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Having just watched the Watergate mini-series, this is exactly what Nixon did to John Dean, told the press Dean had researched and created the internal Dean Report, exonerating the top white house officials, it was a lie. John Dean had never compiled such a report. From then on, John Dean knew he was being set-up as the fall guy.
@polariseraHas anyone actually SEEN it yet or KNOW what all is in it?
I just HATE this omnibus bill bullshit. They've been doing this for a while here and they usually have all sort of horrible crap mixed in with a couple of half-assed things.
NZ is a corrurpt backwards state with zero freedom of speech, but at least they require all bills to be read before Parliament before they can be voted on. If a bill is amended, the entire bill has to be re-read. If we had this in America, it would literally be impossible for Congress to pass anything, even if they hired the Micromachines guy to read bills .. and the country would be better off.
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@djsumdogThis seems counter-productive to everything T-man and Elon bitched about.
I don't get why exactly Trump would go through all the trouble of reducing waste in gov then present a bill designed (by the sound of it) to produce more waste - otherwise why all the shenanigans to get the bill passed without debate?
Wouldn't it be great if ppl could easily vote to get rid of stupid ppl and policies in gov? Instead polling companies are paid to make it seem like voters agree with what the gov is touting.
@LaylaAlexandrovna @djsumdogTrump seems to care more about keeping the tax cuts than anything else. The bill had that in it, so he’s happy with it. Individual Republican representatives added things based on their own constituents and companies in their districts. There is spending that is obligatory. They agreed (mostly) on rather large cuts to Medicaid over the next few years, which is actually a big ask for them to pass and they will probably pay for it next year in elections since republican districts tend to have more people on Medicaid. They always add tons to the department of defense, which imo needs a fucking audit instead since we’re talking about waste/fraud/abuse. And then apparently no one read the bill.
Besides which, Congress was never going to go along with all of the spending cuts that Trump and Doge came up with and Congress is the one who controls the budget per Constitution. The President has no control over the budget himself, but he can ask and work with Congress to implement what he wanted. Doge’s ‘cuts’ were mostly a show for the media I think.
Additionally, the Senate is already refusing to vote for the bill as is and they’re rewriting it. It’ll probably take a good portion of the summer before anything gets passed. The senate generally moves slower than the house.
The shenanigans over passing it were for the media, which has been criticizing Mike Johnson for over a year now for not passing a budget since he became the Speaker if I remember correctly.
DOGE was a completely irrelevant number of cuts and executive spending grew after those cuts. The Trump admin made a big deal about the social programs growing points for things that don't amount to much. Any CIA activity basically just moved back to the State Dept, so they probably saved some overhead on having to lie about certain programs. USAID was always a conduit for CIA operatives to infiltrate foreign governments. People who defend it (and I have a friend who worked directly for a USAID program in DC and defends it) sadly are not aware of just how entrenched the CIA was in those affairs (and still is). During the Kennedy years the number of operatives on the CIA payroll in US embassies outnumbered those employed by the State Department.
Most of what we've seen is performative, including this kayfabe with Elon and Trump. It's all narrative building bullshit, meant to build division and drama, when both of them are going to get everything they want. The spending bill is just a means to continue the slow collapse of the US and world economies with ever growing irreclaimable debt.
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I already covered Phosh, the mobile port of GNOME, and Plasma Mobile, both running on the pinephone. Now it's time to take a look at the other main alternative for mobile Linux interfaces, the one that has been around for a while now: Ubuntu Touch, or Lomiri. Let's take a look at how well it runs
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This shell is based on gestures starting from the screen edges. A short swipe from left to right will bring a launcher with the default applications pinned to it, and your current open applications as well, appearing on top of the pinned shortcuts. A longer swipe from the left edge will bring the whole list of applications.
If you swipe from the right towards the left in a short motion, you'll switch to the next open app. If you make a long swipe from the right edge, then you'll get to a multitasking view, with apps displayed in a 3D layout.
You can swipe an app's card up to close it, or tap an app to resume it.
Finally, a swipe from the top edge of the screen will bring the notifications, and the quick settings, which don't display as on most other operating systems: they're in a straight line, that you can scroll from left to right, and tap each icon to get to a quick few shortcuts, like enabling or disabling a specific feature, or dive deeper into the settings.
