salarua 3 weeks ago • 66%
I looked up the Open Technology Fund on Wikipedia and it has no relation to the CIA. well, except that its parent agency (Radio Free Asia) is part of the US government like the CIA is. they don't seem to work together at all, and they're under the purview of two different branches of government
besides, as other commenters have said, they're open source and they've been audited. anyone can build the client themselves (with any potential backdoors removed) and set up their own server. would the CIA allow for that?
salarua 3 weeks ago • 100%
Signal was developed with financial backing by the CIA, so do with that information what you will.
source?
salarua 3 weeks ago • 73%
NPR News is probably what you're looking for. sports and celebrity stuff is relegated to the Culture section, which is its own separate thing (although there are a couple of music stories that seem to have been misplaced). here is the RSS feed for the News section: https://feeds.npr.org/1001/rss.xml
salarua 2 months ago • 100%
true. gotta get one of those desks you see at schools, with the hole in the corner and the plastic cover
salarua 2 months ago • 100%
the setup actually isn't bad at all. using a soundbar is a nice touch. i would do something about the clutter though; you want a nice clean desk for gaming sessions. too bad we can't see the chair, you need something like an office chair for maximum comfort and not a gaming chair, as they actually aren't very good for your back
salarua 3 months ago • 100%
never doubt the elegance of good semantic HTML and a few lines of classless CSS
**Abstract** Increasing the uptake of active, carbon neutral forms of transport is indicated for both population health and environmental conservation. Efforts to increase cycling uptake are hindered by negative attitudes towards cyclists. Recent research from Australia has found that many people consider cyclists to be less than fully human. There is currently a lack of empirical evidence that explains these dehumanising perceptions. Most people who ride bicycles in Australia wear safety helmets as required by mandatory helmet laws. We hypothesised that people wearing bicycle helmets are perceived as less human compared to people without helmets due to reduced visibility of eyes and hair. We tested this hypothesis through a survey (n = 563) comprised of two-paired alternate forced choice questions to identify which image of a cyclist respondents consider to be less human. We then analysed the results using a Bradley-Terry probability model. We found images of cyclists wearing helmets or safety vests to have a higher probability of being selected as less human compared to images of cyclists wearing no safety equipment. The results have implications for research on cyclist dehumanisation and its mitigation.
salarua 3 months ago • 100%
the Republican Party checks off almost all of these.
- powerful and continuing nationalism: MAGA and America First
- disdain for human rights: the ongoing trans genocide and their support for the Palestinian genocide
- identification of enemies as an unifying cause: the "woke" fearmongering
- supremacy of the military: Trump has waffled between praising the military and calling them "losers", so not quite yet
- rampant sexism: reinforcement of traditional gender roles and the "tradwife" movement
- controlled mass media: inside their sphere, yeah. Fox News, Newsmax, and OAN breathlessly hang on to every word Republican figures say
- obsession with national security: bOrdEr WAlL!
- religion and government intertwined: anti-abortion policies universally have religious justifications for them, plus several Republicans have said (and seem to sincerely believe) that Trump was ordained by Jesus
- corporate power protected: corporate tax cuts and the withering of regulatory agencies under Republican leadership
- labor power suppressed: the logical corollary to the above
- disdain for intellectuals and the arts: distrust of experts and scientific endeavors
- obsession with crime and punishment: running on being "hard on crime"
- rampant cronyism and corruption: Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito's undeclared trips from Republican donors are likely just the tip of the iceberg
- fraudulent elections: not yet, and hopefully never 🤞
salarua 3 months ago • 100%
he absolutely carried Stargate Atlantis, it was weird to see him in Aquaman
salarua 3 months ago • 100%
Aquaman. the visual effects were ridiculous, the characters were one-dimensional, the soundtrack was...something, and the overall tone was that of a testosterone firehose to the face. i said the eight deadly words about halfway through, and i was thoroughly bored out of my mind despite action scene after action scene after action scene...the only reason why i didn't just get up and leave was because i was watching with a group
salarua 3 months ago • 100%
butlerian jihad?
salarua 3 months ago • 100%
it's on "Copilot+" PCs (i.e. ARM-based with an NPU)
salarua 3 months ago • 100%
IIUC it wouldn’t be able to be automatically started then, right? I mean I guess you could drag it to startup but it would need the password to start. From a security minded perspective that’s good, but from a user perspective kind of sucks.
