Trump refuses to say if he wants Ukraine to win the war
  • RidgeRoad RidgeRoad 1mo ago 100%

    That would be after the low hanging fruit of Moldova. Neighbors Ukraine, Constitutionally neutral, does not admit stationing foreign military troops on its territory, can only be altered by referendum, and not at all during a state of national emergency, martial law or war.

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  • There's an apostrophe battle brewing among grammar nerds. Is it Harris' or Harris's?
  • RidgeRoad RidgeRoad 2mo ago 100%

    I'm from the school that says Harris' is settled law and it's Walz' vs. Walz's that needs litigated.

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  • Kamala Picking Governor Walz for VP Is a Win for the Right-to-Repair Movement
  • RidgeRoad RidgeRoad 2mo ago 100%

    I'm less surprised by that than the exclusion of video game consoles.
    Didn't know the Nintendo lobby was a formidable adversary up there.

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    Black Lives Matter demands DNC host virtual primary
  • RidgeRoad RidgeRoad 2mo ago 100%

    It’s not like there was a Warren-level progressive in the running.

    And if there were, we know from 2020 there'd still be cosplay communists insisting she wasn't progressive enough.

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  • A high-stakes showdown: 5th Congressional District Primary [Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder]
  • RidgeRoad RidgeRoad 2mo ago 100%

    She isn't on the Republicans for Ukraine report card because (duh!) she isn't a Republican, but the only criteria that would get her mildly dinged there would be that she didn't sign Discharge Petition 9 or 10. Republicans with identical records as Omar get an A - Excellent rating.

    Early into the 2022 invasion, she was among fifteen Progressive Democrats to vote against the Consolidated Appropriations Act, receiving some press attention on that. Around the same time, she voted against the Asset Seizure for Ukraine Reconstruction Act, criticizing it as a symbolic gesture substituted for practical assistance. Neither count on the above report card, but are examples Samuels might cite to impugn her record.

    If I were in MN-5 voting singularly pro-Ukraine, there's little for Samuels to genuinely improve upon, and the pretense that he could suggests disingenuousness on the issue I wouldn't consider preferable.

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  • California Passes Right-to-Repair Act Guaranteeing Seven Years of Parts for Your Phone.
  • RidgeRoad RidgeRoad 1y ago 100%

    iFixit noted yesterday, "Though the bill is strong and should make repairs more available for everyone, it allows manufacturers to continue to engage in parts pairing, a practice by which they limit repairs with software blocks. They can also combine parts into expensive assemblies, which makes repairs more expensive."

    Similarly doubt there's any way to legislate against the dismal engineering that tempts a failure avalanche like the Ford F150 taillight horrorshow I posted a few days ago.

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  • hackaday.com

    Water gets into 2018 Ford truck tail light assembly, corrodes connectors, disables vehicle, $5600 repair.

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    Where in this city can I get a tuna salad sandwich?
  • RidgeRoad RidgeRoad 1y ago 75%

    Odd. I wondered why friends from Chicago always order tuna salad whenever they visit.

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  • www.theverge.com

    And now to meteorologist Louis Rossmann with expected impacts of the forecasted [snowstorm in Hell.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tB3t7xGWjk)

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    github.com

    Initial commit was June 11. Documentation is [here.](https://clemens-cords.com/mousetrap/)

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    https://www.wcvb.com/article/nhtsa-massachusetts-right-to-repair-law-agreement/44882316

    See also PIRG's statement [*NHTSA Walks Back Anti-Repair Letter, but Questions Remain*,](https://pirg.org/media-center/statement-nhtsa-walks-back-anti-repair-letter-but-questions-remain/) including link to the NHTSA's letter.

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    https://www.ecmag.com/magazine/articles/article-detail/exemptions-in-right-to-repair-bills-broad-legislation-poses-security-risks

    > Holly Borgmann, vice president of government affairs for ADT, Boca Raton, Fla., said that while these types of laws may make sense for some industries, tools and manuals that could enable someone to disarm an alarm or reroute an emergency signal should remain proprietary. Borgmann is an SIA board member and vice chair of the SIA government affairs committee. A security system that can be repaired without notifying the monitoring service, nor sending any suspicious signals, is a security system that can be defeated *independent* of right to repair legislation. Likewise, if the monitoring service can't verify repairs to be authorized by the customer, they can't handle response to an ordinary alarm. The site specific data of an alarm panel is generally uploaded remotely by the monitoring service using the communication system through which the panel is monitored. That data is retained by the monitoring service in the event it needs restored, or for use as a template should it need modified. This is a trivial operation if there are any doubts regarding the integrity of the programming.

