2026-11-04T17:33:18Z https://njump.me Andrew Dalke https://njump.me/npub1annzwag2rsaegwvxpexddjevqtgsrfv8jnn4h3hrhgj0jkfjqguq0e7vth https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfmqs50hmyt00jdplc6v3xz0rt955pqexz2stj5mlvxn36eutkv5qzyrkwvfm4pgwrh9pesc8ye4kt9spdzqd9s72wwk7xuwazf72exgprs92p2ga In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg5vdd7m7zz7ga27a2azrq5ngr837q8my8l28mzhpxgymtg6tc27gltkcrr'>nevent1q…kcrr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And I&#39;m saying that some people are easily provoked, and others will blow smoke, claim it&#39;s a fire, and stoke Islamophobia.<br/><br/>We know how this works. It&#39;s the exact same play used against Ketanji Brown, who helped represent individuals designated as enemy combatants at Gitmo.<br/><br/>Should prisoners at Gitmo not have had lawyers representing them?<br/><br/>Does NYC need not need lawyers willing to defend rights and challenge federal abuse?<br/><br/>Is this pen gift as horrible as Obama wearing a tan suit? 2026-09-07T05:12:56Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdl25g4d9hmahqv6rznlp258pkmx8rm786a4s4smnlc8ua34qgdaszyrkwvfm4pgwrh9pesc8ye4kt9spdzqd9s72wwk7xuwazf72exgprszjqd73 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx6ue979unh3pn53w3zgpsmdttts48pnwq3uh4nf97035euhdc40q4jn3y7'>nevent1q…n3y7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;Tied to&#34; doesn&#39;t mean much. Rumsfeld is &#34;tied to&#34; Saddam Hussain by shaking hands.<br/><br/>Ramzi Kassem, the chief counsel for NYC, was the civilian defense counsel for Ahmed al-Darbi, whose sister married al-Mihdhar, the 9/11 terrorist.<br/><br/>Al-Darbi was an &#34;illegal combatants&#34;, a category the US made up to ignore the Geneva Convention. He was at Bagram, where the US abused prisoners, and denied habeas corpus at Gitmo.<br/><br/>Even war criminals have rights, and some lawyers want to defend those rights. 2026-09-06T19:34:41Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsz6te3ur7yx24mxjp3sfwp24r8ewtrl49hc2x6unpay27jrjwnhyczyrkwvfm4pgwrh9pesc8ye4kt9spdzqd9s72wwk7xuwazf72exgprsl9pchh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxe3r3u3j5s3g6ljd0qlym4hc2uxwtk769z2eykxhsk0kd6ujj23gcpgx2g'>nevent1q…gx2g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Antenora, wherein lie the Traitors to their Country. 2026-04-05T15:07:04Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszrnc86a3x3sr7y5vwylhps4pafymqg0q040qxwr3e6f2pu4ch37gzyrkwvfm4pgwrh9pesc8ye4kt9spdzqd9s72wwk7xuwazf72exgprspkt38t The claim &#34;PyMOL-RS is a clean-room rewrite&#34; of #PyMol, at <a href="https://github.com/zmactep/pymol-rs">https://github.com/zmactep/pymol-rs</a> is clearly wrong.<br/><br/>The Rust code refers to PyMol filenames and function names. It has code structurally similar to PyMol&#39;s. It contains comments like &#34;This is a faithful port of PyMOL&#39;s `ccealignmodule.cpp`&#34; -- with quoted PyMol source code!<br/><br/>This comes across like yet another case of license and credit laundering using modern code generation tools. The author has not responded to me at <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47164180">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47164180</a> . 2026-03-05T09:58:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsf5k4jc9l6jjafqnnljnmgy687zdzyqnmv08stfrh79lv7ker9gkqzyrkwvfm4pgwrh9pesc8ye4kt9spdzqd9s72wwk7xuwazf72exgprske0j27 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvvchcw3h6l3mw08rq0egg25xacqgczyrkpnvm7gadwkdxkda9j3crhdlgm'>nevent1q…dlgm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>For what it&#39;s worth, Arthur C. Clarke wrote about replicators in his 1962 &#34;Profiles of the Future&#34;, <a href="https://archive.org/details/profilesoffuture0000arth_g1r3/page/154/mode/2up?q=replicator">https://archive.org/details/profilesoffuture0000arth_g1r3/page/154/mode/2up?q=replicator</a> <br/><br/>&#34;There is no reason to suppose, therefore, that the ultimate Replicator would not be able to produce any food that men have ever desired or imagined.