doofusmagoo

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[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

It's an odd story at first read, including this bit:

Her father, Sky Roberts, commented on the post and said: “Virginia my daughter, I love you and [am] praying for you to get the correct treatment to live a long and healthy life.”

[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 months ago

I pulled down Librewolf this morning. The only issue so far is having to tweak a setting to get the Proton VPN Firefox extension working.

[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 115 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Aaron Swartz was the tech geek That jackass sp*z is the tech bro.

:(

[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 year 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

[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year 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.

[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year 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.

[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 years 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.

[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

+Roquefort gang.

[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years 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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