Melody

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Melody ,

She should be ejected from the chamber(s) for a while in my opinion, and forced to "telecommute" her votes and participation in, if they even choose to let her participate at all in the lawmaking, for the rest of her term.

There's no reason that behavior should be excusable.

Melody ,

0.00000003% 3 Satoshis of a percent.

Melody ,

For the love of god; the media needs to start ignoring the orange idiot.

Report only on his court cases and their outcomes and nothing more. Give this fool no airtime.

Melody ,

https://www.theguardian.com/info/2014/sep/12/-sp-how-to-make-a-complaint-about-guardian-or-observer-content

Go complain at their Editor.

Melody ,

It's clear that they made an end run around the rules, laws and agreements they made.

I hope some judge throws the book in their face for it and forces them to pay out of their profits to the artists at the rate they agreed was fair before they began selling audiobooks.

'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement ( www.theatlantic.com )

As soon as Apple announced its plans to inject generative AI into the iPhone, it was as good as official: The technology is now all but unavoidable. Large language models will soon lurk on most of the world’s smartphones, generating images and text in messaging and email apps. AI has already colonized web search, appearing in...

Melody ,

Why Not Both?

South Australia to legislate 'world leading' electoral donation ban prohibiting donations and gifts to political parties, backed by tough penalties for those who seek to circumvent the law ( www.premier.sa.gov.au )

The South Australian premier, Peter Malinauskas, has announced plans to ban donations to registered political parties, members of parliament and candidates. The state will provide funding to allow parties and candidates to contest elections, run campaigns and promote political ideas, according to the proposed bill....

Melody ,

Godspeed. May this measure succeed with all haste and become the new normal.

For once it overtakes one country; others can choose to follow suit as best as they can.

Melody ,

Personally I think the more complex pattern of having 3 different states being cycled through once an hour is significantly less likely to be natural.

That, of course, doesn't mean much by itself; it still is possible that it is natural and we just don't understand why. More research into how and why that is happening is absolutely required to answer the question. I just don't know if we will do it, or if we have the tech needed to fully investigate it yet.

Melody ,

I'd argue that a more precise timing like 53.8 minutes is more attention grabbing. It shows finer grained control of technology; a "look here! we can do this too!" sort of demonstration.

If we are the "more advanced" neighbor; then I could see that being done.

Melody ,

That signal might be insignificant to us; but it may be their way of establishing a timescale.

The time may be derived from how long their planet takes to rotate...aka the length of one sub-unit of their day...aka 1/24th of their day.

Melody ,

So much for using airplane mode to conserve battery.

Your understanding is slightly off.

Airplane mode Does In Fact Turn off your CELLULAR Radio This radio is what powers your (2/3/4/5)G and LTE (This is 4G btw) connection to the cell towers.

Most international radio communications laws can prohibit the use of Cellular Radio in flight; however they often don't prohibit the use of shorter range radio technologies such as WIFI or Bluetooth.

It's all about 'loudness'. Think about it. Your phone must 'scream louder' at a farther away cell tower than it would need to communicate with a nearby WiFi router or a Bluetooth headset.

Melody ,

Your comment missed the mark entirely. Please don't reply-guy me; I know what I'm talking about.

Melody ,

Mandatory https://archive.is/Dt8FX link

Repeal the Comstock Act before the GOP tries using it to ban abortion ( www.washingtonpost.com )

Prudish even by the standards of the Victorian Age, Anthony Comstock ranks as one of the more bizarre and destructive figures in U.S. history. The founder of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice in 1873, Comstock boasted of hounding women to suicide by pursuing their prosecution for selling contraceptive pills or...

Melody ,

The best way to prevent misuse of the Comstock Act is to hit them where it hurts. Find out what items their funders sell or trade in the most; then find logical ways to link it to sex or abortion.

Pretty soon you'll gum up all trade and they will cry for mercy.

Melody ,

The best way to prevent misuse of the Comstock Act is to hit them where it hurts. Find out what items their funders sell or trade in the most; then find logical ways to link it to sex or abortion.

Pretty soon you'll gum up all trade and they will cry for mercy.

Melody ,

I would argue that federating with either of the biggest companies on the fediverse is a monumentally bad idea.

