How do I know this is his form? Nowhere on the page does it indicate the author.

You only provided his Wikipedia profile and a random YouTube video.

Respectfully, this goes against every guidance against sharing your PII on the internet.

Ahh, yes, the 'ol rando sketchy Google Form. Democracy as the founders intended.

I think this discounts the potential impacts partisan gerrymandering had on promoting the blue wave and potentially discouraging Republican voters.

Gerrymandering is incredibly unpopular, regardless of party. When Republican leaders shouted from the rooftops “We don’t think we can win a fair election, so we’re gonna cheat!” They helped fire up Democrats and turned off Republicans.

They also triggered counter-redistricting efforts in states like California with traditionally fair election maps.

Their new maps may have been effective in a vacuum, but realistically, I suspect that move did more harm than good.

GrapheneOS is a smooth, easy upgrade from stock firmware, with little to no issue.

There’s the occasional bug that comes up, usually associated with certain GAPPS not liking their sandboxing. Recently, RCS has gone down like twice in the last year due to tweaks on Google’s end that GOS sorted relatively quickly.

Personally, I’m less concerned with the security, and more concerned with the privacy. It is nice to completely deprive apps of network access, and set up secondary profiles that have no background permissions to house… peskier apps.

With permissions dialed in, my phone is smoother and the battery lasts longer than it did on stock firmware because I can more easily lock apps down.

Claude told me it’s not necessary, the code has been thoroughly reviewed and has no errors, as instructed.

It’s not the info we need, it’s the info we deserve.

Here’s a hint - anyone who thinks a baseless investigation is an effective threat probably has a lot of things they’re hiding

I’m really glad Microsoft did all that work turning Outlook into a live service web wrapper that can’t function offline because now when they do something stupid I basically get the day off.

Keep fucking up Microsoft.

Why bother when slop already exists in the zeitgeist?

Adding some thought to this, it would be great to be able to view scheduled posts on the “me” page with a button right next to “Posts” and “Comments” that says “Scheduled”, replacing “Account Age” and taking you right to a page like this: https://piefed.zip/scheduled_posts (replace .zip with your PieFed instance)

Additionally, when scheduling a post through the post workflow, it would be amazing to display the time of the “Next” and “Last” (non–recurring) scheduled post for those with several posts in the queue

LITERALLY

Thankfully, I haven’t noticed excessive farting in Archie. But I still have questions. Is my cat farting more or less than a small dog, say, a Chihuahua? What do cat farts usually smell like? And at what point is some farting too much farting?

Jackie Flynn Mogensen is a breaking news reporter at Scientific American. Before joining SciAm, she was a science reporter at Mother Jones, where she received a National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications in 2024. Mogensen holds a master’s degree in environmental communication and a bachelor’s degree in earth sciences from Stanford University. She is based in New York City.

It’s also why I’m excited about the Steam Machine despite not actually owning or wanting one. It gives a consistent benchmark upon which game developers can be judged, and hopefully further encourages Linux support.

If reviewers start consistently referencing Steam Machine performance, it’ll give developers something to optimize for instead of just optimizing for the latest, fastest hardware.

The numbering is weird, there aren’t actually 50 Propositions because you need a certain number of signatures to get something onto the ballots. Only like 10 Propositions actually make it onto the ballot each year.

Everyone is eligible to receive a mailer that contains the full wording of the proposition, a couple of pages summary with complete “for” and “against” arguments (and rebuttals), as well as a ~2 paragraph summary from a coalition of folks representing the “for” and “against” campaigns.

On top of that, outside groups like DSA provide “Voter guides” like the above, that you can independently research.

The ballot itself just has a title. You are not required to read anything to vote, but I’d wager most folks just read the official “for” and “against” blurbs and form an opinion.

ETA: You can see the official voter guides here, just scroll to the PDFs and choose your preferred language.

To be honest and blunt, the quick reference opposition arguments were quite weak, which is likely what carried this proposition over the line.

Docker helps with software compatibility, SBCs with hardware.

Communities are not legal institutions. The rules are suggestions to keep the community organized and on subject.

Just because a rule doesn’t exist, doesn’t mean mods are powerless to react to content that breaks the social order.

Not everything needs a rule unless it’s a significant problem or common misunderstanding.

The advantage of SBCs aren’t just the price, it’s the uniformity. Before SBCs made it on the scene, the default response when something doesn’t work was either:

“Well, it works on my 12-year-old Thinkpad”

Or

“Your system sucks, just buy better hardware”

Now there’s a consistent system to build compatibility for and benchmark against that can help the most people, allowing devs to spend time on things other than hardware, and allowing a “how-to” community to flourish, bringing new users into the fold.

Please let Hegseth be the GOP nominee, dude is practically radioactive for abusing troops and being a key player of the economic nightmare we find ourselves in.

That endorsement from the Michael J Fox Foundation carried a lot of weight, it seems.

https://www.californiadsa.org/voterguide#propositions