exist"? Let me help you out. Virology 101. A refresher. 🧵 /1 I do not say this lightly: the foundations for virology, and thus the entire field...…
Right, I'm not even sure where I stand on the second paragraph. I'm thinking about this mostly in the abstract. One of the very clear common sense observations is the great cost for the average person who has important responsibilities like providing for a family, or working 16 hr days, don't have the time of mentally charged batteries for this "fleshing out..."
As for the first part, and I've written about this on here before, their tactics involve creating camps/armies of supporters and detractors and definitely getting in early to even seed the detractors and using false conflict to push A or B or C and also allowing a pivot to B or C when necessary. (Campbell's notorius jab stance flip comes to mind).
The "pitted against the establishment" seems more of a trope by and for boomers from the 60s-70s era protesting, same angle for the on the street protests and fake marches. This is already too far off the abstract for me at the moment.
For those of us engaging in what we call "thought", the divisions come the natural bifurcation of truth vs lies and a rectification of past false beliefs with new information.
Their divisions focus on team A with the currently received truth wisdoms of position A vs team B or all the other teams. It's pretty retarded how confident people are that they are on the winning team at any given time and how much they will ostracize and abuse (see Plandemic) the perceived outsiders.
I've got one major problem with this, as elucidated when speaking with someone at length this last week. The person was locked into "neuro-typicals" vs "neuro-divergents" and was framing pretty much any and all observations as being tension between two groups, residing confidently in the latter and defining points of friction with the former.
There is a similar flaw here, stating that it's a bimodal distribution.
(This person got very upset with me when I suggested that was what I felt they spent a lot of time doing.)
It's exactly the Dems vs Reps, Jabbed vs Purebloods line. There are definitely bimodal distributions (like jabbed vs unjabbed, or penis vs vagina) on the technicalities of the matters.
If we're talking truth, I think it's reducible to a bimodal distribution as such:
People who claim to hold position A or not position A, and then everyone else. Whatever is left of the Bell curve of the Pareto distribution or multimodal distribution.
The meddlers are trying get people to hold position A or not A, through coercion, subterfuge, appeal to popularity, appeal to authority, false claims of truthiness and so forth.
"Our team" is trying to get people to get to position B n some other way and sometimes exactly the same ways.
In fact, it seems that most of the time what "we're" doing or have been doing is holding that position A is false without very got positions B through Z.
Positions at the end of the alphabet being akin to conspiracy theory left fields. Closest to A (B through some amount) being deliberately prepositioned meddler alternatives.
Notice how I haven't mention reason or us clever thinkers or anything so far. Anyhow, I'm going to revisit this conversation because the idea of "neuro-divergent" as label for contrarian, dissident, critique is interesting. We're all labelled as thought criminals just for being here.
It's seeding vocabulary and knowledge into the public such that the casual follower can't reason with this knowledge and thus cannot meaningfully challenge anyone. You see this on Twitter all the time. Accounts who can't challenge things on the merits of the argument will start name calling and acting basically unreasonable because they are absolutely convinced in the belief, but without enough knowledge to actually have meaningful discourse. It contributes to the division because outside observers will then pick sides. Either they side w/ the "crazy" person or w/ mainstream, never themselves questioning anything.
Unfortunately, the number of critical thinkers anywhere is going to be very small.
If phages are REAL, that IMPLIES that the biochemistry works (at least a a bacterial level).
I haven't fully been keeping up, but based on whatever I see in my various feeds...
The no virus crew wants the entire question to only be focused on whether viruses exist or not, but they don't want to talk about the implications of having no viruses.
That would mean that:
vaccines are zero benefit and all risk (everything about vaccines should be criminal)
the response to the pandemic was fraudulent and criminal in many many ways.
But instead they focus on all the holes surrounding the "discovery" of viruses. However, currently they are looking (through Jamie Andrews) at almost all of biochemistry, including DNA, sequencing and other techniques.
I suspect that they will focus on a few small pieces and again miss the bigger picture implications from that. Part of that could just be a response to @jjcouey starting to look at all the Bad Biology. It almost feels like they want to get ahead of it and have their people ready with retorts, but we'll see.
