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Comment on Microsoft struggling to restore service as global outage affects Outlook and Teams in ~tech
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Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of November 9 in ~society
hobbes64 Link ParentI was there with a class of middle schoolers years ago and they were completely silent.I was there with a class of middle schoolers years ago and they were completely silent.
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Comment on Microsoft struggling to restore service as global outage affects Outlook and Teams in ~tech
hobbes64 Link ParentI hope they rename the product to 364 or 363 to avoid false advertisingI hope they rename the product to 364 or 363 to avoid false advertising
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Comment on Microsoft struggling to restore service as global outage affects Outlook and Teams in ~tech
hobbes64 Link ParentSadly, Ms Teams wasn’t also down so a lot of people are interrupted through other channelsSadly, Ms Teams wasn’t also down so a lot of people are interrupted through other channels
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Comment on Microsoft struggling to restore service as global outage affects Outlook and Teams in ~tech
hobbes64 Link ParentIt’s a good reason to use Obsidian for notes instead of a Microsoft product or anything that uses cloud storage or a proprietary format.It’s a good reason to use Obsidian for notes instead of a Microsoft product or anything that uses cloud storage or a proprietary format.
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Comment on Slay the Spire 2 - new character "The Fool" and two new game modes in ~games
hobbes64 Link ParentHmm I should run the beta and not wait for this to show up in the release because I like easy runs of this game lol. I'm always happy when the daily challenge has something like "vintage" or let's...Hmm I should run the beta and not wait for this to show up in the release because I like easy runs of this game lol. I'm always happy when the daily challenge has something like "vintage" or let's you pick good starting cards so I can occasionally stomp the game.
(I've gotten to maybe ascension 5 on most of the characters)
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Comment on Humble Bundle redesign leaves out crucial security features in ~games
hobbes64 Link ParentUnder payment information I don't see anything other than a request to add my billing address for physical items. I can't tell if they have anything else. I haven't bought anything for a while but...Under payment information I don't see anything other than a request to add my billing address for physical items. I can't tell if they have anything else. I haven't bought anything for a while but I'm pretty sure I used paypal, I usually don't give my card to sites.
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Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of November 9 in ~society
hobbes64 Link ParentMassie is one of those republicans who goes scorched earth on his way out. Don't assume that he's normal and reasonable because of his recent actions. He's the kind of guy who posted a Christmas...Massie is one of those republicans who goes scorched earth on his way out. Don't assume that he's normal and reasonable because of his recent actions. He's the kind of guy who posted a Christmas picture of his family with guns a few days after 4 teenagers were killed in a school shooting
Anyway he seems to enjoy trolling Hegseth about the impeachment.
Massie: "I hope Hegseth addresses the 8 articles of impeachment, and doesn‘t get up and misquote the Bible in Quentin Tarantino fashion and do some pull-ups and call everybody fat and gay. I may have just given you half his speech, I don't know."
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Comment on US Democrats are hatching a plan to reverse Donald Trump’s Canada tariffs in ~society
hobbes64 Link ParentFor example, Democrats should create a bill to give everyone $5,000 and watch Trump veto that.For example, Democrats should create a bill to give everyone $5,000 and watch Trump veto that.
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Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of November 9 in ~society
hobbes64 LinkHeather Cox Richardson November 8 … … …Heather Cox Richardson November 8
Since the dramatic victories of the Democrats on Tuesday, Trump has been posting increasingly provocative material on social media in what appears to be an attempt to turn attention away from the Democrats and back to himself.
Amidst all that mess, there are signs that the president is deeply concerned about anyone getting a window into how his administration has been operating. Yesterday he insisted that the Democrats are “threatening a lot of people…just because they happen to be Republicans, or Republican supporters.” He said that the Democrats’ promises to investigate the administration are themselves crimes and that he is ordering the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate. The post is convoluted, but Trump insists that “there have been no impeachable acts committed, or even thought of, by the victims of this illegal process.”
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The lack of accountability for attacking the United States of America meant that the Confederates’ treason never became odious. Former Confederates were able to spread their ideology across the country in the postwar years. In 1871—just six years after the surrender at Appomattox—the first Confederate secretary of state, Robert Toombs, was being quoted in northern newspapers about the dangers of permitting poor men, especially poor Black men, to vote and his advocacy for a property requirement for voting.
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That same partisan reworking of history took place after President Gerald Ford issued a preemptive pardon to President Richard Nixon for his actions surrounding the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. Although Ford relied on the 1915 Burdick v. United States decision that said accepting a pardon carries with it “an imputation of guilt, acceptance, a confession of it,” Nixon never publicly accepted responsibility for his obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and contempt of Congress.
The theme that accountability for lawbreaking is somehow a partisan plot by those who hate Republicans continued to fester. Over time, it bolstered the right-wing drive to declare a strongman president above the law
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But now, with the prospect of investigations into behavior that might fall outside a president’s official duties, Trump is trying to convince the American people that enforcing the rule of law is a partisan attack.
