Lenny sunning himself in this favorite spot.

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/politics@lemmy.world/p/2474069/ice-is-reportedly-using-a-palantir-database-to-compile-dossiers-on-protestors-engadget

An attorney representing protestors said this infringes on First Amendment rights.

In my opinion.

It's fine, but it's too common in online communities (including Lemmy) and it discourages people from posting their original thoughts or events that they find important and relevant, since something needs to come from a 'real news source' or an 'online article'.

I can make a website right now and call it "The Daily Pragmatist" or some shit and people won't bat an eye.

Reality also is that many reach conclusions based on titles alone anyhow. I can't see how it would be worse, since the body of the post is always going to be a tad more accessible than opening a new website. And we see how little people want to work to gather their knowledge, on the whole.

I get removing crappy content, but what about when thoughts are backed up with sources and opinions are relevant to overall discussion?

And separately, what's up with aversion to 'non-standard' forms of expression? I would argue that something like the show 'The Rehearsal' by Nathan Fielder, is an equally valid way to deliver real and important news to people. I wouldn't be alone in this sentiment.

Imo this shit is busted and dumb.

Ten years after the Standing Rock protests captured national attention, the tribe is still fighting the project.

I built Airvia because I wanted my Android phone to play on my HomePod, and nothing free actually spoke real AirPlay 2.

Airvia captures your phone's audio output — Spotify, YouTube Music, podcasts, radio, almost any app — and streams it to your speakers:

• Real AirPlay 2 (transient HAP pairing, encrypted channels, buffered ALAC), confirmed playing on a real HomePod — plus AirPlay 1/RAOP fallback, DLNA/Sonos, and Chromecast
• Multi-speaker casting with a separate volume slider per speaker, and your phone's hardware volume buttons control the speaker while casting
• Per-app capture if you only want certain apps cast
• 5-band EQ + preamp, now-playing metadata with artwork, sleep timer
• Android 10+, no root, no account, no ads, no trial limits

Honest limits: apps can opt out of audio capture and DRM output is never captured, and AirPlay's buffer means a second or two of delay — great for music and podcasts, not for lip-syncing video.

It's free and open source (MIT). APK and source are on GitHub — feedback and bug reports welcome, especially from anyone with receivers I don't own.

Built by me, an independent developer — I designed it, decided every feature, and tested everything on my own devices. It’s built on top of open-source projects.

The map is here.

It gives a rundown of different types, shows the directions they're facing, and gives a status ("Active", "Planned", "Decommissioned"). There's also a dataset table if that's more your speed (nerd).

This data is from Flock themselves. The paper behind how this was obtained can be found here. At a glance, seems to roughly line up with OpenStreetMap's catalogue of them (albeit I've seen at least one OSM doesn't cover yet but this new map does; this one is likely quite new, as OSM contributors are pretty good at keeping up).

Why YSK: Flock is late-stage capitalist trash enabling a surveillance state for an increasingly fascist government. For as long as this abomination exists, you should be able to know at all times exactly where your Fourth Amendment rights are being stolen from you.

Original post: https://mastodon.social/@heyokyay/117418039321475133

I'll try again in the morning

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52892260

I'm not sure if I just thought this up sitting on the tiles in my shower room or if I dreamt it, but still.

Edit: I'm being cynical and I hate our blind faith in and reliance on LLMs.

In the previous chapter of this saga, I mentioned that we were only able to extract the doorbell’s firmware because the Homebase’s flash memory was soldered directly to the board and did not expose any pins to which we could attach test hooks to dump the firmware. Initially we did not want to desolder it (although in the end we had to as I will explain later) so I had to wait to acquire additional hardware. Craig S. Blackie pointed me to spring clips that would suit the size needed for the Winbond 25Q256JWEQ (WSON8 8.6mm). Once the clip arrived I created the most makeshift setup imaginable, using rubber bands to secure the clip while I proceeded to take readings using the Raspberry Pi’s SPI0 interface, just as we did with the doorbell. I performed three reads and the three had different checksums, which usually is a indicator of something being wrong. After inspecting the dumps, I quickly realized they were garbage and completely useless. Unlike with the doorbell, in this case, the power supplied for the read operation also activated other components on the board that interacted with the memory; therefore, to extract the firmware, we had to desolder the chip and read it off-board.

Hey guys I am new here but I wanted to ask and get an opinion on this as we aren’t very handy ourselves.

My fiancée and I are finishing a lofted apartment area above a garage. We hired a family friend’s husband as our contractor and so far we haven’t made it far into the process.

He has torn down the old deck and put up a new extended one, which looks okay from what I can tell. However there are a few points on the stairs, especially the bottom step, that have splits in the wood. I am concerned that this may lead to loose boards or repairs needed later on.

Based on my one wood shop class in high school, I didn’t think this looked good, but like I said I am not very handy so I want a second opinion. Is this something I should have them fix or is this to be expected?

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1456801/a-global-hardwired-pause-of-frontier-ai-training-is-feasible-says-new-report