&#34; ... &#34;The advent of the Replicator would mean the end of all factories, and perhaps all transportation of raw materials and all farming.&#34; 2025-10-19T19:47:57Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsthfp0awv2rwa085k9wg8x9fnas4d3rzykx522lserszequhhy89gzyrkwvfm4pgwrh9pesc8ye4kt9spdzqd9s72wwk7xuwazf72exgprsj7dqwq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs28fvfmh5n27t9xrqv2ekgwmkv7jyfv7872amsahpv7m0fpqk9w4gxe0yp9'>nevent1q…0yp9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Your &#34;their&#34; includes Telecomm. for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Comm. Service for the Deaf, Hearing Loss Ass&#39;n of America, National Ass&#39;n of the Deaf, and a center at Gallaudet, yes?<br/><br/>&#34;we see do not see a compelling reason for the Commission to retain the requirement that TTY-based relay services be capable of communicating with ASCII format&#34;.<br/><br/>They want a &#34;smooth<br/>transition from TTY to RTT&#34; with &#34;rules requiring RTT wireline support and interoperability&#34;.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/1109585118187/1">https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/1109585118187/1</a> 2025-07-20T05:57:05Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszazyc55ptu4k87gwtre7s2cwvptlnm5pvuem2llyypc4mgnd6z4szyrkwvfm4pgwrh9pesc8ye4kt9spdzqd9s72wwk7xuwazf72exgprsx92pd8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrqce579fl7e30w6tvtdznskzpf5xv903wvshmn6hr8c5dju3qjzgd24qlx'>nevent1q…4qlx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;Internet&#34; there means &#34;Internet-based TRS&#34;. Footnote 11 for your quote cites <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2014/10/21/2014-24532/telecommunications-relay-services-and-speech-to-speech-services-for-individuals-with-hearing-and">https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2014/10/21/2014-24532/telecommunications-relay-services-and-speech-to-speech-services-for-individuals-with-hearing-and</a> : &#34;The Commission finds that the ASCII/Baudot requirement is not applicable in the context of iTRS, CTS and STS because iTRS, CTS and STS do not use ASCII or Baudot protocol for their relay transmissions.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-411829A1.pdf">https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-411829A1.pdf</a> notes: A coalition of accessibility advocacy and research organizations (AARO) filed reply<br/>comments also voicing support for eliminating the ASCII requirement 2025-07-19T15:38:25Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxk86fz6rlfx7evjgth3sfjlxahcv0rzd3lnuet3h6qh82uz5yu4szyrkwvfm4pgwrh9pesc8ye4kt9spdzqd9s72wwk7xuwazf72exgprsmkkt8g In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs89wz848shalatgsmanvtu79ghczr37nqmt45wlnhfa36y9pwumuguhcc87'>nevent1q…cc87</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I am well aware of the history and impact of ASCII.<br/><br/>Yet its use in TTY-based relay services seems rare after 30+ years. &#34;Obsolete&#34; seems to fit.<br/><br/>&#34;it appears that total ASCII usage of TTY-based TRS was limited to<br/>approximately 0.01% of total TTY-based minutes for that period, while Baudot format TTY would account for the remaining TTY-based minutes&#34;<br/><br/>&#34;T-Mobile reports that it handled only 60 total minutes of ASCII TRS calls, and no more than five users placed ASCII calls in any month&#34; 2025-07-19T04:55:57Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxjkudhdcdp4agss4u8crqcwsmn0x8rxrf73lxhr3xg7fga4p3ajqzyrkwvfm4pgwrh9pesc8ye4kt9spdzqd9s72wwk7xuwazf72exgprs2q7nme In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8sw5e7fk8v0xy8wl8pm0svkfm603uyjh0nggnjtdva7yw9sk6f3q6ckwcp'>nevent1q…kwcp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It may well be that, but if ASCII is indeed rarely and decreasingly used, what&#39;s a better term than &#34;obsolete&#34;?<br/><br/>Is it really a definitional issue? Would writing &#39;the rarely used alternative format&#39; allay concerns?<br/><br/>Or is the concern more a &#39;don&#39;t touch anything for fear of making it worse&#39; thing?