I think that “alleged” can be dropped, if the emergency-services people had to deal with evidence that was sufficiently-obvious.

Don’t push deluded-doubt to help the disinformation empire, please.

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It also is true that ideologically-motivated-coding is an actual thing.

Imagine someone hating that their propaganda gets deleted by moderators, so they make it difficult for moderators to function that way…

while they, themselves, just so a SELECT on their DB to see the images, to delete all the ones they don’t want…

Remember, it isn’t only corporations who are committed to enforcing the Enshittocene, ideologues do, too.

Those comments are proven false by the dot-4 release of Lemmy, but I’m not accusing the Lemmy devs of being the way those post-quoted comments said.

I AM stating, bluntly, that deliberate torque on the use of ANY aspect of an app, is a thing, now, and need be considered as ONE of the possibilities.

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Whether true or not, I don’t know.

I DO know, however, that humans are not institution-puppets without any internal-motivations.

IF they did do so, THEN that doesn’t mean Al Jazeera was in any way complicit.

Apparently there’s some problem at The Washington Post, now, with the guy in charge of the news-room having participated in a crime, & now is ejecting people who have journalistic-standards…

Does that mean they all are guilty of what he did?

How could it?

We’re in an age where considered-reasoning is being displaced by dogwhistle ideology/prejudice, & it’s required for humankind’s survival, that we get competent in journalism’s methodical & careful discernment.

All of us.

Our kind’s life IS at stake, this century.

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His tactical-plan is that he won’t be accepting any of the consequences of his policies.

You don’t improve a country’s economic-engine by eradicating education’s foundation.

But so long as he’'s rich, & his privilege is protected, he can’t care what damage is done to his inferiors…

Kinda similar to the ones doing likewise north of there, eh?

Notice his gaslighting:

he’s actively warring to destroy as much of the Palestinian population as possible, & eradicate them from their lands,

& he puts this forward as the real problem, or the key to solution…

Misdirection

Fucking fool:

Trump’s going to back Putin directly, against East Europe, gutting NATO, & Zelenskiy is goading him to be enemy?

Power-consumption.

Also, the vibration produced by the 2.5" drives is less, but they’re more-sensitive to it, to begin with.

I’d not even consider spinning-platter drives, nowadays, though:

SATA SSD’s for a NAS strike me as being the sanest choice.

Samsung what are those called, Evo drives?

excellently-high MTBF, ultra-short ( compared with rotating-platters ) seek-time ( literally orders-of-magnitude quicker ), etc.

I don’t know of ANY reason to go with spinning-platters, nowadays.

( & I’m saying that as a guy stupid-enough to have not realized this in time, & who spent money on such a thing, when SSD’s really were the answer )

This is the perfectest demonstration of how Kahneman1 mind, imprint->reaction mind, ideology/prejudice mind, works to displace considered-reasoning Kahneman2 mind.

There’s no point in appealing to considered-reason within any ideology, left or right, religious or ideological or political…

The imprint->reaction has already defined everything.

The only antidote to such is to have invested, through the previous decades, heavily in competent unbiased education, to make considered-reason/Kahneman2 mind the automatic default for more of the population.

Too bad it’s too late…

“proletariat dictatorship” / “populist dictatorship”

both displace considered-reason.

Yes it’s war: it’s war against considered-reason because ideology’s addiction to its own supremacy is all-consuming.

It’s too bad…

My experience is that USB storage sometimes breaks-connection for no discernable reason.

That if one REALLY wants to do USB storage, then put it inside the housing, and don’t use one of the external-connectors, use something you can permanently-fix, so nothing can even sneeze in its direction.

This mayn’t help you with your puzzle, but it’s bedrock and unchangeable, in my experience.

USB-storage is an unreliable joke.

ANY revision of it, that I’ve tried.

hth…

Malnutrition creates life-long damage/harm when it harms growing children.

It doesn’t require outright-starvation to damage an entire-population’s viability.

No matter: evil does what evil does, & when it claims that “the bible” justifies it, well, that’s just icing on the cake, isn’t it?

