Zachariah , 8 hours ago

Simmons, a queer Black woman and labor organizer from Houston, watched her Democratic state representative break with her party and vote in favor of three Republican-led bills limiting rights for transgender teens and children. All of them became law.

Zachariah , 11 hours ago

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

— Mark Twain

Zachariah , 9 hours ago

Sounds like someone ignored the obvious sign that this guy needed to be patted down to check him for weapons.

Zachariah , 9 hours ago

Yes, but it’s a regular expression.

Zachariah , 14 hours ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/08caeb04-708c-405e-95bf-94cee34f1e70.jpeg

Zachariah , 19 hours ago

Godzilla is Kaiju Jesus

Zachariah , 2 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

These may not have 100% of the criteria, but they’ll be close:

• grandson
• Utah Philips
• Michael Franti and Spearhead
• Bad Religion
• Rage Against the Machine

Zachariah , 1 day ago

I’m adding a bunch to my up-next listens from these comments, so thank you for making the post.

Zachariah , 2 days ago

I’ve used draw.io (apparently app.diagrams.net now) before for this exact purpose. I mapped out network, devices, and services.

Zachariah , 1 day ago

Just make sure to always be careful with recursion.

Zachariah , 2 days ago

There’s lemmy.world/c/nyc

Zachariah , 2 days ago

“That’ll do, Donkey. That’ll do.”
— elk, probably

Zachariah , 3 days ago

stealing the moon

Zachariah , 3 days ago

Torties are my favorite

Zachariah , 3 days ago

Yeah, calicos are a close second place. Your cats are gorgeous! I’m sure they already know though.

Zachariah , 4 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/682b8d29-6fd3-471a-a922-7f94e8508c7c.jpeg

Zachariah , 5 days ago

found the AI bot

Zachariah , 5 days ago

each of us constructs our own

Zachariah , 5 days ago

Woohoo, now’s my chance to get a cocaine-filled avocado!

Who am I kidding? Nothings better than actual avocados.

Zachariah , 4 days ago

Then you can plant it and grow more cocaine.

Zachariah , 4 days ago

Way to spoil my dream :(

Zachariah , 6 days ago

Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now!

With its legislative proposal known as “Chat Control,” the EU Commission is trying to establish an unprecedented mass-surveillance apparatus of Orwellian proportions in the European Union. If EU citizens don’t stand up for privacy now, it may be too late.

This Wednesday, June 19, 2024, the EU Council could be voting on the controversial Chat Control bill. Should it pass, the consequences would be devastating: Under the pretext of child protection, EU citizens would no longer be able to communicate in a safe and private manner on the Internet. The European market’s location advantage would suffer a massive hit due to a substantial decrease in data security. And EU professionals like lawyers, journalists, and physicians could no longer uphold their duty to confidentiality online. All while children wouldn’t be better protected in the least bit. On the contrary, Chat Control could have a negative impact on minors in particular.

It doesn’t matter how the EU Commission is trying to sell it – as “client-side scanning,” “upload moderation,” or “AI detection” –, Chat Control is still mass surveillance. And regardless of its technical implementation, mass surveillance is always an incredibly bad idea, for a whole plethora of reasons. Here are just three:

1. Mass Surveillance is a Totalitarian Tool Incompatible with Democracy

2. Mass Surveillance Is Ineffective

3. Mass Surveillance Undermines Data Security

Of course, sharing CSAM is an absolutely intolerable, horrific crime that must be punished. Before CSAM can be shared online, however, a child must have suffered abuse in real life, which is what effective child protection should be trying to prevent (and what Chat Control does not focus on). For this and many other reasons, child protection organizations such as Germany’s Federal Child Protection Association are against Chat Control, arguing that it’s “neither proportionate nor effective.”

Besides, there’s no way of really knowing whether Chat Control would actually be (or remain) limited to CSAM. Once the mass-surveillance apparatus is installed, it could easily be extended to detect content other than CSAM without anyone noticing it. From a service provider’s point of view, the detection mechanism, which is created and maintained by third parties, essentially behaves like a black box.

What can you do?

