Following the invasion of 3000 ICE officers, everyday Minnesotans are pouring into #rapid #response networks and scouring their neighborhoods āeven in 20-degree weather before the sun has come up.
āIām being tailed by a car I think is ICE, I can make out two masked individuals through the tinted windshield,ā someone says.
The call goes quiet for a few seconds. āIām being pulled over.ā
Dispatch chimes in: āStay unmuted, turn down your volume so they donāt hear the call, everyone else please stay on mute.ā
We hear banging, then something shatters.
āICE just smashed their window,ā our driver explains calmly, decelerating ahead of a red light.
We are shocked, but this is a regular occurrence.
Everyone on the call keeps their cool.
We have heard stories from rapid responders about ICE tailing them, boxing them in, smashing their car windows, pepper-spraying them, holding them at gun point, shooting out their tires, detaining them.
Some responders have been taken to the regional ICE headquarters, the #Whipple building.
Others have been driven to the other side of the city and thrown out of the vehicle, āļøalone in the cold.
Their cars have been left running in the road.
The responders tell us all these stories in passing, quickly returning focus to the work that is to be done.
Of course, ICE has done worse than this, too.
ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed #Renee #Good as she was trying to drive away.
A week later, as ICE agents were pursuing someone, they shot live ammunition at a house with a family in it, hitting #Julio #Sosa-#Celis in the leg.
But when you ask patrollers what they want people to know about whatās happening in their city, they barely mention the broken windows and bruises.
They describe the feeling of connection and solidarity filling the streets.
They make ā¤ļøhearts with their hands from car to car, they blow kisses.
They make dinners for one another, they drop off groceries for undocumented families that have been locked inside their homes for weeks.
Participants in the rapid response networks in the Twin Cities describe their experiences and reflect on how these neworks could contribute to revolutionary social change.
The situation in Minneapolis is not like anything weāve seen before.
Itās not just an uptick in raids.
It is a full-scale military occupation, confronting you wherever you go.
You canāt drive more than a couple blocks without seeing roving bands of cars with tinted windows containing masked men in full military equipment: helmets, balaclavas, long guns, tactical equipment, crowd control munitions.
They pull up to bus stops, leap out, grab a brown person, shove them in the car, then speed away.
They donāt check papers.
Some people have been held in detention centers for weeks before it came out that they were US citizens.
At this very moment, ICE is undergoing a transformation into a #political #police force.
Recent leaks show that š„secret ICE programs seek to exploit every detainee to acquire information, š„and they aim to deploy up to 2000 āintelligenceā assets into communities around the country for the purpose of #spying on migrants and citizens alike.
These operations āand the strategy of the Department of Homeland Security in general āare not just targeting immigrants;
š They are also intended to target opponents of the Trump regime.
The administration alleges threats from so-called āAntifaā and the āradical leftā to justify their authoritarian consolidation of power.
But the fact that the FBI called Renee Good a domestic terrorist and pressured prosecutors to investigate her widow shows what they mean by these terms.
š„The āradical leftā is a catch-all term that will be retroactively deployed to describe anyone who is randomly murdered by federal agents āor anyone that they would like to murder.
Whenever they say āradical left,ā they are saying that they intend to go on murdering people -- the way that they murdered Renee Good, and they intend to do so with impunity.
When the Department of Homeland Security posts a meme on its official social media account promoting ā100 million deportations,ā it should be clear to all that ICE is not just targeting those who currently lack the proper immigration documents.
āļøThey have all of the hundreds of millions of people who oppose the Trump agenda in their sights.
Given a free hand, they will kidnap or murder every single one.
If you are in the US and have an Amazon Ring camera, disconnect it. The camera may be being used by ICE, by way of its participation in a Flock AI surveillance network.
Bitlocker is a Microsoft product that encrypts your laptop hard drive etc. Apparently, Microsoft exfiltrates a recovery key for your Bitlocker encryption and stores it in their cloud, they give it out to law enforcement at request. And of course, they give it out to whoever compromises their system and steals that info. Bitlocker is completely worthless trash. Do not rely on it for information security.
