ryper

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[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 8 points 16 hours ago

The Palantir connection isn't the only bad bit here:

Sure enough, Discord's support article describing its age verification process now features a disclaimer informing UK users that they "may be part of an experiment where your information will be processed by an age-assurance vendor, Persona." And while Discord had previously insisted that facial age verification recordings would only be stored and processed locally, the notice about Persona says that "the information you submit will be temporarily stored for up to 7 days, then deleted."

They tried so hard to convince people the verification would be safe, and they're already experimenting with making it less safe.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 7 points 16 hours ago

Benj and Kyle were the authors of the article; Dan's name wasn't on it.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't see how appointing judges who'll rule that Trump didn't break the law helps anything.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

FEMA is part of DHS.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

this was 8 years ago

COVID wasn't even a thing 8 years ago...

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Nominees for the job require Senate approval, so technically they could try to make Trump put up someone good. Bondi was nominated when it turned out the Senate wasn't likely to approve Trump's first pick, Matt Gaetz.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 85 points 3 days ago (13 children)

Pretty sure ICE agents see it as they get to shoot rubber bullets and throw tear gas at people protesting racism. They aren't being forced to do it, they're being given permission.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 81 points 4 days ago (4 children)

NGA’s mission is to represent all 55 governors

For anyone else wondering what's represented beyond the 50 states, the NGA's Governors page includes the governors of American Somoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 70 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I expect that not only will the current FCC decline to do anything about this, the complaint may have given Trump a new business idea.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Trump got her moved to minimum-security, so they could certainly move her back to a more jail-y jail.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

However, the only reason I can see for using it over Fedora Silverblue is that Origami ships with a well-configured, ready-to-use COSMIC Desktop out of the box, rather than GNOME.

The author doesn't seem to be aware of Fedora COSMIC Atomic. That seems like a better reference point.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 66 points 1 week ago (12 children)

I thought he was a US Senator representing New York State. Is New York so expensive he needed a second job?

 

While mired in controversy from all sides, the Walt Disney Company has unveiled price hikes for Disney+ and its other streaming services today.

As of October 21, Disney+ will cost up to 20 percent more, depending on the plan you have. Disney+ with ads is increasing from $10 to $12 per month, while the ad-free plan is going from $16 to $19 per month. The annual, ad-free plan will go from $160 to $190.

 

There was a time when sneering at international law would not have been a good look for someone aspiring to be Prime Minister of Canada.

But, charting new territory, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre contemptuously called Justin Trudeau “woke” for indicating Canada would abide by a ruling of the International Criminal Court (ICC) — a court that Canada helped establish to punish war criminals.

Poilievre specifically rejects the legitimacy of the ICC charges against Netanyahu, on the specious grounds that Netanyahu was democratically elected.

Poilievre's tweet with an interview clip

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