Not just because of "Reports of genocide" or anything specious like that; which can be debated for days and days on end by people in both good and bad faith; but because both Threads and Meta are simply too large to be moderated correctly and be capable of managing basic issues such as harrassment and extended bouts of hate-speech which should never be considered acceptable; even if you do not necessarily agree with all of the goals and policies of the Fedi Garden; as strict as they are.

Melody ,

With that being said; I do fully support an Instance's choice to federate, not federate or even limit their federation with them.

In most cases this should not affect instances; but unfortunately there are people who will ignore all warnings and use the Fedi Garden as a whitelist instead of a list of instances that you know will handle policy violations quickly.

On the other hand I absolutely also respect the needs of communities who ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY WILL NOT TOLERATE instances who choose to federate with either X, Threads, or any other instance they deem to be too toxic to play nicely. As instance operators you absolutely have the right to block problems BEFORE they happen, and if you happen to KNOW an instance will absolutely be a HEADACHE, you have every right to say NO. If the users do not like your decision; they are free to find a better instance for themselves; or spin up an alt account on a better instance.

Melody ,

Not only did they guess it should be updated; they even left plenty of mechanisms directly in the constitution that allowed for it to be updated radically whenever situations changed so drastically that a supermajority agrees that it should be changed.

Unfortunately that too is the downfall; as those who want to exploit the status quo are also empowered to leverage their money and power to prevent such a majority from taking place. The constitution is far from perfect, and it absolutely should've been amended many hundreds of times over, not just the paltry less than 30 times we've managed to do so already.

Melody , (edited )

Ranks 1 through 9 Is Not Piracy as you've paid for your copy in some manner typically. Rank 11 & 12 is not piracy

Ranks 10, 13, and 14 are JUSTIFIABLE Piracy. You are free to debate the merits of doing these things or choose not to do them yourself.

Rank 15 is blatant piracy and is arguably socially unacceptable and fully subject to full penalty of law. Don't be that guy!

My ethics are simple; You must fulfill one of two conditions:

  1. You pay for a legitimate copy (license) in some format. How much you pay does not matter as long as the transaction is for a permanent (indefinite time length) license and not blatantly a rental. This legitimate copy does not have to be purchased directly from the IP Rights holder or their designated and authorized (re)sellers.
  2. You are 100% unable to obtain a reasonable, purchasable, legal copy in your city of residence through any physical or digital means. Any Digital options available to you must not be reasonably obtainable due to unreasonable cost of buy-in.

Notably:

Both rules exclude the ability to "Rent" a piece of content from somewhere, "Borrow" it from a library and "Buy" it online from a digital market place that is exclusive to a piece of technology you do not own and do not plan to, and would not elect to purchase.

As an example; any and all content that is exclusively available on iTunes or exclusively through using an iDevice is not reasonably obtainable; I do not own an Apple device, I do not wish to buy or own one. I would be within my rights to pirate any content I see as desirable. I despise Apple and refuse to use their products; so I am within my rights to pirate anything that requires you to use an Apple device or account to access the right to purchase it.

This would not be acceptable if the content were available through Google Play; as I already own an Android Smartphone, and the marketplace is reasonably accessible and reasonably priced in most cases.

This does not include situations where accessing the ability to purchase content requires a large number of convoluted steps. For example; I shouldn't be required to mail in a letter only to obtain a temporary credential necessary to access the purchasing front-end, submit more personally identifying information than necessary to fill an order in an account creation process, or be required to call a specific phone number to support to ask for an exception to a policy or permission to purchase or retain access to a purchase.

As a final clarification: Streaming == Renting.

No 'ifs', 'ands', or 'buts' about it. A streaming service is renting access to a specific batch of content for an agreed upon price, paid at a regular interval. This is not a purchase. Instead it is a patronage agreement.

Melody , (edited )

In most cases either they filled option 1; or having no access to a purchase option they feel is reasonable fills option 2.

Few people, if any, are truly rank 15. I don't give a damn what the corporate folks say or think. Most of the time they're basically blaming the victims of their own poor decision making anyways.

I don't agree that Rank 10 should be placed where it is; it is more akin to Rank 15 in similarity...the attitude is more entitled than it should be. Ripping your own copy should be something you are not only allowed; but encouraged to do...as it often nullifies any content protection that might interfere with your right to enjoy the content that you purchased in a way that the rights holder didn't expect. Furthermore it removes all doubt that your digital copy is legitimate, as you derived it from a physical copy that you already own...and have fair use doctrine as well as purchase license and access to.

