foofighter

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An absolutely brutal candidate summary for independent Paul Gullen:

Gullan previously ran as a Legalise Cannabis candidate at the 2025 state election in Collie Preston and the 2025 federal election in Canning. He was disendorsed as the party's candidate for the latter election after it discovered what it called a “trail of antisemitic rants”. Gullan disputes the allegation he is antisemitic.

on Circlus messenger? · c/selfhosted · 5 pts · 33d

Hey buddy this doesn't look like a great service. It isn't open source but claims to be, and appears to have only been around a couple of months.

A project with a lot of backing called Nextcloud could work for you. It has a service called Nextcloud Talk that you'll be able to throw on their dumb phone and if you want to you can use it as an alternative to dropbox/onedrive and google docs.

edit: a benefit of nextcloud talk is that your kid won't be able to add some random person or do anything too nefarious with it and if they did you'd be able to see everything

on Spiderman · c/movies · 2 pts · 34d

Snot here might be getting at how Ruffalo wasn't involved in the press tour for the movie, which more politically engaged fans saw as a snub from Disney. If the studio throws his character back into a CGI Savage Hulk then it could be a lot easier to get rid of Ruffalo entirely.

I take your point on Captain Marvel but Disney is in bed with Trump

on Black coffee · c/mildlyinfuriating · 2 pts · 75d

Problem I get is some places call it an Americano when us Aussies generally call it a long black. Same shit with cup sizes, it's maddening when you have to figure out how to order your usual at some place pretending to be more upmarket than they are

As others have said, just avoid McCafe like the plague find an actual coffee spot via recommendations from locals

Findings could improve training for lip readers and boost the capacity for artificial intelligence to read lips and provide transcription and other digital services.

Horrifying potential for AI but I guess you do have to throw it in the mix in order to get funding for research like this

100%. From the arstechnica piece:

Making Old Reddit users log in could impact Reddit scraping but also will address Reddit’s interest in connecting as much traffic as possible to specific users—a strategy that is common among companies like Reddit that rely on advertising for revenue.

I just found this out naturally and immediately came to lemmy to see if someone's posted about it.

Seriously I don't want a reddit account and old.reddit.com without logging in has been a great way of checking up on the odd thing without having an account and being stuck in the dark patterns that keep you engaging

on A reminder · c/politicalmemes · 4 pts · 133d

Saw your instance domain and thought I'd add something from home that Malcolm Turnbull has repeated a lot about American politics, which is that when you lack compulsory voting, government parties no longer have to appeal to a broad majority but instead can gain election by exciting a crazed minority with whatever sticks at the wall. Hate wins

Not a huge loss as they pretty neatly tied the story back into The Boys. For those that didn't click through, the showrunners have noted that some of those character's stories will still be explored:

“While we wish we could keep the party going another season at Godolkin, we’re committed to continuing the Gen V characters’ stories in The Boys Season 5 and other VCU projects on the horizon,” said VCU executive producers Eric Kripke and Evan Goldberg. “You’ll see them again.”

::: spoiler Gen V Season 2 Spoilers I kinda disliked the forcing of the characters back into Godolkin University in S2. It felt strange as the characters seemed to have developed well past that university storytelling device. If they were to announce a Season 3 and did the same thing of bringing them all back to GodU then it could absolutely risk existing just to beat the money horse and sour fan's enjoyment of the series. :::