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This is not reproducible bow that I created this post, but the last twenty minutes, I’ve been messing with navigation to make it go away, and the only thing that worked was force close and reopen. Now it’s not doing it. Shrug…
YSK that habeas corpus has its roots in thr Magna carta, from the 13th century.
YSK that habeas corpus has its roots in thr Magna carta, from the 13th century. - Lemmy.World
Your right to due process under the law is rooted in almost a millennium of precedent, and in the United States (as in other free countries), the power of arrest and detention expressly withheld from the executive. Here is an extremely thorough and lucid treatise on habeas corpus by then-Chief Justice Taney following Lincoln’s illegal invocation (and delegation to military officers’ discretion) of its suspension to arrest and detain a Maryland man without judicial warrant, evidence, or due process. > …Executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America, to hold his office during the term of four years—and then proceeds to prescribe the mode of election, and to specify, in precise and plain words, the powers delegated to him and the duties imposed upon him. And the short term for which he is elected, and the narrow limits to which his power is confined, show the jealousy and apprehensions of future danger which the framers of the Constitution felt in relation to that department of the Government—and how carefully they withheld from it many of the powers belonging to the Executive branch of the English Government, which were considered as dangerous to the liberty of the subject—and conferred (and that in clear and specific terms) those powers only which were deemed essential to secure the successful operation of the Government. […] > …He is not empowered to arrest any one charged with an offence [sic] against the United States, and whom he may, from the evidence before him, believe to be guilty—nor can he authorize any officer, civil or military, to exercise this power; for the 5th article of the amendments to the Constitution expressly provides that no person “shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.”—that is, judicial process. And even if the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus was suspended by act of Congress, and a party not subject to the rules and articles of war was afterwards arrested and imprisoned by regular judicial process, he could not be detained in prison or brought to trial before a military tribunal, for the article in the amendments to the Constitution, immediately following the one above referred to—that is, the 6th article—provides that "in all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defence [sic]. Emphasis mine: > And the only power, therefore, which the President possesses, where the “life, liberty or property” of a private citizen is concerned, is the power and duty prescribed in the third section of the 2d article, which requires “that he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” He is not authorized to execute them himself, or through agents or officers, civil or military, appointed by himself, but he is to take care that they be faithfully carried into execution as they are expounded and adjudged by the co-ordinate branch of the Government, to which that duty is assigned by the Constitution. It is thus made his duty to come in aid of the judicial authority, if it shall be resisted by a force too strong to be overcome without the assistance of the Executive arm. But in exercising this power, he acts in subordinate to judicial authority, assisting it to execute its process and enforce its judgments.
My AHS version includes the 6.13-7 kernel, but the testing repo (MX anyway) doesn’t show a newer version of Mesa.
How to get latest Mesa drivers for RX 9070
How to get latest Mesa drivers for RX 9070 - Lemmy.World
Apologies for my fairly low-level question. I spent all day yesterday spinning my wheels on this. (I do fine using Debian Linux as my daily driver, but I’m not ashamed to admit that this (and things in this area) are beyond my experience. I’ve never compiled anything from source. I used to be a wiz with DOS 6.22 and Windows through 7, but my brain just stopped learning these things properly some time in the past.) My distro (MXLinux 23.x) just announced [https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-news-week-ending-march-14-2025/] they’re almost ready to include Mesa 24.2.8. I purchased an AMD RX 9070, and all my Linux games (HGL or Steam) are angry that Vulkan can’t recognize a valid GPU. I see that Mesa 25.0.2 [https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-25.0.2-Released] should work, but I don’t know how to either build & install from source or add a repo for that particular package only. I see that Arch users can easily use the Mesa-git or others, but not my Debian 12. I installed Nobara to a spare drive as a stopgap, but on that install, FH5 refuses to prompt for account sign in there no matter which Proton I use.
