@Unsightly3055 maybe i should try a bunch of browsers. it's a very weird message. i've tried making a new account, and the registration page just submits… back to a blank registration page. i'll switch browsers and see.
thanks for running the experiment!
@Unsightly3055 Thanks! It’s not so urgent to me, there’s no need for you to download and forward. But if you want to see if the issue affects you, I’d love to know that. I was trying to download Mac Java 7 from here https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/javase7-archive-downloads.html
Anyone here work for Oracle? No shade.
Sometimes I want to download old JVMs from Oracle. It makes me checkbox some licensing stuff then sends me to a sign-in. I have an account, I know the password, but every time I try to login I get an error, "A federated user can't perform local authentication."
Seems bad! Haven't found a workaround, don't understand the issue. There's no one to contact, so I'm sending out this message in a bottle in a toot. (Better I suppose than a toot in a bottle.)
Normie white dude: This renaming shit is just stupid. Let Ulysses S. Grant Elementary stay Ulysses S. Grant Elementary. Yes, the Black Hills. It was 150 years ago. I mean, even Robert E. Lee Elementary. Who cares? Let's get real stuff done.
Trump: Have I told you about the Gulf of America?
9/11: “They hate us for our freedoms.”
1/6: “They free us for our hatreds.”
is there a list of domains where Congress has imposed mandates the Trump Administration would characterize as DEI, so we can monitor the degree to which it is “tak[ing] Care that the laws be faithfully executed”, at least until it can persuade Congress to change the laws, as is its right to try?
“it turns out that most Americans are uninterested in acting like a belligerent asshole on the global stage.” @dandrezner https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-pretty-prudent-american-public
we have to learn to appreciate the small pleasures.
Screenshot from e-mail inbox, from Facebook, subject, "Your account is scheduled for permanent deletion"
it might not be right to say the Trump Administration's garish chaos-monkeying contributed to the crash. maybe. but we don't really know that.
nevertheless, it's a whole lot less ridiculous a claim than any attribution of blame to "DEI".
ferchrissakes.
it was just a bunch of kids who liked to twirl around.
what kind of due process would apply to Guantanamo detainees?
@Arianity @geerlingguy I really like the GPU + Raspberry Pi approach. I have no idea how one puts that together, but it's probably not too expensive and better at running these things than my laptop!
"the Supreme Court ruled that the NLRB needs three members to have a quorum. Thus, until Trump appoints a third NLRB member, the NLRB will not be able to issue decisions. Trump could opt not to fill any NLRB vacancies and prevent the agency from issuing decisions for his entire term." #MattBruenig https://www.nlrbedge.com/p/trump-fires-democratic-nlrb-member
Guys, really. Our apparently brisk GDP growth is down largely to rentierism, attaching ever more, ever larger tolls to everything. It’s not meaningful prosperity. We are miserable. Don’t emulate us. Stick with Universal Scandinavia. cf @crookedfootball https://crookedtimber.org/2025/01/29/the-death-of-the-hope-of-progress-and-the-fear-of-being-left-behind/
“No, I do not want AI to ‘polish’ me.” #JennyLawson https://thebloggess.com/2025/01/28/no-i-do-not-want-ai-to-polish-me/
“governments of the ostensible ‘centre-left’…are incapable of reviving neoliberalism in its progressive, internationalist guise, but are also unwilling to properly embrace the legacy of postwar social democratic nationalism.” #DavidTimoney https://fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-pivot-of-history.html
@realcaseyrollins @dangillmor maybe. funny how Google actually had a policy about this, though. then… whoops!
@realcaseyrollins because Google was right in 2008. https://publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2008/04/how-google-determines-names-for-bodies.html ht @dangillmor
Text: When our policy says that we display the "primary, common, local" names for a body of water, each of those three adjectives has an important and distinct meaning. By saying "primary", we aim to include names of dominant use, rather than having to add every conceivable local nickname or variation. By saying "common", we mean to include names which are in widespread daily use, rather than giving immediate recognition to any arbitrary governmental re-naming. In other words, if a ruler announced that henceforth the Pacific Ocean would be named after her mother, we would not add that placemark unless and until the name came into common usage. Finally, by saying "local", we aim to reflect the primary and common names used by countries that actually border the body of water, as they are the countries recognized under international law as having a special sovereign stake in it.
@realcaseyrollins uh, a cat death-wish? curiosity is just… curious.
(i think the renaming is dumb, and hope Apple resists it better than Google has. maybe someday “Gulf of America” will be in common usage, but we’re far from there.)
[tech notebook] Adolescent DeepSeek on a Mac laptop https://tech.interfluidity.com/2025/01/28/adolescent-deepseek-on-a-mac-laptop/index.html