In fact, it is the opposite. The true rule of law is nonpartisan. It is the fundamental rule under which the American government was conceived.
“[W]here, say some, is the King of America?” Thomas Paine wrote in Common Sense, the 1776 pamphlet that convinced British colonists in North America to cut ties with their king and start a new nation. “[I]n America the law is king. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.”
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Comment on Infinite Sudoku - a little timewaster I made in ~games
hobbes64 Link ParentI've never intended to make a permanent mark for the same number in more than one cell at a time. I almost always fill more than one cell at a time with a pencil value. For me, pencil means "I...I've never intended to make a permanent mark for the same number in more than one cell at a time.
I almost always fill more than one cell at a time with a pencil value. For me, pencil means "I don't know which of these two or three cells should be 2, so I'm going to mark them all. The most common way I use pencil values is to make a pointing pair. The secondary reason is to just show that I've got an ambiguous choice here of 2 or 3 values, usually in a row. Then in harder puzzles I often have two cells with two values, so I know that no other cells on the same row (or column, if appropriate) can be those two values.
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Comment on Infinite Sudoku - a little timewaster I made in ~games
hobbes64 Link ParentThat isn't working for me. I just selected 2 squares and then typed 2, and the the "pen" 2 was populated in both squares, and of course one of them was red because they can't both be right. If...That isn't working for me. I just selected 2 squares and then typed 2, and the the "pen" 2 was populated in both squares, and of course one of them was red because they can't both be right.
If it's supposed to work differently then maybe it's a browser cache issue but I did reload the page after I saw your comment about the lasso
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Comment on Infinite Sudoku - a little timewaster I made in ~games
hobbes64 LinkThis is nice, thanks for posting it. I'm a little spoiled by the way Good Sudoku works. It looks like you have some of the same features but maybe using different methods to enable them. One...This is nice, thanks for posting it.
I'm a little spoiled by the way Good Sudoku works. It looks like you have some of the same features but maybe using different methods to enable them. One example: In Good Sudoku, if you highlight multiple squares, when you type a number it automatically assumes you mean to use pencil so you rarely have to explicitly switch between pencil and pen mode.
The adventure part of your game, in which you uncover pictures, is slightly similar to Proverbs which I also like. -
Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies
hobbes64 LinkJust watched The Death of Robin Hood. It's kind of a weird mix of gory violence mixed with contemplation and conversation. I liked it though. I guess the themes are pretty straightforward, the...Just watched The Death of Robin Hood.
It's kind of a weird mix of gory violence mixed with contemplation and conversation.
I liked it though.I guess the themes are pretty straightforward, the main seems to be regret and living with having done bad things, and making amends. And the main character learning empathy through the actions of others.
But there's one thing about the movie that I found kind of shocking and maybe controversial.
Spoiler about the ending
The movie ends with an assisted suicide. Because Robin Hood cannot live with the crimes he committed. Also, his death happens in the presence of a child who probably doesn't realize what is happening at the time but will certainly realize it soon, and that's probably going to be yet another source of trauma for Little Margaret.Based on the movie title, it isn't shocking that Robin Hood dies, but the method was unexpected.
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Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of November 2 in ~society
hobbes64 LinkThe Racism Scam Republicans are resorting to a troubling closing argument. ...The Racism Scam
Republicans are resorting to a troubling closing argument.Faced with flagging numbers over an unpopular and unnecessary war in Iran, inflation exacerbated by tariffs, lawless immigration enforcement, and corruption, Republicans have gone back to basics for their closing message: stoking hatred against minority groups.
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But at this point, Americans should recognize this campaign for the cynical gambit that it is. Trump’s scapegoating has not solved any problems. It has not brought down inflation or the cost of living; it has not raised wages or led to greater job growth. The only winners of the Trump administration are his family members, whose wealth has grown since he took office, and industries that have enjoyed favorable regulatory decisions or lavish tax cuts. For those at the top, bigotry provides a justification for unearned advantages—while for those at the bottom, it can serve as an explanation for life’s disappointments. One thing it can’t do, though, is provide the broad-based prosperity Trump promises.
At the turn of the 19th century, the populist Tom Watson wrote that Black and white laborers were “kept apart that you may be separately fleeced of your earnings. You are made to hate each other because upon that hatred is rested the keystone of the arch of financial despotism that enslaves you both.” Tragically, Watson later abandoned this insight—he became an arch racist and anti-Semite. The bigger tragedy is that more than a century later, a major political party is still trying to make this scam work.
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Comment on Federal agency emails praising US President Donald Trump may violate ethics laws, experts say in ~society
hobbes64 LinkBesides the Social Security spam, this is about the "Trump accounts for children" spam that's going around. It's a real program, but since it's closely associated with Trump and promotes Trump, a...Besides the Social Security spam, this is about the "Trump accounts for children" spam that's going around. It's a real program, but since it's closely associated with Trump and promotes Trump, a lot of people don't trust it and don't want anything to do with it.