My experience with a new (to me ) Amazon scam
My experience with a new (to me ) Amazon scam - Lemmy.World
Two days ago, I became an unwitting victim of Amazon’s lack of policing their 3rd party marketplace ecosystem. I hope I can get this in front of a few more eyeballs to save people from the experience I am now in. Here’s how it went down. Thursday, AMD dropped the Radeon RX 9070 and Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU. I won’t bore you with the details, but I hoped to get one, by Friday I still hadn’t and started shopping for a GPU from last generation. I setup a price alert on a few models and went to sleep. I woke at 3am to an alert (I forgot to silence my phone) that one of the models was on sale at a 27% discount from a 3rd party seller, and I groggily added to my cart. However, when added to my cart, the price jumped to 15% over MSRP. I removed and went back to the product page, refreshed, and saw the same discounted price. I copied the link and opened it in another mobile browser and the discounted price was there. I added it back to my cart and the price again increased by $150. I contacted support, and they told me to make the purchase at the inflated price, and when it arrived, I would be given a discount retroactively by Amazon. I did so, put my phone on DnD and went back to sleep. When I woke up, I checked my phone and saw I had two emails from Amazon. One was a price alert on another GPU, at the same deep discount from another seller. I clicked the link and saw the same price for the same GPU. This time, I was more awake, so I clicked the link to go to the “Gigabyte Store” and saw the same listing there. This one must be real, then right? I added it to my cart and the price remained discounted. I clicked the seller name and saw they had several positive reviews about fast shipping, great prices, etc. Here’s what happened next. I purchased the second GPU at the correct price and went to cancel the previous order. However, when I opened the orders page, I saw that it was already marked as shipped. Strange, I thought. It’s only been five hours. So I couldn’t cancel the order, but Amazon CS assured me earlier that I would receive the discount, so I shrugged and decided maybe I would sell the extra one, or give it to my son. So I purchased the second GPU. Then I checked the second email. As I read, my face got hot, and my arms and hands began to tingle. Here is the email: Hello, We are writing in relation to your Amazon.com order #REDACTED. We wanted to inform you that the seller of your order is no longer active on Amazon.com. If you are expecting an order and you do not receive it within 3 days of the estimated delivery date, or if you have any other issue with your order, please report the problem. Our team will determine if you are eligible for a refund. To report an issue, please follow these steps: 1. Go to “Your Orders” 2. Locate your order in the list and click “Problem with order”. 3. Select your problem from the list. 4. Select “Request refund”. You may also reach out to us at the following link: https://www.amazon.com/hz/contact-us We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Sincerely, Customer Service Amazon.com Uh-oh. Wait. Amazon has seller accounts that can just …disappear? And the only recourse is to wait to see if they ship the item to you? Here is where some of you may think, “this sounds familiar [https://safereddit.com/r/Scams/comments/1d4wa6y/amazon_scam_to_watch_out_for/].” I hadn’t seen that before, and I trusted the Amazon system, foolishly. I find the seller profile linked on my order page for the first GPU. The seller feedback (that I had never even seen before, as I guess I have always used Amazon fulfillment up until now) was five reviews. One 5-stars, and the remaining four were 1-star, all with SCAM in the text. I think to myself, 'it’s a good thing I bought that other GPU… that had the same …price. SHIT." I go to my second GPU order and click the seller profile. The previous glowing reviews are still there, but so is a new one with the current date that reads: >I have been waiting since the first part of December. If I didn’t need them I wouldn’t have ordered them. I had to order from a different company and get them within a week. It’s now Tuesday. Both items have “shipped” but with no tracking number, claiming: [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d5276b23-f0ad-4246-af56-76f237eda32b.png] Strange. I’ve always had tracking for USPS packages in the past. Oh, and my shipping date? Changed from March 12 to April 30. All this is typical for this type of scam, it seems. I was oblivious to it until it happened to me. Here are the signs: 1. Steeply discounted price on a popular item 2. 3rd party seller with relatively low review count 3. Fulfillment completely outside of Amazon 4. Order is marked as shipped extremely fast 5. Shipping will not include tracking number 6. Seller closes their Amazon account Obviously, if you get past #3, you’ve already been scammed. Now, after a day of research into this scam, I can also share the following that helps clear up how and why this works like this. Sellers don’t get paid immediately. They have a regular payout interval, usually a week or two weeks. So they need to keep the customer waiting long enough to collect their funds before Amazon can step in. But, lucky for them, Amazon never steps in. As I discovered, their SOP is to have the customer wait until the delivery date (which was four days, then suddenly fifty+ days) before any attempt to make the customer whole is offered. This delay works in favor of the scammers, since they have time to collect their money before Amazon bothers to consider there is any fraudulent activity. All this info in my belt, I called Amazon CS last night and asked for