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  • The Trump Administration is Building a National Citizenship Data System; State and county election officials can now check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists.

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  • That's a really weird way of looking at it.

    That's how I roll.

    Without the database, there's no central ledger to consult as to whether or not you're legally a person.

    We're already seeing them do that without a database. 🤷‍♂️

    Other countries are able to maintain internal databases without using them to screw over their own citizens (except when they do). The problem isn't the database.

  • The Trump Administration is Building a National Citizenship Data System; State and county election officials can now check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists.

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  • See the UK Post Office accounting scandal, in which a persistent computer error went unfixed for decades and caused hundreds of post office employees to be fired and dragged through courts for corruption that never happened. A good chunk of them committed suicide.

    The database is the least important part of the system: the organizational structure, rules, and procedures are way more important, because they actively help or harm people.

  • The Trump Administration is Building a National Citizenship Data System; State and county election officials can now check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists.

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  • no no, it's an input to a Palantir database

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  • Welp, I know what I'm reading next. Thanks!

  • An Introduction to Tribalism for the Modern World That Has Forgotten It

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  • I always enjoy these low-citation think pieces. It's not that I think the author is wrong, it's that they're producing a philosophical argument about the real world. It should have citations and references to studies that support the thesis, but it's a "just trust me bro". The ideas are usually fun, but they tell you more about the author than the world.

    Having said that: I don't think the tribalism the author described ever went away. We have a two tiered society where the in-group is the main tribe, and everyone else gets battered about by its power.

    Of course I'm talking about white rich dudes - if you're part of the moneyed set, or look pretty close to them, then you're probably going to get the easy version of justice. If you're a bit different, then you're part of the Other tribe, and you get harassed by the police, shat on by the media, and a weaker form of justice.

    And no, I'm not gonna cite anything, because the original author didn't either.

  • Block US within Lemmy?

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  • But I've read it is not on their plans, as it is a hack done by others on top of Lemmy, due to a lack of official support from Lemmy itself

    I assumed it was part of Lemmy. Too bad it isn't integrated into the platform. I hear piefed may have keyword blocking, so maybe that's worth looking into.

  • Block US within Lemmy?

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  • Block the word "Trump" and block communities you don't like. It's remarkably effective.

  • New Google Search Emoji Answer Feature to Replace All Those Copy and Paste Emoji Websites; You Will be Able to Copy the Code for Emojis With a Click.

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    1. I haven't seen a built in picker for multi-character emojis, like the ¯(ツ)/¯ (on OSX and Android)
    2. Sometimes the description I'm thinking of and the picker text doesn't line up, but I'm not sure if Google's picker will be that smart.

  • New Google Search Emoji Answer Feature to Replace All Those Copy and Paste Emoji Websites; You Will be Able to Copy the Code for Emojis With a Click.

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  • 🤷‍♂️

  • AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic

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  • While the stats vary depending on who's measuring, the story is consistent: web publishers, who provided the content that trained these AI models, face dramatically diminishing visitors, which means lower advertising and subscription revenues, even amid overall growth in search impressions.

  • Why make it complicated?

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  • AND MY AXE!

  • Why make it complicated?

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  • Your example didn't mention the use of the function keyword. Instead, it seemed to be questioning the placement of the return type - placing it after the argument list seems pretty common in newer languages.

  • Why make it complicated?

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  • Rust and TypeScript use the return-type-at-the-end convention as well.

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  • In modern BASIC variants, DIM has become a backronym: “declare in memory”.

    TIL. I always thought it was a backronym for declare in (yo) momma.

  • Why make it complicated?

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  • only the linter gives a hoot - the interpreter will happily leave that footgun for later

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  • I'm glad I didn't have that experience. I think I had cases on those phones, so that might have been what made the difference.

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  • Back when removable batteries were a thing, the couple of phones I had both were removable without screws.

    I have no strong feelings about what a removable battery should look like, but I love the idea of increasing a phone's longevity easily.

  • Can you advocate for privacy by showing it? Does it work or will people never learn privacy in practice?

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  • Will people start caring for their privacy if most of the links posted were tracking free?

    No. Most people won't notice, and the sites they're visiting have other tracking mechanisms.

    I advocated for getting news from tracking free websites/ non-profits, people don't seem to change.

    Yes. Those sites fill a need/role. Non profits typically don't have the same content factories that for-profit orgs do.

    Will people on the long-term change or is it a lost cause?

    Legislative change is the only way forward. You have a threat model that involves privacy, but most people don't. Instead of trying to change everybody, focus on legislation that would improve privacy regulations for all.

  • Ratatui - a Rust library for cooking up delicious TUIs

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  • ngl. Stuff like this makes me want to write a TUI. Is there a UI that I need? No. Are my existing needs met? Yes. But this stuff looks so cool.