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  • tal@lemmy.todaytoNews@lemmy.world•Florida man caught on camera pinning down 11-year-old girl he thought was egging his homeEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    A Florida man ran down and pinned an 11-year-old girl he suspected of egging his home in a “reprehensible” confrontation that was caught on video, authorities said Monday.

    In Texas, it’s legal to shoot someone egging your house, as long as they’re doing it at night and you have a reasonable belief that you can’t otherwise safely stop them. Egging a house is criminal mischief.

    https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/penal-code/penal-sect-9-42/

    Texas Penal Code - PENAL § 9.42. Deadly Force to Protect Property

    Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by FindLaw Staff

    A person is justified in using deadly force against another to protect land or tangible, movable property:

    (1) if he would be justified in using force against the other under Section 9.41; and

    (2) when and to the degree he reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately necessary:

    (A) to prevent the other’s imminent commission of arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during the nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime; or

    (B) to prevent the other who is fleeing immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the property; and

    (3) he reasonably believes that:

    (A) the land or property cannot be protected or recovered by any other means; or

    (B) the use of force other than deadly force to protect or recover the land or property would expose the actor or another to a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury.

    EDIT: Also, where are all these people in Florida getting affordable eggs to egg with?

  • tal@lemmy.todaytoNonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.works•You made what now?English
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    11 hours ago

    The US definitely had a bigger stick there, but I think that I’d have listed different weapons for Germany. If Germany intended to build a weapon to specifically hit the US, it’d have probably been more like the Amerikabomber or their suicide multistage ballistic missile. Heavy tanks were important to fight the Soviet Union on open terrain.

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

    The Amerikabomber (English: America bomber) project was an initiative of the German Ministry of Aviation (Reichsluftfahrtministerium) to obtain a long-range strategic bomber for the Luftwaffe that would be capable of striking the United States (specifically New York City) from Germany, a round-trip distance of about 11,600 km (7,200 mi).

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

    The Aggregat series (German for “Aggregate”) was a set of ballistic missile designs developed in 1933–1945 by a research program of Nazi Germany’s Army (Heer).

    It was proposed to use an advanced version of the A9 to attack targets on the US mainland from launch sites in Europe, for which it would need to be launched atop a booster stage, the A10.

    It was considered that existing guidance systems would not be accurate enough over a distance of 5,000 km, and it was decided to make the A9 piloted. The pilot was to be guided on his terminal glide towards the target by radio beacons on U-boats and by automatic weather stations landed in Greenland and Labrador.

    Maybe the rocket U-boat:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_U-boat

    Plans for the rocket U-boat involved an attack on New York City using newly invented V-2 rockets; Unmanned and unpowered containers with V-2 rockets inside were to be towed within range of the target by a conventional U-boat then set up and launched from its gyro-stabilized platform. With thoughts of hitting targets in the United States and in the United Kingdom, a 32 m (105 ft)-long container of 500-tons displacement was to be towed behind a submerged U-boat.

    Of course, Germany never got around to actually building those, but then, the US didn’t get its portable star done by V-E Day either and wound up just using it on Japan.

    Probably just as well, given the combination of the US intending to ramp atomic bomb production up to dozens a month, and Hitler refusing to surrender under any circumstance. That combination could have wound up getting pretty dark.

  • tal@lemmy.todaytoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you use poweroff or suspend on your Linux systems? Why?English
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    15 hours ago

    Honestly, I don’t understand why there aren’t better silent PC desktop cases.

    Or enclosures to put desktop cases in.

    Like, there are people who make generator enclosures that route output through a muffler. That’s a much larger pain in the rear, because there you need to deal with hot exhaust and welding.

    Like, I’d think that I should be able to go get a box to put a PC case in in that looks something like:

    • Sound-absorbent foam on the inside

    • Some kind of heavy frame making up the walls that blocks sound, MDF or something. Sound-absorbent drywall probably isn’t sturdy enough for a commercial project, though some people use it for DIY projects. Ship it as flat-pack, maybe.

