Mike Johnson Claims ‘Who Won The 2020 Election’ Is A ‘Gotcha’ Question
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    We’re not gonna talk about what happened in 2020, we’re gonna talk about 2024

    When asking a Republican "Who won the 2020 election", that is a question entirely about 2024. A Republican's answer (or non-answer) can be used to predict how they will behave after losing the 2024 election.

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  • Steps to repurpose old laptop as home server with Debian
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    The easiest way to disable unnecessary services is to uninstall them with aptitude, or whichever package manager you like. Try terminating services one by one, and see if anything bad happens. If nothing bad happens, you can probably uninstall it. On the other hand, if the system does get wonky a reboot should fix it. Or, you can research the services by name and decide whether to uninstall them. (avahi-daemon for example is a good idea to uninstall.)

    To make the GUI not run, uninstall your display manager (gdm, xdm, nodm, or whatever) and uninstall your xorg server or wayland server. There may be GUI programs remaining after that, but they will only be consuming disk space, not RAM or CPU.

    If the battery is old and holds little charge, you may save a few watts by removing it and throwing it away, instead of letting the system keep it topped off.

    Get a power meter, such as a Kill-a-watt device. Then, experiment with different settings. If it's consuming less than 30 watts, you're probably fine. If you live in the US, one watt-year is about one US dollar (or a little more), so for every watt it consumes, that's about how much you will pay per year for its electricity.

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    Segmentation fault from a supposedly valid program?
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    Looks like this program is really old. It appears to be designed for a 32-bit system, the way it casts between unsigned int and pointers.

    unsigned int is probably 32-bit even on your 64-bit system, so you're only printing half the pointer with the printf, and only scanning half the pointer with the scanf. The correct data type to be using for this is uintptr_t , which is the same as uint32_t on a 32-bit system, and the same as uint64_t on a 64-bit system.

    Try changing the type of addr to uintptr_t , and change lines 14-17 to this:

    	printf("Address of main function: %p\n", (void *) &main);
    	printf("Address of addr variable: %p\n", (void *) &addr);
    	printf("\nEnter a (hex) address: ");
    	scanf("%p", &addr);
    

    You may have to include <stdint.h> . These changes should make the code portable to any 32-bit or 64-bit architecture.

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  • 'Cybersecurity issue' takes MoneyGram offline for three days – and counting
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    I wonder if people are now trying to cash counterfeit money orders purportedly from MoneyGram. The scammer would cash the money order (or deposit it, and wait the necessary waiting period, and then withdraw it), and MoneyGram can't confirm or deny the validity to the bank, so the bank allows it. Then, the scammer flees to Russia or wherever.

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  • 65% of websites are unprotected against simple bot attacks
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    "According to DataDome". A company who sells that as a service.

    More likely, they just don't have any obvious protections that DataDome's lazy engineers could identify. They probably just checked IP ranges to see if the services were proxied by DataDome, Cloudflare, or another such service.

    I don't trust anything DataDome says, because they are a known shitty service. They will arbitrarily block users, intercepting their requests to show a captcha page. Then, after the user correctly solves the captcha, they are directed to a page which reads simply "You have been blocked." There is a fake contact form at the bottom of the page, which submits appeals into a black hole.

    Here's an example of the block page. This user is connecting from a proxy, so the block is expected, but DataDome is known to block residential IP addresses arbitrarily.

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  • Looking to have a common disk for my Linux / Windows dual boot pc. with BTRFS the way to go?
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    NTFS is considered pretty stable on Linux now. It should be safe to use indefinitely.

    If you're worried about the lack of Unix-style permissions and attributes in NTFS, then getting BTRFS or ext4 on Windows may be a good choice. Note that BTRFS is much more complicated than ext4, so ext4 may have better compatibility and lower risk of corruption. I used ext3 on Windows in 2007 and it was very reliable; ext4 today is very similar to ext3 from those days.

    The absolute best compatibility would come from using a filesystem natively supported by both operating systems, developed without reverse engineering. That leaves only vfat (aka FAT32) and exfat. Both lack Unix-style permissions and attributes.

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  • As families searched, a Texas medical school cut up their loved ones
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    It seems in Texas, if you cannot afford to pay a funeral home to claim your loved one's corpse, then the corpse will be sold for parts, to raise the necessary money to dispose of it. And you won't get a funeral.

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  • If you had to divide your life by one event, before and after, what would that event be and why?
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    That first part is eerily similar to what I was about to post.

