Hard Pass

well yes this was on my birthday (last birthday) where ig I should have been smiling but my face was this instead

ig its like when you wanted something for a long time but you get donuts or something smaller instead

meme title maybe: disappointed birthday person/boy or something 😅😆

I've had some feedback today that Decronym is "spamming" unrelated acronym definitions into threads that don't need them. Unfortunately, details of which acronyms are superfluous wasn't forthcoming, so:

From this list, which acronyms do you guys think can be removed as unnecessary to explain?

http://decronym.xyz/acronyms/selfhosted@lemmy_world

Edited to add: There've been instances of the bot "finding" acronyms that aren't mentioned in the thread, and speculation that vibecoding is at fault. The real answer, I think, is simpler.

Decronym uses a local Lemmy instance, and polls the database directly for new comments. Last time I tried to upgrade Lemmy, it went so badly I had to wipe the server and start over from a fresh Debian; threads on the fresh instance started from ID 1 again.

But Decronym's list of detected acronyms wasn't wiped, so it's been pointing at the wrong thread IDs this whole time.

I've now wiped the threads and detected acronyms for this comm, and the bot should behave more sensibly.

well yes this was on my birthday (last birthday) where ig I should have been smiling but my face was this instead

ig its like when you wanted something for a long time but you get donuts or something smaller instead

meme title maybe: disappointed birthday person/boy or something 😅😆

When Trump makes the nomination official, it will end Blanche’s two months serving in the role in an acting capacity since his predecessor, Pam Bondi, was fired. Since then, Blanche, Trump’s firebrand former personal attorney, has taken great pains to prove to the president that he is up for the job.

Over the past several weeks, Blanche has only garnered more favor at the White House. He secured indictments against some of the president’s personal foes like former FBI Director James Comey, rolled back gun control measures and issued subpoenas to journalists for their sources. He’s also announced sweeping fraud initiatives across the country, which work hand-in-hand with the White House’s “war on fraud.”

But critics, citing those same efforts, say that Blanche has effectuated the president’s personal and political agenda to use the Justice Department as his own attack mechanism.

I didn't steal this from Twitter (formerly known as X, the everything app). You stole it from Lemmy™, right now

Fears that push for ballroom spending could jeopardize $70bn funding for immigration enforcement

Senate Republicans on Wednesday formally dropped their attempt to spend $1bn on security improvements for Donald Trump’s White House ballroom, as it became clear the president’s demand for the money could jeopardize long-term funding for immigration enforcement.

The Senate judiciary committee had last month included funding for security improvements related to the new ballroom in a broader measure that would authorize $70bn in spending for agencies involved in Trump’s mass deportation campaign through the duration of his term.

On Wednesday, the committee released a revised text that no longer mentioned the money, which was included in legislation dubbed the Secure America Act that advanced on a party-line vote of 53-46 later that afternoon.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the Treasury Department to shut down bank accounts used to support illegal immigration. Trump announced the order in a June 2 Truth Social post, saying it targets the banks, credit card companies, and other financial institutions that ...

I'm starting to develop arthritis in my fingers, which makes typing an interesting challenge.

I'm wondering, what is the best self-hosted solution for speech-to-text generally? Dragon dictate use to be the thing, but is there anything open source, self-hostable that's superseded it?

I would love to be able to have something that I can speak into that can interact with pretty much any app, be that notepad++, or my web browser when I'm entering stuff or even when I'm creating this Lemmy post (which I actually made using futo voice on my phone).

Windows and/or Linux ideally.

Any leads? Getting old sucks.

Management has deployed traps throughout the Chamblee Tucker Road facility, though the whistleblower claims some of the rodents are too large for the devices

Mirror

Bonus that I think might've been posted already:

I'm applying to jobs, and the amount of AI assessments, rounds, AI interviewers, questionnaires, is nuts.

One of these emails for example,

It's rough.

Canadian military police, and its unit, the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service (CFNIS), have faced increasing criticism of widespread incompetence and bungling of investigations.

In January 2025, a judge stayed assault and sexual assault charges against a Canadian Forces member after determining that military police had tampered with evidence and showed bias in their investigation. Superior Court of Ontario Justice Cynthia Petersen noted in her written decision that the misconduct by the CFNIS "in this case is so egregious and systemic that it shocks the community's conscience."

In June 2025, the MPCC issued a report that painted Canada's military police leadership as shutting down complaints and mismanaging investigations to the point where a criminal convicted of attempted murder almost went free.

I'm applying to jobs, and the amount of AI assessments, rounds, AI interviewers, questionnaires, is nuts.

One of these emails for example,

It's rough.