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  • The real meaning of those ICE masks, as blurted out in a WA hearing

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  • “I don’t recognize your authority to impose these controls over me.” There you go: “I don’t recognize your authority.” That’s the masked-up mentality, as bluntly put as can be.

    Here's the oath of office for Pierce County Washington where Swank is the sheriff. Presumably he took this oath when he took the position of sheriff:

    "I, (state name), do solemnly swear that I am a Citizen of the United States and a resident and registered voter of Pierce County; that I will support the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Washington, and the Charter and Ordinances of Pierce County; and will faithfully, impartially, and honestly perform the duties of the office of (insert title of office), as such duties are prescribed by law, so help me God."

    source

    Bold is mine. Doesn't this mean the sheriff is admitting he will violate his oath of office?

  • Big Tech is racing to own Africa’s internet

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  • Mesh back haul can get some distance connecting some communities aa well.

    I don't think community driven mesh networks are a realistically sized solution for the entire continental connectivity .

    Ideally, to me, that would multinational orgnization building common infrastruture for the collective benefit.

    Certainly that would be best for the many nations of the continent. However, that hasn't happened and high speed internet as a basic utility has been commonplace as a utility in huge parts of the world already for decades. So without the ideal of a coalition of NGOs, are the under served nations on the African continent just supposed to go without instead of the tech companies building the infrastructure, and maintaining the ownership that comes with that, to bring these services as is detailed in the article?

  • Big Tech is racing to own Africa’s internet

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  • So WISPs and 5G networks address "last mile" access. According to the article Google and Facebook are building undersea cables which don't compete with last mile services, and in fact can help them as the existing backhaul circuits become saturated from continued new WISP and 5G users being added.

    I think its fantastic that there are community built efforts to bring people online. However, it sounds like these are small pockets of efforts instead of national or continental efforts. If the WISPs or 5G service area are only in pockets, is it fair that millions of people should go without access to the internet just because they don't live in one of the areas served by those existing community efforts?

  • Ewwww

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  • That morning, the man's wife safely gave birth to their first child. He was stopping by Whole Foods to get that expensive fruit drink that she loves so much, but won't buy for herself because she say's its too expensive. Everything he looked at he saw with a shine of promise for the happy future for his growing family. He lost his mother to cancer when he was 14, and worried about what kind of parent he would be without being able to grow into adult with his mom in his life. Today though, he had no doubts. He looked in his newborn's eyes and knew he'd move mountains with focus and determination just to make her dreams come true. For a moment he felt his mother's fleeting presence, and her pride in her now adult son with a child of his own.

    He was standing in line to pay holding two small bottles of overprice fruit juice and notice the woman in front of him sigh as she pulled out one credit card out of her wallet, pausing, and then put it back pulling out another instead. He could see in his minds eye that years ago this woman's father looked down at her on the day of her birth and felt that immense love that he did for his own newborn daughter. He wanted to tell her just how much her father had to have loved her on that day and still did to this day, and would until he left this Earth.

    "How are you doing?", he asked her. She glanced at him.

    "Ok. How about you?" she said slightly annoyed as she gave him a side eye. He wanted to gush about how beautiful life was, and how happy he was to be alive. He opened his mouth and closed it again, catching himself and slightly smiling instead.

    "It is beautiful in my soul today" he said. She paid for her purchase without looking back leaving the man to his joy of life. He never knew if she could sense his joy or the intense connection to humanity he felt in that moment.

  • Hi.

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  • Or I’ll go all out and redirect Youtube to lemonparty.cc for his account.

    I wouldn't go that far. The goal is to cause him to complain to other employees/managers that Youtube is too slow. You want the question forming in other people's heads "Why is he watching so much Youtube here at work that this is a problem?"

    Even better is if he is using the company internet/equipment to consume content that isn't safe and appropriate for work. If it can be shown his behavior is legal liability then the company may decide he's more trouble than he's worth.

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  • He wants to sit on his ass and watch Youtube for another 5 years.

    Set up a bandwidth restriction policy against his devices. Choke it down to 100kps for video sites so that watchability is garbage with low resolution and constant buffering.

  • Hi.

