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  • The alleged shooter is a 57-year-old white male; according to his ministry's website, he “sought out militant Islamists in order to share the gospel and tell them that violence wasn't the answer.”

    He went to persuade the militants and they persuaded him instead? "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you."

  • What? No that would be an aspect of the programming language. Ok, maybe if you study compilers. I know there are also books about garbage collection so maybe there are courses about that too.

    When I first saw the question I thought you meant bulk transfers, like in data communication or parallel programming. There is a topic called "the data center as a computer" that could be relevant. Like if you're trying to split a problem across 1000 computers, a lot of the planning will be shovelling data around between them, in addition to the computation itself. You could look for Hadoop books and docs.

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  • I thought airplane mode or power-off disables that, but maybe on some newer phones, that is left running because of "find me". Hmm. BLE shouldn't be able to reach any cell towers though.

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  • It will help stop the phone from broadcasting your location, but the danger is the private stuff on your phone getting copied if your phone is seized. Better to use a burner phone with nothing private (such as contacts) on it. Used that way you don't need multiple burners. Just keep it powered off til you reach the protest. I'd be hesitant to keep it powered (such as for mapping) on the way there, unless you don't mind GPS track potentially being retained on the phone. OTOH they will probably track you anyway, through license plate and face recognition.

    BTW the cheapest place I know of to get phones with minutes is below, especially the basic flip phones that are probably better for this anyway.

    https://www.qvc.com/electronics/phones/tracfone/_/N-mlt0Z1z1393y/c.html

  • A buddy of mine has a foldable Samsung and likes it. IDK what model but it's big, looks like a full sized phone when folded, and opens out into something with 2x the screen space of a normal phone, basically a mini tablet.

    I had a number of flip phones in the old days and they all broke at the hinge. So there's that.

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  • Android was initially developed by some other company, that Google acquired when it decided it wanted to do smartphones. The alternate universe that I see is they pick a different company instead, and things play out about like before. Maemo (Nokia product) unfortunately died before its time, but maybe it could have been where Android is now. PalmOS and maybe others also might have been viable. Dunno about the Blackberry OS. Windows Mobile (spawn of Windows CE, I think) always stunk.

  • https://www.newsweek.com/nra-fund-russia-uvalde-school-shooting-1712397

    Wyden released a letter from the NRA, dated Tuesday, in which the gun rights group reported receiving $2,512.85 in contributions and membership dues “from people associated with Russian addresses” or known Russian nationals living in the United States from 2015 to the present.

    https://www.npr.org/2019/09/27/764879242/nra-was-foreign-asset-to-russia-ahead-of-2016-new-senate-report-reveals

    Looks like NRA improperly funded some of its executives' personal business travel to Russia where they were hoping to make $$$ deals.

    I hadn't heard about any of this before, but meh.