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[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

America was built by violent genocidal colonizers who enslaved and murdered the local population. It was built on immence violence and the rule of might. Modern day immigrants have very little in common with those who built the US, they are mostly poor people being overexploited by capitalism.

america will die

I'm not religious, but in this case: inshallah

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think the meme is a cliche of "haha you are in a relationship so your partner takes up all your time and you don't have any time for your hobbies". Which sounds like a pretty toxic relationship tbh

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

I made a really cozy and usability-focused setup like 10 years ago, and since I made it with NixOS+home-manager I'm just carrying it over with me. It is going strong after three device swaps, two moves to a new country, and meeting a partner, with some minor changes (i3 -> sway, Nord theme -> custom base16-based, pulseaudio -> pipewire, etc)

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

I doubt there will be any cybertrucks still on the road in 30 years, let alone 70. These things are choke full of modern squishy computers with shitty software which will fail quite soon. There would probably be collectors, but it would be a museum exhibit rather than a car.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

Ford Etsel's base trim was ~$2500 in 1958, which is ~$28k today. Cybertruck base trim is $80k. So it's closer to 3x and not 10x. Consider also that a lot of cybertruck sales were made to other muskrat companies in order to inflate the numbers, which ford didn't do back then, and the US population nearly doubled since then. I'd say cybertruck is a worse flop all things considered.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

At this point, north korea is genuinely be a safer place to visit (if you have a visa). At least they provide you with a "guide" who tells you what to do and where to go, instead of just throwing you into a concentration camp straight away.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 days ago

Soo, they piped a probabilistic token predictor straight into a root console of a customer-facing service, and it only caused an outage twice so far? They should consider themselves lucky.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

It is not used correctly. The word UFO starts with a consonant in all major English dialects, as such the correct article is "a", as in "a UFO". See https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/is-it-a-or-an

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yes, it is never complete, but you have to compensate for that. Otherwise you kinda end up with a map of openstreetmap coverage quality rather than whatever you were trying to research.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

This doesn't compensate at all for mapping coverage, which makes it really bad data.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 days ago

It will bring money to rich assholes running various luxury businesses, and might bring up real estate prices which benefits rich assholes who own a lot of land.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

There was very very little to complain about with her.

  • Promising full military support to a settler colony currently committing a genocide using US weapons
  • Campaigning with fucking Cheneys and pandering to fascists
  • Not promising any actual support for trans people, stopping at "I will follow the law"
  • Abandoning universal healthcare push
  • Not being actually voted on by anyone, instead just appointed by DNC
  • Most importantly: she's a neolib, and the working class has been suffering materially due to neolib policies for the past 50 years, people want change

There is a shitton to complain about her. If you are knowingly pushing the idea she was a good candidate you're a genocide enabler.

I would've voted for her if I was in the US (because the alternative is slightly worse in many ways). But, moral qualms aside, it's crazy to just shove a status-quo establishment neoliberal and expect people who are surviving paycheck-to-paycheck due to that very ideology to be excited about it.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by balsoft@lemmy.ml to c/ManufacturingConsent@lemmy.ml
 

Yeah sure, this movie with 1.3 rating and 5 (out of 100) metascore, with only 50k ratings, is the #1 movie this week. The algorithm is really transparent and trustworthy, clearly there's no manipulation going on.

(for those who don't know, IMDb is owned and operated by Amazon)

 

This is my daily driver at the moment - X201s modded with a 51nb motherboard with i7-10710u (a.k.a X2100). A lot of geo nerd cred to whomever can guess the location by the mountains :)

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33203710

Sunrise in Wadi Rum desert. Taken from my phone with OpenCamera's stacked HDR.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by balsoft@lemmy.ml to c/photography@lemmy.ml
 

Sunrise in Wadi Rum desert. Taken from my phone with OpenCamera's stacked HDR.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by balsoft@lemmy.ml to c/pics@lemmy.world
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/32177363

Moon rising during sunset. Taken from Gombori mountain. Nikon D700, 85mm, cropped.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by balsoft@lemmy.ml to c/photography@lemmy.ml
 

Moon rising during sunset. Taken from Gombori mountain. Nikon D700, 85mm, cropped.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31830215

I liked posting a picture here so I think I will try to do it weekly :)

This is what the dawn of January 1st 2025 looked like for me. We've slept in my van through the night to get this view. The temperature was about -20℃ but it was worth it in the end.

The flats in the picture is the frozen Lake Paravani and the mountains are the Samsari ridge.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by balsoft@lemmy.ml to c/photography@lemmy.ml
 

I liked posting a picture here so I think I will try to do it weekly :)

This is what the dawn of January 1st 2025 looked like for me. We've slept in my van through the night to get this view. The temperature was about -20℃ but it was worth it in the end.

The flats in the picture is the frozen Lake Paravani and the mountains are the Samsari ridge.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31459711

Since today is my first cake day, I've decided it's time to post instead of commenting. This is a picture I took last month on my phone through binoculars. Taken from Gomismta, the mountains you see are the Main Caucasian Ridge.

 

Since today is my first cake day, I've decided it's time to post instead of commenting. This is a picture I took last month on my phone through binoculars. Taken from Gomismta, the mountains you see are the Main Caucasian Ridge.

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