<br/><br/>Or opposition to industry-driven cost cutting?<br/><br/>(I wonder if people referred to Southern California&#39;s 50Hz line frequency as &#34;obsolete&#34; before the full switchover to 60Hz by the late 1940s.) 2025-07-18T21:00:27Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsft8d64jeftl8t86yk5famydq6tagghqmc26teale5vmksf6zttvszyrkwvfm4pgwrh9pesc8ye4kt9spdzqd9s72wwk7xuwazf72exgprs943a42 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs00mujj6n8lpzdwyuz9udjqrhfpaalnm5laq5t78revzfqrpst8ls4d4gem'>nevent1q…4gem</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If I read the document right, you should read that as obsolete *in the context of TTY conversations*, where almost all devices use the older Baudot code.<br/><br/>In 1991 the ASCII option was added as an alternative to ASCII, as that looked like the future.<br/><br/>That transition didn&#39;t happen, with few devices in the current market - or in use - which support ASCII. 2025-07-18T19:37:34Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszl3q4ld8lwuf08lj3q2493ftgye940vg6pu99g2cxgdwyzeg4tpgzyrkwvfm4pgwrh9pesc8ye4kt9spdzqd9s72wwk7xuwazf72exgprsnnj9p6 Can you suggest a Sweden/Nordic/EU hosting provider?<br/><br/>I&#39;ve used pair.com since 2001 (was in US then, Sweden now).<br/><br/>They&#39;ve been great, but they are my last US IT dependency. #digitalsovereignty <br/><br/>I have two .com domains. I use &lt;2GB of disk, static web pages, incoming mail (I use POP3; crypto secure email *not* important), some aliases, outgoing SMTP, and shell access. I prefer FreeBSD over Linux; not essential.<br/><br/>Simple stuff.<br/><br/>Prefer FOSS-adjacent (I pay for sr.ht) and long haul stability. 2025-05-19T20:26:42Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs97vx5724j6uzy3nz4jzdp8u7jgpqfjesw444nczkg8qtcvac7wcszyrkwvfm4pgwrh9pesc8ye4kt9spdzqd9s72wwk7xuwazf72exgprs58we5p In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxqqgwy5kjwxpkrwyjdp5389dqtrtpjrynhuqvla0nvcspyf4w02csmd7xa'>nevent1q…d7xa</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This is a recasting of the &#34;it&#39;s ridiculous to ban private jets - they are only a small percentage of CO2 emissions&#34; argument.<br/><br/>We consume prodigious amounts of the Earth&#39;s resources. We need to stop encouraging even more consumption.<br/><br/>If someone needs to loose weight to get healthy, do we offer a dessert mint after the burger they already eat?<br/><br/>Be ashamed of bad habits; don&#39;t use them to justify new ones.<br/><br/>That&#39;s why I got rid of my car, stopped flying, use green energy, etc. 2025-04-29T19:09:36Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqj73y5nv726djwd8tztredkqn8tq256q0496p32s0hslc2r69deqzyrkwvfm4pgwrh9pesc8ye4kt9spdzqd9s72wwk7xuwazf72exgprs62xpc0 Just watched the 1981 Nova episode &#34;Computers, Spies and Private Lives&#34;, downloaded from <a href="https://archive.org/details/ComputersSpiesAndPrivateLives">https://archive.org/details/ComputersSpiesAndPrivateLives</a><br/><br/>I learned: 1) Nixon well understood the threat of data storage on our privacy. I fully agree with his intro/outro commentary!<br/><br/>2) computer-based micro targeting for political purposes was already commonplace then.<br/><br/>3) every concern about how privacy might be eroded in the future has come true.<br/><br/>4) they knew encryption protects privacy.<br/><br/>I wonder if <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1lq68asmanu3etxax9hvrj8au4h585lq8zgzujmufqsewtsz85mkskknf7e" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Lauren Weinstein</span> (<span class="italic">npub1lq6…nf7e</span>)</a></span> recognizes anyone. 2025-03-20T16:14:42Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxn58004gyfwyvyjwtjfgug5d9wrsntk3wrn5cv9zgaysyxhaemzqzyrkwvfm4pgwrh9pesc8ye4kt9spdzqd9s72wwk7xuwazf72exgprsf2ef7z In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2tjerafv46t6vlm6s9h26k6vgtaq48fzptfl67kx2ndk42uae7aq3z56c3'>nevent1q…56c3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That joke&#39;s so old it predates the EU. 2024-12-27T21:57:07Z