Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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the guy in the middle is a pro at photobombing
9·8 days ago'oh boy, nazis' - tldr it's about killing nazis
I don’t know who the guy on the right is, but the robot is G.I. Robot so I assume this is a reference to this scene in Creature Commandos episode 3 “Cheers to the Tin Man” where (to the music of Amanda Palmer’s Coin-Operated Boy) he kills a lot of neo-nazis.
(I’ve never seen the show besides that scene and only know about any of this from memes…)
4·9 days agohttps://www.grahamforsenate.com/about :
After graduating high school in 2003, during the height of the Iraq War, Graham snuck his birth certificate out of his father’s office to enlist in the United States Marine Corps.
(the bio on his campaign site goes on...)
After completing his infantry training, Graham was assigned to Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion 8th Marines and deployed to Al-Anbar Province, Iraq in January of 2005 where the battalion served primarily in the area east of Fallujah. In 2006, he was deployed to Ramadi, Iraq and served as machinegun section leader at the Government Center. He was deployed again in 2007.
After his third deployment, Graham enrolled at The George Washington University using the GI Bill. Graham quickly realized that his time serving in uniform was not over. So in 2009, he joined the Maryland Army National Guard. He was deployed to Afghanistan the following year where he served as a rifle team leader.
He returned from Afghanistan and went back to school at The George Washington University in 2011. Like many veterans, Graham struggled with undiagnosed PTSD and physical challenges that come from heavy infantry combat. Graham eventually withdrew from George Washington University and moved back home to Maine where he used the resources from the Department of Veterans Affairs to get the help he needed.
After four tours overseas, Graham was deeply disillusioned with America’s failed foreign policy and endless wars and decided to focus on serving his local community in Maine.
In 2018, Graham started working on his friend’s small oyster farm in his hometown of Sullivan. He quickly felt deeply connected with the sea and the community. He eventually took over the oyster farm and built it into a business that produces high quality oysters. Graham also began a diving and mooring service to help out around the bay, and serves the town of Sullivan as Harbormaster and Planning Board Chair.
for some reason his website bio omits his time as a “security contractor” in 2018, although he did mention it in this interview:
After his return to DC, he was in and out of college. He picked up bartending, and never ended up finishing school. In 2016, he moved back to Maine, where he began gaining support from the Veterans Affairs department, getting physical and mental therapy. He felt a renewed call to service, and in 2018, got a job as a security contractor for the State Department in Afghanistan.
meanwhile, https://www.grahamforsenate.com/platform :
Everything we went through in Iraq can be laid at the feet of those in Washington
1·10 days agoPython does have a year option that they are not using.
No, it doesn’t:
help(datetime.timedelta)
Help on class timedelta in module datetime: class timedelta(builtins.object) | Difference between two datetime values. | | timedelta(days=0, seconds=0, microseconds=0, milliseconds=0, minutes=0, hours=0, weeks=0) | | All arguments are optional and default to 0. | Arguments may be integers or floats, and may be positive or negative.
1·12 days agoAuthorities don’t need to ask Signal for metadata; Signal promises they don’t log any themselves and that is probably true.
But, they outsource their server operation to Jeff Bezos, and then they do some absurd security theater to pretend that cryptography makes it so that the server (Amazon) couldn’t possibly log metadata - which is obviously false.
2·15 days agoMakes me curious as to what happened here
You can see the deleted comments in the modlog. There is also a thread for discussing the deletions in this thread here.
2·20 days agoin the computing context, “lock-in” is shorthand for vendor lock-in.
How exactly do they hope to lock devs in github??? That’s absurd, there’s no way they can achieve that. I can always take my projects elsewhere and there’s nothing they can do to stop me.
I can’t tell if you’re joking? If not, what do you think “lock-in” actually means?
It doesn’t mean that it is impossible to leave, it means that there is substantial switching cost. And, that is certainly the case for github-hosted projects: all active contributors need to make a new account somewhere else, issues and discussions need to be migrated, CI workflows typically need to be rewritten, and good luck finding something that gives as much free compute for CI as github does. Yes, it’s easy to mirror a git repo onto another service, but github is much much more than just git repo hosting and each of their features have their own switching cost.
Also, OP actually said “lock devs in” rather than “lock projects in” - I actually am forced to have a github account if i want to contribute to projects which refuse to move their issues off of it 😢 … and the difficulty in creating new accounts anonymously these days prevents me from contributing to several things (lemmy, for instance) which i otherwise would.
here is the full res version of the image, via the author’s 2019 twitter thread… where there was also this important update two years later:
this other post “A Marine Biologist Ranks Shark Emojis” covers some of the same and also some other ones
34·27 days agoI bought some cheap Chinese 2-way radios. The packaging has a big American flag and a “Designed in U.S.A.” claim, which I suspect is bullshit given the company involved. Also, there are two Bible verses referenced. This smacks of pandering to a particular slice of conservative Americans. All I want is cheap radios for skiing with my kids next winter, not a reminder of my country’s socio-political bullshit.
This bullshit is not from the well-known Chinese radio maker Baofeng (baofengradio.com) but rather from a US company called “BTech” which has the deceptive URL BaoFengTech.com.
5·28 days agosomething from the “stable ports” list at https://www.rockbox.org/
2·28 days agoCan someone tell me what vibe coding is?
a term coined 6 months ago for writing software using an LLM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding
131·29 days agoNo evidence of this happened. Blocked.
lol what? it is a pretty well-sourced article, with the main source being remarks in a video which it helpfully links to.
it is 10h long but on youtube one can search the transcript and easily find the parts that form the basis of this article: here are Secretary Burgum’s comments and here is Porat referencing them later.
you have posted only two comments on lemmy so far, and both are telling people to buy this phone. do you have any affiliation with it, and/or are you planning to continue using your lemmy account solely to encourage people to buy it?
also, since you seem to know about this, i am curious if you can enlighten me: are there any benefits of iodéOS compared with LineageOS which it is a derivative of? i didn’t find a comparison between them on the website.