Have you heard about Tuxedo computers?

European, iirc. Default Linux focus. Possibly repairability focused (an expectation, but I don’t recall).

Looks like they have a link talking about this, and someone commented that they use a service mentioned for contactless payments.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/contactless-payments-with-grapheneos/

I haven’t reviewed this myself as it’s not a concern for me.

Yeah, I get that for sure. It’s totally unlikely this would have been the result without their prior relationship with the Police Chief.

What I’m confused about is how anyone in that chain of interactions knew how to get in touch with those specific ICE/CBP people; as it supposedly was a phone call directly to them which had them turn around and take her to the police station.

So, I’m hypothesizing either the local police had some amount of knowledge of what ICE/CBP people were in the area and contact info for them, or a beneficial enough relationship between the chief or the local LE that contacting someone higher up in ICE/CBP/DSHS resulted in such a quick turn around (or any at all, based on their refusal to cooperate with seemingly every request anywhere else).

Sorry, does that make more sense?

Some of the refugees taken to Texas have been released from custody. But instead of being flown back home, they were released in Texas “without money, identification, or phones,” CNN reported.

Something seems to be missing here…

After the officers put her in their car and drove toward the Twin Cities, they themselves received a call, the woman said, and quickly turned back.

How did the call to the police chief result in these people receiving a call…? This is seemingly stated as a determining factor in them turning around and taking her to the police station. But… how did this happen like that without some type of cooperation between local police and the feds?

Knowing what individuals were working in the area, where they were, what type of vehicles they were using (another article stated the police chief, on the call with the husband, described the vehicle the woman was taken away in to confirm it with the husband), and how this all resulted in a supposed phone call/the woman being taken to the police and turned over to them.

A personal relationship with the police chief is one thing, but the rest I can’t make out at this point.

Amid tensions over President Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota and beyond, federal agents were told this week that they have broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo reviewed by The New York Times.

The change expands the ability of lower-level ICE agents to carry out sweeps rounding up people they encounter and suspect are undocumented immigrants, rather than targeted enforcement operations in which they set out, warrant in hand, to arrest a specific person.

The shift comes as the administration has deployed thousands of masked immigration agents into cities nationwide. A week before the memo, it came to light that Todd M. Lyons, the acting director of the agency, had issued guidance in May saying agents could enter homes with only an administrative warrant, not a judicial one. And the day before the memo, Mr. Trump said he would “de-escalate a little bit” in Minneapolis, after agents fatally shot two people in the crackdown there.

The memo, addressed to all ICE personnel and signed on Wednesday by Mr. Lyons, centers on a federal law that empowers agents to make warrantless arrests of people they believe are undocumented immigrants, if they are “likely to escape” before an arrest warrant can be obtained.

ICE has long interpreted that standard to mean situations in which agents believe someone is a “flight risk,” and unlikely to comply with future immigration obligations like appearing for hearings, according to the memo. But Mr. Lyons criticized that construction as “unreasoned” and “incorrect,” changing the agency’s interpretation of it to instead mean situations in which agents believe someone is unlikely to remain at the scene.

Seems like a strange way to spell hostage.

I recall the statements that some dumbassshitLLM was going to be used for military actions or whatever.

Got it. They’re playing Risk and whatever else.

From the article, it seems like it’s been sent to:

https://icelist.is/

https://icelist.is/

Hello. Sorry, I couldn’t find an immediate source when I did a web search with the text you quoted. Do you have a source for it you could share, or recall when you saw it?

Thanks!

Stepping aside is also their formal instructions based on their policy, which this individual would have known about as, supposedly, they are part of a longer standing division of this department, specifically meant for aggressive engagements.

Additionally, it may have recently been found that back in 2012 a report was created of maybe 60+ incidents of Customs and Border agents placing themselves in front of moving vehicles in order to create the circumstances to justify the use of force. This supposedly was when the policy was changed and officers were instructed on being officially forbidden from moving themselves in front of a moving vehicle, and from using force to stop a vehicle if the option to move out of the way exists.

I’ll start going back to find sources and update with them, anyone feel free to post them as well if you find what I’m referencing.

Edit:

First written piece describing what I heard about.

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/customs-and-border-protection-conceals-scathing-audit-of-border-patrols-use-of-force-policy/

Apologies. This doesn’t contain the report itself. One moment. Supposed leaked report, listing 67 shooting incidents from January 2010 to October 2012.

