If you’re arguing whether something is involuntary servitude or slavery, you’ve lost the plot. Both are unethical and inhumane, and involve coercing someone to work against their will to benefit another.
hperrin
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Yep. And it’s perfectly legal, because the US never banned slavery.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
I think we’re one of the only countries in the world who still has legal slavery. Pretty awful.
I’m definitely 100% addicted. I would probably go through some sort of mental crisis if I were shut out. But I also hate it. I want to unplug, but I’m unable.
I used to not get why someone would buy a physical DVD/Bluray/CD/whatever. Well, now I get it. I’d much rather own it than “own” it.
I feel like the people who pay for Twitter are probably dumb enough to pay whatever price the muskrat wants, so why not make it $200 a month?
Illegally being poor.
This project technically started in 2009, as part of another project called Dandelion (which then was renamed to Pines), then around 2014 I pulled it out into its own project, Nymph. I worked on it on and off, until 2021, when I rewrote it for Node.js as Nymph.js.
It now runs my email service, https://port87.com/
Here's the oldest code I can find on GitHub from July 7, 2009:
And here's the first version as its own project from Sep 8, 2014:
https://github.com/sciactive/nymph/tree/fdf5f770da7e5acc6938debbaeb8c09cfd080e15/src
Well, regarding the phone thing, modern phones don’t have removable batteries, but it’s very unlikely that the cops have a way to access the camera and microphone even when the phone is on. Cops have a notoriously difficult time just unlocking a phone that’s in their possession. The FBI/CIA etc might be another story. Who knows what active exploits they’re using.
But if your phone is powered off, it won’t be sending or receiving any data, both of which require power and create EM signals that can be detected. Unless your phone advertises some sort of remote wake feature, once it’s off, it’s off. It is doing nothing but tracking the time (RTC is always on in all modern tech with any sort of battery).
Cops can, however, triangulate your location to within a block or two using your phone’s cell tower pings. Those happen as long as your phone isn’t in Airplane mode. It takes a while (like, an hour or two), and the phone company has to do it for them, but that’s often how they find missing people.
Edit: recent iPhones DO have a sort of remote on function, btw. It’s not cellular, but some propriety thing based on MagSafe, so it requires a machine to be within a few inches of the phone. Basically it uses the same circuitry as the wireless charging does.
It was tongue in cheek, man. Call down.
I can’t say there’s no possibility, but the probability is incredibly low. The domain was registered on the day he was arrested, likely after he was arrested, because the first Wayback snapshot is at 2:47 PM EST and the page is blank. Meaning, a web server had been set up to respond to requests, but no content had been added, so it just responded with an empty body. The first snapshot with content was taken two hours later at 4:28 PM EST.
The rat that ratted him out called 911 shortly after 9 AM, which means he was in custody during this time.
The story had just started to spread by the early afternoon, so whoever registered the domain could have done so after learning his name from the news. (Utah Dispatch posted the story at 12:39 PM.)
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Solitary confinement is also unethical.
If being too poor to afford a home is illegal, then it’s legal to make the homeless slaves. Is that ok with you? No one should be forced into slavery, even actual criminals, period.