- Saddam has WMDs
- Masks don't work against COVID (until governments secure their supplies)
- Russian bot campaign #6546
Misinformation: It's everyone's gameTM
I simply put so much coffee through it so regularly that cleaning isn't required.
'Thank you, thank you. As you know I've suffered for my art'
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Abandon BOM, join Breezy Weather famclub
Of all the things to call someone who employs coarse slang/diminutives for ethnic and cultural groups, racist wouldn't even make top 5 in most people's books.
Also: fuck the Cardis, they deserved their fate.
You can takle the mods out of R_ddit...
The corporate media are very clear on this. Citizens won't be doing any primary reporting, nor will they be doing curation of reportage. Weird, huh?
See the example of Level1News becoming Level1Show, etc.
but if you have a problem with the wages, just tip more.
enabler | noun
en·abler i-ˈnā-b(ə-)lər
: one that enables another to achieve an end especially : one who enables another to persist in self-destructive behavior (such as substance abuse) by providing excuses or by making it possible to avoid the consequences of such behavior
The public internet is for P2P exchange as well, no matter how much gov/corp tries to stymie it. I2P has its merits, but it would be sad to see it take off purely because people ceded the former territory for an obscure network layer.
I cannot wait for mockery and satire to make a resurgence in the media throughout the 2030s and 40s, as a reaction to the American Left's insane bent for language policing. It's going to be wonderful.
No one needs pronouns on the web. If I wanted to quote or refer to the OP, I would simply use the proper noun 'qaz' - qaz says, qaz wrote. It reminds me of an absurd Microsoft keynote presentation a couple of years ago where each host not only provided their names as well as a description of their clothing for vision-impaired viewers (useful information), but tacked on their pronouns too. 'Over to you, Lisa!' 'Thanks Bob'.
I have no sympathy for instances like Blahaj in this particular aspect of moderation. This is a social and political millstone you fitted around your own necks.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QFspemhHmsw A Critique of Star Trek Discovery — Part 1 #RIPStarTrek
This whole essay is worth listening to, but 15:46-30:33 in particular gets at the heart of a big reason why classic Trek rocks and why nuTrek is shit.
I don't use tablets. Powder is cheaper. You only need about 11g of detergent for lightly soiled loads. Tablets are typically 20g. To get a visual reference for the volume 11g of powder represents, I weighed it out in a cup then tipped the cup into a tablespoon.
The safest way to log into an account in a non-trusted device
Wouldn't the better policy be to practice device compartmentalization? I have the 'pleasure' of interacting with a non-trusted device about 40 hours a week, and I can tell you the number of personal logins I access from that compartment is none
People (even the technically incllined) place way too much value on cross-platform sync.
sharing - this one is key. I use a shared shopping list and we both need to add and edit.
Get jotting with your friends in seconds: https://pad.disroot.org/
A Boeing suicide...
A crass nickname for the CIA Prize for Journalism if I ever saw one.
The easiest tool is MakeMKV. But you'll often encounter opportunities for efficiency (eg stereo DTSHD to FLAC) as well as requirements to convert* for hardware compatibility. That's where ffmpeg and MKVToolNix are good secondary tools for customizing the remux contents.
*Not transcoding. Rather, lossless formet 1 -> lossless format 2.
Or put another way, it's enabling advertisers to better camouflage themselves as humans. (Because we just cannot have people communicating directly to each other on the web...)
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Gnarly Christmas Day watch for the whole family
It's worth going in blind. But for the impatient, here's an insightful review: https://www.themoviedb.org/review/5cc25a01c3a3681e6b805326
Protector of arresting color palettes. Spiritual sponsor of NPBs. Discarder of crepes.
This film's second act has a stereotype/racial epithet montage that will always be funny.
Since about Plasma 6 onward I've been getting system restarts when attempting to play back video files and/or seek through them.
<System info>
Kernel 6.5.0-41
KDE neon 6
Plasma 6.1.2
Qt 6.7.0
Ryzen 7 3700x CPU
AMD R9 390 GPU
16GB DDR4 RAM
The system will crash and reboot when:
- Attempting to play any video with an mp4 container (mpv and vlc tested)
- Attempting to seek with the mouse while playing most videos (mp4 and matroska)
- Scrolling too fast in a file manager
- Clicking and dragging to resize various windows (terminal, browsers, etc)
The system performs fine when:
- Playing videos in a webm container
- Playing videos in software like avidemux, kdenlive, gwenview, etc.