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-border-killings-20140227-story.html#axzz2uY0W5Do8

Links to the report seem to reach dead pages now.

https://www.oig.dhs.gov/assets/Mgmt/2013/OIG_13-114_Sep13.pdf

There seems to be a copy here, I’m currently reviewing it myself. Supposedly, with redactions, possibly of substantive amounts to have caused additional requests for data; if it is the redacted copy originally sent out but which withheld useful data.

ACLU discussing the same report.

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/homeland-security-inspector-general-releases-report-border-patrol-use-force

Supposed Archive of the report in question.

https://archive.org/stream/798751-oig-use-of-force-report/798751-oig-use-of-force-report_djvu.txt

Is ladybird even out? I saw something about it but I thought looking it up got me to something about it being set for some release this next year?

Sorry about that.

I’ve used one or more extensions for this purpose, but only on desktop and it was so short lived I don’t recall the names. I quickly shifted to using the Dev Tools as it didn’t require trusting an extension.

So, I guess one of the main focuses or concerns would be open source to help provide some slight reassurance regarding security and privacy.

Minimal permissions is also an aspect I look for when considering apps or extensions, if that matters for anyone else as well.

Otherwise, just having the option to download images from a page, which I suppose more specifically focuses on pages which don’t allow a long-press context window option; as I’d just do that if it was available.

I don’t really need bulk download options. For any such large datasets I’d use a desktop. But hopefully an extension available on mobile would save me from needing to screenshot a bunch of image text posts I can’t just download normally.

What’s the ‘applescript’?

Not to create an argument, which isn’t my intent, as certainty there may be a thought such as, “scraping as it stands is good because of the simplification and ‘benefit’”. Which, sure, it’s easiest to wide net and absorb, to simply the concept, at least as I’m also understanding it.

Yet, maybe it is the process of scraping, and also absorbing into databases including AI, which is a worthwhile point of conversation. Maybe how we’ve been doing something isn’t the continued ‘best course’ for a situation.

Undeniably, more minutely monitoring what is scraped and stored creates large quantities, and large in scope, of questions and obstacles, but, maybe having that conversation is where things should go.

Thoughts?

I kinda wrote off Germany recently due to political shifts occurring there.

But, if it’s somewhere you feel you can feel comfortable going, there are two options which may still be relevant. Maybe you already know about these, so apologies for taking your time if so, or maybe it helps someone else.

There is a language learning visa which allows you to stay for 12 months or so to learn German at an approved language school. There is a cost to this of course, and it’s in no way cheap. Pre-pandemic it was up to about 10k USD. This gets placed into a “blocked” account which proves you can support yourself for the time you’re supposed to be there. After this visa is completed, at least previously, you would need to leave the EU for 3 months before coming back (presumably to Germany) to apply for a “job searcher’s visa”.

Someone else may be able to correct or update some of that information.

Additionally, at the time, Germany provided an exception for IT Specialists, seeming to exempt those positions from the same long and difficult process of an employer ‘proving’ they couldn’t find an EU citizen for the position. But, one still needs to find an employer willing or interested in hiring them.

Someone else can also correct any of that if they find any outdated or incorrect details.

I want you to feel healthy about yourself. I want you to find a home.

Yeah. I’m trying to find more about how the Linux VM on Android is setup, but idk if the Pixel 6a is able to run a GUI/window manager for that VM.

Well, the Linux VM on Android uses a loopback and does not work while a VPN is on. So it won’t route the VM through it as it just doesn’t open with a VPN on.

It will work from the Private Space, but then that doesn’t share a VPN connection so no VPN for the VM unless one is opened through the Private Space.

And this was just an experiment to see if the new CLI beta for ProtonVPN would work in the VM, as the OpenVPN config method for ProtonVPN does seem to work, but likely as it doesn’t depend on any GUI related actions or programs.

Would you be able to share why you wouldn’t recommend running a VPN in the VM on Android?

I’ve read that dual booting Windows and Linux can have temperamental quirks and I’ve had my share of them.

Now, if I’m doing that, Windows fs gets isolated and I refuse to even connect it to the internet. But, outside of a legacy automotive shop program meant for XP, I’ve not needed Windows for a couple years.