[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 29 points 3 hours ago

Palantir, which the US gov is now (let's not kid ourselves, has been for some time illegally) contracting, probably already has your face either from street cams, security cams in various company buildings, or from social media at this point, so letting you 'opt out' is probably just theatre to avoid angering people at airports.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Arghblarg@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

No comment other than the phrase in title is prominent on the hats intentionally shown behind the young man being interviewed here. I'll let everyone reading this decide for themselves whether this is a problem or not.


EDIT: For the record, perhaps my original commentary on this post was attempting to be too 'clever'. I was most definitely * not * trying to promote these chuckleheads. It was posted in order to ensure people know the enemy -- there are some scary forces working in Canada to instill the horrors we are seeing down south, right here, right now.

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 231 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is even more nuts than removing fluoride from municipal water systems. At least with that, parents who believe the science that their kids' teeth will be better off with targeted fluoride treatment can buy the drops and tablets, and those who are afraid for some reason can choose to just not use it.

This is just trying to ban access to fluoride entirely, despite research showing its benefits and the distinct lack of significant harm. Madness.

What next, are they going to criminalize sending fluoride drops/pills through the mail, like mifepristone?

Calgary, AB Canada removed fluoride and a decade later added it back after seeing the effects of its absence.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Arghblarg@lemmy.ca to c/politics@lemmy.world

As most have predicted and feared, the US Administration appears to now be testing if they can push one step further towards enforcing an authoritarian ethno-state: threatening a full-on US citizen by-birth with detainment and deportation (to where, exactly, if they are a born US citizen?). Someone who, "coincidentally", is an immigration lawyer, someone who might defend other targets of their deportation agenda.

First they came for ...


EDIT: a thread indicating this has been a mass email to others https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lmljpkrdj22h

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 100 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Good luck -- E. Jean Carroll just kept getting excuses to re-sue him, which was hilarious, since he just could. not. resist. defaming her when legally ordered not to. :). The man seems absolutely compelled to double-down on his disrespect if he is pressured to act like a decent person. He just can't resist trying to "assert dominance" or something.


Carney should formally demand Krasnov "say Thank You" for our water, oil, wood, steel, potash and aluminum, before we drop tariffs. Heh.

EDIT: Vance, too. He should have to say Thank You, on the air, on Fox 'News', before we drop tariffs.

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submitted 4 months ago by Arghblarg@lemmy.ca to c/politics@lemmy.world

In response to suggestions by a lunatic in the US Oval Office, Green Party Canada's leader Elizabeth May suggested Canada should invite western states Washington, Oregon and California join B.C and split from Canada to form the 'Cascadia' eco-state.

(Note this article is from Jan 8, 2025 and Elizabeth May has since become co-leader of the party alongside Jonathan Pedneault).

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submitted 4 months ago by Arghblarg@lemmy.ca to c/politics@lemmy.world

Would be a darn shame if tariffs applied to it for the US... oh wait

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Arghblarg@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml

EDIT see my comment below which uses a much cleaner method that avoids the noisy multple udev events and doesn't require udev/eudev at all


This activates/de-activates the secondary display underneath the removeable keyboard properly. Note though that the keyboard is a composite unit and causes a whole train of udev events, rather than a single one, which means the desktop will flicker multiple times on each re-attachment of the keyboard :(. If anyone knows how to just run the scripts on the 'last' udev event, it would make for a cleaner experience. (XFCE sometimes crashes out on me due to the rapid xrandr reconfigs but it's mostly usable).

[/usr/local/bin/usb-0b05_1b2c-in]

#!/bin/bash

if [ "$(xrandr --listmonitors | wc -l)" -gt "2" ]; then

#logger -p user.info "=== KEYBOARD REPLACED ==="

xrandr --output eDP-2 --off

fi

[/usr/local/bin/usb-0b05_1b2c-in_udev]

#!/bin/bash

export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin

/usr/local/bin/usb-0b05_1b2c-in &

[/usr/local/bin/usb-0b05_1b2c-out]

#!/bin/bash

if [ "$(xrandr --listmonitors | wc -l)" -lt "3" ]; then

#logger -p user.info "=== KEYBOARD REMOVED ==="

xrandr --auto && xrandr --output eDP-2 --below eDP-1

fi

[/usr/local/bin/usb-0b05_1b2c-out_udev]

#!/bin/bash

export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin

/usr/local/bin/usb-0b05_1b2c-out &

[/etc/udev/rules.d/99-zbduo2024-kbd.rules]

ACTION=="add", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0b05", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1b2c", ENV{XAUTHORITY}="/home/username/.Xauthority", ENV{DISPLAY}=":0", OWNER="username", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/usb-0b05_1b2c-in_udev"

ACTION=="remove", ENV{ID_MODEL}="ASUS_Zenbook_Duo_Keyboard", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/usb-0b05_1b2c-out_udev"

Now, to get your laptop keyboard working when removed, in bluetooth mode, one must

  1. Ensure bluetooth-ctl is running and initiate 'pair' in Bluetooth by clicking 'Create pairing with this device' (key icon in the 'Blueman-Manager' window)
  2. Turn on bluetooth (switch on the left of the keyboard)
  3. Remove the keyboard
  4. Hold F10 for 4-5 seconds until its blue LED starts blinking rapidly (kbd in pairing mode)
  5. Watch your desktop notifications for the connection message with the BT challenge pin code (6 digits)
  6. type the challenge PIN code on the keyboard
  7. Now the keyboard should be paired.

