jhamby

Social media is a degrading mechanism of social control. You should abandon it, like I have.

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2025-02-06 04:33:19 UTC

“The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.”
― Henry Kissinger
https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/113955038355657045
#Trump #TrumpCoup #DOGE #Treasury

2025-01-31 02:50:08 UTC

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I worked on the #Android team from 2010 to 2014, and I had a real crisis of hating what I saw Android had become. But #Meta actually pushes the envelope as far as being creepy even more than #Google ever has.
Meta was caught downloading people's SMS and call logs. On Android only.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-facebook-was-able-to-collect-android-phone-and-text-logs/
Android has extremely granular permissions, which is great if you're a nerd, but in this case it allows apps like FB Messenger to do all sorts of creepy stuff like scan Wi-Fi and BT devices.

2025-01-31 02:45:15 UTC

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So there's a part halfway through the video where she pastes in a TikTok video of a guy warning against using Facebook Messenger because it's basically a spying device, scanning all your Wi-Fi networks for devices and that sort of thing.
I thought to myself, "he must be talking about the Android version of the app". Indeed, if you're on Android, yikes, I wouldn't install it:
https://crambler.com/truth-about-facebook-messenger-app-privacy/#facebook-messenger-permissions
The iPhone does block companies like Meta and Google from vacuuming up too much of your data.

2025-01-31 02:23:45 UTC

When A Greedy Oligarch Tries To Be Hip...
Kat Blaque
https://youtu.be/rEZa4gnqHrE?si=E6N6O4vvIcnd6Vjk
Excellent analysis.
#Facebook #capitalism #JoeRogan #Zuckerberg

2025-01-29 19:27:33 UTC

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Did you watch [@TechConnectify](https://mas.to/@TechConnectify ) 's videos on how an old Wurlitzer jukebox works? Old jukeboxes are an electromechanical computing marvel.
https://youtu.be/NmGaXEmfTIo?si=NIkS523DTn96jTv8
https://youtu.be/o1qRzKuskK0?si=Cg7Kf4U8iTmiBnZS

2025-01-18 00:25:33 UTC

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You're allowed to use devices with rechargeable batteries and carry them onboard planes, but you can't put them in checked luggage and there are restrictions around cargo flights carrying them. The flight crews are drilled on how to immediately grab someone's laptop or music device or whatever in the event it catches on fire and shove it into a fire-suppressing bag specifically for this purpose. If that doesn't work, they use Halon extinguishers, ozone layer be damned.

2025-01-18 00:23:09 UTC

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This sort of accident tends to be the subject of future US Chemical Safety Board videos. I bet it turns out that someone followed a procedure incorrectly, or the procedure was incorrect, or the equipment was faulty.
One would hope that employees aren't playing with fireworks or smoking anything around lithium-ion batteries, but it could be carelessness. I doubt sabotage, just because lithium-ion fires are no joke. A fire onboard an airplane is the crew's worst fear.

2025-01-17 02:17:53 UTC

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I think my favorite aerospace company name is Aerojet Rocketdyne. Each name on its own is extremely "Jet Age", and then you put them together like that and it's like being back in 1967.

2025-01-17 02:15:40 UTC

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There are in fact a ton of aerospace companies in El Segundo, enough to have an annual Aerospace Summer Games which for some reason my employer, Teledyne Controls, didn't participate in last year.
https://easyreadernews.com/aerospace-summer-games-moves-to-el-camino-college/

2025-01-17 02:12:13 UTC

Let me just say that I have never in my life heard anyone call El Segundo "The 'Gundo" outside of that Vanity Fair article with the tech bros working at military-themed startups and enjoying MAGA things like smoking, drinking beer, and pretending to be Christian.
https://archive.is/lzMwj

2025-01-04 17:41:23 UTC

So the UK police were covering up "grooming gangs" of predominantly Pakistani men snatching predominantly white British girls off the streets and subjecting them to horrific sexual abuse.
Then the police are ordered not to investigate the crimes because they don't want to be lambasted as racist by the politically powerful representatives of the community committing the crimes.
US immigration history has always been the exact inverse: accusing lots of innocent people wrongly.

2024-12-29 00:15:52 UTC

My interest in building my own WDC 65C816-based PC-on-a-card that could emulate an #AppleIIGS started a year ago, when I was looking for a job in the embedded systems space and wanted to practice writing something in Ada 2012 as a hobby project. I came up with the idea of an Apple IIe emulator since I figured it'd be much simpler than a #commodore64. Little did I reckon with the bizarre memory bank switching of different-sized segments for 80-column text (and "double hi-res" graphics).