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[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And SinpleX is better than Signal because it uses the same engine but does not require your phone number.

Downside is that some of the signup options glitch and will put off non tech people.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

In Croatian (and I suspect many other Slavic languages) art is umjetnost which is a variation of the word umjetno which means artificial.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Is it misleading?

r/worldnews only allows unedited titles. Looks like it has changed since then.

The thread I stole comments from was answering a person asking someone like "how can the US order Taiwan to do anything?". I hate to promote Reddit but credit where it is due...

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1gnowuf/comment/lwd8fy0

 

US ordered TSMC, not Taiwan the country. The vast majority of sales are made to US based firms so they likely have a lot of sway.

US is the major customer of TSMC, so they can order them, not to mention we protect them with defense pacts, so they might want to actually listen. Pretty sure they make some of our military grade chips as well.

Cutting edge chips are used in cutting edge military hardware. TSMC provides a lot of the chips used in advanced American weapons. Turns out a faster chip in a missile makes the missile better able to make sophisticated split second decisions.

US can order most of its allies to do anything. Remember when the US thought Edward Snowden was on the Bolivian presidential airplane and within the span of like, half a hour, managed to get all of western europe to deny airspace to Bolivia, ground the literal presidential plane and search him like a dirty drug mule? Was pretty awkward after that when Snowden wasn't even there.

[Cobbled from Reddit thread]

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago

Or just use Safari. I use a browser for FB for years on my Android phone. Only problem is that when I try to chat it tries to install messenger unless I am in desktop mode.

On a Windows laptop it is easy to use with a browser, even chatting.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks. Gives me hope. Would you also say the males are less constrained by the macho culture of older generations? More capable of talking about emotions?

And women less constrained by their own old stereotypes?

I find it hard to be sure because both stereotypes are still alive and popular. The gender benders have been around for decades but perhaps not as flamboyant now so they merely seems more mainstream now.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

younger people today are skilled in ways could have only dreamed of.

Any examples?

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 1 points 4 months ago
[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 1 points 4 months ago

The point is there was no global outcry. You hadn't heard about it had you?

It is only when Israel responds to an entire year of daily missile attacks by Hezbollah that attention is paid.

UNIFIL was warned by Israel to get out of the way before they entered to stop the attacks by Hezbollah which UNIFIL couldn't/wouldn't.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Israel warned UNIFIL well in advance to get out of the way. Why are they still there?

Until now...

it has failed to investigate a single one of the more than 3,000 Hezbollah arms depots and other military sites targeted by Israel since October—including bombed-out bases run by Hezbollah’s supposed environmental group “Green Without Borders.”

Bear in mind that Hezbollah's been firing missiles into Israel daily since 8 October 2023. So much for UNIFIL "peacekeeping".

https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/pros-and-cons-salvaging-or-ditching-unifil

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

nobody should be shooting at UN forces.

"Hezbollah members or their local supporters harassed UNIFIL patrols, threatened them with weapons, fired at them, stole their equipment"

Hezbollah have killed at least one...

After Pvt. Sean Rooney, a UNIFIL peacekeeper from Ireland, was killed in December, surveillance camera footage reportedly showed armed men surrounding his patrol and declaring “We are Hezbollah.” A Lebanese military tribunal formally accused several Hezbollah members of the murder, and the group reportedly handed the primary suspect over to Lebanese authorities. “ https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/battle-unifils-independence-part-2-facts-ground

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 4 points 4 months ago

I think it is just Ireland though (which is why I added Ireland to the title).

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

He says nothing about the PIN, so I don't think that is what protects Signal as OP writes. It simply doesn't rely on SS7.

You only type your PIN into Signal about once a month.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by sqgl@beehaw.org to c/humor@beehaw.org
 

Alt text: cartoon frame #1 shows disembodied arm reaching out to pluck a speaker's speech bubble.

Frame #2 shows speaker looking puzzled wondering where his speech bubble has gone.

Frame #3 the arm reappears having reshaped it into a regular inflatable balloon and offers it back to the speaker.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by sqgl@beehaw.org to c/humor@beehaw.org
 

[alt-text: Still from the Monty Python dead parrot sketch with Musk's face replacing that of John Cleese returning a blue twitter logo with an X for a dead eye. Pet store owner, Michael Palin, says "it was alive when you bought it"]

 
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Hail Satan! (beehaw.org)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by sqgl@beehaw.org to c/humor@beehaw.org
 

Caption is "OK, you want religion in schools. But that means all religions, right?"

Image is a library with a group of eight children dressed in black cassocks with peaked hoods sitting cross-legged around a pentagram drawn on the ground.

EDIT: The pentagram is partially obscured by one of the children but one can infer that this must be AI generated and botched (as per the comments in this thread).

 

Napping, snacks, social media, minor chores.

 

Follow-up to last week's story:

https://lemmy.ml/post/16672524

EDIT1: Politicians expect to be be exempt.

EDIT2: Good news: Vote has been postponed due to disagreements.

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