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HarkMahlberg

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Programmer and Airplane Enthusiast.

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vsnmaryland, to random
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Judge reverses earlier decision and allows removal of Confederate memorial at Arlington Cemetery https://wtop.com/virginia/2023/12/judge-weighs-whether-to-block-removal-of-confederate-memorial-at-arlington-cemetery/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

HarkMahlberg,
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@vsnmaryland This is the same judge who issued the injunction it looks like?

Alston issued an 18-page opinion Tuesday evening to lift the injunction. He said the allegations that the removal efforts amounted to grave desecration “were, at best, ill-informed and, at worst, inaccurate.”

Aight, good to know he's changed his mind.

Some of the figures also on the statue include a Black woman depicted as “Mammy” holding what is said to be the child of a white officer, and an enslaved man following his owner to war. ... He noted that the statue depicts, among other things, a “slave running after his ‘massa’ as he walks down the road. What is reconciling about that?” asked Alston, an African American who was appointed to the bench in 2019 by then-President Donald Trump.

If I were this judge I'd be kicking myself for issuing the injunction in the first place. What craven ghoul would defend this rock?

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It’s wonderful to have holiday songs that recognize Christmas isn’t the “most wonderful time of the year” for many people.

Drop your favorite bittersweet holiday song ⬇️

https://theconversation.com/christmas-isnt-always-holly-jolly-even-some-of-its-best-loved-songs-are-bittersweet-195156

HarkMahlberg,
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@TheConversationUS Sufjan Stevens - That Was the Worst Christmas Ever!

HarkMahlberg, to random
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You guys gotta stop making me call you out like this.

When I rotate a layer, and I want to rotate it by 270 degrees, you cap me out at 180 degrees. But I know you are perfectly capable of understanding how to rotate an image by 270 degrees, because you let me rotate by -90 degrees. You know. That's how circles work? You don't think I'm gonna use the crappy little slider to rotate an image by -92.09 degrees do you? Let me just type in an angle, any angle, and convert it to whatever you need after I mouse out of the field.

HarkMahlberg,
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Add autosave you cowards.

HarkMahlberg, to random
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US East Coast. I know what your weather is going to be next weekend.

It's going to be rain.

HarkMahlberg, to random
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My roommate needs to poop.

How do I break the news to him?

HarkMahlberg, to random
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Don't trust anyone who speaks confidently this fast. His entire intent is to sound authoritative while slipping things like this by you faster than you can raise an eyebrow. -- /u/ReallyNowFellas

There's your critical thought for the day.

HarkMahlberg, to random
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"This article is terrible and nonsensical, it must have been written by AI."

Comments like these forget that real people can also create terrible and nonsensical articles. Or they don't agree with the point being made so they just claim it wasn't a real person's idea. Or both.

HarkMahlberg, to random
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I have a meme scavenger hunt, a meme bounty if you will. Somewhere out there is this clip from George C. Scott's A Christmas Carol with the "It is Wednesday, my dudes" meme mixed in.

I want it.

HarkMahlberg,
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You know, I'm just gonna leave this up.

HarkMahlberg,
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I'm just gonna recommend George C. Scott's A Christmas Carol. It's one of the better adaptations.

HarkMahlberg, to random
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A case for preemptively defederating with Threads (kbin.social)

With Meta beginning to test federation, there's a lot of discussion as to whether we should preemptively defederate with Threads. I made a post about the question, and it seems that opinions differ a lot among people on Kbin. There were a lot of arguments for and against regarding ads, privacy, and content quality, but I don't...

HarkMahlberg, (edited )
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Reposting this discussion for posterity

Big takeaways, emphasis preserved from the original:

Threads is entering a space in the fediverse which is dominated by Mastodon, so it's Mastodon and other fediverse microblogging services (including, to some extent, /kbin) which will most heavily feel the impact of Threads.

Defederating another server means your instance will stop requesting content from that server. ... Defederation is about what data comes in, not what goes out. ... Defederation doesn't make you invisible, it doesn't block anybody else from seeing you, it doesn't protect your content, it only means you never have to see their content.

Firstly, the fediverse is a drop in the ocean compared to Threads (104 million registered users). Obviously, Meta wants everybody, but their specific goals in terms of user-poaching are far more likely to center around the ~350 million active Twitter users than the ~12 million fediverse users (~3.5 million active). The threadiverse [Lemmy, Kbin, et al] is smaller again, at something like 100,000 active users.

