Imagine a World without Russia. No Arson Attacks

Well, fewer arson attacks. Russia’s only responsible for some of them.

but I also like the 108 keyboards and not the small ones (daddy needs his numpad).

Man, I was glad to drop my numpad. That forces my mouse further off to the right and causes my keyboard not to be centered with my monitor.

I do have a very few prices of software that use it, and I didn’t want to give those up.

What I wound up doing was to get a separate, dedicated numpad for the very few pieces of software that I use that require it. Basically, I care about a handful of older roguelike games. I can put it in front of myself just for those rare occasions.

The numpad was a standby for people who did serious numeric data entry work and spent time to train themselves on the thing. Like, plonking data from paper into a computer. But that isn’t a field that most people need to deal with these days — most data can already be gotten in computer-readable form.

I do type numbers on some occasions — I write software and do use some statistical software — but it’s invariably mixed with other data, and the time cost of switching between the home row and the numpad is the dominant cost there.

The fact that a high proportion of PC users today use a laptop, and many of those have no numpad, creates a lot of pressure on software not to rely on it as well.

I could maybe see a left-handed person who uses a mouse with their left hand not caring as much, since the mouse isn’t a factor.

I mean, you hear about the people who do something. You don’t hear about the ones who don’t.

EDIT: Also, hermit crab smuggling and the CIA? What?

This gift is more for his dad than him

I’d get him something aimed at three-year-olds, and just get his dad a puzzle box:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle_box

https://kubiyagames.com/collections/puzzle-boxes

having children

Not having children produces a long-term negative economic impact on the country, as the economic potential is tied to the size of the labor force.

Even if the Democrats had a majority, Congress doesn’t get say over the Presidential pardon.

Ahh, you’re right, thanks. I’d tried creating another account, and just assumed that deleting the active one would work and then switch me to another extant account. Doesn’t display a message or anything, just doesn’t let you do the deletion.

But if you switch first, it does work.

It looks to me like it supports multiple. In fact, it has a default to anonymous kbin.earth setting that I don’t think that you can remove even if you add accounts on other instances.

Yeah, I needed to do that to get it installed, trying it out right now.

It feels more-responsive then Eternity, and the dev appears to be more active, but I did notice that it doesn’t appear to yet support monospaced blockquotes — just colorizes them differently at the moment. Probably some other stuff. Definitely usable, though.

EDIT: Note that I’ve only used it on a lemmy instance, not mbin or piefed, so I can’t speak as to the support there.

Apparently so.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/woman-who-got-trump-tattoo-on-forehead-now-wants-to-erase-it-asks-strangers-for-help-removing-controversial-ink-101725499788568.html

As of this writing, I don’t think that any of the viable Threadiverse Lemmy alternatives (mbin, piefed) support native mobile clients via the API.

investigates

Hmm. Apparently that’s not correct. Interstellar can handle both mbin and piefed. It’s not in F-Droid, though.

Imagine the amount of cognitive dissonance you’d need to endure to think NK is not a dictatorship.

Setting aside dessalines’ views on living in North Korea, probably goes the other way too, considering what Internet access is like in North Korea:

https://www.wired.com/story/internet-reality-north-korea/

https://archive.ph/lC0oi

“A librarian sits between two internet users and continuously monitors what people on both sides are searching up,” Kim said in testimony to the researchers. “Every five minutes, the screen freezes automatically, and the librarian must do a fingerprint authentication to allow further internet use.” A state security officer was also always nearby, they said.

People were allowed to use the internet for an hour, and if someone wanted more time, they would need to obtain new permission, Kim said. It took around two days to get permission from authorities to use the internet, a task requiring approvals from various officials. If someone applied too often, they would be made to wait, Kim said. “Every Korean website is blocked, and only Chinese or English websites are available.”

A few dozen families with connections to Kim Jong-Un and some foreigners have unrestricted access to the global internet, while a “few thousand” people—including government officials, researchers, and students studying IT—can access a surveillance-heavy version of it, according to the report and previous research. North Koreans like Kim who are allowed some foreign travel, usually for business, can sometimes access the global web while abroad.

