WW2 makes it incredibly unlikely

But, fun fact, Wikipedia and other public websites totally CAN (unknowingly) have sensitive material on them. In large part because saying “Hey. We need you to remove that snippet that said the Asgard landed in Toronto, hitch hiked to Dallas, and blapped JFK” because… it confirms that that is “close enough” to real that it has revealed classified information.

I am not familiar with this specific event. But I can also see that as just being a catch all policy they have regarding sources to have fewer cases of governments calling them and asking them to remove “something” with the only info being “You know what it is”.

Its also why a lot of the “War Thunder or whatever has classified information leaks again!” are usually actually more just export control violations (… which are actually MUCH scarier but…).

It genuinely amuses me that DCS has had very few instances of sensitive or classified information being leaked.

Whereas frigging War Thunder can’t make it a quarter without needing to scrub their forums.

I understand the reality is that it is not about authenticity and more about being able to say the missile they schlep around a hanger is the best missile in the world. But still! You would expect the sickos who get off on the exact right shade of deteriorated grey being on a bezel would care more than the War Thunder crowd.

The reality is that legality doesn’t matter a lot unless you have enough lawyers on staff to fight various government agencies. That is WHY most creators and communities use established services like youtube or reddit because it offloads that hassle to a company that actually has the lawyers to figure out what is and isn’t a risk.

Whereas a lemmy instance is a few people who have no idea what they are doing.

The best metaphor I have heard to explain this is: A group of weirdos start singing prayers while you are boarding a plane. The flight attendant tells you that you need to sing along or you will be kicked off the plane. You say that is nonsense. They say they are going to have you escorted off the plane if you continue to be disruptive.

You KNOW you are within your legal rights to not do that bullshit. But you don’t have a lawyer with you. Best case scenario? You get off the plane, you get an apology handy from a CSR, and you get to get on a different plane in 12 hours. But now you have missed your connecting flight and 1-2 days of your trip. So you are wasting personal days or pissing off your boss and missing an important client meeting and blah blah blah. And… the browner you are, the less likely you are to see that CSR after the cops escort you off a plane.

So… you just sing along because it is easier. Even if you know it is bullshit, you know it is “close enough” that your life will become a living hell.

Which is why I have no issue with a site policy of “We don’t want that smoke. Please don’t make jokes about the guy who killed a piece of shit CEO until we know we won’t get investigated by law enforcement”. But I DO have issues with making up weird narratives to justify it.

The world admins have a long history of this kind of shit.

A great example was when they updated the TOS to remove specific call outs for (if memory serves) transphobic hate being against TOS and instead replacing it with very generic text. The response being that they didn’t need that text because the generic call outs covered it.

Nobody with two brain cells was fooled and everyone knew it was about getting ahead of angry chuds who might be mean to the admins. But enough people were mysteriously banned for horrible shit (with their whole post histories being wiped) and everyone else who cared left for different instances.

I’m not going to fault admins for not wanting to get calls from the FBI. I will fault them for abandoning our friends because they don’t want angry emails. But, either way, the constant need to build up weird narratives and assume everyone else is really THAT stupid is just tiresome.

What country is lemmy.world based in? Because having a law about talking about jury nullification in the context of a future crime sound so incredibly stupid and specific that I need to know the precedent that led to it.

I guess if you don’t believe that there are bots (many paying people to use their “normal” accounts) making false grass roots advertisement on reddit then I don’t really know what to tell you.

It wasn’t just consumers who decided adding “reddit” to every google search was a good idea.

I still mask in public spaces and maybe a deadly pandemic will be less dangerous than an undistracted project 2025.

Meh.

Reddit (and most social media) is infected by astroturfing. It is about as trustworthy as a random YouTube.

Lemmy isn’t a lot better for product reviews but is also unimportant enough that it can generate a shortlist.

Okay…

Well, short of leading a revolution to replace congress, I am not sure what you are expecting there? But as a progressive politician with leftist tendencies who is not actively leading a coup, she seems to be doing pretty good.

People forget that sanders was literally a meme about how nobody watches c-span. He spent so much of his political career actively antagonizing Democrats (seriously, look up how he abused primaries to guarantee he won) that it completely undermined most of his attempts to get anything other than a pork amendment on bills.

It is hard to measure direct contributions by the nature of politics. But the fact that they have a comparable track record and AOC has only been in congress for six-ish years kind of says it all. There is plenty of argument that sanders paved the way for her and the rest of The Squad (I go back and forth on that) but… assuming she survives the next four to infinity years, she has a VERY bright political future.

I have been incredibly impressed with AOC over even the last 3 or 4 years.