Ripping your physical copies is also a further message to creators that DRM and Copy Protection is an unacceptable format.

As an additional note: I firmly believe that people who sell copies of things they pirated are ranked at 15. They are blatantly ignoring the law for no justifiable reason. You as a customer purchasing from those people are not liable for their law breaking however; similar to how you are not liable for people who are ignoring the law by handing out free pirated copies to everyone. The burden of breaking the law is upon the one committing the crime.

The reason I advocate ripping your own copies; is simple. If you got caught with a copy you obtained from someone else's physical copy; you could be reasonably ordered by a judge to "Forfeit (delete all copies in your possession of) that illegitimate copy". It's likely to happen when they catch the person making the illegal copies. Ripping your own personal digital copy from your physical copy is provably not piracy. It's a different act altogether; as you are using something you already own within your rights of possession and property. Instead, ripping your own copies is legal preservation.

Melody ,

Copying is not theft. It does not remove the original.

If I send you a PDF copy of a book that I own, that I scanned into a PDF myself; that is not theft, that is ownership. So long as I make you pay nothing for that copy; and I do mean $0.00, I cannot charge you for any costs incurred while making that copy; I am not breaking the law until a judge summons me before them and tells me I am abusing my rights and are summarily breaking the law in another manner as is judge's right to do.

I own the physical book and I am allowed to enjoy it in any manner I see fit...including loaning the book to you physically or digitally in perpetuity.

The law supports and recognizes fair use and ownership. It is up to us not to abuse that ownership. I do not recommend making 1,000,000,000 copies of a book and giving them away just because you are mad at the author. That's an asshole move and likely to get the metaphorical judge I described involved in the matter.

Similarly; it is an asshole move for a content creator to sell you a copy of a book or some other media and then go about trying to tell you how you may or may not enjoy the material you just purchased. They can recommend ways to enjoy it; but they do not have an enforceable right, even through contracts, to tell you that you cannot exercise your ownership rights in a certain way...unless you overdo it to asshole levels and a judge and/or the police get involved.

Melody ,

Personally I think there are possible federal wiretapping laws that might have something to say about a telecom that is offering an E2EE secure phone line to someone who is not on duty as a police officer (cop), federal agent (glowie), or other authorized federal, state or local employee (bureaucrat, with data that has legitimate need to be protected).

That's not even considering the entitled political hand-wringing about terrorists, spies, drug dealers, pedophiles and other so called "EVIL" people who "should not have access to such a powerful tool" because "it's our law enforcement's right to catch them in the act." Unfortunately it's a nuanced problem and we can't wave away all of that hand-wringing, even if we think most of it is dramatic and performative. They do have some points.

But...even if we were to suppose for a moment that all of the above issues are not a problem... because something likely happened to wake people up to the need for privacy...we would be facing an entirely new set of technical challenges to hurdle over.

As our current cell networks are structured; we would need to deploy cell phones with phone numbers that do not typically allow routing of outbound unencrypted calls...instead all phone calls would need to be routed over cellular data (AKA LTE or 5G). These calls could definitely be nominally routed by an existing application such as Signal and would require that remote recipients also install the Signal app to receive encrypted calls.

Essentially you'd have a phone which is a Data+SMS only line with a phone number for ease of access. You wouldn't be able to make outbound unencrypted calls or send SMS messages except to emergency services.

Melody ,

I'm sorry to say; but that feature genuinely does not seem to exist in any Open Source PDF reading/editing application.

Melody ,

and I read various posts they said that this app spy location and do lot of other stuff.

The source(s) you heard these things from are blatant misinformation. They fail to correctly understand the technology; which is "Federated Learning". Basically it's a form of AI training that obscures the data from the operator(s) so that it cannot be read, but the AI can learn from it privately. Bits and pieces of work are assigned to devices to "train" the AI privately, on the device using it's AI focused hardware. Your device never allows your data to leave the device; even if your data is used to train the AI.

I tried to disable it but it again activates when I restart phone?

This is a core system component of Android and you cannot disable it. It is the core function of Android System Intelligence module. The Private Compute Services is what is allowed to read your data; and if you've not opted out, can train bits of AI on your data without revealing or sharing that data to anyone. I repeat, your data does not leave the device, it is only used as training material. Yes, that has some privacy implications that they do try to address.

