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Dems rip Biden for launching Houthi strikes without congressional approval
  • It's not even itself overly broad, it's just been twisted into a global war on terror because the executives want to do that and no one stopped them.

    Yes, therein lies the problem. It was a stupid mistake to make and those that voted for it should have known better.

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    Dems rip Biden for launching Houthi strikes without congressional approval
  • Yes, we call those "blank checks" to the executive branch. The Germans even have a word for it. We did it with Vietnam and it did not go well. One would have thought the generation in Congress would have learned their lesson given most of them lived through that shitshow.

    It goes without saying that military resources can defend themselves when fired upon, there's plenty of precedent going back well before the formation of the US. The AUMFs were not that. They were very clearly blank checks to wage literal wars anywhere the executive desired while providing the flimsiest of evidence - and Shrub did just that. See: Iraq.

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    Dems rip Biden for launching Houthi strikes without congressional approval
  • The last war by US Congress was declared in June 1942, against Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. US Congress has not made a formal declaration of war since then.

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    How long before Windows becomes a subscription service?
  • Watch out for direct injected cars, which is virtually all of them now except for electrics. Many don't have traditional fuel injectors in the intake manifold anymore, and because of poor PCV systems, oil vapor carbonizes on the intake valves, causing problems. This is generally around the 40k-50k mile mark, potentially sooner if people don't drive their cars on the freeway for extended periods after startup. Some newer cars have addresses this by adding supplemental fuel injectors in the intake (some audis, some Toyotas) but it's not a widespread practice, of it will ever be.

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    More Teens Who Use Marijuana Are Suffering from Psychosis
  • Is it the cause of the psychosis, or making it surface earlier than it would have naturally?

    30 years ago, I was partying with some friends when an older sibling came to us in tears begging us to not smoke pot with his younger sibling any longer. Their sibling was in their late teens/early 20s and started showing early signs of schizophrenia, that I did not personally see until later and it was clear that things were not ok. It's always stayed in my mind.

    My own older sibling was a hardcore alcohol addict before they died, and I suspect they started using because of their uncontrolled bipolar disorder that started surfacing in their mid 20s.

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    I'm so frustrated rn.
  • Install Ubuntu and be done. I'm able to print to my brother network printer with no special drivers. I installed a gnome tweaks package to do some minor tweaks in gnome, and I did rip out the Firefox snap thing to install Firefox from a package so I could use my kpxc plugin, but that's the only major change I made. Hell, Dell (laptop) even provides firmware updates via the package manager so your bios gets updated properly. Best Linux desktop experience I've ever had over the past 5 years and I've been daily driving Ubuntu since 2004.

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    Hobbes OS/2 Archive to shut down in three months – OSnews
  • OS/2 was the first multitasking operating system I ever used. Ran my RemoteAcces BBS on it. I might have to do a site backup just to be nostalgic.

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  • Sony Vegas "expert" finds brainwashing "ELF" in torrented movie

    The comments legit made me laugh out loud. I can't tell if those people were serious but if they were, hoo lawd I'm afraid for it country if they vote in elections or have children.

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    Let's say I've got 100 episodes of NOVA. I've added one episode to a playlist about a certain subject, and there's a bunch of other videos in that playlist about that subject.

    I go into the playlist and click the play button. This is the play button on the playlist, not the individual video in the list.

    My expectation is that the next video it plays is the next video in the playlist. However, repeatedly, it plays the next NOVA video instead of the next video in the playlist.

    What am I doing wrong here?

    Clarifying: it finishes the first video in the playlist, but then continues on to a video that is not in the playlist.

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    What is everyone doing? SELinux? AppArmor? Something else?

    I currently leave my nextcloud exposed to the Internet. It runs in a VM behind an nginx reverse proxy on the VM itself, and then my OPNSense router runs nginx with WAF rules. I enforce 2fa and don't allow sign-ups.

    My goal is protecting against ransomware and zerodays (as much as possible). I don't do random clicking on links in emails or anything like that, but I'm not sure how people get hit with ransomware. I keep nextcloud updated (subscribed to RSS update feed) frequently and the VM updates everyday and reboots when necessary. I'm running the latest php-fpm and that just comes from repos so it gets updated too. HTTPS on the lan with certificates maintained by my router, and LE certs for the Internet side.

    Beside hiding this thing behind a VPN (which I'm not prepared to do currently), is there anything else I'm overlooking?

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    Can I expose my Nvidia gpu to the lan via a docker container?