"Threads will overwhelm the fediverse with their inferior content and culture." Like the EEE fears, this one is legitimate but once again something that will primarily be felt by microblogging providers (/kbin included). Toxic users, advertisers, etc. can push garbage into feeds all day, but they will largely not be targeting the threadiverse because there's some 100 million sets of eyes to put that crap in front of on the microblogging side and it will be difficult-to-impossible for them to push that content into Lemmy/kbin threads from their interface that was never made to interact with the threadiverse.

Is there any chance Meta has good intentions? No. But it might have intentions that are both self-serving and fediverse-neutral. The absolute best intention I can possibly ascribe to Meta is that joining the fediverse is a CYA (cover your ass) mechanism to head off regulations, especially in the EU, [e.g.] the newly-applicable Digital Markets Act ...

HarkMahlberg,
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If Threads puts out so much more content as to effectively make other federated entities irrelevant, the character of the Fediverse changes such that it is no longer what it is today.

A fun time to bring up the concept of Eternal September.

HarkMahlberg,
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To put my own skin in the game, I quite like the microblogging side of kbin. I like that I can swap between the thread and blog sides, I like that I can combine them into one view if I choose, and I like that I don't need a separate account to use either service. Using kbin's microblog was the first time I ever blogged, period. I'd hate to see that stream be overwhelmed by Threads users.

HarkMahlberg,
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In times like this, especially when the original twitter post gets ratio'd to shit, it's important to evaluate where they're getting their numbers. I see they post a link to Rumble. I've never heard of this before, what is it?

Rumble
Rumble is a video platform where you can watch live and on-demand content from various categories, such as news, politics, gaming, sports, viral, power slap and finance. You can also discover new creators, join communities, and support your favorite channels on Rumble.

Um... I don't know what Power Slap is but ok, it's a youtube clone.

All Videos
ALEX JONES EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW! Elon Brought Him Back... What's Next?!
Pentagon PANIC, Trump "Happening", Obama FEAR push, Cyber PUSH, Focus, Pray!
"HE'S BACK!!" Musk RESTORES Alex Jones On X…
NEWSMAX2 LIVE on Rumble

Oh fuck me it's a right wing nutjob site. This post is fucking dogshit, trashing Wikipedia because it helps counter their propaganda. Fuck that noise.

Happily other people noticed this fucking nonsense:

So I have no idea what the Lunduke Journal is, so I spent a couple minutes googling it to find its run by a Qanon guy and they themselves say their "tech satire" so... Maybe not someone you should trust with facts.

HarkMahlberg,
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Defensively and passive-aggressively trying to argue with reviewers?

Big "Baldur's Gate 3 is an anomaly" energy.

HarkMahlberg,
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Slap this right into Urban Dictionary. Great explainer.

HarkMahlberg,
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Does Youtube have a separate stream of ads for smart TV's? I never ever see the kind of scam ads people talk about on the TV app, and I run an adblocker on my browser so I don't see anything on the desktop.

HarkMahlberg,
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I'm not sure how you know they are the same user

Their old account has a blurb providing the new account name. In my case I'm not dealing with a malicious user, just one whose content I don't want to see.

HarkMahlberg,
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Thanks for the detailed response!

HarkMahlberg,
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This was a concern raised when Reddit updated the way blocking worked to make posts mutually invisible, between the blocked and the blocker. Some sort of scam had a cadre of dedicated users calling them out everywhere they went on Reddit. When blocking became mutual, i.e. the anti-scammers could no longer see the scammers' posts, it was believed the scammers would have a way easier time finding Marks.

HarkMahlberg, to random
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Every weekend for 3 months straight, we've gotten rain. No drizzle either. Every single one accompanied by flood watch. I'm ready to fight God to make this stop.

HarkMahlberg,
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It was disabled for me.

Stranger still, the other screenshot you posted did have the "Allow contacts to add me" checkbox checked, but it only appears when you tap "Add Friends." When you leave that screen and return, the checkbox is always checked. It makes me think it's a setting solely applicable to that screen, like just for the "Find Friends" button, and not to your profile as a whole. IDK if that even makes sense.

HarkMahlberg,
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Did Discord hire Google's laid off UX designers or something? Jesus Christ.

HarkMahlberg,
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So yes: I can possibly know and I have literally read the source code.

Discord, to my knowledge, is closed source, and has not had a source code leak. So taking your word for it, if you've seen Discord's source code, then you work for Discord?

HarkMahlberg,
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Presumably this comment. OP has some back and forth which I can't see for myself because it was deleted.

HarkMahlberg,
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Oh man those animations, I'm glad I wasn't the only one to notice how slow they were. Turning them off helped increase the speed of navigation, but there's still some delay when tapping the DM's bottom bar item specifically. App settings are also in a super unintuitive place now.

