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There's an Extremely Stupid Reason NASA Scientists Can't Study China's Amazing New Moon Rocks in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

#savedyouaclick:

That's because the US enacted a law called the Wolf Amendment in 2011, which prevents NASA from using government funds to cooperate directly with China.

Wolf Amendment

Most to least common 4-digit PINs in c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What's with 7942 being lit up like the North Star?

Only thing I can think of is that The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was published in 1979.

Louisiana becomes 1st state to require the Ten Commandments be posted in classrooms in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 34 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

States can establish religions. Federal government can't.

Over the last 150 years, the Supreme Court has pretty consistently found that the Bill of Rights applies to state as well as federal government: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_Rights

See especially https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everson_v._Board_of_Education:

Everson v. Board of Education ... was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that applied the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to state law.

Judge cuts law firm's legal bill in half after it used ChatGPT to calculate "excessive" amount | ChatGPT thinks lawyers don't get paid enough, apparently in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

Automating anything blindly carries the risk of unending buckets of water or a universe of paperclips.

Nutty -- I was just chewing on that similarity myself.

Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount – Airline tried arguing virtual assistant was solely responsible for its own actions in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's just "El Reg's" style; they've been that way for years. Don't let their pseudoinformality fool you, though, they know their stuff.

I'm amazed at FreeCAD's abilities. It needs a better name. Thinking of it as simply "cad software" like calling a 2-GHz computer in your pocket a "phone". in c/opensource@lemmy.ml

[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The CAD program with one level of Undo, an unreliable Revert option, and active hostility toward incremental saves.

I don't know the first thing about CAD, but lmao.

You're Supposed To Be Glad Your Tesla Is A Brittle Heap Of Junk in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 22 points 9 months ago

Respectfully, Defector is about the furthest thing from a spam blog that you'll find on the internet, my dude/lady.

It was formed a few years back by writers fleeing the sinking ship that was Deadspin.

I'd encourage you to check out some of their other articles and judge for yourself.

Lemmings: What's ur favorite cheese? Can't be cheese_greater :( in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

+Roquefort gang.

Windows 12 May Require a Subscription in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi there! I'm you. My first computer was a TRS-80 in the early 80s, and my daily driver today is Debian (a flavor of Linux). I'm not an IT person, but I've had some skin in the game for a while.

You won't need to purchase a thing unless you have some weird/old hardware where drivers will be a challenge.

There are a million flavors ("distros") of Linux. The most straightforward ones to start with are probably Ubuntu and Mint.

Most Linux distros have a "live CD" version that you can "install" on a thumb drive. That allows you to take the entire OS for a test spin without changing anything on your "main" computer.

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[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been beating this drum for years, but Autoduel as a MMORPG.