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Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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3·6 days agoi haven’t used it myself but https://jmp.chat/ looks good if you’re OK with a US or Canadian number.
there is a lemmy community about it here: !sopranica@lemmy.ml.
2·11 days agoHe signed up to go through the justice system, trusting or at least hoping that it would produce justice even with the entire weight of the federal government convinced he was guilty of treason, and committed to destroying him because of what he had done.
Signed up to? He didn’t intend to get caught, and when he eventually turned himself in (while a fugitive, having been already identified) he actually expected to go to prison. And he almost certainly would have, were it not for the gross government misconduct against him (which he only became aware of later) and being lucky enough to get a judge who was sufficiently offended by that misconduct declare a mistrial.
'The bizarre events have incurably infected the prosecution of this case.'
In the midst of Ellsberg’s trial, the case took a number of bizarre twists. The first, on April 26, 1973, came in the form of a disclosure by the government prosecutor that White House operatives had burglarized the Beverly Hills office of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist. The burglars, led by G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, were not apprehended until after the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington nine months later.
But just days after the disclosure in Judge Byrne’s courtroom, Nixon’s two top lieutenants – John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman – resigned, along with acting attorney general Richard G. Kleindienst. White House counsel John Dean was fired.
A few days later, another disturbing revelation came from the judge himself. He disclosed in court that he had had two recent contacts with Ehrlichman, who had offered him a job – director of the FBI. Although Ehrlichman later testified before the Senate Watergate Committee that Judge Byrne had expressed interest in the FBI job, the judge insisted that he had told the Nixon aide he could not discuss any job offer while the Ellsberg trial was underway.
The trial was shaken again on May 9 when Judge Byrne learned of yet another impropriety: The FBI had secretly taped telephone conversations between Ellsberg and Morton Halperin, who had supervised the Pentagon Papers study.
When the government claimed it had lost all relevant records of the wiretapping, Judge Byrne declared a mistrial on May 11, 1973.
“The totality of the circumstances of this case which I have only briefly sketched offend a sense of justice,” Byrne told the court that day. “The bizarre events have incurably infected the prosecution of this case.”
The courtroom erupted in cheers and applause as Ellsberg was freed.
Ellsberg learned of Byrne’s death Friday as he was attending a conference of First Amendment lawyers in Palm Desert, Calif., where he took part in a panel discussion of the Pentagon Papers.
“His dismissal of all charges against Tony Russo and myself with the eloquent denunciation of government misconduct, in which he said it offends a sense of justice, gave my wife and me one of the best days of our lives,” Ellsberg said.
(from https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/14/AR2006011401165.html )
When’s the last time that happened in Russia?
Huh? Are you actually trying to downplay the persecution of Daniel Ellsberg (which also included an aborted plot to neutralize him with LSD) by dropping a non-sequitur “but Russia”? 😂
I mentioned the Panama Papers because the guy who leaked them was murdered
The source of the Panama Papers remains anonymous and there is no indication he has been murdered; he subsequently released statements (as “John Doe”) which were authenticated by some of the journalists he leaked to.
You’re probably thinking of Daphne Caruana Galizia and Ján Kuciak, two journalists who were murdered for their reporting about them.
The Pentagon Papers leaker wasn’t murdered
Not only that, he was actively protected by the system. Today he’d be in federal prison or worse.
I guess you could say Daniel Ellsberg was “protected by the system” in that a couple years later a judge did eventually dismiss the espionage charges against him, after learning about the burglary of his psychiatrist’s office (by the same White House Plumbers who would later go on to do the Watergate break-in) in an attempt to discredit him. But first he was looking at 115 years in prison.
here is a previous thread about this image with a discussion about how accurate it is
6·14 days agoFuck this site; it lost me when it got to listing “What kinds of things might they be good at?”
Just say no.
Using an LLM to summarize something is still a bad idea. The chances of it emphasizing the wrong thing, omitting the most important thing, or just outright making up “facts” remains high. LLMs Will Always Hallucinate.
Bespoke is a synthesizer first but “like a DAW in some ways, but with less of a focus on a global timeline. Instead, it has a design more optimized for jamming and exploration.” (youtube trailer, wiki, wikipedia)
“But you can’t copy with Ctrl+C, it’s…” - You can. When something is selected It copies selection to clipboard, otherwise it sends SIGINT.
What terminal emulator are you using where ctrl-c copies instead of sending SIGINT when text is selected? In every one I’ve ever used, ctrl-c still sends SIGINT even with text selected (and one must must use ctrl-shift-C/ctrl-shift-V to copy/paste).
