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r0ertel

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  • Has somebody looked up your license plate in Flock? Now you can find out

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  • I read recently that ICE is using ALPRs to identify cars who's registered owner "sounds" foreign to know if the car should be inspected.

    Want to help spread visibility to this mass surveilence program but don't want to get off the couch? You can:

    This website only displays searches from audit logs we've obtained through public records requests. ... File a FOIA/public records request with police departments and sheriff's offices in your area asking for Flock audit logs. If you obtain records and wish to contribute them to this project, please contact us.

  • Instead of posting a screenshot of text (of, for example, a blog), we shall post the text content, a link to the original post, then optionally a screenshot of that post.

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  • I'd just be happy to have proper alt text on the image for those who use screen readers.

  • What's it going to take to truly stop the US?

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  • You forgot about all intra-continental internet cables going through US routers and oil being traded in USD.

  • What is your New Years resolution?

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  • Who downvotes this without an explanation? Even if you think that racism is good, it's somebody else's resolution, so...?

  • What's your opinion on the Somali daycare fraud story?

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  • I used to care but as it became a political tool, it became too much effort to care.

    As far as i know, the only exposure is in Minnesota, but that can't be the only place that these federal dollars were being misused. It smells funny.

    The journalist you're probably referencing is a YouTuber/influencer and has no journalistic credentials that I can find. It feels like an opportunistic popularity grab. Strike 2.

    I read that the guy making the video was invited to produce a piece by a possible candidate for governor, opposing Gov. Walz. This tells me that it's now a political advertisement and has lost any credibility and I don't care enough to fact check everything,so I've stopped paying attention.

    The whole thing bothers me. I don't like it when people don't follow the rules. Right now, it's too hard to know the truth, so I'm closing my eyes. There's enough other stuff to be upset about in life.

  • Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution

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  • I have gas and would fight anyone who tries to tell me otherwise. I rented a place with an induction range and now I want one so bad.

  • What are some situations that you forced to pay/spend when you really don't need it?

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  • I often wonder how much of the toll is used to fund the road maintenance itself vs funding the structures to collect tolls like the toll booths, the collections, technology, billing, and all the employees.

  • With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil"

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  • Being Christian or going to church doesn't make you a good person any more than a speed limit sign prevents people from speeding.

  • China bans influencers from speaking on ‘serious’ topics like finance or health without university degree

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  • You're spot on with accountability. Why not just legally allow people harmed by following the advice to be ableto sue the influencers and allow those with proper credentials to become certified in the topic and certification protects from lawsuits?

    Or maybe not the second part. Anybody giving bad advice should be sued.

    "This isn't medical advice, but drinking battery acid will allow you to live forever." Would never hold up in court.

    Freedom of speech seems to be the most misunderstood right.

  • Is the US currently in a recession or entering one?

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  • The US is not in a recession as of this posting date. I read something recently from Fidelity Investments that suggests that the US is heading toward a recession.

    Your exact question was found on the Q&A page

    Supporting evidence Key takeaways

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              The US economy continues to grow, although it is sending some mixed signals.
  
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              Corporate earnings remain strong even as consumer expectations sag.
  
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              US tariff policy remains uncertain, and much of the impact from tariff hikes is still ahead.

    Additionally, you may find this page interesting. It charts the business cycle across countries and quarters. If you play with the selections, you'll see that countries' economies do not always progress forward, nor are the rates of change consistent, so the page is not a predictor of what's to come.

    FWIW, a financial advisor that I know said that his company is recommending that their investors shift to a portfolio with more foreign investments.

  • The People’s Answer to ICE: Crowdsourcing Community Defense

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  • Not 75%, just 3.5% is needed (probably).

    source

  • Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

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  • You have a lot of good points and I may have missed the intent of the article, but a knee jerk reaction of "lower traffic = AI is bad" is not helpful either. My point is that I frequently find myself hitting a page just to check a reference, quote or remember something. AI search results can be useful here. It's no different than how DuckDugkGo has a sidebar if the results are from StackOverflow. It's nice to get quick answers. I would like to see a fair solution to the content creators being able to stay in business.

  • Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

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  • This will be unpopular, but hear me out. Maybe the decline in visitors is only a decline in the folks who are simply looking for a specific word or name and the forgot. Like, that one guy who believed in the survival of the fittest. Um. Let me try to remember. I think he had an epic beard. Ah! Darwin! I just needed a reminder, I didn't want to read the entire article on him because I did that years ago.

    Look at your own behaviors on lemmy. How often do you click/tap through to the complete article? What if it's just a headline? What if it's the whole article pasted into the body of the post? Click bait headlines are almost universally hated, but it's a desperate attempt to drive traffic to the site. Sometimes all you need is the article synopsis. Soccer team A beats team B in overtime. Great, that's all I need to know..unless I have a fantasy team.

  • ‘Pete Hegseth Has United the Media!’ Only One Outlet Has Agreed to Pentagon’s New Press Rules as Fox News, CNN and More Refuse to Comply

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  • You're reading this the wrong way. Why is the defense department censoring the media? What are they doing or planning that they don't want the media, and therefore the people, to know about? If this was a practice run for limiting news, it'd be happening in some other department first.

  • crop candles

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  • Electric heaters are wasteful. How about spending that energy wisely while also generating heat?

    https://fedia.io/m/nottheonion@lemmy.world/t/2828343

    (Sorry for the full link, I can't figure out how to reference an article on another instance on the mobile app.)

  • People whose parents have become fascist, how are you dealing with it?

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  • This is probably the best answer based on the stuff that I've heard.

    During the first term, a local talk radio show had a woman on who grew up in a cult. She was born into it. She described her own story about how she learned what was happening and eventually got out. IIRC, her parents cut all ties with her, as that was the way of the cult. Anyhow, she described the process of "deprogramming" someone and it is basically along the same lines of what you describe.

    Sadly, it's easy to "mass convert" people to cults, but deprogramming is a one on one conversation over a long period of time.

  • Why do my LG smart fridge and my GE washer and dryer all have DNS servers? And is there a way I can control them without the manufacturer's miserable apps?

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  • A port scan and then inspection of the ports is a great habit. Another fun thing to do is to set up WireShark to listen to what your fridge's IP address is doing. Who is it calling? How often? What services (ports)? While your fridge may have a DNS server, unless it's been pre-loaded with the internet, it'll need to query another DNS to reach the outside world. DNS is usually unencrypted, so you can see what it's asking to connect to.

    Many of these devices announce their services via Bonjour or whatever protocol. It's a way for devices like Alexa to find out that you have a printer, interrogate the printer and then Alexa will tell you that your printer is low on ink and by the way, Amazon has a special sale, just for you.

    If anything is unencrypted, check it out (with WireShark). If it is encrypted, there's a chance that you can hijack it with a proxy server. Set up a SOCKS proxy and add a DNS label (I can't remember what it is) to tell the devices in your network that you have a proxy. Block the fridge from the internet and see if it will autodetect the proxy. There are other ways to tell devices that your home network requires a proxy via autodetection & wpad.dat files in specific locations on your network. You can configure your proxy to log all traffic, like WireShark does and then see what's in the payload.

    I've done this with limited success on various devices. More mature products like Alexa are locked down. Those cheap home cameras from China are pretty hackable.

    Have fun!

  • Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet

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  • You just described most tech stocks.

    As Cory Doctrow explains:

    the fundamental duty of every CEO of every high-growth tech company: explaining how his company will continue to grow. These growth stories are key, because growth stocks trade at a huge premium relative to the stocks of "mature" companies.

  • Street racers are not criminals

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  • I came here to say just this. I used to belong to a hobbyist group that would reserve track time for races. They were timed trials for safety and had tow trucks and medics on standby. The best was when they watered the track in the winter and let it freeze overnight. Those were the slowest races I've ever seen. In addition to being safe fun, they taught how to handle your car in extreme situations.

    Here's an example race: https://www.onelapofamerica.com/#!HOME