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mesa@piefed.socialto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show | ICE agents can now ID anyone by just pointing a smartphone in their face.English4·1 day agoThey probably just use Facebook + LinkedIn or other public databases. I remember a project on hackaday of someone who did something similar and found with some basic programming, it’s definitely possible to get some matches. But that was years ago.
mesa@piefed.socialto Open Source@lemmy.ml•If Oracle goes bankrupt in the future, what would you like to see as the destination for some of its products?English2·1 day agoYep they inherited it from Sun. JavaScript the name.
mesa@piefed.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•When tech hardware becomes paperweightsEnglish24·2 days agoIt’s the only reason my 1500$ CPAP still works. Company discontinued it but I fixed it up so it still works. And it had a hard 5 year replacement rule, ie it’s designed to software block you from using the machine after 5 years and get a new one.
mesa@piefed.socialto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do you mateys and folks deal with the sheer amount of music available out there?English1·2 days agoOnce in a while ill go on bandcamp and just try a random band.
Youtube also has a lot of suggestions and I pick up albums that way.
A combo of the two I found: https://nightrunnermusic.bandcamp.com/
mesa@piefed.socialOPto Videos@lemmy.world•Why don't Americans use electric kettles?English7·2 days agoHe goes into it in another video on the channel. Almost everyone I know uses a microwave for water.
mesa@piefed.socialto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How many of you microwave water for tea?English31·2 days agoReminds me of a Technology connections on electric kettles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yMMTVVJI4c
And there was a followup on microwaving water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpoXFk-ixZc
Its very enlightening from both US and European perspectives.
mesa@piefed.socialto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•At your current rate of spending, for how long could you survive without income?English1·2 days agoIts pretty easy if you go with something like wealthfront, betterment, etc…
But using something like fidelity is also good too.
mesa@piefed.socialto science@lemmy.world•“It’s over”: David Suzuki says it’s too late to stop climate change now and the damage is already doneEnglish0·4 days agoSure but what can one tangably do? Go to areas that are probably going to do well (or just not terrible) in the coming years?
mesa@piefed.socialto science@lemmy.world•“It’s over”: David Suzuki says it’s too late to stop climate change now and the damage is already doneEnglish2·4 days agoSo, realistically, what can a rando do?
mesa@piefed.socialto Open Source@lemmy.ml•If Oracle goes bankrupt in the future, what would you like to see as the destination for some of its products?English1·4 days agoWe will finally own JavaScript. Which is hilarious.
O7
So where is everyone going to?
We tricked rocks into thinking. Only they know the truth.
I think certain regions of the US do have them and others do not at all.
For example, where I am at, I have only met one other person in real life that has one. But I do hear about a lot of my friends on the east coast having them. Dunno.