Wonder if there's a spin cycle. Ha.

Seriously though. This should really help the elderly or those with a physical limitation.

The federal watchdog system at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that oversees complaints about civil rights violations, including in immigration detention, has been gutted so thoroughly that it could be laying the groundwork for the Trump administration to “abuse people with impunity”, experts warn.

Former federal oversight officials have sounded the alarm at the rapid dismantling of guardrails against human rights failures – at the same time as the government pushes aggressive immigration enforcement operations.

A group of fired watchdogs has filed a whistleblower complaint to Congress through the Government Accountability Project (GAP), and a coalition of human rights organizations sued the administration, demanding the employees be reinstated. There is deepening concern that a system of oversight that was already weak is now hanging by a thread, even as criticism surges over treatment of detainees in the ballooning immigration jail network.

AI is the going to make me a ton of money and is next evolution I'm technology. Just like NFTs and the Metaverse.

While lithium extraction technologies generally focus on ways to get the essential metal out of the ground, there's another source to mine: existing batteries that no longer work. A new technique could now make that process economically viable.

Some residents of the flood-hit island of Sumatra resorted to looting, seeking food and water to survive, authorities said Sunday.

The floods, which hit nearly a week ago, have killed 303 people — with the number expected to rise as more bodies are recovered — and displaced thousands. The deluges triggered landslides, damaged roads, cut off parts of the island, and downed communication lines.

The challenging weather conditons and the lack of heavy equipment also hampered rescue efforts. Aid has been slow to reach the hardest-hit city of Sibolga and the district of Central Tapanuli district in North Sumatra.

Have you ever felt the urge to knock a judge out, to see if they still think that doesn't deserve prison?

Absolutely disgusting.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/37419690

https://www.reddit.com/r/trump/s/CLIh3NlXBc

A group of tribal nations in Alaska has gone to B.C. Supreme Court demanding their voice be heard on major mining projects in the province’s northwest.

They claim the British Columbia government has failed to consult them on major mining projects proposed for the region — some of which have been identified for fast-tracking by the provincial and federal governments against the backdrop of the trade war with the United States.

"Our main goal is protect the rivers, protect the salmon, protect the culture,” said Guy Archibald, executive director of the Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission (SEITC).

The commission represents 14 tribes, which include members of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian, whose territory extends across both B.C. and Alaska.

Ukraine says it used sea drones to strike two oil tankers that are part of Russia’s sanctioned shadow fleet and were a few dozen kilometres off the coast of Turkey.

The Gambian-flagged ships Kairos and Virat sustained explosions Friday evening after crews told Turkish officials the boats had been struck.

Kairos, which was headed to the Russian port of Novorossiysk, was partially engulfed in flames, and all 25 crew members were evacuated to safety. The crew on board Virat reported it had been hit twice and sustained what appeared to be minor damage. Neither vessel was carrying a shipment of crude at the time.

In a statement, an official with the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said the attacks on the two ships were carried out by the SBU and the Ukrainian navy using “sea baby” drones, which can travel long distances and are equipped with reinforced warheads.

Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.

Apologies for the poor grammar, English IS my first language and so I'm rather flagrant with runons.

I'm really not half as tech literate as half the people on the fediverse, but my noia about the state of online cloud hosting and lack of control over my data has led me far out of my depth. I'm wanting to set up a LibreCMC router and connect it to some type of home server (made of local office E-Waste) for media storage, email hosting, and fucking Minecraft servers or something. I promise I've tried my best in searching for the problem but often find myself floundering in 3-letter acronyms, and relations between systems I don't understand (like dockers, or the Jellyfin vs Plex argument.) I don't need an explanation but maybe some orientation on where I am to look for resources on these topics that assume I'm the 6 celled neurobase I am.

Thank you for your help, or your chastising.

Edit: thank you everyone for your replies! I'll hopefully keep you all updated as I work through learning Linux terminals, and destroying terabytes of data in horribly predictable mistakes : )

A Reddit user says their new memory kit vanished somewhere between dispatch and delivery.

The Department of Telecommunications has told these apps that within the next 90 days, they must make sure their services work only when the correct SIM card is in the phone. If you remove that SIM, the app should stop working. This is known as SIM binding.

• Continuous SIM presence: Apps must check regularly whether the original SIM card is still inserted in your phone. If not, the app must automatically stop working until you insert the correct SIM again.

• Web access restrictions: If you use WhatsApp Web or similar web versions, the government wants you to get logged out automatically every six hours. To log in again, you will have to scan a QR code with the app. This is to ensure the device and user are genuine.

People who use these apps on secondary devices without a SIM, or those who keep their SIM in one phone but use the app on another, may face interruptions

I don't even see the point of this:

• Surveillance?
• Some Incoming telecom plan change which will require you to have a special plan for using Messengers because no one uses SMS and don't bother to have an SMS plan? so telecom networks can make some more money?

OpenAI is now internally testing 'ads' inside ChatGPT that could redefine the web economy.

Title says it all.

"snort owl"