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  • The title of this post is currently:

    One of the first Islamic terrorist in modern American history was CIA trained El Sayyid Nosair who killed Rabbi Meir Kahane, a Zionist terrorist leader going to blew up several New York landmarks.

    This is very confusing because it implies that Nosair killed Kahane because he (Kahane) was plotting to blow up New York landmarks. But, the article does not actually even mention the fact that Kahane was himself a terrorist in NY and elsewhere - it just calls him the “leader of the Jewish Defence League” and then says Nosair was the one plotting to blow up landmarks:

    Those visits have put him in the spotlight once before: among those he trained was El Sayyid Nosair, who was jailed in 1995 for killing Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader of the Jewish Defence League, and, along with several others, with plotting to blow up several New York landmarks.

    imo you should update your post title.




  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mltomemes@hexbear.net•Some kings
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    the brits dont even have one!

    they’ll tell you that they do have one, but they just… prefer not to write it down:

    The constitution of the United Kingdom comprises the written and unwritten arrangements that establish the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as a political body. Unlike in most countries, no official attempt has been made to codify such arrangements into a single document, thus it is known as an uncodified constitution.

    they’re quite committed to the bit, even going so far as having a whole thing they call “UK constitutional law” (replete with varieties of court dress).























  • This is bizarre. Lindows rightfully died long ago; this claims to be a community project to restart it?

    And, they say they’re based on Debian 13 (trixie) but also they have an i386 ISO somehow? 🤨

    As wikipedia explains:

    Debian directs users to keep i386 systems on Debian 12 or retiring the system in question, as the remaining packages are intended for running 32-bit x86 software on 64-bit systems and require the SSE2 CPU instruction set that most 32-bit x86 CPUs don’t support.

    I’m pretty sure this is some kind of scam, which makes me even more suspicious of the other distros-i-never-heard-of which OP recently posted. I’m inclined to delete it but I’ll first ask you OP: have you actually tried this? why did you post it? what about the other distros you’ve posted to /c/debian today?

    (given your account’s long history i’m assuming good faith for the moment but I am very tempted to delete everything you’ve posted here today… so please explain)



  • This is also a reason to have functional LoraWan mesh network

    fyi LoRa is a useful building block for building offline (non-internet) mesh networks but LoRaWAN is not: LoRaWAN is for IP-over-LoRa and it requires one of the nodes to have internet access to talk to a centralized server which mediates everything. (tldr: forget about LoRaWAN.)

    Sorry I don’t have time to braindump on other things in this space, but I will say https://columba.network/ looks interesting - it is a reticulum client for android which can use LoRa (if you have a LoRa radio) and also BLE (100m range) and WiFi (both locally to other nodes and to the internet to talk to distant nodes). I have not actually tried Columba myself, but i think it looks promising.

    edit: looking closer i think the one big missing feature in Columba for this type of application is group chat. Unfortunately Reticulum doesn’t have a decentralized group chat yet; its 1:1 chat protocol (LXMF) is completely decentralized (two people can keep talking if they’re in range of each other even when they can’t see anyone else in the mesh) but the group chat protocol it has now (called RRC, similar to IRC) requires a centralized relay server. You can run an RRC relay yourself, including on a non-internet-connected network, but it only works for people who are able to reach that relay (and it doesn’t keep history so you miss what was said while you couldn’t reach it). I see that the Columba author has actually implemented RRC for Android, but it’s currently in a separate app called eridanus. I don’t know if anyone is trying to build a decentralized group chat protocol on top of reticulum yet but probably someone is. It’s a very complicated problem to solve well, though.