Posts by Corb_The_Lesser@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AcuCWUObfpG7E0s0i8 by Corb_The_Lesser@mastodon.social
2023-12-17T16:02:56Z
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@simon These are the same people I've never trusted to honor the opt-outs they sprinkle around the web. It's an exercise in trusting and believing people who see little dollar value in being trusted and believed.
(DIR) Post #Aip01LJ60PrLOyNFOi by Corb_The_Lesser@mastodon.social
2024-06-11T13:35:49Z
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@NoobOfAll Musk says a lot of things that bypass his cranium.Remember when he whined to Satya Nadella about suddenly discovering the Windows installer wants you to sign up for a Microsoft account?
(DIR) Post #Aip01Mwpu9F4UVyUym by Corb_The_Lesser@mastodon.social
2024-06-11T14:00:26Z
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@NoobOfAll I haven't found a reason to use AI so far, If I do, I'd want it running on my hardware, not talking to a server farm. I'd also want to be able to trust and demonstrate it isn't talking to a server farm when it promises not to.There are reasons to have doubts about AI. Much of the hostile reaction, tho, comes down to earned mistrust of Big Tech and its failure to grasp that. The "Oh Wow! Change the world!" hype doesn't help. Who wants people you don't trust to change the world?
(DIR) Post #AluqwI7Dvob802f8AS by Corb_The_Lesser@mastodon.social
2024-09-10T12:00:20Z
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@Tesseks Mint has an excellent reputation. It offers 3 desktop environments -- MATE, XFCE, Cinnamon. Cinnamon is the most modern, developed and maintained in-house. There's a focus on gradual refinement rather than adoption of shiny new things.Mint maintains a small number of packages itself, The other packages available to a Mint user are installed directly from Ubuntu's repositories. Ubuntu periodically migrates packages from Debian's repo to its own. (In use, none of that matters.)
(DIR) Post #AmUzJVe1agwDwZ90wC by Corb_The_Lesser@mastodon.social
2024-09-29T11:53:36Z
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@FlashMobOfOne @ahoneybun Mint is built on an Ubuntu LTS, and, so, won't have current kernels, etc. Adding those from "foreign" sources stands a good chance of playing havoc with an installation. If you need cutting-edge #Linux for games, a rolling release distribution is more likely to keep up than a distribution that doesn't intend to keep up.
(DIR) Post #AoLbdte8RfZXseY7IO by Corb_The_Lesser@mastodon.social
2024-11-23T21:58:27Z
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@stux The rich are where the money is. Most of them were born rich, they'll die leaving behind rich kids. Too many people think we're all dependent on the rich to make jobs for us, like we're sharecroppers working for the guy in the big house..
(DIR) Post #AoRpu3oeG1jJdbK7ii by Corb_The_Lesser@mastodon.social
2024-11-26T21:22:49Z
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@jasonkoebler "I own all the accounts of everyone who posts on X but I am not responsible for anything posted here" is an interesting legal position that really ought to be challenged.The owners of corporate sites ought to be held legally responsible for anything published on their sites. The assumption should be that content is vetted before it's published. For-profit social media sites, obviously, do not want to do that because it would kill their businesses. Let it.
(DIR) Post #Apyo2IAFda8KLuHB20 by Corb_The_Lesser@mastodon.social
2025-01-11T17:43:09Z
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@stux Yeppers. Almost everything on US cable TV labeled "news" is really talking heads riffing on the news to target a specific profitable demographic.Producing news is expensive. You have to pay reporters, etc., stand up news bureaus in multiple cities/countries. The experience of a few cable nets in the 80s & 90s, especially CNN, who tried to do straight news convinced the industry there's no money in it. There's an audience for 30-60 minutes a day of real TV news but not 24/7/365.
(DIR) Post #AqfjXdMcitOz6ZSvcO by Corb_The_Lesser@mastodon.social
2025-01-31T22:21:12Z
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@jaykuo #MAGA people would be apoplectic if a Democrat proposed a 25% Value Added Tax. But let a man who gives you them permission to be hateful creeps boost prices by 25% in return for nothing at all and they'll all smile and dance.
(DIR) Post #AsxumiD30KH5wl8nnk by Corb_The_Lesser@mastodon.social
2025-04-11T01:00:25Z
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@Nonilex Not sure why the admin is getting away with framing domestic seizures and deportations as part of presidential foreign policy authority, especially when the declared premise of the whole thing is to improve domestic security and safety.
(DIR) Post #AszHMpRTyyLgxBTnqy by Corb_The_Lesser@mastodon.social
2025-04-11T16:48:12Z
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@Nonilex The only ideology going on in Trump's brain is the kind of ideology that motivated that weird kid you knew when your were 10 or so who did things like squirt lighter fluid on ants and set them on fire.
(DIR) Post #AtkkUGgsCivVLEL0Xg by Corb_The_Lesser@mastodon.social
2025-05-04T14:25:51Z
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@Nonilex Trump is incapable of understanding that the size of his election margin, real or the one in his imagination, didn't give him dictatorial powers. The more he talks, the more he exposes the dark illness that drives him.
(DIR) Post #AtujEvOuv3jEazerXU by Corb_The_Lesser@mastodon.social
2025-05-09T09:59:00Z
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@Nonilex As is the case for all libraries, the Library of Congress is full of books. Hence, the #MAGA hostility.
(DIR) Post #AvYlpXICAh6QUxCoD2 by Corb_The_Lesser@mastodon.social
2025-06-27T15:28:19Z
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@Nonilex "Thou Shall Hate" -- Evangelical 11th commandment
(DIR) Post #AwtwVVo9A6DZQ5l8T2 by Corb_The_Lesser@mastodon.social
2025-08-06T18:29:16Z
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@Nonilex "Defend your culture!"Well, there's a tell.
(DIR) Post #Axjakj6buOTwEaA47E by Corb_The_Lesser@mastodon.social
2025-08-31T16:30:24Z
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@Nonilex "Very Ill"... "Far Away Military"Precise, very precise.
(DIR) Post #AzoKgD4Db6TWbvKeVE by Corb_The_Lesser@mastodon.social
2025-11-01T19:08:04Z
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@ricci "Let's make the web *worse* than television!"
(DIR) Post #B0NGhuHnJNn5eIO3ea by Corb_The_Lesser@mastodon.social
2025-11-18T15:37:45Z
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@Nonilex Trump is probably our most unchristian-like president. His feigned concern about Nigerian Christians, pointedly ignoring attacks on Muslims, is as phony and pandering as his feigned concern about Afrikaners.
(DIR) Post #B0ucslinf494FAL9sm by Corb_The_Lesser@mastodon.social
2025-12-04T17:52:29Z
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@Nonilex Someone give me a zillion dollars and I'll bet it that Hegseth never went through that thought process before or after his Signal chat. Something a PR flack wrote for him? Oh, yes.
(DIR) Post #B2MAgVPE8EcNCJ0tua by Corb_The_Lesser@mastodon.social
2026-01-16T22:40:12Z
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@stevebenen Any policy plan coming from Trump has to be short enough to fit within his attention span and short-term memory. Pretty much what can fit on an index card or a single teleprompter screen.