Today in “no shit, Sherlock”…

Meh, humans are pretty much the same no matter where they’re physically located. Some are decent enough — a small percentage are even quite good — but the large majority are varying degrees of shitty, with a small number (e.g. the “one percenters”) being irredeemably so.

Just long enough to finish the job.

Nah, that’s fine just so long as they’re not Republican ones.

ETA: Oh, wait… I guess there IS such a ban.

Could you be a bit more specific - is what true?

The month must’ve gone by too “fast” for you to post the “Furryosa.”

(Yeah, I know I’m mixing movie franchises - please just go along with it.)

Well, that sounds expensive.

This “opinion” presumably being based upon your personal experience with being an expensive waste on wheels…

It also bans teachers from talking about trans people at all.

This should be an easy overturn, but we all know the “freedumb of speech” crowd got their puppet “justices” (misnomer if I ever heard one) on the SC to only interpret the phrase in a particular way.

I know it’s a product of its time, but I fail to see how that would make anybody in her position any happier.

I’m aware of the “canary in a coal mine” reference & meaning.

Whether it’s "funny’ would strongly depend upon the perspectives of the individual reading it. I enjoy a fair amount of Larson’s work, but this one ain’t doing it for me, I’m afraid.

Ain’t it too late by then?

Where did the money for all that come from? Where will it come from in the future as the wealth transfer to the few continues apace?

Yeah, no - I’m not inclined to rest easy. Just because more complex methods are available for use doesn’t mean the old standbys are forgotten.

It’s far too easy to change the software that drives that. For example, in order to minimize blatant power drain the trigger mic could easily become a switch that activates the main mic only when human voices are detected (or even specific voices). With authoritarian governments on the rise — along with the more than willing corporations backing them — I don’t think a bit of paranoia regarding the possibility is unwarranted.

ETA: Also there’s nothing saying the hardware can’t be updated for newer capabilities without anyone on the outside knowing. It’d be pretty easy to get away with once everyone gets lulled into a false sense of security regarding how they work.

Paris police are examining more than 100 allegations of mistreatment, physical violence and rape of children as young as three by school monitors during lunch breaks, nap times and after-school activities, prosecutors have confirmed.

“We have investigations under way in 84 preschools, about 20 primary schools and about 10 daycare centres,” said Paris’s top prosecutor, Laure Beccuau. Lawyers said the investigations included the alleged rape of children as young as three and four years old.

Parents’ groups said they had fought for years for allegations to be taken seriously. They said failures in the recruitment process and checking of school monitors had allowed abuse to continue.

HOLY SHEET!!! How TF is something that serious allowed to grow into that large of a problem?!? Seems like a LOT more people than just the currently accused need to be investigated - likely including the investigators themselves.

Only marginally, IMHO - software is vulnerable to remote hacks, but physically breaking the electrical connection is pretty effing hard to overcome remotely.

Pfft! The astronaut path should be way more vertical.

Ignorant mode activated.

Didn’t Fairphone or some other Linux phone maker include switches in some relatively recent model?

EDIT: According to (embarrassed for having to mention source) Google’s AI summary, yes:

• Murena 2: Features a dedicated physical privacy switch that physically cuts the circuit for the microphone and camera.

• Purism Librem 5: Offers physical toggle switches on the side of the phone to mechanically sever power to the microphone, camera, and baseband.

• Pine64 PinePhone: Includes built-in hardware DIP switches under the back cover that allow you to completely disconnect the mic, cameras, and modems.