Americans are turning against AI data centers over rising energy costs, tax breaks, and layoffs. Discover what’s driving the backlash.

Is it the rising energy costs, tax breaks, and layoffs?

Ubuntu configures systemd-tmpfiles to delete a snapd tmp dir, snapd runs setuid root and blindly trusts/executes files from a tmp dir it does not manage the life cycle of. Where is the flaw in systemd here?

I only use the internet on it to update the firmware.

You don’t even need to do that. I download firmware updates from the LG website, throw it on a USB drive, and plug that into the TV. Actually important firmware updates are so rare that I’m fine with the extra effort required.

What’s the VPN uptake in the UK these days, considering the state of government restrictions and surveillance lately? If Valve just said fuck it and pulled out of the market, would they even take a financial hit? Or would most of that revenue magically shift to other countries/currencies?

The person posting about a RAT is either unwell or trolling, dumping paragraphs of nonsense and screenshots that don’t actually show anything. Don’t let it get to you.

You can run ClamAV if you feel you need to, it’s fine. Install packages using your distro’s package manager. Don’t install random binaries or package repositories until you understand where the software is actually coming from. Job done.

I wonder how many ICE fucks know they’re supposed to work without pay while DHS is unfunded? The worst of the worst are literally just there to hurt people so they’ll happily stick around. Will enough resign to make it “unsafe” for the remainder to continue operating?

Blackwell said that he called the hearing to stress that ICE and other government agencies are not above the law.

They’re not? Could have fooled me.

I was pretty shocked seeing so much of America come together to decry the despicable actions of Brian Thompson.

That kind of cognitive dissonance is what leads some people to give up ideologies like white supremacy. The endless rationalizing of hypocrisy is fucking exhausting. It’s a lot easier to just accept people as they are than build a whole framework around hating groups of people that allows for like, your neighbor, or an actor, or an athlete, to be okay because “well they’re different than the rest.” Or whatever bullshit excuse.

I’m saving up now to afford the lease on a nice certified pre-owned Dell in a couple years. My buddy Dave works over at the dealership so I should be able to lock in a good rate. And hey, with their super lease-to-own options maybe I’ll be able to keep it at the end! That’d be nice you know… something to hand down to the kids when they’re old enough for their computing license. Fingers crossed! 🤞

From the local news article sourced by The Independent:

Charges Dropped: Tennessee authorities dismiss charges against man who posted Trump meme

Bushart had been in jail for more than a month, unable to post a $2 million bond set by a Perry County judge. As a result, sources tell NewsChannel 5, Bushart had lost his job doing medical transport.

A $2 million bond for posting a picture of a quote on Facebook.

You make my day better, every day. Just wanted you to know that.

Just because I was curious, here is the article that YT video is covering. From The Oregonian

Oregon general’s testimony that National Guard troops ‘will be protecting any protesters’ gains traction online

The article is from October 8th, the video clip is “A nine-day-old snippet of testimony in front of Oregon lawmakers.” My curiosity did not extend to digging up the source recording of the full testimony.

Every American I know does pronounce it like Connedicut 🤔

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That’s why I poop on company time.

I love Linux and run some Fedora flavor on just about every machine I own. I can’t imagine trying to run it on my sim rig with all the specialized hardware and software though. That sounds like a nightmare.

“Our goal is that by 2030, we’ll be putting more water back into the watersheds and communities where we’re operating data centres, than we’re taking out,” says Will Hewes, global water stewardship lead at Amazon Web Services (AWS), which runs more data centres than any other company globally.

How can this possibly make sense? Mine owner says, “by 2030 we’ll be putting more gold into the ground than we’re taking out!” I can only assume this is some carbon credits style of nonsense.

Sarcasm is difficult enough to convey in paragraphs of text, let alone a single sentence title. Also, the Linux communities on Lemmy see the occasional wave of trolls coming in to shout about how"Linux is just as bad as Windows!" You’re starting out way behind even before anyone views the video.

It’s a Beefy Miracle!

Teams is mostly fine these days and I think it’s the only MS product that is getting better over time instead of worse. If you have a competent IT team then the various MS integrations can actually work well to make Teams a usable one stop for comms, recordings/transcripts, scheduling, file sharing, etc.

New features are slow to come but they do come. The insane memory footprint became much more reasonable for me when they moved from Electron to their own Edge-based WebView2 thing last year. The preview builds have finally combined the “teams” channel listings and ad-hoc chats into one tab where you can group them together however you want.

Teams still pisses me off on occasion but no more than any other piece of enterprise software. It’s fine.