park it in the Strait of Hormuz you cowards

military concepts like “standoff” and “beyond visual range” were invented by woke Marxist generals who were afraid of getting their hands dirty

the Ford is a gigantic ship, Iran only has small wittle boats. they’ll definitely run away and be scared of it.

someone who is likely LGBTQ

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this likely trans girl

oh hell no cut this shit out right now.

the person in these ads has, AFAICT, not said anything about their gender or sexuality.

this is a random person in an ad you saw on the internet. speculating about what genitals they were born with, or who they like to fuck, is fucking creepy. don’t do it.

(and no, there is no “oh, but if my speculation were true it’d be a heartwarming story” exception)

But, damn, some times you gotta look for a little light.

yeah shit sucks right now, but that’s a reason why we need more critical thinking, not less of it.

falling for, and spreading, obvious propaganda like this does not make the world any better.

from the article:

She’s been making videos highlighting her job at Staples since the end of January and has blown up big time.

wow yeah the end of January huh? did anything else happen on TikTok around the end of January?

Her engaging videos showcase little-known Staples services, boosting customer interest and store traffic.

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There are some businesses that have been around since we were children and are fixtures in our everyday lives. Staples is one of those brands; while we might not have daily needs for things at the office supply retailer, we know it’s there in case we do.

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Even if you haven’t seen her videos on your For You Page (FYP), you’ve most likely seen videos analyzing how effective she’s been at promoting this company or maybe even videos of people going to Staples for projects and saving a ton of time and money, thanks to her.

holy sponcon batman

For the past month or so, I’ve been getting “RDSEED32 is broken” and it seems to be an issue with AMD’s drivers?

https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-7055.html

it sounds like the kernel is just working around a known CPU microcode bug. it would probably be using the 64-bit RDSEED operation anyway, so disabling the 32-bit option probably doesn’t actually change anything.

also, the kernel’s random number generator is very robust (especially since Jason Donenfeld, the author of Wireguard, took over its maintenance) and will work perfectly fine even in the complete absence of RDSEED CPU instructions.

from another AP article:

This would be the third ceasefire reached since the start of the war. The first, in November 2023, saw more than 100 hostages, mainly women and children, freed in exchange for Palestinian prisoners before it broke down. In the second, in January and February of this year, Palestinian militants released 25 Israeli hostages and the bodies of eight more in exchange for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. Israel ended that ceasefire in March with a surprise bombardment.

maybe I’m cynical (OK, I’m definitely cynical) but I very much doubt this ceasefire is going to last.

there are two things in the world that Trump wants more than anything else. one is to fuck his daughter. the other is a Nobel Peace Prize.

I suspect the timing of this agreement comes from Netanyahu trying to manufacture a justification for Trump to get the Nobel. after the prize is announced (whether Trump receives it or not) they’ll kick the genocide back into high gear again.

best of luck to his replacement, Greg Yoshi

saying or writing “I support Palestine Action” is a crime in the UK. this is because they’re a “proscribed terrorist group”. the “terrorism” they committed was…spraying two military transport aircraft with red paint.

meanwhile, transphobic piece of shit Graham Linehan is also on trial in the UK for repeatedly harassing trans people.

Ro Khanna, congressman from California and allegedly a Democrat, called what the UK is doing “an offense to anyone who supports free speech”. take a wild guess which of those two things he was upset about.

a cheap docking station with two SATA slots (currently housing hard disks) and putting them together on a RAID0 almost doubles a single one’s performance.

you can buy a 50cc moped and attach a NOS cylinder to it. that might be a fun hobby project, if you’re into it.

but in a drag race, you’re going to get beat by a 10 year old Toyota Prius. because there’s only so much you can eke out of a 50cc engine.

“RAID0 using a cheap 2-slot external enclosure” is one of the more cursed things I’ve ever contemplated. firmly in “just because you can doesn’t mean you should” territory.

short answer: buy NVMe. plug it directly into your motherboard, don’t use an enclosure. forget about wonky RAID0 crap.

longer answer:

SATA SSDs (which you say in the comments below are all you’ve got) are an evolutionary dead-end. they’re SSDs pretending to be very fast hard drives. they end up being bottlenecked by the assumptions that the SATA protocol makes about how fast a hard drive can be.

look at this chart for example. SATA (AHCI) limits a device to having 32 commands queued up at once, which means the operating system needs to jump through hoops in terms of maintaining its own queue of pending reads & writes and issuing them to the device as queue space becomes available.

NVMe raises that limit to 64k, which for any non-server workload is effectively unlimited. the NVMe drive can respond to IO requests pretty much as quickly as the OS can dispatch them.

if you want to know more nitty-gritty details, Scaling ZFS for NVMe is an interesting talk, much of it isn’t specific to ZFS, but instead is about how NVMe devices are so fast that they’re forcing filesystem developers to rethink long-standing assumptions about drives being slow.

at the risk of being “guy who pretty much only plays Factorio recommends you play Factorio…”

you can easily put 50+ hours into a single savefile, especially with the Space Age expansion

What’s the relevance of either of those questions for an election that happened three months ago? I don’t like relitigating unspooled events.

my brother in Cthulhu, you started this post by saying:

this is where thinking Biden wasn’t doing enough has led.

you should decide if you’re for or against re-litigating things

Projecting your political beliefs and rationales on others is not Beeing Nice.

meanwhile, one paragraph above, you’re projecting an opinion onto me that I don’t have:

You’re welcome to your opinion that Biden or Harris would have been worse

I just find it almost comical that anyone thought Trump would be an improvement if not for the drastic outcomes we’re going to see.

OK…just to make sure I understand you correctly - the people you’re mad at, are people who either voted for Trump, or didn’t vote at all, because of their opinions about Biden’s response to the genocide in Gaza.

if that’s accurate, two questions:

a) what is your estimate for the size of that group of people?

b) how many actual individual people in that group can you identify by name? how many do you know personally? (vs having read a news story quoting them)

Explicit calls for ethnic cleansing were at least not on the table with the last administration.

Trump: we should ethnically cleanse Gaza

Democrats: 👏 HIRE 👏 MORE 👏 FEMALE 👏 GENOCIDE 👏 DENYING 👏 PRESS 👏 SECRETARIES 👏

if anything Trump’s isolationist tendencies work in Palestinians’ favor, and otherwise he’s neutral compared to Biden/Harris.

I don’t even know where to begin peeling the onion of how incredibly stupid this statement is.

the genocide is (for now) over

“for now” is really doing some heavy lifting there

Netanyahu says Israel ‘reserves right to resume war’ and calls first phase a ‘temporary ceasefire’

but also, even if the ceasefire was permanent, that doesn’t mean the genocide stops.

if you bomb a bunch of hospitals, and then agree to a ceasefire, the hospitals don’t magically come back into existence.

ditto water treatment plants and similar infrastructure. Diseases spread in Gaza as sewage contaminates camps and coast

a ceasefire means that the “dropped a bomb on a refugee camp” aspect of the genocide stops. the “there’s a refugee camp with a never-ending stream of needless and preventable deaths” aspect of the genocide will continue unabated.

cheers to the NZ Herald for calling a spade a spade

the cowards at the “paper of record” NY Times went with “Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Hand Gesture”

BBC: Elon Musk’s gesture at Trump rally draws scrutiny

The Guardian: Elon Musk appears to make back-to-back fascist salutes at inauguration rally

if Trump shot someone on 5th Ave these fucking lickspittles would probably give it a “President-involved shooting ignites debate over the limits of executive power” headline