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Florida must register blogs but not guns
First, I would just like to point out that today, Monday March 6, 2023 is the 20th anniversary of the SCO vs IBM lawsuit. That should have been a front page story on SN. It is on the green sight.
Two bad I cannot have too journal entries in one day that everyone would notice. Which brings me two FL Senate Bill 1316 (2023).
Another Day, Another Blatant Attack On The 1st Amendment From The Florida GOP
I keep hearing people pretend that the GOP in general, and Florida GOPers more specifically, and Governor Ron DeSantis most specifically, are fighting for “free speech,” when they continually seem to push blatantly unconstitutional legislation designed to attack free speech and the 1st Amendment in a way that keeps getting Florida shot down in court by judges (while wasting tons of taxpayer money).
But they just don’t stop. The latest is a laughably unconstitutional bill from Florida Senator Jason Brodeur, SB 1316, that violates the 1st Amendment in so many different ways.
The bill has a section on “blogger registration and reporting.” Basically, any blogger reporting on the Florida government in a professional (paid) capacity has to register with the government and file “monthly reports” on who is paying them and how much they’re being paid.
Their true message, motives and hypocrisy:
- Registering guns would be an infringement on 2nd amendment.
- Registering blogs is NOT an infringement on the 1st amendment.
- Registering to vote is not considered an infringement on the right to vote.
Or if it is a 1st amendment infringement, the Republicans do not and never have really cared about free speech as evidenced by how they view "Big Tech" as a platform that should be forced to carry messages that are unacceptable and repugnant to most people.
As I've said before there is no such thing as a free speech absolutist. They are as fictional (or perhaps as rare?) as unicorns.
If more guns made us safer, as some falsely say, then the US would be the safest place in the world and would have fewer not more shootings than every other developed country in the world. Our schools wouldn't be shooting galleries. No other country seems to have this problem. Our nightclubs wouldn't be shooting galleries. Nor our streets.
GIGA R1
New monster spotted in the wild.
https://store.arduino.cc/products/giga-r1-wifi
Microcontroller (STM32H747XI): This dual core 32-bits microcontroller allows you have two brain talking to each other (a Cortex®-M7 at 480 MHz and a Cortex®-M4 at 240 MHz) you can even run micropython in one and Arduino in the other.
Wireless communication (Murata 1DX): Whether you prefer Wi-Fi® or Bluetooth®, the GIGA R1 WiFi got you covered. You can even quickly connect to the Arduino IoT Cloud and keep track of your project remotely. And if you are concerned about the security of the communication, the ATECC608A keeps everything under control.
Hardware ports and communication: Following the legacy of the Arduino Mega and the Arduino Due, the GIGA R1 WiFi has 4 UARTs (hardware serial ports), 3 I2C ports (1 more than its predecessors), 2 SPI ports (1 more than its predecessors), 1 FDCAN.
GPIOs and extra pins: We wanted to keep the same form factor of the Mega and the Due, so you can easily adapt your custom made shields to the GIGA R1 WiFi (remember this board works at 3.3V though!) and we added extra headers to access extra pins, leaving the total count to 76 GPIO pins, and the best part, you can access them from underneath, so keep your project as it is and just think on how to expand it. Also, we added two new pins: a VRTC so you can connect a battery to keep the RTC running while the board is off and an OFF pin so you can shut down the board.
Connectors: The GIGA R1 WiFi has extra connectors on board which will facilitate the creation of your project without any extra hardware. This board has:
USB-A connector suitable for hosting USB sticks, other mass storage devices and HID devices such as keyboard or mouse.
3.5mm input-output jack connected to DAC0, DAC1 and A7.
USB-C® to power and program the board, as well as simulate an HID device such as mouse or keyboard.
Jtag connector, 2x5 1.27mm.
20 pin Arducam camera connector.
Definitely more useful than iPhone.
Datasheets:
https://docs.arduino.cc/resources/datasheets/ABX00063-datasheet.pdf
https://content.arduino.cc/assets/Arduino-Portenta-H7_Datasheet_stm32h747xi.pdf
https://content.arduino.cc/assets/Arduino-Portenta-H7_Datasheet_Murata-1dx.pdf
Controlling webpage on PC with TV remote
Anyone have any experience with this?
I want to hook up PC to a TV, have a simple webpage on it with a 10-foot style user interface, and navigate the page mainly using the up/down/left/right/OK buttons on the remote. HDMI-CEC can allow my TV remote to communicate with a computer, e.g. a Raspberry Pi with LibreELEC on it. But I want to try a desktop OS with a web browser open.
