Nah, I mentioned it in another comment in this thread. We had a press conference and cleared it up. We did warn Russia about an attack earlier in the month, but that was a different one from this one.

https://lemmy.today/comment/6912150

I believe that the last guy who decided that it would be a great idea to concurrently pick fights with all of London, Washington, and Moscow was Adolf Hitler.

Come to think of it, we warned Moscow in advance that time too, and Stalin didn’t buy it then either.

Hmm. Moscow was in the process of trying to annex a European country around that time too, Finland.

EDIT: Nah, it sounds like we cleared it up. We do believe that this is Islamic State and we did warn Russia about an attack, but it was a different one. Apparently we didn’t have intelligence that this one might happen:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mass-shooting-music-venue-crocus-city-hall-moscow-picnic-concert/

A U.S. official tells CBS News the U.S. has intelligence confirming the Islamic State’s claims of responsibility, and that they have no reason to doubt those claims. The U.S. official also confirmed that the U.S. provided intelligence to Russia about a potential attack under the intelligence community’s Duty to Warn requirement.

National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson confirmed that in a statement provided to CBS News Friday evening.

“Earlier this month, the U.S. government had information about a planned terrorist attack in Moscow —potentially targeting large gatherings, to include concerts— which prompted the State Department to issue a public advisory to Americans in Russia,” Watson said. “The U.S. government also shared this information with Russian authorities in accordance with its longstanding ‘duty to warn’ policy.”

Asked about the embassy’s notice issued on March 7, Kirby referred the question to the State Department, adding: “I don’t think that was related to this specific attack.”

Responding to a question about whether Washington had any prior information about the assault, Kirby responded: “I’m not aware of any advance knowledge that we had of this terrible attack.”

Unlike most arcade machines, which typically only had positions for two players to play at once, it had four, and would permit for a third concurrent player.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/world/europe/isis-moscow-attack-concert-hall.html

After a period of relative quiet, the Islamic State has been trying to increase its external attacks, according to U.S. counterterrorism officials. Most of those plots in Europe have been thwarted, prompting assessments that the group had diminished capabilities.

“ISIS-K has been fixated on Russia for the past two years,” frequently criticizing President Vladimir V. Putin in its propaganda, said Colin P. Clarke, a counterterrorism analyst at the Soufan Group, a security consulting firm based in New York. “ISIS-K accuses the Kremlin of having Muslim blood in its hands, referencing Moscow’s interventions in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Syria.”

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The fence is just there to keep predators out.

We have probably killed and eaten more of every animal species at a zoo than vice versa.

So in a sense…

“What do the international LGBT movement, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Islamic State, and organizations that supported Aleksey Navalny have in common?”

I mean, he’s talking about what he’d prefer. I’m sure that if you ask him, he wouldn’t prefer problems at launch either.

Speaking in immediate terms, I’m kind of interested in the Ukraine aid bill.

I doubt it, because their vote doesn’t indicate that Russia or China want to avoid a ceasefire. Russia and China both know that the US would vote against it anyway, which means that their vote won’t alter the situation anyway, so both Russia and China are free to vote in whatever way they think is most politically-appealing; their vote is decoupled from what they want to happen.

You could say that it’s surprising that they wanted the political appearance of opposing a ceasefire, though. I don’t know what considerations factor into that.

EDIT: Oh, wait, this is one that the US proposed, so it’s probably on terms that Israel would accept.

US Law supersedes any other obligations.

Only from in the eyes of the US legal system. The Chinese legal system won’t see it that way.

They can place conflicting demands on a company; they don’t have to be compatible.

They’d be obligated to leave the market. They’re US companies.

They’d be placed under conflicting demands. They might well choose to exit, but it isn’t that one set of constraints is superior to another. Look at the current scenario, which is the mirror image of that – Bytedance is being required to divest. They could divest, or could exit the US market.

I’m not gonna beat up on Moscow for that one. Probably wasn’t the best handling, but they had no incentive to mishandle it. It was a difficult hostage situation, and it could have also played out worse, as there were bombs in the theater.

It’s hard to estimate an exact amount of gas that would incapacitate one person without killing someone else.

