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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 09:25:35 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

I don’t trust any government with this sort of feature. If they can easily turn off specific instances of currency, they will start with organized crime, then progress until shut down your money when:
* a member of your household downloads media in violation of copyright
* a member of your household uses “gamer words” in Fortnite or Roblox
* a member of your household votes for the “wrong” candidate
* a member of your household participates in a protest that could affect someone rich and powerful

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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 09:08:38 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

#Brazil’s #CBDC allows government to freeze funds. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/brazilian-cbdc-allows-government-freeze-174630324.html [finance yahoo com]
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1. Brazilian CBDC Allows Government to Freeze Funds, Developer Finds
  
  Blockchain developer Pedro Magalhaes discovered the function and took to social media to demand answers from the central bank.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 09:07:07 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

#Australia testing #CDBC. https://dfcrc.com.au/cbdc/cbdc-pilot-use-cases/
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  CBDC Pilot Use Cases
  
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 07:11:45 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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Yes, I did yell out the f-word at her.

I'm trying to clean up my language, because I don't want to use those words around the youngest grandkids. But there are some things that bring out the "gamer words".

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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 07:09:04 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequelae

> A sequela ... is a pathological condition resulting from a disease, injury, therapy, or other trauma. Derived from the Latin word meaning "sequel", it is used in the medical field to mean a complication or condition following a prior illness or disease.

"long COVID" is a sequela of #COVID-19
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1. Sequela
  
  A sequela (UK: , US: ; usually used in the plural, sequelae ) is a pathological condition resulting from a disease, injury, therapy, or other trauma. Derived from the Latin word meaning "sequel", it is used in the medical field to mean a complication or condition following a prior illness or disease.A typical sequela is a chronic complication of an acute condition—in other words, a long-term effect of a temporary disease or injury—which follows immediately from the condition. Sequelae differ from late effects, which can appear long after—even several decades after—the original condition has resolved. In general, non-medical usage, the terms sequela and sequelae mean consequence and consequences. Examples and uses Chronic kidney disease, for example, is sometimes a sequela of diabetes; "chronic constipation" or more accurately "obstipation" (that is, inability to pass stool or gas) is a sequela to an intestinal obstruction; and neck pain is a common sequela of whiplash or other trauma to the cervical vertebrae. Post...
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 07:02:01 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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Link: https://nu.federati.net/url/291052 [prospect org]

Source: https://mastodon.online/@protecttruth/110552135476552830 [mastodon online]
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1. Tesla’s ‘Self-Driving’ System Never Should Have Been Allowed on the Road
  
  from https://prospect.org/topics/ryan-cooper/
  
  Elon Musk’s automatic driving technology seems to be roughly an order of magnitude more deadly than human drivers.
2. Eric Blair (@protecttruth@mastodon.online)
  
  from Eric Blair
  
  Attached: 1 image Call me old-fashioned, but if a car kills people at ten times the rate of other cars, the company covers up the data, and the CEO lies to the public and says the cars are safer… I think that CEO should go to jail on fraud charges. #Musk #fraud #DOJ #WhiteCollarCrimeSpiking https://prospect.org/justice/06-13-2023-elon-musk-tesla-self-driving-bloodbath/
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 07:00:25 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
- Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
Seen via @clacke

https://nu.federati.net/url/291052

> In other words, Tesla’s FSD system is likely on the order of ten times more dangerous at driving than humans.

> Now, this is just a preliminary study, so the exact figures will be somewhat different. But even if just half of the deaths NHTSA found were thanks to FSD, that still would make it dramatically more deadly than humans. Indeed, the true figure could be higher, since there is no way to know if Tesla is reporting every crash accurately.

Keywords #Tesla #driver-assist #full-self-driving #autopilot #crashes #fatalities
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1. Tesla’s ‘Self-Driving’ System Never Should Have Been Allowed on the Road
  
  from https://prospect.org/topics/ryan-cooper/
  
  Elon Musk’s automatic driving technology seems to be roughly an order of magnitude more deadly than human drivers.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 06:52:56 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-7664-ba21-2eb1-34e766037798

> If you are concerned about it from Chinese "Communists" you should equally be concerned when done by American #capitalists Demanding #Free #Software and right to repair hardware would limit today concerns.

We should be very concerned about it from US-based corporations, concerned enough to stop their practices around lock-in, data-collection, and proprietary software. But even so, when the data collected is going to a hostile government, it justifiably sparks added concern.
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  Ji Fu
  
  from Ji Fu
  
  If you are concerned about it from Chinese "Communists" you should equally be concerned when done by American #capitalists Demanding #Free #Software and righ...
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 06:45:29 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Today, a woman ran a red light and was about to run me down as I crossed in the crosswalk in accordance with the traffic lights (including the walk sign) when she suddenly saw me and stopped. At that speed, there would have been some damage.

