Three-letter words that can be typed with one hand, since I have to type them frequently.
$ egrep "^([qwertasdfgzxcvb]{3}|[yuiophjkllnm]{3})$" /usr/share/dict/wordstal
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Well, in Zelenskyy's defense, I don't think that anything he'd have done differently would have likely substantively have altered the outcome.
In the past, there have been some pretty unpleasant regressions.
My own home instance, lemmy.today, had some time where it was more-or-less unusable, because every release for a while had some new regression. The lemmy.world guys were a lot more conservative, just backported some critical fixes and waited for a while after each new release to wait and see if problems showed up. They didn't crash into the regressions.
Granted, some of this could probably be picked up by better automated testing. But to some extent, I think that for at least big instances, it's good to hold off, wait, and see if a new release has a bunch of issues.
Also, my understanding is that at least for some (all?) past updates, there's no downgrade path. Once you upgrade, you're committed.
Maybe you can back up the instances and restore them, but I suspect that that may break state across instances, since you'd get instances with conflicting views of what's on an instance.
I'm not familiar with Berlusconi's domestic politics, but I do recall people saying during Trump's first campaign that he was similar to Berlusconi.
One of the things that concerns me about Trump is that his politicking strategy may be an effective one in an era of social media. If that is true, it may be that other politicians will take it up.
Trump is done in four years. But having highly-misleading-but-attention-attracting narratives can live on for a very long time, absent a change in the media environment.
The UK also said that it'd send a "peacekeeping" force -- I use the quotes here, because that's the phrase they used, though it wouldn't really fit the technical definition of a peacekeeping mission -- but only if the US backstopped it...but the US has already said that it won't backstop European forces in Ukraine, so it's kind of not much of a commitment. I was watching a video on YouTube of someone hammering a British defense official...maybe John Healey? about that point. He kind of kept sidestepping the question.
And I've seen a lot of discussion in European news and discussion that seems to be less about Ukraine -- a near-term concern -- and more about how this impacts Europe on a much-longer-timeframe, like talking about reinvigorating defense industry, which doesn't make me incredibly hopeful that the top priority here is Ukraine.
John Mearsheimer had some recent video that was completely dismissive of Europe, said that the UK and France are definitely not going to send any forces into Ukraine. He's always been pretty negative on Ukraine, but it was another datapoint.
Michel Kofman said recently that Europe does have the ability to draw a line in Ukraine. I think that the real question is political will. This would require decisive movement in a limited time window.
Google and Apple and others already do that ad hoc, using signal strength from Bluetooth and WiFi beacons. Can contribute to that by just setting up a wireless access point or several near where you want more signal. Doesn't even need to be Internet-connected.
This doesn't sound like it's really a new proposal:
Though variants of the proposal have been discussed without making progress since Russia launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a fresh version of the plan has gained renewed impetus this week after Zelenskyy’s acrimonious meeting with US president Donald Trump on Friday.
So it's already been discussed. I don't know how much weight to ascribe to "renewed impetus". It doesn't sound like there's yet a commitment.
That being said, it certainly beats there not being a "renewed impetus". It could potentially develop into something real.
But at this stage, I don't think that it's yet over that hump.
Well, that's a pleasant piece of news among a number of not-so-pleasant news items.
Reddit will now issue warnings to users who “upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies” within “a certain timeframe,” starting first with violent content, the company announced on Wednesday.
Hmm. What does this pertain to?
kagis
https://www.theverge.com/news/606904/reddit-rules-bans-violence-doxing-elon-musk-doge
Reddit has seen an increase in rule-breaking posts across “several communities,” and it has issued a temporary ban on one that featured users calling for violence against people who work for the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
That community, r/WhitePeopleTwitter, was given a 72-hour ban on Tuesday, as reported by Engadget. Screenshots shared on X show multiple examples of the threatening posts. Musk later reposted the screenshots, claiming that the users have “broken the law.”
In a note on the subreddit, Reddit says it was banned “due to a prevalence of violent content” and that “inciting and glorifying violence or doxing” violate Reddit’s rules. An unnamed Reddit admin said the ban was meant to be a “cooling-off period” for the community.
Reddit also gave a full ban to a subreddit called r/IsElonDeadYet for violating rules “against posting violent content.” The unnamed admin said Reddit is taking steps “to ensure all communities can provide a safe environment for healthy conversation” in a post on r/RedditSafety.
Ah.
Wick posted the code for a tool that automatically downloads DMs from Twitter accounts. The code specifies Twitter accounts, which existed only until the social platform rebranded to “X” in October 2023, suggesting the possibility that the tool could be used to search through the digital past of government employees looking for disagreeable opinions or references.
Another tool appeared to be designed for collecting sensitive data from government agency org charts. The tool contained fields for capturing the employee’s office, a 1-5 satisfaction rating, union status, and whether or not their position is statutorily mandated.
Well, that's interesting. The guys who are determining who to lay off are apparently using union status as an input.
Is the Executive Branch taking someone's union status into account in making a firing decision legal? I'm pretty sure that it's not for private business.
Discriminating against employees because of their union activities or sympathies (Section 8(a)(3))
It is unlawful to discourage (or encourage) union activities or sympathies "by discrimination in regard to hire or tenure of employment or any term or condition of employment." For example, employers may not discharge, lay off, or discipline employees, or refuse to hire job applicants, because they are pro-union.
I believe that that also applies to government. That seems like it might be some pretty juicy meat for the public sector union lawyers to work with.
Poor "kryx".