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Swalwell was incorrect to say that Padilla was arrested. As the senator clarified at his own press conference, he was handcuffed but not arrested or detained.

My brother in Christ, what do you think detainment is? You were pinned to the ground and handcuffed by federal officers. That’s the textbook definition of “detained”.

This theatre is exactly why it’s so important to fly American flags during the protests. Put away the Mexican and Palestinian flags, so the news can’t spin it as a foreign invasion. Fox News has been cherry picking footage of burning cars with Mexican flags in the background, and going “look how dangerous these Mexicans are! It’s a foreign invasion, and Trump is using the national guard to defend America.” That “foreign invasion” is extremely specific wording, because that’s how Trump is going to justify all of the crazy despotic bullshit.

Make it abundantly clear that this is American troops, deployed on American soil, against American protesters. MLK Jr was extremely particular about American flags being in the crowds whenever he marched. There are American flags somewhere in the crowd, because he ensured that his protests were full of them. He wanted to be sure that history wouldn’t get spun to make it seem like the protesters weren’t American citizens. He wanted the world to know that America was repressing its own citizens, and he didn’t want the government to be able to handwave it away with the “that’s not me” defense.

LLMs can’t code worth a shit yet. But techbros are determined to change that. The sad reality is that code is just a form of language, and LLMs are good at learning languages. They can’t code worth shit right now, but the progress likely will improve them.

We’ll still need experienced debuggers who can actually code. But in a decade, the broad strokes will likely be done by LLMs, which will vastly shrink the demand for experienced coders.

Well this post has aged… Well? Poorly? I’m honestly not sure which. But either way, the prediction was obviously spot-on

Only a third of Americans supported MLK Jr.

Yeah, Windows has a habit of borking bootloaders whenever it’s on a partitioned drive.

They likely used the “you’re planning on making videos while you’re here. Since you make videos for work, that means you’re illegally working here without a work visa” excuse. Same reason photographers, musicians, (and freelancers in general) need to be careful about how they talk to customs; If customs discovers that they’re a professional and are going to make music/take photos/etc while in the country, they’ll start rumbling about illegal work without a visa, and even threaten to confiscate work equipment like personal instruments, cameras, etc…

Even if it would otherwise be totally normal for people to take photos while on vacation, the fact that it’s a professional photographer on vacation suddenly makes it work related. And the same likely happened here. He probably posted a video that he made while in the country, so ICE swooped in while screeching about work visas.

Yeah, this isn’t really about that one specific district. It’s about all the other districts that were also likely tampered with.

Yeah, but good luck proving that. My partner is disabled, and has learned to avoid disclosing her disability until after she gets hired. Because if she mentions it during the interview process, she’ll get ghosted every time.

Proving it usually requires proving a pattern of behavior. And as an individual applicant who isn’t in touch with the other applicants (both past and present), that’s basically impossible to do.

Yeah, the armed forces is overwhelmingly conservative. Even if you’re not conservative when you go in, being immersed in it for so long means you likely are when you get out. There are outliers, sure. But statistically, the people in the armed forces will only have the opinions that Fox News tells them to have.

Hole punching is how torrenting is possible at all without port forwarding. But it still relies on the other person having an open port, because hole punching only works to initiate things on your end.

Basically any time a bill has a name like this, it does the exact opposite of whatever it says on the title.

“Aww shit that means my great great great grandpappy raped some native girl. Better tell every native person I know about it!”

“Just fine” is relative. Torrenting requires at least one side to have an open port. If you don’t have port forwarding, you’re entirely reliant on other people having their ports open instead. Even if there are 1000 seeds, if all of them have closed ports you’ll be unable to connect to them. It’s kneecapping your connections for no good reason.

Video over Tor is pretty awful, simply due to the way Tor works; Bandwidth is inherently limited, because it’s shared by everyone using the network. Same reason you should avoid torrenting over Tor.

But if your video is buffering over a VPN, you need to find a new VPN provider. Mine maxes out my gigabit connection.

Reminds me of when my buddies discovered our friend’s YouTube account… He only had one public playlist, and it was 100% full of softcore porn. Nothing else. It was all softcore porn. We gave him a pretty good ribbing for that one, and still make a point of reminding him that better porn sites exist every time it comes up.

Something something suitcases of cash

It’s because they’re not posting via Lemmy; They’re posting via Pixelfed, which is something more akin to a federated version of Instagram. They @ the relevant community or users to make posts/responses; notice the “@pics@lemmy.world” in their post. This is also why you’ll sometimes see comments begin with an “@{username}” of whoever they’re responding to. On Lemmy’s end it looks out of place, but on their end it looks more like an Instagram comments section, where @‘ing people is necessary to be able to follow the comment thread.

It’s one of the odd quirks of federation that can be difficult to wrap your head around when you’re accustomed to every single social media site acting like a walled garden… Federated posts are able to federate not only to different Lemmy instances, but to entirely different platforms.

So no, it may not be fucking tumblr, but for them it is fucking Instagram.

It’s not even less than lethal, because they’re still lethal. They’re “less lethal”, meaning they’re not designed to kill you when used correctly, but are still fully capable of doing so. “Less than lethal” implies that they’re not capable of killing, the same way any positive number is greater than 0; The positive number will never be equal to zero, because it is greater than zero.

The irony is that Digg has supposedly been working to absorb a lot of the Reddit refugees. Apparently if they’re not landing on Lemmy, they’re landing on Digg. It makes me wonder how many of the users have been around long enough to actually remember the Digg mass exodus to Reddit. I’m sure a lot of them are the newer users, who weren’t around for the Digg purge.