I mentioned it in today's call with #sonTwo. Says he: "Right now, there's no money, so we would not have been able to fly out for either a hospital visit or a funeral."

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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 06:42:03 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://gnusocial.jp/notice/3577997

I don't remember much about #1983, except that many people I knew (myself included) thought that Jimmy Carter hadn't prioritized a strong military in an environment where the "red menace" could attack at any minute. It felt like the US was playing catch-up, and that allies in Europe was not willing to shoulder their share of the burden of defending against invasion.

I guess I would have been considered a "hawk", but at the same time, I was strongly against war unless an enemy brought it to us. I remember when the US military invaded Grenada and overthrew its government. I was not pleased with what I felt was an unnecessary war. Some years later, when US military went to Honduras I was sure they'd end up crossing into Nicaragua and doing the same thing.
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 19:49:36 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

I remember watching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_F.B.I._(TV_series) but I wasn't aware it went nine seasons.
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  The F.B.I. (TV series)
  
  The F.B.I. is an American police television series created by Quinn Martin and Philip Saltzman for ABC and co-produced with Warner Bros. Television, with sponsorship from the Ford Motor Company, Alcoa and American Tobacco Company (Tareyton and Pall Mall brands) in the first season. Ford sponsored the show alone for subsequent seasons. The series was broadcast on ABC from 1965 until its end in 1974. Starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Philip Abbott and William Reynolds, the series, consisting of nine seasons and 241 episodes, chronicles a group of FBI agents trying to defend the US government from unidentified threats. For the entirety of its run, it was broadcast on Sunday nights. Synopsis Produced by Quinn Martin and based in part on concepts from the 1959 Warner Bros. theatrical film The FBI Story, the series was based on actual FBI cases, with fictitious main characters carrying the stories. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. played Inspector Lewis Erskine, a widower whose wife had been killed in an ambush meant for him. Philip Abbott played Arthur Ward, assistant director to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover...
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 17:52:49 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/las-vegas-nv/kevin-mitnick-11371668 [www dignitymemorial com]

Kevin Mitnick, age 59, RIP

Someone said he spent about 1/4 of his life behind bars for downloading a copy of DEC's RSTS/E operating system.
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1. Kevin Mitnick Obituary - Las Vegas, NV
  
  Celebrate the life of Kevin Mitnick, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of King David Memorial Chapel & Cemetery.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 09:03:24 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

#TropStorm #Calvin missed #HI, then dissipated. https://nu.federati.net/url/291040 [www hawaiinewsnow com]
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  ‘The worst has passed’: Tropical storm warning for Big Island dropped after Calvin downgraded
  
  from @hawaiinewsnow
  
  “We take these things seriously."
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jul-2023 23:59:25 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

I need to learn to speak in multiple character voices. There are only a few in Jasper Rabbit's creepy tales (Creepy Carrots, Creep Pair of Underwear, Creepy Crayon), but other books have multi-character dialog.

Elephant and Piggy books seem to be my main failing. How did I voice this character in the other book I read ten minutes ago, and how can I make the new character sound different?

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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jul-2023 18:31:48 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

> abolish zoning laws

Neighbor across the street is working on cars in his driveway at 01:00. Another neighbor down the street has a yard full of dried weeds two feet tall (fire hazard that could affect more than just them). No, I don't think most Americans agree with abolishing zoning.

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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jul-2023 06:59:01 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Is your #Samsung mobile device still getting #security_updates? https://security.samsungmobile.com/workScope.smsb

#Android
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  Samsung Mobile Security
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jul-2023 06:41:32 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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That's "furiously".

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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jul-2023 06:19:12 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

It looks like the ants expect a long, cold Winter. The various nests' workers are firiously collecting food.

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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jul-2023 05:54:25 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

So far, the glue on my shoe is holding, but there is a really weird wear pattern that will soon require me to replace the shoes.

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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jul-2023 02:34:08 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

#Tenacity has its first stable release. Tenacity 1.3 (and 1.3.1) can be obtained at https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity/releases [codeberg org]

Tenacity is a fork of #Audacity, created after Audacity was taken over by MUSE and opt-out telemetry / tracking was added. MUSE / Audacity has since changed it to be opt-in, and behind a compile time flag, but damaged trust is difficult to overcome.

I currently use OcenAudio, but certain things I easily did in Audacity aren't so easy now.

Hopefully, Tenacity will soon be in Debian / Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuse, and Chocolatey repositories.
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1. tenacity
  
  from tenacityteam
  
  Tenacity is an easy-to-use, privacy-friendly, FLOSS, cross-platform multi-track audio editor for Windows, macOS, Linux, and other operating systems