[a cellmate] told prosecutors Williams confessed to the killing and offered details about it.
This is something I found out about recently. They plant an informant as a new cellmate of the person they want a confession from, and give that informant information that only the accused (and law enforcement, of course) would know about the crime, supposedly so that it can be used to wheedle more information. But, when it comes time to tell all, they somehow have all this corroborating information that makes the target look more guilty. How did that happen? /s
Why does the informant do this? Well, they're in prison too. Any deal they can get is a good deal. And it should make us wonder about the veracity of anything a prison snitch says.
Note that this says nothing about the target's actual guilt. They might have done it. This is just a technique used by law enforcement to bolster an otherwise shaky case.
And I'm not even saying a plant is what's happened here. We should still be wary of things said by the prison snitch.
These people only care about bad things when those bad things happen to them. They cannot, or won't let themselves, conceive of pain unless they themselves are feeling it. They have no empathy, or if they do, they allow their hate to override it, to shape it into something horrible, like pleasure in another's suffering.
Please tell me that this was in writing and not actually verbal. And if it was, CC that to everyone now who's going to blame you later when it all goes horribly wrong.
True. Other tools include: Ctrl+Shift+N to bring back a closed window if there's another window of the same browser instance still open, and when there isn't, there's Restore Previous Session which is accessible a couple of ways.
Neither bring back the comment that was being typed in a textbox on the page though. Guess when I usually ^W
Kind of redundant. Both .zip and .rar store an index of files within the archive and are a bit 'inside-out' when it comes what we get from tar.gz.
That is, ZIP is pretty close to what you'd get if you first gzipped all your files and then put them into a .tar.
RAR does a little more (if I remember correctly), such as generating a dictionary of common redundancies between files and then uses that knowledge to compress the files individually, but better. Something akin to a .tar file is still the result though.
Bzip2 compression is often surprisingly good with text files, especially log files. It seems to "see" redundancies there - and logs often have a lot of it - far better than gzip and sometimes even lzma.
Anyway, if I saw a bunch of tar.bz2 files, that's what I'd expect to find in them.
My mistake. They weren't supposed to be estimates, they were supposed to be actual figures, and rather than say "we haven't collected enough data" or "we don't want to give out the actual data" the decision was made to use an outdated extrapolation measure and which was then reported as fact, or if you prefer, allowed to be interpreted as fact.
That's why I was sceptical.
But another comment suggests that China might actually be struggling, and it's that which is the cause of the downturn in usage.
I'd rather it wasn't that. Recessions suck and it's the wrong people (regular citizens) who suffer.
Considering the Atlas stones in a strongman competition dwarf this hailstone, I'd say "stone" is still sufficient for that size. See also: dry stone walls, or UK imperial weight 1 stone = 14 lbs. (6.35kg)
I'll grant you that the concept of a 14lb hailstone is terrifying no matter how apt the terminology might be, though.
There's also a Fediverse plugin for WordPress if you already have a host. Caveat: I have only seen it on Fediverse directories. No idea whether it's any good.
^Sfor unprompted save is in the default keybinds, not that I could say when it was added. (Pretty sure it wasn't a pico thing, but that leaves quite a bit of time unaccounted for.)
Muscle memory for other editors kicked in when I was editing something and did a literal slow realisation and double-take when it worked.
Now if only I could stop pressing ^W in Firefox to use nano's "whereis" to find something that'd be great.
For those unaware, it closes the current tab. Or the whole browser. Ugh.
Yep. When I was migrating, I saw some advice to avoid Lemmy on account of its provenance, which is how I ended up on Kbin instead.
Unfortunately, it's not going well on the original instance (getting in before "how's that working out for you"), but for reasons very different to lemmy.ml.
Still don't have a lemmy account, but I am, for my sins, subscribed to communities there. Like this one.
It's basically what we have to do over here in the UK every time we want someone other than our own increasingly right-wing major party, who are, or at least have been, disturbingly popular.
It's been a while since it worked, but we're about to give it a go again next month.
The upshot of your comment with the current situation is: Windows users want someone to wipe their a for them and are increasingly OK with the wiping hand doing other things it feels like at the same time.
At least with Linux's rough paper, it's my own damn hand.
I thought I was so clever once. I taught a word filter about "th" thinking that would solve the problem, but it still got stuck on Scunthorpe. mfw.
Had to step through what it was doing. It had hit a rule that treated 'oo' the same as 'u' which, at least sound-wise, is valid for some words in some dialects. e.g. Consider "book", which is identical to "buck" for many people. You can imagine why that might want to be caught.
To save you the head scratching, it had spotted the 'c' then a double-'o' then the 'n' and threw it out as containing a known racial slur.
The filter was for a random string generator so that it wouldn't generate strings with bad words in them. Seemed like a good idea at the time.
Since it was unlikely that it was going to generate "Scunthorpe" anyway, the problem remained unfixed.
Big Brother? No. Not yet anyway.
Abusive in other ways? Let Uncle Louis tell you all about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXxMCm941WA