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yeah it was a corrupted extremely high res image of a DPRK soldier, took the site down trying to process it

"unused ram is wasted ram"

the only place this adage belongs is in caching. The linux kernel will "eat all your ram" but it's in temporary disk caches that can be evicted by any application that needs that RAM at any time. (this is why if you're ever looking at memory usage on linux look for "available" memory not "free" memory). Kernels can do this, applications need to just use the correct kernel interfaces and not try to replicate this idea internally.

cache should just expire after a while. Admittedly it appears the cache-control header from hexbear sets max age to 7 days so that's pretty reasonable...

It feels like I shouldn't have cached over a gigabyte of images, etc. in just 7 days, but maybe not

I mean I don't actually care and I certainly do not have a xitter acct, I just thought it was funny to literally completely ignore the entire middle of the country (and like 3/4 of the east coast), then I noticed the chicago date...

There are absolutely leftist bookstores in probably every state in the US, or nearly so, but I get it. It's tough to get enough publicity to get turnout, and it probably really sucks as an author doing good work with sizable readership to go to like, a milwaukee or a st louis and just have like 3 people show up to your event. Like if there was one in my city I probably wouldn't go, I haven't read this guy's books, though I have read excerpts of Palo Alto I believe.

wow he's really blanketing the country. california, seattle, portland and the southern half of the acela corridor

edit: I stand corrected he's also doing chicago. that makes it less egregious.

hahaha wow

most VPNs seem to be technically possible to get working on linux if you dig enough to figure out what its doing under the hood (if often unofficially, such as cisco anyconnect) but ymmv

it's probably caching every image you've ever clicked on or something silly like that. You could wipe it out and start fresh if you need the space. emotes are big but probably not that big. Same with taglines, there's a ton but its all text.

I mean, it's a reputable magazine. It's not a scientific study directly but it seems fine and cites some specific data, and the author is an actual professor of planetary science. And it's actually been updated with a more modern hypothesis circa 2021 at the bottom. It's not like our understanding of mercury has completely changed in the last 10-15 years

yeah it's a dropshipper thing, it's easier to just buy access to a tracking number from some data broker that happened to ship about the same time to the same city or zip code than it is to 1) get amazon or ebay or whoever to accept a new type of tracking number, or even 2) actually use a shipping provider that has tracking, and 3) if it doesn't come on time or doesn't show up at all it makes it hard as fuck to dispute since "the tracking shows it was delivered on time"

there's some shit going on in nyc lol. I don't expect they're paying the fines. Or they're somehow making more on videos of them doing it than the fines cost.

https://www.amny.com/news/where-drivers-get-speed-camera-tickets-in-nyc/

I also can't vouch for its accuracy but I suspect its related to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpG0LdTNfOc

this is from camera data but these are actually specific vehicles which have been caught by the cameras repeatedly: https://www.amny.com/news/where-drivers-get-speed-camera-tickets-in-nyc/

These appear to be specific cars, not just models of vehicle