salarua 1w ago • 84%
it is psychosomatic, but can still be debilitating. i knew a Navy veteran who could not drink straight water at all because while in the Navy, he had to drink several gallons of the stuff every day. as soon as he was discharged (honorably), he found he couldn't have water without anything added to it simply because he had so much of it in the service. of course, he still has to drink water, so he carries around a bottle of flavoring
salarua 1w ago • 100%
Star Trek: Discovery has Cadet Sylvia Tilly, a character who's not identified as autistic but is very coded as such (e.g. in her first scene, she seems to have trouble with picking up on social cues and talks a lot, and she had to get a different fabric for her bedsheets because of "special needs"). her portrayal is very respectful and positive, and as all the characters get to know each other they make an active effort to be understanding and accommodating towards her and treat her like the capable officer she is
salarua 2mo ago • 66%
I looked up the Open Technology Fund on Wikipedia and it has no relation to the CIA. well, except that its parent agency (Radio Free Asia) is part of the US government like the CIA is. they don't seem to work together at all, and they're under the purview of two different branches of government
besides, as other commenters have said, they're open source and they've been audited. anyone can build the client themselves (with any potential backdoors removed) and set up their own server. would the CIA allow for that?
salarua 2mo ago • 100%
Signal was developed with financial backing by the CIA, so do with that information what you will.
source?
salarua 2mo ago • 73%
NPR News is probably what you're looking for. sports and celebrity stuff is relegated to the Culture section, which is its own separate thing (although there are a couple of music stories that seem to have been misplaced). here is the RSS feed for the News section: https://feeds.npr.org/1001/rss.xml
salarua 3mo ago • 100%
true. gotta get one of those desks you see at schools, with the hole in the corner and the plastic cover
salarua 3mo ago • 100%
the setup actually isn't bad at all. using a soundbar is a nice touch. i would do something about the clutter though; you want a nice clean desk for gaming sessions. too bad we can't see the chair, you need something like an office chair for maximum comfort and not a gaming chair, as they actually aren't very good for your back
salarua 4mo ago • 100%
never doubt the elegance of good semantic HTML and a few lines of classless CSS
salarua 4mo ago • 100%
to spite entropy
**Abstract** Increasing the uptake of active, carbon neutral forms of transport is indicated for both population health and environmental conservation. Efforts to increase cycling uptake are hindered by negative attitudes towards cyclists. Recent research from Australia has found that many people consider cyclists to be less than fully human. There is currently a lack of empirical evidence that explains these dehumanising perceptions. Most people who ride bicycles in Australia wear safety helmets as required by mandatory helmet laws. We hypothesised that people wearing bicycle helmets are perceived as less human compared to people without helmets due to reduced visibility of eyes and hair. We tested this hypothesis through a survey (n = 563) comprised of two-paired alternate forced choice questions to identify which image of a cyclist respondents consider to be less human. We then analysed the results using a Bradley-Terry probability model. We found images of cyclists wearing helmets or safety vests to have a higher probability of being selected as less human compared to images of cyclists wearing no safety equipment. The results have implications for research on cyclist dehumanisation and its mitigation.
salarua 4mo ago • 100%
the Republican Party checks off almost all of these.
- powerful and continuing nationalism: MAGA and America First
- disdain for human rights: the ongoing trans genocide and their support for the Palestinian genocide
- identification of enemies as an unifying cause: the "woke" fearmongering
- supremacy of the military: Trump has waffled between praising the military and calling them "losers", so not quite yet
- rampant sexism: reinforcement of traditional gender roles and the "tradwife" movement
- controlled mass media: inside their sphere, yeah. Fox News, Newsmax, and OAN breathlessly hang on to every word Republican figures say
- obsession with national security: bOrdEr WAlL!