😆 The no virus crew is working hard to stay relevant. Niel Oliver points out it's much more important to focus on what they did in the name of the virus than whether one exists or where it came fr...
When they were saying Make America Great Again they meant like when the Robber Barons and Rail Tycoons had all the money and everyone else worked themselves to death or dismemberment.
Reddit and other corporate controlled media banning even *talking* about Luigi Mangione and his motives and writings is a serious wake up call for people. There is a very good reason to talk about these things but the CEO class cannot possibly allow it.
i wanna fuck around in blender caught up in other projects
i wanna make a proper system for messing around with many panels, my current scripts wont cut it and i wanna actually animate, feels like i never get to
The firehose of bad news about our national situation the past 24 hours has me wanting to completely unplug for a little while. It's going to be a long long four years. #uspoli #rant
Wray resigning to comply in advance so Trump will put a total stooge in there. The NC power grab by the Republican legislature which will be rubber stamped by the 5-2 GOP state supreme court. Manchin and Sinema blocked Biden's NRLB appointee so Trump will be able to stock it with anti-labor goons even more. A bunch of at best bad messaging and worse capitulation by Democratic House and Senate members towards Trump and Musk BS. Etc. Etc.
Oh. Wasn't aware of any of that. Pot is legal here in New Mexico. I think I'm planning to spend the next four years baked and not watching or reading any news. The world has become just too damn depressing. That reminds me I need a new bong...
It's weird since I follow you on both of my accounts your original reply to me on bofh.social didn't show up in my notifications but it did show up on my queerfedi instance. LOL. I think a lot of us are going to need to be baked to survive the next 4 years frankly.
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Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:
Australia 0 Canada 0 Denmark 0 Finland 0 France 0 Germany 0 Iceland 0 Ireland 0 Italy 0 Japan 0 Netherlands 0 Norway 0 Portugal 0 Spain 0 Sweden 0 UK 0 United States 530,000
Today's story involved a stupid amount of research. I'm so glad I can share it now.
How Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks
A financial firm registered in Canada has emerged as the payment processor for dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges and websites hawking cybercrime services aimed at Russian-speaking customers, new research finds. Meanwhile, an investigation into the Vancouver street address used by this company shows it is home to dozens of foreign currency dealers, money transfer businesses, and cryptocurrency exchanges — none of which are physically located there.
The 122 services targeted in Sanders’ research include some of the more prominent businesses advertising on the cybercrime forums today, such as:
-abuse-friendly or “bulletproof” hosting providers like anonvm[.]wtf, and PQHosting; -sites selling aged email, financial, or social media accounts, such as verif[.]work and kopeechka[.]store; -anonymity or “proxy” providers like crazyrdp[.]com and rdp[.]monster; -anonymous SMS services, including anonsim[.]net and smsboss[.]pro.
According to Sanders, all 122 of the services he tested are processing transactions through a company called Cryptomus, which says it is a cryptocurrency payments platform based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Cryptomus’ website says its parent firm — Xeltox Enterprises Ltd. (formerly certa-pay[.]com) — is registered as a money service business (MSB) with the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC).
Sanders said the payment data he gathered also shows that at least 56 cryptocurrency exchanges are currently using Cryptomus to process transactions, including financial entities with names like casher[.]su, grumbot[.]com, flymoney[.]biz, obama[.]ru and swop[.]is.
These platforms are built for Russian speakers, and they each advertise the ability to anonymously swap one form of cryptocurrency for another. They also allow the exchange of cryptocurrency for cash in accounts at some of Russia’s largest banks — nearly all of which are currently sanctioned by the United States and other western nations.
not to brag but everyone tells me my secondary sexual characteristics and lack of visible indicators of parasitic infection are my most attractive qualities
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For me, success is simple: I want to make a living without being at the mercy of another person’s whims.
I cannot be fired or laid off. No one is writing a performance review on me. I don’t have to fit into an organization’s culture.
Most importantly, if someone emails my “boss” because they’re unhappy about something I said on social media, it doesn’t matter—my “boss” (that is, me) agrees with everything I say.
