Internet was dropping packets like crazy (up to 50% packet loss). My ISP's tier-1 tech support didn't even know what the ping tool was.
I've worked tech support for a telco before, I know what the quality of the training is like because of the ridiculous turnover, so I get it, but geez...
Fortunately, it's all been resolved now.
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tho, for situational awareness, the fash have been known to put razorblades and other harmful objects behind their posters.
Please exercise caution and wear PPE if you engage in this activity.
razorblades were discovered behind fash posters at a station just outside London a few weeks ago (a lot of fash are also "tradmasc" types so may be buying the blades anyway for the "grandad" safety razors they like using)
There are also various scrapers you can get cheaply (sold for removing stickers from car windscreens) which can be used to attack suspect stickers without putting yourself in danger..
@vfrmedia This is good to know, because I haven't seen any nasty stuff like this yet, but I'd probably reach out with my bare hands if I hadn't just been warned. 😅
Incidentally, I'm super lefty and I use an old steel "mid-century" razor with double-sided blades myself, a choice I made some years back to avoid putting all those plastic disposables into the landfill. 🪒
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I'm so fucking sick of these attacks on human rights.
I propose the following course of action:
We pick a specific target and trash its value.
- Do whatever we can to make it lose money, customers, resources, employees, reputation.
- Do our best to make it toxic waste that investors won't touch.
- We make it easy for anyone to join the carnage.
- We keep hammering it until it dies or we get protections
Then we collectively pick another target and do it again.
And again.
Until the dying screams of US corporations reach the ears of those with the power to call off the attacks on women, minorities, LGBTQ+ people, disabled people, and everyone else this administration is going after.
When they stop, we stop, negotiate, and stand ready to start again if they don't follow through.
I suggest Tesla be the first to burn.
electrek.co/2025/02/13/tesla-t…
#ResistEverywhere #CitizenSabotage #HumanRights #USPol #FuckCapitalism #FuckFascism #EatTheRich
Tesla Takeover: protests planned at Tesla stores globally this weekend
Tesla is being targeted by protests organized at its stores around the globe. The demonstrations planned for this Saturday appear...Fred Lambert (Electrek)
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Tesla Owners Receiving Threats That If They Don't Sell Their Cars, They'll Be Vandalized
A recent vandalism threat in California underscores the growing stigma facing those who've purchase Elon Musk's products.Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
Stickers that says: Swasticar
(Not my invention! But I think it's a very good idea.) Make them easily removable so you can't be held liable for damage. But have so you can do it again, and again, and again, and again.
@alice @punissuer @lednaBM
Dear @Benny,
We have provided you with many cat toys that you may play with any time you like.
My razor is not one of them.
Benny doesn't like this.
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Woo hoo!
I jusy fixed a seam that was going in one of the pairs of sweatpants I wear for bumming around the apartment.
Was it a neatly done fix? No.
Will anyone ever see it though? Also no.
Hoping to keep working on stupid little stuff like this with the sewing machine to build up my confidence/skill to be able to tackle stuff that actually matters if it's done well.
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Been looking for an alternative to Google Maps. Organic Maps (OpenStreetMap) is great, but it doesn't know the bus routes in my city.
I remembered that the GRT (local transit) website had a trip planner that I used to use in the pre-Google days. Decided to give that a go again.
Turns out they're just using Google Maps now. Understandable, but disappointing.
The Transit app is good, and while closed source is Canadian.
Transit - the best app for buses and trains
The world's most accurate transit app. Never miss a bus or train again on our 600+ supported cities, including New York, Paris, London, Montreal and moretransitapp.com
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If you’re in #Ontario make sure you register to vote or you won’t get your voters card in the mail apparently.
F*ck off Doug Ford.
Edit: Multiple areas of the elections ON website say registered voters need to confirm to get their ballot. Unsure if it’s legit or if it’s poor marketing materials. I know it’s not Fords fault exactly, but I’m choosing to blame him. He called this snap election lol.
Edit 2: thanks to @CStamp we now know it’s poor marketing.
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I have acquired what I believe to be a high-quality hand-me-down sewing machine from my mother-in-law. Now, apart from thread and fabric I only need to have one more thing...
...any idea whatsoever how to use it.
“We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.” Harvard Library Innovation Lab (via BlueSky)
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Also, do lists in #Python seriously not have a .map function?
Edit: Ohhh... I expected it to be a method on the list object itself.
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Python map() function
The map() function is used to apply a given function to every item of an iterable, such as a list or tuple, and returns a map object (which is an iterator). Let's start with a simple example of using map() to convert a list of strings into a list ofGeeksforGeeks
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@flyingsquirrel Yup. And there's a multiprocessing version which can be useful if you're doing a very large csv but you probably want imap() for that one.
docs.python.org/3/library/mult…
multiprocessing — Process-based parallelism
Source code: Lib/multiprocessing/ Availability: not Android, not iOS, not WASI. This module is not supported on mobile platforms or WebAssembly platforms. Introduction: multiprocessing is a package...Python documentation
If you're looking for a function that applies another function to each element of a list and aggregates the results, it'd typically be done with a list comprehension:
[your_function(item) for item in your_list]
But you can also use list(map(your_function, your_list)) if you want. Basically, it's a built-in function rather than a method of the list class.
There's also a whole discussion to be had about lists vs generators and why you often wouldn't even need to make a list in the first place, but I won't get into that unless you want to know more.
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It should come as no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention that I've grown disillusioned with capitalism over the past several years. What's interesting to me though is that any time I express this publicly, there are no shortage of capitalists who falsely assert that I am claiming that communism is the ultimate solution to everything. This is a false dichotomy.
I am not saying I have the answers to the world's problems. I just have eyes to see that the emperor has no clothes.
Edit: typo
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6 lines free for anyone that wants to play on this PDP-11/70 running Version 7 UNIX.
ssh misspiggy@tty.livingcomputers.org
Drop in "com" to have messages displayed on the terminals.
#retrocomputing #unix #vintage
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Hey #Unix folks recommend me your favorite games that can run in the terminal that aren't:
1) the most basic boring arcade stuff like snake or missile command
2) roguelikes/dungeon crawlers (love em but there's no lack of those)
3) chess, backgammon, etc., more meaty board games sure but there's already a million easy to find ways to play chess in a terminal
edit: 4) IF, I know where to find plenty of that, forgot this one
This is for my machine with no gui so when I say terminal I mean terminal not just like "text based and looks like it'd be in a terminal maybe".
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are you certain? It could last I checked!
[PRINT_MODE:TEXT] in data/init/init.txt
@via unreachable I didn't have an init folder under data. I added it and got the following when I launched it, I got the following error:
Display not found and PRINT_MODE not set to TEXT, aborting.
@me it looks like Debian moved stuff around; try editing /usr/share/games/dwarf-fortress/gamedata/data/init/init.txt
Change [PRINT_MODE:2D] to [PRINT_MODE:TEXT], and you should get curses output.
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Tech: Your connection seems fine on my end.
Me: It can't be. I'm getting about 25-50% packet loss.
Tech: How do you know that?
Me: The ping tool.
Tech: What's that?
After a long pause, my response was "a very basic network diagnostic tool." That came across more condescendingly than I had intended, but I couldn't come up with a better way of saying it.
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