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Cake day: March 4th, 2024
  • brunchyvirus@fedia.iotoNews@lemmy.world•DHS expected to shut down as immigration talks falter
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    1 month ago

    The shutdown is likely to have minimal impact on pay for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers and funding for their enforcement operations, since both agencies received an infusion of cash from Congress last summer. During the government shutdown last fall, officers and agents conducting arrests continued to do so and also continued to be paid.

    According to DHS’ contingency plan, last updated in September, 22,862 agency workers not in ICE or CBP could be furloughed, meaning they would not work and would not be paid until the end of the shutdown. Other workers may be instructed to continue working but without pay, and there could be pauses to other programs.

    I was wondering what happens to people that are currently being held, during a shutdown. The conditions are beyond inhumane while they’re staffid, and then a shutdown happens and they get neglected even more.

    It doesn’t sound like the shutdown will affect ICE/CPB’s ongoing assault, probably just going to make them far more aggressive toward innocent people during the shutdown.

  • brunchyvirus@fedia.iotoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What do you recommend I carry in my first wallet?
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    1 month ago

    Depends, on what you’re trying to protect. EMV transactions are far more secure and don’t actually transmit any bank info, they’re just one time transaction hashes generated cryptographically that are only valid for a short time.

    You’re more likely to come across a skimmer at a gas station that’s reads you card details of the mag stripe, or having your card leaked in a data breach.

    The only time I’ve seen RFID really being attacked is red teams tricking employees to clone security badges outside office buildings. So I guess put your security badge in an RFID sleeve around your neck lol

  • brunchyvirus@fedia.iotoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop?
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    2 months ago

    Just to like the radio, television, internet, etc…AI slip is here to stay, it might die down, but the cats out of the bag. I would take the same steps you would regular parental controls for tv/phone/internet if you’re concerned.

    Secondly and more importantly you should be teaching your kids critical thinking skills and not to believe everything they see or hear…just like that old quote

    “Believe half of what you see and nothing of what you hear.”

    The reason I say that is regardless of what you think of AI, it’s good enough now to where you can grab a few minutes sound bite of someone from Facebook or YouTube and be able to imitate there voice.

    This generation is going to have to be much more viligant not just about spam emails, but audio and video calls imitaing a manger or a significant other…it’s going to be very interesting

  • brunchyvirus@fedia.iotoGames@lemmy.world•Facial age checks are now required to chat with anyone on Roblox
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    2 months ago

    No, having children upload facial images to verify there age??? In the age of AI and deep fakes, or I don’t know selling that data to other entries with far more nefarious purposes.

    This dude doesn’t care about kids, he sent a cease and desist to someone who actually was doing something and caught six predators on the platform.

    He also said Roblox could be a dating platform which is a red flag since they probably know there platform attracts child predators.

    If that wasn’t enough of reason he donated $2.5M to the White House Ballroom.

  • brunchyvirus@fedia.iotoNews@lemmy.world•Mother of boy, 15, held at gunpoint by US immigration agents files $1m claim
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    7 months ago

    I agree with everything you said, I remember seeing this graph that shows how likely House Democrats and Republicans where likely to vote with their party between 1949 -2011, which already showed a pretty bleak outlook, here’s the full paper.

    The second thing that I noticed about ten years ago maybe before that was the sudden increase in misinformation on Facebook and YouTube that people will believe as truth, and since they see it engages you they will constantly bombard them with more and of it. I remember as a kid adults saying don’t believe everything you read, and if so and so would jump off a bridge would you? A lot of them should have taken there own advice.

    It’s not just older generations, younger ones are obviously affected by it but in different ways cyber bullying, that weird Andrew Tate following and other.

    I heard someone explain like this, let’s say a person walks up to on the street and asks you to buy something, obviously it’s easy to say no and walk away. Now instead of a person imagine it’s a machine with 10 billion times more intelligent than all of humanity combined is constantly trying to get you to click a link.