Please see this comic first: https://federated.withgoogle.com/

and then feel free to read up on Wikipedia about it to learn more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_learning

In Android 14, at least on a Pixel, it's possible to opt out of these functions easily in Settings > Security & Privacy > More Security & Privacy. Similarly this menu can also "forget" everything your device has "learned" locally about your data and habits...which might help you with battery drain issues.

Melody ,

Please do not spread misinformation. Instead read this comic: https://federated.withgoogle.com/ and look at the wikipedia article to learn how this works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_learning

Melody ,

No ROM exists without it. This is a core part of AOSP.

Melody ,

Might help; but this is a nuclear approach which will just kill all data when all you needed to to was make it forget what it learned in the settings.

Melody ,

That is a valid stance and feeling to have; and you can in fact turn off and opt out of the AI features in Android to reduce the issue to a non-issue.

Melody ,

Officially; No.

Informally; there's a few mods of the stock Discord client; however they're all closed source because they cannot possibly be fully open source as the stock Discord client is Closed Source.

Basically; alternatives exist; However they are not FOSS, FLOSS, OS or even fully Source Available.

Beeper exists but this is not strictly a Discord-only client and it is not fully Open Source; as some client/server code is only "Source Available". Beeper is also not fully "Free"; unless you self-host it. Furthermore access to Beeper is heavily join-gated. You will have to source an invitation code from someone you know. (No, I will not provide one.)

If you do get invited to Beeper; use Beeper Cloud, and be aware that iMessage integration does not work.

Melody ,

Just because it "Works For Me!" does not mean it will work.

Beeper very much does not currently allow new users to access the functioning legacy iMessage infrastructure; and Apple itself is making it impractical as well.

From the Beeper Community chatroom on Matrix:

[iMessage] Important Notice.

Beeper no longer provides support for iMessage-related issues.

It has become known that Apple has targeted users of legitimate Mac computers for using Beeper to generate iMessage registration data. Beeper has commented about this situation on Twitter/X here and coverage of this issue has been reported in the New York Times here.

As a result of this media pressure, many of those affected have been successful in having their hardware bans lifted. If you are still affected by a ban that you believe is related to generating a registration code on a Mac computer to use iMessage through Beeper please report it to Beeper Help here and please contact Apple Support as well.

As of this time Beeper has removed support for iMessage from Beeper Cloud due to Apple's actions. It is suggested that those still using registration data generated from a Mac computer to access iMessage through Beeper delete their existing iMessage bridge in Beeper Cloud.

For any further questions related to iMessage please visit our helpful Discord community.

Melody ,

At the risk of sounding like an old dragon;

The world just ain't like it used to be...these days you can't get away with half of what you could 10, 20 or even 30 years ago...even if what you did was largely completely harmless.

As for damages...what damages? Maybe a little cleanup would be necessary, but I doubt any of these ATMs were actually physically harmed by the prank(s). I will admit that it's a little bit irresponsible for the child to have actually done this internationally; but I suspect it wasn't the same kid. I doubt one kid could've traveled the world to fish-tape ATMs thousands of miles away; and instead this is a rather large "group" of kids doing this for the lulz, and they only caught the one kid and are trying to make an example of him. >_>

Melody ,

Low key though; taping a fish to a cop car isn't very classy and it only invites the cops to come after you instead of looking the other way.

Melody ,

On the other hand; would you personally make that choice if you were in their situation? I am willing to bet you, nor any other reader, would not. While that doesn't excuse the greed aspect of it; it does cast at least some light upon why they are refusing to sell and take a loss on it.

If you only paid $100,000 and you made $1,000,000; you'd have $900,000 profit; of which you'd probably only see ~60% to ~40% of, if Capital Gains taxes are anything near what I think they are. If we assume a "worst case", where the Federal Government takes 40% and the State takes about 20% more, that means your tidy profit is only about $390,000. That means you've probably got to secure another $140,000 in financing on average to pick up a more modest $500,000 home (in today's market) to retire in.

But villainizing the boomers isn't going to solve the housing crisis easier either. We legitimately need more homes. We. Need. Them. Yesterday. So maybe the policy needs to lean towards bigger developments that cost less. We did it during WW2; where massive amounts of homes were built cheaply. We probably need to achieve that again, and do better than we did during a war that was diverting supplies away from the effort.

How do we achieve that? I don't know.

Melody ,

Ah; but did you forget you pay income tax on top of capital gains taxes?