In a striking revelation, District Attorney Fani Willis faces scrutiny for allegedly concealing records related to her communications with key figures involved in the January 6 investigations.
“We don't want to have an epidemic of people freezing to death,” a resident declared during the Buncombe County Commissioners meeting, voicing frustration over the slow pace of disaster relief in North Carolina. Another resident added, “I've never seen the lack of public officials coming out and actually trying to help,” reflecting the sentiment of abandonment felt by many in the community.
Despite the mainstream media’s narrative of assistance, a resident revealed, “FEMA money runs out, and all the help I’ve seen has come from people out of state.” One FEMA employee even admitted, “Every delay means another night that a child sleeps in a car.”
@OKeefeMedia investigated these concerns, visiting FEMA Disaster Recovery Centers across the state to uncover the reality of Hurricane Helene relief efforts. Once inside the Disaster Recovery Center in Polk County, OMG met Rosanne Walters, the manager of the facility. Walters claimed survivors were receiving assistance there “in various ways,” but the state of the center told a different story. James O’Keefe reported that the site was nearly empty, with employees “standing around,” while survivors continued to struggle.
During the investigation, OMG encountered resistance from security at FEMA facilities, who insisted all press footage be reviewed by “their people.” Security’s hesitancy of press coverage only fueled suspicions of a cover-up, with an OMG Journalist adding “It makes it look like you’re hiding something.”
Two months after Hurricanes Helene and Milton and so many are still without aid or answers. We need courageous FEMA employees to step forward. If you have information, now is the time to act. Lives depend on it. You can confidentially reach out to us via direct message or contact us securely on Signal at 914-491-9395.
#ThankGNU! to Adarsh Melethil, David Bruce, Deborah Jackson, James Wilson, Mikael Taipale, Peter Sluka, and Valerio Poggi for helping the FSF continue its goal of educating the public about #freesoftware See a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness: u.fsf.org/3vy
"Boys, our biggest competitor is a huge advertising company with a reputation that's rapidly nose-diving because the main thing people interact with is speed-running itself into unusable AI garbage. How can we make our own browser even less popular?"
"Boss, I got a crazy idea, but it just might work..."
Most web browsers currently have a feature called “Do Not Track” hidden in settings. In the case of Mozilla's Firefox browser, Windows Report has spotted
"Boys, our biggest competitor is a huge advertising company with a reputation that's rapidly nose-diving because the main thing people interact with is speed-running itself into unusable AI garbage. How can we make our own browser even less popular?"
"Boss, I got a crazy idea, but it just might work..."
Most web browsers currently have a feature called “Do Not Track” hidden in settings. In the case of Mozilla's Firefox browser, Windows Report has spotted
PeerTube is an open-source and decentralized video network, with videos hosted across thousands of interconnected servers, from large YouTube-like public servers to smaller ones set up by individual creators.
You can browse and watch videos from over a thousand different servers—the app calls them “platforms” in some places—and you don’t need an account with any of them to use the mobile app. You can also favourite videos, subscribe to channels, follow your favourite creators (regardless of the server they’re hosted on), create custom playlists, and add videos to a watch list.
Created in 2017 by a single developer, PeerTube is now maintained by the French non-profit Framasoft.
PeerTube uses the same ActivityPub protocol as Mastodon, Meta’s Threads, PixelFed, and other services, meaning you have a bunch of servers to play videos from.
I can imagine that funding for a video based platform is going to be a bigger challenge than for text based posts. I also post my own videos to a Peertube server.
They KNOW what they're doing...they just don't want us to know. It ain't good.
"Now the fact that those findings have been concealed may bring more trouble to Olson-Kennedy.
A report in Just the News explains that “the walls are closing in on perhaps the most influential youth gender-transition physician in America after she admitted hiding the results of her federally funded study that failed to find mental health improvements from so-called gender affirming care, contradicting her prior characterization of the study’s population to explain the results.”
A lawsuit with Olson-Kennedy as a defendant has been brought by UCLA student Kaya Clementine Breen, who detransitioned and reportedly can back her claims by using Olson-Kennedy’s own case notes about her.
Breen lawyer Jordan Campbell told Just the News that those notes cannot be shared yet.
