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Author of The Graysonian Ethic (Available on Amazon, pick up a dead tree copy today)

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Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

It's interesting. If this was a pro-russia protester attacking Ukraine for the war Russia started using the logic that Ukraine is evil for being attacked and not just taking it, would huffpo et al be calling him an "anti-war protester"?

Hamas started the war with multiple war crimes. Hamas continues the war. Hamas still has many of the civilian hostages they took, perpetuating crimes against humanity.

I bet if Hamas agreed to a permanent ceasefire in exchange for releasing all the hostages immediately Israel would take it, even with the obvious issues in Israel where netnyahu wants it to continue. It would be a cassus belli for peace, and western powers, particularly America under Trump, would likely pressure Israel strongly to take the peace regardless of the strategic reasons for Israel to continue.

You don't need to love the Jews or Israel to realize that. If this guy's loves Hamas so much, he can go live under the reality they created for Palestine. Careful though, they don't enjoy the same civil rights the western world does.

Free speech is important, but it can't be absolute. It can't be legal to commit fraud. It can't be fraud to arbitrarily commit slander or libel. And I'd argue you can't use student visas to have foreign nationals come over and advocate for terrorist governments. Again, if Russia was doing this it would be crystal clear why it's wrong.

Arresting American citizens for the same thing I would be prepared to defend to an extent, but that's a different question, and even that's borderline given that Hamas has done unspeakable things to innocent people including women, children, and babies. Since Hamas is de facto the state of Palestine it really shows the mixed up priorities we see with respect to different actions.

Afuerta!!!!

I think the view of enlightenment modernity as fundamentally broken including liberalism is probably correct -- none of these totalizing ideologies actually did what they were supposed to.

It's pretty funny.

some of those dumbfucks tattooed the vaccine card showing they took Trump's vaccine on their skin permanently.

They wanted to cast a black guy, but all the sensitivity readers were opposed, saying that a black person wouldn't talk about how much they love Hitler, it's just not realistic.

because it's convenient to just cast music to the stereo or video to the TV.

Also, intertia. It isn't like you'd be having problems with a 2nd gen chromecast or a chromebook audio because you just bought one yesterday.

Back at the beginning of the android era, it looked like google was the one to beat in terms of open products. My first smartphone back in 2011 was a galaxy s1, and I think I got it all the way to cyanogen Android J before I gave it away and replaced it with an S3, which immedieately got cyanogen itself.

It appeared that chromecast was going to be a platform potentially as open in the beginning as well (we're past the golden age of hackability in general, sadly)

Obviously, at some point Google's no longer going to be an option, and I'll have to further expand my empire of dirt, just as I replaced most of my streaming services with jellyfin and most big tech websites with the fediverse, and cloud services with nextcloud. Thankfully, FOSS solutions have gotten really friggin good lately.

We'll have to wait and see. Maybe I end up just using some fanless sign PCs and a wiimote.

lol YOU HAVE ONE SECOND TO COMPLY!

A lot of the new ports were because of Ghidra, a reverse engineering tool released by the NSA:

https://ghidra-sre.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctsEKf7-BJs

A bunch of chromecasts have been failed for a week now. I know the chromecast audio has been dead on my stereo, which sucks.

There are open protocol options, of course, such as bluetooth or DLNA, but chromecast, like airplay, is a good solution to a common problem.... when it works.

If they don't get this fixed soon though, well I'll just have to remove the CIA listening devices from my house, and then they won't know anything about my terrorist activities -- so there!

That glowie app for reverse engineering programs has been a massive benefit for reverse engineering efforts. Great seeing so many open source ports nobody ever expected.

His whole thing is that there's timeless and intuitive truths in the ancient myths of humanity. It's always going to look nuts because the old myths and legends are kind of nuts. The epic of gilgamesh starts with a dude banging a prostitute for a week, and it goes hard with the descriptions.

I've read through most of that book, and I don't remember seeing that. It feels like something I'd remember repressing to the deepest darkest depths of my memory forever.

I'm from Soviet canuckistan, so a crack house is a million to start in our biggest housing markets. The peak we hit nation wide was 850k, and that's you still have to live in Canada.

It's not a good house, but for 131,500 it kind of is a good house even if it's a POS core floor that's tiny and has no back door.

S&P500 just had its best day of 2025.

Had to double check because scrolling past it looks like a jd Vance meme.

Incredible how much corruption there is everywhere.

World war 1 never happened bro, it was an optical illuuuuuuusioooon. So security guarantees are always doubleplus good!

[admin mode]. Test your backups folks!

Had an issue and restored Apache configs from backup. Backup was broken, all 0 size files, so now I'm rebuilding Apache configs.

On the upside, I'm planning to move to high availability redundant servers this weekend and I got a taste of how to migrate letsencrypt so that's a positive.

Thank you!

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