Julia

this is the reskeet of that post where i just say "this" and maybe include an emoji of some kind

look man i agree with all of you but you gotta learn to make less annoying replies

This was always the goal of bathroom bans, to fully push trans people from any semblance of public life, and it won't end there either, the "gender critical" project is currently trying to exert pressure over businesses that hire trans people in the UK, so that trans people are unemployable...

And when trans people still won't submit, that's when mass death will become justified as government policy. But they won't need extermination camps to do it, trans women being incarcerated in men's prisons is already a death sentence and they'll justify incarcerating trans men is men's prisons too.

They’re not afraid of trans people. This isn’t how you treat people you’re afraid of.

i think what bothers me most about how "terf island" has been used is that it implies there's some unique essential characteristic of the uk that's allowed trans rights to be rolled back so thoroughly. this can and will happen anywhere we let it

I see the issue. When we said we would replace human workers with machines you assumed the machines would work. That's on you

I remember a documentary talking about how nobody expected a guy like Hitler to EVER happen in such a forward-thinking science-focused country like Germany.

Like if you time traveled to the early 20th century and explained the future to a knowledgeable political analyst, they wouldn't believe you.

It's hard to describe how important Germany was for science before the nazis.

Like French before, German was the lingua franca of science. You basically had to know German, for the previous century, in order to read and understand the latest stuff going on.

Germany had like, 150 years of being considered the world's best place to do science and math.

Hitler shot that reputation in the face literally the moment he came to power.

Before Hitler, the US had about 6 nobel prizes, Germany like 33.

Now the US has 420, Germany 115.

Germany still has not recovered from that brain drain 92 years ago.

Screenshot of a news article from the Politics section. The text discusses concerns from UPMC staffers who believe the hospital prematurely restricted gender-affirming care due to administrative threats, potentially endangering young patients. Behavioral health therapist Kailey Andrew shares experiences with suicidal trans teens, noting research showing hormone therapy can reduce depression and suicidality in young trans people. Andrew describes the difficulty of no longer being able to refer patients for gender-affirming treatment and feeling pressured to give misleading statements to teens in crisis, which they refuse to do.

UPMC in Pennsylvania is expecting their providers to lie to trans patients and tell them their healthcare is illegal, even when they're at risk of suicide.

newrepublic.com/article/1988...

You know, it's kind of lost in the noise but I really feel like it's significant that the US has announced it is going to unilaterally intervene to keep trans competitors out of the LA Olympics

Reminder that Australian TV network Ten is a Paramount subsidiary and will consequently be under the de facto control of the censorship officer referred to here!

Screenshot of Google Search result for "ZxVGzrjcd6uFzhDr8kArhkcxZsahvpp0grChsh"... which presents the extremely rare message: "Your search did not match and documents" (which is good, and what it should say, or that I'm extremely lucky and should play the lottery if someone else ever did write "ZxVGzrjcd6uFzhDr8kArhkcxZsahvpp0grChsh" before (because the probability is astronomical in magnitude)). Google then helpfully suggests some popular searches, such as: weather tomorrow spanish to english time in tokyo hardware store near me plane tickets etc. all things Google Search and other products have been deliberately designed and engineered to do.

This is a screenshot of the full list of suggestions. Continuing from where the previous screenshot left off: plane tickets breaking news persian cat air fryer anime backgrounds

Screenshot continues: Get the answer you're looking for added to the web Your question will be shared with online publishers who may be able to answer it. When shared, it won't be associated with your Google Account. Text input box with "What's your question:" ...and stuff. Mostly just this.

I should have actually searched for "ZxVGzrjcd6uFzhDr8kArhkcxZsahvpp0grChsh" before I wrote the previous post. Thankfully, at least Google Search says that this search term is not found. *whew*

I think the worst thing to happen to every video or tv platform is that everything has to auto play when you're mousing over it. No, I don't actually want you to start playing the video I just so happen to be on, Im trying to look at my screen please stop.

Blah blah blah, & not only will QNAP destroy your data, I'm pretty sure you can pass commands directly to a root shell through the little web server interface it's running. (Possibly unauthenticated)

Literally, it's calling system() with:
mdadm --something %s %s
lvm --stuff %s %s
all over the place

ZFS is designed to deal with bizarre drive failures... as long as it can actually talk directly to the block device with nothing else in between... so the QNAP secretly decided to do its own block management on top of more block management on top of even more block device abstraction... and failed!

The data I was reading directly from the drive(s) itself was bitwise identical to what the QNAP was sending me over iSCSI (after the reboot). So, I guess the QNAP wrote it incorrectly to disk in the first place.

(Because I pulled the drives out of the QNAP and analyzed them on my Linux box, which I remember needing to install the RedHat distributed filesystem thingy at the time to burrow down through several layers of block device abstraction to get to the raw ISCSI "drive" images.)

... and then it fucks up that giant sparse file the next time you reboot by shifting the raw block addesses for everything by 1Mb (or something) starting at a random offset like 20TB of the way through the virtual block device presented over ISCSI. (The raw data on disk is like this, it's physical)

If you plug eight brand new hard drives into a QNAP, & configure the QNAP to use 100% of each drive as an iSCSI target, & don't do anything else... QNAP isn't using the raw devices for iSCSI... it creates one gigantic sparse file on EXT3 on LVM2 on MDADM on some Redhat distributed fs on LVM2 on ...

The corruption happened at the block device level!

I _did not trust_ the QNAP's data integrity in the first place, so I was only using it as an iSCSI target & was using ZFS from my trustworthy machine to use it as just a raw block device. And QNAP fucked up just writing the bits in the right order

Somehow, for some (unknown to me) reason, the QNAP inserted like 1Mb or 16Mb (I forget now) of nulls in a few spots (at random?) and the offset of everything after those spots was shifted by +1Mb so the filesystem was looking at the wrong (technically right) offset for that data.

I didn't figure out what it did to corrupt my data. I mean, I figured out what the corruption was really fast, but I don't know how it happened.... oh, but the way it manages the LVMs is a mess. It's like LVM2 ontop of MDADM on top of GFS ontop of LVM2 again or something. Layers on layers on layers.

I didn't publish the details at the time, but it takes a lot of strings directly from the Web UI (some unauthenticated) & sprintf's them directly into a string passed into a system() call for Bash to parse and execute... as root.
It's like someone directly converted a shell script into a C library.

I wouldn't recommend QNAP. At someone's suggestion, I bought one ten years ago, eight drives with redundancy, etc. filled it up with data, & it absolutely corrupted the entire virtual volume after the first reboot.

To recover, I reverse engineered their one .so that does everything & it's horrible

has anyone made a “signed the harper’s letter” labeler

Word is that Adobe is suspending the accounts of NSFW artists that use their cloud service.
Give it another year or so and they'll probably be using AI monitors to make sure you're not drawing the "wrong" kind of lines in PS.
New artists; train in different software.

One time in the 2000's, I was working on Photoshop with graphics from the movie CQ for a CD case label. It was a fictitious futuristic $100 bill with stylized JFK portrait and '70s computer font.
PS told me to stop counterfeiting money.