HarkMahlberg,
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Thanks for the reply. I wouldn't have thought they meant Android source code but that makes sense lol. Also this is the kind of reply I think OP would have appreciated more than just someone saying "you're wrong, you must have done something wrong."

I'm starting to see some serious downsides to being able to see who downvotes you. (kbin.social)

A few days ago I downvoted someone's comment, and the next day I happened to notice every single comment I've ever made had at least one downvote. All from the person I dared to downvote the ONE time. I straight up asked why they did it, and they seem to think I'm an "obvious" troll account that "apparently just exist to...

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HarkMahlberg,
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It's... It's public info? Like that's his point lol. You can go to his user profile, find a couple of downvoted posts, and see who he's talking about.

HarkMahlberg,
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Case in point, Ernest had to take a month off kbin development to handle things in his personal life. I, too, have abandoned open source projects due to lack of interest. I think people incorrectly assume that the internet offers a level of permanence unmatched by real life, when in fact it only highlights the ethereal nature of anything people build.

HarkMahlberg,
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"Whatever you do, don't let Sean go on Colbert again!"

HarkMahlberg,
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I was about to report this but you're already on top it. Thanks Ernest!

HarkMahlberg, to linguistics
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"a hell of a" ✔️
"an hell of a" ❌
"one hell of a" ✔️

HarkMahlberg,
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I'm not clicking on your link.

My man, it's Wikipedia. It's where he copied the text from. You could afford to put in a little effort to engage in good faith.

Liberals are anti-war. Progressives are pro-status quo, which is pro military industrial complex

Progressives absolutely support cutting military spending to divert funding to single-payer healthcare.

HarkMahlberg, to random
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Unsubscribe from email notifications
New email: "We're sorry to see you go!"
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HarkMahlberg,
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The developer is closely linked to Swedish publisher Paradox Interactive, which tests, markets, sells, distributes, and owns the intellectual property of all games by Colossal Order.

You do realize it was very likely not CO's decision to release the game in this state, right? Paradox owns the IP, they're publishing the game, they decide when it gets to ship, or else they won't pay CO. Game companies have absolutely died by going against the publisher and going bankrupt from withheld funding, e.g. Free Radical Design and Lucasarts.

Like have you ever worked as a software engineer before? Clients always set the deadline, and they're almost always unrealistically short time-frames. CD Projekt Red self-published, they had no excuse to release Cyberpunk the way they did. But we're not talking about a developer in charge of their own destiny here. We're talking about a developer with a client: Paradox. You've got the actual antagonist staring you in the face, but you're going to blame the developers?

HarkMahlberg,
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Your waking life for minimum wage and your dreams for free.

HarkMahlberg,
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Aren't the most commonly accepted sorting algorithms O(nlog(n))? Quicksort? Mergesort? Those are considered bad?

HarkMahlberg,
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is it still impossible to withdraw staked coins?

Wait back up.

still

Hahahahaha holy shit.

HarkMahlberg, to random
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A relative told me "you're too young to be so old-fashioned about technology," after I said I don't use AI to code, and seeing that I wasn't wearing a smartwatch. And I would disagree, I don't eschew new technology. I have a new smartphone, I have a new PC I built myself, I have a ton of extensions loaded on my browser, I run a Pihole, I wrote meager updates for my Fediverse instance. I love new technology.

What I don't love is that new technology often comes strapped to the side of a Rent-seeking subscription service. It's got toxic advertising forming a cancerous growth right in plain view. It requires an account and personal data and loads a hundred tracking cookies to share that data with a thousand third parties. And it's all held hostage by the company going bankrupt and turning your tech into a brick.

So yeah, I'm not old-fashioned about new technology, I'm just stubborn and refuse to accept the bloat they come with. There's plenty of new tech that doesn't have that, it just happens to look like the old tech that was perfectly suitable for us.

HarkMahlberg, to random
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I love simple Wikipedia pages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahogany_(drink)

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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Drop a controversial opinion.

HarkMahlberg,
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@cmdrmoto

Blockchain technology is actually useful for some things and will make a quiet comeback

Where's the hot take?

in some future, less insane world.

Ah there it is. lol

@BlackAzizAnansi

D&D Item Card Template- A LaTeX Template for making simple, effective item cards by me! (www.overleaf.com)

Hey there programmers, I know this is a more markup/typesetting deal, but I thought there might be people who are interested. After being dissapointed with many of the options out there for making ttrpg item cards, I made a LaTeX template for that exact purpose. I wanted it to be relatively easy to use, generate clean images,...

HarkMahlberg,
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That's an interesting way to DM, but I love the idea! Do you need to pay for Overleaf or can you download it, use the template, and just take it to Kinko's or something?

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