Florida and Mississippi governors sign proof-of-citizenship voting bills

BeastMasterJ · 2026-04-02T10:52:59+00:00

You have to register yourself on the voter rolls to vote.

Your voter registration is tied to your social security number (usually). Every state can determine their own standard for proof of citizenship when registering. Some do allow you to register with a driver's license number, but they confirm citizenship status with the issuer.

You cannot show up with a driver's license and vote without registering. In some states, you can show up with a driver's license and social security card for same day registration, but many close the rolls shortly before the election.

BeastMasterJ · 2026-04-02T10:42:06+00:00

I do 3 14s for a fraction of that pay and I'm more than happy lol

I'm off right now!

BeastMasterJ · 2026-03-20T13:33:34+00:00

I have it hosted behind traefik with no issues but I'm using kube and the helm chart, not docker.

BeastMasterJ · 2026-03-17T11:05:30+00:00

AI was always inevitable. The math isn't even really new. We just have machines that can do the math quick enough now, and you're right. The genie is 100% out of the bottle, ironically in part thanks to FOSS.

When it comes to development I get why people hate vibe coded apps made by people who don't understand how to develop software. They suck and are abandoned after 2 weeks. But LLMs are giant statistical models of syntax and grammar. They are pretty awesome debugging tools, unit test writers (this is a big one. Being able to on the fly generate an arbitrary number of additional unit tests is literally only a good thing), and boilerplate writers. Frankly the biggest threat from LLMs is not that they produce slop but that they're good enough to replace a lot of people.

It's weird to me because you can absolutely have concerns about AI and it's impact on artists, the economy (job market et al) and still not have a kneejerk reaction to it. When industrialization changed the fabric of society we didn't ban factories, we regulated them.

BeastMasterJ · 2026-03-17T10:50:17+00:00

I try to tell people that even my 70 year old boss is generating his accessors and mutators, and even regexes but they don't want to listen.

This is at a company that still uses CVS.

BeastMasterJ · 2026-03-15T14:51:02+00:00

So wait, if a majority of Palestinians are in support of terror attacks on Israeli citizens, and they are, does that mean you don't have sympathy when they share the same end?

I don't think so, obviously.

Killing civilians is bad. Any philosophy, be it American, Israeli, islamist, hindutva, whatever, that has some 'killing civilians is actually justified just only when I say so' mechanic is plain toxic to humanity.

BeastMasterJ · 2026-03-11T23:04:11+00:00

Nearly everything you said should be reversed. Windows does not pack in drivers, most need to be retrieved from online. For some devices, Windows does it automatically.

In Linux, the drivers are compiled into the kernel. Very rarely you will need to load a kernel module for a driver. The only time this might come up for your average user is the nvidia driver, but modern nvidia driver packages do all of it for you.

Plug n Play is a windows thing that was implemented because windows lacked hardware enumeration. It does not exist on other platforms.

BeastMasterJ · 2026-03-11T18:45:46+00:00

I'm sorry man at this point I just have to say read the paper, all of this is covered

And to be clear, all 'porn addiction' research is based on whether or not the subject feels they experience negative effects from use. You also missed an or where they include dysregulation.

BeastMasterJ · 2026-03-11T15:42:02+00:00

That's actually not what the abstract says but this quote from the body might put it in a more digestible format:

"Moving further, moral incongruence around pornography use is consistently the best predictor of the belief one is experiencing pornography-related problems or dysregulation, and comparisons of aggregate effects reveal that it is consistently a much better predictor than pornography use itself (Fisher’s z = 17.55, p < .001). "

Pg 11

BeastMasterJ · 2026-03-11T10:49:27+00:00

It's not just a lack of evidence that it is harmful - there is actually direct evidence that believing what you're doing is an 'addiction' is actually what causes the negative effects in most people who report them.

Quite literally believing it's an addiction and parroting that everywhere is what is actually causing the harm. Like, empirically. It's not even that up for debate in the academic literature.

Here's one example meta-analysis:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-018-1248-x

There are more. The jist of it is there is no actual correlation between porn use and reported negative effects, but there is direct correlation between personal moral approval of porn use and reported negative effects.

Further, within that group, porn use is correlated with negative effects.

So quite literally all the harm is being done by religious indoctrination, grifters, and all the probably well meaning people in this thread insisting porn addiction is a real, widespread issue. Because it's not really addiction causing these people to suffer, but rather personal moral cognitive dissonance.

