[-] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

...and by doing so they distracted from actual issues and got low-information, low-critical-thinking-skills votes for a non-issue.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

I had to read your comment to realize it wasn't some cool home-chicken-owner egg holder.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago
...
Mind of a revolutionary, so clear the lane
The finger to the land of the chains
What? The "land of the free"? Whoever told you that is your enemy

Now something must be done about vengeance, a badge, and a gun
...        Know Your Enemy by Rage Against The Machine
[-] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

In my experience, it's just a couple topics that bring out unreasonable assholes. After I spent a little time blocking the assholes, and then using a keyword filter to just skip shit I don't want to have any interactions with, the experience became much better.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

I just read this on another site. So who the fuck really knows what is going on?

The Pentagon also deployed 700 U.S. Marines from Camp Pendleton, with a military convoy heading from Twentynine Palms toward the City of Angels.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

From the article:

Earlier this week, he also activated 700 marines from the Twentynine Palms base two hours’ drive to the east, describing Los Angeles as a “trash heap” that was in danger of burning to the ground.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

The headline says contract, the article says partnership.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

I was a supporter of my local NPR station for decades. It's crazy how far right the coverage has gone. Slowly over the years, then really hard in recent months. It's like they're desperately trying to show that they aren't left leaning, by going way the other way. I've heard long interviews with wackos from things like The Heritage Foundation all the time, with little to no pushback on the BS. I watched a magat congressman interviewed on PBS the other night with zero pushback to his bullshit magat talking points. The list goes on. I stopped watching/listening to them, but I've been kind of at a loss as to where to check up on news. AP or Reuters is about it, I guess.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

I thought you were going to talk about the physical improbability of cumming buckets.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I hate it so freaking much when I'm thrown into nano. I have to quickly exit and fix whatever made that happen.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

Every study I've seen shows illegal immigrants to be a net positive to the economy, while at the same being responsible for fewer crimes than papered immigrants or regular citizens. I wonder why people are willing to go through such social pain and stupidity to attack them. I mean, aside from racism. We should be working on smoothing the way to citizenship, or at a minimum, legality. That would help address the exploitation that takes place (as you mentioned in another post). On a tangent, we really need to do something about universal health care, housing, and the shitty, hateful state of wages in the country while we are at it.

We have a myriad of fundamental problems in this country, illegal immigrants are just a distraction that get the low-information voters fired up and ignoring the real problems.

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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Just thought I'd throw these out there, somebody might like them. There are a lot of different ways of getting the same result.

Screenshot (I shortcut it to F6):

maim --select | xclip -selection primary -t image/png

One key and then I just select the screen shot and middle-click to paste the image where I want it.

OCR a screenshot (I shortcut it to ctrl-F6)

TMPFILE=$(mktemp);maim --select $TMPFILE.png ; tesseract $TMPFILE.png $TMPFILE ; xclip -sel primary $TMPFILE.txt

This may be a little messy as a forced one-liner. This way I can select text from an image on screen, and have the OCR'd text available with, again, my middle click.

Should go without saying it uses maim and tesseract, both should be available with your package manager of choice, and there are alternatives to both of those utilities.

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Tax the freaking wealth (www.youtube.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Six years old, but more pertinent than ever. I don't think the ghouls at Davos liked the message.

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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I can't seem to figure this out. I've been trying out different news aggregator sites to use as a home page. Right now I'm using skimfeed. I like it, but the links all have skimfeed baggage tacked on. Like this: https://skimfeed.com/r.php?q=1148&l=15649995&u=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F3006%2F

Well, the source looks like this:

<span class='boxtitles'><h2><a class='siteurls ts33' href='/news/xkcd.html'>XKCD</a> <a class='siteurls atat' href='http://xkcd.com/' rel='nofollow' target='_blank'>+</a></h2></span>

<ul><li class='nl1 bd33'><a href='r.php?q=1148&l=15649995&u=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F3006%2F' target='_blank' rel='nofollow' title='Demons'>Demons</a> </li><li class='nl2 bd75'><a href='r.php?q=1148&l=15642742&u=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F3005%2F' target='_blank' rel='nofollow' </li></ul></div>

Which, to be honest, is Greek to me. I'd like to rewrite the links so that they just look like https://xkcd.com/3006/ I don't really care what the link looks like, per se, the encoded bits. I just don't like the extra skimfeed stuff. Aesthetically.

Is there an extension or something that will help me with this? The couple I've looked at are either too complicated for my caveman brain, or site specific (i.e., remove google tracking). If I'm just being a little too retentive, feel free to let me know that too.

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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I don't know if anyone could use these, but I thought I'd share two commands I use sometimes while trying out different terminals. In my .bash_aliases file I have:

alias whatterm="ps -o 'cmd=' -p $(ps -o 'ppid=' -p $$)"

example:

$  whatterm
alacritty

and I have the following script saved in my local bin directory as testterm. I don't know how great of a test it is, but it shows the capabilities of different terminals and I like the pretty colors.

