topherclay

@topherclay@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here's the source code for the unofficial Signal app used by Trump officials⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you read the blog post one day older than this one from before he got the code, he speaks more about the Israeli ties. The CEO for TeleMessage is former IDF.

  micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-obscure-unofficial-sign…

  I haven’t spent a lot of time looking into TeleMessage, but what I did find at a quick glance is that several of the executives on the teams page list Israeli universities in their bios, and the CEO, Guy Levit, says that, “From 1996 until 1999, Guy served as the head of the planning and development of one of the IDF’s Intelligence elite technical units.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you count, your lips don't touch until 1 million.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The F sound is usually a labialdental fricative in English. So you are putting your bottom lip on your teeth and letting some air go by to make the F sound.

  English has bilabial plosives where you touch both lips together and let air stop for a moment which makes the P or B sounds.

  English doesn’t have a bilabial fricative so you might be doing this in your dialect and it doesn’t stand out to anyone because it doesn’t otherwise have a phonetic meaning. But, interestingly, in other languages a bilabial fricative has distinct meaning from a labial dental fricative. I believe I’ve read that in Japanese the “F” in “Mount Fuji” is actually a bilabial fricative and not the normal F that English speakers use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve known some old people to put their bootloops in the freezer because they think it won’t go stale as fast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian woman discovers fake Instagram wedding was real⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they could have found older ones if they wanted to, and of course the argument that it’s the direct words of the witness oath that they swear to do so would of course be much older citation.

  But that 13 year old case was one where they could cite the judge directly stating that a witnesses oath mean they have to speak precisely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just what I see outside of my window.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice, the thumbnail compression made this look real and when I opened it and it was still loading I thought it was a real photo right up until it flashed into full definition.