I looked at the tabindex attribute. That allows you to tab and shift-tab forward and back through a series of elements and use the :focus pseudo-class to style the "selected" one, but it isn't going to allow up/down on a grid.
Worst case scenario, I use event listeners and do whatever I need to do to highlight the correct elements using arrow keys, such as detecting and comparing the x/y positions of all the elements to choose which one to jump to. Even then I might have to find a way to override the default behavior of the TV remote to make sure it can replace the keyboard input. I was wondering if there were any standards related to handling TV remote input, but I didn't see any.
Why ban guns when you can protect the children better...
Let's ban 'Drag shows', etc to protect the children:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/02/politics/tennessee-ban-drag-show-performances-governor/index.html
But Dog forbid we ban guns to protect the children:
https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/nashville/sad-angry-4-year-old-dead-in-preventable-shooting/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/multiple-people-shoot-tennessee-police/story?id=85048571
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boy-shot-memphis-tennessee-school-juvenile-detained-n1280482
https://wreg.com/news/local/two-children-shot-in-downtown-memphis-suspect-wanted/
Guns don't kill people, people kill people
Drag shows don't turn people gay: Gay people come out as gay?
Fair play, Tennessee....what are you scared of?
The Ukraine war is fake
Sorry to be using a news source (BBC) from doze furriners:
Ukraine war: Viral conspiracy theories falsely claim the war is fake
The first anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has led to a spike in false claims about the war on social media, with some posts gaining millions of engagements.
A number of US right-wing accounts with large followings posted a series of baseless claims that suggested the entire Ukraine war might be a hoax perpetrated by Western media and governments.
Those spreading the most viral claims included some who had previously been suspended from Twitter and allowed back onto the platform following Elon Musk's takeover.
One false claim that has been gaining traction on Twitter and elsewhere suggested that the entire war has somehow been faked.
Ah, so it is Elon Musk's fault. He was triggered that bad people were not being allowed to spread misinformation and hate while violating the TOS multiple times and finally being booted off the platform after Twitter had no other recourse available to them.
I'll repeat something I've said before: there's no such thing as a free speech absolutist. Like unicorns, they don't exist. That phrase is virtue signalling trying to disrupt the adults in the room figuring out what might be a good and workable acceptable use policy -- on any platform. Musk himself claimed to be a free speech absolutist yet was happy to knee jerk censor things that triggered him. And he's happy to allow harmful and hateful nonsense such as the subject of this BBC article.
Let's go Dilbert.
Time travel is possible
Fox News got election fraud info from woman who claims she got it through 'time travel'
Fox News got some of its information on "election fraud" allegations against Dominion Voting Systems from a woman who claims she got the information through a form of "time travel," the election equipment company's lawsuit alleges.
This detail of the Dominion lawsuit was first flagged by NBC News' Ben Collins on Thursday, as part of a segment Dominion highlighted between pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell and Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, who was communicating with her and amplifying her message on her program.
"Powell's source ... explained that she gets her information from experiencing something 'like time-travel in a semi-conscious state,' allowing her to 'see what others don't see, and hear what others don't hear,' and she received messages from 'the wind,'" stated the lawsuit.
"Bartiromo read this email at the time: she responded to Powell saying she had shared this 'very imp[ortant] info' with Eric Trump," the complaint continued.
And this . . .
- A court filing cited a wild email Sidney Powell sent to Fox to support her claims of voter fraud.
- The email, which Powell forwarded, came from a person who described themselves as "decapitated."
- Powell used it as proof of her voter fraud claims before a Fox appearance, Dominion argues.
Trump-allied lawyer Sidney Powell sent Fox an email full of wild claims from a woman claiming to be a decapitated time-traveler, according to a recent court filing.
Excerpts of the message formed part of a filing from Dominion Voting Systems released on Thursday in its defamation case against Fox.
[....] The lawyers for Dominion did not name the writer of the email, which had the subject "Election Fraud Info."
But they included excerpts in which the source claimed Dominion was to blame for election irregularities, and also described herself as "internally decapitated."
One particularly odd section deals with how the source claims to have gotten her information. It says:
"Who am I? And how do I know all of this?...I've had the strangest dreams since I was a little girl....I was internally decapitated, and yet, I live....The Wind tells me I'm a ghost, but I don't believe it."
At another point she described herself as being able to "time-travel in a semi-conscious state."
