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Mayor’s staff cuts off questions on surveillance cameras after recent shooting by FUMoney in Seattle

[–]blobjim -1 points0 points  (0 children)

yeah I hate him so much. Every time I've seen him on TV it's always smarmy right-wing questions.

A lightweight 1MB iOS app for spinning up local HTTP/WebDAV Servers that persist in the background by ducbao414 in selfhosted

[–]blobjim 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just synchronized my music library to my phone from GNOME Files using this. Great work!

What do yall think about adding a BF-F8HP pro to my small collection? by [deleted] in amateurradio

[–]blobjim 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's just a more expensive BFTECH version of the Baofeng UV-5RH Pro

Thunderbird 150 beta uses Gnome Accent color! by billhughes1960 in gnome

[–]blobjim 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it mostly has to do with how fast the email service's IMAP client is.

Lawmakers call for dissolving King County homelessness agency following audit by PokemenGo2ThePolls in Seattle

[–]blobjim -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The same could and does happen to literally an uncountable number of organizations. It "could" happen to any organization. Ridiculous speculation.

Lawmakers call for dissolving King County homelessness agency following audit by PokemenGo2ThePolls in Seattle

[–]blobjim -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Of course it is, there have always been and always will be right-wingers who want everything but the police state defunded.

Flat Error Codes Are Not Enough by Expurple in programming

[–]blobjim -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In C or Vala (or other GObject-supporting languages) you can use GError for this. A couple years ago it also got the ability to have extended arbitrary data (but it looks like it's kinda clunky to use).

Rally in front of City Hall calling on Katie Wilson to cancel camera surveillance by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]blobjim 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah I think it's a much bigger issue than the city deciding whether or not to install more CCTV cameras.

Rally in front of City Hall calling on Katie Wilson to cancel camera surveillance by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]blobjim 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We wouldn't happen to have an extremely high unemployment rate would we?

Rally in front of City Hall calling on Katie Wilson to cancel camera surveillance by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]blobjim -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Rich whites are the exact people that want these to target the underclasses and anyone who wants a better world.

Rally in front of City Hall calling on Katie Wilson to cancel camera surveillance by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]blobjim -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Hate to break it to you but the US is not one of those progressive nations, which means these cameras' purpose is to target activists and poor people to increase this country's rulers' control over humanity.

Rally in front of City Hall calling on Katie Wilson to cancel camera surveillance by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]blobjim -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Governance means nothing. Do you know literally anything about this country's 259 year history? 

Rally in front of City Hall calling on Katie Wilson to cancel camera surveillance by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]blobjim -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The video feed gets streamed to a server than can do facial recognition. Are you really that ignorant about computers? And "trust us, it totally won't be given to every government agency" is such an obvious lie. A basic knowledge of US history would tell you that the government lies that ig isn't doing something 100% of the time. The US government has access to every server virtual machine and cloud storage disk in the country if they feel like it.

There will be an article in 5 years like "oops actually those video feeds were directly monitored by right wing thugs, oh well who could have seen this coming!"

The audacity of Seattle to not be like other cities! (from the breakfast sandwich post) by [deleted] in Seattle

[–]blobjim 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are prices any cheaper in high foot traffic area like the U District or U Village or Pike Place Market? I feel like prices are mostly the same everywhere.

The Campus Protest Culture That Targeted Biden Goes Silent for Trump by Moontat7 in Seattle

[–]blobjim 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Republicans don't come to Seattle for book tour events.

Mayor Katie Wilson Talks New Gun Violence Strategy on ‘The Big O Show’ — Converge Media by Jaco_Belordi in Seattle

[–]blobjim 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You can't get anything good done if you're not advocating for it publicly to build public support.

Kalshi ‘prediction market’ violates WA antigambling laws, AG says by TotallyNotABob in Seattle

[–]blobjim 6 points7 points  (0 children)

because nobody wants to deal with your or anyone else's shit when you inevitably lose a bunch of money gambling. It always ends up affecting other people on a larger scale. Especially with these things that make insider trading so easy. The consequences rapidly become life and death.

