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It blocked a state law that required federal immigration agents to visibly display their identification and barred them from wearing masks.

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.'”

“I wonder if they’re bulletproof”, he wondered for no particular reason.

I’m currently running FreshRSS with good results. I ran TinyTinyRSS previously but the dev was so toxic I bailed on principle. :-(

I’m replying here in good faith that this isn’t a bottomless Yes, but scenario.

Now tell me that I am asking too much and there’s no hope for me.

There’s plenty of hope if one is willing to fork and modify a FOSS server or client. Make it look and act exactly like you want.

browser extensions are a privacy concern and stopped using them

I think this concern is overstated in an RSS context for anonymous (no sign-in) feeds.

Note to self: wear eye pro at protests

weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run an officer over

Looked to me like he throttle-ized his vehicle to GTFO of there. But brave LEOs gonna “fear for muh laff” at the slightest provocation.

between 2AM and 6AM internet would start dropping packets like crazy

about 20 years ago I was remotely troubleshooting a microwave connectivity problem that occurred at a clients workplace about 10pm each night. Lasted about an hour. There was no one at work then but data transfers between their server and the mothership would fail.

One night the client went to the site at night to check an alarm and noticed there was a bobtail truck parked next to the building. The aero deflector attachment on its roof blocked line-of-sight with the tower, causing the problem. He asked the driver to nap at some other location in the parking lot and the problem went away.

I feel crazy for thinking it is correlated to do bad weather, as if that should somehow affect my indoor WiFi quality…

well, if it’s raining more people might stay indoors on their wifi, exacerbating any channel interference problems

ARM is perfect for this, but does Linux play nice with it?

to paraphrase the saying, “Millions of Raspberry Pi can’t be wrong”

I’m honored to have President Trump’s “Complete and Total Endorsement,”

that’s not the flex he thinks it is

When you do aliased commands, can they take arguments? Like to download a playlist with yt-dlp, could i do download-playlist [URL]?

They don’t take arguments in the sense that functions do but in bash at least they are passed on as part of the expanded string. Pasted from bash:

alias argtest='echo arg is'  
argtest foo  
arg is foo  

So yes you could alias your yt-dlp commands and invoke the alias with the URL.

If you have been using Linux for +10 years, what are you using now?

I distro-hopped every few years until about 2015. Since then I’ve been trending toward Debian for everything.

That’s the one I use, too. Works fine.

I’m not certain this is a “leopards ate my face” scenario, as I doubt many had illusions about their survival rate in the first place. Getting out alive would be a nice outcome if it happens:

…signing bonuses of up to $50,000 — life-changing money in a country where average monthly wages remain below $1,000. The incentives go beyond cash, with pledges of debt relief and free childcare for soldiers’ families and guaranteed university places for their children. Criminal records, illness and even HIV are no longer automatic disqualifiers. For many men with little to lose, the front has become an employer of last resort. – source

[emphasis added]

Personal note: my enlistment bonus + GI bill benefits from the 80s would be ~$88k in 2026 money. I wasn’t as desperate as the Russian recruits are but I was, as noted philosopher K. Rock once remarked, “straight out the trailuh”. We weren’t worried about normal shooting war stuff (we were surrounded by and protected by infantry) although there were other scenarios where we’d stop existing rather suddenly. A common remark in the unit was “It doesn’t matter; we’d be vaporized anyhow”. I mention this to illustrate that people can choose paths that others might think of as leopardy. The difference is the leopard folks had illusions to begin with.

By ICE’s logic it would have been allowable to put rounds through the windshield.

I’m honestly regularly shocked at how many people use Chrome on Linux.

I generally prefer to run firefox (ESR) on my debian machines. But I regularly open a couple dozen tabs during a research session and sometimes FF eats eat all my RAM (16GB), then swap, then locks up the machine. If I catch the degradation before lockup sometimes I can kill enough tabs to recover. I had a few of those lockups last month before I got tired of it.

So for now I’ve swapped back to chromium to get around that problem. Same behavior on my part, ~same extensions, but chromium’s RAM usage stays sane.

Hegseth reminds me of the first sergeant in my unit that was

A) a jerk; and B) a drunk

One day he abused a guard (yet again) while leaving our compound in his POV – the guard called the MPs to report a DUI with car description and plate number. Top was caught, busted, and was apparently reassigned elsewhere. Or maybe retired.

for the first time someone has contributed to the code. This may seem trivial, but it is important to me

I’d definitely feel good about that!

I don’t know what the rumors were in the 70s, but in the late 80s it was AIDS.

and satanic panic

Can’t wait for 9/11 2 Electric Boogaloo

America refuses to learn the lessons of blowback, no matter how many times it is demonstrated.