Initial Public Offering.

Its where a company offers stock for public sale, and gets listed on the stock market.

Generally this corresponds with a company pushing hard to maximize profits over other metrics like user growth.

Nah, I mean you’re just in a weird spot where it’s hard to tell

Okay, that’s like the worst answer to be able to tell lol. It’ll heavily depend on what the branch is like. My local one? You’d be welcome, but a couple people would try to radicalize you.

Ah, I didn’t realize that counted as importing, turns out only people who already own one in Washington can bring one in if they previously left the state with it. Guess the answer is either dont do it or don’t get caught. The best answer is to ask a lawyer though. The NRA might have someone you can talk to for free if you’re willing to put up with dealing with them for a little while. Just use a disposable email / phone so they don’t bother you after.

The SRA varies a lot by chapter, it’s not really a national org in any meaningful way, but both the chapters I’ve done stuff with were pretty welcoming to social democrats. What would you describe yourself as? I might be able to give a better answer.

My local chapter is a mix of communists, anarchists, and soc dems. We also do open-invite firearm trainings, and have had some liberals show up recently, but none of them have really stuck around.

If you’re concerned about maga getting violent you’ll find like-minded people in the SRA, at least on that. If you’re open to being in an explicitly leftist space, I’d probably check them out, in case shit does hit the fan, you want to know people you can ally with.

About half the country is completely checked out of politics, most of them probably know Trump’s president, but uh, good luck getting accurate answers about anything else, only 47% of Americans can even name the 3 branches of government we have, so I’m being generous here.

The remaining half is split between people who are aware and people cheering it on.

Trump appealed and it’s languishing in the system

Just get something fairly common and a 10rd compliant mag.

Much of hb1240 also only applies to sales and imports, but doesn’t ban ownership, so you can still have an ar-15 for example if you buy before you move.

There’s plenty of higher capacity shit in the rest of the US, if it comes to a point where you need them, they’ll make their way in. Just reach hook up with your local branch of the SRA when you move there.

WA does have a state guard, but it’s like 50 people iirc.

Never underestimate how much damage a dying empire can do when lashing out trying to hold on to power. The world needs to prepare to deal with the US for decades if necessary.

Yeah, that video was what I was referencing

Arc. The browser company is continuing security updates, but has otherwise stopped all development

Arc. They are only continuing security updates and necessary maintenance. No more feature work, no more bug fixes.

Nah, it’s abandoned as the company turned to ai stuff

I just have it on a private Gitea server right now, I’ll move it over to github and send you a DM with some more details

Huh, I wasnt originally planning on activitypub in what I’m building cause I see little reason for my group’s needs, currently just thinking a basic api so you could hook several instances together. @ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com would that cover your use case or would a broader activity pub implementation be better?

(Also absolutely no promises this turns into something beyond just being useful to the group I’m involved in, but I would like to make it something broadly useful if I can with the time I’m able to put into it.)

I’ve looked for something like this and haven’t been able to find one.

I’ve started developing one for my local mutual aid group, but that’s still months away from an initial release at the rate I’ve been able to put time into it.

(Side note if anyone does know of one, I’d love to hear about it)

That’s certainly a choice

Other methods of data collection can be scarily effective. Stores have identified people were pregnant before they knew.

Very likely they identified you as someone that could have that condition, and you noticing the ads after talking to your doctor is a form of recency bias.

You can collect almost all the same data from traditional surveillance methods. Collecting and processing mocrophone data just isn’t effective enough to make up for the massively increased costs from processing it.

Yeah, there’s just more effective methods to get essentially the same data.

USB A is bad and ditching it is the one good thing Apple has done.

There’s going to be a transition period, but we’re at a point where you can buy USB C peripherals for pretty much anything