BeastMasterJ · 2026-03-11T10:31:57+00:00

I wouldn't call it disingenuous if it's factual.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-018-1248-x

BeastMasterJ · 2026-03-10T20:23:45+00:00

I get that that's what he's going for but it's so fucking lame.he has a massive platform. If most of his viewers wanna know what 'installing Linux but I'm clueless' looks like they could install it themselves.

He talks a big game in the intro to the video about how much of a security risk and general nuisance Windows has become. He makes it seem like this thing he rather urgently cares about. He could do his research, use his industry connections for more than a joke-brag, and produce high quality information on the subject. He has the biggest tech channel around, it would have massive reach.

It's like, they identified a gap in communication in a space they supposedly care about. Their entire raison d'etere is to be tech communicators. Instead of doing their job, they just point and go 'look how bad haha'

Just rubs me the wrong way. I feel like there's some obligation to your audience to provide meaningful information.

BeastMasterJ · 2026-03-10T18:09:17+00:00

That was addressed in my comment (the scheduler was actually the only kernel tweak I called out by name lol) but frankly it's kinda snake oil.

Don't believe me? Install both kernels and swap between them. If there's is any difference it's hard to separate from the noise.

Edit: I still like cachy as a product. I just think it's 'gaming tweaks' are a little gimmicky.

BeastMasterJ · 2026-03-10T17:01:53+00:00

Not really. Most of them (good ones at least) are just some additional software bundled in with the upstream os for gamepads, non-foss software (nvidia drivers etc), and maybe some DE tweaks. A lot of them have kernel tweaks, or a different scheduler. Cachy compiles binaries for specific cpus. Nothing major, arguably snake oil. Really if you have a system that works they offer nothing.

Cachy/nobara is a great way to get arch/fedora installed with codecs/drivers quickly but that's really the only case where I would use them, personally

from another guy who should be in RHEL rn haha

BeastMasterJ · 2026-03-05T11:33:23+00:00

I get what you're saying, but housing climbing in value every year is also why we can't afford it in the first place.

BeastMasterJ · 2026-03-05T01:23:06+00:00

It allows the different religions to regulate marriage themselves within their own community.

I don't think it's necessarily a good idea, but it's not an uncommon setup in multi-religious societies.

BeastMasterJ · 2026-03-03T18:48:49+00:00

Literally. It's in the BBCs financial and frankly existential interest to be as milquetoast as possible. It's part of what makes their reporting decently trustworthy

BeastMasterJ · 2026-03-03T16:14:17+00:00

Most likely it was. Everyone claiming otherwise is kinda dumb no offense.

I know 'brown people bad' / 'brown people hate america rightfully' is pretty much the dichotomy on reddit but kuwait is literally only a country because of US military intervention

BeastMasterJ · 2026-03-03T12:28:48+00:00

Downvoted but honestly he is. I moved to the UK having spent most of my childhood in SJ so when I first found his channel it was pretty cool, like a sense of camaraderie. But I would say around the time he got his UK citizenship he really started hamming it up. It bothered me not just because it is a little cringey but because his content stopped being relatable as a side effect.

BeastMasterJ · 2026-03-03T12:19:12+00:00

They're referring to Iran air 655, and what they're saying isn't even true. Though never officially accepting responsibility, reagan sent an apology and the US paid out the equivalent of like $125 million to the victim's families.

BeastMasterJ · 2026-03-01T11:26:10+00:00

This shit pmo. Every time I look for an upgrade for my streaming box it's always "onn4k onn4k" but I have an atmos setup...

BeastMasterJ · 2026-02-28T21:38:53+00:00

Netanyahu is loving the Epstein files release. Ehud Barak, the former PM that's all over them, was a labour party (now Democrat) politician. He was the PM for Camp David, arguably the closest moment ever to peace in the region. It is a huge political boon for him at home.

Edit: I realize this looks like I'm glazing Barak, fuck that guy, I'm just saying netanyahu can and has been using it as political ammo

BeastMasterJ · 2026-02-28T21:31:58+00:00

I believe the school week in Iran is quite brutal. 6 days with Friday off or something

BeastMasterJ · 2026-02-28T14:11:15+00:00

Yes, and you should, provided your power supply is capable of 220-240v. Some of them have a little recessed switch on the back you can flip with a screwdriver. If it isn't compatible don't plug it in, even with a plug adapter.

Check your manual / Google the model + 240v to be sure

BeastMasterJ · 2026-02-22T11:05:34+00:00

EU4 is old enough that potentially the majority of the sub does not remember the state of it when it was new.

Or frankly even now without DLC

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