The Applications
Out of the box, you get a nice calculator that handles rotation beautifully to display more options, and lets you swipe from the bottom in portrait to still get access to these options. The default calendar app looks good, with an Agenda view that shows your various events in order, a day, week, month, and year view.
I won't dwell on the camera app, as support for the pinephone camera is still in its infancy, it's rare that it even displays an image.
The Clock application lets you add various clocks from all around the world, start a timer, or use a stopwatch. Swiping from the bottom in the "clock" tab lets you create alarms, although I would have preferred alarms to be a full tab in the app instead of hiding that behind a swipe.
The contacts app does what you'd expect, list your contacts and allow to set some as favorites and you can swipe from the bottom to create a new one. The file manager looks good, although it's a bit slow to start, and lets you create files, and change how the directories look.
The messaging app works as you'd expect, letting you type messages and send them to your contacts. You can also swipe up from the bottom edge of the screen to start a new message.
The web browser is alright, if a bit slow to start.It lets you pick your search engine and homepage, and display web pages in desktop mode, but there are no sync capabilities for history, bookmarks, or passwords, so it's not going to be fantastic to use.
There is also a terminal app that looks really good and has quick aliases in the bottom left corner. The Notes app is also pretty competent, letting you swipe up from the bottom to create a new note, and syncs with evernote.
This leaves us with the phone dialer, letting you pick a contact, or just type the number you want to call, and the weather app, which is really black and white and pretty spartan, and it reminds me of a windows phone app.
The Settings
The settings page uses a sensible icon grid.
Ubuntu Touch is pretty barebones in that regard: in terms of customization, you can change the wallpaper, the ringtone for calls and messages, and that's about it. A few apps let you switch to a dark mode in the settings, and some offer to respect a "system preference", but that's not something I could find in the settings.
The AppStore
The OpenStore serves as the App Store for Ubuntu Touch. It's not a package manager like you could find on other Mobile Linux alternatives: no way to download a desktop program here, at least not graphically.
You'll get apps that were made specifically for ubuntu touch, and there are around 400 of these in total. You can also get a few Matrix clients, and a nice email client called Dekko 2, among other applications.
Updates are handled in the system settings, with over the air updates for the system itself, and for the apps, grouped at the same place.
WOW! Has anyone seen this? Nancy Pelosi on the Phone talking about the Blocking of the National Guard on Jan 6.
A Lot Of These Security Videos Were Seen Right After J6 2021 But Were Blocked From Most People Seeing It! My Personal Opinion Pelosi Setup The Whole J6 Event ! She Wanted To Finish Trump Off !
Byrd Who Was Her Personal Security Supervisor When She Was Inside The Capital I Believe Was Told By Pelosi To Shoot Someone So They Could Blame Trump For It!
And Security Video Shows Byrd Walking The Long Corridors Texting The Whole Time From The Other End Of The Capital And Just Walked Up There To Shoot Turned Out To Be Ashli Unarmed Who Even Had 3 Capital Police On Both Sides Of Her With There Long Guns Hanging Off There Shoulders ! There Was Nothing Going On !
And Mayor Bowser Was In On It ! She Ran The DC Prison Where She Said She Would Make Those J6 Prisoners Wish They Never Came To DC ! And We Saw The Abuse ! That Was Bowser !
On this day, 81 years ago, tens of thousands of young men from ordinary backgrounds hit the beaches of Normandy and faced the most intense fire any group of attackers has ever faced in the history of modern warfare.
On Friday, the House passed H.R. 2966, the American Entrepreneurs First Act, which restricts noncitizens from receiving Small Business Administration (SBA) loans.
trying not to judge every single person i see in the store is tough. i just don't understand how EVERYONE has gotten so damn fat. do people not have any self control at all?
They have shitty sleep because their own jowls choke them at night. So much of life is out of bounds to them because they can't move properly. They simply choose to "live" this way.
It is very strange.
I know people who are slowly drinking themselves to death. Bad teeth from sugary alcohol. They're probably on the fast track to alzheimer's. This is preferred over... life? Reality? It's almost like these people— extremely well-to-do sportsball fans and system-believers— are burdened by some vague consciousness of what we "wrongthinkers" know, but can never acknowledge.
Like they have some suspicion that the future is an ugly place, not worth showing up to.
@Kusojiji it's shocking how much of our culture is centered around consuming things that we shouldn't be consuming and aren't necessary, and how poor people's impulse control is
When an ominous cosmic event swallows the icy home of a small space critter, he must find refuge among a group of luminous creatures watched over by a mysterious celestial being.