She used to be “generic Squad member” in that she mostly was focused on antagonizing establishment democrats and not actually accomplishing anything other than giving republicans a chance to regroup.

But basically since the war in Ukraine started it feels like someone gave her a stern talking to and she realized how to actually help people. She is still more than willing to tear into the shittiest parts of the Democrats but she also understands… we have a common enemy and need to focus on that. And when she DOES compromise, she is actually really good about explaining why and what her hard lines are.

She is basically what I wish sanders actually had been: A progressive (with leftist tendencies) voice that also understands how to make progress.

That said: She is still young for a politician. In five or six years (when she is in her 40s) I think we need her in leadership roles. That said… I also think she probably should be ready to flee the country come February because republicans hate her with the fury of a thousand suns.

I would be incredibly careful how you apply that. Because there is no ethical consumption under (minimally constrained) capitalism. There is also basically no ethical production because of supply chains and fundamentally evil policies. And, at the end of the day, if it is your family or someone else’s family who suffers, who are you gonna pick?

But hey, you are showing exactly why this mindset is so pervasive. Because it becomes a case of “Well, they just aren’t working hard enough and should bootstrap them to a more ethical job” and it gives people someone to fixate on so that the CEOs never have to worry about someone in a mask waiting for them outside of a hotel.

No.

They are people just like you and me. They are trying to shut out the voices in their head while they follow the orders from on high in a world where, if they refuse, they will be the ones in the gutter and not the person who had the misfortune of getting hit by a car.

The problem are the executives who push these policies of murder. The drug companies that will crank up the bill to astronomic heights because they can. And the politicians who refuse to do anything about it because they get kickbacks from lobbyists.

As happy as it made everyone with a brain: That was definitely the legal definition of terrorism (if he did it).

From a quick google, criminal possession of a weapon is because NY has laws against ghost guns (3d printed firearms).

Don’t get the logic on both first and second degree for blapping the same guy though.

Because people are thinking through specific niche use cases coupled with “Well it works for me and I never do anything ‘wrong’”.

I’ll definitely admit that I made the mistake of trying to have a bit of fun when talking about something that triggers the dunning kruger effect. But people SHOULD be aware of how different use patterns impacts performance, how that performance impacts users, and generally how different use patterns impact wear and tear of the drive.

Just a reminder: These massive drives are really more a “budget” version of a proper tape backup system. The fundamental physics of a spinning disc mean that these aren’t a good solution for rapid seeking of specific sectors to read and write and so forth.

So a decent choice for the big machine you backup all your VMs to in a corporate environment. Not a great solution for all the anime you totally legally obtained on Yahoo.

Not sure if the general advice has changed, but you are still looking for a sweet spot in the 8-12 TB range for a home NAS where you expect to regularly access and update a large number of small files rather than a few massive ones.

THAT actually probably was a translation error (unlike “oh, he is not a disgusting misogynistic piece of shit. You are just racist and so is google translate”).

Swen’s speech was (paraphrasing) about how an oracle told him that the future GOTYs will all be games made because they are games the studios wanted to make and were allowed to make without fear of layoffs (which is why it was ironic that a studio that came out of Sony gutting Team Japan won…).

But a lot of chuds and CCP mouthpieces keyed in on the “An oracle told me” narrative framing as an indication that it was all rigged. In large part because they are fucking morons who don’t realize they were voting on a different category when they rushed that vote harder than a gamefaqs poll with Aeris in it.

And Swen is head (?) of Larian who made Baldurs Gate 3.

Also: BG3 is, in scientific terms, gay as all fuck. So the chuds who were already focusing on BMWukong because “it understand that women should be sexy” and whatever other “anti-DEI” bullshit they are radicalizing people with, saw an opportunity to pick a fight now that the mass support of BG3 is somewhat waning.

There are a lot of misconceptions regarding how effective the automated scanners are.

In theory? Yes, you can compare the license plate against the make and model and even color of the car. And there are plenty of demos of exactly that.

In reality? It is almost never used outside of something completely egregious like “This says this is a sedan but that is actually a giant semi truck”. Because cars just aren’t distinct enough for this to be reliable enough to justify the cop brushing the donut off their stomaches, trying to remember where they left their gun, and tapping on a window.

What it IS good for is checking for plates that have an APB out on them (so the amber alert scenario) and making up a bullshit excuse for why a black person’s car needs to be checked.

… Is this a Poe’s Law scenario?

There’s that ass! Better be careful. You keep showing it and a certain dictator will think you are making Winnie the Poo references!

It is so fun giving people who try to pretend to be rationale and enlightened plenty of rope.