We can see the “Christians” in the US & Islamist “Muslims” proving the same principle, can’t we?

And the “Buddhists” who genocided Tamils, & “Hindus” who butcher whomever they’re ideologically-intolerant-of at the time…

There is no “religion” which is the cause of this: it is caused by our animal-ignorance mind, which the Abrahamic religion called “behemoth”, usually translated as “the beast”.

You can even see the book of Isaiah railing against such things.

Human-nature won’t change until most of our kind are extinguished, right?

Some other species might have had an instant-and-violent-reaction against doing what Russia & Israel are doing…

Our accommodating of it … insults God/Life, doesn’t it?

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I’m banned-for-life from there.

Russia invaded/desecrated/butchered Ukraina, & I remember what the vids showed of Mariupol ( sorry spelling ).

I made a comment on there to the effect that if Putin was the pusher of the war, then making things as politically-difficult for Putin in the election would be a Good Thing™.

( to me, the obvious implied-point is that it might have ended an immensely-wasting-of-life war that people other than Putin weren’t so interested in, and that, by definition, must therefore be a Good Thing™ )

Anybody who pushes Russia’s butchering of Ukraina as something which cannot be spoken-against, is fucking terrorist-at-heart.

Just my opinion, but there I’ve no right to such opinion.

The beauty of this?

It perfectly demonstrates how segregation-of-ideologies allows positive-feedback-loops, which produces extremism.

Left, right, political, religious, moneyarchist, legalist, nationalist, sexist/genderist, ALL ideologies are self-amplifying.

There’s a book on the US’s political-segregation ( “The Big Sort” ) & it looks like that mechanism, ideological-segregation, has only 1 outcome: butchery/war.

So, given the evidence, it looks like the whole world is going to be butchering everybody within a … decade or so.

Amplification, feedback-loop, polarization, and nothing is countering its controlling of the process of this world…

it’s got an outcome.

And if our world’s population won’t stop/prevent the “drunk driver” from force-crashing our “bus” with all our world’s peoples in it … well, then we get crashed/killed.

The Great Filter.

WHEN one has cancer, THEN is it right to KILL that cancer??

WHEN one is newly-infected with rabies, THEN is it valid to prime one’s immune-system to as violently as possible defend one’s life against rabies?

Or should we just make-nice, live in making-believing, & hope that our hopium works??

What Russia’s been doing to Ukraina, what Hamas got Israel to be doing against the Palestinians & all the journalists…

do we let rabies overrun our world’s life?

Will the US allow rabies to overrun its life?

( yes, obviously.

The others … likewise.

Therefore, Universe’s Natural Selection is looking to be … “pruning” our world from the worlds-in-Universe-with-civilized-life-on-them, this century … isn’t it? )

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Any organization which establishes its vision/mission/culture and then, much later forms a committee about safety…

isn’t going to change.

the committee is a “bandaid”: cosmetic, only.

Organizational-culture is set right at the beginning, & to change it, you have to do a grass-roots campaign, that includes everybody, until the grass-roots motivations themselves force-turn-the-tide.

This is 95%-certain to be appearances-only.

iirc, GE did an actual culture-change accomplishment: their CEO set up a system where the low-level managers went on retreats/workshops, and the result of those workshop/retreats was that they had to come up with a way of improving things in their part of the company…

( the problem this program was fighting was the top-down culture-of-authority-and-no-adapting )

Their boss had to OK or disallow their solution on the spot, when they got out, I think…

Once enough percentage of the low-level managers had been through the process, then the tide turned, & became a tsunami of change, wiping-out all obstacling before it.

Notice the difference, though:

a committee won’t produce culture-change.

Grass-roots can, but it has to be done correctly.

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Hungary is aligned with Putin against the EU.

IF the EU won’t admit that, won’t deal-with that, THEN the EU will be more-completely-butchered when Trump guts NATO & backs his buddy Putin.

Natural Selection™ in action, people: they need to face actuality & grow the fuck up:

kick Hungary out.

Immediately.

They’re actively treachery against the EU, DEAL WITH IT!!

