I'll go on about freedom of expression all day long, but even I block spammers.
I hope a blue whale materalizes over their house and crushes it with them inside.
I hope a blue whale materalizes over their house and crushes it with them inside.
In the United States at least, it's already been argued and won in court that the police have no duty to serve and protect. If you call up because your kids are about to be murdered, and they do absolutely nothing for 4 days, and your kids are in fact murdered, well I guess you should have raised less murderable kids.
I've got respect for many police. There are people who walk towards situations that many of us would run away from and have to deal with the thankless task of dealing with situations without a win scenario. Regardless, the institution itself is no less corrupt than any other government institution.
I've got respect for many police. There are people who walk towards situations that many of us would run away from and have to deal with the thankless task of dealing with situations without a win scenario. Regardless, the institution itself is no less corrupt than any other government institution.
I lowkey love that the two things getting liked and shared in my notifications this morning are a joke about sharing your ballsack with your bros and a post about the historical political context of the american revolution.
The duality of man.
The duality of man.
Who doesn't engage in some straight ballsack photo sharing? I make sure to share photos of my balls with every man I know, from my grandfather to my boss to my minister. It's not gay if the photos don't touch.
One interesting thing about the American revolution: America the democratic republic was rebelling against England the parliamentary democracy. For all the talk of kings, by 1776 the country the Americans created wasn't so different from the country they came from. The court system went from English common law as its foundation to English common law as its foundation. Granted there wasn't a king at the top, but in the grand scheme of things with all the things that were kept that's almost a trivial detail.
If anything, the Americans took the fundamentals of the existing English system and kept them, throwing in just a dash of French revolution into the mix (minus the beheadings...mostly) to end up with a system that was mostly English but integrating some aspects of the French.
Even the concept of a constitution that limits the power of government is baked into the English constitutional monarchy that arguably started with the magna carta.
Remembering all this I think changes the character of what happened in 1776, making it a more evolutionary change wrapped in revolution rather than a revolutionary change.
If anything, the Americans took the fundamentals of the existing English system and kept them, throwing in just a dash of French revolution into the mix (minus the beheadings...mostly) to end up with a system that was mostly English but integrating some aspects of the French.
Even the concept of a constitution that limits the power of government is baked into the English constitutional monarchy that arguably started with the magna carta.
Remembering all this I think changes the character of what happened in 1776, making it a more evolutionary change wrapped in revolution rather than a revolutionary change.
[Admin mode] Ok, we're back up. Sorry for folks who had to live without the fediverse for 16 hours!
I'm not sure why, but pg_repack went out of date, and when that happened it started causing database errors in pleroma so while the site loaded it wouldn't pull new posts or allow you to post. I updated pg_repack and everything is working as intended now. Sorry for the semi-outage!
I'm not sure why, but pg_repack went out of date, and when that happened it started causing database errors in pleroma so while the site loaded it wouldn't pull new posts or allow you to post. I updated pg_repack and everything is working as intended now. Sorry for the semi-outage!
In some cultures an L as big as he took would require committing sudoku to salvage the honor of your ancestors and descendants.
I found this thing worked pretty well on anything I tried including some arcade stuff and some Dreamcast games (it did struggle with PSP games), but it's supposedly weaker than a 351V
I just got my hands on an RG35S+ portable game console. The cheap portable game consoles are getting insanely good. It's got a powerful CPU but also a GPU which my previous unit, a powkiddy V90 lacked. The difference means that you can play stuff like dreamcast games on this whereas the V90 struggled with SNES games at times.
The very first thing I did (even before playing many games) is I grabbed a reliable SD card and replaced the 2 it came with. The cards it came with are about the dodgiest things you've ever seen. The bigger one just has two letters on it: Z J, really inspires trust.
The original software looks really pretty, and if the SD cards were a bit less dodgy I probably would have just used them but my "this is going to die terribly" alarm was going off. Also, I found that I was having a problems trying to get my new SD cards to work with the old software.
Ultimately, I first grabbed the software from https://github.com/christianhaitian/arkos/wiki for the RG351MP which isn't quite right, but is close enough with one change.
I flashed that to the card using dd next.
