MAGA Pierre and his ilk will never vote for them anyway. I still secretly think it's because Carney wants Danielle Smith to kiss him and that's why we're going to sell out to the suicidal cult of Albertan politics without anything to be gained from it.
I've always wondered if that was done for some kind of kickback or sinecure or donation off on the side somehow, because surely they knew that was never going to win them any vote out West anyway. So what did they get from it? Why would they do that unless they got something for it?
Back in April, I preached a sermon titled "God is our source of worth and approval." I was preaching for myself because I need to hear that message, but a lot of other people said that it helped them as well. Sharing here in case it might help you, too.
Here's the intro: We all need to feel worthy, accepted, and that we’re doing a good job. There can be two errors that can cause us a lot of anxiety and to make bad decisions.
One error is looking for these affirmations of worth, acceptance, and approval from other people. That will cause us to always seek to try to please people. Our actions will be controlled by them.
The other error is to stop caring about what other people think and just do whatever we want. This could be good, but we all have sinful natures and can deceive ourselves. Besides that, pride is a very dangerous thing. The original sin of the devil was pride, thinking that he knew better than God. Adam and Eve fell because the devil promised them that when they ate of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, then they would become like God. For the first time in their lives, they choose something contrary to the will of God—because of pride.
So, what is the right way to fulfill our needs for feeling worthy, accepted, and approved?
Just like we trust God for our basic needs like food and clothing, we can look to him for our need for love, belonging, and esteem. The more that you understand this, the freer you will be in your life. You will be able to make good decisions and relate to people in a proper and healthy way.
God is our source of worth and approval Sunday, April 6, 2025 We all need to feel worthy, accepted, and that we’re doing a good job. There can be two errors that can cause us a lot of anxiety and to make bad decisions.
As an autist I don’t experiment sounds like non autists because they can filter and I can’t.
The video is a perfect example of how I AM experiencing sounds, and I’m sure it’s the same for many others of us. (However, some sounds mentioned in it, the sounds of the street, are missing).
The video is also a perfect example on how music in background (only at the beginning) makes difficult for me to focus on what someone is saying.
Be careful fellow autistic if you watch it with sound on. (The video has closed captions).
“What Does Overstimulation Sound Like To Someone With Autism?“
This was mainly made to show my mom. Ha ha. So please remember I am just trying to show (to my mom) what it's like for me to be in a crowded room and why it'...
Merci pour cette vidéo ! Je ne suis pas autiste, mais je suis aveugle de naissance. Et je vous dirais que ma perception de bruits est beaucoup plus proche à celle des autistes qu'à celle des gens « typiques ».
Je veux juste préciser que cette perception n’est pas celle de toutes les personnes autistes, je suis hypersensible aux bruits alors que d’autres sont hyposensibles, certaines probablement les deux.
Je peux, disons, me concentrer sur une conversation, mais mon cerveau travaille quand-même en mode forcé, je dirais. Parce que je n'ai pas de vision, mes yeux ne fonctionnent pas, c'est le son qui me donne la plupart de l'information, donc non, je ne peux pas « couper » tout ce qui est extra.
Me to siri: Turn on my 6:20 alarm. Siri: I turned off all your alarms. Me: No, turn on my 6:20 alarm. Siri: Sorry, I don't understand. Me: Turn on my 6:20 Alarm. Siri: Just to confirm, you want to power off this device? Me: *goes to home screen and reopens siri* Okay. Turn, on, my, 6:20, alarm. Siri: I turned on your 6:00 PM alarm. What the fuck? Can you like... Listen please. Who designed this shit
EVT-stage prototype multi-disk iPod; it featured multiple dual-platter 1.8" hard drives in a RAID-0 configuration with a total storage capacity of 240GB.
Holy crap, Emily Blunt's sword from Edge of Tomorrow was auctioned off today from a prop house. That'd be one of the few bits of movie memorabilia I'd want to display in my house (but probably not worth the 10-15k it was supposed to go for) propstoreauction.com/lot-detai…
my boss used to have Thor's hammer. He does have the entire Batman suit from one of the movies, can't recall which one. And the Bane suit. So probably that movie.
I believe they called him up and bought back the Thor hammer because they wanted it back for a movie
We built local backdoors for Signal, 1Password & Slack through V8 heap snapshot tampering (CVE-2025-55305).
