Electronic Frontier FoundationCourts should interpret the 4th Amendment to bar the government from buying phone location data since “in order to acquire this data directly from a person or from their service provider, they would have to get a warrant,” EFF’s @Adam_D_Schwartz told FedScoop. https://fedscoop.com/ice-says-its-stopped-using-phone-location-data/
Bruce Myers
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Talks about stuff occasionally. I want to learn about Systems Programming, but am in the process of learning Python and Game Development with Unity.
Tod Maffin 🇨🇦Unbelievable.
Westjet won’t arrange transportation as part of the vacation package we paid them for… because my wife uses a wheelchair.
Aside from this being a violation of federal law, I’m deeply saddened that WestJet, too, now values cash over humanity.
Charles Johnson
Alex C has movedWhen I was a smartass computer nerd in the 80s and 90s, an eternal theme was friends and family sheepishly asking me for tech support help, and me slowly, patiently explaining to them that computers aren't scary, they're actually predictable, they won't explode or erase your data (unless you really make an effort), and they operate by simple (if somewhat arcane) rules. Edit > Cut, then click, then Edit > Paste. Save As. Use tabs, not spaces. Stuff like that. Maybe not easy, but simple, or at least consistent and learnable.
But that's not true anymore.
User interfaces lag. Text lies. Buttons don't click. Buttons don't even look like buttons! Panels pop up and obscure your workspace and you can't move or remove them -- a tiny floating x and a few horizontal lines is all you get. Mobile and web apps lose your draft text, refresh at whim, silently swallow errors, mysteriously move shit around when you're not looking, hide menus, bury options, don't respect or don't remember your chosen settings. Doing the same thing gives different results. The carefully researched PARC principles of human-computer interaction -- feedback, discoverabilty, affordances, consistency, personalization -- all that fundamental Don Norman shit -- have been completely discarded.
My tech support calls now are about me sadly explaining there's nothing I can do. Computers suck now. They run on superstition, not science. It's a real tragedy for humanity and I have no idea how to fix it.
Jules EnriquezDamn Small Linux has returned:
https://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
DSL will now try to fit as many things as possible within 700 MB to keep older x86 machines usable, based on Debian distro antiX.
Among the new set of applications is BadWolf from @lanodan, a lightweight WebKit-based web browser.
Update:
Website was down, but has returned for now.
user8e8f87eI saw a video on Linux in Scratch and it now makes me wonder where else Linux could go. On a rocket ship to space? Your microwave? A keyboard?
Anyways, it’s be cool to see if Scratch Linux could use distributions like Mint, Debian, etc. I don’t think Scratch can take it. #linux #impossible #pondering #what
Python Weekly 🐍Monty Python and the Holy Grail 48 1/2 year anniversary in theaters December
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b52A3sKz-I
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b52A3sKz-I
Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Trailer Fall 2023
I found that with how I play Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak, I am REQUIRED to have Evade Extender Lv 1 when playing Switch Axe since I am not great at positioning. Monsters become much more terrifying when I don’t have Evade Extender. But I think it can make me a better player by actually understanding a monster’s pattern. #monsterhunter