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Linux users who have Secure Boot enabled on their systems knowingly or unknowingly rely on a ke [...]LWN.net
There is even a whole section in Wikipedia on issues and criticism with secure boot:
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Some people argue that one can work around such locking down of PC hardware. Do this or that to avoid issues with substantial tinkering.
But that is not a bug but a feature. Sure, as a technical Linux user you can work around some nastiness. Like working around privacy invasion on Facebook or Linkedin by "adjusting" settings, or "adjust" settings in Wimdows to make it more private and so on. The thing is: working against the platform becomes quickly a losing game, because you don't control the platform - Microsoft does. And it does not help you if you manage to re-gain control of your device after some hours of tinkering if 99.9% of people around you don't have the knowledge and time and store your data, photos, Emails on OneDrive and so on. Freedom is very much a collective thing and software freedom is no exception.
And this does not mean that the thinkering and hacking is in vain - but it is not enough. We need the practical right to control our devices.
By effectively erecting a shield around Israel, Iron Dome and other defense systems grant Israel the impunity to act without restraint. That doesn't save lives, it takes them away by the thousands.
Note to AOC: Iron Dome Is an Offensive Weapon
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The server mastodon.arell.ai is copying the account details of people, and then posting AI nonsense as them.
It likely scrapes the profile information to make the account. So a server block is likely needed.
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Did you know that there is not only Matt Godbolt's Compiler Explorer at godbolt.org, but also a Decompiler Explorer, appropriately named dogbolt.org, which compares the output of Ghidra, BinaryNinja, IDA and other decompilers?
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Decompiler Explorer is an interactive online decompiler which shows equivalent C-like output of decompiled programs from many popular decompilers.Decompiler Explorer
A secret, religious arbitration between two Israeli businessmen reveals that they had 'invested' as much as $25 million in President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico.Gur Megiddo (Haaretz)
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AOC Is A Genocidal Con Artist
Saying you support funding Israel's "defensive weapons" while opposing sending it "offensive weapons" is as nonsensical as saying you would never give a mass shooter guns and ammunition, but you would give him body armor to keep him safe from the police.
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Memory cafes at the National Comedy Center ignite laughter and connection for dementia patients
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Experience the heartfelt emotion of Avril Lavigne's "When You're Gone," a touching ballad from her album "The Best Damn Thing." This poignant track beautifully captures the feelings of loss and longing, showcasing Avril's powerful vocals and songwriting talent. Dive into the depth of this song that resonates with anyone who has experienced separation.
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🎵 L Y R I C S 🎵:
I always needed time on my own
I never thought I'd need you there when I cry
And the days feel like years when I'm alone
And the bed where you lie is made up on your side
When you walk away, I count the steps that you take
Do you see how much I need you right now?
When you're gone, the pieces of my heart are missing you
When you're gone, the face I came to know is missing too
When you're gone, the words I need to hear
To always get me through the day
And make it okay
I miss you
I've never felt this way before
Everything that I do reminds me of you
And the clothes you left, they lie on the floor
And they smell just like you
I love the things that you do
When you walk away, I count the steps that you take
Do you see how much I need you right now?
When you're gone, the pieces of my heart are missing you
When you're gone, the face I came to know is missing too
And when you're gone, the words I need to hear
To always get me through the day
And make it okay
I miss you
We were made for each other
Out here forever
I know we were, yeah-yeah
And all I ever wanted was for you to know
Everything I do, I give my heart and soul
I can hardly breathe, I need to feel you here with me, yeah
When you're gone, the pieces of my heart are missing you
When you're gone, the face I came to know is missing too
When you're gone, the words I need to hear
Will always get me through the day
And make it okay
I miss you, mmm
Album Artist: Avril Ramona Lavigne
Album(s): The Best Damn Thing
Written by: Avril Lavigne, Butch Walker
Music genre(s): Pop, Rock
Released: 2007
Decade for first release: #2000sMusic
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Get ready to turn up the heat with Avril Lavigne's "Hot," a vibrant anthem from her album "The Best Damn Thing." This energetic track showcases Avril's playful side and catchy pop-rock sound, making it a fan favourite. Dive into the fun and excitement of this song that perfectly captures the essence of youthful exuberance.