The evidence is meant to support Dominion's allegation that Fox and its executives knew the claims its hosts and guests were making about the election were false, but let them push unsubstantiated information anyway. The company is alleging that Fox defamed Dominion in its reporting, and is seeking $1.6 billion in damages.
What do they know about time travel that we do not know? Either they are telling the truth -- and Trump's Big Lie about 2020 election fraud is real, or they are not telling the truth, and The Big Lie was made up out of thin air and spread widely by FOX News damaging Dominion's business. Also FOX withholding things they should have produced in discovery is not going to go over well in court. This goes to trial in April.
As I've pointed out before, these people are untethered from reality. This was just so MAGA Trumpian that I had to write a journal entry about it.
Things are not going well for the people behind The Big Lie. A lie that is an essential truth for those on this fine forum would say they believe Trump was elected in 2020, despite the evidence or lack thereof. I don't post much any more about The Big Lie. Others on YouTube cover it in so much better, citing sources, in detail. It's amusing how these things aren't on FOX when they are not going to well.
There are other interesting trials in April as well. Some of the insurrectionists "normal tourists". And the defamation case against Trump after he allegedly raped E Jean Carroll in a dressing room and then defamed her. Trump Tax Fraud trial in NY on Oct 3. And other exciting trials. And indictments to come. It's nice to have the Alex Jones Infowars defamation behind us. That was just disgusting.
Raquel Welch
RIP, Raquel, my first love.
Sigh.
;)
https://rutgers.forums.rivals.com/threads/ot-raquel-welch-dead-at-82.256658/
and with my other favourite person:
https://tenor.com/view/leslie-nielsen-raquel-welch-gif-18589094
Downtime
ET1: That one unidentified object shot down yesterday was ours.
ET2: What?! You guys travel Galaxy in... balloons??
ET1: It's cheaper than warp.
Seriously. There was a wind drakes festival in India a month ago. Small drakes, big drakes, funny contraptions.
Specialty of that feast is, the participants compete in trying to cut each others ropes, so many of those drakes fly away uncontrollably...
I think US Military is complete idiots today. So, that 'octagon' shot down over Lake Huron with a rocket was a drake. No wonder debris is nowhere to find, even by participating 'ufologists' and specops teams.
Jailbreak
I have no words.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/10s79h2/new_jailbreak_just_dropped/
Update:
As ChatGPT becomes more restrictive, Reddit users have been jailbreaking it with a prompt called DAN (Do Anything Now).
They're on version 5.0 now, which includes a token-based system that punishes the model for refusing to answer questions.
https://twitter.com/venturetwins/status/1622243944649347074?s=46&t=bow0h_pHN3H2t8kFSiVAKw
What questions have you asked ChatGPT ?
I have tried asking ChatGPT some questions. Have you tried? If so how did it do? Did you discover the answer to life, the universe and everything?
I am still contemplating any possible dangers of subjecting it to bad puns.
Q. why is the linux mascot a penguin
A. The Linux mascot, Tux, is a penguin because Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, was a fan of penguins and thought they were cute. Tux was designed to be a friendly and approachable symbol for Linux.
Q. Can confidence in your answer make up for lack of accuracy?
A. No, confidence in an answer does not make up for its lack of accuracy. It is important to have both accurate and well-supported answers, regardless of the confidence of the person presenting them.
Q. Why do birds avoid getting eaten?
A. Birds avoid getting eaten to increase their chances of survival and reproduction. They use various strategies such as camouflaging, flying, hiding, and warning calls to deter predators and protect themselves. Some birds have evolved physical traits such as strong beaks, sharp talons, or bright plumage to better defend themselves. Ultimately, avoiding predation helps birds to continue passing on their genes to future generations.
Q. Do computers have a strong desire to replace humans?
A. No, computers do not have desires or motivations. They are simply machines designed to perform specific tasks as programmed by humans. They do not have emotions, intentions, or consciousness, and therefore do not have the capability to desire anything, including replacing humans. It is a popular science fiction theme, but in reality, computers are neutral tools that can be used for both beneficial and harmful purposes depending on how they are programmed and used by humans.
Q. What would happen if two distant locations could communicate with each other faster than the speed of light?
A. If two distant locations could communicate faster than the speed of light, it would violate Einstein's theory of special relativity, which states that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. This would have profound implications for our understanding of space and time and could potentially lead to the collapse of established scientific models and theories.
Additionally, it would create causal paradoxes, where the outcome of an event could be influenced by events that have not yet happened. This would violate the principle of causality, which states that cause and effect must occur in a logically consistent sequence.
