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  • Are you perhaps color blind? The shades of red and green were pretty clear for me at a glance.

  • Apple put the Magic Mouse’s charging port on the bottom again
  • The vitriol over this topic is humorous. We charge our phones and watches daily, nobody is losing their minds over that. However, asking for the mouse to be plugged in one night a month is outlandish and absurd.

    The best part is that this minor issue overshadows the real issue: the ergonomics are terrible. I have large hands and simply can not hold onto the thing properly. Narrow and flat is poor design for something you need to get a grip on to slide around.

  • People who get their hands dirty at work, what do you do?
  • I’m pretty sure that we’re friends now by law.

  • Vivaldi polishes its browser, adds a dashboard • The Register
  • Now if only they could add “swipe to go back” to their Linux client. Only thing keeping me off of Vivaldi these days.

  • People who get their hands dirty at work, what do you do?
  • Are you me? I’m also a lazy tech schlub now who was formerly a paint store warehouse worker, home renovation worker, etc.

    Fully agree that everyone going into tech should spend real time working hard labor and retail. I genuinely feel that my non-tech experiences made me a better person and a better tech schlub.

    I remember tech coworkers complaining that the wall filled with free snacks and candy didn’t have the right kind of snacks and candy, and having to hold myself back from going full Everett True.

  • Star Trek: Section 31 to Premiere January 24
  • Did I even watch the movie which hasn’t come out yet? I’m pretty sure I know which of us is a bot.

  • Star Trek: Section 31 to Premiere January 24
  • No.

    Bring back my hopeful vision of the future Star Trek, I’m all done with this new wave.

  • Friendship is Universal
  • Fuck you, Tony!

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    Free Software Is Under Attack! (Will You Help Defend It?)
  • The cult of Stallman continues to baffle me. The man is venom in the veins of the free software community and people just adore him.

    I love the ideals of the free software movement but RMS is so toxic that I won’t associate myself with it while he’s tolerated.

  • TIL: Being intellectually gifted is a spectrum of neurodivergence and does not automatically mean the person is/will be a genius in anything
  • Careful now, “good faith” is religiously charged and implies that God is the source of all good intent, you’re gonna set this person off with that.

    (/s hopefully obviously)

  • Alabama executes death-row prisoner with nitrogen gas
  • You’re getting pushback here because you’re conflating two entirely different scenarios—capital punishment and assisted suicide—without clarifying that you understand the difference. I can understand what your intent might be but you’re using the same arguments that proponents of capital punishment are using to claim this is a good way to execute people.

    It comes off as “no, these people aren’t suffering” instead of “it really sucks that these people are suffering, the arguments for it being humane don’t apply to this scenario and we should stop doing it” (which is what I want to believe you mean).

  • Alabama executes death-row prisoner with nitrogen gas
  • Multiple reports from observers of this execution method: it’s horrible, they thrash around on the gurney and seem to suffer greatly

    This guy: nuh uh.

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    Dear iPhone users:
  • I’m definitely making fun of the original post. “Your phone is bad and you should feel bad based on this cherry picked set of metrics” is one of the dumbest debates of all time. Right up there with “my OS is better than your OS”.

    Let people like what they like.

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  • But if we don’t make the kind of phone we use our entire identity how will we know who we’re totally better than?

  • American woman shot dead at anti-settler protest in West Bank
  • The White House said in a statement it was “deeply disturbed” by the killing and seeking an Israeli investigation.

    Waiting on “We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing”.

  • The father of the Georgia school shooting suspect has been arrested and charged, authorities say | CNN
  • Being actively under indictment is a lot different than just being investigated. Indictment requires that sufficient evidence has been gathered, reviewed, and (for a federal case) at least 12 of 23 jurors in a grand jury believe there is at least a 50% chance that you have actually committed a crime (12/16 jurors at the state level).

    By the time you have been indicted you have received a lot of due process resulting in a concrete belief that if you go to court you will be convicted of having committed a crime.

  • The father of the Georgia school shooting suspect has been arrested and charged, authorities say | CNN
  • I appreciate your intent with this, but one of our fundamental rights is due process. Penalizing an individual for simply being investigated would violate that right.

    I’m not sure I’m willing to participate in experimenting with a US government where due process is wishy washy. I remember how horny we got for suspending habeas corpus via the patriot act.

  • Is a detection-proof ad blocker theoretically possible?
  • I assume if the client is undetectable that ads will escalate to phoning home for viewing confirmation, and then to something even more dumb once we beat that.

    It’s an arms race, it’s probably silly to think we can just outright win for once and all.

  • How it works
  • That monster. Goosebumps was a foundational part of my lifelong love of reading.

  • Defederation requests, how to?

    Do we have an established practice for requesting defederation?

    I would very much like to request that we defederate from burggit.moe (because I would prefer to keep my lemmy experience free of loli porn) and I went looking for the best way to do this, but the best I could come up with was posting to meta and that seems like the wrong place.

    I feel like I missed something obvious ¯\(ツ)

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