But multiple Republican senators just last week joined House Oversight Committee Republicans to demand the NIH turn over information on Olson-Kennedy’s study and the results.
The report explained that decision on the study “helped create a false medical consensus on puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgical interventions for gender-confused youth.”"
President-elect Donald Trump celebrated FBI Director Christopher Wray announcing on Wednesday that he will be resigning at the end of the Biden administration.
In the “McGreatAgain” exhibition by the city of Hannover, the communal cinema (KoKi) is showing the following list of movies in preparation to Trump's second term as president:
The Apprentice — The Trump Story (2024)
Henry Fonda For President (2024)
All Hunger Games Movies
She Said (2022)
Payland USA (2019)
Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018)
White House Down (2013)
Borat (2006)
Team America — World Police (2004)
Wag the Dog (1997)
All the President's Men (1976)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Gabriel Over the White House (1933)
Good takeaway: Live your life in a way that people don't recommend watching dystopian movies in preparation for your seizing of power!
People keep thinking the recursive nature of machine learning will mimic what's in animals and we'll see LLMs show us the secret of consciousness .... in reality the ingestion of both real content and AI generated content (that's treated as real content) will likely end up making LLMs dumber ...
The AI is not making people stupider. People are going to make the AI stupider.
I'll give it a look, but my bias is I don't think it really does. I don't think the outputs from these tools really approaches anything remotely like human cognition. It's a lot of bullshit and wrong answers, because it's trained to generate things we can recognize. It is a really interesting emergent property: how something that strings tokens together appears to do it well enough it feels like communication. But I think the human nervous system is insanely more complex.
...then again ... a good 1/4 to 1/3 of humanity probably isn't very complex. A lot of people can't even understand ratios ... maybe you're right because people aren't as sentient as we think we are
@djsumdog @KuteboiCoder prefacing this, that I do believe in a divine spark being the foundation of consciousness.
That said, I have long surmised that if you simply build a large enough network of synapses (or synapse emulators, as in the case of neural networks e.g.) that intelligence arises from this mess as a natural consequence of the network passing some size.
I don't have much scientific basis for this belief but it is at least intuitive, and roughly maps onto the varying brain sizes and intelligences that arise in lower animals.
"Consciousness" or sophisticated thought though, I believe to be the distinguishing factor between humanity and lower animals, and to be divine, not merely a natural, physical consequence of the size of a neural network in our skulls.
Y'all, we need to talk about when GenAI use is worse than just doing a job "terribly".
Lots of my job involves reading insurance questionnaires. And they're long and tedious and talk about things like they're absolutes but we all know there's way more nuance than there's room for in a couple of box checks.
But! There's comments fields! And for me and my team, those comments fields are *gold*. They give us a sense of how the organization really thinks about security. We can usually tell if the questions were answered by the legal team, or the IT leadership, or the security leadership, because each of those roles uses different language and jargon. And this tells us about the organization! We love reading y'all's comments.
And then there's something I saw recently where the comments were... off. It almost felt like someone was copy/pasting from a cyber security basics textbook. In response to every "do you implement this control" question, there was a response of "Yes! We implement that control! It is a really important control because <insert explanation of what that controls does here>".
I mentioned this to my teammates and their immediate response? GenAI. That's not how any professional adjacent to this field writes. You don't need to explain to your insurance carrier what those controls are. We know. That's why we're asking about them in the questionnaire!
And, I get it. These questionnaires are long and confusing. You don't know what the "right" answer looks like. We get it. But GenAI isn't going to help. It's not going to give an accurate answer of what's in your organization's environment. It's not going to give us a sense of your competency. It absolutely isn't going to impress us, because now we think that you have no idea how cyber security works.
If you're using GenAI to get over writer's block, that's great! But you still need to edit that content into shape. If you're worried about language barrier issues and think GenAI will help you get your point across better because its English is better? Just write in your native language, we have translation tools. If you're worried that your answer isn't "good enough"? Look, the questionnaire is the start of a conversation. If you're the sort of company that does calls with underwriters, we can talk through whatever issues you think you have. But we need to have an honest exchange.
