Aatube

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the heck you mean "lists aren't indexable"

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 1 day ago

because your eyes are covered in them

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 16 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Can't they just convert a "true" input to backend to uppercase

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, the actual inventor of the Segway:

In 2007, his residence was a hexagonal, shed style mansion he dubbed Westwind,[14] located in Bedford, New Hampshire, just outside Manchester. The house has at least four levels and is very eclectically conceived, with such things as: hallways resembling mine shafts; 1960s novelty furniture; a collection of vintage wheelchairs; spiral staircases; at least one secret passage; an observation tower; a fully equipped machine shop; and a huge cast iron steam engine which once belonged to Henry Ford (built into the multi-story center atrium of the house) which Kamen is working to convert into a Stirling engine-powered kinetic sculpture.[citation needed] Kamen owns and pilots an Embraer Phenom 300 light jet aircraft[46] and three Enstrom helicopters, including a 280FX, a 480, and a 480B.[47][48][49] He regularly commutes to work via his helicopters and had a hangar built into his house.[50] In 2016 he flew as a passenger in a B-2 Spirit bomber at Whiteman AFB, marking the opening of the 2016 FRC World Championship in St. Louis.[51]

https://www.thehenryford.org/explore/stories-of-innovation/visionaries/dean-kamen/#gallery-video=xrd3NzMTrT70W_Xeog0BoBo35sBqnCz_

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 2 days ago

apparently he got his fortune by inventing a compact flood control fortification later appropriated for military defense

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 2 days ago

I have a quote above. As SF said, agents who do that would be violating court rulings.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 2 days ago

held that it is unconstitutional for US border officials to subject visitors' devices to forensic searches without individualized suspicion of criminal wrongdoing

It's not like the Bill of Rights doesn't apply to people with just visas either.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 3 days ago (6 children)

A 2-1 circuit split means that the 2 currently prevails, thus making border searching of electronics illegal unless you're within the 11th's jurisdiction (Florida, Georgia, Alabama, while the guy was arrested traveling to a Texas conference), no?

In 2014, the US Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling in Riley v. California, which held that law enforcement officials violated the Fourth Amendment when they searched an arrestee's cellphone without a warrant. The court explained, "Modern cell phones are not just another technological convenience. With all they contain and all they may reveal, they hold for many Americans 'the privacies of life.' The fact that technology now allows an individual to carry such information in his hand does not make the information any less worthy of the protection for which the Founders fought."[15]

In 2013, before Riley was decided, the Ninth Circuit court of appeals held that reasonable suspicion is required to subject a computer seized at the border to forensic examination. [...] In May of 2018, in U.S. v. Kolsuz, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that it is unconstitutional for US border officials to subject visitors' devices to forensic searches without individualized suspicion of criminal wrongdoing.[22] Just five days later, in U.S. v. Touset, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals split with the Fourth and Ninth Circuits, ruling that the Fourth Amendment does not require suspicion for forensic searches of electronic devices at the border.[23] The existence of a circuit split is one of the factors that the Supreme Court of the United States considers when deciding whether to grant review of a case.[24]

 
[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 13 points 3 days ago (10 children)

That's forced. Since when was it a thing?

 

Sean Duffy, the U.S. transportation secretary, demanded a long list of details about crime in the subway and on buses in New York.

 

"Guardian super-blogger flames Reg boffinry desk" "the observed variations in the solar spectrum have caused roughly as much warming of Earth's surface as have increases in carbon dioxide emissions, says Haigh." Open and shut, then. Much of recent global warming [...] was actually down to changes in the Sun.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 4 days ago

the stinkyboard is 4 foot pedals tho?

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 4 days ago

True. There's reassurance in Bluesky plus many open-source endeavors getting that funding, though. One might look at organizations like SDF. There's millions of insane people out there like me and at least one of them has a big-enough nest egg.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's not from scratch; every piece of old data is public. I've sent a link somewhere else here.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 4 days ago

They do let other people host; it's just that they're not going to be federated and one has to clone quite a lot of data. And there's people mirroring Bluesky's servers.

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Israel would use “increasing military strength” against Hamas after talks with the group reached an impasse. Israeli forces launched large aerial attacks across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday morning, in the first major strikes on the territory since Israel’s cease-fire with Hamas began roughly two months ago. Gaza’s health ministry said more than 400 people had been killed in the attacks, which raised the prospect of a return to all-out war. Bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli air strikes.

The headline is from the NYT front page.

 

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Mr. Lundstrom was a supporter of far-right causes and, at one point, an unsuccessful candidate for office. He was convicted of aiding copyright infringement in 2009.

 

"How noise complaints in a Manhattan co-op led to a $750,000 legal settlement and shattered a friendship.", but that doesn't quite sell the sheer craziness.

 

"How noise complaints in a Manhattan co-op led to a $750,000 legal settlement and shattered a friendship.", but that doesn't quite sell the sheer craziness.

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Selkie (en.wikipedia.org)
 

Selkies are mythological creatures that can shapeshift between seal and human forms by removing or putting on their seal skin. They feature prominently in the oral traditions and mythology of various cultures, especially those of Celtic and Norse origin. The term “selkie” derives from the Scots word for “seal”, and is also spelled as silkies, sylkies, or selchies. Selkies are sometimes referred to as selkie folk (Scots: selkie fowk), meaning "seal folk". Selkies are mainly associated with the Northern Isles of Scotland, where they are said to live as seals in the sea but shed their skin to become human on land. Selkies have a dual nature: they can be friendly and helpful to humans, but they can also be dangerous and vengeful. Selkies are often depicted as attractive and seductive in human form, and many stories involve selkies having romantic or sexual relationships with humans, sometimes resulting in children. Selkies can also be coerced or tricked into marrying humans, usually by someone who steals and hides their seal skin, preventing them from returning to the sea. Such marriages are often unhappy, as the selkie always longs for the sea and may eventually escape if they find their skin...

 

the officers disclosed their jobs to the couple, even encouraging the couple to Google the officers, said Andrew Halverson, a spokesman for the wildlife department’s law enforcement division. The couple joked that they could not find any information online about the officers, and continued talking, Mr. Halverson said. [...] The passengers also showed the officers the skull of an endangered sea turtle they were smuggling in a carry-on bag during the flight.

The day after the flight, officers arrived to execute a search warrant at the couple’s home in Chico, Calif., and found Mr. Fitzpatrick and Ms. Price processing a deer they had hunted illegally that day, the agency said. Deer season was over, and the couple had no deer tags, which California requires in addition to an annual hunting license to hunt big game species.

Officers also found mountain lion claws, taxidermied animals including a ringtail cat and a barn owl, an illegally hunted spike buck and several illegally hunted deer with tagging violations, the agency said. Ringtail cats are a protected species in California, and mounted raptors like the barn owl are illegal to possess without state and federal permits.

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