that's true, but since this is a record of everything you've ever done, i feel this is the irreducible minimum for security. a separate password prompt would signal to the less technically-minded users that this is Serious
Always forced to foreground makes it even less convenient and kind of odd.
this is a design pattern i borrowed from Linux (my OS of choice). modern Linux apps require your explicit permission to run in the background, so most of them don't even bother with running in the background at all. that said, i suppose it can run in the background, as long as the status indicator is sufficiently noticeable, but you'd have to go into the settings and flip that switch yourself
I don’t see this functionality as being useful if you have to remember to turn it on.
i imagine that it would become a habit, or you'd set it to run on startup. my use case would be turning it on for specific tasks like research or shopping, where you might only later remember that that one thing you saw was actually really valuable
I figure the cryptfs could be a bitlocker volume with a different key than the base C drives key to get similar protection. In theory it could also be based on the C drives bitlocker for a less secure, but still hardware level secured middle ground.
can a user-installed app do that?
salarua 3 months ago • 100%
if i were designing a recall program, here's how i would do it: it would take a screenshot every five seconds, OCR it, then run it through local quantized image recognition and word association neural networks, and then toss everything into a CryFS vault. when launching the recall program, you have to provide the password to unlock the vault so it can read and write to it. it can only run in the foreground (so you have to keep the window open for it to run, no closing it and forgetting about it) and it will display a status indicator in your system tray that provides a menu to pause or stop recording. afterwards, you can mark any text or region of the screen for redaction, and it'll redact it across all screenshots and delete it from the database; you can delete individual screenshots or entire periods of time; and there will be an easily accessible self-destruct option that shreds the database (i.e. overwriting it with random garbage 21 times before deleting it off the disk). this is all offline and the application will not request network access
i'm just making this up on the fly, so there are absolutely security and privacy considerations I absolutely forgot about, but this is the bare minimum i would like to see
salarua 4 months ago • 100%
browser data is a potential liability, sure, but you have tools to manage it. you can delete pages or entire websites, you can use private windows, you can purge history older than 6 months or something like that, and at least a few browsers have a "forget" button that wipes out the last two hours of history. similar deals with cookies and other data, and we've collectively decided the benefit of having browser data is worth the risk.
not so here. Recall is a record of everything you've ever done on your PC. you can't selectively delete things like you can with browser history, the app and website exclusion is only as good as whatever Recall is using to detect apps and websites, and you can't redact sensitive info after the fact. people are generally okay with browser history and data because they know they have fine-grained controls to manage it, controls Recall doesn't have
salarua 4 months ago • 100%
the screenshots and text are just sitting in the appdata folder, which requires no special permission to access
salarua 4 months ago • 85%
it's satire
this **rootless** Python script rips Windows Recall's screenshots and SQLite database of OCRed text and allows you to search them.
salarua 4 months ago • 98%
anything but the metric system
salarua 4 months ago • 100%
bikes don't need pavement, just good wheels
salarua 4 months ago • 97%
AnnaArchivist is not the asshole here. this is extremely out-of-line and entitled behavior on CurrentRisk's part, whining about something as insignificant as download speeds and hounding AnnaArchivist for a response she is not obligated to give, on a post that's combative and immature and generally not worthy of her consideration, when she has so many better things to be doing
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16097480 > https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/1d6auj0/how_it_started_vs_how_its_going/
salarua 4 months ago • 37%
post title is misleading. it won't make criticizing Israel illegal, but it will be legally considered hate
salarua 4 months ago • 100%
not because she is vile — because she is a Republican. she has sacrificed her better nature for power and closeness to Trump. there is no particular reason why she is cruel, of course, because cruelty is the point.
