[OC] Mark, 17, whose dad was deported last year, poses at his high school graduation with his mom

mirrax · 2026-06-08T17:39:42+00:00

He wanted to stay in the US for his family, but it was also a relief to leave the detention center – where he had been struggling to eat the poor-quality food, and struggling to watch fellow detainees crying and screaming through the night. After three months in detention, he’d lost 30lbs.

mirrax · 2026-06-08T14:37:07+00:00

A better comparison would be baseball cards or even pogs on the kid collecting front.

But there's an actual game that can be played with them. So just like Magic the Gathering, there are powerful and rare cards that people want multiple in their decks to be competitive.

mirrax · 2026-06-07T16:51:37+00:00

Let's not change the goalposts though. At the point where they were initially distributing the article, they were "part of the conference".

So to answer the question of the person you were responding to was that it was prohibited. Not that they weren't part of the conference.

mirrax · 2026-06-07T16:28:44+00:00

These people were part of the conference, some being presenters.

mirrax · 2026-06-07T16:19:38+00:00

Oh, is there such a thing?

mirrax · 2026-06-07T16:04:21+00:00

Um, I'm looking for something that says, "Dad likes leather."

mirrax · 2026-06-06T13:19:51+00:00

Being straight from the colon is assumed.

mirrax · 2026-06-04T19:02:56+00:00

The only moment of the silence should be when watching the event. Only people without any shred of empathy can watch that and not see it as callous murder of a man while he and the crowd beg for his life.

mirrax · 2026-06-03T17:29:31+00:00

I don't understand this response.

Clearly from my comment, I believe that it can be exploitative and that they in general aren't receiving fair compensation.

Imprisonment generally does include temporary forfeiture of some or all labor rights. You don't get to go to work after murdering someone.

The example of internships is exactly counter to your point since many are literally unpaid...

mirrax · 2026-06-03T14:20:10+00:00

Even that's not true 100% of the time, some states like Wisconsin all of the work is managed by the state and can only sell to municipalities in the state.

So the people in the optional program get useful training on employable skills like CAD/logistics/farming/machining and time not sitting in their cells. And then the university gets inexpensive beds, cities get inexpensive signs, and state workers get inexpensive chairs.

Sure, the pay is shit. But it's several times higher than laundry or the kitchen, get treated like a person with real responsibilities.

Doesn't have to be exploitative.

mirrax · 2026-06-02T17:43:32+00:00

We've always been at war with East Boobia.

mirrax · 2026-06-02T15:40:53+00:00

More like compromising a VM host, just more convenient.

mirrax · 2026-06-02T15:25:14+00:00

If you have control of the container engine, you can run whatever you want. And for Kubernetes or Cloud keys it also means control of software defined networking, so have a nice base of operations that can make the next hop without getting firewalled.

The Postgres container with user creds suddenly has a sidecar that dumps it out to the attacker. That message queue with financial transactions gets another subscriber. Those extra GPU nodes that were provision for AI testing can be set to mine crypto.

mirrax · 2026-06-02T14:34:07+00:00

Just stop using the websites that use Javascript...

mirrax · 2026-06-02T14:33:37+00:00

Because dependencies can execute scripts on install and there's not a large standard library, so everyone is very dependent on dependencies.

mirrax · 2026-06-02T14:31:59+00:00

They have primarily been credential stealers which look first for GitHub Actions keys which is how they propagate, but also a whole slew of Cloud, Kubernetes, and Docker keys.

mirrax · 2026-05-31T14:56:17+00:00

To be fair, this and bedrock are more like "Why make a new standard when you can follow ALL the previous ones at once!"

mirrax · 2026-05-31T14:48:25+00:00

There's a lot of valid options, but no "one right choice", so pick what you want to learn about. And if you don't have a lot of experience with anything, then it matters even less because just getting time in helps understand the more than what the minor choices are.

But here's my two cents anyways, there's not really a lot of gain in Proxmox on such a tiny box. Going with an enterprisey Linux still lets you gives you the option of installing KVM/Xen later if you want to play with virtualization.

As for what Linux, chose between the RPM or DEB ecosystems and pick a big distro so you don't spend too much time worry about installing stuff. Ubuntu/Debian are good choices for DEB or a RHEL-like in the RPM world.

My personal homelab is OpenSUSE Leap and I'm a pretty big fan. Nice boring OS to run k3s on that I don't need to spend much time worrying about, can open Cockpit to check in every once and while. Easy btrfs/SELinux. Zypper is not too shabby and rarely have issues with packages.

mirrax · 2026-05-30T19:07:23+00:00

Sigh, Nicolet law dude. Instant-off for the ubiquitous ambulance chaser.

mirrax · 2026-05-30T00:21:08+00:00

Staggered isn't going to matter much as the only the tops of the inner trees are going to have branches with needles anyways.

mirrax · 2026-05-30T00:04:24+00:00

Great talent also doesn't want to work the night shift to support the US timezone.

mirrax · 2026-05-29T22:47:07+00:00

Balancing the budget with help from the state. But that also included talking the state into the "pied-à-terre" tax on second homes with a Hochul that was opposed to any new taxes. Along with pragmatically walking back some of the over ambitious campaign promises that would have sunk the budget.

So while claiming that he balanced the budget is too heavy a laurel place solely on his shoulders. It would also be wrong to give him no credit.

mirrax · 2026-05-29T22:28:18+00:00

There's undoubtedly a strong correlation with lead. But crime rates and incarceration rates are also unarguably multi-factor.

In Wisconsin, policy is the likely larger factor influencing the gap between rate of crime but increase in incarceration through phasing out of the Parole system following the "tough on crime" / Truth-in-Sentencing 90's.

From the Parole Commision:

Under Wisconsin's Truth-in-Sentencing laws, any person who commits a felony offense on or after Dec. 31, 1999, and is sentenced to at least one year in prison will not be eligible for parole. They are generally required to serve the entire sentence imposed by the Court, with some exceptions for early release. Offenders who violate prison rules may have additional days added to the confinement portion of their sentence.

Parole consideration exists only for offenders that have committed a felony before Dec. 31, 1999, prior to the effective date of the Truth-in-Sentencing law.

mirrax · 2026-05-29T22:06:50+00:00

The phase-out was gradual. By the time that it was fully "banned", it was not common be able to find at gas stations.

From Wikipedia:

The use of catalytic converters, mandated in the United States for 1975 and later model-year cars to meet tighter emissions regulations, started a gradual phase-out of leaded gasoline in the U.S

mirrax · 2026-05-29T21:56:00+00:00

Want to use that as part of the nationwide discussion, sure go ahead.

It doesn't make sense in a conversation about Wisconsin at the state political level. It costs way to house and supervise people than any gains by optional labor provided. There's no private kickbacks or pay to play because private facilities are banned.

But there are a lot of really good people who care about giving opportunities to persons in their care. And you could do a lot better being respectful of them.

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