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pseudo0 commented on X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run hindustantimes.com/world-... · Posted by u/ourmandave

ceejayoz · a month ago

> I don't think so because it seems both sides were engaged…

One side has largely left X.

pseudo0 · a month ago

The stats don't bear that out. Bluesky has been losing momentum since the election, with its DAU dropping from around 3.5 million to under 1.5 million today. For comparison Twitter has over 100 million. Right-wing alternative platforms had similar issues sustaining momentum, despite a much stronger push factor (right-wing people kept getting banned). It's hard to overcome the power of Twitter's network effect.

https://bluefacts.app/bluesky-user-growth?t=3m

pseudo0 commented on Canada loses its measles-free status, with US on track to follow bbc.com/news/articles/cy7... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

eldaisfish · a month ago

this is a racist dog whistle. Stop with the "mass immigration" BS.

India, contrary to what the racists believe, has a long and successful vaccination program. A country of 1.5 billion people has around a 70% MMR vaccination rate among infants. Canada's in the 80% range and dropping.

pseudo0 · a month ago

Canada had eliminated measles, it was reintroduced by travel from a country where measles was endemic. This is not rocket science. High-volume international travel from countries where measles is endemic, like India, poses a public health risk to countries that have eliminated the disease. The same goes for tuberculosis, hepatitis, etc.

pseudo0 commented on Canada loses its measles-free status, with US on track to follow bbc.com/news/articles/cy7... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

geoka9 · a month ago

Up-to-date vaccination list is a requirement for immigrant visa in Canada.

pseudo0 · a month ago

Only for stays greater than six months. So an unvaccinated person can fly in from wherever and stay for 180 days legally, or just overstay their visa. That's plenty of time to spread measles.

pseudo0 commented on Canada loses its measles-free status, with US on track to follow bbc.com/news/articles/cy7... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

pseudo0 · a month ago

Mass immigration from countries where measles is endemic? India has over 10,000 cases per year and makes up the plurality of Canada's immigration intake. Canada has a very high two-shot vaccination rate, but there are pockets like the Mennonite communities that are vulnerable.

pseudo0 commented on US car repossessions surge as more Americans default on auto loans theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/Physkal

linguae · 2 months ago

Unfortunately, there are some apartment complexes, HOAs, and city ordinances that prohibit people from working on their cars, which means either needing to find a legal place to do your own repairs or paying a mechanic. I’ve lived in apartments my entire adult life thus far, and every lease I’ve signed has prohibited me from repairing my cars on apartment grounds. I have no choice but to either find a friend with a garage (not easy in the Bay Area when most of my friends can’t afford garages) or taking my car to a mechanic and paying Bay Area labor costs.

pseudo0 · 2 months ago

Those rules are usually intended to prevent people from having a derelict car up on blocks "under repairs" for weeks or months at a time. No one will notice or care if you do a quick oil change.

pseudo0 commented on Nintendo Alerted After DHS Uses Pokémon to Promote ICE Raids thedailybeast.com/nintend... · Posted by u/01-_-

HeavyStorm · 3 months ago

This could be viewed as smearing, which would be abuse. It's relating Pokémon to a politically charged subject at a minimum. I would also argue that it's a violent video. Nintendo could ask for a takedown on those grounds.

pseudo0 · 3 months ago

It's political satire, it's 110% fair use. Nintendo can't bully the US government with an army of lawyers, so they aren't even going to try.

pseudo0 commented on ICEBlock handled my vulnerability report in the worst possible way micahflee.com/iceblock-ha... · Posted by u/FergusArgyll

danielvf · 3 months ago

In the software development / security world, someone reporting a vulnerability to you is one of the greatest things one human can do for another.

I've been burned in the long past when trying to be helpful to an activist. The accuracy of information provided was never a consideration.

pseudo0 · 3 months ago

Unfortunately something like 90% of "vulnerability reports" are some guy in India running an automated scanner reporting something that isn't actually a vulnerability and demanding $1,000+. This creates a ton of noise in the system both for legitimate security researchers and the people stuck managing vulnerability disclosure programs.

pseudo0 commented on U.S. Military Strikes Drug Vessel from Venezuela, Killing 11 wsj.com/politics/national... · Posted by u/perihelions

esseph · 4 months ago

As someone previously very deeply involved on the ground with a lot of drone strikes, the type we do in the US are NOT cheap.

pseudo0 · 4 months ago

The alternative was loading up a Coast Guard ship with guys and sending them out to do an interdiction, seizing 11 men, processing them through the American legal system, incarcerating them for decades, and then eventually deporting them. I bet that costs a couple orders of magnitude more than a drone strike. Arguing cost is not compelling in the slightest.

pseudo0 commented on Detecting and countering misuse of AI anthropic.com/news/detect... · Posted by u/indigodaddy

mrbombastic · 4 months ago

Never thought about this before but we already have biometric scanners on our phones we rely on and work quite well, why couldn’t it work for guns?

pseudo0 · 4 months ago

I had a fingerprint scanner on an old phone and it would fail if there was a tiny amount of dirt or liquid on my finger or on the scanner. It's not big deal to have it fail on a phone, it's just a few seconds of inconvenience putting in a passcode instead. On a firearm, that's a critical safety defect. When it comes to safe storage, there are plenty of better options like a safe, a cable/trigger lock, or for carrying, a retention holster (standard for law enforcement).

pseudo0 commented on Anduril's product engineering machine joincolossus.com/article/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

bigyabai · 4 months ago

I just explained it to you and you ignored my comment. Here is a simplification if it helps:

1991-1994: They nuke Moscow.

1994-present day: American strategic deterrence takes over.

If any part of that is unclear to you then I urge that you reread the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances and return to the discussion with the rest of the context.

Anduril does not manufacture strategic deterrents. If you think they're the solution to the Budapest Memorandum then you're the sort of armchair YouTube General that the Army filters out in officer school. It's not hard to understand, anyone can Google the difference between strategy and tactics.

pseudo0 · 4 months ago

Ukraine keeping the nukes was never going to happen. The US, EU, and Russia were all in agreement on that. Ukraine was in shambles at the time, and no one wanted the risk of nukes getting transferred or sold outside of the existing nuclear club.

Ukraine had physical possession of the nukes, but their ability to actually use them was highly suspect. They might have been able to circumvent the security measures given enough time, but if anything such an attempt would have sparked an international "peacekeeping operation" to make sure the nukes didn't fall into the wrong hands.

https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/news/budapest-memorandum-myth...