AmbiguousProps

joined 6 months ago
[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 2 points 4 hours ago

I haven't used PayPal in ages, I only use Privacy cards.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

I just pay for my own ARL when I want to use deemix (I had no idea people were sharing ARLs).

It's giving Schitt's Creek

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 60 points 3 days ago (3 children)

It wouldn't be the first time they claimed this. Wait for the researchers and users to validate first.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

He knows it won't pass, the article says it too. That's not the point.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I would never buy anything made by Meta, even if it was the best around.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 6 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Valve cares because now they'll get a cut

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

I use FairEmail these days. It might have tag support, if it does though it's not enabled by default. It has no AI features.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 65 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Since the title wasn't clear on who the author is classifying as ordinary:

There are also the hundreds of thousands of Russians who left home because they did not want to have anything to do with Vladimir Putin’s war — or were forced out, accused of not embracing it enough. These low-profile dissenters are subjected to surveillance and kidnappings, too. Yet their repression happens in silence — away from the spotlight and often with the tacit consent, or inadequate prevention, of the countries to which they have fled.

Also:

Some of the methods are especially insidious. Lev Gyammer, an exiled activist in Poland, has been receiving texts for two years, supposedly from his mother. “Levushka, son, I miss you so, when will you visit me?” Another reads, “Son, I’m waiting for you. Come back soon.” He ignores them: His mother, Olga, died five years ago. Another Russian expatriate — whose elderly parents are still alive and very sick — chose to believe it when his parents’ nurse of many years told him, over the phone, of a fire in their apartment. He rushed home from Finland and was immediately taken to prison and tortured, according to Mr. Smirnov. Of course, there never was a fire.

Those who cannot be tricked back to Russia are subjected to surveillance. An employee of an organization that supports L.G.B.T.Q. people was walking her dog around the neighborhood in Tbilisi, Georgia, when she noticed that she was being followed by a drone. It was an evening in early May — two years since she’d fled Russia with the rest of her colleagues. She hurried back to hide at her apartment but could still hear the buzzing. She followed the noise to the balcony and came face to face with the device, hanging there within arm’s reach.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

My partner's computer was running bazzite on a 2080 super and it gave her nothing but problems, especially with Wayland. Switching to AMD immediately fixed the Wayland issues, and also completely stabilized her system. It could be that it was a problematic GPU, I suppose. I admit that I haven't personally used an Nvidia GPU since ~2020, however I did see the issues she had for sure.

 

The latest count of public EV chargers has swelled to 192,000. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, this number has doubled since the Biden administration took office and is continuing to grow at a rapid rate of 1,000 new chargers every week.

Along with the announcement comes the awarding of $521 million in grants to further expand charging access across the U.S. highway system. This includes 29 states, the District of Columbia, and two Federally Recognized Tribes—a total of 9,200 new EV charging ports.

"The Biden-Harris Administration has been clear about America leading the EV revolution, and thanks to the historic infrastructure package, we’re building a nationwide EV charger network to make sure all drivers have an accessible, reliable, and convenient way to charge their vehicles," said U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. "The awards that we’re announcing today will build on this important work and will help ensure that the cost savings, health and climate benefits, and jobs of the EV future are secured for Americans across the country."

The growth rate is rather impressive, actually. In mid-January, the U.S. government reported more than 169,000 chargers were deployed and online, meaning a 14% growth in just seven months. The number of chargers deployed weekly has also grown by 11%—from 900 to 1,000—during the same period.

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Polestar, the electric car manufacturer owned by Chinese-based giant Geely, will have a new chief operating officer starting next month. On October 1, Thomas Ingenlath, who served as CEO since the company’s inception as a standalone automaker in 2017, will step down.

Michael Lohscheller will take his place and try to transform Polestar from an EV startup into a bigger player in the automotive industry. Lohscheller was CEO at several other automotive companies in the last decade. Between 2017 and 2021 he spearheaded Opel, then moved to the position of Global CEO at VinFast. After just seven months, he jumped ship to Nikola, the maker of battery- and hydrogen-powered big rigs, where he acted as both president and CEO until September 2023, according to his LinkedIn profile.

 

In a settlement reached with the family of a 37-year-old Black man shot and killed by Olympia police in 2022, the city will pay $600,000 and has agreed to ban officers from the “personalization” of their equipment, effectively bringing to an end the display of polarizing symbols like the “thin blue line” flag.

Details of the unusual settlement of a wrongful death tort claim filed by the family of Timothy Green were announced by lawyers Monday.

The agreement also requires that Olympia Police Chief Rich Allen, his deputy and assistant chiefs and the four officers involved in Green’s death complete state training “on the historical intersection between race and policing.” Furthermore, the city agreed to demands that all Olympia police officers receive more training on crisis intervention.

As part of the settlement, the police department is required to update its policy within one year to broadly prohibit officers from decorating their equipment, no matter the subject matter, rather than banning any particular symbols. During the fatal encounter with Green, officers had displayed Blue Lives Matter emblems and a sticker reminiscent of the “Don’t Tread on Me” flag.

The trainings and policy changes were required by Green’s family members, who were prepared to file a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city if their demands weren’t met, the lawyers said.

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