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‘We’ll See You at Your House:’ How Fear and Menace Are Transforming Politics ( www.nytimes.com )

There is little research on the political views of those behind the onslaught of abuse. Some surveys show that Republican officeholders are more likely to report being targeted, often from members of their own party. Research does show, however, that recent acts of political violence are more likely to be carried out by...

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@dansup is working on loops, a federated tiktok. According to THIS POST it looks he's going for optimizing the uploaded video format over microtransactions for reducing overhead.

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Oh goody

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That's the neat part, they did!

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Yeah we're about due for the bell riots, aren't we?

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They also went blind

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Well of course not, ever since they got that deal with Uncle Sam they knew they could do anything up to Steve Ballmer kicking a secret service agent in the nuts and stealing the Football. Maybe even including that, won't know until it happens lol.

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Former intoxicology tech, was both guys daily lol.

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All my homies hate zombie constitutionalism.

Big Video Game Publishers Like Microsoft Are Paving Their Own Path To Irrelevance - Aftermath ( aftermath.site )

In recent times, triple-A publishers have repeatedly had their lunch eaten — at least, in terms of mindshare — by more creatively nimble indies. Lethal Companywas last holiday season’s breakout hit, andPalworld followed not long after. Balatroand Manor Lords have come out of nowhere to tear up the Steam charts, as...

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"Why aren't we making more money?!?" Cries Phil Spencer while wringing the neck of yet another golden goose.

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Have you tried going into the setting for the feed itself and using the CSS selector filters? You might be able to cut out the extraneous bits using that.

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This is fantastic!

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It looks like it's being used for cooling in some areas and static control in others.

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... Should someone tell him?

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wArRiOr cops?

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Get some silvervine sticks too! Cats love those.

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Looks like you're not the only one to have this issue, here's what another user managed to figure out.

AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing | Ars Technica ( arstechnica.com )

A controversial bill that would require all new cars to be fitted with AM radios looks set to become a law in the near future. Yesterday, Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass) revealed that the "AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act" now has the support of 60 US Senators, as well as 246 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, making its...

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Oh fuck I forgot about that troglodyte. My parents were Limbaugh losers back in the day. Now they're anti-vaxxers.

Fired Google workers ousted over Israeli contract protests file complaint with labor regulators ( apnews.com )

Dozens of Google workers who were fired after internal protests surrounding a lucrative contract that the technology company has with the Israeli government have filed a complaint with labor regulators in an attempt to get their jobs back....

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I'm in the process of doing this with my former employer (NLRB complaint). It's not as much trying to get your job back as getting what you're owed, be it severance or your pound of flesh lol.

A lot of contracts specify that you have to go through arbitration to resolve disputes with the company as opposed to the courts, which is both good and bad. Bad because it takes a while and they're usually all buddy buddy with the people who pay them, but good because arbitration is pretty expensive and making them do all this when they'd rather be done with you brings me joy.

Also this gives companies the opportunity to use more rope to hang themselves with if they try to do funny stuff with their arbitrator, the NLRB can overrule arbitration decisions if they're "repugnant".

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Oof, that's what killed my V1 setup lol

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They couldn't effectively serve ads through it lol

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It is! They've got a Firefox extension but idk if it works for mobile.

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Not out yet unfortunately.

EDIT: I lied, link is here. There's no releases as of yet.

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Or get a geofence warrant

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Yeah I use bitwarden and it was pretty panless. My only issue was on github the addon didn't pick up on the passkey initially, had to make a new one.

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Oh damn I forgot about silverlight. Only thing I used that was for some random Twitter client.

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GET FUCKED GENOCIDE APOLOGIST

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I've been using copymethat but I'm trying to move to obsidian.

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I'm trying to find that out myself, just started playing with it yesterday. Right now I've got a personal store of recipes in CopyMeThat, and that's got some nice features like meal planning and shopping lists but its not integrated into anything.

I've seen a few approaches so far, some guy on the forums has all the ingredients stored in the front matter and uses dataviewjs to display them in the note which allows for unit conversion but I think that's too much, I still want to be able to read them without obsidian.

Right now I've got tags and method and ingredients in the front matter along with checklist add-on formatted tasks in the main part of the note. Eventually I want to have it pull a recipe at random and put it in my weekly note or something.

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Former hotel bartender here, can confirm.

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I very much did! I posted that before I had my coffee so I didn't meant to imply that I still worked there, because I don't anymore. Got fired last year for doing what I thought was an official union action but in fact wasn't. Not too torn up though, they're paying for me to go back to school lol.

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I think in this case the pod is your instance and you'd be interacting with it like you'd interact with an alternative frontend for Lemmy.

