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[–] tal 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

Hmm.

I'd think that that'd also affect Lemmy instance operators were it to enter into force.

The text and its scope would also be interesting, because I can't see a practical way for, say, an instance operator in Bakersfield, California, to have any realistic way to evaluate the truth of claims about an election, in, say, Malaysia, if it extends to all elections. I suspect that even in California alone, acting as an arbiter of truth would be tough to do reasonably.

EDIT: Looking at the bill text, it probably does not currently, as it looks like it has a floor on the number of California users, and there aren't yet enough users on the Threadiverse:

(h) “Large online platform” means a public-facing internet website, web application, or digital application, including a social media platform as defined in Section 22675 of the Business and Professions Code, video sharing platform, advertising network, or search engine that had at least 1,000,000 California users during the preceding 12 months.

It's also interesting that traditional media apparently is not covered:

The bill would exempt from its provisions a broadcasting station and a regularly published online newspaper, magazine, or other periodical of general circulation that satisfy specified requirements.

It is apparently specific to elections in California.

My guess is that it'll probably get overturned on some First Amendment challenge, but we shall see...

[–] tal 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't think that the military uses much TNT directly, but military explosives may be derived from TNT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT

Yeah, there's a list under "Applications".

Composition B, for example, is a mix of TBT and other stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_B

Composition B (Comp B), also known as Hexotol and Hexolite (among others), is a high explosive consisting of castable mixtures of RDX and TNT. It is used as the main explosive filling in artillery projectiles, rockets, land mines, hand grenades, and various other munitions.[1

[–] tal 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Susie Wiles as White House Chief of Staff, I believe. She didn't serve in an office before, but was high-level in his campaign in 2016, 2020, and 2024, so she's around for a long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susie_Wiles

Didn't just show up with Trump, has done Republican campaigns for a long time.

[–] tal 3 points 1 week ago

That's good, but those are still pretty high levels compared to the historical situation.

[–] tal 3 points 1 week ago

Lower-case "L".

Capital "L" would be, like, the Libertarian Party.

[–] tal 3 points 1 week ago

It's been fine for me too. That said, I don't eat there that often.

[–] tal 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you're drawing an analogy to Trump, setting aside the many other things that aren't parallel, Trump is a terrible orator. I mean, most US Presidents are at least decent, but Trump is horrendous.

[–] tal 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Looks fine to me.

Little side question: Will the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on the motherboard work in Arch? From what I could gather, the drivers for it should be in the latest kernel, but I'm not 100% sure.

If they don't for some reason and you can't get it working or need some sort of driver fix, can always worst case fall back to a USB dongle or similar until they do. Obviously, preferable not to do that, but shouldn't wind up stuck without them no matter what.

[–] tal 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

your foreign minister was Madonna

This is like that.

kagis

Not that much like it, apparently.

https://www.nme.com/news/music/madonna-shares-support-for-ukraine-with-release-of-sorry-remix-video-3170167

In the early hours of this morning (February 26), Madonna took to social media to share a fanmade video set to a remix of her 2005 song ‘Sorry’.

“Russia’s Pointless and Greed Driven Invasion Of the Ukraine MUST be stopped!!” the queen of pop captioned the post. “Please Send in Humanitarian Aid to help millions of citizens of the Ukraine who’s lives are being affected by this CRISIS at this very moment !!

“Putin has Violated Every Human Rights Accord in Existence. Putin has no right to try to erase the existence of the Ukraine. We support you President Zelensky!! We are praying for you and your country! 🙏🏼.”

She concluded: “God Bless You All! Lets not feel helpless when confronted by Geo-political Actions of this magnitude. There are things we can do.”

[–] tal 3 points 1 week ago

Whether or not he gets the slot, based on Trump's first term, a lot of the cabinet members aren't gonna last long anyway.

https://www.statista.com/chart/15071/how-does-trumps-turnover-compare-to-other-presidents/

[–] tal 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I wonder what CSIS does? Don't know what Canada considers threats.

kagis

Man, the US think tank CSIS dominates the Canadian intelligence agency CSIS in search results.

Okay, here's their jobs page.

https://www.canada.ca/en/security-intelligence-service/corporate/csis-jobs/available-jobs.html

And their language people:

https://www.canada.ca/en/security-intelligence-service/corporate/csis-jobs/available-jobs/foreign-language-communications-analyst.html

CSIS is looking for individuals with the following language proficiency:

  • Arabic
  • Mandarin
  • Russian
  • Punjabi
  • Urdu
  • Hindi

Mmm. So Middle East, China, Russia, and India/Pakistan.

EDIT: Looks like India/Pakistan only made the list recently. Using Archive.org to go back to 2018:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180222080221/https://www.canada.ca/en/security-intelligence-service/corporate/csis-jobs/available-jobs/foreign-language-communications-analyst.html

The Service is looking for individuals with the following language proficiency:

  • Arabic
  • Somali
  • Farsi
  • Mandarin
  • Kurdish
  • Sorani
  • Russian
[–] tal 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This was the fourth night in a row when Russian "shahids" flew into Belarus en masse and for the first time in these days the Belarusian Air Force's duty aircraft was raised. The fighter from Baranovichi took off at about 07:40 in the morning and returned to the base at 08:45.

What's the navigation system on those UAVs?

kagis

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/25204

The Shahed “kamikaze drone,” known also by its Russian nomenclature as the Geran-2, is more properly classified as a one-way attack unmanned aerial vehicle (OWA UAV).

The original Shaheds employed inertial navigation blocks, manufactured in Canada, that relied on commercially available GPS systems for navigation with a limited CEP accuracy of around 10 to 15 meters. The Russian variants use the “Komet” navigation system, which incorporates GLONASS, Russia’s version of GPS for guidance. This is almost the only component of Russian production in these drones.

Sounds like that system is vulnerable to some form of electronic attack.

EDIT: Unless the idea is that it's intentional, to try to come from an unexpected direction. If those tracks in the image represent the actual tracks, though, I'm not sure how useful they are. Doesn't look very effective.

 

Lebanese media reports heavy Israeli artillery shelling toward the border village of Wazzani, close to Ghajar.

The reports come amid growing indications of an imminent Israeli ground incursion into southern Lebanon.

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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says dozens of aircraft have struck Houthi targets in Yemen in response to recent attack on Israel.

The military said it targeted power plants and sea port facilities in the city of Hodeida.

 

Over the years, I've run into a few things that weren't immediately-obvious to me.

One of the big ones was eating pomegranates by opening them underwater. For those not familiar, pomegranates have a lot of red seeds and white husk between them:

Cutting a pomegranate or even opening a pomegranate tends to burst at least some seeds. The seeds are sticky and stain and tend to spray juice when pierced.

However, if you just cut through the outer hull of the fruit, then open it by hand underwater in a bowl of water, any juice that would have sprayed out is just grabbed by the water. Even better, the (inedible) white husk floats, so it self-separates instead of sticking to everything.

Today, I decided to try eating a watermelon with a spoon. In the past, that's tended to also make things spray, so I tried a grapefruit spoon, one with serrations that runs down the side. And that works great -- the spoon is like a knife, can go more-cleanly through the watermelon than a regular spoon, and still lets you scoop up the watermelon.

Any other neat tips that might be unorthodox or that people might not have tried or know about?

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Proposals had been made to change Russia's nuclear doctrine to allow for attacking any non-nuclear state that had the participation or support of a nuclear state, Putin said.

 

Green Party co-chairs Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour are stepping down. The move could make things even harder for Germany's fractious coalition government.

 

Industry minister Adolfo Urso warns of large-scale job losses among carmakers unless Green Deal rules are relaxed

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