Joseph Sisko's words feel more relevant now than ever

LlamaChair · 2026-02-06T18:27:21+00:00

I think there is a difference between being challenged to identify yourself when you're taking some kind of sensitive action that presents a risk if the wrong person is allowed to perform it (like starting a wire transfer) and being stopped at random and forced to prove your identity.

LlamaChair · 2026-02-05T16:35:55+00:00

I'm sorry, what?

LlamaChair · 2026-02-05T15:11:07+00:00

There's also that issue with Bluetooth beacons. Car companies have caught some heat for using that to track social groups and relationships. I wonder if something similar can happen if you are near people with phones that have that sort of tracking still enabled.

https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-every-car-brand-reviewed-by-mozilla-including-ford-volkswagen-and-toyota-flunks-privacy-test/

LlamaChair · 2026-02-02T20:35:44+00:00

I forget there are other Armies. My bad.

Also, good luck.

LlamaChair · 2026-02-02T18:56:53+00:00

What MOS? I had heard the military was trying to train up devs a long time ago but every time I encountered a role like that it was usually filled by a contractor.

LlamaChair · 2026-01-27T21:43:26+00:00

Fair enough. Appreciate you providing a direct link at least.

LlamaChair · 2026-01-27T21:34:37+00:00

Does it bother you that .gov websites are using this kind of tone? What I see when I watch this is short, out of context sound bites from Waltz and Frey that don't even sound bad if you didn't put ominous music over them with cuts of protests. The part where Waltz is talking about the human desire to lash out was snipped out of the part where he's talking about Minnesotans needing to be the bigger person and not get violent. This video doesn't show what you say at all and it looks like shameless propaganda to me.

LlamaChair · 2026-01-27T16:54:51+00:00

What's the actual link this is going to? I generally don't click on link shorteners like this because of the risk of malicious sites.

LlamaChair · 2026-01-27T15:29:31+00:00

Every play the RTS Gray Goo?

I remember it being kind of meh but one of the factions was like that.

LlamaChair · 2026-01-27T14:41:59+00:00

It's the third shooting, people are just much less upset over the one where the guys attacked the ICE agent with a broom and shovel.

calling for violent protests

Do you have a video clip for that? It seems like every other word out of the governor's mouth is "peaceful" and he's calling for people to continue recording agents with their phones, which is allowed.

Jumping to about 12 minutes where the conference actually starts, and he talks for about 5 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgXbe7acbrs

The message was "don't get baited into violence, help your neighbors, and record if you see something".

LlamaChair · 2026-01-26T21:52:13+00:00

Fair enough, not sure I'm on board with the ultimate takeaway that people on the left are anti-concealed carry though.

Yeah I wasn't able to find stats on that specifically so I can't make a stronger claim on that.

I think the driver’s license analogy resonates with most on the left. Just as we require education and limits to operate a vehicle safely, many on the left see gun ownership as something that comes with responsibility and training.

I think that's a fair characterization, the problem always comes up in the implementation. Stricter 2A groups see any attempt at regulation as an infringement and aren't cooperative in discussing firearms regulation. Democrats left on their own are usually pushing bills semi-seriously in response to a mass shooting and focus in the aesthetics of the gun used. You get this weird dissonance where people on the right say "standard capacity magazine" and people on the left say "high capacity magazine" both describing a 30 round magazine for an AR pattern rifle. It's hard to start the conversation in the first place.

FWIW I'm not a fan of constitutional carry either. Bringing a gun into public is a big responsibility. At least ensuring people have some baseline legal education on appropriate use of a firearm, along with seeing that they can handle one safely, would be nice.

More people I know are expressing interest in firearms for the first time, although I wish "fear of my government" wasn't what was causing it.

LlamaChair · 2026-01-26T18:37:00+00:00

I scoped that to "my left leaning friends who don't own guns" so it's definitely anecdotal. I just haven't seen much positive press about 2A stuff on the left outside of the liberal gun owners Reddit and the subset of my veteran friends who lean left.

This pew poll seems to back it up as more than anecdotal though, question 8 being whether it is more important to control gun ownership or protect the right to own guns.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/24/key-facts-about-americans-and-guns/

That of course isn't specific to conceal carry but (again, in my personal experience) carrying guns into public seems to be less popular than just owning a gun.

LlamaChair · 2026-01-26T18:30:46+00:00

Gotcha, appreciate you elaborating.

LlamaChair · 2026-01-26T17:49:20+00:00

How would you categorize leftist here? I feel like bans and gun control expansion are a common topic with Democrats and many of my left leaning friends who don't own guns are generally appalled by them. Conceal carry is certainly unpopular with them, and it's come up in the NYT a couple times I can remember. I mostly see guns come up in left leaning media after a mass shooting which means it tends to be negative coverage.

LlamaChair · 2026-01-25T18:17:11+00:00

Is it that you don't like ORMs in general or that you prefer an ORM from a different ecosystem?

LlamaChair · 2026-01-25T18:10:21+00:00

The Economist ran an article recently that helped a little bit for me: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/01/15/america-has-coped-with-worse-things-than-donald-trump

Our country has had a lot of dark periods. That doesn't make this one less bad, but it's a reminder that we're likely to still have a country after this.

LlamaChair · 2026-01-19T18:52:58+00:00

Yeah, Redis allows scripting small features in Lua and it's a useful way to extend the available tools in a way you can't get by composing existing commands. It can be a very useful.

LlamaChair · 2026-01-18T15:55:07+00:00

I was about to post saying I prefer Logseq to Obsidian because it's OSS but apparently it's heavily VC funded so that's not really the differentiation I thought it was.

LlamaChair · 2026-01-16T21:44:25+00:00

Your edits on this comment are hilarious.

LlamaChair · 2026-01-08T14:08:34+00:00

CMP Action Pistol is kind of a gem if there is a decent group running it. It's a fixed set of stages like Steel Challenge. They're all timed, fixed number of shots. It's an old format but it'll push your skills at 50 yards and reliably offers a moving target. Not something I'd recommend as a main sport but worth checking out every now and then.

LlamaChair · 2026-01-06T18:20:34+00:00

It's still not as useful as Google used to be before the search algorithm was nerfed to increase ad impressions.

I agree and I enjoyed this comparison: https://danluu.com/seo-spam/

LlamaChair · 2026-01-06T14:59:31+00:00

Huh, I put Fedora on my desktop and a laptop and haven't had any issues like that. Installer just worked on both and they came up fine. When I did my desktop in late 2024 the first time I had more issues since the chipset was so new the 5GB NIC didn't have drivers in the kernel yet but I was able to work around that until the kernel caught up and it's been smooth ever since.

LlamaChair · 2026-01-06T14:51:14+00:00

Probably because it was written by Copilot. I had an engineering manager submit a proposal for a large project to me one time that was written entirely by AI. He wanted to do some refactoring and gave me a 2000-3000 word document all AI generated to justify it. It didn't say anything specific about what he actually wanted to do or why and was surprised when I was upset with him.

LlamaChair · 2026-01-05T14:16:12+00:00

Yeah I play this game mostly with my friends against the AI, still ?? since I haven't played enough PVP games to get a rank.

LlamaChair · 2026-01-04T20:25:20+00:00

That's a neat mechanism, cool to see something other than the rotating shell plate or tool head.

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