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CBC News obtained data that suggests U.S. Customs and Border Protection is on track to have a recordbreaking year for searches of electronic devices. There is a lot you can do to prepare for this risk. https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/us-border-device-searches-near-record-high/
I've been feeling taciturn about the big old blue wave. Glad, but nervous because there is so much work to be done and I don't know if it will happen.
But there is one part that just fills me with joy. It makes my skin prickle with happiness.
All those little gerrymanders that backfired. (this is where they tried to rig state houses for more Republicans, but instead made districts more competitive.)
mmmmm... isn't that just. It's lovely isn't it?
@futurebird It depends on whether we just got a bakers dozen of Krysten Sinemas. I have some of that taciturn feeling, too.
@mastodonmigration I don't know how much good it does, but I signed that one and several others that said the same thing (oof, I wish they could just combine them. Not good to split them up.)
I have to say, it's a pretty special kind of tone-deaf living-under-a-rock mentality where they see the blue tsunami instead of a blue wave and the first thing he does is go up there and declare that he'll do everything he can to avoid doing what people literally just voted for.
I have 5 potential states that may reverse trans youth care bans because of this election.
New Hampshire via Dem supermajorities if they verify
North Carolina via trifecta if they get the senate supermajority
Missouri via the sunset clause
Arizona via trifecta (surgery ban)
TX via state supreme
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please don’t be shit, please don’t be shit, please don’t be shit
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@flussence hang on
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Okay this was a silly question. Here's what I should have asked.
Redox OS distributed me a .img.zst file. I believe this is a "finished" disk image, not install media.
After un-zst'ing, the .img cannot be opened by virt-manager.
qemu has distributed to me a program qemu-img. it has a "convert" function.
virt-manager doesn't want a .img. What *does* it want, for "import existing disk image"? The manpage here mentions "qcow" and "qcow2". Does that mean it wants a qcow?
@mcc sounds like it.
On NRT: Read the fucking room, Chris! II - http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/11/read-fucking-room-chris-ii.html
"While the Greens, Te Pāti Māori and Opportunity had plans for major tax reforms, 'there isn't a public appetite for tax reform that is that radical', Hipkins said."
#BazMacdonald, 2026
Au contraire;
"64% support wealth tax in latest Ipsos poll"
#AnnaWhyte, Sept 2026
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@mcc "type: C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B", you know, as you do
@glyph sorry, question: are you suggesting i type this in, to something, or are you simply marveling that this is a thing you can type
Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Cowboy Burger Pin. I think some people don't understand how insane it is that Texas went blue this election. To put things in perspective, this is what the average Texan voter looks like.
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@frequencyfault Citation needed.
@mattblaze Katie Miller's podcast...and basically every DOJ filing pre-election.
GIS data comes from various sources and often you're just choosing some repository or authority like the UN, open street maps or ArcGIS.
With around 150 disputed territories it's just not possible to form an opinion on all of them and kind of easy to forget to check even when I do have a strong opinion on some land.
@paige In OSM usually multiple border extents are mapped, so picky people can choose which one(s) to display. But most people just take the default ones presented by simplified datasets.
This has got me wondering if the disputed Quebec–Labrador border is on OSM, haha
Random shots from driving the Generals Highway. Every minute of today felt magical! (Sequoia / Kings Canyon National Parks)
Not every day you can wrap up two heinous war crimes in a single afternoon - apparently Russia double taped... a school... that was being used as an emergency relief center for Ukrainians being bombed, waited 20 minutes for rescuers and families to show up, and then bombed it again.
I assume we're barely mentioning it on the news because we're now in the business of blowing up schools with impunity ourselves.
@AnarchoNinaWrites They want to desensitize everyone. I refuse to be desensitized by war criminals. I'm still chasing after Vietnam War criminals. I'll stop, when dead or justice is finally served. I'll probably die, waiting.
@rebel1725 LineageOS is the opposite of a privacy and security hardened OS. It substantially reduces both compared to the Android Open Source Project. It doesn't keep up with the standard Android privacy/security patches or protections. It isn't simply less hardened but rather is doing the opposite. AOSP is a much more private and secure starting point than LineageOS. Any privacy/security focused project should be directly based on AOSP with minimal usage of code from LineageOS, unlike those 3.
@GrapheneOS Are you meaning leaving bootloader unlocked, using `userdebug` instead of `user`, having verity disabled, and having security patches beyond ASB integrated poorly?
Modern tally systems, such as optical-scan ballot readers, are controlled by software. Software is notoriously unreliable and subject to unexpected bugs, even after rigorous testing, and the software used in ballot tally systems has proven to be no exception. But worse, software is designed to be *replaceable*, which means that it may be possible for an adversary to replace the tally software with malware that reports any result the attacker desires, and then erases its tracks.
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Fotunately, there's a reliable, rigorous, and efficient safeguard against tally system errors and malway, and it works for any voting system that has reliable paper ballots. It was invented about 20 years ago by Berkeley statistician Phillip Stark. The method is called "Risk Limiting Audits" (RLAs), and is regarded as the gold standard for protecting elections against tabulation errors or malice.
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Windows 7 had this figured out, in 2013 or 2014. If a program is not written to support retina resolutions well, you right-click on it, and there is a checkbox you can click, and it just ignores the retina stuff and uses true resolution. It's also possible KDE has figured this out by now. I use GNOME, which doesn't *really* understand the notion of "right click", so I have to create a ".desktop" file. I'm only sorta sure what this is but everyone is very disappointed I don't know how to make one
It's possible that all my suffering is, in the end, my fault, for my stubborn insistence on using GNOME when all evidence and reason urges otherwise
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