North Korea probably considers Lemmy or anything like it to be a dire threat to state security, would never permit its people to see it or access information on it. Totally undermine state control of the information sphere.

looks at map

Greenland and Canada’s Arctic Archipelago are presumably going to have to be pulling some double shifts on commenting.

All my teachers look like north korea concentration camp guard

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/27/i-thought-it-was-fake-news-secrecy-around-north-koreans-fighting-in-kursk

Even in elite units such as the Storm Corps, North Korean soldiers are systematically underfed and malnourished, according to accounts from defectors shared with the BBC.

Emaciated?

The plane will initially be transferred to the United States Air Force, which will modify the 13-year-old aircraft to meet the U.S. military specifications required for any aircraft used to transport the president of the United States, multiple sources familiar with the proposed arrangement said.

Setting aside intelligence and influence concerns mentioned by others in the thread already, I can’t really see how this is faster than modifying planes already in the US. I mean, it’s a plane with luxury stuff. Surely the issue isn’t putting luxury stuff in the thing, but putting security stuff in.

Hell, if the USAF has to start over from scratch, I’d think that it’d take longer, if anything.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5156686-trump-boeing-air-force-one-delays-frustration/

Trump vents frustration with Boeing over Air Force One delays

President Trump is airing grievances with Boeing over delays in delivering new Air Force One jets, telling Republican governors on Thursday he was “getting a little tired” of the hold up.

“I bought a plane. It’s really two planes, Air Force One. Now if Boeing would build the damn thing it would be nice, too. We don’t build like we used to. We don’t build too fast,” Trump said at a reception for the Republican Governors Association.

Like, I assume that time is Trump’s beef here.

EDIT:

Yeah, this seems to agree with that:

https://www.popsci.com/technology/why-does-air-force-one-take-so-long-to-replace/

Why a private plane isn’t a viable option

President Trump, realizing the pair of new 747-8 planes might not be completed by the time he leaves office, has suggested sidestepping Boeing altogether and modifying a used private jet instead. The suggestion to sidestep Boeing entirely and “convert” a used aircraft could face several challenges, experts said. The extensive modifications required to make such an aircraft capable of functioning as the president’s plane would essentially mean starting from scratch—a process Boeing has already been working through for years. As a result, a converted used jet could potentially take even longer to become airworthy than the two 747-8 models currently in production.

“Honestly, at this point, any changes you make are likely to make it take longer and cost more even if you’re reducing capabilities,” Harrison said.

“It [a converted plane] just wouldn’t be anywhere near as capable as the Air Force Ones we have today,” Aboulafia added.

Not to mention that I kind of wonder what it is that makes the existing, older, aircraft such a problem. Whatever it is has to be something that the Qatari royal plane does. Maybe the existing ones don’t have some sort of fancy convenience? It used to be the norm for leaders to travel on warships, and I suspect that considerably more tradeoffs were made there.

https://github.com/heralden/steam-chat

Apparently there’s an API for non-group chats and an open-source terminal client (maybe others as well). Good odds that that doesn’t send notification. If not, could be modified.

looks a bit further

Bitlbee, an IRC-to-other-chat-protocols gateway, apparently has support for Steam client chat.

https://github.com/bitlbee/bitlbee-steam

I know that that won’t send any indication, since IRC doesn’t.

It makes other chat systems be aggregated together and look like an IRC server; you then use an IRC client of your choice to talk to people on other chat systems.

decisions than reddit where clicking on a thread, you know, opens the thread instead of what the thread links to.

Are you familiar with

https://old.reddit.com/

?

I would be very surprised if he paid anything from his own pocket for it.

The article says that he’s trying to get donations for a larger one, so he definitely isn’t getting government funds for that.

I mean, it’s a desk paperweight. He’s wealthy. This is not a ton of money.

I’m guessing that he had it done himself and that he owns it and isn’t gonna leave it behind.

I think I’d just use my middle initial.