Method: Replace v8_context_snapshot.bin files with versions that override JavaScript builtins. When apps call Array.isArray(), malicious code executes. Works because integrity checks ignore these "non-executable" files that actually contain executable JavaScript.
A vulnerability in Electron applications allows attackers to bypass code integrity checks by tampering with V8 heap snapshot files, enabling local backdoors in applications like Signal, 1Password, and Slack.
For obvious reasons, I have decided to protect my Mastodon account on this instance. This is all because of Ramon Salazar and his bullshit. I hate having to make this decision, but it has to be done. If anyone wishes to follow me then please feel free to do so. Just keep in mind that since my account will be protected, I will have to approve each follower request I receive. Stay safe everyone. And I hope all of you have an amazing day.
when you request from Apple a full archive of e.g., iCloud Photos, the downloads are disappointingly slow... won't go faster than 140mbit and I have ~100GB to download 🫠
How is it even legal to have such barbaric employment policies like this. Surely air crew should be on the clock from the moment they start security clearance, until they exit the secure area at the end of their shift. Anything else is exploitation.
US flight attendants push to be paid after the Air #Canada union finally get a contract that pays for all work including when planes aren’t in the air: ‘Most of our passengers have no idea’
I can't say enough good things about Paperback, the ebook and PDF reader written by @TheQuinbox. It's truly amazing to have a text-based PDF simply open and be readable. No screen reader optimization, no Adobe alerts, no useless controls or lack of pages in a browser. Just the text, ready in a couple seconds. It even saves your reading position. github.com/trypsynth/paperback
@menelion Hmm, I wonder if there's a way around that? Does your display show text when you navigate by heading/section, at least? If not, I can certainly at least make that happen, the screen reader feedback also output braille.
@menelion I don't currently, sorry. I'm surprised WX has that kind of problem. I thought it used standard controls, especially the C++ library. I've only ever played with WXPython.
I just started using Paperback as well, and it's very good indeed. I noticed that a PDF file I tried reading wasn't synchronizing properly. NVDA would speak one line, but my Braille display appeared to show the next line. Other than that, everything is fine.
@kjsapergia Hmm, strange. You're not the first person to report issues with Paperback and braille displays, but I'm a speech reader and the primary braille display I have is only 14 cells, so testing fixes will be slightly difficult. Certainly it's something I want to improve though
US flight attendants push to be paid after the Air #Canada union finally get a contract that pays for all work including when planes aren’t in the air: ‘Most of our passengers have no idea’
Okay #LibreOffice, a huge number of people have tables with headers that they just want to be able to sort in different ways. I've been trying to figure this out for like 20 minutes now. WHY make it so hard???
We don't deliberately "make things hard". We are a community open source project with limited resources. Some people want workflows as they've always been – some people want things to be massively simplified. We try to cater for all users but have our limits. Please consider helping the volunteers that give you a free office suite, to improve the features and documentation you use. Thank you!
@libreoffice of course, thank you for all the hard work. I’m just a bit stumped on this particular issue - which seems relevant to many, many people and is at least five, if not six, years outstanding
We understand, but we can't make features happen by magic, no matter how many people request them. We're a volunteer-driven project with very limited resources. Anyone can step up to help us, or fund developers: documentfoundation.org/certifi… – If just a few people do that, we'll get all these improvements, and more!
LibreOffice Certified Developers LibreOffice Certified Developers are individuals who have proven their ability to master LibreOffice code: to develop new features; provide L3 Support to enterprise users; research and develop solutions to new or unkn…
What's this TS-12 day thing all about, you probably didn't ask?
Well, my first pro keyboard workstation, obtained when I was 16, was a used Ensoniq TS-12, which still had it's original bill-of-sales sticker on the back, from September 04, 1994.
On September 04, 2015, when my TS-12 turned 21, I sequenced this silly thing.
A guy from an Ensoniq dealer demo sample disk says "Hey, check this out!"