Since the matter may be decided this Wednesday, June 19, 2024, time is a critical factor. If you’re a EU citizen, please consider contacting your government’s representative , asking them to vote against Chat Control.

It may also help to take to the digital streets, spread the word online, and raise awareness for the EU’s dubious plan to establish an unprecedented mass-surveillance apparatus that would essentially nullify the right to data privacy and set a highly dangerous precedent in doing so.

What would Chat Control mean for Threema users in the EU?

While Threema would be subject to Chat Control, the business solution Threema Work would be out of scope according to our current knowledge. However it’s still not entirely clear how Chat Control would have to be implemented by service providers, and it’s questionable whether such a blatant violation of the right to privacy would hold up in European courts.

What is crystal clear, however, is that there will never be a Threema version that’s spying on its users in any way, shape, or form. The reason Threema was created is to provide a highly secure, completely private, and anonymous means of communication. Once it’s no longer possible to offer such a service in the European Union, we will be forced to take consequences.

We will carefully consider all options (including legal actions, technical workarounds, etc.) first, and if we come to the conclusion that there’s no other way, we’ll call on fellow communication services to join us in leaving the EU.

Zachariah , 6 days ago

Paul Simon. He has a whole song about it.

Zachariah , 6 days ago

All part of the plan.

Zachariah , 6 days ago

Writing code.

Zachariah , 4 days ago

most IT work doesn’t require the ability to write any code

Zachariah , 3 days ago

Yeah, you’re much better off if you can at least automate stuff by writing scripts.

But, you often get people who think IT work is software and application development. And the reverse: It is often assumed programmers are good at building or troubleshooting computers and networks.

Zachariah , 6 days ago

Posting comments on Lemmy.

Zachariah , 6 days ago

Strong mono-tasking skills.

Zachariah , 6 days ago

Minnesota

Zachariah , 7 days ago

… and “wet” is just water.

Zachariah , 6 days ago

No, Steve’s owner is the idiot.

Zachariah , 7 days ago

Not just UK. It’s a stupid term that organizations use in cybersecurity trainings but no one else uses.

Zachariah , 7 days ago

This was going to be my suggestion. It may seem like you need a ui.com account for it, but there is a way to use the equipment without one.

Zachariah , 8 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/040c67e7-5f86-4647-9494-60001252ece7.jpeg

Zachariah , 8 days ago

It’s only about one minute per rider.

Zachariah , 8 days ago

I don’t know. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagg!

Zachariah , 10 days ago

I’d say there could be unintended consequences of tying the teachers’ hands about this. There may be a legitimate reason to discuss almost anything about a child with their parent. It’s amazing anyone would want to do that job given all the things that can land on their plate.

Zachariah , 10 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5199b7f7-74a1-40ca-aab9-fe3a81bcbfa5.jpeg

Zachariah , 10 days ago

Yeah, well, I saw it on a rerun.

Zachariah , 10 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9fcef149-962b-437e-a718-a6c674ac16ee.jpeg

Zachariah , 10 days ago

often fewer than the minimum

Zachariah , 12 days ago

cuberule.com

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/001ea3ec-d13d-4c42-88b0-fda820b80d4e.jpeg

Zachariah , 12 days ago

… except for minorities in the United States.

Zachariah , 12 days ago

My point wasn’t that credit scores work just fine now. My point was: for a lot of people, the world didn’t work just fine before credit scores.

Zachariah , 15 days ago

California law bars ex-LAPD officer Mark Fuhrman, who lied at OJ Simpson trial, from policing

That’s a very specific law.

Zachariah , 15 days ago

Oh, that makes more sense.

Zachariah , 17 days ago

KEY POINTS

• Worries are growing that the labor market is beginning to show cracks, particularly for younger aspirants.
• The monthly rate of workers with little previous work experience getting jobs has plunged, falling to 13% from its previous peak of 20%, according to Goldman Sachs.
• “Quite honestly, it was pretty brutal,” one job seeker said. “It felt like a lot of work for little response, little reward.”
• The hiring rate for all workers is at 3.6% of those counted in the labor force, just off the low of the post-Covid era, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Prior to the pandemic, the hiring rate was last below the current level in August 2014.