- religion and government intertwined: anti-abortion policies universally have religious justifications for them, plus several Republicans have said (and seem to sincerely believe) that Trump was ordained by Jesus
- corporate power protected: corporate tax cuts and the withering of regulatory agencies under Republican leadership
- labor power suppressed: the logical corollary to the above
- disdain for intellectuals and the arts: distrust of experts and scientific endeavors
- obsession with crime and punishment: running on being "hard on crime"
- rampant cronyism and corruption: Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito's undeclared trips from Republican donors are likely just the tip of the iceberg
- fraudulent elections: not yet, and hopefully never 🤞
salarua 4mo ago • 100%
he absolutely carried Stargate Atlantis, it was weird to see him in Aquaman
salarua 4mo ago • 100%
Aquaman. the visual effects were ridiculous, the characters were one-dimensional, the soundtrack was...something, and the overall tone was that of a testosterone firehose to the face. i said the eight deadly words about halfway through, and i was thoroughly bored out of my mind despite action scene after action scene after action scene...the only reason why i didn't just get up and leave was because i was watching with a group
salarua 4mo ago • 100%
he's gonna stiff the contractors? great, now all his teleprompters are going to be broken
salarua 4mo ago • 100%
butlerian jihad?
salarua 5mo ago • 100%
it's on "Copilot+" PCs (i.e. ARM-based with an NPU)
salarua 5mo ago • 100%
IIUC it wouldn’t be able to be automatically started then, right? I mean I guess you could drag it to startup but it would need the password to start. From a security minded perspective that’s good, but from a user perspective kind of sucks.
that's true, but since this is a record of everything you've ever done, i feel this is the irreducible minimum for security. a separate password prompt would signal to the less technically-minded users that this is Serious
Always forced to foreground makes it even less convenient and kind of odd.
this is a design pattern i borrowed from Linux (my OS of choice). modern Linux apps require your explicit permission to run in the background, so most of them don't even bother with running in the background at all. that said, i suppose it can run in the background, as long as the status indicator is sufficiently noticeable, but you'd have to go into the settings and flip that switch yourself
I don’t see this functionality as being useful if you have to remember to turn it on.
i imagine that it would become a habit, or you'd set it to run on startup. my use case would be turning it on for specific tasks like research or shopping, where you might only later remember that that one thing you saw was actually really valuable
I figure the cryptfs could be a bitlocker volume with a different key than the base C drives key to get similar protection. In theory it could also be based on the C drives bitlocker for a less secure, but still hardware level secured middle ground.
can a user-installed app do that?
salarua 5mo ago • 100%
if i were designing a recall program, here's how i would do it: it would take a screenshot every five seconds, OCR it, then run it through local quantized image recognition and word association neural networks, and then toss everything into a CryFS vault. when launching the recall program, you have to provide the password to unlock the vault so it can read and write to it. it can only run in the foreground (so you have to keep the window open for it to run, no closing it and forgetting about it) and it will display a status indicator in your system tray that provides a menu to pause or stop recording. afterwards, you can mark any text or region of the screen for redaction, and it'll redact it across all screenshots and delete it from the database; you can delete individual screenshots or entire periods of time; and there will be an easily accessible self-destruct option that shreds the database (i.e. overwriting it with random garbage 21 times before deleting it off the disk). this is all offline and the application will not request network access
i'm just making this up on the fly, so there are absolutely security and privacy considerations I absolutely forgot about, but this is the bare minimum i would like to see
salarua 5mo ago • 100%
browser data is a potential liability, sure, but you have tools to manage it. you can delete pages or entire websites, you can use private windows, you can purge history older than 6 months or something like that, and at least a few browsers have a "forget" button that wipes out the last two hours of history. similar deals with cookies and other data, and we've collectively decided the benefit of having browser data is worth the risk.
not so here. Recall is a record of everything you've ever done on your PC. you can't selectively delete things like you can with browser history, the app and website exclusion is only as good as whatever Recall is using to detect apps and websites, and you can't redact sensitive info after the fact. people are generally okay with browser history and data because they know they have fine-grained controls to manage it, controls Recall doesn't have
salarua 5mo ago • 100%
the screenshots and text are just sitting in the appdata folder, which requires no special permission to access
this **rootless** Python script rips Windows Recall's screenshots and SQLite database of OCRed text and allows you to search them.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16097480 > https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/1d6auj0/how_it_started_vs_how_its_going/
the best answer yet to "why pirate movies"
::: spoiler image description Twitter post by @DirtyTesLa: Thankful to have Cybertruck to help me with the real work and big loads 🙏 (image of Cybertruck with several bags of soil in the trunk) Reply by @KralikLj: Hell boy that would fit in a bicycle. Way more carbon free than that wankpanzer. (image of cargo bicycle with several bags of soil strapped to the front) :::