VitoRobles

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[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Am I being wooshed? It's impossible to get a flush with the two spades. Or the Aces.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Very cool. Now it just needs to drop in price.

I'm willing to wait for it to hit under $20

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have friends who are in scientific research and 100% of them from multiple institutions are affected by Trump. Every single one.

One is out of a job in early Jan. The others over the next 3 months. It's really bad.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 3 points 3 days ago

I held onto Windows 7 even a year or two past so-called the EOL. I had a pretty powerful rig and I wasn't going to pay money to upgrade. Then I think Microsoft just gave Windows 8 for free?

I finally got on Windows 10 when I bought a premade gaming computer. Still not upgrading.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago

I blame all the satire.

It didn't just go over their heads, they took it as truth and ran with it.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 10 points 3 days ago

Can't do this with a katana. Check mate atheists.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 6 points 3 days ago

You know, I didn't pick up that he was pointing that out too. George Carlin still hitting us from the grave.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (10 children)

American here. Maybe I'm going through the five stages of grief and now I'm at acceptance.

Everything in your first paragraph sounds accurate and maybe something that probably needed to happen. America as the World Police is/has been a problem. There were some positives, but a lot of negatives.

The sooner America gets off the stage, the better. We don't deserve the recognition. We can't even feed our own people and yet wield tremendous influence internationally, and maybe it's a positive thing that it ends soon.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 8 points 3 days ago

At age 17, I remember running 2 miles to school and then back home so I can save my bus money. I was also playing sports, doing some heavy lifting then repeating it over and over again.

Now I walk a few blocks and I'm like "Enough exercise for today!"

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago

I went to a small town recently and this was it.

The small "boutique" shop absolutely has a Karen-looking gal who was selling things from Temu but with her sticker on it.

Real sad state.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 24 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Well I mean, it's usually one company making 23 bagel flavors. Look at toothpaste. There's Colgate and then 15 Colgate variants. But if we go higher, the parent company owns 2-5 toothpaste beands, and those toothpaste brands have multiple variants.

And then we go even higher, and those parent companies are actually owned by the same group of people.

I mean if we want to get real about it, do we really want that fake choice either?

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 3 points 3 days ago

I like that a lot. Don't know if it was a expensive concert but I like going to shows where the ticket price is cheap, and the musicians tell people it's a work in progress.

 

Summary

Alan Filion, an 18-year-old from California, was sentenced to four years in federal prison for orchestrating 375 swatting incidents between August 2022 and January 2024. Operating under various aliases, Filion charged clients for making false emergency calls that prompted significant police responses. His hoaxes included threats of school shootings and bombings, targeting institutions across the U.S., U.K., and Canada. Despite being questioned by the FBI in July 2023, he continued his activities until his arrest in January 2024, where he pled guilty to multiple charges.

 

A project called "Remove-DEI" shows the tweaks used to remove "forbidden words" from a database about childhood school readiness.

The updates, shown in Github commits, are to a database for the Department of Health and Human Services’ Head Start program. They show a project called “Remove-DEI,” which reveal some of the back-and-forth that is happening behind the scenes to align federal agencies with Donald Trump’s executive orders that forbid almost anything having to do with race or gender within federal agencies. The Github pages show software engineers discussing amongst themselves how to best remove all instances of “forbidden words” from a specific database, and the code updates they used to do it. The changes also show that, while thousands of government datasets are disappearing from the internet, even ones that remain are having parts of their utility deprecated or broken in a way that may not be visible to those outside the government.

 
 

The new phenomenon involves Gen Z employees accepting job offers but not showing up on their first day without informing their employers.

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