( morons “willingly going to the seconary-crime-scene in the hopes of using social-process to make things go better, there”…

WHEN SOMEONE IS TAKING YOU TO A SECONDARY-CRIME-SCENE, YOU ARE GOING TO BE BUTCHERED THERE: FIGHT TO THE DEATH IMMEDIATELY.

That has been explained by good-cops for many many many years.

Nobody learns.

Natural Selection is going to be unnecessarily pruning extra European lives, as a result of the EU’s retardedness, in the coming decade. )

USB-storage isn’t reliable.

Period.

ANY fscking thing that bumps any connection, can break the dam link.

Then your kernel can re-label the device when it re-connects,

and you’ve got to reassemble your RAID.

just my experience.

use ANY other method you can, other than USB.

stick a SATA adaptor on there somewhere, if you can.

Get a different motherboard.

ANYthing, but not USB.

Idiocy.

He’d do greater-good by remaining in-place & continuing insisting on getting things right, then he would be getting out of abuse’s way, & facilitating its more-complete highjacking of the country.

Same with all the leftists who vacated-authority-roles “in protest”, handing them to MAGA enforcers.

Giving authority to the ones you “claim” you oppose, “in protest”, is self-delusion, not means-of-victory.

Fools, ruled by feelings, instead of by objectivity & reason, giving greater leverage to their claimed enemy.

No point in pretending that that “strategy” is going to actually-win, is there?

Just throwing leverage away, for sake of feelings & social-assertion.

And then, later, whining that they’re not winning…

Idiotic frame-of-reference:

2.5g of fentanyl could kill … what, ALL of BC’s total population??

moronic.

You limit it to number-of-doses, if you’re doing that kind of thing:

something like “a person can legally carry enough drugs to use for the next 4 days” or something, with drugs of different strengths having different limits.

Same as the volume of light beer required to put a person “over the legal limit” is drastically different from the volume of alcool, right?

Reliability’s kinda high on my priority-list.

Try Samsung.

Nowadays I can’t imagine using SATA for anything but archival storage ( get the fastest NVMe you can for your operating-system, and be stunned by how much quicker your machine is ).

Last time I was digging into stats, the reliability-rate for Samsung devices was much higher than that of Western Digital,

and the off-brands … often are a bit of a bad-joke, for reliability ( Adata & Kingston, I’m looking at you, and will never trust such scum again ).

just my experience/opinion, is all.

China knows the Republicans are going to gut NATO,

China doesn’t care,

China is committed to breaking the West’s dominion, which is why it’s making Russia into its vassal-state, totally-dependent-on-China, but with accountability/responsibility not having any direct-line into China, in the 1st place…

Once Trump’s finished destroying the US, then … then the real action will begin, militarily.

Give that about 1 dozen, or less, years, to occur.

ContinuousHammerfall’s when the NATO-allied countries have been gutted, bankrupted, torn-apart through “populist dictatorship”, etc, and suddenly the triple-alliance throws EVERYthing they’ve got against us, to break our capability…

Between now & then should be 2 more stages:

economic-collapse, which Trump uses to gain & secure dictatorship,

& the butchering of NATO & the West, economically, which should last … roughly 7 or 8 years, or so.

Once those’re done, then the WW3 tantrum/pogrom can begin.

That only remains true until the Republicans somehow rig Trump to be president/dictator of the US:

then he ditches NATO, & backs the Kremlin, who have been backing him for decades.

Once the entire geopolitical-table has been tossed on its edge, then the whole game’s rules are very very different.

Wait & see.

There was a youtube vid, testing multimeters, & there was a specific condition that produced wrong results in all the meters except Fluke, who had engineered to prevent that wrongness.

That was what decided me on trusting Fluke, in the future.

been years, no idea what channel it was on, sorry, but it should be findable for someone with patience, knowing that only the Fluke got it right, of the ones tested.

Do pay attention to the calibration-certificates, though:

Anybody paying for Fluke who ignores that their handhelds have no more than 2.5-digits of actual-accuracy, is foolish/incompetent.

( the cheap ones are sooo much worse… )