Gavin Newsom is such a fucking tool.

Also Framework.

This has aged appropriately:

That's enough for me to block my first instance! Fucking Nazis.

Zelenskyy is a bamf, idk what his domestic politics are like but he is doing everything he can in his position to win. He's clearly trolling Trump to make him look weak and Trump is so fucking stupid it might work.

This doesn't say 80% of the bees have died.

If it goes to trial. The prosecutor will threaten to stack an enormous number of charges unless they agreed to to a plea bargain.

I can at least entertain the idea that people "back the blue" to make their communities safer. But isn't this the exact fucking thing that they're supposed to protect the community from? Fuck this piece of shit and every one of those pig fucking cowards.

I mean fuck ICE and Reddit, but that's for CBP. Fuck them too.

It's a particularly shitty time in politics when the main takeaway from a person dying is how it will impact partisan vote count.

Eh, either that specialist doesn't understand how cloud storage works or the author isn't doing a good job of explaining it. Because it sounds like the specialist figured out how deletions work on your home computer's hard disk and tried to shove that into some info they searched for on the internet about distributed storage or sharding. What was described is absolutely not how that data is stored in the cloud. The question of "when is my data actually deleted" is completely valid but the explanation is a mashed together pile of dog shit.

Google likely stores small clips of the full video stream (which they did explain) but in object storage. These clips are probably used for training AI and deleted after some period of time according to a retention policy that might soft delete the data first before removing it permanently. And maybe they do replicate the data to keep it safe, but also maybe not since it's just for training. Since the customer didn't have a plan that included storage, there's no reason for them to persist the data after they've trained with it. It's just a waste of storage space costing them money at that point.

They could also store the clips in block storage but all those little pieces on the filesystem would be in the same data center, maybe region, but definitely not all across the world for a single file.

And I guarantee you there was no forensic analysis on any storage devices for this. The reason it took so long to retrieve was probably from back and forth with the feds and deliberation within Google's legal and management teams. Then once that was sorted, some poor prick probably had to manually dig through some services to find the file and grab it.

TL;DR: Google does hold onto your data longer than most people think but that "expert" doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about. Bureaucracy and manual processes likely drug out the process, not forensic analysis.

And let children be murdered as a result.

It's been a while since I was in college, but I dual booted my laptop with Windows and Fedora for the first couple years then moved exclusively to Fedora. I even wrote my master's thesis using Libre Office.

Unless you come across arcane statistics software or bullshit "education" tools that only exist for Windows that you need, which is possible, you should be good to go. Even then, you might be able to use Wine or find alternatives.

So yeah, go for it! Keep the Windows VM if you want a safety net.

I always thought Dre and Snoop were badass since 2001, with music at least, I know they were pretty shitty back in the day. Then I saw Snoop in a music video with Katy Perry and have hated him since for being such a money grubbing sellout.

I actually came across this post the other day and it really made me feel crazy for a moment because it's not immediately obvious that it's propaganda or some dumb asshole. Then I learned what tankie meant and I stopped feeling crazy.

Cox is fucking scum.

You can tell he's really tough because he carries chew in his pants.

I've had Brother laser printers for over 15 years with my Linux machines and they've worked beautifully.

My first kid is almost 3 and we have another on the way. It is so fucking draining and so fucking awesome. My wife and I joke about what the hell we did in our free time before our daughter. We both have careers and hobbies so it's not like we were bored, but it is so much fucking fun having a kid. We would definitely kill for some more free time, but highly recommend it. Also, if you decide to have kids, it's not very difficult, it's just a lot of work.

That sounds like it smells great.