Just, please, PLEASE, don't blindly use GenAI to fill out your questionnaires.
Y'all, we need to talk about when GenAI use is worse than just doing a job "terribly".
Lots of my job involves reading insurance questionnaires. And they're…
As Canada Post workers remain on the picket line, a key point of contention in their demands is what they describe as a growing physical and mental toll amid increasing pressure on workers, more extreme weather and whether to expand health benefits.
As Canada Post workers remain on the picket line, a key point of contention in their demands is their job's growing physical and mental toll—exacerbated by climate change.
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BSDs such as OpenBSD and FreeBSD offer packages for precompiled binaries and /use/ports for building from source rather than something more “user friendly” like MacPorts which tries to default to precompiled before automagically compiling from source if such things don’t exist for the users’ system.
Did Python become a compiled language somewhere by default and I missed it? I know compilers for interpreted languages exist, but they aren’t the default, just like cJIT exists to provide a real-time C interpreter JIT for development purposes, but the default uses of C are still compiled. So the rest of what that person is writing in relation to Python makes no sense to me.
And blocked by brettcannon@fosstodon.org for responding to “I still haven't heard of a scenario where another ecosystem can just download the pre-compiled binaries and unzip them like we have” with counter examples?
Whatever.
Python people (and I guess npm too) are too up in the clouds to me and way too ignorant of the world around them, yet again.
“When we execute a source code, Python compiles it into a byte code. Compilation is a translation step, and the byte code is a low-level platform-independent representation of source code. Note that the Python byte code is not binary machine code (e.g., instructions for an Intel chip).”
In other words, Python demeans the term compilation.
Also, after it “compiles” that apparently it throws it into the PVM (Python Virtual Machine)?
It’s as if Python was designed to be the least efficient language imaginable!
I will NOT be doing the Fedi Christmas tree this year.
My in-laws are forcing me into Didney Worl for the third time this year and it has all but killed my Christmas spirit.
Instead. This Christmas, I am going full Grinch mode.
You can expect all the uncut drama and holiday oopsies of Didney Worl to be the only thing celebrated on this account this year.
Fedi will be my dumping spot for how much I hate #DidneyWorl.
I will celebrate dumpster fire ride scheduling. Will laud the flopped performances and crowds of losers who adore them. I will deck these halls with the sins of a generation of fabricated cheap entertainment. And I will not be getting you a gift this year. (((because I am still poor and should really be spending this holiday looking for a job.)))
In so doing, I will hopefully be tolerable IRL through this holiday season.
Now, we get to wake up at the butt crack of dawn every morning to get into a "virtual queue" so that we can actually ride the rides we have paid Disney to allow us to schedule as "lightning lanes".
Sound confusing? I think it's purposefully so.
So lets straighten it out.
Step one: By the Lightning Lane. This is the most advertised step and the easiest of course.
Step two: Wake up in the middle of the night so that you get firstish pick of scheduling your ride. You gotta do this on what feels like a random night prior to your trip so I guess add that to you're fun trip itinerary now
Step three: Every day at Didney Worl you must wake up at 7 AM. Even though you are dog tired from walking / running around a hot park all day. Then, you have to schedule your virtual queue. If you don't do this you will straight up just not get to ride the ride you paid for.
Step four: Wait for the people who run the virtual queue to call your number. This can happen at any time on the day that you have scheduled it. After they call your number, you have a limited time to show up at the ride before they skip you and you have to go back to step three. Hopefully you're somewhat nearby when they call your name or you'll have a wonderful time navigating the parks at high speed under duress.
Step five: Stand in line. This is the part where you finally wonder if it was all worth it. Because you're still going to be standing in line for probably 20 minutes. But, I guess that beats standing in line for 90 minutes.
oh, if I kept reading my feed I probably would have figured out you where talking about instant gram being down. I never got instangrahm to work in the first place
What if building nostr apps took a few lines of code ? As easy as it was to build a website back in the day. A new browser for interoperable apps without legacy web baggage. Built in bitcoin wallet, local relay, signer, outbox, for all apps. Offline first, Cross-app coordination via the local relay. This is gonna be wild
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