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🎵 L Y R I C S 🎵:
Oh, oh, oh
You're so good to me baby, baby
I wanna lock you up in my closet
When no one's around
I wanna put your hand in my pocket
Because you're allowed
I wanna drive you into the corner
And kiss you without a sound
I wanna stay this way forever
I'll say it loud
Now you're in, and you can't get out
You make me so hot
Make me wanna drop
It's so ridiculous
I can barely stop
I can hardly breathe
You make me wanna scream
You're so fabulous
You're so good to me baby, baby
You're so good to me baby, baby
I can make you feel all better
Just take it in
And I can show you all the places
You've never been
And I can make you say everything
That you've never said
And I will let you do anything
Again and again
Now you're in, and you can't get out
You make me so hot
Make me wanna drop
It's so ridiculous
I can barely stop
I can hardly breathe
You make me wanna scream
You're so fabulous
You're so good to me baby, baby
You're so good to me baby, baby
Kiss me gently
Always I know
Hold me, love me
Don't ever go
Oh, yeah yeah
You make me so hot
Make me wanna drop
You're so ridiculous
I can barely stop
I can hardly breathe
You make me wanna scream
You're so fabulous
You're so good to me
You make me so hot
Make me wanna drop
You're so ridiculous
I can barely stop
I can hardly breathe
You make me wanna scream
You're so fabulous
You're so good to me baby, baby
You're so good to me baby, baby
You're so good
Album Artist: Avril Ramona Lavigne
Album(s): The Best Damn Thing
Written by: Avril Lavigne, Evan Taubenfeld
Music genre(s): Pop, Rock
Released: 2007
Decade for first release: #2000sMusic
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Isaac Scott--Listen to the Blues:
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S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y NIGHT!!!!
Official HD Video for "I'm With You" by Avril Lavigne
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Lyrics:
I'm standing on the bridge
I'm waiting in the dark
I thought that you'd be here by now
There's nothing but the rain
No footsteps on the ground
I'm listening but there's no sound
Isn't anyone trying to find me?
Won't somebody come take me home?
It's a damn cold night
Tryin' to figure out this life
Won't you take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new?
I don't know who you are, but I
I'm with you
I'm with you, mm
I'm looking for a place
I'm searching for a face
Is anybody here I know?
'Cause nothing's going right
And everything's a mess
And no one likes to be alone
Isn't anyone trying to find me?
Won't somebody come take me home?
It's a damn cold night
Trying to figure out this life
Won't you take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new?
I don't know who you are, but I
I'm with you
I'm with you, yeah-yeah
Oh, why is everything so confusing?
Maybe I'm just out of my mind
Yeah-yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah
Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah
It's a damn cold night
Trying to figure out this life
Won't you take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new?
I don't know who you are, but I
I'm with you
I'm with you
Take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I don't know who you are, but I
I'm with you
I'm with you
Take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I don't know who you are, but I
I'm with you, oh
I'm with you
I'm with you
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Album: Let Go
Released: #2002
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Avril Ramona Lavigne is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Body shape: Banana Dress size (US): 2 Breasts-Waist-Hips: 86-60-86 cm (34-24-34 inches) Shoe size (US): 7 Bra size: 32B Cup size (US): B Heig...Music Videos and Funny clips
TEHRAN, Jul. 19 (MNA) – Yemen’s military says it successfully targeted Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport with a hypersonic “Palestine-2” missile, prompting mass evacuations and flight suspensions.Mehr News Agency
#palestine #gaza #rafah #freepalestine
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ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
I'm going to hold your hand when I say this. I don't give a fuck whether immigrants "came here literally" or not.
We live in a country run by billionaire pedos who are actively burning the planet to the ground for a few more dollars and pulling us all down into actual fucking fascism but somehow I'm supposed to care about Juan the gardener and his wife Maria who makes the absolute best fucking homemade empanadas I've ever eaten in my life and whether they filed form M-725-E before or after crossing an imaginary line in the sand?
Ok weirdo.
#mpox #health #qldpol #qldgov #qld #queensland #australia #ausgov #auspol #tasgov #taspol #politas
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ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Ned Hammond (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Creedence Clearwater Revival--Born on the Bayou:
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Turns out, pigs can fly.
What is it with LA cops and blowing up the neighborhood?
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Federal agents are investigating, but authorities describe it as "an isolated incident" with no further threat to the public.Nadine Yousif (BBC News)
Free Mario Guevara!
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#MarioGuevara #antiICE #Atlanta #Chamblee #fuckICE
Learn about Mario Guevara, the journalist arrested during an anti-ICE protest while covering the event for the community.Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon (Atlanta Civic Circle)
If you only read one article today, make it this one.
