But the fascists want to spy, how else are they supposed to control our thoughts? :((
Software developer by day, insomniac by night.
But the fascists want to spy, how else are they supposed to control our thoughts? :((
Dangerous. Don’t insert things without a flared base or some other appendage for easy removal. That thing looks less like a sex toy and more like a paperweight.
Spider god? That’s Gyuuki, a cow-oni youkai from Japanese myths. Specifically it’s Kazuma Kaneko’s design of Gyuuki for Shin Megami Tensei II.
I feel this, to an extent. I rather like the guy, I like what he stands for (for the most part, I don’t agree with his stance on at-will employment), but I don’t generally watch his videos for the same reason; angry preaching to the choir. I already agree, it’s mostly a waste of my time to watch.
There’s a Swedish article about it on SVT, the Swedish national news media outlet. It’s actually strangely long for being on SVT, I think there’s some anti-competition laws that prevent them from doing journalism with too much detail.
I believe the original source is this article from Kontext Press.
Edit: I ought mention that I tried, but I struggled to find any articles about in English.
For some additional context though; the American organisation that tipped off the police here in Sweden was the NCMEC, the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children.
The police examined the boyfriend whom they’d described as “not prepubescent”, to ensure that he has the same birthmark that appeared in the pictures.
The prosecutor that signed off on the decision to raid this man’s home, Titti Malmros has resigned.
Also this gem, which is from the Kontext Press article.
If a police officer commits misconduct while masked, how do you then investigate it?
Well, it’s not really possible if one cannot establish who has done what, says prosecutor Lena KastlundWere all the officers present questioned?
No, they were not, because you cannot question them if you don’t know who is suspected. You can’t interrogate someone without informing them of the suspicion, and you can’t question everyone who is suspected either. We have very high standards of evidence, so that no innocent person is suspected.Can’t they be heard as witnesses then?
Not if they later could become suspects.Then is there any possibility of redress against officers who are masked?
There’s always a possibility, but there may be difficulties. Plus, there are other officers present who may have heard things. We always try to do as much as possible.Do you think that everything that could have been done has been done in this case?
Yes, that’s my opinion at least. I stand by my decision and believe I’ve done what can be done.
I can’t help but read this as; it’s perfectly okay to break into a person’s home in the middle of the night, assault them, and take them away from their home without informing them of where they’re going or why, but you can’t possibly accuse a police officer of misconduct; that requires a lot of proof which is magically unobtainable.
I concur with this. Any Chromium based browser is still under the chokehold of Google. A great example is Manifest V3 being forced on all Chromium browsers. Honestly, Google controlling such a significant browser marketshare should be a worry to more peoople. To a lot of people they are people’s access to the internet, via Google Search, and they also control people’s window to the internet, via Chromium.
In short; Google by and large is the internet, meaning they can do whatever hell they please and there’s not much in the way to stop them.
I think what ultimately made me realise how fucked up things had truly gotten, was an article I read a few years ago.
A man had been assaulted by masked police in his sleep, beaten, and then taken to interrogation, where he sat for hours without really knowing what the hell was going on, until they finally started giving him information. When they finally showed him evidence, it turned out that they had gotten it completely wrong.
This “evidence” in question were pictures of him shagging his boyfriend. The police had gotten it from some American organisation, and then just acted on it, believing that he was holding a minor hostage and raping him. He wasn’t; his boyfriend, the “minor” in question is in his 30s.
Some American organisation skimmed through his Yahoo mail, sent the photos to Swedish law enforcement, who promptly sent out a group of masked thugs they later weren’t able to identify or punish, assaulted an innocent man, and essentially kidnapped him, all legally. No justice was ever meted out for this either, the man, his mother, and the boyfriend no longer felt safe in Sweden, and they’ve all moved abroad.
Does all this privacy infringement lead to criminals getting punished? Oh yeah I’m positive they do it does, just like stop and frisk probably caught some criminals too, but not without violating over 80% of the people stopped that were completely innocent regular people.
That’s not a price we should be so eager to pay.
Nah I’m thinking of phones in this scenario. That said, both benefit from having user replaceable batteries.
I wouldn’t trade my wireless stuff for wired ones at this point. Wireless earbuds have gotten so good that dealing with a wire would be a downgrade in most cases. When I work with mixing I always use my monitors with a wire, for obvious reasons.
Also as an aside; any company that claims to do anything “green” is profiteering off of greenwashing. Of course making stuff environmentally friendly would become trendy in the cringe corpo world. I think the most egregious example is Apple’s autumn 2023 iPhone event. Just thinking back on it is making me cringe.
The “greenest” product is the one that is never made to begin with.
I think that’s an issue of semantics. If someone needs their device to last all day and it doesn’t anymore, then it is effectively bricked. Could one find a workaround to the issue? Oh probably, something as simple as lugging around a battery bank should do the trick, but ultimately users being able to just swap the battery in their device themselves isn’t a big ask. It gives a modicum of ownership back to the person who actually bought the device.
That’s not damage, it’s profit.
Conceptually this is really cool, but the hole punch is oddly misaligned on my Pixel 6, so I can’t imagine it looking good.
No, I usually aspire to be nice.
I have a A770 and run 1440p ultra wide. Works great. Very happy with the card, particularly now that you can disable their software stuff.
Lovingly referred to by his employees as “The Eye of Sauron”
Laws and such depend on where you live, of course. Here in Sweden if your school publicly posts photos of you and you wish to have them taken down, they’re obliged to do so. That was the case during PUL, which the GDPR superceded a while ago. I’d assume something similar should apply for you even if you’re not in Europe. The school doesn’t own your image, and has no right to use it if you don’t want them to.
It can be withdrawn in other cases too. If you agree to a medical procedure but change your mind, you can withdraw consent. If you enter intimate relations with someone but wish for that to stop, you can withdraw your consent. If consent to someone borrowing your car, but find that they’re not doing so responsibly, you can withdraw consent.
It’s all fairly normal. Your easiest avenue to have the photos removed would be to just ask the school. “Hi, I saw you posted photos of me on Instagram and it makes me a bit uncomfortable. Would it be at all possible to have them removed, or crop me out, please?”
I’ve always hated having my photos taken, so when schools organised that kind of thing I was always adamantly against being in them. Apart from some “oh come on!” and “it’ll be a nice memory!” they’ve always respected it.
This is true, but consent can be withdrawn.
Wow you unlocked a memory in me. I recall doing something similar but using some send command to do the same with any computer logged in and on the network.
Week after that I met a dude from municipal school IT support and that’s when I first learned about Linux. He had Red Hat on his laptop and he was happy to talk about it. Very cool dude.