One thing, I had two cards at first, a 16GB for the OS and a 128GB for roms. And what I discovered is that this thing is pretty dodgy about SD cards. The one I had was a pretty high test one but it wouldn't see it if you tried using it as SD card #2, so I installed the OS on it instead.
The next thing is I needed to go to https://github.com/tech4bot/r35s and downloaded rk3326-r35s-linux.dtb. Various write-ups say to replace one of the existing files, but I dropped the file into the boot directory and edited boot.ini to load that file instead of the other dtb file instead.
Once that was all set up, I booted up off the newly created card and it automatically created an exfat partition and made it the proper size, then I brought all the roms from the card onto my new card.
Now after all that, I'm finally ready to actually give it a shot. On the upside, updating the OS gave me a full year of additional work, going from mid-2022 to mid-2023, which could mean nothing but on stuff like this a year of updates can mean a lot.
Another thing I'm interested in is this unit has two USB-C ports -- one is designated for charging, the other is designated for OTG. It looks like you can plug a small USB-C Wifi hotspot into it, and the OS I'm using is ubuntu behind the scenes apparently so it might be pretty interesting.
One last thing for now, see that nice Fn button you'd expect to bring up the menu? Doesn't do anything. Select is the button you use in combination with other things to get back to the menu and the like. Select and start twice will return to the main menu.
The very first thing I did (even before playing many games) is I grabbed a reliable SD card and replaced the 2 it came with. The cards it came with are about the dodgiest things you've ever seen. The bigger one just has two letters on it: Z J, really inspires trust.
The original software looks really pretty, and if the SD cards were a bit less dodgy I probably would have just used them but my "this is going to die terribly" alarm was going off. Also, I found that I was having a problems trying to get my new SD cards to work with the old software.
Ultimately, I first grabbed the software from https://github.com/christianhaitian/arkos/wiki for the RG351MP which isn't quite right, but is close enough with one change.
I flashed that to the card using dd next.
One thing, I had two cards at first, a 16GB for the OS and a 128GB for roms. And what I discovered is that this thing is pretty dodgy about SD cards. The one I had was a pretty high test one but it wouldn't see it if you tried using it as SD card #2, so I installed the OS on it instead.
The next thing is I needed to go to https://github.com/tech4bot/r35s and downloaded rk3326-r35s-linux.dtb. Various write-ups say to replace one of the existing files, but I dropped the file into the boot directory and edited boot.ini to load that file instead of the other dtb file instead.
Once that was all set up, I booted up off the newly created card and it automatically created an exfat partition and made it the proper size, then I brought all the roms from the card onto my new card.
Now after all that, I'm finally ready to actually give it a shot. On the upside, updating the OS gave me a full year of additional work, going from mid-2022 to mid-2023, which could mean nothing but on stuff like this a year of updates can mean a lot.
Another thing I'm interested in is this unit has two USB-C ports -- one is designated for charging, the other is designated for OTG. It looks like you can plug a small USB-C Wifi hotspot into it, and the OS I'm using is ubuntu behind the scenes apparently so it might be pretty interesting.
One last thing for now, see that nice Fn button you'd expect to bring up the menu? Doesn't do anything. Select is the button you use in combination with other things to get back to the menu and the like. Select and start twice will return to the main menu.
I log on to the fediverse and see some of the only legitimate criticism of musk I've seen all year.
Just because someone is an autist doesn't mean they're a genius.
Just because someone is an autist doesn't mean they're a genius.
I found this sudo for windows. Really nice if you're doing some batch scripting and need some stuff to run as administrator quietly.
https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo
https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo
>speaking of which, mxroute is the best
That's funny -- by pure happenstance I'm using mxroute for handling email, and it's 10/10 would recommend.
That's funny -- by pure happenstance I'm using mxroute for handling email, and it's 10/10 would recommend.
Political violence is a dangerous tool. Its a fire that burns bright but consumes it's subject. Sometimes that's what you need (it can bring attention to that which burns when it's stuck in a dark corner, and sometimes a fire can clear dead wood clearing the soil for new growth), but often it's dazzling and ensures you're left with nothing but ashes.