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iPhones And Androids Can Now Warn You of 'Secret Trackers' (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

In a collaborative effort, Apple and Google have developed an industry-standard detection feature called “Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers” (DULT) for Bluetooth trackers. This standard allows users on iOS and Android devices to be alerted if an unknown Bluetooth tracker is monitoring their location.

icydefiance , (edited )

Google is buying your data, not selling it. They use it to make their ad platform more effective, and selling the data would just help their competitors.

The NSA does collect data from third parties like Google, but not just anyone can buy it from them.

icydefiance ,

unless a progressive third party emerges the system will keep getting worse

If a progressive third party emerges, they’ll split the vote with Democrats, making both of them weaker. That’ll just give every election to Republicans and make the country get worse even faster.

The only way to get progressive candidates is by moving the Overton window to the left, and the only way to do that is by voting for Democrats.

icydefiance ,

Canada would be. Mexico’s homicide rate is almost 5x higher than the USA.

icydefiance ,

Google “us homicide rate” and then “mexico homicide rate”. It’ll take you 5 seconds.

icydefiance ,

Tourists choose the safest areas of the country to visit, and they don’t stay very long, so yeah that makes sense. You’re not really escaping gun violence in the USA if you only leave the country for a few days, though.

icydefiance ,

I haven’t said anything on the subject before, because I don’t care very much, but I don’t know what the alternative is supposed to be. It’s not like someone who is that famous can walk into a public airplane without putting her own safety at risk and causing trouble for other passengers.

It’s also well known that conservatives really hate her because she told her fans to vote and these memes are part of their effort to discredit her. Whether the point has any merit or not, it’s obvious who started the trend and who it’s helping.

icydefiance ,

Why the fuck aren’t more people pressuring him with questions like this?

Because they’ll never get another interview with him, or most other Republican politicians. It’s a pathetic reason, but that’s all it takes.

icydefiance ,

He’s a human trafficker and a rapist. The women in his videos don’t have a choice but to do what he says.

icydefiance , (edited )

Most problems I’ve seen between Nvidia and Linux were caused by Wayland. If you’re using Fedora with Gnome (the default) then you can try hitting the gear icon when logging in and choosing “gnome on xorg” (screenshot). That might help with the drivers.

For any other issues, Mint might be easier just because it’s based on Debian, which is immensely popular. It’s more of a well beaten path, and there’s probably more help online for any issues you run into.

icydefiance ,

If your connection is stable, the latency will more or less be the same, but TCP will consume more bandwidth because of acknowledgement packets, making it harder to keep your connection stable.

On an unstable connection, TCP latency will skyrocket as it resends packets, while UDP will just drop those packets unless the game engine has its own way of resending them. Most engines have that, but they only do it for data that is marked as “important”. For example using an item is important, but the position of your character probably isn’t, because it’ll be updated on the next tick anyway.

icydefiance ,

I live in Michigan. Most of the houses below 300k are either so far out in the sticks you can barely even get Internet, or they’re in dangerous and very run down areas.

There are a few nice places listed at 250k, but they sell instantly and for quite a bit above what they’re listed at, so it’s not like you can actually get one of them.

icydefiance ,

Household income is absolutely not the right metric to use here, because it’ll always be proportional to the cost of the house out of necessity.

For example, if the cost of a house goes up relative to individual income, then more people in the family need to start working more hours, and more people live with roommates.

Household income stays proportionally the same, always, but individual income shows you how much people are struggling.

icydefiance ,

I’m saying your numbers are bullshit. Houses aren’t actually that cheap.

icydefiance ,

People didn’t used to need a second income to afford a house. Now they do.

Household income doesn’t show that change. Individual income does.

icydefiance ,

Lol they’re mostly trailers

icydefiance ,

The average individual income in Michigan, where houses are actually selling for around $300k, is $34,768. www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/…/INC110221

That doesn’t give the median, but it’s lower. Those numbers are always thrown off by a few rich people.

icydefiance ,

Not if you hide the pending/contingent ones. They’re basically already sold.

Also, the houses that have a garage and aren’t pending are mostly above $250k. They barely count as being “below $300k”.

And like I said, those cheaper houses sell instantly and for a lot above the asking price, unless there’s something wrong with them that will cost a lot to fix. You can’t actually buy a $250k house for $250k.

icydefiance ,

Again, families didn’t used to need 2 incomes to buy a house.

