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How do I go about this? Are there any free resources that’ll help me get started?

I see people advising to start with a small project, but you need to get some basics down right? What language? How to develop it and stuff?

My only experience is some very basic C programming classes I took during school.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22758459

Crypto mogul hires LA Sheriffs to commit crimes for him.

Great job there Americans and a special shout out to White gen-X'ers for cutting your own soon to be retirement.

Summary

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in US v. Skrmetti, challenging Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

Plaintiffs argue the law violates the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause by discriminating based on sex, while Tennessee defends it as protecting minors.

The decision, expected by June, could impact trans youth nationwide, as 26 states have enacted similar bans.

Medical experts and advocates oppose the law, citing evidence-based care’s benefits.

The conservative-leaning court’s ruling could set a pivotal precedent for trans rights and healthcare access.

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Democrat Adam Gray narrowly won California’s 13th Congressional District, unseating Republican Rep. John Duarte by fewer than 200 votes in the final U.S. House race decided this year.

Gray’s victory leaves Republicans with 220 House seats to Democrats’ 215.

Duarte, who won the seat in 2022 by 564 votes, conceded, calling the loss part of the political process.

Both candidates emphasized bipartisan appeals, with Gray focusing on water, agriculture, and infrastructure, while Duarte prioritized inflation and crime.

The district, with a large Latino population, leans Democratic but sees lower turnout among working-class voters.

It's a rare example of English being simpler than other languages, so I'm curious if it's hard for a new speaker to keep the nouns straight without the extra clues.

Maybe I'm completely wrong about everything I'm going to say and in that case we can laugh about this theory I guess but here it goes..

Most people are only worried about if the VPN provider is keeping logs or not. But even if they don't keep logs you could still be tracked by anyone who can see incoming and outgoing connections to the VPN server.

This would be easier to explain if I drew some images but I hope you understand anyway with just text. What it looks like for these adversaries is:

1. they know your IP and who you are.
2. They see you connect to a VPN server.
3. They see VPN server connecting to many different servers and they don't know which one is you.

But when it comes to number 3, they could actually figure out which one is you.

Obviously, if you are the only person connected to the VPN server they will see that there is no one else besides you using it and then any outgoing connection from the VPN server must be you.

If there are just a few users. Maybe three users are just connected to the VPN server but not doing anything, just idle. Another user is spending time reading reddit. Then you connect to the vpn server and within a minute a new outgoing connection from the vpn server starts and goes to lemmy. Pretty good guess that is you from their perspective. And to make the guess even better, when the connection to lemmy ends, you decide to immediately end your connection to the VPN server. I'm confident this would be enough evidence in a court and then it's definitely enough for data harvesting and mass surveillance.

All this analysis can be done automatically with AI, even if there are hundreds users on a VPN server, the AI will over a larger amount of time (not just hours but days/weeks/months) collect enough data to be able to profile users and make good guesses which domains you are visiting even if the VPN prpvider doesn't have logs.

What is the solution to avoid this type of tracking? Tor baby, tor. Leeegggoooo Whonix!

Context: South Korea's parliament votes 190-0 to lift martial law https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-parliament-votes-require-yoon-lift-martial-law-2024-12-03/

Or possibly a big Boston Legal fan?

HE'S NOT KIRK, DAMN IT! HE'S DENNY CRANE!

https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html

I'm creating this post mainly so that I don't forget the name again.

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Private equity firms play a key role in America’s prison system. If Trump carries out his plans for mass deportations, they stand to benefit.

from the too-little,-too-late,-and-actually-probably-nothing dept

A report commissioned by the Legault government presents a demanding but plausible roadmap for a more autonomous Quebec in a decentralized Canada.

On Windows, if you click MMB on some windows, your mouse cursor will turn into a little ↕️ icon, and then you can scroll by moving the mouse cursor up and down, with it going faster the further you drag away from the position it was originally at.

This is one (1) behaviour I miss from Windows. Hours upon hours of scroll-wheeling makes my joints quite tired.

But well. Linux is nothing if not customisable, so I'm wondering if there's a way to recreate this behaviour on it.

I'm on KDE Plasma.

From what I understand, the military high command supported Yoon even after the assembly voted down martial law. If that's true, didn't he have everything to go through with the coup?

We should put our multimodal, open source code to work in that city. Who's in?

Not a huge fan of the game but still sad to see this happen.