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Just make social security numbers public information at this point. Who cares. Don't develop your security model around a users SS number being secret.

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apftwb ,
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I don't need to click that link to know what channel it is.

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I use "mathmatical approximations of correct answers"

apftwb ,
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Crazy how no one is actually at fault for violating court orders.

apftwb ,
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The map is showing New York State. New York City is in New York State. Wikipedia says New York City is about 37%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_New_York_City

apftwb ,
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Her burrial site was basically just off the side of a road/driveway in the woods....

apftwb ,
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Wake me up when she announces her Presidential run.

apftwb , (edited )
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When you go to a bar, the bouncer checks your ID and determines your age. He will not remember your name. He will not inform the government you are at the bar. He will not write down who you met with or talked to. We as a society trust he will not do these things. You are still anonymous from the perspective of the bouncer.

If humans really truely tried I am sure we could design a transparent system for verifying age or human-ness that we (tech paranoid Lemmings) could trust, but it doesn't seem like governments even want to try. They just want to track people.

AI engagement will be the death of the internet and democracy if we cannot stop it. We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology.

apftwb ,
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their intension is not to verify your age. Their intention is to eliminate all opponents

Agreed. Even if the government states that isn't the case, having the capacity to crack down on political opposition is unacceptable.

What I am saying is we need to figure a way to verify personhood (and maybe age idk) external to the government.

For example, people didn't think currency could exist outside a centralized government, but crypto-currencies exist now.

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We technically know how to be a responsible adult (civilization)

I don't think our government institutions are able to address the speed at which things are developing. Everyone wants to regulate AI, but what does that even look like?

Does Bob Bobson R-WY (age 83) chair of the Senate Committee for Emerging Technologies know? Does he have the capacity to know? Don't fuck it up, Bob or we all die. It's not Senator Bob's fault, he exists inside a governmental organization that prioritizes wisdom and seniority (I mean, took at Senator John Johnson, pro tempore (age 102) ).

but we can't help partying, fighting and drunk driving etc.

Primate brains. It all feeds back into itself as this destructive cycle.

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"If a district attorney wanted, a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich."

I don't think the district attorney tried to do more than the bare minimum for the indictment. I wonder if they purposely threw the case.

Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story ( infosec.exchange )

Hacker News. ...

Scott Shambaugh here. None of the quotes you attribute to me in the second half of the article are accurate, and do not exist at the source you link. It appears that they themselves are AI hallucinations. The irony here is fantastic.
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apftwb ,
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"Alexa, slander this man for me"

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From the House member's page:

The legislation responds to pressing labor shortages in essential industries by creating a market-driven temporary worker program that adapts to economic conditions. The bill creates a new H-2C nonimmigrant visa, available to employers who prove their positions have gone unfilled for three consecutive months and in areas where the unemployment rate is 7.9% or less. 

Wasn't this a pain point with H-1Bs? They want things to cost less but don't want to bring in cheap foreign labour to depress wages? How do they not understand supply and demand? "Go be a plumber, they make good money" "Wow, this quote I got from that plumber is so high" "Me be a plumber? No way"

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No u

apftwb ,
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My concern is that "self hosters" in this context are state actors with their own data centers.

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Take a bit out of a person to see if they are made out of linear algebra.

apftwb ,
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STOP GIVING THEM IDEAS

apftwb , (edited )
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for a limited four-episode engagement

This is MST3K. It doesn't need a huge budget to churn out like 50 of these. The original show premiered on local access television.

"Tony Stark Joel Hodgson Was Able To Build This In A Cave Minneapolis, With A Box of Scraps!"

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Good.

apftwb ,
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What was the point of the video?

apftwb ,
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They are right. If Microsoft keeps using AI to develop their products there will be no more jobs at Microsoft.

apftwb OP ,
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No better time like the present to indict all pedofiles in the Epstein files.

apftwb OP ,
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TBH they want the the DOJ to "investigate" which is softer language. I want the DOJ to formally charge (indict) Epstein's pedophilic clients and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.

