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   ryan (ryan@bemrose.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 08:06:04 JST ryan

   I’ve been accused of being Republican, and I want to set the record straight.

   I criticize Democrats far more often than I criticize Republicans. But there is a reason. As you may know, most politics are local. In my local state and region, the following is true:

   • Every politician is corrupt

   • Every politician is a Democrat

   There are no Republicans here on the left coast; only Democrats spanning from full-on communist to somewhat-moderate (meaning they still like taxing the middle class into poverty, but might have an objection to one or two spending projects)

   So, in my defense, the simple reason that I don’t criticize Republican politicians as often is that I’m not sure I’ve ever actually seen one.

   My state has been ruined by overtaxation, overregulation, and overspending of government, and there’s only one party available to take the blame. It is very very difficult not to assume causation.

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   Prof. Sam Lawler (sundogplanets@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 11:50:22 JST Prof. Sam Lawler

   I HATE buying new stuff. But I am absolutely dependent on a computer for my job, and my workhorse laptop is finally doing enough scary things that I really do need a new one.

   My current laptop is a Lenovo ThinkPad T480, and I really love it. I want basically this exact same laptop, but newer. I want all the ports, and no biometric or touchscreen. I'll be using Linux. Recs?

   (I got totally overwhelmed browsing the way-too-many options - going to try crowd-sourcing!)

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   Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 08:36:59 JST Kevin Beaumont

   in reply to

   https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-exploited-windows-0-day-for-6-months-after-microsoft-knew-of-it/

   Ars has a good look at this one.

   My take - it may well have been a bunch of technical work to fix the vulnerability, absolutely. But Microsoft can afford to resource this stuff - it’s one of the most profitable companies on earth, and they end to end own and create 100% of the code.

   To again repeat one plea for vulnerability researches - publish public timelines on blogs about disclosures. It would create visibility of how long fixes take, and encourage accountability.

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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 17:40:57 JST clacke

   I wasn't sure what to expect from "Argylle", but it quickly became unexpected. And then it became something else again. And again.

   It was an absolutely ridiculous movie. I loved it. The less you know about it going in, the better.

   I laughed so much and the visuals were pure art, the second most ridiculous scene was the most beautiful one.

   My friend said it reminded him of Kingsmen, also by Matthew Vaughn. Will watch.

   #argylle

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   Matt Hamilton [Maryland] (eriner@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 00:28:57 JST Matt Hamilton [Maryland]

   in reply to

   @jeremiah to the best of my knowledge, all of the Linux phones suck (as in, the baseband module sucks and it can't reliably serve its primary purpose of calling). And the ones that don't suck have proprietary baseband modules which means we're back to square one.

   My point being that there ultimately is no choice; you'll be stuck with either an Apple phone or a Qualcomm chip either way. All the flavors of bullshit in between are just a false choice dichotomy.

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   David Benfell, Ph.D. (benfell@hcommons.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 15:41:57 JST David Benfell, Ph.D.

   in reply to

   @Dogzilla @hosford42 @weaselx86 @vikxin @Radical_EgoCom @duckwhistle

   We need a lawyer to answer this properly and I'm not one.

   My understanding is that co-ops are still corporations limiting liability to owners. The difference is in governance and ownership.