lemonskate

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[–] lemonskate@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I read it originally from a poster on a privacy/security reddit who was reporting their personal experiences. It isn't the most reliable source but in this context I consider it worth accounting for anyway, as what the person described experiencing is both possible and plausible. For anyone who is serious about preventing these sort of privacy breaches, the open wifi vector should absolutely be considered and guarded against if possible (easy but less comprehensive approach would be to see if there is an airplane mode on TV, harder but more reliable is to physically disable or shield the wifi module on the TV itself).

[–] lemonskate@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Some TVs have been found to continually scan for open wifi networks to connect to in order to ship back the telemetry they gather.

[–] lemonskate@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

basedpyright includes some nice features that Microsoft has otherwise gated behind the closed source Pylance. There's also (in development) ty from Astral that I'm pretty excited for (ruff and uv have made writing python so much better for me).

[–] lemonskate@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] lemonskate@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I tried, and failed, to get into audio books for years. Then I listened to Dungeon Crawler Carl narrated by Jeff Hayes and what an absolute delight it was. There's no way I would've gotten even 10 minutes in if it was one of those soulless AI voices instead.

[–] lemonskate@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

That's my understanding as well, with some "Roman" origin claimed, possibly as propaganda given how the Nazi party liked connecting themselves to ancient Rome as some kind of claim to legitimacy.

I'd love to be able to add the Bellamy salute inspiration bit in when I do have this conversation with folks, but I'd need a better source before I do.

[–] lemonskate@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Zero argument on the larger point of Hitler's idolization of America (the worst bits), quite familiar with it already. Hitler also admired Jim Crow laws and wrote about them specifically.

My point is that I've never encountered a reliable source to the specific claim that the Nazi salute took inspiration from the Bellamy salute, rather than being coincidentally similar. The wiki page linked even purports the origin of the Nazi salute to be the "Roman salute", albeit itself based on bad history.

It's a point I'd love to be able to make when having this same argument with folks, but I'm not going to tell people that the Nazi salute was based on the Bellamy salute without a better source than a Wikipedia article that claims otherwise.

[–] lemonskate@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Your link does not support your claim

Later, during the 1920s and 1930s, Italian fascists and Nazi Germans adopted a salute which was very similar, which originated with the so-called Roman salute, a gesture falsely attributed to ancient Rome.

Do you know of any other accounts that would support the Bellamy salute as being the inspiration for the Nazi salute, apart from looking similar?

[–] lemonskate@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (5 children)

them:

this is wild oversimplification

you:

cortisol bad

checks out

[–] lemonskate@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

probably a typo or auto-correct mistake for "camping fuel", which I've seen mentioned in other sources

[–] lemonskate@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago (10 children)

yo what the fuck, that is bullshit

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