Spyke

Replies

news

Comment on

1,000 Harvard Students Walk Out of Commencement to Support 13 Seniors Barred from Graduation over Gaza

Meanwhile, this is Harvard University senior Shruthi Kumar, who went off script as she gave the English commencement address, slamming Harvard for denying the degrees. She read from notes that she pulled out of her graduation gown.

This should get air time. While the others walked out in solidarity together, she's putting herself on the line individually. It gives administration a name to the crowd.

Comment on

Twitter under fire for reinstating account that posted child sex abuse

An important part that seems lost in this:

Yoel Roth, the company’s former head of moderation and safety who resigned in November after Musk’s takeover, posted Wednesday on the Twitter competitor Bluesky that “it’s insane to write ‘we have zero tolerance for child sexual exploitation’ while also arbitrarily reinstating accounts that share” child sexual abuse material.

Roth fled his home late last year after Musk, in tweets to his more than 100 million followers, suggested Roth had encouraged children to access adult material online, a misrepresentation of Roth’s graduate-school writing that exposed him to online harassment and death threats.

“This guy blew up my life by saying I condone pedophilia, and then he turns around and does this,” Roth said on Bluesky.

Comment on

Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown

Read everyone, this is hype, and Canada is being dumb on this one.

The Flipper Zero is also incapable of defeating keyless systems that rely on rolling codes, a protection that's been in place since the 1990s that essentially transmits a different electronic key signal each time a key is pressed to lock or unlock a door.

Most of this reaction is due to staged videos on TikTok and politicians not understanding technology. Maybe they'll stop a few joyriding kids, but car thiefs aren't using F0s.

android

Comment on

Simple Mobile Tools is being sold to a for-profit firm ZipoApps

For posterity, but also for forks if the repos go down, I have created https://github.com/SimplerMobileTools and downloaded all the original repos, branches, and tags which will soon be uploaded there.

I have already got SM Gallery compiling, so thats a start, and will upload all the repos tomorrow when its not so late.

Note: Any former maintainer of SMT will be added on to SrMT upon request.

EDIT: All forks updated with notice of rationale and link to this discussion.

EDIT2: https://github.com/FossifyOrg is a soft fork created by one of the current maintainers. I will keep the hard fork up just in case.

196

Comment on

Rule of 400

Posting this at top level since its burried in replies:

Fact time. You don't always die when shot, and the US is a baby factory. I can't find good stats on non-lethal gunshot, so I'll do the rest.

Verdict: Pretty accurate.

  • 8.4% without health insurance (33 in 400)
  • 11.5% poverty rate (46 in 400)
  • 20% adults at or below literacy level 1 (80 in 400)
  • 57% mental illness untreated (228 in 400) (requires math from NIH source)

References:

Comment on

The bridge is an orange-pilled urbanist

So some facts here:

  • Commercial truck carrying gravel
  • This was a rebuilt bridge, not a historic one
  • The owner of the construction company has proactively offered to pay for repairs
  • Yes, the driver is am idiot and made a mistake, and is probably going to hear about it for the rest of their lives.

Comment on

How Google is killing independent sites like ours - HouseFresh

It's been said before: Google does not find you the best result for your query. Google finds you the result that makes them the most money from AdSense and has words from your query.

If Mozilla wasn't funded by Google, the best thing they could do is include a helpful/unhelpful ranking for websites, then filter Google results by that. Search should be social, not commercial.

Comment on

I don't know what to do about work tomorrow

In 12 months, will this be a big deal? Probably not, so don't risk your job over it (IMO).

"Sorry boss, had a rough day, couldn't concentrate and a simple question threw me off my game. I know I left you in a bad place short handed, and I'll do my best to make sure it doesn't happen again."

If a coworker brings it up:

"Just had a rough day, not something I really want to talk about. Anyway, what did you get into last night?"

Everyone, and I mean everyone, has been where you are in some way, shape, or form. It's OK, and you'll be OK, too.