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I will confess that I have obsessively watched merge requests on a daily basis

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Directory Opus looks like a file manager, so you might want to look at the options available on Linux. If you're not fixed on one desktop environment, it's worth checking several as they all have slightly different ideas. I can see Directory Opus has various other minor features, you'll find many if them already included in existing file managers, but if something's missing, you could request it, then you're in the position the meme talks about.

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Thinking of opensourcing my daily-driver fediverse app. What are your thoughts on running it through an AI security tool before doing so?

You'll get blowback either way, the only difference is that in one case it'll be because your app was compromised and in the other case it'll be because someone doesn't see a difference between slopcoding the entire app and using it as a second pair of eyes in a limited, and human validated, context.

I think that LLMs for coding is both terrible practice and environmentally costly, but I can see this sort of usecase being beneficial. Trying to find a model that's only been trained on open source code, and that runs without a huge environmental cost is tricky though. You really don't want the risk that some proprietary code has got into the training set and it gets regurgitated for you. There's been way too many court cases over a few lines of code being copied.

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Any sort of analyst. Their job is to summarise potentially huge amounts of information, draw conclusions, and document it all in a report that someone else will act on. They might be analysing a military situation, the worldwide market for bespoke buttons, or looking at how the company's supply chain is functioning.

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French Users of Fedi, How Do You Protest En Masse With Ease?

America and France are very different places. Other answers have gone into the structural, geographic and social differences that make French style riots unlikely in America, but those very differences also affect what would be effective.

The vast majority of French "rioters" are actually peaceful, doing little more than marching and being part of the discontented mass. The comparatively small amount of violence and looting is picked up on because it's sensational, not because it is particularly effective. Those sorts of riots would, even if you could get people to take part, have much less effect in the US, for the reasons you and others have stated.

The visible riots and marching are really just marketing for the more important, and effective, part though, which is the economic halt that also occurs. This is the bit that Americans should be looking to emulate, as it's the effective bit, and less likely to get you shot.

Get together with anyone like minded who you can find, and prepare. Build up local community resilience and mutual aid groups. These steps help whatever happens, so they're a good way to pull in more people. Once communities start building up their own strength, they can stop, or reduce, taking part in the economy that supports the fascists.

For example, Walmart U.S. had net sales of $129B last quarter alone. According to their balance sheet, the property value of all of their stores, warehouses, and other property is about $136B. If people reduced their spending there by even 10% that would be a $12.9B hit, per quarter, or about the equivalent of close to 10% of their property portfolio without anyone having to go out on the streets, set fire to anything, or get shot.

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Wait, is this loss? Sorry, I had to.

Although, panel 1 is related to communucation, panel 2 references "name", which he had to give to the receptionist, panel 3 is terse, like the doctor, the last has a low (horizontal) bar, and It's also tragic. It is loss.

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What are your favorite quasi-drug-but-not-drug recreational substances?

English Mustard. A nice thick layer of it, as in, thick enough that you question the structural integrity of the result, and everyone else questions your sanity, in a cheese (other fillings are available) sandwich will light your day up. The heat is different to capsaicin, you feel it more in your nose and sinuses, but it has a similar effect. You get a mild, giddy, flying feeling for a moment, then settle down into a haze of sensation. The endorphin (I assume it's endorphins anyway) release feels great, all my muscles relax, and it's a pretty good painkiller too.

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Vatican upholds excommunication of US deacon who resigned after son was molested by priest

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Oh he should certainly get far away, but it was his family, who had not been excommunicated, who were made unwelcome. I don't think they were actually expecting to be welcomed, rather they were making a point that that congregation is rotten to the core. We know the rot spreads throughout the organisation, but it can be helpful to bring examples to light for those who aren't so certain yet.