
Why is this even being covered?

They have zero shame. Imagine arguing this and being expected to be taken seriously.

Quitting nicotine. I wanted to quit so that I could get in shape without almost dying, but after two months of rigorous exercise and healthy eating I just feel depressed, incredibly bored (the dopamine from exercise was nice at first but doesn’t really help now) and 10 lbs heavier than I did to begin with.

That is sad to see. I’ve moved on to Raspberry Pi + hard disk enclosure (with incredible performance) but it’s still upsetting to see Synology go this route.

misunderstood, bitter, burnout

Oh right, silly me for having forgotten.

I just can’t get on board with this logic regardless how many times it’s repeated. Voters knew what they were voting for—how is it not on the voters?

How many more studies do we need before we just go for it?

“I’m going to buy vegan ice cream”
“We get it, you’re vegan”
—-
“I’m going to buy ice cream”
“I thought you were vegan?”

Who fucking cares? All this fighting over which fairytale is correct is exhausting. Time to get a life.

overdramatic knee slap

Outside of discussions about the Dead Internet Theory I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone express this.

Everything Trump does now is Biden’s fault. 😒

Poverty or ignorance?

I’m sorry but I have to agree with above: it’s trash
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I haven’t used it in about 10 years and in fact now have all Meta properties blocked on my networks.

Working in the tech industry has me cringe any time these fuckheads make headlines. 🤮

As a Millennial that had young parents I was always dumbfounded by my peers’ boomer parents. It’s like they just went to work and treated their kids like an afterthought, and they were too stuck in their greedy consumer mindset and didn’t have a clue about what we consider today the most basic of tech.
It’s not hard for me to imagine that my generation went on to raise kids poorly. I don’t have children myself but I’ve seen plenty of people my age raising them.

- foxla.com blocked by Murdoch filter
- youtube.com blocked by Google filter
🤣

to try to* ban it

How can I determine how much to contribute to charity to reduce US federal taxes?
I’m an American sick of being taxed by the dysfunctional US federal government and am looking for ways to reduce the amount paid as well as increase my contribution to society. I’m not looking to reduce state taxes.
How can I find out the amount I can donate to charities each year such that it reduces my federal taxes as much as possible for my income level?

What hostnames and/or IPv4, IPv6 ranges does AT&T use for RCS?
I have a complex Tailscale-based network setup that includes blocking all Google hostnames. Unfortunately RCS on iOS doesn’t work when sending photos.
I’d like to set up a Tailscale App Connector using hostnames, but if they’re using IP addresses I can work with those as well (subnet routing).
I’ve scoured AT&T’s website and App Privacy Report on iOS (which doesn’t show DNS names for Messages, Phone apps) but I do know they switched to Google as their RCS provider at one point.
Update: Resolved by allowlisting rcs-copper-us.googleapis.com
specifically, but I also added all of telephony.goog
to unblock rcs.telephony.goog
. A simple tcpdump
got me the DNS requests for those domains.

Why would a UTF-8 MySQL backup contain invalid UTF-8 characters?
I’ve been running into several problems with restoring MySQL backups. Namely, the backups come from an environment other than the one I’m working in and I’m forced to remove superuser commands contained in the backups.
The problem is when trying to remove those commands I’m constantly getting UTF-8 encoding errors because there are loads of invalid character sequences.
Why would MySQL encode a backup as UTF-8 if the data isn’t actually UTF-8? This feels like bad design to me.