AmbiguousProps

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Eh, Nintendo copyright striking switch emulators right before this release makes me wonder if Switch 2 games can be emulated in the same fashion. If so, then that leaves mainly online multiplayer games that can't be played, and online switch games are not a great experience.

Once again, this is why I didn't generalize and said that the PNW is well aware of that fact, and red states have their heads in the sand. I'm not sure how many times I need to say that to make it clear to you that I answered the question appropriately. I specified how Americans are feeling to back my statement of them being aware or not. Do you think the PNW, in general, gets their news from right wing news sources?

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 19 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Steamdeck is better in every way anyway.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I don't think I'm the confused one here, to be honest with you, as shown by the other answers and upvotes in this thread. You do not have to specify non-US news to know that we're a rogue state - plenty of US media reports on it all the same. The question is clearly asking if Americans are aware that they're now a rogue state, and I answered appropriately.

It seems like maybe you don't want that to be the case, but my answer still stands: Yes, many Americans, especially in the PNW, are very aware of that fact. Americans in red states [the ones who watch Fox news especially] have their heads in the sand. You do not need to consume any media at all to be aware of that fact, it helps, but you don't require it to acknowledge it.

I fully understand and acknowledge that we're seen as a rogue state externally, and am painfully aware, as is much of the PNW. It's the red states that think "we're the best country in the world, and in fact, the only one that matters", which is exactly what my first comment was describing. People in blue states are rightfully embarrassed and are trying to distance themselves from the federal government for precisely this reason.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I don't think I agree, and many in the thread didn't get that idea. People outside of the US are obviously aware, the title is clearly asking if people inside of the United States are aware. Why would someone outside of the US have to ask if people outside of the US are aware? It makes no sense.

also (emphasis mine):

people in the US aware that they are a rogue state

It makes no grammatical sense if they're asking about opinions outside of the US.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Huh?

Are people in the US

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

Sure, but I didn't mean to say that FOSS couldn't be insecure. Software itself can obviously be insecure, like we saw with xz. At least with FOSS though, it's more difficult for it to be hidden.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Apologies, I deleted my comment instead of editing it, but I meant to add that even with the shady workaround, if you have sandboxing it likely greatly reduces this risk.

Be very wary of what apps you install, and in fact, try to only use FOSS.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes, it would. Those basically create sandboxes.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

So the first line says that it's for older versions of android before 2022. But the next paragraph says:

For extremely specific use cases such as file managers, browsers or antivirus apps, Google grants an exception by allowing QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permission, which provides full visibility into installed apps.

So this may still be possible, however sandboxing, especially GrapheneOS' implementation likely mostly, if not entirely reduce this risk.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago

I can relate. I try to cook, but I'm usually already so exhausted that I just get some trash food instead. I tell myself that I'll cook for sure tomorrow, but the cycle repeats. Sometimes I forget to eat entirely, and I have sleep for dinner.

 

Scientists at the world’s largest atom smasher have released a blueprint for a much bigger successor that could help solve remaining enigmas of physics.

The plans for the Future Circular Collider — a nearly 91-kilometer (56.5-mile) loop along the French-Swiss border and even below Lake Geneva — published late on Monday put the finishing details on a project roughly a decade in the making at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

 

Scientists have debunked the belief that using tools is unique to mammals and birds, after documenting tropical fish that smash shellfish against rocks to open and eat the meat, in a fascinating new study published in the journal Coral Reefs on 26 March 2025.

Dr. Juliette Tariel-Adam from the School of Natural Sciences at Macquarie University led a project tracking tool use in multiple species of wrasses—a colorful reef fish.

The study logs fish deliberately picking up hard-shelled prey like crabs and mollusks, smashing them against hard surfaces like rocks to access the meal inside.

 

People often think about archaeology happening deep in jungles or inside ancient pyramids. However, a team of astronomers has shown that they can use stars and the remains they leave behind to conduct a special kind of archaeology in space.

Mining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the team of astronomers studied the relics that one star left behind after it exploded. This "supernova archaeology" uncovered important clues about a star that self-destructed—probably more than a million years ago.

Today, the system called GRO J1655-40 contains a black hole with nearly seven times the mass of the sun and a star with about half as much mass. However, this was not always the case.

Originally GRO J1655-40 had two shining stars. The more massive of the two stars, however, burned through all of its nuclear fuel and then exploded in what astronomers call a supernova. The debris from the destroyed star then rained onto the companion star in orbit around it, as shown in the artist's concept.

Originally GRO J1655-40 had two shining stars. The more massive of the two stars, however, burned through all of its nuclear fuel and then exploded in what astronomers call a supernova. The debris from the destroyed star then rained onto the companion star in orbit around it, as shown in the artist's concept. With its outer layers expelled, including some striking its neighbor, the rest of the exploded star collapsed onto itself and formed the black hole that exists today. The separation between the black hole and its companion would have shrunk over time because of energy being lost from the system, mainly through the production of gravitational waves.

When the separation became small enough, the black hole, with its strong gravitational pull, began pulling matter from its companion, wrenching back some of the material its exploded parent star originally deposited. While most of this material sank into the black hole, a small amount of it fell into a disk that orbits around the black hole. Through the effects of powerful magnetic fields and friction in the disk, material is being sent out into interstellar space in the form of powerful winds.

This is where the X-ray archaeological hunt enters the story. Astronomers used Chandra to observe the GRO J1655-40 system in 2005 when it was particularly bright in X-rays. Chandra detected signatures of individual elements found in the black hole's winds by getting detailed spectra—giving X-ray brightness at different wavelengths—embedded in the X-ray light. Some of these elements are highlighted in the spectrum shown in the inset. The team of astronomers digging through the Chandra data were able to reconstruct key physical characteristics of the star that exploded from the clues imprinted in the X-ray light by comparing the spectra with computer models of stars that explode as supernovae.

They discovered that, based on the amounts of 18 different elements in the wind, the long-gone star destroyed in the supernova was about 25 times the mass of the sun, and was much richer in elements heavier than helium in comparison with the sun.

A paper describing these results titled "Supernova Archaeology with X-Ray Binary Winds: The Case of GRO J1655−40" was published in The Astrophysical Journal.

This analysis paves the way for more supernova archaeology studies using other outbursts of double star systems.

 

Once installed and launched, the app requests permission to Android's accessibility services, after which contact is established with a remote server to receive further instructions, the list of financial applications to be targeted, and the HTML overlays to be used to steal credentials. Crocodilus is also capable of targeting cryptocurrency wallets with an overlay that, instead of serving a fake login page to capture login information, shows an alert message urging victims to backup their seed phrases within 12, or else risk losing access to their wallets.

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  • Lucid plans to start delivering the Gravity SUV to regular customers next month, the company said on Friday.
  • Since the start of production in December, it's been making Gravity SUVs for internal use and for a limited number of customers close to the company.
  • The Gravity is the EV startup's second model and is key to its future.

Archive link: https://archive.is/6OfsL

 

The top court in the battleground state of Georgia ruled on Monday that Cobb County cannot extend the deadline for counting about 3,000 absentee ballots that were sent out shortly before Election Day, handing a victory to the Republican National Committee and presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Archive link: https://archive.ph/W4Kws

 

The Republican-led state of Missouri asked a judge on Monday to block the U.S. Justice Department from sending lawyers to St. Louis on Election Day to monitor for compliance with federal voting rights laws, even after the city's election board agreed to permit it.

Archive link: https://archive.ph/SWbKO

 

Even as the former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has endorsed Donald J. Trump and campaigned for him, his message to voters is clear: Vote Trump to get me.

Archive link: https://archive.ph/J4JVQ

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