That’s why I’m saying the general boycott on the 28th won’t achieve anything.

Target specific products, brands, or stores and make specific demands of them.

How will they receive the message if you don’t hit their pocketbook?

I fear the only message you’re sending is that they’re impervious to this type of protest.

I just don’t see the point of obsidian et al.

Just use a directory structure and save markdown files in it.

There are many apps that are great editors for this structure on every platform. IDK exactly what obsidian does but many editors have zettelkasten (fancy cross links) functionality, just no fancy graph.

Ghostty + helix is the sexxy RN.

The march 7 to 14 Amazon thing is a better idea.

Anything not bought on 28 Feb will just be bought on 1 march. Retailers won’t even notice.

Yeah I don’t think either of them would care in the slightest about this type of polling.

Entirely predictable.

Trump was mocking the voting public on presidents day with that “Long live the king” quip.

That said, it’s just bonkers that 40% of voters feel like things are going in the right direction. Honestly the whole thing is cooked.

Yeah.

Sadly I think email will be with us for the foreseeable future. It’s broken, sure… but it’s just so fundamental to the web.

An alternative would need to be ubiquitous, and that seems unachievable.

It’s 6 months old.

Reported on by some major news outlets.

AfD has form for doing exactly this kind of ambiguous gesture.

I don’t think the SPF / DKIM / DMARC stuff is overly complex nor the core of the problem.

In my case it was recipients with bonkers microsoft exchange servers that just had weird ideas about who should be sending them emails.

For example, one thing that tripped me up forever ago was grey listing. Apparently the receiving server just wouldn’t acknowledge the sending server for an arbitrary period of time, say 12 hours or so. Spam senders would usually give up long before then, while a legit server would keep trying because it’s legitimately trying to deliver an actual email.

So my email-in-a-box type self hosted set up was fine really. Compliant you might say. But to send emails to this one in a thousand recipient I had to investigate what was going on and reconfigure things to ensure their server would interact with mine.

Another thing that can happen is that spammers just put your email address in the “from” field and fire off a few million emails. Obviously the DKIM signatures and SPF won’t match but it still just makes your future legitimate emails look spammy. Having the credibility of a larger organisation goes a long way in this type of instance.

I’m absolutely in the “don’t self-host email” camp. That said, I think it could be done reliably if you wanted to use someone else’s SMTP server and let them worry about deliverability. As in, have your mx records on your domain route to your MTA and dovecot, but set your DKIM and SPF records to match a third party SMTP server. You could use mxroute as an SMTP server very cheaply. There are others like the email API type services. I still can’t think of why I’d want to self host with all this drama but just an idea I’ve heard.

Genuinely wondering what portion of conservative voters support something like this.

It seems kinda indefensible really.

If a cop is terminated from one agency due to misconduct, why would you want them employed by your local agency?

Sorry chief you might have embarrassed yourself a little here. No big thing. We’ve all done it (especially me).

Check out huggingface.

There’s heaps of models you can run locally. Some are hundreds of Gb in size but can be run on desktop level hardware without issue.

I have no idea about how LLMs work really so this is supposition, but suppose they need to review a gargantuan amount of text in order to compile a statistical model that can look up the likelihood of whatever word appearing next in a sentence.

So if you read the sentence “a b c d” 12 times you don’t need to store it 12 times to know that “d” is the most likely word to follow “a b c”.

I suspect I might regret engaging in this supposition because I’m probably about to be inundated with techbro’s telling me how wrong I am. Whatever. Have at me edge lords.

Indeed.

The whole mess seems to have gotten so much worse.

Do you mean to tell me that wealthy people own most things? I’m shocked!

I didn’t say mum and dad own Walmart. My point us simply that the “buy local” catch cry of small business owners isn’t as simple as you’re making out.

Again, I didn’t say small business owners aren’t allowed to go overseas. Merely that there’s no guarantee that buying local means your money stays local.

Yeah it’s just bonkers.

A criminal tried to seize power in a violent coup.

Not only was nothing done but voters elected him to be fucking president because they were confused about Palestinians and concerned about the price of eggs.

It’s not real, but it’s concerning that it sounds like something he might say.

Settle down mate.

I don’t think you really understand pension plans.

When you shop at a large conglomerate store, the profit goes to shareholders. Most people are shareholders.

A small business owner is just as likely to spend the profit on an overseas holiday.

The idea that buying local helps your local economy is reductive, and doesn’t bear scrutiny. The only reason it’s a popular idea is that local business owners like to say it.

What if it lands an the fascists and dust in the atmosphere cancels climate change for a couple of decades. Could that work?

See, this really bugs me.

Kiwi, pomegranate, honey, jojoba, macadamia and strawberries, are not good for your hair. They’re just things that reference groups responded positively to.

It’s just bonkers that it’s so hard to find soap with no fruity-na-na bullshit.

I think it’s 2 & 3 plus …

5. Multiple tipping points reached accelerating climate change.
6. Acidification of oceans, gulf stream current creation, and microplastic pollution cause collapse of most natural food chains on the planet.
7. Drought and floods washes fertile soil away.
8. Famine causes billions of deaths.
9. Drug resistant bacteria causes billions of deaths.
10. Wars fought mostly by drones over remaining pockets of arable land destabilise remaining economies and supply chains.

He’s mocking us.