A long intro featuring the default sound that comes up when you turn on a newly initialized TS-12, which is called Genesis, with some other pad-like sounds is followed by the TS playing 'Happy Birthday' to itself in various styles using many of the more obvious built-in sounds, several different patch libraries, and the occasional external sample. The TS-12 eventually gets a bit drunk, because it was 21 at the time, and I'm American. After passing out, it is awoken by a fake alarm clock from it's internal wave ROM, which it throws something at from one of the ASR10 stock sample disks. At the end, the original sampled guy says "So, what do you think?"
that's wild. I had a Motif XS7 and I just could never figure out how to use it properly. So once I figured out that Reaper existed and how to properly edit midi, and realized that it took up more space than I had at the time, I sold it. Now when I hear this I know how I'd sequence it in Reaper or even in Ableton, but when I think back to the interface of the Motif I get scared. lol. I have absolutely zero clue how I'd make anything like that happen there. At all.
although to be fair with the music I make, most of my time is usually spent in some synthesizer and effects automating values in strange ways and getting it to scream at me in ways that are only questionably musical.
@talon Oh man... I lived in the Motif pattern sequencer for a long time, first with the original Motif, then the Motif XS, which, along with almost everything else I own, has been in storage for the past half decade. I have a lot of that workflow again with Ableton Move, but of course, it's sound set is much more limited.
I did a ton of junk with the Ensoniq's built-in sequencer, this being a prime example.
One of these days, I will learn how to actually use a DAW the way you're supposed to.
how? Seriously how? I learned so many menus and so many button sequences and I'd forget them, then I'd write them down but somehow I kept messing them up and ruin something... I don't even think I have any menu guides left and I definitely don't remember any of it. I do miss it though a little. Think the person who ended up with it did more with it than I ever would have, so probably better for it, but definitely do miss it.
@talon Mostly, it came from a combination of not having access to a reasonable PC-based sequencer for years after I started really getting interested in this stuff. Even when I had my Motif, the best thing going was Sonar, and I never got on with it. I learned about QWS a bit later, but never really got comfortable using it, either, and I wanted more integration with other stuff. So I just learned menus and button presses and screen layouts for that and a lot of my other outboard gear. I got really good at operating almost every aspect of the TS-12, but I never could quite figure out transwaves. It was way too easy to get lost in those screens attempting to create different events for each step, let alone building complex patterns with the up to six elements per voice (more than the Motif had.)
@RandomDamage Postal Banking is not going to happen. And we don't need ANOTHER form of money the government fully controls.
Stable coins are stable, tend to be backed by things like US treasuries (do you trust our government's bonds or not?), and they're actually regulated:
> S. 1582 would define payment stablecoin as a digital asset issued for payment or settlement and redeemable at a predetermined fixed amount (e.g., $1). Issuers would be required to hold at least one dollar of permitted reserves for every one dollar of stablecoins issued. The bill would limit permitted reserves to coins and currency, deposits held at insured banks and credit unions, short-dated Treasury bills, repurchase agreements ("repos") and reverse repos backed by Treasury bills, government money market funds, central bank reserves, and any other similar government-issued asset approved by regulators. Issuers would be restricted to using reserve assets for certain activities, including to redeem stablecoins and serve as collateral in repos and reverse repos. The bill would require federal and state regulators to issue tailored capital, liquidity, and risk management rules for federal and state stablecoin issuers, but it exempts stablecoin issuers from the regulatory capital standards applied to traditional banks.
@RandomDamage you're really simping for the government aren't you? What a weird fetish. The government is not your friend. It never has been and never will be.
@RandomDamage We need a government but we don't need them controlling our money our they'll do something crazy like put us 37 trillion dollars in debt and constantly devalue our own currency using sneaky methods that harms the 99% but continually fills the coffers of the 1%
It does mean that we need to fix thhe government, though, which isn't going to happen by adding more private interests to help siphon our money out of it
@RandomDamage the government has spent the last 100 years destroying our money and receives no consequences for doing so. But we'll just try harder to fix it next election?
How about we design a system where there ARE consequences for this behavior?
That's an excellent question, but the British proved that adding private interests to government functions is *not* the way to do it
Checks and balances was *supposed* to help, but it relied on the courts and legislature protecting their own power instead of lining up behind the executive
@RandomDamage The sterling pound maintained its purchasing power for 200 years thanks to Sir Isaac Newton and only lost its value when England took extreme measures for World War 1
@RandomDamage They might not have had to take those extreme measures for WW1 but the San Francisco earthquake in 1906 almost wiped out the English banks because nearly all of SF was insured by those banks
the gold standard was very stable. Unfortunately it couldn't grow fast enough to support the economic growth of the 20th Century, which also took out the silver standard.
But private fiat currency is *not* the answer, unless the question is "how do we give those who are already rich a more effective way to siphon money into their pockets?"
