14th_cylon

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

so fixed by this time next year perhaps

well sure, tomorrow was slight exaggeration for dramatic effect, but i think we understand each other.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Oh fixing it is quite easy, it is just that people don't want to.

While getting whole world to switch to cars with renewable power source is an enormous undertaking and we don't know whether it is realistic, this could be fixed tomorrow. If only people wanted to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Hitting the record button is quite active though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Unless the therapists start using actually private ways of communicating like Signal, then stuff like this will keep happening.

That makes it safe from third party middle man attack, not from the therapist.

Also I am reasonably sure you can hide a camera in the room in face to face session.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It was a real "we should encrypt all our drives" moment.

I would say think twice whether you really need it. Encryption is another technological layer that can fail, so it is double edged sword and encrypting something "just to be on the safe side" might not be the best thing to do.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

If this is a security / privacy related question, there is nothing to stop a program running under Windows from reading the data

There is also nothing to prevent anyone to just run some live Linux from USB, so consider data on that Linux partition neither secure, nor private

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The elephants themselves are also dying from the drought, so it is fucked up situation all around :(

More than 200,000 elephants are estimated to live in a conservation area spread over five southern African countries - Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Angola and Namibia - making the region home to one of the largest elephant populations worldwide.

Hundreds of elephants died in Botswana and Zimbabwe last year because of drought.

 

WINDHOEK, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Namibia plans to cull 723 wild animals, including 83 elephants, and to distribute the meat to people struggling to feed themselves because of a severe drought across southern Africa, the environment ministry said.

The cull will take place in parks and communal areas where authorities believe animal numbers exceed available grazing land and water supplies, it said in a statement issued on Monday.

Southern Africa is facing its worst drought in decades, with Namibia having exhausted 84% of its food reserves last month, according to the United Nations. Nearly half of Namibia's population is expected to experience high levels of food insecurity in the coming months.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Pretty sure it has nothing to do with this, right?

Poor guy regretting he bowed to censorship...

https://www.reuters.com/technology/zuckerberg-says-biden-administration-pressured-meta-censor-covid-19-content-2024-08-27/

Aug 27 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (META.O) , opens new tab CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the Biden administration had pressured the company to "censor" COVID-19 content during the pandemic, apparently referring to White House requests to take down misinformation about the coronavirus and vaccines.

In a letter dated Aug. 26, Zuckerberg told the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee that he regretted not speaking up about this pressure earlier, as well as other decisions he had made as the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp around removing certain content.

In July 2021, President Joe Biden, a Democrat, said social media platforms like Facebook "are killing people" for allowing misinformation about coronavirus vaccines to be posted on its platform.

Others like former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy publicly said the company was not doing enough to take down misinformation, and was making it harder to fight the pandemic and save lives.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Why did that stupid girl lined up her cocaine on the carpet? :D

[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 weeks ago

You can literally pay adblock plus for whitelisting your ad.

If you want to make the world better place, look elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago

A reach is trying to explain that the situation is "just fine"

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Is it literally a crime what he’s doing?

i am not a lawyer, but if office of the president is ran by group of non-elected advisors, i would expect that to be literal crime 🤷‍♂️

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

One of the Biden White House’s greatest achievements, from the perspective of its staffers, if not necessarily the country, has been to deny the press the kind of juicy leaks that were constant under Donald Trump and frequent under his predecessors. Save for a very narrow period of time, that is, when there was a push to force an aging president toward the exits: Then and only then we got a drip-drip-drip of fascinating inside information.

For instance, we learned that Biden hadn’t held a full cabinet meeting since last October and that his handlers expected scripted questions from his cabinet officials. We learned that his capacities peak between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. and diminish outside that six-hour window. We learned that congressional Democrats, liberal donors and some journalists all had exposure to Biden’s decline that they didn’t discuss publicly until the debacle of the June debate. We learned that none other than Hunter Biden was acting as a close adviser to his father in the crucial days after that debate.

We even learned that from early in his presidency, the first lady’s closest aides worked to shield her husband from the staff that serves the first family in its living quarters, even as the aides themselves were given unusual access to the residence — as though it were essential to create a cocoon of loyalty and silence around the nation’s chief executive even when he isn’t on the job.

These are all interesting and pertinent facts about the man who officially leads the United States in a time of global danger — and they have not ceased to be pertinent because that president is no longer running for re-election.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/10/opinion/joe-biden-president.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CE4.0hyL.9CNFJAmhWmk2&smid=url-share

https://archive.is/u2JyP

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

hi guys,

any flightgear pilots, seasoned or aspiring, here? you are cordially invited to [email protected]

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/223027

Princess Juliana International Airport, St. Marteen, Caribbean islands

Left still source: https://youtu.be/bMIgcHbqTZY?t=10

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

hi guys,

any flightgear pilots, seasoned or aspiring, here? you are cordially invited to [email protected]

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/223027

Princess Juliana International Airport, St. Marteen, Caribbean islands

Left still source: https://youtu.be/bMIgcHbqTZY?t=10

[email protected]

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