Yes, they are protected by “qualified immunity,” a supreme court invention that says that cops cannot be individually prosectuted when engaged in reasonable, legal acts. It also has a fun carve out that says that cops can do brutally, blatently wrong things as long as they don’t “clearly” know they were wrong, I.e no one had been sued or arrested for doing that literal, specific thing.

Its a shit ruling, and why cops in the US are so brutal. Literally no personal consequences for their actions.

This cop was clearly agitated and took a simple, non threatening “shush” gesture as a reason to brutalize a 71 old, non violent man. He will not likely not be fired, but also won’t face a lick of jail time for assualt. The likely soon to be dead mans family, who will lose their relative specically because of his actions, will make some number of millions in a few years from a lawsuit from the city that will admit no fault. The cop will go on brutalizing and murdering others needlessly.

Thats the norm for this, and Trump has promises to let cops get away with it more often.

They could do it by not uploading any of the data, or if they do, uploading it encrypted with the only key being on the user’s device or a passcode.

Both are well established ways to secure data, but the company itself would not be able to interact with the data at all past storing it, so any features/revenue there would end.

“Free and open source software.” It’s an ethos that says that code should be free and open for people to use and improve as they see fit. The core of it is that if you modify any software that is FOSS, your software must also be FOSS. So overtime the software and what its used for improve, change, widen. Lucky for us, the movement has been ongoing for 50+ years, so it’s a mature ethos whose benefits are everywhere. Most of the internet runs on FOSS. Lemmy itself is FOSS.

It doesn’t necessarily mean an app is more private, but it does mean you can generally self host, as the commentor said. There isn’t a profit motive with most FOSS, at least not at its core, so there is little desire to data harvest generally. There is also a heavy overlap between FOSS advocates and privacy advocates, so they tend to be more privacy conscious via local data storage or encryption.

I have no idea what the article says, because it’s paywalled. All I can read is that someone with a group of Israeli soccer fans was attacked.

This is not surprising, as Jewish soccer fans were chanted for the death of Arabs and violently ripped down other peoples property, which you called “being offensive.”

Ripping a Palestinian flag down while shouting to kill all Arabs isn’t someone “being offensive,” it’s doing violence. It’s no surprise that violence was met with more.

Pre-prod is ideal, but a pipe dream for many. Lots of folks barely get prod.

We still stagger patching so things like this only wipe some of the critical infrastructure, but that still causes needless issues.

Just so no one mistakes the above as hyperbolic, musk actually said this during an engineering meeting. His engineers kept telling him why Tesla needed the extra sensors, and he replied “people just have eyes and they can drive.”

Anytime someone tries to play him off an engineer or anything but a lucky gambler and flim flam man, just remember the above.

I’m not going to speak to whether he was required to pray in that instance or not, but the fact remains she heard Arabic from a Muslim man and attacked him.

I assume him being a “bad Muslim” in your eyes doesn’t excuse the attack, right?

Most laws aren’t retroactive. If you do the thing before it’s illegal, then you skated by. That could very easily be the answer here, especially as most all the physical automation is barely existent. If a company deploys now, they don’t pay the tax, but they will when they upgrade models.

As to code automation, same rules apply. Excel macros get by, but I would apply the tax on companies that replace white collar jobs via SaaS or other applications as their core businesses model, or for that line of buisness for vendors that do a lot of things. It would have to be refined as to where you draw the line, but you could.

He apprently was praying when she attacked him. Being Muslim, he needs to pray several times a day to stay devout. It’s likely he was reciting one of those prayers.

It looks clear that he was speaking in Arabic and she took that to mean that he should be viciously attacked. It’s unlikely she knew it was a prayer, so your religious fears above likely dont apply.

Praying is not chanting. Somehow I doubt a Catholic saying a hail Mary would have ellicited the same response. It appears the DA agrees.

As to what happened, he was driving the car with the two passengers in the back seat. The driver and passengers were not talking to each other, or otherwise interacting. Video linked in the article shows her suddenly lunging towards him and spraying him in the face with pepper spray at point blank range.

Her friend tries to pull her off of him. He then tries to get out of the car, while she keeps spraying him, where he calls 911 and she’s arrested.

It’s annoying, but at least this is an independent, worker owned 4 man outfit that got its start when Vice went bankrupt.

That’s the rub, isn’t it? From a society view, having manual labor all done by robots is also a positive game changer, as it protects human health with no loss in standard of living, but because we will just lay people off with no support, it will instead plunge our society into despair.

The automation tax that gates/etc proposed to fund UBI/social support networks is making more and more sense.

Dropbox had the first mover advantage. Onedrive lagged behind it for years. You can argue it still does.

Of course it is. So is any buisness that doesn’t with his government like musk has. That’s how facism works.

This was one of the most vicious police murders in our nations history, and the cops lied for years to cover it up.

The fact that this murderer is getting zero jail time is a travesty.

This is a huge number too. Apparently the NYT leadership was crowing about gaining 4000 subscriptions over a few months recently.

If gaining 4000 is considered a lot in the industry, losing 200,000 and growing is a roaring statement of disapproval.

1 year and a day. The prosecution was going for 18 months.

Not enough, but still real time. He also hasent been able to get acting work for years, which is excellent.

Linus really pouring on that “white death” energy.

These are grid scale projects. Each one is designed to power 100s of thousands of homes.

Based on the data I can find, 35MW datacenters are what AI will require by 2030. The project I linked above could power 20+ of them at once by itself.