Earthwormjim91 @ Earthwormjim91 @lemmy.world

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Uh Palestinians are not fucking indigenous.

Palestine only became an idea after the Muslim conquest of the levant in the late 600s CE, when the Arabs went on their own genocide across the entire Middle East conquering everything and raping and killing everyone in sight.

If you want to talk about indigenous, then you’d have to go back to the Israelites around 3200 years ago, or the Philistines before them.

Yeah satellite sos is such an underrated feature. It seems like nothing until you need it. I almost had to use it yesterday when I was mountain biking up around the CO/WY border miles away from anything and no cell service. I crashed and the first thought as I hit the ground was “if I break anything I’m fucked out here” until I remembered I have the satellite SOS. Luckily I was alright, just tweaked my wrist and scraped up my arm pretty good. Was able to finish the ride back to the car.

But I would have absolutely been fucked without it if something happened.

For regular every day use, I’d be a little worried about not getting any security updates.

But something like this with emergency satellite texts (like a Garmin InReach or a new iPhone), this would make for a killer backcountry device.

It’s not infantilizing or hyperbolic.

College students are still young and don’t have a ton of experience in general. It is impressive as hell when a college student is able to do something that typically takes a decent amount of experience to build.

Wow that’s even worse!

It’s their implementation of RCS, yeah.

Not potentially, it would 100% compromise security. You have to sign in to your Apple ID on some Mac mini in a server farm somewhere that Nothing has control of.

Nah from their statement it sounds more like they’re only going to support the open standard and contribute to improving it in order to hurt Google and their proprietary implementation.

Apple already said they would NOT support any proprietary encryption, which indicates that they won’t support Google Jibe.

Finally, Apple says it will work with the GSMA members on ways to further improve the RCS protocol. This particularly includes improving the security and encryption of RCS messages. Apple also told 9to5Mac that it will not use any sort of proprietary end-to-end encryption on top of RCS. Its focus is on improving the RCS standard itself.

Apple is going to use their weight to get the carriers to improve RCS itself, including adding encryption, so that they drop Google’s proprietary implementation.

GPS is a US military system entirely payed for by taxpayers, that just spams out pings to any device listening. Civilian end users can’t transmit to it.

And it wasn’t freely available to civilians for years, until the Korean Airlines Flight 007 was shot down in 1993 by the Soviets due to a navigational error causing them to drift into Soviet airspace.

Many states actually have laws that ban Tesla from selling directly. More have laws limiting the number of stores that a manufacturer can have.

Only 14 allow unrestricted direct sales, and many of them only apply to companies that either don’t already have franchise agreements or only sell EVs.

Manufacturers would LOVE to cut out the middlemen and sell direct today.

A plethora of bond holders.

Social security is a big one actually. Any time you hear about the feds raiding social security, they’re buying bonds with the funds and using the cash reserves.

It’s generally safer long term to hold cash in bonds and the government needs liquid cash all the time, so it makes sense. As they collect social security taxes, they issue bonds instead and spend the cash, and pay the bonds back over time with interest in a steady pace.

$7.2 Trillion is intergovernmental. One Federal agency giving cash to the general fund in exchange for a bond.

Beyond that, basically any entity holding bonds. $26.2 Trillion is everyone else.

Every remaining pension system (the federal government retirement system, pretty much every state and local government retirement system, and all private companies that still offer a pension) all invest in bonds for long term fund security and the interest payouts are integral to managing those funds. They also sell off bonds as needed to fill gaps in their funds.

Every 401k, every IRA, every college endowment, etc.

Then yeah plenty of billionaires and huge companies that park money in bonds.

About 1/3 is held by other governments. Japan being the single largest holder. China follows closely in second.

It wouldn’t make a dent. Defense as a whole makes up ~$750 billion out of $5.8 Trillion in expenditures.

Of that $290B goes to normal Ops and maintenance of existing equipment and infrastructure, and $170B goes to personnel. $170B goes to RDT&E which actually does expand out into regular life all the time (hello internet and GPS).

The $136B in procurement is what most people think the rest of the budget goes to. This is the defense contractors building overpriced things the government buys. The F35s, Raytheon missiles, multi billion dollar aircraft carriers, etc.

The mandatory expenditures are the big ticket items though, with a combined $4.1 Trillion.

Health care is the biggest one weighing things down. Medicare, Medicaid, and the ACA tax credits cost a combined $1.442 Trillion a year.

Social security is another big one at $1.213 Trillion.

Moving to a universal healthcare system, and eliminating the social security tax cap (currently any income over like $150k is not taxed for social security), would do a TON to actually cut costs and raise revenues.

Raising the cap on social security taxes should be a no brainer, especially if you raise the floor for it too, should be a no brainer. Exempt then first 10k in income and eliminate the cap and social security would be funded forever while the working class would also see a significant tax cut.

If I’m searching for something very specific, I’m generally searching a site I already know will have the answer. So if I’m looking for how to do something with code or devops tools, I to limit my search to stackoverflow or another forum first, or the respective sites for their documentation.

For all of that, DDG works perfectly. And that’s what I use it for most of the time. I will use it to search within sites a ton. Like if I want to get information about a person, event, whatever, I’ll search Wikipedia first and dive through the article and sources there.

Where it tends to fail, and it could be my own fault, is just general searches where I’m not sure exactly what I’m looking for. Google is better at interpreting what I’m searching for and returning relevant results. DDG is like “here’s your results retard, search better next time”.

DDG largely uses the Bing API anyway so there’s no reason to use Bing itself over DDG. Bing is as bad or worse than Google for privacy.

I’m going to keep using DDG just out of principle and hope that their own crawler continues to get up to speed. They’ve definitely gotten better over the years but still leave a lot to be desired for search.

I’d prefer something more secure but all of them just suck. I use DDG but more than half the time I end up needing to use !g to get the google results because DDG just isn’t that good.

Eh if you enjoy it why not?

I don’t particularly see myself ever fully “retiring”. My job is pretty sick.

My current job I can basically come and go as I please. I bring my bike and go trail ride in the middle of the day. If I feel like working from home, I do so. If I feel like taking a day off, I just shift my days. My normal schedule is 4x10 so I get a 3 day weekend almost every week unless I’m doing overtime. And they pay out the ass.

I’ve gone up into the mountains for a week, logged in for a few hours in the morning, then gone out hiking/biking, then come back and finished up my last few hours while drinking a few beers. And not burned any PTO.

…trough

The European Commission has concerns that this structure isn't legal. There have been a series of court cases (2016, 2018, 2020) about this. The current status is that Apple is fine, but there was a filing for appeal in 2021 and an opinion published in September 2023 that this should be reviewed.

Important to note that the European Commission gave the OK when these were set up. They’re only complaining now.

Also Apple paid the bill in 2018 and it’s been sitting in escrow since.

lol no. In 2020 Biden lost WV by over 40 points and so did the Dem running for Senate there.

The state legislature has an 89-11 Republican majority in the house of delegates and a 31-3 Republican majority in the Senate.

And it’s only getting redder.

That seat will be lost to republicans for generations. Manchin was only electable as a Dem because he was a very popular governor. He’s the only Dem in the state that could win it.

People cheering for this are absolute fucking idiots.