Israel arms ISIS-jihadists to fight against Hamas just like they armed Hamas to fight against the PFLP.
You may ask yourself “when will they ever learn?” but that's assuming the Israeli government's goal is to live in peace. Why should they need to learn, when arming terrorist groups that destabilize and escalate this conflict isn't a mistake?
Considering how much genocide, ethnic cleansing, settler colonialism and hence the expansion of their borders they have been able to justify due to hamas; considering their main argument behind stopping the entry of humanitarian aid was because they were sometimes raided by terrorist militias, which as it now turns out they funded, it was a worthy investment.
never forget that benny n. said explicitly how much he/israel had benefited from 9/11. terrorist there, terrorst here... benny n gets to win no matter what.
We can talk about "colonialism and hence the expansion of their borders", but "genocide, ethnic clensing" is bullshit and I call you delusional for that.
@unknownpseudoartist we both put out music with cats. you and i understand the internet 😛 i also like that you have your own site! im at work but got a tab open for you. ill be checking out your tunes when i get home!
also, you should check out indieart.support and shout out with your artist details @hello to get on the directory!
so im inclined to scold you for all your self-deprecation but then i would be a hypocrite. but i do like this part:
"Basically this is that kind of music you'd expect to find in a random MySpace or Soundclick profile in the 2000s. That kind of thing you'd get 128k MP3 downloads in a static HTML site. That kind of stuff that would normally be done by some passionate young person who just discovered they can do cool stuff to share online in a cyberworld full of people willing to discover and listen more random, creepy stuff like this. "
and i think you'll find plenty of company around here. especially as a #caturday-er.
anyways, you do a really good job with bass sounds. the overall tonal quality and just getting bass synth sounds. often times better than actual bass guitar but let's not awaken the bassists, right? i aint tryna die right before the weekend. favorite track on the placeholder of something... i think gotta be absurd. ill check out the other album after this last listen.
hey thanks a lot for listening! this means a lot to me ❤️ (even if I don't agree with my fake bass sounding any better than real bass haha)
Regarding the self-deprecant comments... well, it's complicated, but let's say I was in a bad time and dealing with a bad situation in certain communities regarding harsh criticism and I was tired of that, and just felt the need to break with that and go more my way without any pressure. Feeling a lot better about that already, so no worries 😀
thats good to hear. theres a lot of pressure from our economic and societal systems to make the creation of art something that turns a profit, or needing to be a certain amount of prolific. all nonsense. the point of making art is the part where you are making it. that journey, that mindset. the best therapy, imho (or at least thats what i keep telling myself bc hell no i;m not paying for therapy lol).
heck yeah! Couldn't agree more. In fact sometimes it's not even about economic stuff but more like some folks pretending to be Yngwie Malsteen (even when Yngwie seems to be not that arrongant anymore haha), or obsessing on production/mixing (which can be kinda elitistic, since oftentimes that's more a matter of money and expensive tools rather than simply doing stuff). Art should be more about having fun and expressing things, not about bratting or obsessing on getting better at it!
and yeah, I like the idea behind the paragraph you quoted! I can't say I was a huge fan of everything that was done in the internet in the mid-late 2000s, and it wasn't the greatest times for many people (too much of bigot bullsh*t, you know). But when it comes to art and creatives stuff, definitively missing that special charm and the prominence of more amateur-ish attitude, in the best way. I just love the underground side of music and art 😀 and it's a pity some of that got lost.
lost or at least buried by all the gloss and shine of the corporate internet. there seems to still be a decent amount out there, you jut got a dig for it a little. like the artists we have here on the fedi, and all the artists @hello
yeah, that's my suspiction. After all, you wouldn't expect a random artist with 20 views/listens to get noticed by the algorhythms, right? It's a huge relief to find a place where that couldn't matter less 😀 in fact I'm kinda overwhelmed by the lots of messages I got all of a sudden when I posted that post the other day haha
totally! I'm glad I decided to jump into this place. There's a vibe that reminds to that late 2000s internet (like forums and blogs) in cultural/entertainment terms while keeping up with the times for the more important stuff (like ethics, diversity, etc). So it's like combining the best of both old and current times without the bad of neither 😀
If you haven’t been following, the sugar diet is exactly what it sounds like: a low-protein, low-fat, high-sugar diet. Some influencers are eating up to 800 ...
