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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alternatives to syncthing for syncing files with android⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Sorry I didn’t see this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seems like Trump waited for winter to escalate his ICE agenda but why did he go after Minnesota? People who are completely acclimated to frigid weather.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think he waited. The entire ICE hiring spree and deployment strategy seems to be designed to cause conflict with civilians. The officer involved was violent in the past already and rewarded for it instead of punished. The idea is to put unprepared people in unfamiliar territory with loaded weapons and tell them that everyone else is out to kill them. This has been an ongoing attempt to cause violence, since Jan 20th, that is only now becoming impossible to ignore. I don’t think there has been any sharp escalation, there have been plenty of ICE murders all throughout last year. It has been getting more violent over time, and will continue throughout the next year at the very least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alternatives to syncthing for syncing files with android⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The official, maintained syncthing app is available on Android through the Termux ‘pkg’ manager.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ll have to brew your own run conditions I think. For me, it’s not a big deal, just a bunch of documents and pictures and not much gets added every day. But termux does have access to network state, and I’m pretty sure syncthing accepts stop and continue execution signals, so a shell script shouldn’t be too difficult. Another possible option is to use termux:tasker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I said this in another thread, but apparently it’s not widely known: syncthing works fine on termux, there is no need to install any third party code. You do need to run termux-setup-storage to get access to the shared storage that other apps can access, and I found it worth it to set up the termux:boot app to run syncthing on phone boot. This way only uses the official syncthing repo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think this is accurate. For one thing, whether a law prohibits or allows something is just a matter of perspective: a law allowing abortion nationally is also a law that prohibits state restrictions on abortion. Another key missing fact is the supremacy clause of the constitution, which says that federal laws are presumed to overrule state laws when they conflict. This is why a lot of ‘blue’ states had terrible abortion laws still on the books when Obergefell happened, because they were nullified by the Roe v Wade ruling in the 70s and they never got around to actually removing the defunct laws.

  The supremacy clause is not absolute: the tenth amendment and others restricts how much the federal government can tell states what to do, but I think there are a number of legal arguments against that being the case for a federal abortion law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One could say I gave you what you Watt-ed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Splitting a heavy U-235 atom, given perfect conversion to electricity, could power a 1 Watt nightlight for around 7.5x10^-13 seconds

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah exactly, even if a word or two is unclassifiable, an entire sentence might contain enough info to still be useable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is actually beyond the capabilities of AI classification systems currently. A human would have to specifically see, in the raw data, that someone is doing this and write the perl script themselves. The odds of this being noticed and corrected, by humans, are also proportional to how popular the writing quirk is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no idea if it’s effective, but they mean anti-AI as in fighting against classification of their data. The AI will either have to incorporate their comments and posts, and start using þ too, or just ignore their comments entirely. Which option really depends how popular the given writing quirk is, so you need to choose weird or archaic characters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is real⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Compared to rent, maintenance is basically free, typically about 1-2%. If we think that cost would double, for some reason, by adding another person, it still wouldn’t be that much. But it’s ridiculous to think that would even be the case, given that a sizeable portion of maintenance is not related to tenants at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia targets WhatsApp and pushes new 'super-app' as internet blackouts grow⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was wrong, just remembered incorrectly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia targets WhatsApp and pushes new 'super-app' as internet blackouts grow⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Signal is not open source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t help but wonder if your son is shy about his relationship or maybe he has some fear about talking about it with you. It sounds like things are more serious between them than he’s telling you. It’s not impossible to make new friends as a high school junior, but the way it is described it sounds more likely they are romantically involved, and in that case, expensive gifts aren’t very strange for someone in an upper middle class family.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens to your data if 23andMe collapses?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You should be fine to not have a phone PIN, unless you’re planning on a life of crime.