At least on Twitter before Elon changed things, the same thing applied, tweets were public but you could still block people.

Currently, X displays a “You’re blocked” message when trying to view the profile of a person who’s blocked you. In addition to blocking all posts, it also prevents you from seeing their replies, media, followers, and following list.

Gaetz insisted on hiring a 17 year old to manage cybersecurity, what do you expect would happen.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but citizens don’t elect the president. This is one of the citizenship questions most naturally born citizens don’t know about.

Context: https://michaelcharl.es/aubrey/en/code/new-rebeccapurple-css-logo

Mulva?

I still prefer Veritaisum over a channel like Mark Rober which has almost 4x the subscribers, with content that sounds informational, but is really just dumbed down. Maybe Mark Rober is more aimed at younger kids, but they both are very similar with trying to make math and science accessible, but executed differently and I think Veriatsium done better.

With videos with exclusive access, i’d imagine it’s difficult to do all the fact checking of everything the company is telling you. Tom Scott also dealt with this, and it requires a tremendous effort. If there are lies being spread and the description isn’t updated or a pinned comment on the video set, then yeah, that’s shitty behavior, but generally I haven’t seen that from Derk.

I hate Trump as much as the next person, and virtually all the pandemic response was a shit show from the White House, but operation warp speed proved to be an actual good thing during a terrible time. It’s very impressive we developed a vaccine so quickly and got us out of the pandemic faster because of it. It’s kinda funny how one of his best accomplishments is the only thing his supporters will boo him about, and he largely can’t take the credit for because of the backlash.

That last video is clearly someone at Tesla being maliciously compliant with the safety rules to check off a box and pass inspection. Whoever designed that does not actually care about safety.

TCP/IP

On Jan 20th, she’s going from Vice President to unemployed. Unemployed to governor would be a step up.

How screwed would one be if the domain they bought was a ccTLD and that country ceased to exist?

I’m in a similar boat here. Classic Peter Principal in action. It sucks that management comes with higher pay. If I was making what I make now and just be an individual contributor I would totally go for that. I guess that’s why they have to pay you to do it, because it’s no fun.

Pretty sure when Orange Box was released, it included HL2 and HL2 Episode 1 in addition to HL2 Episode 2. Hard to remember because there were so many good games that came from that one purchase.

This is how the worms win.

It should be noted that there is no evidence of any tampering of the voting machines in the 2024 election. The claim by researchers is that the voting machines in coffee county GA were accessed after the 2020 election by Trump supporters, and data from those machines in the 2020 election uploaded and distributed to pro-Trump groups.

There is no new information being raised in this letter to Harris and reiterates the same information from their 2022 and 2023 letters to the DOJ with the claim that it’s possible that the software of these voting machines could have been reverse engineered, a potential exploit found, and then it could be physically possible to alter the vote. There is no evidence cited about irregularities in any Post-Election Audits of a sample of paper ballots which would warrant more scrutiny into the machines and require a full recount.

Obligatory Line Goes Up video, although not exclusively about Bitcoin.

I do admit that early in Bitcoin’s life, around 2013, i was a interested in Bitcoin as an alternative to banking, but the volatility and speculation alienated me from the community. Anyone buying BTC now for $90k, you need to realize this turned into a pyramid scheme and you’re not at the top of it. You may be able to find someone who’s more of a sucker to take the Bitcoin off your hand and make a profit, but it’s not sustainable, someone has to loose. Any gains you make are probably less than 10% what the person made by selling it to you.

If you do end up speculating on crypto, don’t invest more than you can afford to loose, and assume you’ll loose it all. It’s very likely you’ll either get hacked/scammed, loose your wallet, leave your wallet in an online exchange who runs off with your keys, etc. You’re on your own if that happens. If you do end up making any profit, it’ll be a blessing and you’ll be way happier than if you thought this would be your key to get rich, and you end up loosing it all.

On one hand, we essentially have someone who accidentally missed an item during self checkout, and another person who ransacked the store, took everything they could, showed off what they stole, and had a standoff with police. Clearly both situations are not equal and saying that both should have the same consequences minimizes Trump’s actions and blatant disregard of the judicial system and American people.

In Australia, which has Ranked Choice Voting, you number the candidates from 1 to the max candidates. For Senate races, you can vote for the party, letting the party decide the down ballot representatives. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/14/how-does-australia-s-voting-system-work

I believe in this process, the ballots are human counted, but the country has less than the population of California, so it probably doesn’t take too long. Scaling it up for the backwards US system would be harder, but not impossible to improve.

don’t let someone sign a petition for more than one candidate for a given race.

This would be so much overhead work and also defeat the purpose of Ranked Choice Voting. This basically moves the First Past the Post earlier in the process, which will exclude candidates