davmandave

davmandave

@davmandave.bsky.social

7-year US Army Veteran, Combat Veteran, and Analyst. Intermittent Streamer. Linux User. Eat the rich.

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🚨"Revolutions come when incompetent leaders overestimate their power and unleash solidarity—that's happening right now! What's happening right now is going to be the turning point of this regime...to end Trump's fascist regime." -Minneapolis ICE protester. LIVE NOW ⬇️

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🚨BREAKING: An eyewitness to Border Patrol murdering Alex Pretti: "As a United States military veteran trained in counterinsurgency and detainee operations, from my perspective—Alex was not resisting. What I saw disgusted me, it made me sick to my stomach!" LIVE NOW ⬇️

"We are innovating every single day to build a mass network of solidarity that is literally rivalling the greatest military superpower in all of human history. That's us! That's us and that's organized everyday people" - Rally Speaker.

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remember, as bad as things are: it's your duty to survive if you can. be fucked up if you gave up while others gave their lives to protect you. if you can't do it for yourself, then realize you owe everyone martyred now and into the future to carry on. because not everyone is going to make it.

What's the difference between today and 40 days ago? Not a damn thing. I legitimately feel like Democrats just fumbled at the 10 yard line. Man, I had hope. Like real hope, that they reached in their pants and found accountability. I slept better this week. It really is a big club, isn't it?

I would like to point out that the Fifth Amendment reads "No Person", not "No citizen". Feels a bit... unconstitutional to claim that due process is only for US Citizens, or legal immigrants.

The AWS outage shows, once again, why monopolization of anything is a bad idea. If we never allowed AWS to grow to that size and buy all of its competition. Since 2014, Amazon has acquired 18 companies that they rolled into AWS. 18 points of failure versus one. Consumers lose when companies merge.

It's 5 AM, I'm stoned, and I've been watching this for like 10 minutes. It's cinema. The silly elliptical bike, the fact that his flag is draped all sad, the knock-off black bloc outfit with the FUCKIN FLIP FLOPS? And no one's looking at him. Benny Hill on a pink megaphone upstaged his big moment.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.

He probably told his fuckin friends he was gonna do it. "Bro, it's gonna be so sick, I'm gonna OWN those libs. They'll be so TRIGGERED, bro. Trust me" He built this moment up so much in his head, and got laughed at. It's gotta be worse than when his cousin turned him down for prom.

What's so great about Webview2 anyway? Almost every incompatibility I've run into on linux stems from Webview crap. Is there no easier way to make graphics and shit for windows apps?

Holy shit. A congressional candidate leading by example. I was taught to lead from the front. It's how you motivate those around you to accomplish the mission.

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What do you think all the servers we're using for AI will end up doing when the bubble bursts? Cheap gaming servers? High-fidelity 3d rendering farms? I mean, there's so much you can do with a kajillion graphics cards backed by the fastest internet ever used.

Legacy media having to learn what a groyper is was not on my 2025 bingo card. I love that they're always so caught off guard by how... online people are. The only thing funnier would be legacy media "discovering" how gross Asmongold is. Welcome to the internet, legacy media. You're gonna hate it.

We really need better tech literacy. Whats happened here is that a blurry photo was fed into a generative AI, which proceeded to make stuff up to fill in the missing (blurry) data in the image. I know the tech companies are preaching that Ai is magic, but it's just guessing. Expensively guessing.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com

Today’s press pool photo shows Trump leaving the White House this morning. I enhanced the image. And seriously, can an expert explain what the hell is happening to his forehead? Right above his nose and right brow.

I've finally nailed down my largest problem with "AI" and this idea of a generative AI. Computers are great because they do exactly what you tell them to, for better or for worse. It's (ideally) determinitive and predictable. But AI is neither of those.

The insidious part is that the LLM tells you that it's right, that it understands what you ask of it, and that it has the capability to conduct the task. But the LLM is just rolling weighted dice and guessing at what the next word is. Sure, it might get it right *most* of the time, but...

If I wanted something to be right most of the time, I'd just do it myself. I can do my own long division, I could debug code on paper, but it sucks and I can make mistakes. So why would I use software that just guesses. It's not magic, it's just fancy-sounding software. And the software is shit.

Underrated reason to use Linux in 2025 is the pure shadenfreude of watching Windows users try to fix their drives after Microsoft shits the bed for the umpteenth update this year. It's not all peaches and rainbows, for sure. But I don't have to unfuck my OS every quarter.

The EA App is such a pile of garbage. Doesn't run in Proton, barely runs in Lutris. I have a valid license for the game, dammit! Let me run the game on whatever OS I want. Was thoroughly enjoying gaming on Linux until my friends wanted to play Battlefront II, which won't launch without the EA app.

I'd like to hear Billy's opinion on why Linux has been free, open source for decades. Every distro is hosted for free somewhere. Every windows application has some free alternative, or some free software that makes it work on Linux. What is the incentive for that?

Billy Binion@billybinion.bsky.social

You may not like it, but humans respond to incentives—and money is a big one. If you mess with an incentive, you’ll get fewer things that change the world for the better. Especially when considering the state is really, REALLY good at one thing: wasting money.

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How many software studios has Adobe consumed? Amazon? Microsoft? When has a larger company buying a smaller one resulted in better games? We've strangled innovation with money as an incentive, because the only incentive is to MAKE MORE MONEY AT ALL COSTS.

The goal is not to make the best service, the best game, the best product, it's to extract the most money from your customer base, and hand it all to executives and shareholders. So no, I don't think money is a good motivator. It's the fuel that drives the engines of cruelty.

I'd like to hear Billy's opinion on why Linux has been free, open source for decades. Every distro is hosted for free somewhere. Every windows application has some free alternative, or some free software that makes it work on Linux. What is the incentive for that?

Billy Binion@billybinion.bsky.social

You may not like it, but humans respond to incentives—and money is a big one. If you mess with an incentive, you’ll get fewer things that change the world for the better. Especially when considering the state is really, REALLY good at one thing: wasting money.

The only "money as incentive" event to happen in that space is Valve spending resources developing Proton in preparation for the Steam Deck. Even in that case, Proton was released open source. It's usable in other applications, besides Steam.

And this happened in an environment dominated by Windows, where there is little monetary incentive in doing it yourself. The accumulation of wealth by monopoly is a scourge that hampers development. How many great game studios have been acquired and killed in the last 20 years?

Any one here got a gaming setup with Linux? I'm (slowly) making the switch. I got Bazzite installed and fought with filesystems for a bit before I got tired. How do you all store your games? Windows only on windows? Shared filesystem between the two?

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I need ya’ll to spread this like crazy please. Really important. We are trying to get these going in every market that has a Fox affiliate. There are around 40. You’ve heard of Tesla takedown. This is fox takedown. LFG!!!!! Start your own. Follow @foxtakedown #foxtakedown #wearetheflood