Bank Closures Reveal Vast Federal Surveillance Program

Consequently, if you try to break up transactions to not trigger the $10,000 reporting threshold, that is a federal crime and you can be prosecuted (headline article at bottom). And remember that giving false information to a federal agent is…

ChatGPT is Garbage

I’ve never played with these AI systems as you generally had to identify yourself to use them, and that just struck me as wrong making me think a data collection scheme. But I’ve seen examples of their output, and one…

Israel Bans Islamic Call to Prayer

I always thought this was a violation of the rights of people that lived near mosques. Most places have laws about overly loud music that breeches a certain decibel level, so how are Muslim calls to prayer not included. And…

Bill To Pull Exempt Status Passes In The House

This looks like a sneaky way to punish non-profits that are a hindrance to government agendas without due process. And of course the intelligence related NGOs won’t be touched. So when you look at how they’ve tried to denigrate Christian…

Debian Testing Receives KDE 6

And curiously, they seem to have fixed SDDM which has been broken on my Debian Unstable, which isn’t a big deal as it will use LightDM. But this leaves just Debian Stable on KDE 5 until the next release of…