To add to your list:

Delegating of a task to a third party allocates control of how that task is done to said party. They can:

• Vary the cost (not like you know how to do it anymore)
• Modify the result to suit their economic/political preferences
• Refuse to perform the task or deliberately sabotage the output if the task contradicts their interest.

“Hey robot, build an app that helps people fight fascism”

LOL no.

From a read of that issue, it looks like it never was.

This is just an attempt to avoid jury nullification verdicts on cases like Palestine Action and JSO.

Is this the same service where someone pointed out that the skills library was riddled with malicious code, and the response was akin to “yeah, nothing we can do about that”?

Relevant.

I think he meant that if the US had just taken the entire continent rather than having to share it with Canada, they would have been even more ruthless in their genocide than we were.

He’s probably right, but saying it that way betrays how truly broken his worldview is.

Absolute hero.

The thing is, none of the suggested alternatives can do what pickle does, and the article focuses on a narrow (albeit ubiquitous) use case: serialisation of untrusted data.

There are still legitimate use cases for pickle, especially when storing, caching, or comparing objects that can’t easily be serialised with say, JSON or TOML. It’s a question of using the right thing for the right job is all, and pretending like JSON is a comparable alternative to pickle doesn’t help anyone.

FUCK YEAH! LET’S DO SOME MOTHERFUCKING SPACE STUFF!*

*To be clear, I say this unironically.

Lemme guess: still no assistance for purchasing e-bikes or cargo bikes?

This might be useful: https://ffmpeg.app/

They’re on Mastodon too if you’re looking for a fedi-friendly link: https://mastodon.social/@warandpeas

I keep seeing Zulip tossed around as an alternative, but I don’t know what’s up with their licencing. There’s also Framateam, but I think that might just be Mattermost as a service.

Matrix would be great if it wasnt so user-hostile, but it is :-(

A rebate sounds like a positively insane idea. It’s just a corporate subsidy with extra steps.

If you want to lower prices, you can’t give people money to give to the oligopolies. You have to break up the oligopolies, regulate the hell out of them, and send some people to prison for price fixing.

No. It will not help. Maybe in a competitive market it might, but Canada has been nursing an oligopoly for decades now, and oligopolies set their own prices based on what the public will tolerate.

Lowering prices requires either (a) breaking up the giants, or (b) offering a publicly-run alternative that somehow bypasses the vertically integrated supply chain.

Thinking that the headline might be a bit hyperbolic, I thought I’d check and…

The Redmond, Washington-based tech giant is on track Thursday to finish at its worst day since March 2020 and has seen approximately $400bn in valuation wiped out.

Holy shit.

I really didn’t care for this one.

The premise of the debate was flawed from the start. The Federation has an obligation to offer help, but there’s no requirement anywhere that it must compel another race to accept that help. Indeed many, many episodes have gone out of their way to point this out. So the whole idea of a “debate” was pointless. Of course they should offer the help, but that’s the end of any moral or legal responsibility. Doing anything more would itself be unethical.

Interestingly as an aside, I found this whole prospect very American at its root. Not only should we accept that we must offer help, but of course we must compel these people to accept our idea of help. It stinks of regime change from without and I find the idea that the Federation would ever work this way ridiculous.

On top of that, we’re somehow supposed to pretend we didn’t all watch Esri Dax’s excellent critique of the Klingon Empire back on DS9 and instead accept that this lie of “conquest” is supposed to prop up the Klingon culture. Are we to believe that it’s been hundreds of years and the Empire is still built in lies they tell each other about honour and battle? Instead of showing any hint of evolution (and potentially stoking internal conflict at the idea of accepting charity from an enemy), we just had a 5 minute “battle” and it’s all ok now.

This wasn’t even a respectful battle. No blood was spilt by either side, no sacrifices made. Where is the honour in that? It was a mock battle to preserve a lie. Esri would not be amused.

I’m just going to leave this here…

Hooray! I actually bought a legit CD on eBay and couldn’t get it to work some years ago. I shall try again with Heroic. Thanks!

Hooray!