    • An array of slow fans with air going to them passing through a 90 degree baffle. Maybe, since now you’ve got no real constraints on your form, put a standard HVAC filter on the intake, keep all the air going to the desktop dust-free and eat up a bit more noise.

    • Some kind of rubber flap affair to route cables in and out of.

    It used to be that one needed physical access to a desktop for putting optical disk media and floppies in, but today, I virtually never touch my desktop, and USB makes it really easy to stick stuff elsewhere.

    I went looking a while back, and AFAICT, there are basically two camps:

    • Large, high-markup rack enclosures aimed at people doing pro audio work, who have a whole cabinet of gear.

    • DIY things.

  • tal@lemmy.todaytoEurope@feddit.org•All ships passing through European waters must now provide proof of insuranceEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    Hmm.

    It might be possible to prevent some vessels passing through EU waters, but some of the ships doing so are doing so using the right of innocent passage. I don’t think that it’s possible, without EU members violating UNCLOS, or an amendment to UNCLOS, to deny vessels transit through territorial waters on insurance grounds, as long as those ships are otherwise conforming to the obligations associated with their right of innocent passage. Like, say a ship were sailing through the Strait of Gibraltar or the Danish straits.

    https://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/part2.htm

    SECTION 3. INNOCENT PASSAGE IN THE TERRITORIAL SEA

    SUBSECTION A. RULES APPLICABLE TO ALL SHIPS

    Article 17

    Right of innocent passage

    Subject to this Convention, ships of all States, whether coastal or land-locked, enjoy the right of innocent passage through the territorial sea.

    Article 18

    Meaning of passage

    1. Passage means navigation through the territorial sea for the purpose of:

    (a) traversing that sea without entering internal waters or calling at a roadstead or port facility outside internal waters; or

    (b) proceeding to or from internal waters or a call at such roadstead or port facility.

    1. Passage shall be continuous and expeditious. However, passage includes stopping and anchoring, but only in so far as the same are incidental to ordinary navigation or are rendered necessary by force majeure or distress or for the purpose of rendering assistance to persons, ships or aircraft in danger or distress.

    Article 19

    Meaning of innocent passage

    1. Passage is innocent so long as it is not prejudicial to the peace, good order or security of the coastal State. Such passage shall take place in conformity with this Convention and with other rules of international law.

    2. Passage of a foreign ship shall be considered to be prejudicial to the peace, good order or security of the coastal State if in the territorial sea it engages in any of the following activities:

    (a) any threat or use of force against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of the coastal State, or in any other manner in violation of the principles of international law embodied in the Charter of the United Nations;

    (b) any exercise or practice with weapons of any kind;

    (c) any act aimed at collecting information to the prejudice of the defence or security of the coastal State;

    (d) any act of propaganda aimed at affecting the defence or security of the coastal State;

    (e) the launching, landing or taking on board of any aircraft;

    (f) the launching, landing or taking on board of any military device;

    (g) the loading or unloading of any commodity, currency or person contrary to the customs, fiscal, immigration or sanitary laws and regulations of the coastal State;

    (h) any act of wilful and serious pollution contrary to this Convention;

    (i) any fishing activities;

    (j) the carrying out of research or survey activities;

    (k) any act aimed at interfering with any systems of communication or any other facilities or installations of the coastal State;

    (l) any other activity not having a direct bearing on passage.

  • tal@lemmy.todaytoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you use poweroff or suspend on your Linux systems? Why?English
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    15 hours ago

    hibernating to disk means all my shell sessions and anything else disconnected anyhow.

    If you can run tmux on the remote system, can manually reattach when you reconnect.

    If you use the UDP-based mosh instead of the TCP-based ssh — it uses ssh to bootstrap auth, then hands off to its own protocol — (a) the system can use local prediction in some cases, leaving it feeling snappier, but also (b) the thing will automatically reconnect and resume sessions. I mostly find it useful on flaky/slow links, but it is also kind of neat to just close a lid, and then pop it open again days or a week later and then just resume working without any user-visible disruption.

    I normally use mosh in conjunction with tmux, since with mosh alone, there’s no way for another host to reconnect to a mosh session…but another host can connect and take over a tmux session being run by a mosh session.

