kibiz0r

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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

“There’s just no record of her being there or not being there,” reporter Peter Doocy said. “To our knowledge, there’s no photo of her in the McDonald’s apron, which now there is a photo of Donald Trump in the McDonald’s apron.”

Truth is a constuct.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 11 points 3 weeks ago

It’s worth noting that the book does contain several chapters which, on their own, would probably be classified as “historical fiction”.

They are clearly identified by the title “When Life Was Our Own”, and the author introduces them as a story which will provide context and depth for the surrounding non-fiction text.

A pretty reasonable approach for a children’s book, and also one which is thematically appropriate, given the importance of oral history in the preservation of Native American culture.

The book starts with a story, "When Life Was Our Own," which describes Wampanoag life before any European contact. The story was created to re- late traditional Wampanoag culture, beliefs, prac- tices, and values based on our oral traditions and research done over many years. There are no writ- ten sources of these early times, due to the processes of colonization described in the other parts of the book. An understanding of precontact life brings clarity to the impacts of colonization on Indigenous people.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 16 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Also one of the most identifiable features of them are the floor to ceiling windows.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 14 points 1 month ago

You can actually pluralize library and probably want to.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A more recent example comes from the med-tech giant Abbott Labs, which used DMCA 1201 to suppress a tool that allowed people with diabetes to link their glucose monitors to their insulin pumps, in order to automatically calculate and administer doses of insulin in an "artificial pancreas." -eff.org

We joke about someday having to jailbreak our own organs, but we're basically already there.

An exoskeleton let a paralyzed man walk. Then its maker refused repairs.

Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks like certified mail, not notarized. But still, ridiculous. https://retrofitness.com/faq/

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I’ll keep saying it: We’re watching the information equivalent of Kessler Syndrome in real time.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

The Switch is ARM and uses several components from FreeBSD and Android. It would not be surprising to learn that they have the ability to compile system components like Virtual Console for an ARM Linux with stubs for Switch-specific stuff.

The SNES Classic is also ARM, and has much less going on than the full Switch OS (Horizon). That could be the core of what they use for the museum displays, considering there’s an ARM version of Windows too.

Either way, devs gonna dev. If you can’t get feedback at your workstation and always have to deploy to your target platform to test anything, you’re gonna move too slow to catch and fix bugs or build flexible enough systems to prevent them.

So much of dev testing is about trade-offs between rapid iteration and thorough fidelity. You need access to both.

From my own experience, I’ve done stuff like:

  • built mobile apps that can also be deployed as desktop apps or web apps for the sake of dev testing
  • built testing tools for car systems that fake out sensor input
  • built HTTP wrappers for cloud-deployed services to allow them to be run locally
  • faked out camera feeds for AR apps

It can get janky, cuz not everything works the same way, but most of what you work on is not platform-specific anyway and a good architecture will minimize the portion of code that only works on the target platform.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago

I can understand that.

There are very real problems with the rental situation in the US, even for people who prefer renting, but the news seems to only talk about the frustration of home-buyers-in-waiting constantly getting scooped by corporate investors.

There's significant overlap in these problems, of course, but it's not fair or productive to paint all renters as "failed home-buyers", even if it seems like it should bolster the movement by inflating the numbers.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You’re not wrong, you’re just not participating in the same conversation.

Like if someone says “Hey, Disney World is an abusive and corrupt enterprise” and you reply “But I like going to Disney World and I don’t want to close it down”.

There should be a way to address the problems without abolishing the whole thing.

But if we can’t even admit the problems because we’re afraid of where it will lead, we’re never going to improve anything.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago

“No fair, you’re only supposed to enact regulations that voters don’t want!”

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