    In 2011, I was a lonely introvert. I spent my time binging TV shows and reading.

    In 2012, on an IRL meetup thread on the 4chan x (paranormal stories) board, I met a new friend. I think deciding to meet them was the critical moment. They introduced me to a local arts and crafts club, a certain sci-fi fandom, and Minecraft.

    The arts and crafts club became the basis of a friend group that is still my main friend group today. They brought me to a local convention in 2013 where I discovered I was trans.

    In that sci-fi fandom, at a 2016 convention, I met my current partner, and a bunch of new friends.

    I played a lot of Minecraft from 2012 to 2016, but then my partner in 2016 introduced me to Factorio.

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  • People Who Paid Extra To Play The New Test Drive Early Can't Due To Server Issues
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    Beta testers should get a discount, or even get paid, in exchange for writing good bug reports. These people are fools for paying extra for earlier access to a bug fest.

    I would never pre-order a game. That just makes it harder to refund it if it sucks.

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  • https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/major-russian-lenders-say-yuan-coffers-empty-urge-central-bank-action-2024-09-05

    cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2595239 > Major Russian banks have called on the central bank to take action to counter a yuan liquidity deficit, which has led to the rouble tumbling to its lowest level since April against the Chinese currency and driven yuan swap rates into triple digits. > > The rouble fell by almost 5% against the yuan on Sept. 4 on the Moscow Stock Exchange (MOEX) after the finance ministry's plans for forex interventions implied that the central bank's daily yuan sales would plunge in the coming month to the equivalent of $200 million. > > The central bank had been selling $7.3 billion worth of yuan per day during the past month. The plunge coincided with oil giant Rosneft's 15 billion yuan bond placement, which also sapped liquidity from the market. > > "We cannot lend in yuan because we have nothing to cover our foreign currency positions with," said Sberbank CEO German Gref, stressing that the central bank needed to participate more actively in the market. > The yuan has become the most traded foreign currency on MOEX after Western sanctions halted exchange trade in dollars and euros, with many banks developing yuan-denominated products for their clients. > Yuan liquidity is mainly provided by the central bank through daily sales and one-day yuan swaps, as well as through currency sales by exporting companies. > > Chinese banks in Russia, meanwhile, are avoiding currency trading for fear of secondary Western sanctions.

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    Batteries start to rival gas on California’s electricity grid
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    Can someone explain to me how this is economical? (The article is pretty light on facts, and the few facts that it has are suspect anyway due to the article's technical mistakes, like measuring capacity in "megawatts".)

    The maximum price of electricity (that I could find) in California is $0.66/kWh . That means, if you charge at night, or at some theoretical time when electricity is free, and then sell at that maximum price every day, your round-trip profit is $0.66 for each kWh of battery capacity. Lithium-ion batteries, if I'm being generous, last up to 2000 charge cycles. Let's say they don't lose any capacity during that time, either. That means your profit $1320 per kWh, for the whole life of the battery.

    The cheapest grid-tie batteries I can find are about $3000 per kWh, so about twice as much as the total lifetime profit.

    Is there something I'm missing?

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  • What's with the downvotes in here?
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    Your post here contains a homophobic slur.

    "Shock troops" implies actual violence.

    "the final solution" implies violence, genocide, and antisemitism.

    Your first link goes to a post suggesting that people put pro-Monero messages inside new books at bookstores. Most people would perceive this as vandalism, and possibly as advertising that they don't care for.

    If you want to promote Monero on Lemmy, to start, you will need to stop being homophobic and antisemitic, and stop promoting violent themes.

    Try making a message based on positivity. Compared to paying with a credit card, where I have the right to make a chargeback in many situations, what benefits are there to paying in Monero?

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    Could the dogwhistle blow any louder?
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    Thank you for explaining it. I have been confused about this for hours. I thought he was talking about congress members. I don't think I could have ever figured it out.

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  • All the communities on lemmy.lukeog.com are mirrors of Reddit boards. lemmy.lukeog.com does not accept posts from Lemmy users -- only its bot may post and comment, and its posts and comments are just mirrors of Reddit posts and comments. This doesn't seem like a useful way to use Lemmy. It's more like just a mirror of Reddit, in which case archive.is or web.archive.org would be more useful, in my opinion. Better not to waste bandwidth and resources on this, in my opinion.

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    2024 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop, at least for my boyfriend. He's running Windows 7 right now, so I'll be switching him to Ubuntu in a few days. Ubuntu was chosen because Proton is officially supported in Ubuntu.

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