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 nostr:npub1hvdfn5ne7zvks3ztfewr00vdjv3kve4nddht43p8fjepc8rn6yasz69sq9 To be fair, he outlasted a ... 
 @cbe08add @bb1a99d2 Just from what it took to get him in the chair it was clear his speakership was going to be extremely tenuous. Record set on the way in and now another on the way out. 
 @872ab8e1 And you better believe that the spammers are training up Captcha defeat AI's on data sets in order to enable automatic fake-person account creation at scale. 

These are fairly simple data sets to train on and and they don't even have to be right anywhere like 100%, just often enough to create enough account in little enough time as to be exploitable. 
 One thing to note about Feinstein's decline in health is that the reduced immune system response in the wake of Covid infection often results in Shingles flare ups. She ended up getting encephalitis (brain swelling) as a result of the Shingles. Covid->Shingles->Encephalitis and now her death. 

Covid causes spiraling health downfalls. Will her death be attributed to Covid? No, but it is almost certainly part of the story of her decline. 
 Feels like my fever and general aching is starting to break. These mRNA vaccines have not been fun for me, but putting up with ~17 hours of feeling like shit and a couple days of tiredness after a few times a year is way better than Covid. 
 @3ddab33a Oh, this is great! It looks like it puts the SATA power and data ports in the correct location for hooking up to devices which require a desktop hard drive. 

I have so many adapters acquired over the years for mounting 2.5" drives in cases which only support desktop hard drives and none of them do what this one does. This will be so useful for things like NAS boxes (if you just have the patience to print out enough of them). 
 @e68a5c0d Ads aren't just an annoyance. They've persistently been a security issue. Ad-block is anti-malware. 
 From CNN's "Reliable Sources" newsletter: "In the last 48 hours, I've spotted advertisements for ... 
 @f8d9bc1c It really, really is beyond high time that they stop giving that man their money. Seriously, he went on a day long extended "I blame the Jews" tirade. You continue supporting him after something like that and one day someone writes a chapter in their book about your company's support for Uncle Adolf during the Holocaust. 
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 @ca5977db We're still in the middle of a pandemic which regularly maims the elderly. I've got an older client base of mostly retirees and I've watched what happens to them in the wake of infection. It isn't good. 

I'd honestly rather not have someone much over the age of 50 in the running.