Yeah I watched... the mechanism isn't understood, other than the body compensates for extreme dietary situations. You ain't gonna tell me that someone with T2D and the related comorbidities is gonna benefit from this diet.
tried watching a restream of the game fes bullshit show
couldn't last more than 5 minutes before an illogical discomfort and rage took handle of me so i decided to stop
i don't think i can ever go back to watching those shitshows tbh not now knowing that majority of it is slop(with denuvo mind you) if not outright subversive leftoid shit
its not nearly as bad as the last couple of years (still mostly shit tho) im too apathetic at this point and just get satisfaction knowing most of them will bomb
Soapbox Chief Executive Officer Alex Gleason explores the current landscape, challenges, and future of decentralized social media and censorship-resistant co...
Soapbox Chief Executive Officer Alex Gleason explores the current landscape, challenges, and future of decentralized social media and censorship-resistant co...
Occasional renewal of the prediction that Trump will not finish his term, and I think it's even plausible he'll be out by the midterms.
The current situation is unsustainable, even for the people who are benefiting most from it. Those people will, of course, try to keep him in place as long as they can, but it's a losing battle. With a lot of ugly tradeoffs in the meantime.
Sadly, Dem leadership are among the ones who believe they benefit. They don't even try to hide it. Schumer and Jeffries, like the fash faction and theocrat faction, want to keep Donny Littlehands in the Oval Office as long as possible, because they think that's what's best for them. Lesser techbros will start turning on Trump now, with Musk and Thiel paying the bills, but they can't do much harm without getting hurt back. And the bigger techbros (Goog, MS, FB, Apple, Amazon) are basically part of the Big Bidness faction. That faction isn't going to defect until the very very last minute.
BTW if you want to be horrified go look for Jeffries's response when a journalist asked if he was planning to do anything about Trump having crossed Jeffries's "red line" of congressional arrests. When I say he'll be much worse than Pelosi that's what I mean. Pelosi was good at procedure and knew how to use money to whip. The only things Jeffries is good at are passing the buck and reassuring donors.
That means the rest of us just have to hope we survive, and that midterms don't get derailed by a terrorist attack, and Trump doesn't get martyred in a way that cements GOP power, or any of a dozen other obvious that could wreck the possibility of Dems regaining control of one or both chambers.
only correction, i would say pelosi was good at reassuring the donors, jeffries is not. which makes jeffries incompetent both to us (the people) and the donors. remember that after the election, jeffries went begging the tech donors for money and direction (bc what else is dem leadership good for?) and the donors pretty much told him to f off, they're team trump now. play stupid games, win stupid prizes. but its truly incredible that jeffries is an even worse orator than pelosi. imagine what he'll be like when hes 80 years old.
I kinda felt like defending him with "yeah but what donors want now is probably for him to be as completely incompetent and useless as possible, like Schumer" but I get what a crappy defense that is 😁
fyi all you tech bros salivating over some kind of "ai assistant" that's intelligent enough to understand you and act on your desires, but for some reason doesn't need to be treated with respect or be given any sort of compensation at all...
hate to break it to you but you're reinventing something again, and it's definitely not something good
i had a dream that there were shorts that had a whole horse or octopus built into them. was looking for them in the toy section of walmart and they started playing DEI messages on the loud speaker
Been off my anti depressants since April now and now I feel like I've reached a state of craziness. I've developed an unhealthy obsession with someone (who hopefully doesn't know, but I did send a Facebook request), and am not sleeping at night. If I don't work through this over the weekend, I'm afraid it is back to the Zoloft for me.
Keep checking my fb to see if the request is accepted, and I'm guessing it will not be. Keep checking said persons active status on Teams at work. Keep trying to walk past said person. I am a psycho.
Also in the strangest coincidence, when I tried messaging said person at work, it actually failed to go through. You can't block internal people so that was fucking weird.
Why I am returning to my regular dose of Prozac after 2 years of tapering off. A few days ago, at a candy store in another town, I asked if I could buy some empty chocolate boxes.
As we have watched things unfold, we have noticed that Tulsi Gabbard and Marco Rubio seem to be the most effective at delivering results despite the efforts of the entrenched control mechanisms of the deep state intelligence community.