    I have a P400 in my storage server which currently also runs some media containers like Plex, sonarr-sma, radarr-sma, Jellyfin, exploring Immich, etc. I have the GPU surfaced via docker and added it to each of the containers that needed access to the GPU for hardware acceleration needs. Is it possible to be able to leverage the Nvidia gpu container remotely (over the lan) without having the containers access it (pseudo) directly? I want to move the media handling containers to a Turing Pi 2 and keep just the GPU access on the storage server.

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    Anyone done this? Got a set of repeatable instructions? My understanding is that the root docker image needs to switch from alpine to ubuntu and that hasn't happened yet.

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    lemmy.world is it possible to run pixelfed on a domain that already runs mastodon? - Lemmy.World

    I can install and run pixelfed on a subdomain, for example, pixelfed.example.com [http://pixelfed.example.com]. However, I also run mastodon.example.com [http://mastodon.example.com]. My webfinger points at mastodon. How do I configure a webfinger for both pixelfed and mastodon? How do you all have ...

    How do you configure your webfingers to support multiple subdomains that host AP services?

    Edit: looks like someone filed this issue. If you have a GitHub account, please thumbs up/bump it!

    https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/3563

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    My background is backend development with Java and Kotlin for the last decade. I have a little bit of HTML/JS experience but I'm not a pro. I would like to build a modern Sierra game, of sorts.

    I have no problem investing the time, it just seems overwhelming to jump into and while I've looked at a couple of tutorials, I still seem a bit mystified by the process.

    I'm interested in multiplayer design and function twofold, as I'm intrigued at both how to make it work efficiently and the reasons some game companies claim their game servers cost millions a month to run and have to shut them off (looking at you, Gun Media).

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    www.opb.org Oregon cities join police, prosecutors in push to recriminalize drug possession

    The League of Oregon Cities has joined with police and prosecutors in calling on state lawmakers to re-criminalize drug possession when they convene in Salem starting in February.

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    www.kptv.com Tip leads to arrest of Portland man wanted for felony; Found with illegal, stolen guns, meth

    A 35-year-old Portland man was found with stolen guns and meth, and arrested Friday after police received an anonymous tip, according to the Portland Police Bureau.

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    What is the reason the /r/askhistorians mods don't move here?

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    Now that Bandcamp has had huge layoffs, what about an opensource, Fediverse-friendly replacement? What can a FOSS product bring to the community and do better than Bandcamp?

    • Discoverability?
    • Broader selection of payments platforms? Direct transfer to avoid processors? (I'm ignorant about the processing system, plus international considerations)
    • Ease of spinning up (SaaS?)
    • Content deliverability (on the fly transcode from sourced FLAC or WAVs? Rich video/multi track audio?)
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    Vacancy taxes here should be painfully high here. $3m property vacant for years? Should be paying about $300k/yr in vacancy taxes.

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    I have some metal film 1/2w 2.2ohm resistors in some car wiring. I'm concerned about the durability of this install and am seeking advice on how to protect the resistor once it's soldered in place. The obvious is heat shrink tubing, but it's there anything more substantial?

    I'll be using these resistors in a custom pigtail that will plug into the car wiring. 3D printed housing? I have tried searching and I haven't found anything like that.

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    www.portlandmercury.com Amid Budget Crisis, Leaked PBOT Emails Deepen Public Distrust of Portland Transportation Leaders

    Last week, leaked emails revealed Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) director Millicent Williams planned to spend half a million dollars to reverse safety elements on a downtown protected bike lane on Northwest and Southwest Broadway Street. Williams expressed urgency in her plans, while appea...

    I'll reiterate: Mingus Mapps is a fucking liar. He's also terrible at being PBOT commissioner. We want open data and we want it yesterday. I want to see report metrics. I want to see the PBOT budgets for their teams, their headcount allocation and how they are planning work as well as dealing with emergency problems (eg reports).

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    Folks in various neighborhoods could quietly dispose of fentanyl and meth dealers without fear of legal system repercussions.

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    www-kgw-com.cdn.ampproject.org 'I'm at my wits' end': Portland man prepares to sell home after city fails to remove illegally parked RV camper

    People across Portland have put in thousands of complaints about RV campers parked illegally. The city said they're unable to respond to everyone.

    Ted Wheeler is an cretin, and so is the commissioner in charge of PBOT. Sweep this shit.

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    www.opb.org Portland mayor Ted Wheeler will not seek third term

    Ted Wheeler has been Portland's mayor since he was elected in 2016, then reelected in 2020. He announced Wednesday that he will not seek another term in 2024.

    I'm ok with this. He was a fucking shithead for letting people drive around with no tags, functioning DMV or not. He was a shithead for not replacing Eudaly and subsequently Hardesty as head of PBOT. He is ultimately responsible for the derelict cars and RVs left all over the city and a bureau that would take months, or years in some cases, to deal with major problems.

    Fuck Wheeler.

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