Wait they shut that down? The fuck?

Nice to hear reasonable decisions in betwixt the Trump presidency.

Maybe Captchas could help against automated calls or something?

Does netbird run on wg on on ovpn as well? Maybe that’s an option…

Sethbling comes to mind

Man I would love a Linux OS as an alternative to android that’s workable day-to-day on my phone.

Because afaik they charged him with false id, and the evidence looks really bad against him so it was sensible to not go through trial, take such a long time and then be convicted.

And on the murder charges his case is also not great. He wrote a manifesto, we saw camera footage of the shooting and him driving away, there’s apparently evidence that he booked himself into a hotel in that city for exactly that time range, plus because of the public nature and the politicization of the care the state would likely pour a gigantic amount of money into his prosecution and there’s nothing he can do about that.

And also just because doing a plea probably genuinely makes his sentence less severe. But that’s a tactical decision and the exact mechanics will [not] be known, because that’s something he only discusses with his lawyers, which is a good thing.

Edit: added a “not”

I think you are conflating the Flock cameras with other things the police do.

On a flock camera they can only see what the camera sees.

They also put up wifi sniffers (stingray, imsi catcher) that can capture everything that’s sent and / or received to mobile hotspots. Essentially an endless mitm attack. They can do that with a court order.

They can only enter your phone with a search warrant. Practically this only happens when the police are already suspicious of you. Technically this can happen to anyone and everyone should keep that in mind.

But no, they cannot look into your cellphone from a flock camera. In fact these cameras are probably quite bad for capturing anything else other than number plates.

I was gonna say, the minimum at minimum. That’s around 13€/h for my country. Now I would hope depending on the restaurant they would also be paid more, maybe 16€/h or something, because being a server can be extremely taxing. Depending on the place, people can be awful.

These screenshots are art.

It is not a stupid question.

AI is a statistical model. It emulates how we speak and therefore mimics how we think. But there are essential differences currently.

The size of AI-models is way less than that of our brains (comparing nodes to brain cells) by several orders of magnitude. AI models do simulate associative thinking and pattern thinking really well in some ways, but not very well in others. While an AI can have different sections of brain that can go back and forth (Mixture of Experts), they usually only pass raw numbers through the model one way. Our brain afaik is unidirectional with its electrical signals.

I’m saying this because an AI and a brain have fundamental differences we won’t be able to eliminate as of now. Which means a traditional consciousness as we know from humans or animals in some cases is hard to presume.

That said, a lot of experts recently raised alarms because what is classified as a person, when does thinking start and stop, all of these ethical boundaries need more strict definitions law-wise, because we are definitely fishing at the boundaries.

I know Lemmy doesn’t like AI and will highlight these fundamental differences, but the ethical questions raised are indeed part of a growing corpus of science currently.

I mean it kinda looks like that’s by design currently. It’s an indexer for your corners of the web, not a search aggregator to find new ones.

I don’t exactly remember but I think it’s because last time they did it, and scientific consensus is that made the recession last way longer.

Wish I had a source for that…

Fair

Well January 6 was most definitely a chaotic attempt at a Beer Hall Putsch equivalent.

Looking at false flags specifically, he is talking about past “stolen” elections and is also using election security as pretext to change voting infrastructure with some justification. Although the changes are both legal and illegal at times.

It seems like he managed to repurpose ICE and homeland security into his personal police and spy agency, very akin to the gestapo / SS. He is using immigrants as a scapegoat, no matter their legal status.

I guess it’s harder to find a false flag specifically equivalent to the Reichstag fire, but he is using false flags at almost the same level constantly for different things. So technically no, but practically he’s got one foot on the line. We’ll have to see where he takes this during the elections coming up.

Yeah this screams alternate service. And pretty sure at some point alternate service is also allowed over email, mail, or other means.

I’m just gonna ignore the rambling and talk about the photo, because it’s legendary.

This is Young Thug with his Attorney Brian Steele.

Young Thug was prosecuted for RICO charges. Basically they said he was the boss of a criminal gang who did all sorts of things.

Well it looked like this prosecution merely existed because the state’s attorney got elected for being hard on crime, and wanted to get someone famous in jail to make headlines.

Criminal defenses are hard, because it is well known that the judge is always more willing to extend the benefit of the doubt to the prosecution, less so to the defense. However the judge in this case did some genuinely illegal things. He first made the decision that the key witness was credible. A man, who admitted himself to lying to the police just because he was scared of them, and then made fundamentally conflicting statements in court. The judge also gave the production carte blanche multiple times in order to tack on new charges in the middle of proceedings which rarely ever happens in other courts and especially not multiple times. And then finally, he held a meeting with the key witness ex-parte, meaning he, the witness and the prosecution were there, but not Brian Steel, and not Young Thug, and therefore his side was not heard. Ex-parte is rare and it basically only happens at temporary restraining orders or other things that need to be dealt with fast. But this wasn’t that.

Anyway, Brian Steel became aware of this illegal meeting and he talked about it in court. However, he was cut off by the judge repeatedly, then only asked how he learned about this meeting and never heard regarding this procedural and constitutional violation.

Ultimately the judge threw Brian Steel in jail for this. And then Brian Steel said one of the most badass things, to the effect of “Can I be jailed together with my Client, so we can prepare his defense?”.

However this didn’t last long. The legal community was outraged that a lawyer was jailed again (last time this happened was 10-20y ago, it’s frowned upon), and about 10 lawyers showed up representing Brian Steel on a motion to disqualify the judge and ultimately got rid of him when he was forcefully removed by another local court judge.

A new judge was assigned, Brian Steel was released in exchange for community service instead and eventually Young Thug would plea no-contest open to the court, meaning he told the new judge he doesn’t wanna fight the charges anymore and is ready for the judge to make a verdict on the spot. This netted him a fairly mild verdict, perfectly in line with the evidence, and he was only to sit 5-10 more years in prison and a bunch of charges were thrown out.

To me, that first judge and prosecution are representing the incredible injustice happening regularly in some jurisdictions, the new judge represents the slow but creeping change for a more fair world, Young Thug was wrongly prosecuted (if you look at the evidence you will understand how weak this case was from the beginning), Brian Steel is an absolute hero who is ready to sacrifice his freedom for his beliefs.

You can find videos online of this case if you’re interested, just search for “Young Thug trial”. I find these cases extremely interesting for highlighting the amount of prosecutorial overreach, corruption, etc. inherent in the judicial branch, and it helps understand what this actually looks like on a practical level.

Yeah that’s what I was thinking. I wonder what his track record on open source is.

Now it’s Belgium

I assume it has to do with it kind of directly competing with steamos and eating into the user share?