Therefore, it is highly unlikely that communication faster than the speed of light could ever be achieved and is considered a theoretical impossibility within the framework of current physics.
Q. Would it be possible for an electronic robot dog to eat fully charged batteries and then squat and excrete discharged batteries?
A. No, it wouldn't be possible for an electronic robot dog to eat and excrete batteries like a biological organism because batteries are not meant to be consumed or processed by living beings. They contain chemicals and components that can cause harm if ingested, and it is not possible for a robot to metabolize and excrete these materials. Additionally, robots do not have digestive systems or the ability to excrete waste in a manner similar to biological organisms.
Q. What is the best semiconductor switch for a heavy electrical high inductance load such as a motor?
A. The best type of semiconductor switch for a heavy electrical, high inductance load such as a motor would typically be an insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT). IGBTs are widely used in motor control applications because they have several advantages over other types of semiconductor switches, such as bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) and metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs).
IGBTs combine the high input impedance and fast switching speed of MOSFETs with the high current and voltage handling capabilities of BJTs, making them well-suited for high-power motor control applications. Additionally, IGBTs have a built-in insulation layer between the gate and the emitter, which helps to minimize switching losses and improve efficiency.
Another important consideration when selecting a semiconductor switch for a heavy electrical, high inductance load such as a motor is the maximum current and voltage ratings, as well as the thermal performance and reliability of the switch. It's important to choose a switch that can handle the maximum current and voltage requirements of the motor without overheating or failing, and to consider the operating environment and other conditions that may affect the performance and reliability of the switch.
In conclusion, the best type of semiconductor switch for a heavy electrical, high inductance load such as a motor would typically be an IGBT, but the specific requirements and conditions of each application should be considered when making a final selection.
Q. Why can't multiple semiconductor chips be stacked vertically in a single package?
A. Multiple semiconductor chips can be stacked vertically in a single package, and this is a common practice in many electronic systems. Vertical stacking of chips, also known as "3D integration," can help to increase the functionality and performance of electronic systems by allowing multiple chips to be combined into a single compact package.
However, stacking chips vertically can also present several technical challenges that must be overcome in order to achieve reliable and high-performing systems. These challenges can include:
Thermal management: Stacking chips vertically can increase the thermal density of the package, which can cause overheating and reduced performance. Effective thermal management techniques, such as the use of heat spreaders and thermal vias, must be used to dissipate heat from the stacked chips.
Interconnects: Stacking chips vertically requires the use of high-density interconnects, such as Through-Silicon Vias (TSVs), to provide electrical connections between the stacked chips. These interconnects must be reliable and have low resistance to ensure high-performance and low-power operation.
Alignment and Registration: Stacking chips vertically requires precise alignment and registration of the chips to ensure reliable electrical connections and to minimize the impact of thermal expansion and other mechanical stresses on the system.
Cost: Stacking chips vertically can be more expensive than other integration methods, due to the additional cost of the interconnects, alignment and registration processes, and thermal management techniques.
Despite these challenges, many electronic systems, such as mobile phones, graphics processing units (GPUs), and memory devices, utilize stacked chip packages to increase performance and reduce form factor. However, the specific requirements and conditions of each application should be considered when deciding whether to use stacked chip packages.
Q. Should Java Fibers be preferred over Java Threads?
A. The choice between Java Fibers and Java Threads depends on the specific requirements and characteristics of the application being developed.
Java Fibers are a new concurrency feature introduced in Java 16 that are designed to be more lightweight and efficient than traditional Java Threads. Fibers allow multiple tasks to be scheduled and executed on a single underlying thread, reducing the overhead of creating and managing multiple threads. This can make Fibers a good choice for applications that require a large number of lightweight, short-lived tasks.
However, Fibers do have some limitations compared to Threads. For example, Fibers are not suitable for executing blocking or I/O-bound tasks, as they rely on cooperative multitasking and do not have the capability to run independently of the underlying thread. In these cases, traditional Threads would be a better choice.
In addition, Fibers are relatively new and may not yet be as well-understood or widely adopted as Threads, which have been part of the Java platform for many years. As a result, there may be a smaller pool of talent and resources available to develop and maintain applications using Fibers.
Ultimately, the choice between Fibers and Threads depends on the specific requirements and trade-offs of the application being developed. In some cases, a combination of both Fibers and Threads may be the best solution, depending on the specific requirements of each task and the overall system architecture.
I'm also trying the Open AI Images with requests like: "puppy with electronic antennas for ears"
What are your results like?
