Firewire was good for high bandwidth devices like external hard drives and video cameras because it didn’t require the CPU to do any heavy lifting. These days USB is mature enough and CPUs are so fast that we (mostly) don’t notice any performance impact but in the Core 2 Duo days you could easily max out one of your two cores with a large file transfer over USB.

You think the people who brought us Stuxnet aren’t fucking with Russia?

100,000 rides a week. Impressive.

Nah, Starlink doesn’t reset the Wi-Fi SSID for a firmware update.

They didn’t, the commenter is making things up.

Wouldn’t you be able to say the same thing about Facebook and Twitter?

I don’t know. I haven’t used Xitter since before Elon took it over and I’m only on FB once every couple of months.

It is especially visible with YouTube which had downvoting from the start and decided to remove it despite user protests.

Wait, you don’t have a thumbs down button on YouTube?

I don’t even do that! I’ve just never spent any time watching political stuff on YT so presumably the algorithm knows I’m not interested in it and doesn’t show it to me.

The closest I get to watching political content on YT is Peter Zeihan so the algorithm simply doesn’t put political junk in my feed. If you’re getting tons of politics, from either direction, in your feed its probably because you are watching political content on YT.

That’s the best explanation I can come up with about why our experiences are so different.

Can’t you simply not connect your display to the Internet

Probably, but maybe not. I can think of three ways a Smart TV could potentially get internet access without the owners knowledge.

1. Amazon Sidewalk
2. The TV Manufacturer cuts a deal to access the closed WiFi network that many cable operators have on their cable modems or routers.
3. Via the manufacturers app installed on a smart phone. They often use the app to make setup easier and / or to cast content. There’s no reason the TV can’t log data until the app connects and then use the app to transmit that data to the manufacturer.

So while the owner could choose not to give their Smart TV a wifi connection that doesn’t mean the TV can’t get one another way.

What does YouTube have to do with this? I’m on YT quite a bit watching a wide array of content and I’ve yet to see anything thing Pro-Trump or Pro-Russian.

for some considerable time now, russian close air support stays well outside of ukrainian surface to air missiles range by using glide bombs to deliver bombs to the frontline.

The F-16s can solve this. The range of even the older AIM-120C AMRAAM exceeds that of the Russian glide bombs by 30 to 60 kilometers. The D variant, and I have seen Ukrainian F-16s with this loaded, has a range of 180 kilometers. That’s enough to knock a Russian aircraft out of the sky long before they can use a glide bomb.

The US has said they will be providing Ukraine with the 120D and Raytheon is maxxing out production of them.

III. russian jets flying air defense sorties will have to be stationed at further airbases.

The JASSM will push them back hundreds of miles and that’s no small matter. Aircraft like the SU-25 only have a range of 560 miles, roughly 900 kilometers. The JASSM could push them so far back that they become unusable as they can’t carry enough fuel! The MIG-25 might be able to make it, just barely, but there will be no range left for any combat. Even the SU-34 will have to fly lots of extra distance in order to keep far enough back and all that extra flight time comes at a serious cost to tempo and aircraft availability.

The JASSM is no small thing, don’t underestimate what will happen when it shows up.

WHO is the one guy who downvotes you???

That’s the bot that ChatGPT operates here on Lemmy.

The guy who actually did all the trafficking, Demetrius Minor, got just 18 months in prison. This lawsuit is nothing more than political theater.

Sigh. I don’t know why I keep tilting at this windmill but…

A. There’s an appeals process.

The Brazilian Government has never released the details on who they asked Xitter to ban nor why they were banned. They also gagged Xitter so they couldn’t tell anyone either. So what good is an appeals process if you you can’t use it because you don’t know you’ve been banned?

Now Xitter TRIED to use it but…

Musk could have blocked those accounts from being visible in Brazil and then had his legal representative argue that’s compliance.

What you are suggesting is pretty much what Xitter did.

Notice that part about “threatened to arrest our employees”? That’s why Xitter doesn’t have the required “Legal Representative”. This Judge threatened to imprison the last one and pre-emptively froze their bank accounts. This is also why Xitter closed their office in Brazil.

There’s a LOT more going on here than “Elon Bad” but it can’t be discussed because of the volume of utter nonces who incapable of handling nuance.

I haven’t used Xitter since before Elon took it over.

Replace judge with CEO and ask the question again.

The CEO can’t threaten to throw you in prison and freeze your bank accounts, two things that this Judge did. That’s why Xitter doesn’t have a Legal Representative in the country anymore. The last one resigned after being threatened by the Judge and Xitter won’t appointment a new one because of that.

But sure, a CEO has exactly the same power as a Supreme Court Justice. Literally no difference at all.

They didn’t approve the “Initial Ruling”. They approved the amended version that didn’t bar Apple and Google from distributing VPN Software and didn’t create a 5 day deadline.

Do you know WHY Xitter doesn’t just appoint a legal representative and sidestep this mess? It’s because this same Judge threatened to imprison the last one and pre-emptively froze her bank accounts!

https://time.com/7016537/brazil-blocks-elon-musk-x-twitter-company-refuses-comply-judge/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y3rnl5qv3o

This is not how a legal system is supposed to behave.

Listen, Musk is an asshole who has created large problems at Xitter. There is absolutely no debate on that.

HOWEVER I have to wonder if most of the people cheering what’s happening in Brazil actually know what’s going on?

Did you know that one single Judge has been given the power the censor the Internet? Do you know that no justification needs to be released to the public about WHY a person, account, or post is being censored, removed, or banned? Do you know that this Judge actually banned Apple and Google from distributing any VPN Software before they were forced to change the order due to public outcry? Do you know that the fines this Judge is issuing have no basis in the law?

Even prominent Brazilian Attorneys, like Thiago Amparo, who previously supported this Judge and their work are now saying that it’s going too far.

Brazil now has an Internet Censor who obviously doesn’t understand the technology who is issuing censorship orders that require no justification and to the surprise of no one his orders are helpful almost entirely to the current President specifically and the ruling party in general.

Here’s an archive link to the New York Times giving more details.

So yeah, screw Musk but also screw whatever unholy state censorship is going on down in Brazil too.

unsavory agents

I was curious so I went to their webstore and looked. There’s nothing there for Kamala, Immigrants, or even metal street signs.

It’s still an ugly little webshop with ugly messaging but I didn’t find anything like whats in the pictures.

One possibility is that Russia can read the encryption. They push, or allow, people to use Telegram because it gives false confidence that messages cannot be read which encourages people to share information they otherwise wouldn’t.

That exact strategy has been employed by the Security and Intelligence services of other nations. Here’s an example from 2021 of the FBI pushing Anom.