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He was wearing his Marine camouflage and carrying a lawfully owned 9mm Glock handgun on his right hip, as he does every day, he told The Intercept. Agents on the scene “thought I was undercover,” Saari said. “They kept asking what agency I was with.”

When Saari told them he was not with any agency, their demeanor shifted. Federal immigration agents soon aimed M4-style rifles at his head

(1) Its almost like its important to be able to clearly identify law enforcement.

(2) Seems like the opposite of de-escalation. The thing law enforcement is supposed to do.

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SEO Evolved

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I think there is room to compromise here and this is a mendable situation through incremental policy change.

-Words of the utterly derangeed

apftwb ,
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Regardless of what this event is, someone in the Trump administration just realized they can perform economic terrorism on cities they don't like by arbitrarily shutting down their airspace.

apftwb ,
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Can someone recommend some XMPP clients for Mobile/Desktop. The internet is littered with XMPP clients that look like this:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a740d838-f3be-4e38-b4e1-517c79065711.png

apftwb ,
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Governers tend to be a bit bipartisan than Federal politicians.

Pro-Trump Idaho Farming Town 'Nearly Destroyed' As ICE Raid Leaves Community Without Harvest Workers ( www.ibtimes.co.uk )

Nobody in Wilder, Idaho expected this. The tiny farming town of 1,725 people—where nine out of ten voters backed Donald Trump in 2024—is now scrambling to figure out what comes next after federal immigration agents swept through in mid-October and arrested more than 100 Hispanic workers at a local horse racetrack. So far, 75 ...

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"look, there's a lot I disagree with the president on, including pointing a gun at my daughter. But I'm really... But I really like what he's doing with immigration."

Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app?

Pretty much what it says on the tin, but for more context. My friends and I use Discord to play D&D and other TTRPGs. We also use it to send memes and just have conversations. We mostly do the chat, text, images, gifs, etc. But we also use the voice and video chat pretty regularly too. Screen share sometimes as well. So I'd ...

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Any Matrix clients support screensharing?

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American food is whatever I eat in America 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

apftwb ,
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I never had a face. The Leopard didn't eat it. I love the Leopard so what if it ate my face. My face was probably pretty tasty anyway.

apftwb ,
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Butt Cancer 😔

apftwb OP , (edited )
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Some of the Epstein emails were released as scanned PDFs of raw email format (See MIME)

MIME formatted emails are ASCII based. To include an attachments, which can be binary, the MIME format specifies it must be encoded using base64. Base64 can always take binary input and return an ASCII output. This is trivial to reverse if you have the ASCII output.

However, the font choice is inconvenient because l and 1 look the same.

I'm a bit confused by the article is only discussing extracting PDFs while in actuality you can reverse any attachment including images.

I am also no expert, so a smarter person will now correct me on anything I got wrong.

apftwb OP ,
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I'm a software developer and I'm currently trying to recover one of these attachments.

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apftwb OP ,
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Are you having as much trouble with OCR as the article author? I would have thought OCR was a solved problem in 2026 even with poor font selection.

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I mean the problem is that even with human eyes it's still really hard to tell l and 1 in that font.

See image

apftwb ,
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The only saving grace to that quote is it is from a Michael Lotfi, the deputy state director of Americans for Prosperity Tennessee, a conservative group. A man of no office or consequence.

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I personally think the UI for both XMPP and Matrix clients generally kind of suck, which isn't great for convincing non-techy people to use them.

Ding ding ding. Make a Discord/Slack clone that does screensharing and drag/drop file sharing and I won't care if it uses XMPP or Matrix

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Did they just add that? Last I heard it was on the roadmap

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Can someone make an copy of this but bar shot is clearly a nipple peircing.

Staggering evidence trove shows who put Trump in the White House — and controls him still ( www.rawstory.com )

Essentially, [the reporters] are arguing that Epstein was running an operation on behalf of the KGB/Putin that lured wealthy and powerful men to Epstein’s New York and Palm Beach mansions and his island where they were surreptitiously filmed having sex with underage girls. ...

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Pee tape conspiracy is coming back from the grave.