Melody ,

Yeah you can always take a hex hash output and convert it to Base64...which does conpress it significantly. Apply LZ Compression and boom.

Melody ,

You didn't convert a hex number into Base64, you Base64 encoded the hex string.

TL;DR, you used the wrong tool.

Melody ,

https://ciphereditor.com/share#blueprint=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

Melody ,

I wouldn't consider them that terribly biased personally; as their livelihood (Money) is put into shorting whatever company is being reported on (Mouth). Literally they put their money where their mouth is...and if they make a horrible mistake in reading a company going under and doing really shady things; they're going to basically go out themselves pretty quickly and lose a lot of credibility in the process.

Is it maybe a little scummy? Yes. But as they're calling out scumbags anyways; it looks more like a legitimate application of "taking a scammer to know a scammer". It's better that they're legitimately profiting from calling out companies that are cheating everyone and reporting on it to benefit the public in the process.

My HD is chocking but I don't want to throw away culturally precious mataerial (mainly movies)

I've left wigh 10 gb in my hd, almost 300 gb in my hd are occupied by culturally relevant films (in hig deifinition) that in the future (I bielieve, and I'm afraid) won't be so easy to find and thus I am reluctant to delete....

Melody ,

First of all, take the HDD offline. That means power it off (Turn off your computer) and do not use it, by removing it AND unplugging GENTLY from your computer and putting it in a safe, dry non-vibrating place. If this drive is the only drive in your computer, you need to stop using that computer.

Second of all, you must purchase a new hard drive! Save up for it if you must, you must have a new Hard Drive or SSD to save the data.

Third, you must wait until you have purchased a new hard drive for the data. once you have done so, you can take your computer offline again, and reinstall/re-plug in your drive, then bring it back online and copy the data over to the new drive immediately!

Melody ,

Not likely. The english is awkward but pretty heavily means the drive is failing.

Texas "physically barred" Border Patrol agents from trying to rescue migrants who drowned, federal officials say ( www.cbsnews.com )

A woman and two children drowned in the Rio Grande on Friday while trying to enter the U.S. near a section of the southern border where Texas National Guard soldiers have prevented federal Border Patrol agents from processing and rescuing migrants.

Melody ,

Biden needs to send the Army in and take over the Texas Border enforcement.

Army outranks the National Guard, especially the state ones. The POTUS absolutely also does have power to command any National Guard unit to stand down as well.

Melody ,

He absolutely can send an army unit with Orders to enforce his orders to the Nat. Guard.

Melody ,

Search through your settings for a "Quick Pair" or "Fast Pair" option. Turn it OFF. Do not leave it turned on except during times when you're wanting to use a known device you've bought new that supports the feature.

Turn the feature off when not setting up new devices to work with other devices.

Melody ,

We do have an infinite amount of them yes. Sadly they will all be printed on fancy paper at best this year because of the volume of them.

Melody ,

just two years? just $5500? Whatever happened to gitmo?

Melody ,

SearXNG is free. Don't waste your time with Kagi.

Melody ,

We need to tax them on a different basis once they achieve far more than is reasonable for themselves and their family.

Instead of taxing them for the value of liquidity moved into or out of their care; we should tax them based on how much their value grows each year as well as assessing any normal "wage tax" as needed.

So if you grow in net worth value by 200%, so too do your taxes grow by a certain percentage. This tax is then paid directly each year. Your losses in worth do not count, and do not decrease your taxes until several years later. This should prevent anyone from tax dodging this, as even if you only held the money for long enough to activate this tax, you still held it.

This tax also applies to companies holding, far in excess, more money than they reasonably need to operate normally. No business shenanigans should save one from being taxed for accumulating more wealth than reasonable.

While most people in the world need not fear tripping this tax, anyone who is within the top 1% should be wary of it.

The Next Republican President Has a Plan to Ban Abortion Nationwide Without Congress ( slate.com )

The story behind Heritage’s claim begins in the 19th century, with the passage of a sexual purity law that was interpreted to make it a crime to mail or receive items intended, designed, or adapted for abortion. Exactly what the Comstock Act said or meant, not least when it came to abortion, was unclear at the time it passed....

Melody ,

The best way to prevent misuse of the Comstock Act is to hit them where it hurts. Find out what items their funders sell or trade in the most; then find logical ways to link it to sex or abortion.

Pretty soon you'll gum up all trade and they will cry for mercy.

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