The Doctor

I really want to laugh about this, but it marks the beginning of synthetic video and audio for political purposes. Coupled with personally tailored political ads, and this is going to be a total disaster.

I think it’s a little too late. Amazon already bought One Medical, which is the only non-hospital medical provider in a lot of areas. That means they have access to all of the medical records.

Time to start cloning the git repos for safekeeping, folks. yt-dlp, too.

Plush rumps and proboscises?

When I worked for a telecom company I used to get stuck working double shifts (system maintenance cycle at night) because I had seniority. Rather than go into the office or the data center I worked from my apartment when I could get away with it.

At this point in life I lived maybe fifteen minutes off the DC Beltway in NOVA. This is somewhat relevant.

So, one night I’m waiting for Sylantro patches to install and the cluster to fail back over and I saw a bunch of shadows moving at speed through the window. The odd thing blowing in the breeze at night wasn’t unusual but this was a pack. Then I heard a crash upstairs and shouting in at least two languages, English being one of them. Never did find out what the other one was because it was too muffled.

I found out later that somebody living in my apartment building two or three floors up had been raided. I asked the folks I knew on the local police force, and they said it wasn’t them. I kinda suspect that it was the FBI. Anyway, he worked for somebody’s government and was in the States on a diplomatic visa, and he was also involved in human trafficking somehow. I never did find out specifics.

I really doubt it. He’s more the kind of guy to organize a DDoS on some of the bigger sites, anyway.

The UI’s a little bit sticky, possibly due to how busy lemmy.ml is right now. The set of communities is pretty thin as well, but that will probably change as time goes on.

Not in California. Been trying since I moved out here, and so far both landlords (the house we rent got sold to another investor when our original landlord retired) categorically refused the solar power upgrade. Fought that battle for two years with the first landlord, about a year with the second one. Both times it came down to “shut up or move out.”

I don’t think JWICS is DoD only. In theory, any TLA or FLA that handles TS material, has a SCIF and a local JWICS LAN can’t be hooked into the rest of the JWICS network.

I was writing code for Google Glass that implemented facial recognition. A friend of mine suffered a TBI in an automobile wreck and developed partial facial prosopagnosia as a result. I was basically writing software that would recognize faces within 15 feet of the wearer and compare it to images of their contacts in their Google account, and would throw up an AR subtitle identifying the person on a match. Not too long after I filed the developer applications and outlined my project, the Glass project flatlined.

Yes. And the big G doesn’t care. If they have to lie and say it’s abusive and a violation of the ToS, they’ll say it is. They’re a megacorp, while Invidious is a small open source project.

Things escalated, folks. They got a C&D:

https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-orders-invidious-privacy-software-to-shut-down-in-7-days-230609/

Start backing up the source repos now.

A thousand dollar filter mask. Not difficult to see who the intended market segment is.

They’ve already fucked the RSS feeds.

Yep. And, as it turned out, lots of folks* thought that was a funny thing and loved it. This is the guy who GG’d himself into the CEO position.

• Probably sock puppets, tbh.

He’s the CEO, though. Kinda hard not to because he sets policy.

Something I’ve been trying to teach myself without success: Saying every third word backwards in a conversation.

What about xroach? :)

A helping hands-style benchtop clamp optimized for holding project boxes while they’re being wired up, and not PCBs.

I still don’t think I should have told them I was working on a software prosthetic for it.