> NSA officials told Wyden that not only is the intelligence agency purchasing data on Americans located in the US but that it also bought Americans' Internet metadata.
I’m with ya on that. I could rant on and on about privacy, but this ain’t the place for that, I guess. The gov’t promised if we let ISPs and telcos turn over our data they could catch all the terrorists, and now 20 years later they can’t even catch kids making prank phone calls (SWATting) or telemarketers.
I guess it’s true, people get the leadership they deserve.
No, their job is to spy on NON DOMESTIC citizens. A court ruled that what they did under Snowden was illegal as fuck and they pinky swore not to do it anymore. Them spying on American citizens that don’t communicate with foreigners is supposed to be illegal. You said it so confidently, but you are mistaken.
Good intention, to let us know about the strategy. But i would guess everybody knows the strategy since most of us are working in IT. Hence the downvotes.
But tbh. everyone should hear about it. No backup? No sympathy. (Kein Backup? Kein Mitleid)
My mom tries to #bluetooth pair her smart watch and her phone. But every time she enters the correct validation code in her phone, the watch denies the #pairing.
her watch is a Suunto Peak 9 Pro
Smart phone is some Shift Phone 5 on Android <edit>8</edit>
@dichotomiker@android
I encountered a similar problem with smart jewels. The app would only connect the device to BT after validation from a database on the manufacturers website. Since it was closed down connection has become impossible and our stock of jewels is scrap.
For a long time I've been bothered by problems with the Paradise Lost #wikipedia article. Periodically I go try to improve one section or another, but I feel like it needs a group effort. Do I know any Miltonists or #Milton sympathizers interested in a mini editathon?? or Milton haters if you've got the receipts!
(#ParadiseLost? is that a hashtag anyone would use??)
I don't think I've seen this bit of game design anywhere else, but in Horizon Zero Dawn, the lowest difficulties actually make enemies drop more parts and also include a feature where they'll drop parts that normally can only be torn off, letting you get those parts if that particular mechanic is tricky for you
Which is funny cuz I've never really been to any of those. No accounts and only visited IG a few times because something else linked there for some information.
Also, I didn't really notice Threads was succeeding.
I post about !boinc a bunch on mastodon hopefully to get some excitement from astrophysics folks, there’s tons of cool boinc projects doing astrophysics research. Science runs on twitter, and many scientists are desperately searching for an alternative, imo it’s only a matter of time before they all end up on mastodon or nostr.
@ligniform At this point torrenting or pirating doesn't feel like stealing...Since ownership has become so murky over the years due to corporations attempting to get gamers used to not owning a physical copy.
"In a recent interview, Ubisoft’s subscriptions director Phillipe Tremblay said gamers need to accept not actually owning their games. Tremblay compared this to how people got used to not owning physical CD and DVD collections anymore. He said a similar change in attitude “needs to happen” with gamers as well." Sounds to me like a call to arms more than a convincing argument against game ownership. I might have to get an Xbox Series X and buy physical games again.
I really don't want to enrich a gross company which would argue for people to sink money into subscriptions instead of games! As then games would exist in an ephemeral state which could be removed at any time from the service...It's truly horrifying.
@medievalists Interesting article, & use of DNA analysis! Chess pieces made of horse, cow & deer bones - and "fashioned by groups (of pawns, of rooks, of bishops and knights and of queens and kings), which testifies to planned, routine activity, probably in a specialized workshop."
The devastating combination of ADHD, insurance fuckery, doctors being booked out five months in advance, and that providers simply Do Not Answer Their Email Or Phones means that I've been trying to see a doctor about daily pain for... over a year
"You should see a doctor about getting on ADHD medication. You have an actual diagnosis." ahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha you are totally right but somehow it has slid down my priority list every time for the last decade
@aphyr I have to admit some amusement at a practitioner saying to someone with #ADHD, “you should prioritize this.” Srsly? “You didn’t just seriously suggest prioritizing to someone with ADHD did you? Are you even remotely aware….?” Hahaha
“To pick up a pen is to place oneself outside the community in the act of being self-conscious about it. As Burns discovered, it is not really possible to write about community and remain uncompromised within it.”
—read Dorothy McMillan’s essay “Rural Realism”, on George Douglas Brown’s THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN SHUTTERS