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Yeah I've got this with a GTS2, you have to activate the watch with the official app and extract the key from either the app or the website. Fitness tracking is actually pretty solid with the GTS2, but I'm probably going to roll with the bangle.js next.

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Yeah I had the traefik reverse proxy set up for a while until it updated to 2.x and all my configs broke. At that point I gave up and just paid for the nabu casa URL.

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Im looking at dashy's widget documentation and it doesn't look like they have an API query widget quite yet. You could probably output the temp sensor as an RSS feed and pick it up with dashy's datafeed widget.

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Yeah I honestly forgot about this integration lol. Kinda want to see how I can work it into my setup now.

Seeking assistance configuring conversations/intents

I have input_text.event_1 where the value is currently "birthday", input_text.event_2 where the value is currently "christmas", input_date.event_1 where the value is currently "1/1/2000", and input_date.event_2 where the value is currently "12/25/2024". How do I configure voice assistant to recognize a phrase like "what's the...

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So I found this which might help. I tried defining my own intent scripts too, but it was too much of a PITA, I ended up using automations instead.

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I can think of a couple ways you could have it be one automation, the first is you'd have multiple triggers with different ids and use the choose action to select the response based on the trigger id.

The other way that I'm a bit less sure about is passing the name of the input_date helper through to the response with a wildcard. You'd probably have to set the {{ trigger.slot.event }} as a variable and match that to an alias or an entity_id.

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I did just check to see if you can pass along wildcards in an automation, which you can! I used this automation:

alias: sentence test
description:
trigger:
  - platform: conversation
    command:
      - When is [my] {date}
condition: []
action:
  - set_conversation_response: curses, that damnable {{ trigger.slots.game }}
    enabled: false
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: template
            value_template: '{{ ''birthday'' in trigger.slots.date }}'
        sequence:
          - set_conversation_response: >-
              curses, that damnable {{ trigger.slots.date }}! It completely
              slipped my mind
      - conditions:
          - condition: template
            value_template: '{{ ''christmas'' in trigger.slots.date }}'
        sequence:
          - set_conversation_response: sir you know when {{ trigger.slots.date }} is!

This should give you a framework to build off of. It looks like when you don't define a list of slots in an intent it just passes the wildcard along in a slot.

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No problem! I've been puttering around trying to figure this out and this post gave me the push I needed lol

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the root cause of shortages of low-cost, off-patent generic drugs is well established. These drugs have razor-thin to non-existent profit margins, driven by middle managers who have, in recent years, pushed down wholesale prices to rock-bottom levels. In some cases, generic manufacturers lose money on the drugs, disincentivizing other players in the pharmaceutical industry from stepping in to bolster fragile supply chains. Several generic manufacturers have filed for bankruptcy recently.

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Well no, but if you're engaged in some drug-fueled (heh) 4d chess with the competition vying for the lowest price, a global disruption to the supply chain is going to play merry hell with whatever passes for well-laid plans in corporate management these days.

Motorized wheel-on-a-pole sticks it to electric skateboards ( newatlas.com )

If you sometimes want an electric boost while skateboarding, but don't want an electric skateboard, then you might like REM. It's essentially a handheld "power stick" that works completely independent of the user's board.

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That was my first thought too! Also reminded me of bodega not on mastodon: "This ex-skateboarder wants to replace long boards with electric street gondolas."

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https://midwest.social/pictrs/image/806ed529-b2ca-4221-ac5c-1be1b86cfe23.webp

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One of these days I'm going to find out where they hide those speakers and when I do I'm bringing an icepick to the pump.

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Ehhh, it's not like I'd actually do it, but the thought of doing it while I'm pumping gas gives me warm fuzzy feelings inside.

Standard notes: what about don’t put all your eggs in one basket rule?

If the owner of the standard notes will now be a proton, doesn't that contradict this principle? I have a proton email account but I don't want it linked to my standard notes account. I don't strongly trust companies that offer packaged services like google or Microsoft....

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Same! I used orgzly for a good while, might have to get back to it.

Note-taking app that looks too good to be true? - Siyuan

Recently stumbled upon this note-taking app called SiYuan, but it honestly looks a bit too good to be true(?). Has anyone here used it or got any experience with it? Trying to replace Obsidian is a difficult task, and I've been through almost all note-taking apps there are out there, however this one looks fairly similar....

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Honestly I've been thinking about this and I think I might try to mix the two. I really like silverbullet's built in query feature and being able to bake the results into the note with a command. That seems better than how dataview does it and might work well for automating my day-to-day file handling.

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Yeah that makes sense. My comment had more to do with the potential of a open source search engine/crawler than anything it currently does. Though I feel the optics feature might be able to account for that eventually.

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