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  • Armed drones to be deployed at schools to stop mass shooters

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  • I guess that makes sense. It just frustrates me that the scope of the discussion is all solutions that would not help directly with any problems potentially murderously suicidal teens have in their lives, the growth of those problems which you might imagine is the reason this has become a trend, but instead basically just preventing them from responding destructively.

  • What are some things for a new home owner to consider getting early on?

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  • The biggest thing I feel that I should have bought sooner is the full set of materials needed to do caulking correctly: caulk gun, 100% silicone caulk (infinitely better for stopping leaks, don't try the other stuff on your roof it's useless), wire brush, microfiber cloth, alcohol (cleaning the surface turns out to be not optional and it also can't be wet, alcohol cleans well and dries fast), applicator.

  • Armed drones to be deployed at schools to stop mass shooters

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  • If "progress" here means drugging students to tolerate their circumstances, or holding the threat of pepper spray drones over them (doubt this will stay limited to active shooter scenarios), I think it might be progress in the wrong direction.

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  • You could go with a more strict gun regulations. Coupled with more help for vulnerable people. And free mental healthcare.

    I'm skeptical any of this would be more than a bandaid solution, a large part of the problem has got to be how highschool in the US is just inherently a miserably dehumanizing experience.

  • TIL the US Navy maintains a private forest to supply the wooden ship USS Constitution

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  • What do they do with this ship, does it just stay docked all the time

  • TIL a human chimpanzee hybrid was possibly created in 1967

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  • I have a really hard time believing this is possible considering human/chimp hybrids are not already recorded as being a thing. Like every one of the people out there with the opportunity to impregnate a chimp has had the decency and restraint to not try? While at the same time treating each other as badly as we do? It must be the case that they've tried, and it just doesn't work. 1967 Chinese scientists are for sure not the first ones to consider this.

  • Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

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  • How can you know the success is zero? Encryption is more widely used and much more resistant to political attack. Open source software is more powerful and accessible. A large portion of people loathe corporate tech platforms at a level they didn't years ago. Granted a lot of that is just down to how functional or trustworthy the software is, and what guarantees about it can be plausibly provided, and it isn't all wins. Maybe you can't exactly get everyone caring about this stuff in the same way or for the same reasons you do. But that doesn't mean there are no possible avenues to success, or that the tech habits of other groups can be written off as useless here, because it's probably the most important thing.

  • People Are Furious That OpenAI Is Reporting ChatGPT Conversations to Law Enforcement

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  • Nah that's some great info, though sounds like a pretty big project to set it up that way. Would definitely want to hear about it if you ever decide to put your work on a git repo somewhere.

  • Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

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  • Also if wifi mesh is our last hope, oof

    Yeah. What I propose is getting more people involved and caring about freedom preserving technologies before it gets to that point. A tiny minority of somewhat more tech literate people are not going to be magically immune to authoritarian checkmate scenarios through technical solutions alone.

  • People Are Furious That OpenAI Is Reporting ChatGPT Conversations to Law Enforcement

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  • agentifying the language model

    Any recommendations on setups for this?

  • People Are Furious That OpenAI Is Reporting ChatGPT Conversations to Law Enforcement

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  • Naturally the commercial systems are going to be strictly better, but the best models I can run on my 3090 have been good enough for me for a couple years now, and have massively improved over that time. Currently mostly use qwen3-coder which is really solid. It just feels so much nicer to use knowing it's private and not being datamined for who knows what,

  • People Are Furious That OpenAI Is Reporting ChatGPT Conversations to Law Enforcement

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  • I kind of assumed it worked like this before anyway. Good reason to use local models.

  • Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

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  • Are there now legal means to do longer range communications? I thought the main limitation was you need to be licensed to do anything more than short range home wifi

  • Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

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  • Thanks. Somehow the network actually seems to be working pretty well for me now, not sure why it wasn't before.

  • Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test

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  • Unless these companies are hosted in MS, have offices, or sell ads there, there’s nothing legally they can do.

    Is that really how it works? Haven't legal challenges to these sorts of laws already been appealed up to the supreme court and they were upheld?

  • Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

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  • I've tried a few times to check out i2p, it seems to take hours of leaving it running to even get to the point where you can very slowly and inconsistently load even the official pages though.

  • Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

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  • So far their efforts in various forms of voter suppression have prevented that, and at the same time more people equals more congressional seats.

  • Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

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  • Except if the topic is wifi meshnets, no amount of tech savvyness will get you around an absence of other nodes nearby. General apathy is actually a huge problem here.

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  • In those cases it seems like the law does prevent state level regulation of those things, because the state is only allowed to regulate commerce happening within its borders, not what its residents do elsewhere (although they can still also regulate the use of fireworks and airguns, but enforcement is more difficult, for instance where I am they sometimes send out notices in the mail warning that it's against the law for individuals to be setting off fireworks but there's always a massive decentralized fireworks show every 4th of July anyway).

    Somehow with the internet, the location of the server isn't the thing that matters, it's whose computer is accessing it and where that person and computer is located, and the liability is on the server not the user. IMO it should not work that way, because then every state with regressive politics has a stranglehold on the whole internet.