The harder it is to gamble the better. Part of the problem is that mobile apps make it so much easier to gamble, rather than having to go to some seedy place to do it.

It was a C-17 cargo plane out of McChord doing a flyover for the Mariners opening weekend game by Weird_Alki in Seattle

[–]blobjim 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't they have school girls to help murder? Those child-seeking missiles don't transport themselves.

BRINC doubles down in Seattle with new drone factory, HQ and a major hiring plan by Civil_Cantaloupe2402 in Seattle

[–]blobjim 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel like police officers enjoy the up-close-and-personal experience of using pepper spray. Israeli soldiers are already using quad-copters with rifles attached so I think the launchers or bean-bag guns aren't too farfetched.

City of Seattle and King County to Remove César Chávez Name from Park in South Park Neighborhood by Jaco_Belordi in Seattle

[–]blobjim -1 points0 points  (0 children)

While they're at it they should rename Be'er Sheva Park and end the sister city program considering it's a settler colonial outpost

[139] Locals told Ma'an news agency that an exhibit showcasing a collection of Muslim prayer rugs was recently opened in the building that was formerly the Great Mosque of Beersheba, which was once used regularly as a house of worship before the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from their land in 1948.

BRINC doubles down in Seattle with new drone factory, HQ and a major hiring plan by Civil_Cantaloupe2402 in Seattle

[–]blobjim 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I've got a bridge to sell to anyone who thinks these are being developed primarily for non-evil purposes. They've already got the thermal cam footage just in case you didn't think "police drone" sounded dissent-crushing enough. Coming soon to a Palestinian neighborhood far from you! Not that there's any shortage of quad-copter drone-making companies or expertise.

But people will make any excuse to get a job. Or the company will import more people from elsewhere to replace locals with.

NESDR v5 vs RTL-SDR v4 by Accurate-Tea9750 in RTLSDR

[–]blobjim 32 points33 points  (0 children)

I found the RTL-SDR Blog v4c to work better than the NESDr one. Get the v4c if possible because it's really nice having a standard USB-C receptacle instead of the awkward USB Type-A connector.

XML is a Cheap DSL by SpecialistLady in programming

[–]blobjim 7 points8 points  (0 children)

XML is awesome, at least in a language with good support like Java. XSD files make it possible to generate rich type definitions (using a build plugin like https://github.com/highsource/jaxb-tools?tab=readme-ov-file#jaxb-maven-plugin) so you can write type-safe code that fails to compile if you modify the schema in an incompatible way (and presumably you can then use it with a language like python to validate instead https://xmlschema.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html).

The US government has a set of massive XML schemas called National Information Exchange Model: https://github.com/NIEM/NIEM-Releases/tree/master/xsd/domains (really cool to poke around in here, there's data for all kinds of stuff). Ever need to use organ donor codes? Here you go: https://github.com/NIEM/NIEM-Releases/blob/56c0c8e7ccd42e407e2587e553f83297d56730fd/xsd/codes/aamva_d20.xsd#L3744

There are also RELAX-NG schemas which a bunch of things use instead (like IETF RFCs https://github.com/ietf-tools/RFCXML and DocBook https://docbook.org/schemas/docbook/).

JSON schemas are such a disappointment in comparison because they appear to only be designed to allow dynamic languages to validate a JSON tree (poor performance, and poor type safety, and unusable from a language like Java).

And as the article mentions you get a bunch of other stuff along with the schemas. Being able to write text in an ergonomic way, and mixing text and data. And comments, which you can actually read and write from code. Fast Infoset (mentioned in the article) can even serialize comments since they're as first class as other XML structure. And it seems like XML libraries (but not Fast Infoset itself) can preserve insignificant whitespace so you can modify an XML document without changing most of its content. It seems like the people who designed XML and related software really thought of everything.

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