Google Chrome is ditching support for macOS 12 Monterey, leaving owners of older Macs stranded with no new security updates. Is your Mac one of them? appleinsider.com/articles/26/0ā¦
Google has announced that its Chrome web browser will soon no longer support macOS 12 Monterey, with a July 2026 update requiring macOS 13 Ventura or newer.
The war is over, but my wounds are still open. My home was destroyed. I lost two girls. I can no longer live here. Only bad memories surround me. I live in harsh humanitarian conditions. I am not asking for the impossible. Just remember me Remember my child Ibrahim. I just want to keep him warm, protect him, and save him from all this hell.ššš„ŗ chuffed.org/project/161145 #Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #israel #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #fediAid #mutualAid @gvenema @kathimmel @lashman
I hate Roku but whoever designed their "Roku City/skyline" screensaver did a crazy good job. You can sit there for a long time and a spot a ton of references to different movies and TV shows. They're hidden everywhere
Catima is a simple app for store discount cards, event tickets and more.
This release fixes a regression introduced in 2.41.5 causing the manual barcode selection screen to only show empty squares and makes URLs in card IDs clickable in the "more info" pop up.
Hopefully this truly is the last release with Android 5 support. I guess nobody minds me breaking my promise on removing Android 5 support several times though.
@amy Oh that's easy just drop github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Androā¦ from your fork and maintain Android 5-compatible forks of the official Google libraries which dropped Android 5 support for all eternity!
A techbro desperate for cash is detained for 13 hours after leaving a non-functioning, vibe-coded anti-fraud device in a Swiss hotel lobby during the Davos conf
Ever driven the same car or used the same camera or power drill for 8-10 years and thought: "I wish all these buttons and levers were suddenly in different places and did different things"?
Bekam der Ex-CDU-MdB Axel Fischer Bestechungsgeld aus Aserbaidschan? Das musste das MĆ¼nchner Oberlandesgericht klƤren - und hat nun ein Urteil gesprochen.
It automatically adjusts depending on how often the source posts articles. Presumably the idea is to avoid sending frequent requests to small servers that rarely publish. This does mean that if an account only publishes once a month or so, it'll probably take a day or so before you see the article.
It used to be configurable on a per-feed basis, but looking now I think that setting went away. It can still be configured in the database I believe.
The way Friendica does RSS polling is pretty broken. You're supposed to make conditional requests so that the feed only needs to be built when it genuinely has something new, and you're supposed to respect the retry time. That way you can request much more frequently without overloading the server. But implementing that would require database schema changes.
I just found adjustPollFrequency() in the source which adjusts the feed "rating" based on the number of recent posts.
The feed I was looking at has a rating of 8 (polling once a day) but other feeds I have lower ratings (more frequently polled). Thats consistent with what I see.
@msfjarvis I really thought I finally got the 2.41.0 change really properly fixed, but no, right after I decide "okay, all is good, I can remove Android 5 support and just relax and work on new stuff" someone reports (and fixes!) a critical regression I didn't even notice š„²
Dieser Tag beinhaltete die Erkenntnis, das gute Freundin nicht gleichbedeutend ist mit Safe Person. Und die Frage, ob das funktioniert. Stand jetzt fĆ¼hrte das dazu, dass der Meltdown so schlimm war, dass der Mann es nicht aushalten konnte und raus ging. Und ich weiĆ jetzt halt auch nicht. Ich will dass das aufhƶrt. Alles.
I can officially say, dev talk went well, and I'm on a great path to Senior Engineership. But I'm still very much considering nuking the entire NV Speech Repository and saying fuck it I'm done. Not sure. It's very, very tempting. Just blow it all away and close it, never work on it again and maybe someone will maintain it. But I'm sure every developer has that feeling in a project. It's not that I don't like harsh or bad feedback, it's that I feel like that feedback will always be there, for years, months, when you're making a synthesizer like that, so I'm just on this constant hamster wheel of failures? Sigh. Not sure. That's how it makes me feel honestly.