Denali is six million acres of wild land, bisected by one ribbon of road. Travelers along it see the relatively low-elevation taiga forest give way to high alpine tundra and snowy mountains, culminating in North America's tallest peak, 20,310' Mount …
Wow: "Labeling the video as being "Harmful or dangerous content", YouTube has removed Jeff's video titled "I replaced my Apple TV—with a Raspberry Pi", and has rejected his appeal."
Noticed the same, not with Youtube but with selfhosting.
Why Google stole Linux, Microsoft bought Github, AI robbing Artists, scientists and reporters clean of their content copyrights - who'd have thunk it?
Still proceeding with Pi5 home server because this won't get better any time soon.
The problem with replacing YT is different than with replacing let's say Twitter. Twitter's strength is its large userbase and that's it. Meanwhile YT's strengths are: large userbase, plethora of existing content, and great monetization opportunities. It's hard to even challenge that without being a company. I think the best solution would be to set up something like Mozilla - a nonprofit that owns a company.
I believe one can make a #PeerTube server part of another server's #federation. PeerTube's federation feature, enabled by the #ActivityPub, allowing instances to display videos from other servers alongside their own content, so by creating for example a video.itsfoss.com server, offering a central point for #FOSS videos, you could become a go to server for this kind of videos, while people remain independent and you likely keep your bandwidth acceptable.
Sure, people could move away to more liberal/open platforms like PeerTube, but the audience there is too fragmented and small to sustain creators financially. Things just aren’t quite there yet
And why are people on YouTube? Because that’s where the content is. Viewers won’t move away until after content creators do. You are the people with the power to do this.
@notype @barubary well im a third of the way through the course, the lesson is on regex, although they already covered /regex/g and /regex/i in a earlier lesson. it doesnt seem to complicated for where i am at right now, its just they didn't really explain it. just threw it out there along with a method that they didn't teach me either. that's what really threw me off is i didn't realize the .match() method was also returning the search elements.
@notype @barubary I came at this a different way, and wondered what the heck the /d modifier is doing. Turns out:
1) W3schools is completely wrong about what it does (shocker, I know 🙄); and 2) All it does is add a particular extra bit of information to the return value.
I'm getting my info from stackoverflow.com/a/73947884, to which I am greatly indebted, and major props to SO user Andrejs. I reproduced their work with the text and RE under consideration here. 1/2
I set txt to 'aaaabb', then ran these. Note that the only difference in output is the presence of an "indices" array when /d is used, and its absence otherwise. That is all.
I've been using JS professionally for 20 years now and never needed anything like /d. You can safely ignore it. 2/2
@kagan @notype @barubary oh wowwwww. yeah i think i need to give up on w3s. its just... it seems like a much better "intro to.." resource than mdn. mdn seems much more accurate but its sometimes kind of dense when starting out from scratch.
@notype @kagan @barubary no. shit. ive been learning from a damn robot. ugh. i just need to grab a for dummies book or something. internet searching is fine for specific answers but i need some sort of syllabus to go off. i got problems staying focused without one.
@notype @kagan @barubary plus searching is how i ended up on that crap. the corpos own all the top search results. i learned html and css from a billboard.
whatever you do with these old documents, skip over the software specifics (which are outdated) & go directly to the regex syntax (which has barely changed since).
once you understand the regex basics .[](|)[{,}?*\ you'll find easy to move to the tricky parts. you can use regex in pretty much every computer language there is. even adobe indesign uses regex. good luck 😀
also, what your script seems to do is return the full string as found (aabb) followed by each parenthetised segment (aa), (bb). if you want it to return only the whole string, you have to query result[0]
@notype well you've certainly put it to good use ;) this is me learning programming like i promised you i would... over a year ago? i keep my promises but my timeframes are always whacked lol
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Array(3) [ "aabb", "aa", "bb" ]
0: "aabb"
1: "aa"
2: "bb"
groups: undefined
index: 2
indices: Array(3) [ (2) […], (2) […], (2) […] ]
input: "aaaabb"
length: 3
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Array(3) [ \"aabb\", \"aa\", \"bb\" ]
0: \"aabb\"
1: \"aa\"
2: \"bb\"
groups: undefined
index: 2
indices: Array(3) [ (2) […], (2) […], (2) […] ]
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Array(3) [ "aabb", "aa", "bb" ]
0: "aabb"
1: "aa"
2: "bb"
groups: undefined
index: 2
input: "aaaabb"
length: 3
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0: \"aabb\"
1: \"aa\"
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groups: undefined
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