#!/bin/sh

echo "# 24-bit (true-color)"
# based on: https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
term_cols="$(tput cols || echo 80)"
cols=$(echo "2^((l($term_cols)/l(2))-1)" | bc -l 2> /dev/null)
rows=$(( cols / 2 ))
awk -v cols="$cols" -v rows="$rows" 'BEGIN{
    s="  ";
        m=cols+rows;
        for (row = 0; row<rows; row++) {
          for (col = 0; col<cols; col++) {
                    i = row+col;
                    r = 255-(i*255/m);
                    g = (i*510/m);
                    b = (i*255/m);
                    if (g>255) g = 510-g;
                                printf "\033[48;2;%d;%d;%dm", r,g,b;
                                          printf "\033[38;2;%d;%d;%dm", 255-r,255-g,255-b;
                                          printf "%s\033[0m", substr(s,(col+row)%2+1,1);
                                                }
                                                    printf "\n";
                                                        }
                                                          printf "\n\n";
}'

echo "# text decorations"
echo '\e[1mbold\e[22m'
echo '\e[2mdim\e[22m'
echo '\e[3mitalic\e[23m'
echo '\e[4munderline\e[24m'
echo '\e[4:1mthis is also underline\e[4:0m'
echo '\e[21mdouble underline\e[24m'
echo '\e[4:2mthis is also double underline\e[4:0m'
echo '\e[4:3mcurly underline\e[4:0m'
echo '\e[58;5;10;4mcolored underline\e[59;4:0m'
echo '\e[5mblink\e[25m'
echo '\e[7mreverse\e[27m'
echo '\e[8minvisible\e[28m <- invisible (but copy-pasteable)'
echo '\e[9mstrikethrough\e[29m'
echo '\e[53moverline\e[55m'
echo

echo "# magic string (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Web)"
echo "é Δ Й ק م ๗ あ 叶 葉 말"
echo

echo "# emojis"
echo "😃😱😵"
echo

echo "# right-to-left ('w' symbol should be at right side)"
echo "שרה"
echo

echo "# sixel graphics"
printf '\eP0;0;0q"1;1;64;64#0;2;0;0;0#1;2;100;100;100#1~{wo_!11?@FN^!34~^NB
                                                    @?_ow{~$#0?BFN^!11~}wo_!34?_o{}~^NFB-#1!5~}{o_!12?BF^!25~^NB@??ow{!6~$#0!5?
                                                  @BN^!12~{w_!25?_o{}~~NFB-#1!10~}w_!12?@BN^!15~^NFB@?_w{}!10~$#0!10?@F^!12~}
                                                  {o_!15?_ow{}~^FB@-#1!14~}{o_!11?@BF^!7~^FB??_ow}!15~$#0!14?@BN^!11~}{w_!7?_
                                                  w{~~^NF@-#1!18~}{wo!11?_r^FB@??ow}!20~$#0!18?@BFN!11~^K_w{}~~NF@-#1!23~M!4?
                                                _oWMF@!6?BN^!21~$#0!23?p!4~^Nfpw}!6~{o_-#1!18~^NB@?_ow{}~wo!12?@BFN!17~$#0!
                                              18?_o{}~^NFB@?FN!12~}{wo-#1!13~^NB@??_w{}!9~}{w_!12?BFN^!12~$#0!13?_o{}~~^F
                                            B@!9?@BF^!12~{wo_-#1!8~^NFB@?_w{}!19~{wo_!11?@BN^!8~$#0!8?_ow{}~^FB@!19?BFN
                                          ^!11~}{o_-#1!4~^NB@?_ow{!28~}{o_!12?BF^!4~$#0!4?_o{}~^NFB!28?@BN^!12~{w_-#1
                                        NB@???GM!38NMG!13?@BN$#0?KMNNNF@!38?@F!13NMK-\e\'

___

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Report about the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post —

  • 26 Articles in the week following Smith's indictment of Trump for his attempted coup

  • 100 Articles — nearly 4 times as many — that mentioned Clinton’s server in the week after then-FBI Director James Comey’s notorious October 28, 2016, letter on new developments in that probe--

The US media has learned nothing and is doing a disservice to American voters.

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

The only one I've found is this one, but it doesn't work. It only triggers if I open the keyword interface and save it after every page load. I don't know enough to fix it.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Any advice for a regular smart 27 year old youngster, who has chronically underachieved and is motivated to turn their life around. They have a couple years of JC completed, and has no idea what path to take, or really what paths exist.

EDIT: OK, I see I gave slim pickins here. It's not me, it's my neighbor's kid. I've known his parents since before he was born. He's a super smart kid, but like a lot of smart kids, he got kind of jaded about...well, everything. I was visiting the other day and he asked me for advice, and my retired ass has nothing. Any relevant personal experience I may have, became dated years ago.

He's good at just about all subjects. His longest lifelong hobby has been video games. He took a few programming classes and liked it, but the thought of doing it full time as a career would quickly become torture.

He's kind of half-assed things and just realized he needs to get his shit straight. He was thinking something like finance, just numbers. Something solid that's just a career direction. He is going back to school, well most likely he is, but he needs an idea of what path to take. Most of his friends are unemployed/underemployed with computer degrees.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Nobody seems to be talking about the continuing genocide of Rohingya in Myanmar nor India's heartless and illegal current actions.

“Refoulement is against international human rights law, regardless of if you’ve signed the refugee convention" - John Quinley III, director of international rights group

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

My ISP seems to be throttling my VPN connection. Just started a week or so ago. Anyone have any tips for correcting this shit?

Edit: Sorry, I didn't leave much info. I guess I was thinking in more general terms. I use PIA, have for years. I've tried to change protocols and ports, my VPN speed still sits around 10K. Just ridiculous. Speed test without VPN:

SOLVED!! OK, I'm an absolute idiot. The tl;dr I had accidentally toggled the Toggle Alt. Rate Limits setting. Thank you everyone for attempting to help that which couldn't be helped!

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I read Kim's Mars trilogy years ago and liked it. I decided to pick up The Ministry of the Future a couple days ago. It's very different, and without any spoilers, I have to say it's made me hate humanity even more than I already did. If you haven't read it, it's a near-future climate disaster book. Well written, interesting structure, and just pissing me off. I'm about halfway through it, so maybe it'll swing the other way in the second half.

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