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  • House Democrats propose QR code ID requirement for ICE, CBP agents

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  • No shit. Like right now the fuckers aren't even keeping proper plates on their vehicles and are still running around masked like gangsters.

    Even if they did have a QR code, what's it going to do give them a link to a hotline?

    "Hello, this is the ICE complaints line, please leave your name, number, and residential address and we'll dispatch an armed goon squad to deal with your 'complaint' "

  • TIL: 70% of ICE Detainees Have No Criminal Record

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  • Oh, probably the ones that managed to avoid it because they are cops, were cops, are friends of cops, etc

  • France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials

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  • I was wondering the same, but this does make sense.

    At the same time, it might also make sense to build on top of existing FOSS tooling rather than building new, but I suppose that depends on where the bottlenecks are and if stuff like proprietary codecs might be involved

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    Google Details Android Lockdown — 750 Million Users Must Upgrade

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  • Yeah I'm not sure how Google justifies getting involved here. Disallowing old OS versions or rooted devices has been a thing with banking or secure apps for a long time.

  • Custom arcade controller I built to play any system emulator

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  • I've seen some people get around the button limit by using multiple USB controllers ( one per each player ), but hacking out a PS/2 controller instead is pretty awesome. I'm not sure if it's still the case, but I recall that some people preferred PS/2 controllers for fighting games etc because they had less input lag for multi-button input as well (this was some time ago so might not apply to modern USB controllers).

  • Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware

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  • I haven't yet seen where use of AI hasn't made things worse.

    • Agents: Every instance of AI for "customer service" I've run into basically just closed cases for invalid reasons, spouted bullshit, and was used to block interacting with a real human, trapping users in infinite loops (thanks eBay) or disconnecting on them (thanks PayPal)
    • Security: M365 seems to be relying heavily on this now, which means that the same phishing email which was successfully blocked last week will randomly get through a few times this week for no apparent reason

    *Coding: sometimes useful, but also points to do stuff like reference functions that don't actually exist in the API/language being used

  • 'Trump is really worried': White House officials reveal president’s next foreign target

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  • Not even the continent. The language they've begun using is "hemisphere"

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  • I mean, I do get it. Some people take on debt as a way to live beyond their means when they could still live a "comfortable" life without the glamour or "keeping up with the Jones". The $80k+ gas guzzling truck bought on credit - that's only used for driving to work and grocery trips - is a good example of this.

    But a better way of saying this is "live within your means", but it's becoming increasingly impossible to do this and have a standard of living that's just "decent shelter and healthy food" (or even, "enough food") which should be a bare minimum

  • White House: Turns Out People Think ICE Kinda Sucks

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  • And some assholes remembered it and are trying to one-up last time

  • Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

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  • At the same time I'm seeing a bunch of ads for "hardware is getting too expensive, use Akamai cloud for your gaming etc instead, now with AI blah blah!"

    Bitch, you're the reason hardware is so expensive!

  • North Minneapolis Chases Out ICE

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  • Hoping it stays that way and sets a precedent for everywhere else.

  • Two-tier pricing, invasive demands: Korean travelers dismayed as U.S., Japan grow unwelcoming to tourists

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  • Depends a lot on where you go and specific weather patterns. Climate change is also a significant factor. It used to get well into the double-digits below zero (°c) here in winter. Now we tend to have around just below 0°c to double low double digits above...

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  • That's true, but it's also worth considering that it's not an either/or option and the use cases vary a bit.

    Both can be used as contraception.

    Birth control doesn't block disease.

    Women can use birth control to control their own reproductive cycle without (in most cases) needing to coordinate with anyone else except maybe a prescribing physician, and has allowed them to have much more freedom of lifestyle since invented. It reduces the worry that a partner may try to baby-trap them with the "oops condom broke" or pulling an Assange and removing it partway into coitus. The common varieties of latex condom are not an option for everyone due to allergies etc, and sometimes even without the allergies can have other negative physical side effects

    Birth control CAN have negative side effects. It also CAN have positive side effects (some use it for bad acne, or to reduce cramps) due to that same fucking with hormones. I know women who use it for either situation rather than preventing condition

    Birth control (pills) plus condoms are also more effective than just one of the other.

    That said, the final choice of birth control should absolutely be with a women (so long as it's an honest one) but sometimes in a relationship it's worth a discussion of the benefits and drawbacks between both parties.

  • ‘We’re Not Stupid’: What Greenlanders Would Say to Trump

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  • There's not a lot to prevent an invasion, but taking a place and keeping it under occupation are two different things. The USA is good at storming the castle walls but not very good at anything afterwards

  • Two-tier pricing, invasive demands: Korean travelers dismayed as U.S., Japan grow unwelcoming to tourists

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  • Travel to Canada then instead!

    Similar climate to the USA and interesting attractions without the potential for being tossed into a holding cell and/or beaten.

  • CBS forgot ICE shot Renee Good on video

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  • Hemmoroids probably.

  • Bill Clinton faces being held in contempt of Congress after he and Hillary refuse to testify in Epstein inquiry – US politics live

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  • And why would Clinton need to speak before CONGRESS? He's not a sitting president, in any sort of government position, or AFAIK involved in anything really close to government at all.

    If he's a suspect, have the fucking police interview him.

  • QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year

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  • Can I PLEASE have my early Droid pop-up keyboard back!!

  • Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents'

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  • I kinda wonder.

    Sexual abuse is often more about power than about physical gratification.

    Child abuse of this nature is pretty universally decried as one of the most heinous crimes.

    So after these rich pieces of shit get away with breaking all the other laws on the books, are they going after kids for the thrill of feeling untouchable by any standard of law and morality?

    And to further that, I wonder if there's almost some sort of sick initiation that involves this sort of abuse. Once you're in "the group", they can out you for all the sick and illegal shit you've been involved with so you can't turn on anyone else. This also follows tactics commonly used by Russia etc.

    Given all the stuff that's happened and turned out to be projection, what's the chance there actually was some sort of pizzeria based child-dungeon, but operated by the same people throwing out accusations?