I don’t have any suggestion for getting the behavior you’re asking for, but besides the normal ctrl-(shift)-C/V clipboard FYI you also have two other types of clipboard-like things: one which works anywhere (not only in the terminal) and is actually always automatically copying anything you select and lets you paste from it with middle click (this originated with X Windows but i think most Wayland compositors have also implemented it by now), and another which is found in GNU Readline (used by bash and numerous other REPLs) called the “kill buffer” which can be pasted (or “yanked”) from and cut (or “killed”) to using Emacs keyboard shortcuts (which also include various cursor movement controls).
Notes:
- the kill buffer is local to a given readline context, it’s not shared across different shell windows.
- the list of emacs keybindings in that wikipedia article i linked is currently confusingly referring to the kill buffer as “the clipboard”
- you can drastically reconfigure your readline keybindings and other behavior by editing your
.inputrcfile, but you cannot achieve what you were originally asking for because there is no concept of text selection in readline.
HTH!
Omnilert later admitted the incident was a “false positive” but claimed the system “functioned as intended”
22·25 days agoIf they don’t use a bank, how are they pulling money out for it to be tracked?
One example I mentioned in my comment you’re replying to is check cashing services. Millions of people in the US receive money via things like check or money order and need to change it to cash despite not having a bank account to deposit it in; this usually involves identifying themselves.
See also payday loans, etc.
See, none of it makes any sense lmfao.
I assume you didn’t click (and translate) the link in the comment prior to mine which you replied to?
If you do, from there you can find some industry news about Serial Number Reading (SNR) technology.
I don’t know how widely deployed that technology is, but there is clear evidence that it does exist and is used for various purposes.
I ONLY give other people cash, all my other purchases are debit/credit.
If you always use card payments whenever it’s possible, it obviously isn’t necessary to analyze your cash transactions to learn where you are because you are already disclosing it :)
Like MOST people and stores since Covid
There are close to 2 billion unbanked people in the world. In the US, it’s less than 6% nationally, but over 10% in some states.
Many people who are not unbanked also often avoid electronic payments for privacy/security and other reasons.
The cash serial number tracking being described in this thread is useful for locating the neighborhoods frequented by someone who (a) avoids using electronic payments, and (b) maybe obtains cash from an ATM (or perhaps check-cashing service, in the case of an unbanked person) in places other than the neighborhoods they live in or frequent.
(no love for James Cameron, but) are fans of a Nickelodeon series first released in 2005 really complaining about the existence of other media using the name Avatar? 🤔
At launch (in 2021) the FireTV was not on the list of Sidewalk-enabled products, but given the fact that Sidewalk was enabled without user consent on many existing devices (and has been found to re-enable itself after being disabled) combined with the fact that FireTV devices all have at least the necessary bluetooth radio (even if not the LoRA part, Sidewalk can use both/either) and thus could become sidewalk-enabled by a software update in the future… I would still say that Sidewalk is a reason (among many) to boycott FireTV along with the rest of Amazon’s products.
The takeaway that Amazon built their own mesh network so that their products in neighboring homes can exfiltrate data via eachother whenever any one of them can get online is not false.
Social graph connections can be automatically inferred from location data. This has been done by governments (example) for a long time and is also done by private companies (sorry I can’t find a link at the moment).
The text of the new Texas law is here.
I wonder if this will apply to/be enforced on FDroid and Obtainium?
copying my comment from another thread:
“App store” means a publicly available Internet website, software application, or other electronic service that distributes software applications from the owner or developer of a software application to the user of a mobile device.
This sounds like it could apply not only to F-Droid but also to any website distributing APKs, and actually, every other software distribution sysem too (eg, linux distros…) which include software which could be run on a “mobile device” (the definition of which also can be read as including a laptop).
otoh i think they might have made a mistake and left a loophole; all of the requirements seem to depend on an age verification “under Section 121.021” and Section 121.021 says:
When an individual in this state creates an account with an app store, the owner of the app store shall use a commercially reasonable method of verification to verify the individual’s age category
I’m not a lawyer but I don’t see how this imposes any requirements on “app stores” which simply don’t have any account mechanism to begin with :)
(Not to say that this isn’t still immediately super harmful for the majority of the people who get their apps from Google and Apple…)
3·30 days agoNote that I am, despite your assertion, using the full uBlock Origin, not the Google-friendly uBlock Origin Lite
Seeing your screenshot I was curious how that works, so I spent a minute searching and found this post from June 2024 where Vivaldi says:
We will keep Manifest v2 for as long as it’s still available in Chromium. We expect to drop support in June 2025, but we may maintain it longer or be forced to drop support for it sooner, depending on the precise nature of the changes to the code.
In my quick search I didn’t find anything more recent about their schedule for dropping it, so I guess (assuming your software is up-to-date?) they haven’t dropped it yet but presumably will do soon.
But in any case, Vivaldi is proprietary/closed-source, so, I recommend against using it.
I suppose it runs on an Arm-Processor
It would be odd if a device labeled “Wintel Pro” had an arm CPU.
Wintel means Windows on Intel, or more broadly Windows on any x86 or x86_64 processor.