I’d like to think that we’d have done better than kill off a ton of the hostages in a similar situation, but we’ve also dicked up some hostage situations too, even where we’ve got lots of resources and time to plan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege

Okay, that may be a valid point, though I don’t know what would happen at the polititical level if that actually occurred. If it did, I could imagine China, if the government felt that it were a sufficiently-critical tool, slugging back. Google and Apple also have a business presence in China, so the PRC has similar jurisdiction and could require them to include it, and we’d be looking at a heck of an economic schism or trade war or something.

I don’t think that the government cares much about whether a company is extracting information and using it to sell ads. I do think that they care about whether that company is using that information to target governments.

I think that that position is understandable.

What I am skeptical of is the solution. Is having ByteDance divest going to avoid other ways of accomplishing the same thing? How many popular phone apps are out there that could gather data? How many other media sources can be influenced?

And for that matter, the US only has jurisdiction to the extent that TikTok does business in the US. If something like it were to provide free service over the Internet, not sell ads or whatnot in the US, it doesn’t fall under US jurisdiction.

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I don’t think that legislation can move forward in a scenario where there isn’t a Speaker. That impacts everyone.

I have a couple, as well as GNU Radio, but there isn’t a software package that I’m aware of that does some analog of something like what Kismet does for WiFi, which will let you move around and use GPS position data to identify the location of sources of radio energy.

I suspect that it’d also be more-effective to do something like have an antenna array and use a device with a common, synchronized clock to identify direction.

It’s people skimming off the top of the prison industry that are the problem.

Maybe. If they’re spending 3x to 4x and have less than a quarter of the fleet functioning, that does seem like a kind of large discrepancy. I’d kind of want to see what the correlation with age is, and the bus age.

A business lease and insurance on an F150 is going to run you around 10-20k a year.

That might be true, but the $1.2m to $1.6m per year figure is maintenance, which is a different expense from financing on the bus or insurance; they shouldn’t be directly comparable. Someone isn’t going to average $10-20k a year on maintenance for an F150 (or at least I’d hope they aren’t).

EDIT: apparently this has been an ongoing problem. This article says that availability was down to close to 60% in 2022.

https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/nearly-40-of-lasd-jail-buses-are-out-of-service-and-some-incarcerated-people-are-missing-court-dates

It also has the name of the company that does the maintenance; it’s apparently not a part of the sheriff’s office.

The Sheriff’s Department has a roughly $22 million contract with Centerra Integrated Services, LLC, for maintenance services.

They interviewed a mechanic that chalked it up to COVID-19:

The mechanic said a garage near Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic usually helps service LASD buses, but some employees there have been sidelined by COVID-19.

The Sheriff’s Department said that the problem was that it hadn’t bought new busses for five years:

The department said part of the transportation problem stems from aging buses and the fact that it has not bought new buses in five years. It blamed “unfunded or underfunded” needs in the department; however, its overall budget has increased year over year.

But my point is, somehow in two years, they apparently went from a little over 60% availability, which was considered a newsworthy concern then, to something like 7% at the nadir to apparently 28% now.

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This is talking about school busses, but I’d assume that they’re pretty much the same:

https://www.busboss.com/blog/school-bus-maintenance-an-analysis-of-costs

According to these results, the average cost of school bus maintenance for districts that operate more than 100 vehicles is just over $5,500 per year. For districts with less than 100 vehicles, the average cost is similar, coming in at $43 less per year.

The average age of buses in fleets of both sizes was reported as 6 to 10 years. Of course, the newer the buses, the less they generally cost to maintain, but on average, labor expenses ran around $1,500 to $1,600 per bus.

The article did say that they were older, but it sounds like the maintenance expenditure on the prison busses is 3x to 4x that.

a Copilot key on the keyboard, which nobody outside of Microsoft’s branding department ever asked for.

I wouldn’t have had room for a Super or Hyper modifier key in Linux without Microsoft getting the Windows key added to keyboards, so…

There’s a push on mobile phones, too, which are even more battery-constrained.

I don’t know if I’d call it “AI” so much as just “parallel computation”.

For phones, maybe better local speech recognition.