As a Canadian I’d be fine if we broke the blockade to give a huge middle-finger to this insane regime. (Yes, internet-toughguy talk – I know the blowback to Canada here would be legendary and painful if we did so… so not realistic. But one can dream right?)

The Cuban govt has not exactly been a great beacon of human rights or anything, but the people who were unlucky enough to have been born there don’t deserve this. What a cruel thing to do to them. The US administration has no heart or soul.

I am beginning to think Epstein was entirely self-aware that someday even having met him at a dinner party or fundraiser, even unrelated to sex trafficking, would be poison for anyone beguiled into attending; and that this was the greater goal, to serve to poison the wells of social, scientific and political circles of the West, undermining trust in all aspects of power structures and institutions. Genius long-game by Mossad, FSB or whomever his masters were.

Witholding life-saving medication – manslaughter, if not outright murder.

That might indeed be the result sometimes :). Doesn’t matter. Since the US seems OK with Amazon making their drivers pee in a bottle and docking them points for gazing away while driving, why not make police submit to full recording like this?

Beautiful, IMO. And look at all that sunny ground, could have a big solar field there too.

And the solar field could foster a good shade-plant field that would grow and anchor the sandy ground with their roots, holding groundwater, also providing cover for small wildlife.

The cameras worked by constantly recording even before the “record” button was pressed, periodically deleting any footage that hadn’t been intentionally recorded. Once the “record” button was pressed by the officer, it would capture the 30 seconds before the button had been pressed, thanks to this method of constantly being on standby.

But it was a hard concept for cops to understand. They weren’t being properly trained on the fact that their own cameras didn’t start recording once they pressed record. Hitting that button saved the 30 seconds prior as well, a neat feature that really bit them in the ass.

Maybe bodycams should randomly record even when the RECORD button isn’t pressed by an officer; and the pre-record time should be random from say 2 minutes to 30 seconds before. And the recording should stop a random 30-60 seconds AFTER they hit ‘STOP’. So they never know when they’re being recorded. If they’re not pulling illegal shit, they shouldn’t have any problem with that, right?

In fact, with storage capabilities nowadays, bodycams should ALWAYS be recording, period. Gotta go to the bathroom? Too damn bad. You’re a public servant. Trust the auditors to redact that if it comes to a court subpoena. You signed up for it. Extraordinary powers come with extraordinary sacrifices.

Jeebus Chripes. No wonder so many people say ACAB.

Good.

Sorry you’re right, number MUST GO UP /s.

sigh.

Oh no. Anyway…

Make Windows 7 again (or just use Linux), ditch AI, value your users. Sack the CEO. Pretty simple.

Me too!

Whoosh.

Parent’s point is that there will not be any long-lived peace trying to appease fascists. It only buys a little time, and lets them creep further and further…

The paranoid in me wonders though… can DRAM be backdoored? I’d bet ‘yes’, and this would be a perfect opening to introduce a huge amount of compromised hardware to the world market…

Cloudflare has caused too much of the internet to be centralized under their whims. There need to be more alternatives for DDoS protection; I don’t use any at all for my self-hosted site, but if I ever do, it won’t be Cloudflare.

Thank you for linking via xcancel.com rather than to that service directly. Wish more posters would do this.

Reddit API apocalypse and their plan to IPO to sell everyone’s posts for data.

What an ineffective distraction ftom the Epstein Files!

And what a travesty Drumpf is literally playing with the lives of others, American and Venezuelan, to do so.

What an out-of-touch person.

Soldered in, or upgradeable at least? The former would be a huge reason to never buy the newest gen of laptops.

EDIT: Missed in article, yeah this would suck if they stick to soldered RAM for ultra-thins.

Another problem manufacturers face is with notebooks that ship with soldered DRAM. In particular, ultrathin designs would need to be revamped to modify their configurations.

Anti-<topic> Billionaires Have Always Been Able to Control What People in General See.

We don’t need/want a huge TV, so we just use a monitor with an external speaker and dedicated media box.

Smart TVs these days are just too invasive to even consider in my home.