For anyone else for whom "sovcit" didn't make an immediate connection, "sovereign citizen".
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One other potential: it looks like these days -- I seem to vaguely recall a bookmarks.txt years back -- Firefox stores bookmarks in an sqlite database in your profile directory, "places.sqlite".
It also looks like people have constructed scripts to convert an SQL table to text, edit it in vim, and then reconstruct the table:
https://github.com/BnMcGn/vibase
You might be able to just use something like that to edit the database directly.
That being said, it might be okay if you need one major piece of work offline, but it looks like Firefox establishes an exclusive lock on places.sqlite when it's running, so unless offline editing is sufficient or there's a way to request that Firefox not use exclusive access, I don't know if this would work for you.
I'm an emacs person, so I don't have a good frame of reference for what you want, but does Vimium C do what you want?
https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c
EDIT: Or the original Vimium, not familiar with the differences:
I am glad to see that whoever released this blurred out almost everything in the OSD, even if it makes my identification harder, as it helps keep sensitive information private private, but I'll reiterate some concerns that I've posted earlier that maybe there should be some sort of standard unit in the military that does the censorship before release.
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First point. Some of the numbers "leaked" around the edge of the blurred area. Probably nothing critical, but I'm sure that it's not intentional.
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Second, I don't know how hard it is to reverse a blurring operation. I am pretty sure that the censoring software isn't deleting the area in question and then regenerating it fully using pixels at the edge, because that flashing bit that I assume is a "low battery" warning shows up even with no pixels on either side of the blurred area visible, and doesn't "snap" from one side to another when the blurred area shifts from exposing a few pixels on one side to exposing a few on another. And if that's the case, it may be possible to reverse some of the operation.
If Ukraine is using a method that isn't adequately-hardened to censor these, and is using the same approach on many videos, then Russian intelligence can potentially restore that information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener_deconvolution
From left: Original image, blurred image, image deblurred using Wiener deconvolution.
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Third, this, like a number of videos I've seen, look like they're from a cellphone camera of a drone display. That's not the end of the world, and I don't know if all those drones have some way to export video. However, I'd think that if they don't, Ukrainian intelligence may want a way to archive the footage that they're taking, because all of this footage near the front is probably interesting for all sorts of analysis. And if it can be exported directly from the drone feed to be released, I'd think that that'd be preferable, because it also means that there's no risk of information being leaked from other sources, like background sound from inside an FPV base ("nest"?), which is something that I've seen sometimes, thought not in this video, or video including background shots of the FPV base, or reflections.
Kind of curious what they used to hit the thing.
The crosshair in the posted video looks similar to the Aeorozvidka’s R-18 screenshot. That "S" symbol looks like the "throttle percent" symbol in the Betaflight OSD software, and the number (~70) would be about right.
I'm not sure that it's either of them, though.
They link to this archive of drone OSD screenshots.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z0m2rqD_EgjtdA8T4YhSvfUbqY3nOjs2KyLhR2oiktc/edit
But nothing in there looks quite like this either.
Be kind of nice if there was some corpus of images that someone could train an AI model on to auto-identify drone type from screenshots via image classification. I mean, there probably is, but for public use, rather than intelligence agencies.
He has assault with a dangerous weapon charges in there (which I assume is Minnesota's term for what is "deadly weapon" here), so I'd guess that he was using a gun or maybe a knife against someone in at least one of his prior incidents, so I'd give reasonable odds that if he was using a weapon in the attempted carjacking, it wasn't a Nerf gun.
EDIT: Yeah. Minnesota criminal code:
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/609.02
Subd. 6.Dangerous weapon.
"Dangerous weapon" means any firearm, whether loaded or unloaded, or any device designed as a weapon and capable of producing death or great bodily harm, any combustible or flammable liquid or other device or instrumentality that, in the manner it is used or intended to be used, is calculated or likely to produce death or great bodily harm, or any fire that is used to produce death or great bodily harm.
And if he has assault charges, he would have been using on someone, not just carrying it.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that this isn't the nicest neighborhood in the world, and there are probably other kids on the playground getting up to their own shennanigans.
kagis for North Minneapolis
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/25/us/minneapolis-crime-defund-invs/index.html
A feeling of lawlessness, a sense of neglect
Residents of the north side describe a landscape that can feel lawless. Indeed, about 60% of police calls for shots fired this year have come from the area, even though it makes up just 15% of the population, according to city data.
Paul Johnson, 56, said young men openly sell drugs during the day in public places, such as a gas station on Broadway Avenue that has been dubbed the “murder station” due to all of the fatal shootings there. (It is near the one where Blair was killed.)
“You pull up to get gas – they try to sell you drugs,” he said. “And not just three or four, but it’s a bulk of people.”
The perception among many residents is that the police ignore the area.
“They just let it go on,” said Johnson’s friend, Brian Bogan, 42, who said he moved from north Minneapolis to relatively safer St. Paul due to his kids growing up in an area where they don’t know if “it’s fireworks or gunshots.”
https://www.fox9.com/news/are-crime-maps-holding-back-north-minneapolis
Red all over
CoreLogic’s map for North Minneapolis shows an enormous swath of red from Golden Valley Road to the south, spanning the length of seven neighborhoods: Near North, Willard-Hay, Jordan, Hawthorne, Folwell, McKinley, and Camden.
Nearly the entire northwest side of the city is saturated in crimson red.
CoreLogic says the red zone means the area has up to five times the national average for property and violent crime.
MPD chief, Hennepin County attorney spar over referral of juvenile crime cases
One day after a drive-by shooting injured four kids in north Minneapolis, the Hennepin County attorney and Minneapolis police chief are sparring over strategies to stop the cycle of juvenile crime.
Police said the four victims were inside a stolen Kia around 1 a.m. Sunday when automatic gunfire erupted from a vehicle following them on West Broadway Avenue.
Two boys and two girls between the ages of 11 and 14 were injured, and one girl who was shot in the head was brought to the hospital in critical condition. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said on Monday that all of the victims were expected to survive.
“I think, in a lot of ways, we are failing to deter this activity,” O’Hara said the night of the shooting. “Two of the five juveniles involved in this incident were arrested not even two weeks ago for being in a stolen car.”
Yeah.
I'm trying to imagine getting car-jacked by a 10 year old and it just keeps getting funnier.
Well, he's 10 now, but it sounds like that was a prior incident, so I suppose he could have been younger at that point.
Honestly, concerns over the possibility that religion might be a political opponent and trying to neutralize it by replacing figures with one's own are not new.
It's just a little unusual to have it happening in 2024 between gods and secular leaders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_syncretism
Religious syncretism is the blending of religious belief systems into a new system, or the incorporation of other beliefs into an existing religious tradition.
This can occur for many reasons, where religious traditions exist in proximity to each other, or when a culture is conquered and the conquerors bring their religious beliefs with them, but do not succeed in eradicating older beliefs and practices.
Upon further consideration, it was decided that perhaps what Marx had meant was that certain varieties of opium were, in fact, good for the people.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:305150/zoom:14