Guilty on 34 counts. In a historic verdict, Trump was convicted of falsifying business records in connection to a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels.
UNIX84 5mo ago • 100%
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Zero problems with Delta in many years of international flights with them. The best US based company, IMO.
My only problem is that their partner for Africa is Air France aka Air Chance, a complete shit show of an airline that never runs on time, has quite rude staff, uncomfortable seats, and makes travellers to its West African flights bus out to the tarmac to get on the plane in Paris.
I guess the world is about to find out about the dogshit that is Air France and CDG when the olympics starts in a few weeks.
American Airlines has been accused of blaming a nine-year-old girl for being filmed in the plane's bathrooms by a male flight attendant. Estes Carter Thompson III, 37, was arrested in January after he allegedly recorded four underaged girls - aged 7, 9, 11 and 14- as they used the bathroom aboard several AA flights. In their response to a lawsuit filed by the nine-year-old's family, American Airlines put forward several defenses, including that they are not responsible because of 'the doctrine of comparative negligence, contributory negligence, comparative responsibility and/or comparative causation.' AA's legal defense continues: 'Defendant would show that any injuries or illnesses alleged to have been sustained by Plaintiff, Mary Doe, were proximately caused by Plaintiff’s own fault and negligence, were proximately caused by Plaintiff’s use of the compromised lavatory, which she knew or should have known contained a visible and illuminated recording device.' Explaining the defense in plain English, the plaintiff's lawyer Caroline Recupero said: 'In other words, American Airlines is blaming a 9-year-old-girl for being filmed by an American Airlines flight attendant, arguing the child knew or should have known that the airplane toilet contained a recording device.'
UNIX84 5mo ago • 100%
I guess don't get involved then?
Also, this conjures images of Shinzo Abe in a fighter jet with the numbers 7-3-1 on the side.
UNIX84 6mo ago • 100%
No, Facebook and Twitter are still useful for the status quo.
UNIX84 6mo ago • 90%
Fox News isn't rallying people to support Palestine.
UNIX84 6mo ago • 100%
Thanks AIPAC, for protecting Americans from foreign misinformation campaigns.
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Ozzy the man was already in from Black Sabbath. But Ozzy Osbourne the band is in now. Their first six albums (through No More Tears) are as good as any other band in metal.
I assume this means Randy, Zakk, Jake E. Lee, etc are in.
Curious to see what they do about the bassist and drummer who sued and were subsequently removed from the reissue of Blizzard of Oz and Diary.
EDIT: Looks like Randy has been in the hall of fame on his own since 2021. TIL.
"Google issued a stern warning to its employees, with the company’s vice president of global security, Chris Rackow, saying, “If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again,” according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC."
UNIX84 6mo ago • 100%
Guaranteed way for me to not watch a video is when the thumbnail shows the narrator doing their best Forky face.
UNIX84 7mo ago • 100%
Maybe SuSE?
UNIX84 8mo ago • 100%
I remember the last few versions of Netscape Communicator had a "Shop" button.
This was the sign that Netscape had lost the browser war and was giving up.
UNIX84 8mo ago • 100%
Never heard of this service. Thanks.
UNIX84 8mo ago • 100%
I'm still on a Fairphone 4 -- in fact, in December it surpassed all my previous smartphones as the one I've owned and used the longest since smartphones became a thing. However, I'm on CalyxOS and have always used a GCam port for taking photos. So I'm not sure if I will get this camera software update or if I have to move back to the (buggy) stock Fairphone OS to see the changes.
"We just gave the Fairphone 4 a revolutionary update, with a completely refreshed camera experience, and we couldn’t be prouder." The Fairphone 4 was released in summer 2021 and has been superseded by the Fairphone 5, but this major update addresses one of the biggest complaints about the device since day one -- the camera.
UNIX84 8mo ago • 100%
This is a big complaint for me. I know that there is the official standalone APK, but if I am running a de-Googled phone, I want to be able to use Signal and have it update on a regular basis.
Finally, we can have usernames in Signal instead of giving our phone number to everybody.
UNIX84 8mo ago • 100%
I mean licensing comes in here. The FOSS licenses allow this. Microsoft EULA and copyright almost certainly does not. But yes, I get the sentiment.
It's almost as if all of the FAANG/Magnificent 7 market outperformance the past 15 years was built on the backs of the free labor provided by the FOSS movement. But then they will turn around and claim that non-western companies steal IP, etc and have US intervene to ban competition, or sue in courts. Kind of funny.
Back to the tech discussion, I've been using doas for a few years now instead of sudo. Even on my GNU/Linux machines. It's a lot simpler to setup for desktop workflow machines.
UNIX84 9mo ago • 100%
Good post, my favorite Sabbath song and album.
UNIX84 9mo ago • 100%
I'm happy for them.
Was this the best metal album of 2023? Not by a long shot.
Was it the best Metallica album in 25 years? Absolutely. They tried new things and pulled it off well.
The Grammys have very narrow criteria. Basically you are going to get top 40 radio friendly songs and they choose from that. Looking at the list of nominees, they were the only metal band actually nominated in this category. The rest of the nominees are what people who drive in to "easy listening soft hits" think metal sounds like. 2023 was a pretty weak year for metal anyway.
In my 30s, I've come back around to appreciating Metallica. We don't have many years left of them being around. Enjoy them for the time that we still can. One of these days, soon, they will play Master of Puppets for the last time.
And at least Babymetal didn't win.
UNIX84 9mo ago • 100%
I agree. There should have been an official Firefox repo from the beginning.
I do remember twenty years ago, Firefox development was incredibly Windows-centric. At one point it felt as though Firefox for Linux was a second class citizen. This was a radical departure from the Mozilla Suite which was maybe the first major desktop software to go from close to open source. For many years afterward, as a BSD/Linux user, I continued using SeaMonkey for that reason.
I assume having an official repo was just never a priority in the early days.
Mozilla now has an official Debian repository for running the latest Firefox releases.
Leah is now selling the 820 G2 with Libreboot. Now you have another choice when it comes to a completely libre firmware. Intel management engine is neutered. This is the newest laptop supported by Libreboot.
Bruce Perens, one of the founders of the Open Source movement, is ready for what comes next: the Post-Open Source movement. >First of all, our licenses aren't working anymore," he said. "We've had enough time that businesses have found all of the loopholes and thus we need to do something new. The GPL is not acting the way the GPL should have done when one-third of all paid-for Linux systems are sold with a GPL circumvention. That's RHEL.