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One reason is that IP's can be more granular as another user pointed out. OTOH that doesn't always work so well, either - I often get pinpointed to a location some 100km from where I actually am.

Another reason could be to circumvent people's privacy settings, which are becoming more popular even without using a VPN. Essentially a sort of "we don't trust you with the data you give us about yourself".

And since others brought up search engines etc., there's a third reason: I always use English on my computer UI, but I am not in England and English is not my first language. Sometimes it's nice to still get localised results (DDG has a drop-down to change this on the fly though).

Oh, and while trying to find a site that tells me where it thinks my IP is located right now I noticed that the top search results all ask location permissions and show me nothing without them. And "Location" is a combo of IP, cell tower and GPS. It might come down to IP only on a laptop, but soon maybe not anymore.

using Google Translate on the backend to transparently translate the website on the fly.

This is what they call "modern cloud-based solutions". Except, now it's "modern AI-based solutions" - same shit with a different label.

I am now trying to imagine how that works. Every time a client calls the website with an unseen (and IP-based of course) language? Do they at least cache whatever google returns?

Storing translations and switching between them at a technical level isn’t really hard.

Esp. as you yourself pointed out, the internet has been multilingual for decades now.

I'm the opposite: I find it increasingly harder to distinguish car makers just from looking at the car (without seeing the logo of course). They all look snazzy.

I just know that when I see a fancy car, and check the make, it’s BMW or something high end, and when I see a pygmy hippo lookin’ motherfucker, it’s made by one of those “buy one, get one free” type manufacturers that appeal to meth head soccer moms.

First of all, car manufacturers invest A LOT of resources into evoking that specific reaction in (potential) customers.

And I don't like your attitude towards people who have less money than you.

You absolutely can slap a Lambo body on anything (provided it fits) and there is a literal cottage industry that exists around doing so. It’s not popular because, let’s be honest, it’s pretty silly, and everyone involved acknowledges its pretty much just for fun and entertainment.

There used to be one or two pretty popular versions of this though; not an exact copy but just a sporty chassis on top of a ubiquitous and cheap model, like the Karmann-Ghia on top of the VW Beetle.

I asked in another thread if there's some media coverage of what the troops themselves think, in LA. Or how they act. You wouldn't happen to know some?

https://web.archive.org/web/20210422014523/https://www.gnu.org/education/how-i-fought-to-graduate-without-using-non-free-software.html

A new government after the revolution. What is the first thing they do? Try to fix what is broken? No, oppress women some more!

And that's in the US! AFAIK they still aren't allowed for sale in the EU. Because they're not safe enough. There's maybe a dozen people who jumped through all the hoops required to legally get one on the road, and most of them rent them out as props.

oh alright. I get that. I was going through http error codes just prior to reading it so I was primed to have something to say about it-

Damn, I like your reply.

Most of your question can be answered by the fact that I was high when I wrote the post and am just tired of using my filter in real life and I feel safe here on Lemmy.

And that's valid; but it might reveal things about your sub/halfconscious that other people will point out to you, and will mistake for conviction. But if you're OK with that...

And thanks for yet another insight into the certainly not boring but terrifying world of the US education "system".

Just to clarify:

The military is generally barred under federal laws from taking part in domestic law enforcement. Noem’s request may be a step toward the administration sidestepping those laws by invoking the Insurrection Act, two legal experts said in interviews.

Every. Accusation. Is. A. Confession.

Thanks.

Goodness...

Experts question the legality of the (something the US government does)

Such a small sentence. We hear it so often these days yet not enough people stop to think what it really means.

It almost goes without saying, but I'll quote it nevertheless:

it is unclear under what authority Trump and the Defense Department did so

(...)

The Posse Comitatus Act bars federal troops from participating in civilian law enforcement.

And this:

“Military presence is not needed. The state is already working with local partners to surge 800+ additional state and local law enforcement officers into Los Angeles to clean up President Trump’s mess,” Tara Gallegos, a spokesperson for Newsom, told The Intercept by email.

Though I'm sure many frame it as California government "being on the rioters side"

sooner or later Trump will make anyone not kissing his orange ass a enemy of the state

Isn't this happening already? I guess it depends on how you define "make someone an enemy of the state".

I was joking about it, but this popcorn tastes burned.

I wonder what it's like in the White House these days: A cloud of white male testosteron. An increasing sense of impending doom that nobody talks about. Frantic. Encouraging each other to increasingly higher levels of "let's show them that we reign supreme". Unhinged.

That said, what about the troops themselves (both those already deployed and those coming)? Any statements, interviews? How do they act?

"This isn't about public safety. It's about stroking a dangerous President's ego," Newsom wrote in a post on X. (...) "This is Reckless. Pointless. And Disrespectful to our troops."

Newsom said that the first 2,000 National Guard troops that Trump ordered deployed to L.A. on Saturday night were "given no food or water. (...) Only approx. 300 are deployed — the rest are sitting, unused, in federal buildings without orders."

Gerrymandering is one of those not-talked-about-enough legal undermining of democracy commited by mostly* Republicans.

are there any examples of Democrat gerrymandering? Or statistics, though I'm sure Reps do it much much more?

we know... It's already bad enough as it is. But to even increase it, with recent SCOTUS and now presidential approval...

2019!

The Court ruled that while partisan gerrymandering may be "incompatible with democratic principles", the federal courts cannot review such allegations, as they present nonjusticiable political questions outside the jurisdiction of these courts.

oof...

Only racially based gerrymandering.

How convenient, since there's no racism in the USA anyhow. /s

So your server is running NextCloud? I hope you have it locked down tight, with all it's web ui access points.

I started out with by doing my own calendar.

Wasn't the first thing for me, but the most consistent over time. Calendar and Contacts, synced between phone and laptop. I used first DaviCal, now Radicale.

The next move I did was to bring my todo list over.

AFAIK these are just CalDAV calendars labeled todo; all you need is a different client app, the server software is the same.

Only downsides is that it is a bit more strict (particularly on the mobile app) about an ssl cert.

Can you explain? Doing things encrypted by default is extremely important.

Agreed. I'm sure OP could've chosen a better report.