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8 days agoI have a Rayhunter but have never sent a data capture to EFF. I believe you are supposed to download it to your PC then send the file to their Signal account.
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Cake day: June 9th, 2023
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This is a great time for people to start building and operating Rayhunters, and to share the results with the EFF to improve the tool.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying
They really want you to know that they went to the beach once, and they might do it again.
I have encountered a few all-gender bathrooms in the wild, and they have all been really nice. I hope they stop being a political football someday so we can get more of them.
9·28 days agoThat is an amazing little ad hoc study!
That’s Austin 3:16
It’s better, but still horrible in its own special way.
Black and gray flags are used by the US military on some uniforms. Civilians also sometimes display them as “no quarter” flags, meaning the person displaying the flag will show no mercy to any perceived enemies. For both of these reasons the right-wing nationalist crowd likes them.
iPhones are actually designed in the US. My point is that the phrase is almost certainly a lie in this case.
Another commented mentioned this is from a US distributor that repackages Baofeng products.
But to be honest, there are so many Baofeng/BTech radios for sale on the internet I was never confident about which were legit and which were knock-offs. I just went for it and hoped for the best. They seem to work fine, at least so far.
Yeah. I have seen the monochromatic flag referred to as a “no quarter” flag, and initially wondered if that was the intent. Or maybe they just wanted to minimize colors to reduce printing costs.
That’s really interesting! I had no idea, but I am not surprised.
If you have not yet come to the conclusion that Pete Hegseth is a dangerous and disgusting pile of dung, go listen to the recent Behind the Bastards podcast episode about him.
The change was spotted by users on Lemmy, an open-source aggregation platform and forum.
Way to go everyone! We got noticed! And for something good this time!
Fuck Musk and all, but “collapsed” seems a bit overstated. Their loyalty rate is no longer remarkably high but is still above-average according to the article.
Tesla’s customer loyalty peaked in June 2024, when 73% of Tesla-owning households in the market for a new car bought another Tesla,
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The rate bottomed out at 49.9% last March, just below the industry average,
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Tesla’s U.S. loyalty rate has since ticked back up to 57.4% in May, the most recent month the S&P data is available, putting it back above the industry average and about the same as Toyota (7203.T), but behind Chevrolet (GM.N), and Ford (F.N).
Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin told WMTW-TV that use of E-Verify “does not absolve employers of their legal duty” to verify legal employment status.
“The Old Orchard Beach Police Department’s reckless reliance on E-Verify to justify arming an illegal alien, Jon Luke Evans, violates federal law, and does not absolve them of their failure to conduct basic background checks to verify legal status,” McLaughlin told the station.
So E-Verify is less than worthless. It provides no assurances, and running an individual through the tool could presumably bring them to ICE’s attention.
And speaking of Friday, it’s time for the weekly reminder! (CW: swearing)
3·2 months agoFor boxing specifically, it is absolutely part of the fighters’ marketing strategies.
For sports in general, trash talking during a game is “real.” Extended beefs that get major media coverage might be intentionally played up for publicity.
The Catholic press has picked it up, too:
https://www.ncronline.org/news/california-bishops-scramble-tend-catholics-feeling-hunted-ice-agents
There are hints that the current government’s actions are widening a cultural rift in the church. Considering how large the Catholic church is, I’m really interested to see how this plays out.
You might get some downvotes for mentioning that book. The author makes a few sloppy assumptions, and the anthropology/sociology/history communities love to hate him for it. His overall thesis is still generally good though, IIRC.
One thing I don’t think is in Diamond’s book: once Europe had realized they could sail far and wide to get things, the Dutch invented the idea of a stock market to fund voyages (the British took this idea and really ran with it). This system made long, risky trips easier to finance. Instead of a single monarch funding a single expedition, many people could pool their money to fund many expeditions.
I agree that none of this means Europeans have some special intelligence or attitude. Any other civilization that developed in similar conditions could have followed the same path.