Every child now has a Trump account - whether parents want one or not
And there is no way to opt out of the automatic opening of the account.
Once a Trump Account has been claimed, it cannot currently be closed regardless of how the account was created, according to a Treasury official. The email Green received from the IRS, seen by The Independent, encouraged her to download the Trump Accounts app to activate her children’s accounts.
“Established by President Donald J. Trump’s landmark Working Families Tax Cuts law, Trump Accounts help children build long-term savings and gain a stake in America’s economic future,” the email said.
The president’s branding was off putting for Green, but her children, aged 10 and 14, automatically have a Trump Account against her wishes.
“When it gave the instructions to go to Trump's special website, I was like, OK, I'm definitely not signing up because anything that is associated with this president in that way, I'm just like, ‘no, thank you!’” she said. “I don't want to be associated with this in any shape, way, or form.”
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Comment on Federal agency emails praising US President Donald Trump may violate ethics laws, experts say in ~society
hobbes64 LinkI received two emails recently from the US Federal government. One was about Trump accounts for kids. The other was the IRS email mentioned in the NY Times article. I was infuriated by each. It's...I received two emails recently from the US Federal government.
One was about Trump accounts for kids. The other was the IRS email mentioned in the NY Times article.I was infuriated by each. It's not only annoying propaganda and illegal, but also it's the opposite of the truth to pretend that Trump is doing anything good for retirement or children's future.
Sorry this is a paywalled article. I saw a post about it on reddit which had a gift article link. I messed around with the browser debugger to obtain the text pasted below.
The Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service praised President Trump in mass emails sent Thursday, Friday and Saturday to people with online accounts, an unusual move days before the midterm elections that some experts said could violate federal ethics laws.
“Under President Donald J. Trump, the Social Security Administration (SSA) is transforming into a model of excellence, one that meets and exceeds customer expectations for fast, accurate and secure service,” Frank Bisignano, the Social Security Agency’s commissioner, wrote in one of the emails, copies of which were reviewed by The New York Times.
Mr. Bisignano, who also serves as the chief executive of the I.R.S., signed his name on a similar email sent out by the I.R.S. on Thursday, copies of which were also reviewed by The Times.
“Last year, President Donald J. Trump signed into law the Working Families Tax Cuts, landmark legislation that ushered in a new era of tax relief and prevented the largest tax increase in American history from taking effect,” Mr. Bisignano wrote in the other email, continuing, “Hardworking Americans like you are keeping more of what they earn because of President Trump’s historic tax cuts.”
The I.R.S. email says that it is “for informational purposes and does not constitute a communication about a taxpayer’s specific situation,” adding that the I.R.S. “does not generally send e-mails to taxpayers.”
Several legal experts said the emails’ praise of Mr. Trump, coupled with their timing just days before a pivotal election, potentially violated the Hatch Act, an 87-year-old law meant to prevent employees of the executive branch from using their positions to influence the results of partisan elections.
Kathleen Clark, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, said the emails seemed to function as “propaganda” rather than as public service announcements providing practical information.
“They’re doing it just before the election to persuade people that President Trump is doing a good job,” Richard W. Painter, a law professor at the University of Minnesota and former White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush, said in a phone interview on Saturday, adding that he thought the emails were inappropriate.
Ms. Clark said the messages were reminiscent of a television ad campaign by the Trump administration this fall that promoted his presidency. Some experts said the campaign could have violated the Hatch Act and additional statutory prohibitions on the use of appropriated funds for publicity or propaganda.
The Social Security Administration and the I.R.S. did not respond to requests for comment.
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Federal agency emails praising US President Donald Trump may violate ethics laws, experts say
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Comment on Reddit will require you to be logged in in ~tech
hobbes64 Link ParentI only view reddit on a laptop using old.reddit and adblockers. It’s fine for me and I never see any ads (other than posts that are hidden ads). I don’t bother using it on mobile. When they take...I only view reddit on a laptop using old.reddit and adblockers. It’s fine for me and I never see any ads (other than posts that are hidden ads). I don’t bother using it on mobile. When they take away old.reddit I’ll stop using the site completely.
I’m only a viewer of reddit now. I stopped posting or voting when the Apollo app stopped working.
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Comment on Patrick Stewart dead: 'Star Trek' captain, 'X-Men' superhero was 86 in ~movies
hobbes64 Link ParentHe would probably have thought this reddit post was funny. Patrick Stewart, the voice of Poop in The Emoji Movie, has passed awayHe would probably have thought this reddit post was funny.
Patrick Stewart, the voice of Poop in The Emoji Movie, has passed away
It supports many platforms and seems to have web versions (browser extensions). Check out the download page:
https://obsidian.md/download
There are "web clipper" versions for most browsers. Since it's a browser extension your workplace may not allow it if they've locked down your browser.