Yay! I am glad for you! Here is to much more success and many successful projects. And you should be happy, if you feel like you need to close off something, stop working on it for a while, give yourself a break, as much as you need, even if it might turn into a forever break from that thing, who knows, one day you might remember to work on it again. You should be your priority first. No one will or should blame you for not working on something, especially if you're the one and only person working on it, to be fair.
Someone will always complain about something, whether it's a reasonable complaint or not, especially in this community sadly. I just think it's cool when people like you, add-on devs, etc, put in the time to try to make this place a little better, so for that I say, thank you
@startrek2025 this is great to hear. Yeah, improvements come incrementally and not all at once sadly. I want to take a little break but then I feel like the feedback piles up and I have this itch to fix them all. Which is why we've added stuff like TrillModulation so you can make this thing now roll it's R's for 300 seconds if you wanted to (not recommended though.) Stuff like that. People send it in, and that itch really comes back to solve the problem. Whether with or without AI then I persist until it's solved, it's just how I tend to work.
There will always be angry people, and I think that just gets amplified with speech synths, where some people have very specific ideas of how they should sound and act. Hey if they don't like it, they can make their own.You're doing great stuff.
computer science is true neutral software engineering is chaotic neutral software industry is lawful evil free software is chaotic good other spaces undefined
Our fridge died, so I had to rush-buy a beer fridge at 10AM the other night. Stuck a #UniFi #SuperLink multi-sensor in it... the fridge's display says it's at 3 degrees, but evidently it is not:
I don't know if it sucks, I just know there were no bangers that make me want to hear a specific track again. I can't even name a single track from it right now.
It was definitely TOOL. But that's just not enough.
Raspberry Pi has released the Raspberry Pi Flash Drive, a USB 3.0 Type-A flash storage device intended for file transfer, backups, and operating system use across Raspberry Pi boards and other computers.
Hello, I have for sale a BT Speak in good working condition. It's a nice unit. I'm just not using it to the extent I thought I would. A leather case is included, and I am asking $450 US.
Chuck Darwin
in reply to Chuck Darwin • • •The situation in Minneapolis is not like anything weāve seen before.
Itās not just an uptick in raids.
It is a full-scale military occupation, confronting you wherever you go.
You canāt drive more than a couple blocks without seeing roving bands of cars with tinted windows containing masked men in full military equipment:
helmets, balaclavas, long guns, tactical equipment, crowd control munitions.
They pull up to bus stops, leap out, grab a brown person, shove them in the car, then speed away.
They donāt check papers.
Some people have been held in detention centers for weeks before it came out that they were US citizens.
We are witnessing a #racial #pogrom.
Chuck Darwin
in reply to Chuck Darwin • • •At this very moment, ICE is undergoing a transformation into a #political #police force.
Recent leaks show that
š„secret ICE programs seek to exploit every detainee to acquire information,
š„and they aim to deploy up to 2000 āintelligenceā assets into communities around the country for the purpose of #spying on migrants and citizens alike.
These operations
āand the strategy of the Department of Homeland Security in general
āare not just targeting immigrants;
š They are also intended to target opponents of the Trump regime.
The administration alleges threats from so-called āAntifaā and the āradical leftā
to justify their authoritarian consolidation of power.
But the fact that the FBI called Renee Good a domestic terrorist
and pressured prosecutors to investigate her widow
shows what they mean by these terms.
š„The āradical leftā is a catch-all term that will be retroactively deployed to describe anyone who is randomly murdered by federal agents
āor anyone that they would like to murder.
Whenever they say āradical left,ā they are saying that they intend to go on murdering people
-- the way that they murdered Renee Good,
and they intend to do so with impunity.
When the Department of Homeland Security posts a meme on its official social media account promoting ā100 million deportations,ā
it should be clear to all that ICE is not just targeting those who currently lack the proper immigration documents.
āļøThey have all of the hundreds of millions of people who oppose the Trump agenda in their sights.
Given a free hand, they will kidnap or murder every single one.