salarua 4 months ago • 100%
get another joke
salarua 4 months ago • 100%
try $ sudo apt install akmod-nvidia
. it's gonna pull in some dependencies and a proprietary driver, and probably break Secure Boot if you have it set up, but that's how i got it to work on Fedora (except i used dnf, of course)
salarua 4 months ago • 100%
tenure was created to prevent nazi interference with academic freedom. and here we see nazi interference with academic freedom thwarted by tenure
salarua 4 months ago • 100%
don't use amp links pls
salarua 5 months ago • 100%
brakes are woke and socialist and full of CRT, real Americans stick their foot out the door and shred their boots on the road to stop their car
salarua 5 months ago • 100%
the Daily Mail is just one big reporting error
salarua 5 months ago • 100%
salarua 5 months ago • 66%
i'm not sure either, but either way, a hurt dog will holler ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
the best answer yet to "why pirate movies"
salarua 5 months ago • 100%
even a broken clock is right twice a day
::: spoiler image description Twitter post by @DirtyTesLa: Thankful to have Cybertruck to help me with the real work and big loads 🙏 (image of Cybertruck with several bags of soil in the trunk) Reply by @KralikLj: Hell boy that would fit in a bicycle. Way more carbon free than that wankpanzer. (image of cargo bicycle with several bags of soil strapped to the front) :::
salarua 5 months ago • 100%
idk, seems like forced birth and pedophilia are bigger threats to the dignity of the woman and the child than surrogacy
salarua 6 months ago • 66%
that's all well and good, but one of the two will get in office no matter what. might as well suck it up and vote for the lesser evil.
besides, you said yourself which one you'd prefer. you'd flee the country if Trump got into office, and you acknowledge that the Democrats can be shamed into doing the right thing (unlike the Republicans). if it makes the choice more palatable, think of it not as a vote for someone but a vote against someone. not voting at all is complicity.
salarua 6 months ago • 80%
would you rather Trump be in office instead?
salarua 6 months ago • 100%
it isn't obvious to anyone reading mainstream news. news orgs are bending over backwards to obfuscate who's actually doing the killing (one particularly egregious example being the NYT writing a whole-ass haiku instead of stating that Israeli soldiers opened fire on Palestinians seeking aid). sure, this particular headline would be ok if it was common knowledge that Israel is causing the wanton destruction in Gaza, but thanks to every other headline being like this, it isn't
salarua 6 months ago • 98%
this was on purpose. the World Central Kitchen notified the IDF about their movement, and their vehicles were clearly marked. there is no way this was an accident. the IDF purposely killed aid workers delivering food to Gaza. if this isn't an indicator of their genocidal intentions, i don't know what is
salarua 6 months ago • 78%
common Fedi Garden W
salarua 6 months ago • 100%
the shit is posting
Marx and Engels mention a class "below" the proletariat called the lumpenproletariat, which i understand as meaning a class that has no class consciousness, and is therefore susceptible to the influence of the bourgeoisie. but i don't see the difference between that and the proletariat proper. don't the proletariat receive propaganda to suppress their own class consciousness, and don't they have to be woken up? i don't get why the lumpenproletariat supposedly can't be woken up in the same way. besides, some examples of the lumpenproletariat given are people in organized crime, sex workers, and the unemployed. i find it hypocritical to condemn a class of people based on what they do to survive in a capitalist society (or in the case of the unemployed, the fact that the bourgeoisie won't give them a job). but more than anything, i'm just thoroughly confused by this concept. i feel like i'm missing something major.
this isn't about anything specific, this is just a general question. i always assumed that multiplayer wouldn't work on pirated copies of games, or at most you'd have to play on specially configured servers. but the other day i saw a thread about a game where online multiplayer works even with pirated copies, and now i'm curious about how often that happens. i understand that every game is different, and i want to know: what are your experiences with online multiplayer in pirated games?
[by MondySpartan on DeviantArt](https://www.deviantart.com/mondyspartan/art/Spotify-Aero-WMP-11-Styled-Mockup-975061412)
...a late 2000s futuristic FPS game (with dubious status as an FPS) introducing never-before-seen movement mechanics that are used to their fullest potential featuring an athletic but non-sexualized female protagonist, had a radio-friendly song titled "Still Alive" playing over the end credits, i'd have two nickels. which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
cross-posted from: https://mastodon.uno/users/rivoluzioneurbanamobilita/statuses/111686535373919059 > "Big Clearance! 12 in place of 1!" > > "Grande offerta! 12 per 1!" > > ENFB cyclists' union, Woerden, 1993; poster by Theo van den Boogaard > > [@fuck\_cars](https://lemmy.ml/c/fuck_cars)
image source [here](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eye_disease_simulation,_age-related_macular_degeneration.jpg)
(found [here](https://ohai.social/@MeanwhileinCanada/111358020453489553))