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  • Okay, so you see what works to fix the problem, you could have a conversation with him about how his skills are wasted in HelpDesk and that he should be making more money by doing job X in department Y. If he has enough dirt on the CEO, he can get his promotion.

  • Hi.

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  • Reply with:

    "Teamsbot-AI v1.3 says: 'Hi! I see you're looking for user $User. They haven't seen your message yet. Go ahead and send the rest of the message about your need or what you want to talk about and I'll send it onto them to respond.'"

    You don't need a bot or software, just literally copy and paste this response in to them. They'd never know the difference.

  • Hi.

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  • There's an "office politics" solution here. Sounds like Ed needs a promotion to another department.

  • Big Tech is racing to own Africa’s internet

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  • What is the alternative to existing giant companies investing in the infrastructure? And why hasn't that alternative already addressed this issue before the tech companies arrived?

  • China’s top general removed

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  • So this new general is joining a long line of no-longer-useful 2nd in commands just like Trotsky, Ernst Röhm, and Prigozhin.

  • Why there’s no European Google?

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  • I don't see how that rephrasing changes the outcome of the question. What's your view on it? What is the difference you're seeing with that modified question?

  • “A Fraudulent Scheme”: New Mexico Sues Texas Oil Companies for Walking Away From Their Leaking Wells

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  • Even retail gas stations have to pay upfront before operating to have their underground tanks dug up and removed in case they go out of business. Why isn't this standard for petroleum extraction? If nothing else, the public government would benefit from investing those prepayments until the oil company successfully completes their properly secured inactive well and that money is returned to them.

  • Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch

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  • As long as you're doing your own whole disk encryption, you have a valid path to still be secure. However, if you're running an unencrypted disk, you're much more likely to lose your data to a non-state actor.

  • Switch from American tech companies !?

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  • A pocket computer that can call.

    I held that same mindset for years in the prior generation of technology. I had a Sharp Zaurus and later a Nokia n700 for pocket Linux computing. It took a large amount of effort to make them useful devices. Most people simply don't have the time or ability to do that for themselves and products like iOS and Android deliver what they're looking for right out of the box.

  • Why there’s no European Google?

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  • I like the essay's highlighting European contributions to software and technology, but it doesn't quite answer the fundamental question of its title:

    Why there’s no European Google?

    The essay's answer is [paraphrased] "...because we don't need it.".

    I don't quite understand that position because if a Google wasn't needed in Europe then Google could disappear from Europe and no one would notice or care. Yet that isn't likely the case. If Google disappeared overnight it would likely have massive impacts on business and personal lives across Europe.

    I guess my answer to the article's question as to "Why is there no European Google" is that creating Google (or a European Google) is extremely resource and financially expensive. Unless the funding for that effort comes from somewhere, it won't just happen in Europe spontaneously without replicating the same private business model that many dislike about Google.

    P.S. Another European created technology that should be added to the list for accolades is the creation of Deepmind machine learning/AI. This also lead to the creation of Google Gemini. While this is owned by Google, it was created out of the London offices.

  • Switch from American tech companies !?

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  • I hope it succeeds, but history hasn't been kind to others that tried.

  • US withdraws from the World Health Organization

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  • Well thats on brand as our Health and Human Services Secretary is openly advocating unhealthy practices. I'm surprised the WHO didn't throw us out. They certainly have reason to.

  • Arkansas inmates restricted from receiving physical books, other media directly

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  • I think the article buried the lede:

    Division of Correction Director Dexter Payne said 50,000 books were available via the tablets. Almost all people housed in ADC facilities have a tablet — only those in “punitive isolation” do not.

    The tablets are potentially free, but the content is not. Prisoners have to pay for content, of which the department of corrections collects a healthy percentage. Prisons also charge heavy fees or fines for damage to the tablets that then comes out of any money the inmate has available to them.

    This whole restrictions on paper books smells like a way to force inmates to have to pay for what they had for free as books as gifts from family and friends on the outside.

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    How Many Phones Sport a 5 and 1/4 Diskette Drive? This One.

    hackaday.com /2025/09/27/how-many-phones-sport-a-5-and-1-4-diskette-drive-this-one/
  • Commodore 64 @lemmy.world
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    C64 spotted at Universal Studios Orlando

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Chief O'Brien has the most wholesome Holosuite programs