@RandomDamage Growth had nothing to do with it. Gold would just increase its purchasing power linearly with the growth of the economy. The money in your pocket would appreciate. This was a good thing.
Silver was always doomed. The Hunt brothers billionaires went bankrupt in the 80s playing a game trying to corner the market on silver but we can mine silver faster than they can buy it
Fist demands spending or risky investment, NOT saving. This is a huge problem. And then we killed pensions and replaced them with 401ks so now the entire stock market is a leech that sucks up a percentage of every American's labor through index funds and distributes it to corporations who do get away with cooking their books and destroying our economy and the workers are promised nothing in return except the dream that maybe something will be there when they get old enough to retire.
But now they want to crank retirement age to like 75 because the scheme is failing
Everything you're supporting is protecting this broken predatory system because you think government can solve it someday
on the other hand, adding private interests is just giving up.
Sure, we might not be able to fix the government, but without the government putting up at least token resistence we'll *never* get out from under The Empire of Chase Bank
no, not if the dollar is backed by something stable. It doesn't matter if Chase Bank can issue stablecoins if those coins purchasing power is backed by something scarce like gold or Bitcoin. This will act as a natural governor and limit their capabilities to act beyond their means.
With Bitcoin or something equivalent, the power to print money is fully removed from the government. It's over. No more government picking winners, no more endless materialist society, no more endless e-waste every year, no more endless wars, no more ICE getting a larger budget than most countries militaries, no more coverage beyond FDIC insurance limits (fucking SilverLake!!!!!), no more bailouts for failed banks or Freddie & Fannie, no more buying stakes in private companies like Intel, no more massive handouts to Israel...
Back to building products that last and companies focused on long term growth.
All of those changes are easily within reach if the government cannot print money and cannot control all the money.
And they'll be FORCED to tax the rich. It's the only way out.
but you *do* understand that any entity able to enforce a particular currency standard is The Government, and that especially under the current circumstances you'd best look for traps before getting too enthusiastic about any proposed solution
And for me, any deal involving cryptocurrency is going to have me burying gold somewhere secure
@RandomDamage You can just convert it before you pay your taxes? People do this all over the world every day working with multiple currencies. What is it about Americans that make them inherently unable to comprehend a multi-currency world ?
@RandomDamage You should trust that private entities will suffer real consequences if they try to cheat the system because nobody will be able to bail them out. That's how it supposed to work. Our current system abandoned those principals at least 40 years ago
@RandomDamage you can't print more Bitcoin. You can't make more gold than exists on the planet. (ignoring that hilarious new experiment the LHC did to convert a tiny bit of lead into gold)
That's how they're held accountable. When they get in too far over their heads, they fail. Nobody can create a trillion dollars out of thin air and give it to them to correct their books so they can pay their debts.
Their investors will NOT be made whole. There are risks to investing. Their customers will also not be made whole beyond something equivalent to the FDIC/NCUA insurance.
Companies and banks will have to earn trust to get customers. Not just their privacy, not just whatever new banking features or financial products they offer. Real trust that they're legit.
@RandomDamage if you want something more direct from the government: they still hold the monopoly on use of force, regardless of whether or not they control the money.
@RandomDamage Listen, I'm not going to convince you otherwise today. Maybe someday it will make more sense. But we're entering a multi-currency world whether or not you like it. So start buying and burying gold. Do what you need to do to protect yourself and your family.
@RandomDamage we're also not really in a multi-currency world as you describe when most currencies are pegged to the USD and their country's treasuries are full of US treasury bonds ...
Vielen Dank für's Teilen der Slides über eine faire Cloud. Als Chat-Alternativen könnte man vielleicht aus verschiedenen Gründen stärkeren Fokus auf #Matrix legen als auf Signal.
"For decades, the phrase “Year of the Linux Desktop” has been tossed around like a tech industry punchline. But now, it’s no longer a meme—it’s a movement.
This isn’t just about numbers—it’s about momentum. GNU/Linux’s desktop share hovered below 2% for years. But since 2020, it’s been climbing fast.
From the lens of @purism this shift is more than market share—it’s a cultural awakening."
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Nejvyšší soud má být garantem jednotného výkladu práva. V řadě oblastí však tuto funkci nezajišťuje, což vede k právní nejistotě. Z pohledu advokáta, který denně sleduje dopady soudních rozhodnutí na klienty, jde o problém, který nelze přehlížet.
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