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  • This doesn't seem like a reliable news source. The article claims to be "news", and is not marked anywhere as "opinion", yet is clearly full of opinion:

    What may unfold is an economic downturn that could rip through the unaccountable federal bureaucracy in the DC Swamp that won't get a bailout this time from taxpayers.

    I would recommend not linking to zerohedge .com .

  • That's the biggest problem. You need either Canada's consent (which he can't get) or to win a war with Canada plus the rest of NATO.

    The second problem: it would make way more sense to become 10 or 13 US states. With respect to both area and population. That would be a big disadvantage to his party in congress.

  • NATO is worth less with the US than without it. The US can't even be trusted to defend a NATO country from invasion, which makes it worthless to NATO. But what makes it have negative value is its bad political influence and veto power on other countries joining. The US is a second world country.

  • ydotool is missing a lot of features. It emulates an input device, so it can only send inputs to the active window. xdotool can send keystrokes to non-active windows, and has features for searching for a window to send to. xdotool can minimize, dismiss, or move windows around.

    I'm aware of newton. It's a work in progress, though, and doesn't have as many features as X11 accessibility has. Although it might have enough features eventually, I worry that X11 will be deprecated by operating system vendors before that.

  • The only thing that needs to happen for people to "feel secure enough not to want" guns is for Fox News (et al) to stop spreading disinformation about the levels of violent crime. I see tons of ads falsely claiming that violent crime is through the roof, when it's actually very low and decreasing.

  • "Per NASA HQ direction, we are required to scrub mentions of the following terms from our public sites by 5pm ET today," the directive reads. "This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request."

    The list of verboten terms includes "DEIA," "accessibility," "indigenous people," "environmental justice," and finally: "anything specifically targeting women," such as "women in leadership, etc."

    ...she said this in a 2021 interview: "At NASA and Kennedy Space Center, our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility has been paramount to mission success. The entire NASA leadership team stands behind this commitment," ...

    Is this 1984 yet?

    Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. A large part of the political literature of five years was now completely obsolete. Reports and records of all kinds, newspapers, books, pamphlets, films, sound-tracks, photographs — all had to be rectified at lightning speed. Although no directive was ever issued, it was known that the chiefs of the Department intended that within one week no reference to the war with Eurasia, or the alliance with Eastasia, should remain in existence anywhere. The work was overwhelming, all the more so because the processes that it involved could not be called by their true names. Everyone in the Records Department worked eighteen hours in the twenty-four, with two three-hour snatches of sleep. Mattresses were brought up from the cellars and pitched all over the corridors: meals consisted of sandwiches and Victory Coffee wheeled round on trolleys by attendants from the canteen. Each time that Winston broke off for one of his spells of sleep he tried to leave his desk clear of work, and each time that he crawled back sticky-eyed and aching, it was to find that another shower of paper cylinders had covered the desk like a snowdrift, halfburying the speakwrite and overflowing on to the floor, so that the first job was always to stack them into a neat enough pile to give him room to work.

  • I worry about Wayland for the features it drops from X11. Wayland will never have xdotool support, due to its security model. I worry about onscreen keyboards for drawing tablets and screen readers for the blind.

  • Proton in Wayland works well in Ubuntu out of the box. I don't think it matters if it is native or an X11 compatibility layer, since the games I played ran better than they did in Windows 7.

  • What was the context of the fake conversation? Was it a dating site? Those have been scams forever, loaded with fake profiles, so the jump to fake AI profiles would be no surprise. Or was it Facebook? I haven't been on there in years, but nothing's too terrible for them these days.

    Online, you have to find people, sites, and news sources with a history you can trust.

  • Watch out for scams, as most of them probably are. Ideally, you could look for one operated by a known bank. Crypto .com looks like a scam to me.

    Coinbase used to be considered legitimate, but I'm not sure if it still is.

    Sorry I don't have anything more concrete. I don't think a lot of people on Lemmy use cryptocurrency.

    Most things worth buying are probably available with cash or credit card.

  • Meanwhile on Openstreetmap:

    name Golfo de México

    name:en Gulf of Mexico

    official_name:en_US Gulf of America

    Showing just enough acknowledgement to confirm they've discussed the executive order, but they aren't going to follow it.

  • No. Check my previous comment -- this is about hosting on your home ISP, and turning that on or off directly affected the blocking. There is no way to host a webserver through any commercial VPN service.

  • I don't think he can. If he somehow illegally forces the US Mint to stop making pennies, it doesn't solve the problem that no law allows stores to just round to the nearest 5 cents. Congress would need to pass that first.

  • From several years of experiencing it in person. Datadome was the worst and most consistent. It stopped the moment I switched my webserver onto an exotic port number (above 10,000).

    Datadome sent me captchas at every domain they firewalled. After correctly solving, I would always be completely blocked:

    (not my screenshot)