Futurology Today

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The original was posted on /r/pcmasterrace by /u/EmployeePopular on 2025-01-13 00:31:21+00:00.

I am looking for new jobs as a Cloud Engineer. Being privacy conscious makes the job hunt relatively hard. I don't use LinkedIn. But most companies publish their openings on websites like this and almost all of them are a privacy nightmare.

As soon as you make an account on them, you are bombarded with thousands of emails and targeted ads. But if I made a temporary email for this purpose, I feel I might get blacklisted.

Honestly I feel kind of sad about today's corporate field.

Haven't you ever think, hmm isn't it a little weird seeing a guy named "Mr. Beast" going around healing the blind, giving money away to poor people? Not to mention his public aspirations to become the president. Everybody is saying he speaks in demonic tongues when not in public. He whispers to himself "lord Satan, i serve you, i am at your command" under his breath, many say. According to my sources, he has a secret channel on YouTube which is only visible when you type in "666 HAIL SATAN" into the search bar. There's a video on the channel where he seasons babies and then fries them, creating some sort of KFC analogue, then eats the fried babies while speaking in demonic tongues, eyes rolled back into his head.

This guy is the fucking antichrist, there is no denying it. I will not be silenced by the Beast.

When I upload a short video to Pixelfed, I don't get a preview image. The video is mp4 H.264. Is there a solution? I would find Pixelfed super as an Instagram replacement. But without a preview, it's not that nice. I gave an example as a link. What experiences do you have with pixelfed and videos?

https://pixelfed.de/stickbro

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The original was posted on /r/japantravel by /u/Maleficent-Farm4630 on 2025-01-12 18:20:23+00:00.

Hi everyone,

I’m planning my first trip to Japan for 2 weeks this coming April for and would love your feedback and suggestions on my itinerary! Travelling to Japan has been my dream from childhood and I cannot believe it's finally happening!! I turned to this group for recommendations and have come up with this draft itinerary:

Tokyo

Day 1 (7 April)

• Land in Narita early morning at 7:30 am
• Check into my hotel in Asakusa
• Ueno Park/ Ueno Ameyoko
• Kappabashi street
• Sensoji temple, Nakamise street, rent a kimono
• Tokyo Skytree

Day 2 (8 April)

• Tokyo National Museum
• Tokyo palace gardens
• Kitanomaru park
• Teamlab borderless
• Tokyo tower, zojoji temple
• akihabara

Kyoto

Day 3 (9 April)

• Shinkansen to Kyoto
• Arashiyama Bamboo forest
• Tenryu-ji
• Kinkaku-ji

Day 4 (10 April)

• Fushimi Inari
• Nijo Castle
• Nishiki Market
• Explore Gion area
• Yasaka pagoda, Ninenzaka, Sannenzaka, Kiyomizu Dera, Kodaiji temple, etc.

Osaka Day 5 (11 April)

• Hankyu train to Osaka
• Osaka Castle
• Namba Yasaka shrine
• Explore Dotobori area

Day 6 (12 April)

• Nipponbashi denden town
• Shinsaibashi
• Shinnsekai
• Umeda skybuilding

Day 7 (13 April)

• Universal Studios

Day 8 (14 April)

• Nara day trip

Day 9 (15 April)

• Unsure about this day. Either day trip near Osaka or go to Hakone

Tokyo

Day 10 (16 April)

• Explore Shinjuku area

Day 11 (17 April)

• Warner Bro Harry Potter Studio
• Shibuya crossing, Hachiko statue, Meiji Shrine
• Shibuya Sky
• Harajuku

Day 12 (18 April)

• Mt. Fuji day trip

Day 13 (19 April)

• Explore and do shopping in Ginza/ Roppongi areas

Day 14 (20 April)

• Depart from Narita

Questions I Have:

1. Major confusion around day 9!! Would Hakone be doable in one day after traveling from Osaka? Or would it be better to do a day trip near Osaka? Or should we just return to Tokyo and spend an extra day there?
2. We are huge Harry Potter fans and that's the only reason we've put Universal in the itinerary. Is it worth going there if we're already doing the Warner Bros studio in Tokyo?
3. Any other feedback on this itinerary. Is it too packed, or are there areas where I can add more activities? Any must-see spots I’m missing?

Thank you so much for your help—I appreciate all your insights and look forward to your recommendations!

The Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward forcefully denied making statements attributed to him by James Comer, the Republican chair of the powerful House oversight committee, in which Woodward supposedly said Joe Biden was financially corrupt.

“The statements attributed to me in what is apparently his book are false,” Woodward said. “I made none of those statements he attributes to me. I repeat none, and not even in a paraphrased form.”

Woodward said Comer was “peddling stories, conclusions and allegations that just do not check out at all”.

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Today I am moving not only myself, but my parents to Linux!