a walk-through of the two purchases, the seller accounts, and the policy. The CS agent viewed the seller profiles and confirmed they seemed scammy, and that they were both no longer active, but still eligible for payout. They could not confirm that any products had ever been truly offered, let alone received. At the end of the call it was clear that Amazon CS hands are tied. They have policies, and they won’t budge. I won’t even be eligible for a refund until after May 3, which is just under two months from my order date. I didn’t do anything wrong. I was supposed to be protected by Amazon, and I wasn’t. They aren’t supposed to be like eBay, where you have to carefully research every seller, because the platform invites fraud. This is the biggest e-tailer in the world (or is that Ali Express?), who positions itself as the most customer-focused company in the world. Unfortunately, they are either not interested in countering this fraud, or they are too slow-moving to keep up with the fraudsters. Or maybe I’m not the customer. Maybe the seller is. Or maybe it’s the advertisers. But not me, anymore. What I will do differently in the future: 1. Stay off of Amazon. They are in the business of making money, and even Chinese scammers make the company money. They may have to refund me my $1,000, but not for almost two months, and they got my payment into their bank account immediately. When they pay the scammer (and they will), they get to keep a percentage (30% now? More? I forget). Obviously, I have noticed that many products on the marketplace there seem scammy, but I wasn’t prepared to see one hosted on the GPU manufacturer’s official store front. Oh, and the CS agent also told me that there is no way to assure that I can even get the product I purchased from another seller. That is to say, I asked if instead of a refund, I could have them just get me the GPU I ordered at MSRP (or even better, the price that scammed me, twice), and they said no. I’m okay. I used my credit card, and I’m protected from fraud if it comes to that. To those who wouldn’t have that option and can’t be without $1,000 for two months, I would recommend you stay away from any marketplaces that allow 3rd party sellers on, as there is too much incentive to scam like this. There is ZERO risk to the scammer. Newegg (owned by Amazon) also allows 3rd party sellers , and if you look, you can find feedback there about the same scam. Good luck out there.
Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after promises to not sell their data go up in smoke
Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after promises to not sell their data go up in smoke - Lemmy.World
The answer to “what is Firefox?” on Mozilla’s FAQ page about its browser used to read [https://web.archive.org/web/20250130092351/https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/faq/]: > The Firefox Browser is the only major browser backed by a not-for-profit that doesn’t sell your personal data to advertisers while helping you protect your personal information. Now it just says [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/faq/]: > The Firefox Browser, the only major browser backed by a not-for-profit, helps you protect your personal information. In other words, Mozilla is no longer willing to commit to not selling your personal data to advertisers. A related change was also highlighted [https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/information-about-the-new-terms-of-use-and-updated-privacy/m-p/87949/highlight/true#M33725] by mozilla.org [http://mozilla.org] commenter jkaelin, who linked direct to the source code [https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/blob/main/bedrock/firefox/templates/firefox/faq.html] for that FAQ page. To answer the question, “is Firefox free?” Moz used to say: > Yep! The Firefox Browser is free. Super free, actually. No hidden costs or anything. You don’t pay anything to use it, and we don’t sell your personal data. Now it simply reads: > Yep! The Firefox Browser is free. Super free, actually. No hidden costs or anything. You don’t pay anything to use it. Again, a pledge to not sell people’s data has disappeared. Varma insisted this is the result of the fluid definition of “sell” in the context of data sharing and privacy.
Piece work entry unpaid
Piece work entry unpaid - Lemmy.World
My GF is a ghost writer. The publisher has her write into a files that are uploaded to a shared platform where editors and other creatives and execs tweak and move each chapter through several named states, until it reaches “Final.” She gets paid per X words. Come the day before the deadline for payroll, they (sometimes, often its late) open up the payroll system, and she has to re-upload the Final chapter to a folder in that tracking system. Tonight (when they opened the system for her), she has to enter 130 chapters by 10am tomorrow. It’s not just moving a file. She has to download the Final chapter, select the text, copy/paste into the payroll tracking system, and then fix formatting that their silly system creates, like extra spaces, double quotes, etc. Each chapter can take minutes. These pasted chapters are then the final product. She has to stay up all night until its done, or she won’t get paid on time. I feel like she’s being taken advantage of, doing admin work for free. This feels like someone else’s job. Is this even compliant with labor laws? Is it legal to have her do 12hrs of gruelling repetitive labor to move her completed text like this?
Possibly because of the embedded images in my comment there, that post is slow to scroll, interact with comments, etc.
Wasn’t sure if its on my end alone, or if the post is an anomaly that brings voyager to its knees for all.
Does this post cause anybody else's android app to hang?