  • tal@lemmy.todaytoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you use poweroff or suspend on your Linux systems? Why?English
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    7 hours ago

    suspend has to keep supplying power to the RAM

    When I close my laptop’s lid, I have it set up to suspend for five minutes, then hibernate.

    That lets me close the lid and move the laptop to somewhere nearby without using much battery power, but if it gets left closed for long, the thing will hibernate, so it won’t drain the battery.

    That’s HandleLidSwitch=suspend-then-hibernate in /etc/systemd/logind.conf, and HibernateDelaySec=300 in /etc/systemd/sleep.conf.

    Any other system just gets shut down.

    EDIT: Note that I don’t believe that this is necessary to avoid data loss. I think that the default on Debian is to suspend, but there’s another default to hibernate when the battery becomes extremely low, so either way, a laptop sitting on a shelf for a week — or however long it takes to drain whatever battery is left while suspended — should wind up hibernated. But with the defaults, it’s going to have a laptop with critical battery next time you open it up, and with my settings, it’ll have about as much charge as when you closed the thing.

  • tal@lemmy.todaytoWorld News@lemmy.world•Russian satellite linked to nuclear weapon program appears out of control, U.S. analysts sayEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I’m not sure how much of a setback this is.

    If it failed and it’s out of control, I assume that it’s an issue with normal “satellite” things — the computer or the thrusters or whatever, stuff that’s involved in maneuvering the satellite. A failure in systems that Russia can and has done before. Not with the radar systems onboard.

    And I’d guess that the costs are mostly in R&D rather than the manufacturing of the satellite, costs that wouldn’t need to be repeated for Russia to build such a satellite over again.

    I assume that if Russia wants to do so, they can launch a replacement satellite.

  • tal@lemmy.todaytoTechnology@lemmy.world•Slate, a customizable EV pickup for $20kEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I am quite sure they also don’t offer USB ports to charge the phone you run in lieu of a build in system

    I definitely read an article somewhere where it says that they provide USB power for the tablet/phone.

    kagis

    This article has it:

    https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a64580484/slate-truck-ev-pickup-truck-suv/

    The Truck will come with a phone mount and convenient USB power to mount your phone or a tablet to the dash.

    EDIT: I think that a better criticism is that this thing is just a prototype, still almost two years away from mass production, assuming everything goes right for them. Like, they could have any number of things go wrong (the Trump tariff situation, for one…hard to have any idea where things will be). It could be that they crash into problems trying to get mass production going. It could be that they can’t hit their target price point.

  • tal@lemmy.todaytoNews@lemmy.world•'God has an order': Head of Trump's faith office says women must 'submit' to menEnglish
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    2 days ago

    If you believe women came from a rib, then you must accept that women were meant to be as equals to men.

    Read one chapter further in Genesis. Women’s subordination to man is a punishment resulting from Eve’s role in original sin.

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

    Original sin (Latin: peccatum originale) in Christian theology refers to the condition of sinfulness that all humans share, which is inherited from Adam and Eve due to the Fall, involving the loss of original righteousness and the distortion of the Image of God. The biblical basis for the belief is generally found in Genesis 3 (the story of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden), and in texts such as Psalm 51:5 (“I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me”) and Romans 5:12–21 (“Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned”).

    Genesis 3:

    The Fall

    Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

    The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

    “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

    When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

    Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”

    He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”

    And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

    The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

    Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”

    The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

    So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,

    “Cursed are you above all livestock
    and all wild animals!
    You will crawl on your belly
    and you will eat dust
    all the days of your life.

    And I will put enmity
    between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring and hers;
    he will crush your head,
    and you will strike his heel.”

    To the woman he said,

    “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
    with painful labor you will give birth to children.
    Your desire will be for your husband,
    and he will rule over you.”

    To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’

    “Cursed is the ground because of you;
    through painful toil you will eat food from it
    all the days of your life.

    It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
    and you will eat the plants of the field.

    By the sweat of your brow
    you will eat your food
    until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
    for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”

    Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.

    The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

    1 Timothy 2:11-15

    A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.