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FarFarAway

@ FarFarAway @lemmy.world

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  • Star Trek Enterprise Theme but the theme is coming from the Enterprise NX-01

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  • I just started watching this series, for the first time, earlier this week and was seriously [insert ops video here] by the theme song. Thank goodness for the skip button.

    Edit: Although no one will see this...I retract my statement. After season 3s remix, I long for the original. The original is slammin compared to this. And by the end of the series both will probably have grown on me...

  • What the hell Proton!

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  • Thank goodness someone explained that to me. I was startong to wonder if she was some sort of technology expert, or something.

  • To Americans: How far apart is everything in the US?

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  • Where I grew up in rural texas: these are current times as I still go there regularly to visit.

    Convenience store: 10 km down a major highway

    Market: 20 km

    The nearest Walmart : 58 km <-- this used to be the only option until they built ... The nearest chain grocery: 21 km

    Train: 60 km (Amtrak)

    Park: 8km. Down a road with a 60 mph (96 km/h) speed limit. But definitely walkable.

    Bus stop: ??? There is no public transportation in the town of under 2000 people. Google maps won't even give me a suggestion so...I have no idea. Does a greyhound count?

    Library: 21 km

  • Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump

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  • Idk, ask the Texas Tribune, haha.

    I feel people have made the same mistake before, and confused crowdtangle, which is a disinformation tracker, and tangles, which is a "surveillance-for-hire outfit." Meta probably felt the need to clarify, at least once time before.

  • Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump

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  • One point of contention. I dont think tangles is some defunct meta app. Texas has recently acquired a contract with a law enforcement surveillance tool called tangles.

    Tangles is a product offered by the cybersecurity company Cobwebs Technologies, which was founded in Israel in 2014 by three former members of Israeli military special units. The company has said their products, which are marketed as open source intelligence (OSINT) tools, have been used to combat terrorism, drug smuggling, and money laundering, but Meta has accused the company of operating as a surveillance-for-hire outfit. In 2023, Cobwebs Technologies was acquired by the Nebraska-based tech firm PenLink Ltd.

    This tool is out there, and still being used.

  • Georgia Election Board Orders Hand-Counting of Ballots |Critics say the move could significantly delay the reporting of results in the battleground state and inject chaos into the post-election period

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  • Per the article

    The resolution simply requires the hand counting of physical paper ballots at the precinct level to ensure it matches the total reported by the tabulators. This does not involve a hand-count tabulation of the vote totals but rather simply the total number of physical ballots cast at that particular precinct.

    So, because in Tennessee, a QR Code error created a mismatch between the number of physical ballots vs tabulated ones, and they found the same code error in 64 out of 66 counties in Georgia's tabulators, they are going to hand count the number of ballots to make sure it matches the number the tabulators counted. Especially, since they apparently found a bunch of additional ballots in some counties, as well...

    I mean, this seems reasonable on the surface. But, considering the situation, it seems like it could all go really sideways.

    Isn't there another way they could count just the number of paper ballots? Like, as they come in, instead of later on, by hand? I'm not sure of the way thier system / machines work, or of a way that would convince everyone of privacy, but...like a laser counter that counts every time its broken, or something...Idk, there just seems like there has to be a better way.

    Edit: so really, objectively speaking, this is an issue. One that wouldnt be caught unless they ordered a hand recount after the fact. I mean, obviously, this isnt an objective source, but, unless theyre just straight up making this up (which I suppose is a possibility), how is not having every ballot counted OK? Isnt there a better suggestion than breaking the seal immediately, counting everything by hand, and inviting all the issues that come with that? Something that could even be presented to the court or something as an alternative, that everybody could agree with. At least people could say they tried to solve the issue another way. If it gets rejected, then it would be plainly obvious there were ulterior motives. At this point, it sounds as if theres some plausible deniability behind the reasoning for hand counting.

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  • Thats a street urchin. Strangely, this blog post was one of the first links that came up. It ponders how the name street urchin came to be.

    It says

    Looking in the OED, I see two possibly relevant definitions. 1c. A goblin or elf. (From the supposition that they occasionally assumed the form of a hedgehog.)... There is also 4a. A pert, mischievous, or roguish youngster; a brat.

    Edit: formatting is crazy

  • “Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIs

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  • Theres a link to the other article, in this article. Says Kristin Houser wrote it...although you may have a point about the rest.

  • US woman died after abortion ban delayed her medical care: report

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  • Bet they use this case as reason to ban abortion pills instead.

  • What's a long standing personal or family mystery that occupies your mind?

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  • Syphilis can hang out for something like 30 years. Maybe they were on a break, or he got infected before they got together.

  • Texas SCOPE act takes effect Sunday. How does Lemmy comply?

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  • That's the vibe I'm getting. No problem.

  • Texas SCOPE act takes effect Sunday. How does Lemmy comply?

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  • This is a fair view. I'm not sure anyone has gotten that far, especially outside the country.

    Heres an article about a similar bill in Utah, that hasn't gone into effect yet.

    What's not clear from the Utah bill and others is how the states plan to enforce the new regulations.

    I mean if the general consensus is that it doesn't apply, then, cool.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    FarFarAway @lemmy.world

    Texas SCOPE act takes effect Sunday. How does Lemmy comply?

    www.click2houston.com /news/local/2024/08/27/what-is-the-scope-act-new-law-expected-to-take-effect-sunday-aims-to-add-extra-layer-of-protection-to-kids-online/