Excerpt: The biggest problem with removing evil from American culture and what’s left of our civilization is, quite frankly, the Democratic Party. Their mantra calls evil good, and good evil, and it is imperative, for them, that they have as much human depravity as possible. That is the source of their political power.
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They are lying about everything. They are lying about climate change. They are lying about the Epstein files. They are...Mark Lewis (Townhall)
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US President Donald Trump sues the Wall Street Journal for $10 billion over its reporting on a 2003 birthday letter that Trump allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein.Al Mayadeen English (Trump sues WSJ for $10bln over Epstein birthday letter report)
Grisham's tiebreaking slam in 9th completes Yankees comeback against Braves
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3 people are still missing from deadly July 4 floods in Texas county, down from nearly 100
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John Oliver's Erie Moon Mammoths debut in front of a record crowd
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WNBA All-Stars make statement with warmup shirts over CBA
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Science shouldn’t be a partisan issue.
From cancer treatments to extreme weather alerts, science makes everyone’s life better, regardless of political affiliation.
But science becomes partisan when corrupt politicians defund research, fire scientists, and censor data, harming us all.
Regardless of political affiliation, yes.
But not regardless of wealth.
Current Science seems to say that the extreme wealth concentration is bad for society, economy and the environment.
So the extremely wealthy want to destroy science.
Over a year ago, I posited that AI coding stuff isn't about coding or productivity. It's about some % of people who feel a stimulus-reward thing from using it, similar to how some people feel when gambling. It feels so overwhelmingly good to some % of people they don't even bother to measure if their AI stuff is actually doing anything useful, because of course it must be, because the feeling is so strong.
It seems more & more people are also finding this idea lately.
But I've also realized that it seems to apply to any of the prompt-style AI things, not just coding. There is some kind of slot machine playing mania (sorta, not exactly) thing it triggers in some % of people. I'm certain of it now.
If anything, it makes me feel a bit less angry and more sad towards the people with this AI prompt-query compulsion. It feels closer to when you see someone with a gambling addiction stuck at a gambling machine.
this reflects my experience pretty strongly.
I've been pretty staunchly opposed to this wave of gen-AI since chatGPT launched in 2022, and never intentionally touched it until three months ago, when I finally felt like I needed to spend at least a little bit of time with it to understand/prove what I was opposed to. it almost *immediately* triggered an addiction response (of the gambling category, as you pointed out), to the point where within a week I could barely sleep, and all I could think about was prompting, explicitly like I needed to be using it 24/7 and trying to figure out the right way to extract quality output from it, under this sudden manufactured feeling of urgency.
luckily, i got burnt out on it pretty "quickly" (roughly a month) which forced me to step back, and had lived long enough to be able to identify what this cycle was. It was also tremendously helpful to both have had a long critical perspective built against the tech that I had now tested against, and a really high bar of personal work quality that I was able to use to categorize that output of these tools as "complete shit".
it's wild to me that as someone who was pretty publicly and vocally against the principle of the tech, this addiction loop still hit me at full force, on the very first prompt I ever fed it. for people without the life experience, critical lens, and body of high quality personal work to measure against, I can't imagine how many could possibly escape from the slot machine cycle. "if I can just figure out exactly how to word this prompt, it'll solve all my problems...". I wonder how those who do escape don't talk about it publicly out of shame (me, until this post).
the silver lining for me personally is that it did end up having some kind of positive effect on how I approach my work. reading through so much slop for a month re-lit a fire within me to be even more intentional and human in my work, whether through writing or code.
Holy shit. Okay, that's terrifying.
Me, I have next to no susceptibility to gambling-- for one thing, I understand too much about math, the odds of winning are so low the whole thing strikes me as contemptibly absurd-- and for another, I'm a digital artist so gut-wrenched by the uncanny valley effect of putting other people's work through a meat grinder and regurgitating it into a shambling frankenitation of art that it makes me feel physically ill, so I haven't even touched it. I've just been sitting here mystified like WHY EVEN...
If that's the type of effect it's having on people who aren't wired like me... good gawd, we're in deep shit.
Japan votes in a key election as Prime Minsiter Ishiba faces a loss and political uncertainty
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Venezuela and Colombia formalized a joint Peace and Economic Zone to promote cross-border development and integration.teleSURenglish
Napheesa Collier's record-breaking performance leads her team to victory in WNBA All-Star Game
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Giant defense contractors like Lockheed Martin are angling for a piece of President Trump's "Golden Dome" funding. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on Th...YouTube
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