overlordalex
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Comment · 7 months ago
The way that this is done these days (and likely what the author did/does) is that you use a custom domain to receive mail; you provide an email like [email protected], and that way when service@ starts receiving spam you know exactly where it comes from
Comment · 2 years ago
Yes and no. If congress has granted the EPA authority to regulate water to ensure it's not bad for you, then someone needs to determine what "bad for you" means.
Previously, under Chevron, the courts would defer to the EPA as the experts to make that determination (with the understanding that congress could always pass more specific legislation if they felt the EPA was overstepping its granted authority)
What the Supreme Court has said is deferring to the agency is going too far, and that if congress wants specific things regulated then it needs to be specific in it's legislation. Prima facie that makes sense, except for two major problems: congress is not productive enough in passing legislation, and congress are not the experts
This means that when questions like this arise, it comes to the courts to be the ones who end up interpreting the statutes and making the determination on what "bad for you" means.
Comment · 2 years ago
What you'd want is Architecture Unit Tests; you can define in code the metastructures and relationships, and then cause the build to fail if the relationship is violated.
The classic is ArchUnit in Java:
@ArchTest
static final ArchRule layer_dependencies_are_respected = layeredArchitecture().consideringAllDependencies()
.layer("Controllers").definedBy("com.tngtech.archunit.example.layers.controller..")
.layer("Services").definedBy("com.tngtech.archunit.example.layers.service..")
.layer("Persistence").definedBy("com.tngtech.archunit.example.layers.persistence..")
.whereLayer("Controllers").mayNotBeAccessedByAnyLayer()
.whereLayer("Services").mayOnlyBeAccessedByLayers("Controllers")
.whereLayer("Persistence").mayOnlyBeAccessedByLayers("Services");
Also, I'm on mobile so apologies for the badly formatted code - original can be found here: https://github.com/TNG/ArchUnit-Examples/blob/main/example-j...
Comment · 2 years ago
We are presently in the futures past
That is to say, it's entirely possible that you were already tortured and the backdoor is already there by using the same logic - no time machine needed
Like already said unfortunately the only safety would be reading the code
Comment · 2 years ago
The barriers start at the beginning - you just have to reverse and then you can drive over mountains and under water to your hearts content :)
Comment · 2 years ago
I read this book many years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it - in my opinion the movie did a good job as well, however I've found it increasingly difficult to find via online services (and even finding it on the high seas was rare, but perhaps that's changed)
When I read it my partner at the time was from an exUSSR country and validated the feelings of hopelessness, grift, and expectations of the future matched a lot of the personal experiences of people at the time
Comment · 3 years ago
That's if you even got a pin in the first place!
I discovered this recently when I wanted to use the gloriously named AusweisApp2 (ID app 2, superseding a PC app which was at least forward thinking enough to be called ID app 1).
In theory it's simple to request a new pin - you can even do it within the app! However I've moved since I acquired the card, and so instead of the reset mails going to my registered address, I can only assume they went to the address stored on the card. And in a catch-22 of course you can only update that with a pin...
But no worries, you can simply book an appointment at your nearest buergeramt to have a pin reset in person; except there are no free slots in the next 3 months.. anywhere!
I needed documents for a new visa, which should give me a new card (and hopefully a new pin!), which ultimately turned out to be faster to do than trying to sort out the damn pin
Comment · 3 years ago
They're considered fillers that mark a continuance on part of the speaker so that the other participants know that they will continue speaking. Different languages not only use different sounds, but in many cases continuation markers can also be "normal" words from the language. In English some examples would be "well", or "yes" which can be pure filler words to bridge to the next utterance.
That being said, what is a word anyways? You could argue that they're well understood units of language that convey meaning, which I would argue is pretty much a word
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm in a similar boat - I pretty much use the watch for HR tracking (as a proxy for stress), but otherwise keep things like the notifications disabled. This gets me about 20 days between charges
However the biggest problem is that the eInk screens seem to be a major failure point - even when working normally it seems to suffer massive burn-in making it unreadable after a few months.
My first watch had the screen die due to what I believe was trapped moisture (the weep-hole on the back is easily clogged) and just a few days ago my current watch also had the screen go bad.
It's really sad because the feature-set is almost precisely what I want, at exactly the price I'd like to pay
Comment · 3 years ago
Even more cromulently:
In Dennis v. United States the government jailed the leaders of the american communist party, and the supreme court upheld the conviction.
And if it's said that it's justified because they were the leaders: in Harisiades v. Shaughnessy the supreme court ruled that immigrants can be deported for being a previous member of the communist party, not even in any sort of leadership position. This includes just being a member for a year or two several decades ago.
You can make the argument that those were cases from the last century, so how about being arrested for exercising your first amendment in the wrong place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone
For something even more recent, protesters attempting to stop a massive new police training center* are being charged with domestic terrorism
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Cop_City
While there is definitely plenty of latitude around "free speech" in America, it's not limitless and the government will happily jail you if they disagree with what you're saying.
This is not even getting into topics like COINTELPRO
Comment · 3 years ago
Here's a taste - the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (often referred to as the FISA court) authorizes security agencies to spy on US citizens. The court proceedings are secret, and the party being surveilled is unable to participate and is not aware of any of the proceedings. In terms of warrants issued:
> From 1979 through 2012, the court overseeing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has rejected only 11 of the more than 33,900 surveillance applications by the government
> "The FISA system is broken. At the point that a FISA judge can compel the disclosure of millions of phone records of U.S. citizens engaged in only domestic communications, unrelated to the collection of foreign intelligence…there is no longer meaningful judicial review," Mr. Rotenberg said.
Story by the Wall Street Journal https://archive.ph/lafXz
Comment · 3 years ago
Obligatory Behind the Bastards podcast episode: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236...
Comment · 3 years ago
Huh. I was looking for some more information (about either the developer or maybe whatever CAD engine was being used), and it seems that there is another block based CAD editor with a very similar name.
Block CAD (this) versus Blocks CAD[1]. As a disclaimer I use OpenSCAD and have long thought that the interface would lend itself nicely to the scratch-style paradigm, but I've never bothered since the default OpenSCAD + git + Cura has been more than enough for what I need
Comment · 3 years ago
It's even easier than that - Cohen already pled guilty and was convicted for this campaign finance violation. During the trial Cohen explicitly named Trump as a co-conspirator while the prosecutor decided to call him "Individual 1" in the filings
Comment · 3 years ago
There is an accompanying podcast which went into the decisions behind the series, such as the character design and which events to show and how they were dramatised. The original page is dead[0] but it seems to be available on most podcast platforms. I can highly recommend a listen-along for your next rewatch