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Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
  • 2016 Assange was a very different person than who he was in 2009. The espionage charges relating to the Chelsea Manning leaks were always bogus, but his involvement with the Trump campaign solidified him as a huge asshole in my mind.

    https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/14/563996442/donald-trump-jr-had-direct-contact-with-wikileaks-during-campaign

    Even back then, WikiLeaks was telling trump to claim the election was rigged and stolen. These are not the actions of a whistleblower, and it's clear he was not a whistleblower (or working with whistleblowers) during this period and likely a mouthpiece for Russia to sow division in the US.

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  • I manage a stack like this, we have dedicated hardware running a steady state of backend processing, but scale into AWS if there's a surge in realtime processing needed and we don't have the hardware. We also had an outage in our on prem datacenter once which was expensive for us (I assume an insurance claim was made), but scaling to AWS was almost automatic, and the impact was minimal for a full datacenter outage.

    If we wanted to optimize even more, I'm sure we could scale into Azure depending on server costs when spot pricing is higher in AWS. The moral of the story is to not get too locked into any one provider and utilize some of the abstraction layers so that AWS, Azure, etc are just targets that you can shop around for by default, without having to scramble.

  • Lynn Conway, leading computer scientist and transgender pioneer, dies at 85
  • Yes, I have no clue how she felt about the article from 2000, and obviously reading it with a 2024 lens is not fair to the original author. I am happy for her that the obituary didn't deadname her like the original article did, and hope that she would have been ok with the pronouns used the way they did pre/post transition.

  • Martha-Ann Alito Condemns Pride Flags, the Left, and the Media
  • It's a double edge sword, but I think people are just sour that there is no choice for this election. If there were primaries in 2024 and Biden didn't win, then that would be unprecedented and a recipe for losing against Trump. One could argue that in 2020, the primary process forced Biden to adopt a more liberal stance with regard for Student Debt loan forgiveness, which he would not have done otherwise.

  • Lynn Conway, leading computer scientist and transgender pioneer, dies at 85
  • You're right, very weird use of pronouns in the obituary. I can only imagine that most of it was lifted from the article from 2000. That doesn't excuse misgendering someone, they could have updated it for 2024.

  • Martha-Ann Alito Condemns Pride Flags, the Left, and the Media
  • If Trump wins (and the senate is R), Thomas and Alito are for sure resigning and will be replaced with younger shitter people who will make major decisions for the next ~30 years.

    Our system sucks but it is what it is. Voting for Biden doesn't mean you endorse everything he's done, it means you realize the alternative option is worse and for sure don't want that.

  • Trump will hold outdoor Las Vegas rally in scorching heat. His campaign has extra medics and water
  • “I don’t want anybody going on me. We need every voter. I don’t care about you. I just want your vote,”

    This was one of the three Trump quotes they have in the article. He added he was just joking but pretty sure he was serious.

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    I'm not sure if this is a local issue, but I'm not able to load any thumbnail images. I keep getting a connection timed out.

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    Posting this is anyone is having similar experience today, or has advice.

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    Making Someone Watch a Video

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    best impression of all time

    ``` these impressions feel so real

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    when you accidentally select MEET AT DOOR

    why can't he just freaking leave it.

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