The crazy part is, this has all been doable basically since around 2 months after the boom in April of '21 (or maybe '22 the years have really muddled me)
I know, this possibility has got me worried ever since then. And these things will get harder and harder to spot as the technology moves forward.
I think even if it were banned it wouldn't matter, since there's probably a high chance it's not even entirely done in the U.S.
Of course. The technology is out there in the wild, and everyone willing to use it for their purpose will do just that, whether for good or bad. Imo I think this is a highly complex issue with no easy solution.
MD5 checksum
This is pretty much useless on everything uploaded to Facebook, Instagram or other mainstream social media platforms.
@Blair Older houses in my country also have them, and they're called just like that: vestibules. And what's interesting is that the buildings from the communist era also have them. I grew up with them being called simply "holul de la intrare" (literally just "the entry hallway"). Indeed, it's a place where everyone leaves their jackets and shoes so that they do not bring all the dirt inside the house. In fact, my studio has an entry hallway as well, but I rarely close the door fwiw.
Newer buildings, if I recall correctly, tend to blur this demarcation, as they try to turn everything in an open space (so that it looks bigger) - as such, there's usually no door that leads to that little hallway - probably because having an AC makes it less important to have another door after you get inside the house. But I saw that it's still properly marked by walls, so you know in your mind where to leave your shoes, your jacket etc.
The only thing that's saying is that the old man now seems even more scared of any potential countercandidate.
If I was Dems rn, whether it would be Kamala or not, I would just leave the GOP boil for a little (only a little), bring a bit of uncertainty to the table, and then announce the candidate. Not too much, as it would make them seem weak, but just enough to let the GOP consume themselves. That would be quite a move.
Whatever the outcome will be, I am sure the campaign will become hotter. I think the Dems will bring someone with a more radical speech than Trump, and they better do - Trump has shown what he can do during his 2016 campaign.
And the age is not doing a service to Trump either.
@clark I used Notally at first, but I wanted cross-device syncing at some point. So I discovered this app by a developer called Bill The Farmer, which this is insanely small (just a few KB). I keep my notes in pCloud. I'm not sure how private it is, but I am thinking of storing them inside a veracrypt container, synced with pCloud instead, and I am also keeping an eye on other options that have the ability of storing notes as Markdown files.
I'm keeping an eye for now on Quillpad ver. 1.5 but I'm open to other options as well. 😁
@ModernRisk Not really Mastodon, but I'm on Friendica and I receive posts and comments from db0 just fine.
You can also follow communities from here just like you'd follow a normal person (e.g. @communityusernamebellowthetitle@instance.domain. For this it would be piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com)
@neme So you can scan any document in Google Wallet, and scan any document in the Files app as well, and in Google Drive. Thanks, Google, for another round of service duplication!
You are seeing states do those things, and presuming (I'm guessing based on where you live) that those actions are therefore the actions of states. They're not, they're the actions of a community.
They're clearly state actions where I live, the organizations they do are politically represented, they get funds from the state budget, they function according to politically voted legislation etc.
The same politicians that vote for them can also reallocate parts of the budget to and from the military, the police force or any other fields.
We do have private initiatives as well, supported directly by the community with money, who govern themselves, who are responsible for every penny they spend, but they're different from the state controlled entities. The legislators generally do not vote dedicated legislation for them, but for the category they fall into (e.g. non-government organization for that matter). You rarely see legislators adopting laws for one specific private entity, if ever when it comes to smaller such entities.
Are you under the impression that the only alternative to "Modern Western State Governments" is "individuals work[ing] by themselves"?
Anything that involves private initiative is individuals working for themselves. If it's not voted by the elected officials, paid from taxpayer money, it's called private initiative - so there is an individual/some individuals deciding the finance and governance and other sensitive issues of the organization themselves.
I hate to break it to you, but states are just very large armed groups, the legitimacy of which is entirely determined by their strength of arms. [...] Israel is a "legitimate" government because they have enough guns (and enough friends with guns) to force others to acknowledge them as such.
That is the way the international system works, of course. But on the other hand, this legitimacy they are provided allows them to worry less about their security and spend their money on the actual social services needed for a state to function. There are, of course, rogue states (yes, you can safely call them that way as well), that choose to terrorize their people instead. But politically motivated violence, whichever side it is coming from, in a country that calls itself the leader of the free and democratic world, does not help in making them less likely to do so. Quite the contrary.
@t3rmit3 So political violence is justifiable when democracy is at risk, right. What happens if the side abolishing democracy decides that political violence can be justified for them too? How can you save democracy this way? We legitimate political violence in order to justify democracy? Will it still be a democracy if the elected candidate can be gunned down legitimately? What about if the candidate has the biggest chance of winning?
And also, how can you justify democracy as the better option in front of non-democratic states that are also making use of political violence to repress their opponents? Don't you think these countries would be more determined in their suppressions when they see that the good guys are also doing it?
And last, but not least, does that freedom to self-determine as a group also involve becoming politically violent against your opponent? To which extent is this still a democracy and not a fight for power by all means?
@alyaza Reminds me of Fidias