The past couple of weeks, I have been seeing a bunch of news about USA smugglers bringing weapons and drugs to other countries.
When people say that USA politicians speech are mostly projection, it is very ironic to see that it is to this extent
… sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists… - Doland J Trump
It depends on your threat model (how much you want to share).
Any device would leak a bit of information, either when it pings the satellite or cellular network, and some devices even ping nearby devices.
go back to a “dumb” computer (maybe not such a bad thing!)
It is difficult to find anything “dumb” nowadays. If you go to the vintage route, make sure they have a common cable, and that you can export/import the files using some easy to read format like GPX. To avoid getting stuck in proprietary bullshit.
That is even more important if you like to plan your route on your PC and send to the device.
keep my Garmin devices but take them offline
This will leak less information than your mobile device. Depending on the device, you can find open-source software that can make your life a lot easier for transferring files and reading them.
use a phone-based app like CoMaps
Can be an easy route. If you have your phone on you all the time, you are already leaking some information anyway.
or possibly a wearable fitness tracker.
Some of them require a proprietary app that definitely will phone-home with your info.
You can try GadgetBridge to avoid that https://gadgetbridge.org/gadgets/ but the supported devices list is small.
Maybe even an all-in-one platform like Garmin, but where the company really puts privacy front-and-center
No, sadly. The best you can find are community made open-source apps alternatives trying to bridge the gap.
Garmin used to show their source code back in the day. https://developer.garmin.com/open-source/linux/
It seems that even countries with their own domestic aeroplane manufacturing are betting on Saab., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_JAS_39_Gripen#Operators
On that note, didn’t Canada used to have local industry a long time ago?
Thanks for recommending another banger.
What a great album! It is hard to pick a favourite from there. I like Cruel lyrics, that 12 Wings is an earworm, the riff and the chorus are stuck in my mind. And that bass line and drums on Pulling Leeches, well, the whole song is chef’s kiss.
I will leave this here as Bandcamp Friday is coming (May 1st) https://brknlove.bandcamp.com/album/the-program
Solid music, great song, thanks for recommending!
Not a big fan of the art on their most recent discs, https://headstones.bandcamp.com/album/burn-all-the-ships
Every time this is brought up people cry Europe, but there are countries out there that already got rid of visa and mastercard, and almost killed paper in the process. Like India’s UPI and Brazil’s Pix, this last, in a time spam shorter than 5 years from it becoming fully operational.
In the case of the Brazilian Pix, it appears that they are considering agreements to connect it with platforms across the world, like with Italy, as reported here https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-27/brazil-takes-its-central-bank-digital-payments-app-pix-across-borders (https://archive.is/8SnmL)
The cherry on the cake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(payment_system)#United_States_government_investigation
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has accused US president Donald Trump of being “bothered by Pix” because it “will put an end to credit cards”
They have a demo available. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3404260/Dead_as_Disco/
From what I played, the attack matches the music automatically, and you do not need to worry about pressing buttons on the beat.
You can attack with no concern about timing (mashing, for example), and the animation will always hit to complement the music. Like, if the music has a quick ta-ta-ta, pressing the attack will show your character quickly punching 3 times matching it.
I don’t know whether it is nostalgia or my memory failing, but Batman: Arkham combat is in a sweet spot that is hard to match. I remember enjoying Sleeping Dogs and Shadow of Mordor, but Mad Max was a bit repetitive. People also suggests Sifu and Ghost of Tsushima, but I haven’t tried those yet.
I am learning a lot from this thread, thanks for sharing. It seems that 1 in 3 buses in NA are from New Flyer.
Also, I like their proposition of having a centre median boarding platform. https://youtu.be/Xhw66RpevsM Some few decades ago, I heard about some cities solving bus traffic by using the centre of the street for public transport.
I am not able to read the article. It only shows the headline for me.
I found an article with similar title that lists the reasons as:
Does that match the article you shared? Is there more to it?
[English] The Free Label - Dancing on Your Own https://thefreelabel.bandcamp.com/track/dancing-on-your-own
Learned about them on Musora, they made a cover of Alice in Chains - Them Bones
Thank you for the recommendation, first time I hear of Boy Golden (btw don’t search the other way around, some sort of anime smut). Suffer is solid, and the whole CD is great. Saving the link for bandcamp friday https://yaboygolden.bandcamp.com/album/best-of-our-possible-lives
[English] Men I Trust - To Ease You (Equus Caballus)
You should recommend a song from them.
From what I could gather in the Lemmyvision post, they created this rule because Germany sent Rammstein one of the years. Angine de Poitrine is big, but not 10M views in a single song big.
*edit: this one is a banger https://anginedepoitrine.bandcamp.com/track/fabienk-2
That is cool! I heard when they did the procurement a while ago, but I did not know what happened after. It is great to know that they were made here.
I think once we have plenty of buses (and other EVs) around, the battery recycling will catch up. Just like it happened with the lead-acid.
China is not bad.
They have labour laws and people there are just as upset. Don’t make this a nation thing. This is big corp vs workers.
They created a 4th one, emkata2564. 4 accounts in 1 hour just to get fictitious points.
btw, thanks for sharing the website to check votes, I did not know that.
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Sorry for double dip.
The “dirty list” they mention on the article is interesting, they even have a musician there (who uses slave labour in his farms).
The BYD case in Brazil is not that different from the Hungary one, not respecting local labour laws, human traffic, etc…
Brazil has tougher labour laws than in Canada, but what I found interesting from reading the sources is that they are not respecting Chinese labour laws too, causing an outrage in Chinese social media.
You can watch a bunch of videos and photos by searching “brasil trabalho escravo BYD”, just be careful with sources as there is a bunch of right-wing nuts trying to use it to promote racism.
Some people might say the last panel was not necessary, but it was what made me spit my coffee.