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  • The year is 2036. It is the most important election of our lives. Harold Haymus Oldman runs as "H2O," the brutal warlord of the water wars, promising hydration for God's worthy creatures. His opponent is ZebLinx0-Alpha, an amalgamated hybrid of pharmaceuticals, communication satellites, and a Large Language Model. Their first debate is broadcast on subscriber-only YouTube. Only six Americans can afford it, but they aren't watching because they already know who wins.

  • Retrofitting hypes
  • "I'm sorry, I don't have any information about 'cancel my subscription.' Is there something else I can help with today?"

    "I'm sorry, I don't have any information about 'CANCEL CANCEL.' Is there something else I can help with today?"

    "I'm sorry, I don't have any information about 'CANCEL YOU NUMBNUT SHITE FOR CHRIST'S SAKE FUCKING CANCEL.' Is there something else I can help with today?"

  • How Trump Rigged an FBI Investigation for Brett Kavanaugh
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    It Could Happen Here started as an exploration of the possibility of a new civil war. Now a daily show, it's evolved into a chronicle of collapse as it happens, and an exploration of how we might build a better future. Every day Robert Evans, Garrison Davis, Mia Wong, and James Stout take you on a j...

    It Could Happen Here | iHeart

    Podcast episode from It Could Happen Here, about how then-president Trump made the FBI conduct a fake "investigation" to clear Brett Kavanaugh and appoint him to the Supreme Court

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    Feeld + GrapheneOS
  • From the article linked above: "GrapheneOS users are strongly encouraged to share this documentation with app developers enforcing only being able to use the stock OS. Send an email to the developers and leave a review of the app with a link to this information. Share it with other users and create pressure to support GrapheneOS rather than locking users into the stock OS without a valid security reason. GrapheneOS not only upholds the app security model but substantially reinforces it, so it cannot be justified with reasoning based on security, anti-fraud, etc."

  • Feeld + GrapheneOS

    Is anyone else having problems with the Feeld app on GrapheneOS? I'm in an urban area and have set my filters wide (100 miles), but see nothing when I open the app.

    Update: I think this might be the issue: https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-guide I contacted Feeld support and they said they're looking into it.

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    All four MLB division series are tied at 1-1

    I'm sure this has happened before, but I'm not finding any stats that tell me when. Does anyone know how to look that up?

    Edit: Apparently this is the first time! https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-division-series-tied-1-1-for-first-time

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    Database of company names + websites?

    I realize this is an absolutely unhinged thing to ask for: Can anyone direct me to a large database of company names with websites (just those two columns), ideally 100K rows or more, that I can access for free? Basically this database if it had another column with the company name: https://github.com/cygenta/top10million (but doesn't need to be anywhere near 10 million)

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    Moneyless Harvest Moon-type game?

    I have such a love/hate relationship with Stardew Valley, slightly less so with My Time At Portia (the developers seem to have at least considered wrist strain in the button layout and mechanics). I long for a moneyless, classless game in this genre where the incentives are community thriving, trust, pleasure, and all the other aspects that make life worth worth living outside of capitalism. Does that game exist?

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    I'll be in Europe during the Stanley Cup Finals. Is there a way to see the games?

    Specifically Paris and London. There are U.S. sports-themed bars in both cities, but with the time difference, the bars will be closed by the times the games start. I'm willing to pay, get a VPN, and/or go to a sketchy streaming site. Any suggestions? Thanks hockey fam!

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    Why is predictive text so hard to disable?

    Does anyone know, or can anyone guess, the business case for predictive text? On phone apps, it is often incredibly difficult to turn off. Why is that, do you think? (The examples I have recent experience with are Facebook and Outlook mobile apps.)

    I would have thought that, for AI training purposes, they would want humans typing things and not just regurgitating canned responses. But apparently not?

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    For a game that turns 40 years old next month, it's unreal what we are learning about Tetris

    This video documents the recent feats of 15-year-old Tetris master Alex T, and the discoveries players make by pushing the game farther than it has any right to go

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    Petition to allow local announcers to call playoff games
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    NHL Broadcast - Local Announcers

    Sign the Petition

    Petitions are annoying, but I'm hoping some of us will want to sign this one! The goal is simple: Have the National Hockey League create a solution where the local broadcast announcers of the home team handle the broadcast for every nationally-televised game, such as the Stanley Cup playoffs.

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    Text-to-speech options?

    I'm setting up a laptop with Mint (Cinnamon) for a person who needs text-to-speech software. It seems like most of the nice-sounding ones are proprietary. Any recommendations for FOSS alternatives? And any ideas why this is an underdeveloped area for open source?

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    What can we do for friends and loved ones drawn in by reactionary conspiracy theories?

    Someone I am very close to has become increasingly isolated. She doesn't want to do anything except watch "documentaries" like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfzupXBlrIU She doesn't want to socialize, because "no one understands what's really going on." She mentioned recently that she has a Telegram account, so I'm assuming that's where at least some of this garbage is coming from. I'm worried about her. Her life is already hard, and this stuff is making her paranoid and more isolated than she already was.

    Is there anything that helps bring people out of this?? I have my own radical ideas, but they are about the need to abolish capital and the State. This person has never really responded to leftist politics when I've brought it up, but maybe I need to try again. Any help or advice? I really worry about her.

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    Finding projects that need user testing?

    I'm digging into the world of #FOSS #opensource and would like to help with existing projects. My programming chops are not sharp yet, but I'm a detail-oriented communicator who knows a bit about user testing.

    How do I find projects on GitHub, GitLab, or other sites that need this kind of help? The machines I would be testing on are a potato desktop running Pop_OS Linux and an Android phone. Thanks in advance!

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    Can I email or text myself through Python or bash?

    EDIT: Thanks y'all! I got this working by installing mutt and configuring it with my Gmail info. Please note the warning from u/jherazob below--if this were something mission critical I would not want to rely on this solution.

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    Noob question incoming, thanks in advance for any help with this!

    I have a specific use case in which I want to send an automated email or text to myself once a day (the message is different each time--otherwise I would just set an alarm, lol!). I'm running Pop_OS on an old desktop computer. Where I'm stuck is getting an email to successfully send from the command line. I'm looking for easy-to-follow instructions that would help me do that, and none of the articles or videos I've come across thus far have helped.

    I'm aware of Twilio and other services that send SMS messages, but I'm looking for something free. Especially since I only need to text one person (myself), and infrequently at that.

    Below is my attempt to send an email with the telnet command. Nothing ever came through...

    XXXXXXXX@pop-os:~$ telnet localhost smtp Trying ::1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 pop-os ESMTP Exim 4.95 Ubuntu Sun, 07 Jan 2024 15:12:28 -0500 HELO gmail.com 250 pop-os Hello localhost [::1] mail from: XXXXXXXX@gmail.com 250 OK rcpt to: XXXXXXXX@gmail.com 250 Accepted data 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself Subject: Test Body: Is this working? . 250 OK id=1rMZW4-0002dj-Uy quit

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