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    Man who drove through Cedar Rapids protestors argues he had right of way as trial begins
  • RidgeRoad RidgeRoad 1y ago 100%

    Iowa Driver's License Manual, page 10, § 2.8 Traffic Signals.

    ibid., page 15, § 2.21 Intersections.

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  • I did the thing all the libs tell me to do
  • RidgeRoad RidgeRoad 1y ago 100%

    I flunked Sunday school, so I'll take the item description on its word that it's a "great way to give witness to God's truth in the Holy Bible."

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  • grist.org

    "In a letter sent to New York Governor Kathy Hochul in December, People for Bikes asked that e-bikes be excluded from the state’s forthcoming digital right-to-repair law... The letter cited 'an unfortunate increase in fires, injuries and deaths attributable to personal e-mobility devices' including e-bikes. Many of these fires, People for Bikes claimed in the letter, 'appear to be caused by consumers and others attempting to service these devices themselves,' including tinkering with the batteries at home. Before Hochul signed the right-to-repair bill, it was revised to exempt e-bikes. "Asked for data to back up the claim that e-bike fires were being caused by unauthorized repairs, Lovell said that it was 'anecdotal, from folks that are on the ground in New York.'"

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    the hacker's dictionary
  • RidgeRoad RidgeRoad 1y ago 100%

    Recommend also the seminal TMRC dictionary for several terms absent here, plus some memorably elegant definitions:

    Kludge: A crock that works.
    Crock: A kludge that doesn't work.

    Same again true of Peter Samson's original 1959 and 1960 editions.

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  • Fixing Your Laptop at Home Should Be Easy. Here’s Why It’s Not.
  • RidgeRoad RidgeRoad 1y ago 100%

    Ah, just picked up a T480s Thinkpad earlier this week, installed Manjaro Cinnamon. Writing this reply on it now.

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  • https://www.fastcompany.com/90923565/

    Entered into the record of [today's hearing](https://midwest.social/post/1255838) by Congressman Fry (R-SC).

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    Michigan eliminates 'asset test' for food assistance
  • RidgeRoad RidgeRoad 1y ago 100%

    Republican House Leader Matt Hall quoted in the article: "offering food stamps to the rich does nothing to put food on the tables of Michiganders in need.”

    But distribute $1.5 billion to the rich through the Strategic Outreach and Attraction Reserve fund and Matt will reassure you that it helps create jobs.

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  • https://www.fastcompany.com/90923565

    Entered into the record during [today's hearing](https://midwest.social/post/1300080) by Congressman Fry (R-SC)

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    Small problem
  • RidgeRoad RidgeRoad 1y ago 100%

    As I write this reply, three buttons appear below the text dialog, "Reply," "Cancel" and "Preview." Not having deleted the text from dialog, nor committed to "Reply" or "Cancel," if I now decide to view your profile on this page by clicking your user name, it has no effect. This appears true of all links except !main and those to off-site URLs, for example, the donation heart you mentioned.

    I also observe the "Cancel" button is not offered when typing a reply to your initial post.

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    Electronic Frontier Foundation shouted out Lemmy, Kbin, and Mastodon in their Reddit coverage today: What Reddit Got Wrong
  • RidgeRoad RidgeRoad 1y ago 100%

    I found it curious, back in December, that Twitter suppressed tweets notifying followers of a Mastodon address, acknowledging no such threat from links to other social media companies, including a few that have in shorter work surpassed Twitter's user base.

    Similar behavior from Reddit briefly banning r/KbinMigration. There's been a r/RedditAlternatives sub for over eleven years. Awkward if they suddenly decided that to be spam. For nearly as long, there's been r/Facebook providing unofficial tech support for its users. Upon resolving their issue, one easily supposes they return to looking at ads on that hellhole rather than those on Reddit. That one, I'm confident, was subject to no interruption at all.

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    What's the Best Fast Food Chain Based in the Midwest?
  • RidgeRoad RidgeRoad 1y ago 100%

    My preference is usually Chicago style, but this Detroit stuff will do.

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