Saying that households can still afford houses is tautological. Of course they can, or they wouldn’t be a household.

icydefiance ,

40 have been on the site longer than 2 weeks. I can only filter for less than two weeks, not greater than, so I won’t bother with that, but here’s a summary of the first 5 that have a garage, aren’t pending, and are less than $300k:

  • “This house needs work and is priced accordingly”
  • “This is a 55 and older only community.”
  • A trailer with a detached garage for $250k. That’s just insulting.
  • A nice condo for $299,900, right where I said most houses would be.
  • A kind of ugly place for $230k. The description says it only needs cosmetic improvements, so this might actually be a good one to buy.

So hey, in the first 5 there’s one house that seems reasonable. Maybe there are a few more if I go through the rest. Still, for a city of 200k people, being able to count the reasonably priced houses on your fingers is not very good.

icydefiance ,

If your household income is very low, then your family may not be able to afford to buy a house.

If your family can’t afford to buy a house, then your family doesn’t get counted as a household.

icydefiance ,

:w !sudo tee %

Of course that’s impossible to remember, but you can just google “vim sudo save” or something like that to find it.

icydefiance ,

I don’t think so, but you can always write the file somewhere else and then sudo mv it back.

icydefiance ,

Blargerer is probably saying that because the Mastodon post OP linked to says “In 2016 the EU Commission confirmed in writing that adblock detection requires consent.”

That, in turn, is probably referring to a letter received from the European Commission by the same person, which you can see here: twitter.com/alexanderhanff/…/722861362607747072

It’s not exactly a “ruling”, but it’s still pretty convincing.

icydefiance ,

Postgres normalizes table and field names to lowercase, unless you put them in quotes. It’s also case sensitive.

That means if you use quotes and capital letters when creating the table, then it’s impossible to refer to that table without using quotes.

It also means if you rename the table later to be all lowercase, then all your existing code will break.

Still a much better database than MySQL though.

icydefiance ,

Fair point. I always disliked the design because ORMs pretty much always use quotes, so an entity-first approach can create a lot of tables with capital letters if you’re not careful, which is then really annoying if you need to use raw SQL for anything.

icydefiance ,

Close encounters of the racist kind is a good read. Here’s the most relevant part:

Consider the H2 series “In Search of Aliens,” which, before its demise, promoted the work of Jan Udo Holey, a German writer whose antisemitic books have been banned across Europe. (Holey’s pen name, Jan Van Helsig, is a blunt Dracula reference, i.e. Jews are bloodsuckers.) The History Channel’s long-running series “Ancient Aliens,” meanwhile, features David Childress, whose books cite and build on the work of James Churchward, who promoted an ancient empire called the “lost continent of Mu,” whose “dominant race” was an “exceedingly handsome people, with clear white or olive skin.”

The history channel is entry level nazi propaganda.

icydefiance ,

If you haven’t already, try some modpacks. For extra difficulty, the packs based on GregTech are pretty amazing, like GregTech: New Horizons or Nomifactory. They make it so complicated to produce items that you’re kind of forced to automate things, and then you keep expanding what your automation can do.

GTNH takes like 2 years to build a pair of star gates if you’re playing alone, and they keep making it harder. It’s a massive amount of content.

icydefiance ,

The Supreme Court has ruled repeatedly that the right to anonymous free speech is protected by the First Amendment. A frequently cited 1995 Supreme Court ruling in McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission reads:

Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. . . . It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation . . . at the hand of an intolerant society.

www.eff.org/issues/anonymity

icydefiance ,

How exactly do you think someone can be anonymous from the government if they’re not anonymous to the public?

icydefiance ,

We’re not talking about doxxing. Don’t change the subject.

icydefiance ,

How exactly do you think someone can be anonymous to the government if they’re not anonymous to the public?

icydefiance ,

You’re still not answering the question.

icydefiance ,

That’s a foolish assumption. Plenty of countries have strong reasons to weaken Israel, and plenty of other countries have strong reasons to support them.

Russia and China are spreading as much propaganda about this as the the US and its allies, guaranteed.

icydefiance ,

A lemmygrad user condemning Israel for genocide is the purest form of hypocrisy I’ve ever seen. Make up your fucking mind.

icydefiance ,

Capitalism=bad Genocide=bad Opression in any form=bad

Unless Russia or China do it. You left that part out.

icydefiance ,

Abducting thousands of Ukrainian children, indoctrinating them with propaganda, and forcing them to live as Russian citizens is genocide.

Performing forced sterilizations on Uyghurs is genocide.

Thanks for demonstrating what I said, though. It’s clear you don’t see any problem with those things.

icydefiance ,

Which is easier to outrun, a knife or a bullet?

icydefiance ,

That’s pretty much it. Apparently the format optionally supports compression and even transparency, but last time I used paint it didn’t do any of that, which is why the files were so massive.

icydefiance ,

I’m pretty sure GSRM wrote A Song of Ice and Fire.

icydefiance ,

It is hurting people

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