[-] elgordino@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

I agreed with this in 2020, but am far from convinced this time around. As much as folks like to bury their head in the sand about Biden’s troubles, they are way more of an issue than in 2020, anyone who doesn’t at least see that is not being honest with themselves or wilfully delusional.

They might still think that even with Biden’s deterioration he’s the better candidate, but he still actually needs to be elected and I’m. It convinced the majority agree any more.

A much younger candidates with centrist tendencies would at least be able to present a vision that is more that ‘I can beat the other guy’ and lay out a vision that, as middle ground as it might be, could get folks motivated again.

[-] elgordino@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

There is still time to replace Biden. After the convention there won’t be and a lot of ‘we need to replace Biden’ folks will return to supporting Biden because there is no other alternative. Until then they have an entirely justifiable voice.

[-] elgordino@fedia.io 8 points 2 days ago

Projected they will win 410 in total.

326 required for overall majority.

652 seats - 410 Labour = 242 left for everyone else.

410 - 242 = majority of 158

[-] elgordino@fedia.io 13 points 4 days ago

Yeah, most 3rd person games I like to play with a controller, first person not so much.

[-] elgordino@fedia.io 11 points 4 days ago

I remember the ‘good old days’ of Sun Fire 10k and similar servers. You could replace entire boards of CPU and RAM and the server would keep on trucking.

[-] elgordino@fedia.io 15 points 4 days ago

TIL 7-11 can issue a money order.

[-] elgordino@fedia.io 19 points 4 days ago

Or for an American airline, mostly credit cards, and then some bits about flying.

[-] elgordino@fedia.io 6 points 4 days ago

There wouldn’t be new primaries. Biden’s pledged delegates would be released to do whatever they want. Obviously that has its own share of, small d, democratic concerns, but the better choice if you ask me.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/us/politics/replace-biden.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3E0.F9in.hk_iHLn0B5pI&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

[-] elgordino@fedia.io 18 points 5 days ago

If you ask me what’s absurd is clinging on to Biden against all the evidence. He’s clearly super unpopular, and that’s in no small part to his age.

He must step aside and basically any halfway reasonable candidate under 60 would be in with a decent shot of the job. Give the population something to vote for rather than vote against.

[-] elgordino@fedia.io 60 points 1 week ago

I think he was massively over coached. Trying to fight to remember a ton of talking points and then getting them muddled up and stuck in that detail. He’d have been better off just freestyling it.

[-] elgordino@fedia.io 65 points 1 month ago

That AI bubble sure is getting plenty of air pumped in.

[-] elgordino@fedia.io 62 points 3 months ago

I imagine SMS authorisation texts are Telegrams biggest single expense, they are for Signal https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

Telcos know that authentication is about the only remaining use case for SMS and are not going to turn down the revenue stream.

That said this idea from Telegram sounds absurd. Not least I expect most contracts prevent reselling free SMS’s like this. The security implications have got to be significant too.

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