More specifically, it’s to delay the count past the deadline for certification, so that they can throw the disputed votes out, throw the whole state’s votes out, prevent either candidate from passing the EC threshold and force a contingent election, etc.

Concern is justified. Frankly, articles like this one piss me off: everyone ought to keep their concern, and use it to motivate them into action. It’s fucking absurd that we’re here talking about “managing stress” and not “organizing counter-protests to Trump’s impending next coup attempt.” You want to make yourself useful, Arstechnica writer? Fucking tell us about that!

You must not have been paying attention to the recent Supreme Court rulings.

I learned how to make a really simple PCB in KiCad a few minutes ago, by watching this video. The thing I wanted actually existed already and I could’ve bought it from Aliexpress, but I realized I could save about $40 re-drawing my own version and ordering from JLCPCB instead, so that’s what I did.

My home automation consists only of (self-hosted and fully local) Home Assistant and some smart outlets I’ve flashed with ESPHome open-source firmware. I found some Nanoleaf Matter/Thread smart bulbs a few days ago on clearance, but even though I got them super cheap I’m debating on whether to return them because i’m not sure if I can trust them without being able to flash an open-source firmware.

Fun fact: the entire Free Software movement exists because Richard Stallman got pissed off at Xerox one day, for not giving him the source code so he could fix his printer.

It means a change either applied completely and successfully, or not at all (think “atomic transactions” in databases).

standard verical PC case

Excuse you! Standard PC cases are horizontal:

We have that already; it’s called a bicycle.

Eventually the cheating will just be moved to a separate air gapped computer running AI on the video feed.

At that point it isn’t cheating anymore; the AI would be legitimately playing the game!

Read mrmoneymustache.com.

Technically correct, because they weren’t “American” before they landed.

They abandoned the Bible as a real guide long before that, though.

Yeah, I agree. Even if they were trying to be comprehensive, there’s no real way to make sure they got the entire long tail of tiny instances, especially since, for all we know, there might be clusters of them federated with each other but disconnected from the “main” cluster containing the biggest servers.

Moreover, I agree that failing to name the instances/communities is absolutely worthless. A 75% increase on lemmy.world might mean a very different thing than a 75% increase on exploding-heads.com, which might in turn mean a very different thing than a 75% increase on lemmygrad.ml.

“‘Lebanon?’ Pfft, more like ‘lebensraum,’ amirite?” – Netanyahu, probably.

Nah, fuck that nonsense. Objective reality exists and moral relativism is bullshit.

Whether Google deserves to be punished for something depends entirely on what that something actually was, and the notion that there’s some kind of hypocrisy in agreeing with punishment in one circumstance but not another is absolutely ridiculous.

Yeah I know; I wrote “actual” fuckery to contrast with that.

I would like to see Google punished with weekly-doubling fines for the things it actually deserves to be punished for, as opposed to blocking Russian propaganda, which it does not deserve to be punished for.

I’m honestly glad he wasn’t, because if the situation here in Atlanta could be accurately described as “backsliding” that’d be really fucking bad!

But also, and I cannot stress this enough, fuuuuuuuck Cop City, though.

(I live in Atlanta, not too far from it, and am pissed off not only about the militarized police bullshit but also how the site they chose for it fucked up my side of town. They stole what could’ve been the biggest park in southeast Atlanta!)

I think we should take another look at Slashdot’s moderation and meta-moderation system:

• Users couldn’t just vote on everything; “modpoints” (upvotes/downvotes, but also with a reason attached) were a limited resource.
• Comments scores were bounded to [-1, 5] instead of being unbounded.
• Most importantly, what wasn’t limited was that users had the opportunity to “meta-moderate:” they would be shown a set of moderation actions and be asked to give a 👍 or 👎 based on whether they agreed with the modpoint usage or not.
• Users would be awarded modpoints based on their karma (how their own comments had been modded by others) and their judgement (whether people agreed or not with their modpoint usage).

Admittedly the exact formula Slashdot used for awarding modpoints was secret to prevent people from gaming it, which doesn’t exactly work for Lemmy, but the point is that I think the idea of using more than one kind of signal to determine reputation is a good one.

As an IT guy, if I worked with Macs this would be terrible to work with

You know, now that you say it, I’d bet that’s exactly why they did it. They probably want to fuck over companies that would otherwise have racks of Mac Minis (for clusters, colocated servers, etc.) and force them into Mac Studios or Mac Pros instead.