[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 points 32 minutes ago

Don't worry, deceptive sales are still allowed everywhere else...

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago

Not specifically software, but I divide my donations into three categories - for my budget, that's basically the $10-20 range, the $20-500 range, and $500-2000. I track the donations I make over the year, with a target in mind. For me, the target is 10% of income.

I decide which organizations are doing the most important work, and prioritize those. I try to donate monthly to those that I make use of regularly, then I give the rest as what comes up from day to day.

I consider free software to be a social good, so I don't separate it from other giving.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Yeah I am morally okay with opposing Putin, the Ayatollah, Xi, Kim, Erdogan, Asad, and their ilk.

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This is a weirdly commonly held belief among far right accelerationists. They think that the race war is inevitable, and if there is enough social disruption, social order will break down, people will turn to the militias, and guess who runs the militias?

The US electrical grid is shockingly vulnerable. Transfer stations can be disabled from a distance by rifle fire. There is no practical way to guard or physically secure every single one. A disabled transfer station has the potential to cause a cascade failure that could cause catastrophic failure of the grid. The USA has just three grids, Eastern, Western, and Texas. So terrorists have figured that attacking the power grid is the easiest way to cause maximum disruption with a single bullet.

The thing is, each of the grids has failed in the past, and while there was some disruption for a couple days, there has never been a social breakdown. The other thing is that the dummies who plan these attacks keep getting caught before they can do any damage.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I don't really understand how people don't see that Russia, China, and Iran seem to be running a massive and coordinated effort to upend the world order.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

As I read it, the article is comparing the two shows exactly to show why they shouldn't be judged the same. But maybe I just don't get it.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I used to say not the sharpest cookie in the jar

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago
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Like "does the Pope shit in the woods?" or "that train has sailed?"

Also, what good examples can you think of?

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

This is a huge step. Plastic recycling is a scam literally designed by advertisers to sell more plastic. Much plastic marked as recyclable is not; much cannot be recycled in most areas; much that is technically recyclable cannot be recycled due to cost related to contamination.

It's something like 70-80% of Aluminium is recycled globally. For plastics, that number is around 8 or 9 percent.

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Most of the rockets, cruise missiles and drones launched overnight were intercepted by Israel’s missile defense. But at least one struck a residential neighborhood in the town of Kiryat Bialik early Sunday morning, setting cars on fire, badly damaging a half-dozen houses, shattering windows. Roughly 45,000 people live in Kiryat Bialik.

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Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday it has closed its operations in Russia after 32 years, citing a Justice Ministry letter that said the medical aid group had been removed from a register of foreign nongovernmental organizations.

MSF has been in Russia since 1992 and has operated programs that provided aid for homeless people and migrants, tuberculosis treatment, and general health care including for infectious diseases such as AIDS.

Russia has banned a wide array of international organizations, groups and movements on the grounds that they threaten the state.

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Zuckerberg claims that “Open Source AI Is the Path Forward.” While it’s easy to agree with Zuckerberg’s sentiment, Llama 3.1 isn’t truly open source and wouldn’t meet the criteria for compliance under the OSAID. This raises important questions about how to engage with Meta: should the open-source community push them away, or guide them toward creating OSAID-compliant models?

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WASHINGTON D.C., DC — A federal grand jury indicted a man on Thursday with one count of "causing bodily harm to an individual due to his actual or perceived religion." 

The alleged incident happened on July 10. According to the federal indictment, Walter James, 38, shouted at least five different antisemitic slurs and comments while attacking a man wearing a yarmulke in Foggy Bottom.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 74 points 4 days ago

I'm just surprised that he admitted to possibly losing

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 47 points 4 days ago

I'd never heard of the Loper Bright case. This looks as bad as Citizens United.

The high court rejected a doctrine granting deference to regulatory agencies in interpreting laws when Congress hasn’t clearly defined the scope of the agencies’ power.

That doctrine, known as Chevron deference, was named after the 1984 Supreme Court case in which it emerged, and it offered an answer to a recurring question: What happens when Congress passes a law granting power to a federal agency but fails to precisely define the boundaries of that power?

In such situations, the doctrine of Chevron deference instructed federal judges to rely on the interpretations made by federal agencies, as long as those interpretations were reasonable, since agencies typically have greater expertise in their subject areas than judges.

Dissenting, Justice Elena Kagan noted that federal courts had cited Chevron deference 18,000 times, making it “part of the warp and woof of modern government, supporting regulatory efforts of all kinds — to name a few, keeping air and water clean, food and drugs safe, and financial markets honest.” She warned of “large-scale disruption.”

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Early Sunday, Hezbollah, which is based in Lebanon and backed by Iran, launched missiles at northern Israel in retaliation for that, as well as for the wave of Israeli attacks over previous days. Though Hezbollah’s barrage set off alarms in roughly 70 towns across northern Israel, most of the missiles were intercepted. There were reports of only minor injuries in Israel on Sunday.

Hezbollah has regularly been firing missiles at Israel ever since October, when Hamas led the invasion into Israel that set off the current war. But the most recent attacks represent an uptick in the conflict along Israel’s northern border.

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One month after The Washington Post revealed that the Egyptian government may have illegally given Donald Trump $10 million in 2017, Democrats have announced they will be investigating the allegations.

Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, led by ranking member Representative Jamie Raskin, announced in a press release Tuesday that they will be “demanding answers” from the Republican presidential nominee not only over the possible bribe from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, but also over evidence that the Justice Department, led at the time by Attorney General William Barr, covered it up.

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Early this summer, Amin Abed, a Palestinian activist who has spoken out publicly about Hamas, twice found bullets on his doorstep in northern Gaza.

Then in July, he said he was attacked by Hamas security operatives, who covered his head and dragged him away before repeatedly striking him with hammers and metal bars.

“At any moment, I can be killed by the Israeli occupation, but I can face the same fate at the hands of those who’ve been ruling us for 17 years,” he said in a phone interview from his hospital bed, referring to Hamas. “They almost killed me, those killers and criminals.”

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Tuesday's report details firsthand accounts of several Gazans who say they are doing everything they can to protect themselves and their families from becoming human shields for Hamas militants.

Nasser al-Zaanin, for example, was forced to flee his home in northern Gaza in October, and relocated to a school that had been turned into a shelter in the town of Deir al-Balah, along with his adult sons and grandchildren. When al-Zaanin arrived at the shelter, he helped set up a system of committees to improve life for families who had taken refuge by overseeing the distribution of food, water and medical needs. They also established one hard and fast rule: no armed men allowed in the compound.

"All the families agreed," said al-Zaanin, who once worked as a civil servant for the Palestinian Authority in Gaza. "We simply want to save all families, women and children and not let there be any potential threat against us because of the existence of police and members of the Hamas government."

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Pagers carried by thousands of Hezbollah operatives exploded within a short period Tuesday, injuring nearly 2,800 people and killing nine. The explosions spread across Lebanon in areas where Hezbollah had a heavy presence. A Hezbollah official said many fighters had such devices, speculating that malware might have caused the devices to explode.

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I would like to use a cloud backup service on my home server. I am a complete beginner. I purchased a subscription for Proton Drive, but it looks like that just won't work. Is there a secure cloud backup that works well on Linux? Bonus points if there's a way to use proton drive. Extra bonus points, if I can set it up for automatic backups through a GUI.

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