- Streaming video in a web browser
The issue has persisted through these toubleshooting measures:
- Update to latest BIOS firmware
- Switching between Wayland and X11
- Substitution of the PSU to a brand new unit
My assumption so far is that it's not hardware related. Currently I suspect it's Plasma. Below is the journal output of records around one such crash time of 5.19-5.20pm:
<journalctl /usr/bin/plasmashell>
Jul 13 17:19:21 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kde.plasmashell: Aborting shell load: The activity manager daemon (kactivitymanagerd) is not running.
Jul 13 17:19:21 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kde.plasmashell: If this Plasma has been installed into a custom prefix, verify that its D-Bus services dir is known to the system for the daemon to be activatable.
Jul 13 17:19:21 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kde.plasmashell: Aborting shell load: The activity manager daemon (kactivitymanagerd) is not running.
Jul 13 17:19:21 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kde.plasmashell: If this Plasma has been installed into a custom prefix, verify that its D-Bus services dir is known to the system for the daemon to be activatable.
Jul 13 17:19:22 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kf.plasma.quick: Applet preload policy set to 1
Jul 13 17:19:22 pcname plasmashell[1680]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.desktopcontainment/contents/ui/main.qml:195:25: QML FolderViewDropArea (parent or ancestor of QQuickLayoutAttached): Binding loop detected for property "minimumWidth"
Jul 13 17:19:22 pcname plasmashell[1680]: Toolbox not loading, toolbox package is either invalid or disabled.
Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.private.systemtray/contents/ui/main.qml:162:21: QML KSortFilterProxyModel: Binding loop detected for property "sourceModel"
Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.private.systemtray/contents/ui/main.qml:162:21: QML KSortFilterProxyModel: Binding loop detected for property "sourceModel"
Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: qt.dbus.integration: Could not connect "org.cups.cupsd.Notifier" to PrinterFinishingsChanged(QString, QString, QString, uint, QString, bool) :
Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: qt.core.qobject.connect: QObject::connect: No such signal Solid::Backends::Fstab::FstabStorageAccess::repairRequested(QString) in ./src/solid/devices/frontend/storageaccess.cpp:23
Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: qt.core.qobject.connect: QObject::connect: No such signal Solid::Backends::Fstab::FstabStorageAccess::repairDone(Solid::ErrorType, QVariant, QString) in ./src/solid/devices/frontend/storageaccess.cpp:24
Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kameleon supported false
Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kameleon enabled true
Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: qml: SystemTray ItemLoader: Invalid state, cannot determine source!
Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (0.000000), must be greater than 0
Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: error getting max screen brightness via dbus: QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject", "No such object path '/org/kde/Solid/PowerManagement/Actions/BrightnessControl'")
Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: error getting max keyboard brightness via dbus QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject", "No such object path '/org/kde/Solid/PowerManagement/Actions/KeyboardBrightnessControl'")
Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: org.kde.klipper: Invalid or non-local url for preview: QUrl("mtp:/Pixel 5/Internal shared storage/Tempfold/archive.zip")
Jul 13 17:19:25 pcname plasmashell[1680]: org.kde.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.usb-VIA_Technologies_Inc._Audinst_HUD-mx2-00.analog-stereo.monitor"
Jul 13 17:19:27 pcname plasmashell[1680]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.keyboardindicator/contents/ui/main.qml:61:13: Unable to assign [undefined] to bool
Jul 13 17:22:17 pcname plasmashell[1653]: kde.plasmashell: Aborting shell load: The activity manager daemon (kactivitymanagerd) is not running.
Jul 13 17:22:17 pcname plasmashell[1653]: kde.plasmashell: If this Plasma has been installed into a custom prefix, verify that its D-Bus services dir is known to the system for the daemon to be activatable.
Suggestions for next steps would be welcome. Is it worth considering a rollback to the previous/older Plasma versions? Assuming Plasma doesn't like my DAC or keyboard or whatever, is it worth substituting or removing USB devices?
