Amtrak’s Coast Starlight line on the west coast has wifi, but it’s unusably glitchy. The trips I’ve taken haven’t been crowded, so I doubt it was an overuse issue. My guess is either the upstream connection is junk or the trains aren’t kitted out with hardware capable of meaningful QoS (either from misconfiguration or inability).
Going out on a limb here to say that’s it’s a really bad idea to set fire to a building where people are locked in and unable to leave.
Tweets and skeets are a megaphone based on spur-of-the-moment thoughts.
Large scale media campaigns have time and manpower to strategize angles, uptake and decide next steps.
The more we learn about bureaucrats with paper crowns, the more they’re revealed as deeply insecure children who, like the rest of us, are only pretending to know how to be grownups and really just doing random shit most of the time.
I don’t think any more thought went into this than that cat with a newspaper deciding to buy a boat.
Not buying it.
The product leadership, directors and executives who dreamed this nightmare up and believed in it enough to make it a reality are still there.
Never trust them again.
Especially if you’re using those suspender strap clips that you need to lift up the mattress for to clip them on. I feel ya.
Here’s what that data looked like:
https://news.gallup.com/interactives/507569/presidential-job-approval-center.aspx
It depends on your level of expertise. It’s open source software that you download and run on hardware that you lease or own. So you need to know how to do that in order to use it. As those things go, it really isn’t difficult.
No, it’s not as easy as signing up for an account on some website. That’s the difference between third-party services (owned, operated and controlled by some random company your decide to trust) and software that YOU run, on hardware YOU control, with access that YOU decide upon, and no one who will gate it or take it away.
It’s a trade-off. Everyone must consider their wants vs needs and choose what’s most important to them.
What disappoints me is how quickly people are willing to throw up their hands and say IT’S TOO HARD without ever even trying.
Absolutely everybody here is sleeping on zulip.
You know, for kids!
The "wrong"ness is the point.
They’ve taken a story that’s a lesson about technological hubris and turned it into an ad for just such a technology of which people are existentially wary.
It’s being naughty about an ethics lesson; diet caffiene-free non-carbonated trolling.
If the mastodon instance never receives acknowledgement that the follow-request was approved, it’s probably not going to start fetching those messages. I’ve tried un-following and re-following; it still doesn’t work.
As I said intially, I think that qualifies the integration as only kinda-sorta working.
I did try that (following the community), but the mastodon account’s “request to follow” has been stuck in “awaiting approval” status. I run the Lemmy community that I’m trying to follow with my Mastodon account, but I don’t see how or where to approve these follow requests.
Are those requests gated by the mastodon admin perhaps?
Kinda sorta.
The specific mastadon instance I’m on (mefi.social) does show the existence of lemmy communities and users, but it doesn’t import their posts or replies. mastodon.social seems and some other larger implementations seem to work fine though. I’m not sure if this is a configuration issue or what.
Careful, that’s how you summon the ghost of old Jacob Marley.
Yeah, I really wanted to pick a different post title, but community rules say I need to go with the source’s headline. :(
Dan Olson’s recent video on a silly meme that DHS posted and is being picked up by right wing crazies all over the world surfaced something that’s been absolutely floating on the top of my mind ever since I saw it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7WqVx9x89s
They show a clip from Werner Herzog’s 2007 documentary Encounters at the End of the World (full film), where a little penguin starts inexplicably running away from the herd that’s heading to the sea, and running towards some distant mountains instead.
The penguin isn’t just like wandering off to see some sick mountains because it’s never going to get there. There’s no food. There’s no shelter. There’s no security.
The penguin is going to die.
Immediately before the clip in the full documentary, Herzog asks a penguin expert if penguins can go insane.
So, another thing that’s implicit underneath this is the recognition that Trump and his cronies are on a suicide mission. They do not believe in the future. They cannot conceptualize the world surviving the present. And so, theirs is an embrace of pure id, pillaging what future does exist to live out a revenge fantasy for no other reason than because they can. Their only policy is chaos and hatred because, where they’re going, they don’t need policies. The actual mountains, America the Great and its promised flourishing, don’t matter. It can remain a hazy shape on the horizon because no one headed there will live to see it. Their only goal is to take everything else with them on the way out into the ice to die.
Now, maybe that’s just cope on my part. I too am human and need to rationalize the world as it exists [to] grapple with the future, but it would go a long way to explaining why modern right-wing propaganda is so grim and nihilistic, reticent to depict any coherent ideal, even an unrealistic, unobtainable one.
Herzog intended for The Penguin to reflect on humanity. Encounters at the End of the World is an unabashedly anthropomorphic film about the stories that people read into nature in order to say something about ourselves.
And, to that end, the United States Department of Homeland Security has looked at this penguin and said, “Yep, that’s us. We’re doing this for no reason. We have no hope of success. There is no meaning to this. You don’t need to ask us why because you’ve always known why.”
Copying is more like trespassing than theft.
When you own a thing, it’s generally accepted that you gave away or sacrificed something of value (either money or time or effort) in order to own that thing. If another person comes along and steals that thing from you, that sucks. The other person never gave up anything of value, you didn’t get anything, and you probably didn’t consent to any of this to begin with. This is clearly unjust and should be a crime.
Copying is a very different act. It’s still unjust, but much much less so than theft. When an object gets copied, the owner doesn’t lose the object itself, but they do lose something: exclusivity.
A bluray disc for a movie that was just released is going to be more expensive than a bluray disc for a movie that’s 75 years old and part of the public domain. There are already a ton of discs of that 75 year old movie on the market, in libraries and maybe even available to watch online for free; its exclusivity is low. The movie that was just released isn’t going to be available anywhere else but from whomever is selling it; its exclusivity is high. When someone makes a copy of that new movie, it lowers the exclusivity of it. The owner of the disc may not care about a loss of exclusivity, but the people producing those discs very much do. Decreasing exclusivity means that there are more options out there for people to acquire what they’re selling, which lowers the value, lowers how much people are willing to pay, and lowers how much money the producers can make.
Exclusivity decreases as access increases. And we have a name for the crime of taking unwarranted access: trespassing.
Trespassing is generally a less harmful act than theft and is generally not punished as severely, which is how unwarranted copying ought to be understood and treated as a matter of justice.
The mischaracterization of unwarranted copying as theft is punitive overreach by the owner-class and leads to unjust punishments.
Here’s the news story about it: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pascocounty/man-kills-eats-pet-peacock-pasco-county/67-d216ccbf-d32a-462c-be3d-65c41907095e
There’s nothing wrong with eating peafowl. People have been eating them for centuries and still do.
While some species of peafowl are endangered, the species that people keep as pets are not.
This guy was reportedly arrested for his slaughtering methods. I’m no butcher, but I believe the commonly accepted method of slaughter is to swiftly break the bird’s neck to ensure the death is quick. According to the news article, he cut the bird’s necks and let them bleed out which counts as animal cruelty. A person would theoretically get arrested for doing this to their pet/feeder chickens as well.