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Submission + - Let me get that for you donnie/elon (axios.com)

See Attached writes: Here is the SQL statement template that will tell us how much money you are saving us. Not the number of bad records for the population :

SELECT
        p.id,
        p.name,
        SUM(pay.amount) AS total_payments
FROM people p
JOIN payments pay ON p.id = pay.person_id
WHERE TIMESTAMPDIFF(YEAR, p.birthdate, CURDATE()) BETWEEN 140 AND 150
GROUP BY p.id, p.name;

You could fix those records by finding their death date or confuse us into thinking old means collecting. Red and blue alike don't want to pay benefits to dead people. Cut the deception. Prosecute the miscreants and yes publish these facts. Not just "red meat" implying Democrats approve of paying benefits to the dead.

Comment Re:What we really need is (Score 1) 85

Our species has made the decision to ignore the scientists and pretend that AGW doesnt exist.

Nonsense. We didn't make that decision as a species. A vanishingly small percentage of our species, comprising a combination of billionaires and of CEOs in control of the fossil fuel industries, are the ones making that decision.

The vast majority of those of us who are well-informed about the issue are desperately trying to prevent, or at least mitigate, the damage, but fighting efforts backed by such obscene accumulations of wealth is proving to be a sisyphean task.

Comment I've played with it a bit, but not at work. (Score 1) 65

At my Toastmasters club, one of our long-time members used ChatGPT to produce a speech about ChatGPT, and when I got home from the meeting, I played around with it for an hour or so. Results were fairly impressive, but to actually use the results, they would still needed heavy editing to strengthen the speech.

I'd consider using it to generate a first draft, but then I'd want to enhance and personalize the results before actually presenting it at a meeting.

Comment Re:To sequester CO2 (Score 1) 175

https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

Cheap solar power to separate the C from the O2, then put the C back in the ground.

Install the bioreactor at the site where you'll be stashing the C, and you don't have transportation costs.

Power the burial equipment with solar.

We can react to problems by giving up and declaring it impossible, or we can react by working to solve them. Giving up in despair is not a viable solution.

Comment Re:God no (Score 1) 175

I rather euthanize the multi billionairs.

Euthanizing them is a lazy approach. I'd rather subject them to a far more heinous punishment: take away their political power by severely reducing their wealth and thereby turning them into mere millionaires.

Pathological billionaires would prefer death, rather than suffering the indignity of becoming millionaires.

A wealth tax on accumulations larger than $X million may do the trick, for some negotiable value of X.

Comment Scammers can DIAF (Score 1) 147

Scammers can go die in a fire.

My phone numbers are on the do not call list. I get robocalls all the time; when I pick up these calls I tell them I'm on the do not call list so I know they're low life scammers (to which rather than disconnecting they start cussing me out, proving my accusation to be true) and invite them to consume copious amounts of strychnine, because suicide is far more honorable than being a fucking scammer and they'll be doing humanity a favor. Alternatively I'll play along and then after a bit I tell them I know they're scammers and while I've kept them tied up in a conversation I've kept them from scamming suckers. Another approach is to read Trumpster/Deplorable racist rants (based on their accent) I have bookmarked, hoping to demoralize them. Blocking their numbers doesn't work due to CID spoofing.

CID spoofing has become a big problem because it's trivially easy (in fact you can do it on most (all?) smartphones). I occasionally get calls from people claiming I called them marketing crap, so obviously someone used my phone # in their CID spoofing. No, I didn't call them. I tell them about caller ID spoofing and how it works but they are usually unconvinced. I end up blocking their numbers so I don't get repeated calls from people who choose to remain aggressively stupid.

Submission + - Dropbox is dropping Linux after 11 years (dropboxforum.com)

rokahasch writes: Starting today, 10th of August, most users of the Dropbox desktop app on Linux have been receiving notifications that their Dropbox will stop syncing starting November.

Over at the Dropbox forums, Dropbox have declared that the only Linux filesystem supported for storage of the Dropbox sync folder starting the 7th of November, will be on a clean EXT4 fs.

This basically means Dropbox drops Linux support completely, as almost all Linux distributions have other file systems as their standard installation defaults nowadays — not to mention encryption running on top of even an EXT4 file system which won't qualify as a clean EXT4 fs for Dropbox (such as ecryptfs which is the default in for example Ubuntu for encrypted home folders).

The thread is trending heavily on Dropbox' forums with the forum's most views since the thread started earlier today. The cries from a large amount of Linux users have so far remained unanswered from Dropbox, with most users finding the explanation given for this change unconvincing. The explanation given so far is that Dropbox requires a fs with support for Extended attributes/Xattrs. Extended attributes however are supported by all major Linux/Posix complaint file systems.

Dropbox have up until today supported Linux platforms since their services began back in 2007.

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