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Sir Smooch III Jul 4, 2024

Steve Silberman Jun 29, 2024

How the Republican thugs, grifters, and crooks on the Roberts Court declared themselves victorious over expertise itself in one of the most dangerous and shamefully corrupt decisions in Supreme Court history. [gift link] https://wapo.st/3VBMZi0

Analysis | The Supreme Court gives the right a huge victory over expertise

In rejecting the decades-long practice of deferring to government agencies, the conservative court gave the right a huge win in its push to sideline experts.

Washington Post

Sir Smooch III Sep 13, 2023

Joseph Cox Sep 13, 2023

New from 404 Media: we found the $50 billion payment processor Stripe is directly profiting from the trade of AI-generated non-consensual porn. Multiple sites use Stripe for payments, Stripe takes a cut every time. Ironically, while Stripe bans sex workers.

"It's surprising to hear that Stripe would tolerate what is essentially revenge porn," one expert said.

Stripe has flat out ignored our multiple requests for comment on why it is providing the financial engine that powers the trade of AI-generated non-consensual images.

https://www.404media.co/stripe-forbids-sex-work-but-profits-from-non-consensual-porn/

Stripe Forbids Sex Work, But Profits From Non-Consensual Porn

Stripe is processing payments for sites that produce nonconsensual AI porn while denying service to actual sex workers and people in the adult entertainment industry.

404 Media

Sir Smooch III Aug 16, 2023

I’m incredibly disappointed in #LTT after all of the discussion that has surfaced recently. Hearing #GamersNexus’ coverage was hard, especially the #BilletLabs drama, but reading Madison’s thread where she talks about assault, workplace harassment and abuse is far worse imo. Here’s a link: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1691693740254228741.html

Thread by @suuuoppp on Thread Reader App

@suuuoppp: To stop the speculation and DM's I am receiving. I chose to quit my role at LTT because it, and the working environment I was facing, were ruining my mental health. The number of daily items...…

Sir Smooch III Aug 11, 2023

Christian Tietze Aug 11, 2023

China to Require Apps to Register With Government https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/08/10/china-to-require-apps-to-register-with-government/

Wow, this sounds really bad for mobile developers who have customers in China.

Anyone I know being severly affected by this? (Aka is China a big market for you?)

#appstore #china #indie

Michael Tsai - Blog - China to Require Apps to Register With Government

Sir Smooch III Jul 29, 2023

Seth Galitzer Jul 28, 2023

In honor of #sysadminday, I'm going to fill you in on a little secret: your IT person doesn't know everything about every piece of software and detail of your computer, we're just very good at figuring things out. Also, most things we've done elsewhere a dozen times (this week, or maybe even today) so we know exactly how to handle it.

Sir Smooch III Jul 29, 2023

nirik

Jul 28, 2023

Shoot, almost didn't realize that today was syadmin appreciation day!

Many thanks to all the sysadmins out there that keep everything running!

https://sysadminday.com #sysadminday

System Administrator Appreciation Day

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Sir Smooch III Jul 29, 2023

Update: it worked great! I hope to eventually share how I came to this solution as well as what changes I had to make to the source code to invert the logic.

Sir Smooch III Jul 29, 2023

Just made some cables with two resistors in-line, they should divide the voltage across the red wire and black wire (on the left) by half (on the right), while only pulling a small current (but enough for the buck converter lm2596s’ enable pin to draw from). This will save me from having to use a separate relay for toggling my 5V fans. Though I will need to tinker with #marlin firmware to invert the signals. #diy #electronics #3DPrinting #soldering #crimping #wire