... now if only I could get the sound device (Intel HD Audio) and brightness control working for both screens!

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 100 points 7 months ago

Well, if there was any doubt there is one law for the rich & well connected, and an entirely different law for the 'plebes', this put that deep in the ground...

Someone should go rip that blindfold off of any 'Blind Justice' statues, it is just gaslighting at this point.

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submitted 7 months ago by Arghblarg@lemmy.ca to c/science@mander.xyz

I was searching online for quite a while this evening, chasing a half-remembered bit of trivia, that trilobites were supposedly unique in their use of calcite for their lenses, composing the ommatidia of their compound eyes.

It must be so obvious to scientists in the field of studying insects that they never mention it in their papers...

So, what compound(s) do modern arthropods use in their compound eyes. If it isn't calcite, what do modern 'bugs' use?

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 227 points 9 months ago

Heaven forbid journalists do... you know, their jobs?

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If you haven't heard of it, this island has a population that the world has collectively decided to leave alone, mostly because they have proven, on multiple occasions, that they absolutely do not want visitors. Like, arrow-to-death anyone attempting to land or even visit near their shores.

This probably cannot go on forever... but maybe, it could. Essentially, we are already implementing a 'Prime Directive' of sorts here. Would the 23rd, 24th, ... centuries in Star Trek canon still have this little island on Earth, isolated from not just from Earth's own unified Federation society, but from the greater Federation races? What steps would the Federation and Earth take to maintain their isolation and the ecosystem on which they depend?

Would make for an interesting episode, or at least a cool side-note reference in one :)

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 95 points 1 year ago

And people wonder why Snowden went outside of "whistleblower protection" avenues.

We all know such protections are useless if those exposed are powerful enough. Best to get it out beyond their control before they even know they have been outed.

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 99 points 2 years ago

Any leader who has to sign legislation stating they have lifelong immunity from prosecution, probably needs to be prosecuted for the rest of their long life.

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 109 points 2 years ago

So sad that Space-X, which has done such incredible things to advance spaceflight, is run by this idiot. It's a testament to the intelligence and hard work of the engineers and scientists working there, despite him, I suppose.

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 145 points 2 years ago

What? The government will actually collect taxes itself like every other sane country, instead of privatizing it out to middlemen grifters? Oh my, where is mah fainting couch?

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 107 points 2 years ago

Go listen to Strike Force 5, the podcast with all the late night hosts! Any profits they make from it (and their sponsors, mostly Ryan Reynold's businesses) also go to helping their staff!

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/867-strike-force-five-122135023/

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 262 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What a bunch of maroons. 99.9% chance someone else mirrored that git repo.

EDIT: And this is yet another reason everyone, everywhere, should immediately mirror any git repo for a project they are even remotely interested in.

github giveth, and github can (and does) taketh away. Say NO to centralized source management platforms -- exactly the antithesis of what git was designed for in the first place!

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 150 points 2 years ago

He actually says they (the rich owners) need to "hurt the economy". Economic terrorist.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Arghblarg@lemmy.ca to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

See linked posting. I've commented there with a link to a CLI tool in Python that allows downloading of IA collections. I've submitted a patch to enable specifying start and end points so that it's easier to resume downloading a huge collection, or to allow multiple people to split up the work.

https://archive.org/details/georgeblood

https://archive.org/details/78rpm_bowling_green

F*ck the RIAA and absurdly long copyright.


EDIT: There is more than one collection of 78s on IA, so I updated the title.


The issue with these collections are that they're absolutely HUGE. And yes, IA offers torrents for them, but as a separate torrent for every. single. album. And the torrents have all data in them -- FLAC, fixed-rate MP3, VBR MP3, PDF liner notes, etc. etc... there may be some extremely hardcore data-hoarders out there who want everything, but IMHO as these are scratchy old 78 records, FLAC is overkill to just save the audio in a listenable format. The George Blood collection, just the VBR MP3s, is looking to be about 6TB. With ALL data it might be over 40TB! I can't afford that many hard drives :)


So, my approach at the moment is to save just the VBR MP3s (they seem to be done at up to 320kbps VBR) and the JPEG album cover. If I have a chance and any storage left afterwards, I can make a separate pass to get the album liner PDFs...


Tool used: https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive


Patch to allow setting start and end item indices for downloads: https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive/pull/605


Example usage to grab just the VBR MP3 and record label JPG for each (note the --start-idx and --end-idx arguments):

#ia download --start-idx=4001 --end-idx=8000 -a -i --format="VBR MP3" --format="JPEG" --search collection:georgeblood

I'm going to concentrate on the George Blood collection for now.. I'm starting at item 1. It would be great if others started at index 50,000, 100,000, 150,000, ... and others started at the end and worked backwards in similarly-sized chunks, so that it's assured someone gets each of them.

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submitted 2 years ago by Arghblarg@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.ml

Marked NSFW just in case :)

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Hi, I like Jerboa so far, new user. One thing I miss from the desktop lemmy UI is a way to see all my subscriptions (of 'favourites') in a list, to quickly tap and jump to a particular one. Is this somewhere hidden in the current UI, or an upcoming feature?

Thanks, I appreciate the work!

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