The trailer didn’t really draw me in. Lots of chanting and some kind of AI mind control maybe? But who do I care about and what’s their world-saving mission?

he plans to sell everything – the soap, the building, their home and most of their belongings. He has already started the paperwork he hopes will allow France to recognize their marriage and extend to him a long-term visa.

Driving away great people.

Other people who are not white and have fled persecution in their home countries are in a much more difficult situation, the men and their friends acknowledge. Those undocumented immigrants do not have friends with the governor’s office in their contacts. They cannot reach a member of the state Senate so easily. They do not have the money for a lawyer or a quick flight to France.

They also cannot risk telling their story. That’s why Rick and Jeremy will keep telling theirs.

From NASA, used by earth.org:

Similar kite systems are being developed elsewhere in the world, including by the Dutch start-up Kitepower, whose kites are flown in continuous cycles of figure-eight patterns to produce energy at the ground station to which they are tethered.

https://thekitepower.com/the-hawk/

Read that as “septic think tank.”

That does sound nice.

In the mean time, I usually just set up a “real” home directory in /home/$USER/$USER/ which is what gets backed up, and leave the original one for cruft.

Cute — though the visual gag fits a little better with infinite recursion that infinite loop.

Thousands of lawsuits follow a similar formula: Strike 3 claims to use a proprietary software called VXN Scan to track IP addresses that have downloaded porn they own. The software cannot identify the user beyond a rough geographic location, so Strike 3 files suit against an anonymous John Doe, and subpoenas their internet service provider (ISP) to unmask the user. The ISP in turn alerts the subscriber – which is when most people find out they have been sued.

there remain several open questions about its methods. For one, IP addresses are notoriously fickle; it is easy to spoof an IP address through a virtual private network (VPN) or to use someone else’s address via malware that bypasses passwords. More to the point, as Mitch Stoltz, IP litigation director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, puts it: “In a lot of cases, many, many people are using the same IP address.”

In order to state a claim, the justices wrote, the plaintiff had to allege “something more” – some additional evidence to establish “a reasonable inference that a subscriber is also an infringer”.

Strike 3 found their “something more” – namely, the son’s profile on a uTorrent forum, where he wrote things such as “utorrent is a keeper.” But in this case, that was neither here nor there; they had sued Brown, not his son. Strike 3 quickly dropped the claims, and in 2020, a judge sided with Brown on his countersuit, affirming that he had not infringed any copyright and awarding him $47,777.26 in attorney’s fees. It remains the biggest victory any John Doe has notched against Strike 3, and yet for many critics, somewhat bittersweet.

Sounds like they make a plausible sounding guess, BS that they have evidence, and then with the US legal system being what it is people get scared and pay up.

For Strike 3 defense lawyers, the larger case presents a new opportunity to scrutinize the porn firm’s piracy detection practices because, according to the complaint, the company tracked Meta’s downloads the same way they had the Does’: VXN Scan. If the case proceeds to trial, it may finally let the public look inside Strike 3’s black box.

Sounds like a win win for the public: either Strike 3 is shown up as fabricating evidence, or Meta takes a hit for AI training on others’ work.

I think this is the source, also better image quality (in Boost at least it looks super compressed).

I would’ve believed they were more reactionary / just escalating power grabs, rather than premeditated ratcheting strategy. Useful to see how the pieces line up.

A few hours, would’ve been faster with a bigger compressor.

Yes, N95, earmuffs, and goggles with side protection. The needle scaler actually sprayed the enamel chips around less than the drill brush though. Still a lot of glass dust to wash out of my hair though.

Thanks!

The thumbnail doesn’t seem to be showing after I click the post, not sure if it’s a client issue but here’s the progress photo again:

Yeah, the composition is amazing, the way the shadows’ lines carry through into and are interrupted by the figure.

Lady in the background: I told you we should not have gotten cats.

Cool! Eversource too, also only a couple chargers and not ours. Though ours has a “PV divert” feature, which tries to only use excess production (if you hook up an MQTT topic with that info), and that saves on transmission charges at least.

Oh look at that, just got notice of automatic enrollment in today’s mail as well. Nice!

Hmm, seems like it’s just missing the low IR cutoff filter, so you could mod any dSLR to do the same. I can’t tell if it sees through masks well enough for facial recognition though.

What would it take to scan/image through cloth masks?