Cosmic Cleric

Years are made of months … Good read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

More than just a good read, that’s one of the project/programming Ten Commandments.

Can’t tell you how many times over the decades I’ve had to argue with project managers about that.

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From the article …

On March 23rd, as Mr Imamoglu was being moved to a maximum-security prison on the city’s outskirts, the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) staged a primary election to confirm him as its candidate in the next presidential elections, scheduled for 2028. It was open to all voters, not just CHP members. The party said 15m Turks took part.

… and …

Meral, a housewife, joined the protests with her daughter, a university student. “This is not about Imamoglu or the CHP,” she says. “This is because our right to vote and to be elected is being taken away.”

Paywalled.

Ahh, ok. Thanks. Was focusing on the body/paragraph of the text.

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https://duckduckgo.com/?q=2015+study+of+low-skilled+Halo+players+males+to+females

🌏👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

I get the meme, but I don’t know how to apply it to this post.

Could someone elaborate?

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I notice you asked for an explanation and then only sort-of read the first sentence.

No, I read the whole thing, fully. I just disagreed with your analogy, thought it was a bad one, too verbose and obfuscating of the subject being talked about. Also it didn’t cover someone searching your belongings with/without your permission, the subject being talked about. Law officials have more legal leeway to detain you than they do to search your belongings without your permission, so your analogy doesn’t work (especially when you throw in beatings into it).

Also, didn’t think your last paragraph was legally accurate, but didn’t want to bother arguing the point, since ‘amendment > law > policy/rule’ is a well-known given. I’m aware of the difference. When I asked my original question, it was to confirm if the border enforcement people were actually honoring the 4th amendment, or not, whatever their thought processes were.

I did appreciate you taking the time to reply (and civilly at that) though, thank you. P.S. I hope the tone of my reply wasn’t too harsh, it wasn’t meant to be rude, just straightforward.

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“May I have your permission to search through your phone?”

“Yes.”

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Consent in a situation like this is difficult to establish, to the point of it being pointless.

Hard disagree.

Did they ask him if they could search and he said yes, or no? Or did they just take his device away from him and did a search without his permission?

Consenting to a search, or have one mandated by a judge’s order, is one of the fundamental pillars of citizen rights and laws in this country.

Was it a legal or illegal search? That’s not a pointless question to ask.

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It’s “voluntary” in the sense that either you allow it or you don’t get into the country.

Was that explicitly said to him? Did they tell him that if he refused the inspection that he would be denied entry?

BTW, what you described is a mandatory inspection.

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immigration officers at an airport searched his phone

There’s no mention in the article if this search was voluntary, or not.

Edit: For the downvoters, please point out where I was wrong; I’d honestly really like to know if it was voluntary or not.

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Ukraine is supposed to give up control of its children.

Ukraine is supposed to give up control of its land.

Ukraine is supposed to give up control of its minerals.

Ukraine is supposed to give up control of its power plants.

Is Ukraine a nation, or not?

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From the article …

This effectively means that, if you get banned by the Bluesky company, you’re out. Sure, you could still host your own Personal Data Server, wait for a non-existent independent Relay to fetch your data and interact with users of third-party Bluesky applications. But you won’t: you’re effectively at the mercy of the Bluesky company.

Point two, and more importantly: this approach provides an “exit strategy” in the event that Bluesky “goes evil”. Right now, that’s false: parts of the social network are still centralized and it’s impossible to avoid that. But even if we limit ourselves to PDSs and Relay, the current situation is that federation is only achievable in theory and no one has done it in practice yet.

Per CNN (per US Agency for Global Media), number of regular listeners, in millions, of VoA…

• Indonesia 64.8
• Nigeria 37.4
• Mexico 37.1
• India 29.1
• Iran 12.2
• Peru 11.9
• Russia 10.1
• Ukraine 9.8
• Iraq 9.3
• Egypt 9.0

It’s in the post: https://explainxkcd.com/3064/

Thanks, I missed that the link was in the post.

And it’s quite funny if you happen to have some programming background. If not, you tell me.

I am a software developer, and I just didn’t get the joke at all, even after reading the explanation…

The comic relates this to a common issue when editing documents or coding, where the author accidentally makes changes to two separately created versions of documents, when they meant to only edit one, which can result in changes to both (or all) resulting documents functionally essential parts of the completed project

Honestly not trying to be pedantic, joke just flew over my head I guess. 🤷‍♂️

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Could someone throw the link my way that explains what that comic is saying, and why it’s funny or not, or just explain it?

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Point being FM coverage is almost universal in any area where there’s a significant number of people, not just lone homesteaders, uncontacted tribes, suchlike. Yes there may be people there that could be reached but the total number is small and if they want any news, they’re getting them from the town over once a month.

[Citation required]

There’s no need for us to keep arguing this point, I totally agree that the coverage of listeners of shortwave radio today is a lot less than what it was in the past, but my point is that it’s a lot more still than you’re imagining.

https://lemmy.world/post/26940489/15761443

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The point is rather if you’re operating an FM transmitter, you not only have the money for a satellite dish

Talking about people who listen, receive, not transmit, and who do not have ready funds available.

Also, FM reception distances is much shorter than shortwave, something you didn’t mention.

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but let’s face it the amount of people that you can only reach via short wave is dwindling, they mostly switched to satellite. They rather feed into the local FM broadcast network, and of course you can stream over the internet.

You would actually be surprised how many poor regions in Central and South America as well as in Africa and Central Asia actually rely on shortwave still.

A lot of it is Christian and right-wing broadcasts, but still, it’s used more than you would think. Not everyone can afford expensive satellite rigs to receive.

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From the article …

08:47 Impossible? Wake on Bluetooth w/ the LCD Deck