For me this is a long time coming. I discovered and started dabbling with Linux when I was 13 or so and somehow got an image of Backtrack 5 running on a Macbook Pro without virtualization (I'm still not entirely certain how I managed it) as I was always interested in IT/Security.

Eventually I went to school for IT and I've been working in tangents of the industry ever since, though few of my workplaces have made use of Linux unfortunately.

I have been running Debian on my personal laptop for a couple years now and I have had very few problems outside of breaking my sources.list the other day when I echo'd into it with > instead of >>.

I have a friend who recently fully switched over to Arch as well, and now more than ever I have found that all my friends, including those who are non-technical, are interested in learning about or moving to Linux, so I have decided now would be a good time to be an example for them.

I have made my parents aware of the ongoing and worsening problems with Windows and that their version of the OS will be out of support soon and today I'll be putting them on Mint. I don't expect any problems as I already had them using Open Office and other such applications since they didn't want to buy licensing for MS Office years ago. Furthermore their computer has no special hardware/software otherwise, it's basically just a Micro-ITX email machine that they sometimes use for printing.

I have enjoyed using Debian on my laptop so I intend to install Debian 12 to my desktop system, though I expect some complications as it has some hardware I have not had to configure on Linux before. Specifically It has an NVIDIA EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 ULTRA and an NZXT Kraken Liquid CPU cooler.

I am aware that Debian has full documentation on how to go about installing and setting up the drivers for an RTX card, but if anyone has done this, I would certainly appreciate any anecdotal advice regarding the matter as well as anything I might want to know about making sure the cooler is functioning.

If anyone wants to offer advice but needs to know more about the hardware, I have the following specifically:

• PSU - Cooler Master V750 Gold V2, 750 Watt, White
• Motherboard - ATX ASUS PRIME z390-A
• Case - White NZXT H510 Elite for ATX form factor, Tempered Glass, Integrated RGB lighting
• CPU Cooling - NZXT Kraken X53 240mm AIO RGB CPU Liquid cooler, Rotating infinity mirror design, improved pump
• GPU - EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 ULTRA
• RAM - Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro SL 32 GB (2x16GB) DDR4, White
• Storage - Two 2 TB Seagate Firecuda M.2 NVME's
• Peripherals include a focusrite Scarlett audio interface, Wired Logitech mouse and keyboard, Logitech C920 HD Pro Camera

Thanks for any advice, and I just wanted to offer a thanks to this community at large as I have read and learned some very neat things since I joined Lemmy.

EDIT:

I have successfully installed Mint for the parents! It went off mostly without a hitch. I found that Brother provides Linux drivers/utility scripts for their printers on a per-model basis so I was glad to see they really were at my side haha. Unfortunately, while the printer is detected and prints, even after installing the scanner driver for the model, I can't seem to get the device to be detected as a scanner in either the simple scan utility or in xsane, so I will be troubleshooting that in the coming days. Otherwise I am very pleased with it.

EDIT 2:

I return to you all from my fresh Debian system!

The system, applications, and most configs have all been set now, it is mainly my files remaining for transfer.

So far this has been the smoothest installation of a Linux OS I have ever done. After adding the repo's the Nvidia drivers installed like a dream. As I have 3 displays there was a little bit of fun in setting the proper display configuration for pre-login positioning, but those fixes were really quite straightforward.

It is about 5 AM so I am going to bed and continue onward into a brighter future tomorrow, but I wanted to thank you all again and provide the somewhat obligatory neofetch screenshot before I left.

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The Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) passed legislation on Thursday prohibiting organ harvesting from military and civilian casualties of Russia’s invasion. The measure, Law No. 9558 “On Amendments to Certain Laws of Ukraine on Improving the Organization of Medical Care Using Transplantation”, received broad support with 254 of 313 lawmakers voting in favor.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250111022357/https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/01/ukraine-parliament-bans-organ-donation-from-war-casualties/

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My wife (who current away from for a few months) enjoys playing SIMS 3. The only condition she has for installing Linux on her machine is if she can continue playing it there.

Now I know that Steam + Proton allows almost all games to run, but I am currently not in a situation where I can try it out on a laptop. I thought before proceeding, I'd ask the community's experience / opinion.

To improve the performance of my browsing, which operating system and browser should I disable in the settings, considering I have already disabled Internet Explorer?

Summary

Former McKinsey partner Martin Elling pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by destroying documents tied to McKinsey's advice for Purdue Pharma on boosting OxyContin sales.

Elling helped devise strategies targeting "high-value" prescribers, including those involved in illegitimate opioid uses.

His plea follows McKinsey’s $650M settlement over its Purdue work and Purdue’s 2020 guilty plea for opioid-related misconduct.

Elling faces up to a year in prison, with sentencing set for April 4.

The case underscores accountability in the opioid crisis, which caused over 727,000 U.S. deaths since 1999.