PhilipTheBucket

Yeah. I'm just talking about his character on a personal level, not about the danger he represents on a factual level. Other people who have much stronger character set up solid systems which are terrifyingly effective, and now this brain damaged child is in charge of a lot of them. It's not a good situation.

Here's the pinout for the webcam component: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Framework-Laptop-13/tree/main/Webcam

Unfortunately it isn't really clear whether the switch positions are in the pinout because it's the mainboard's job to implement shutting off the camera when it's off, or just as information with the webcam module responsible for shutting it off in hardware. I have no idea which it is, but it wouldn't be super-hard for someone capable with EE to take off the bezel and fool around with it and see which it is (or just pay $19 for the magic of buying two of them, if you didn't want to take apart your own laptop for it.)

They say they provide full schematics on demand to repair shops (https://knowledgebase.frame.work/availability-of-schematics-and-boardviews-BJMZ6EAu). I'm not sure why they don't want to just post them publicly, so in that sense you might be right, but they also don't seem like they are trying to keep them or the interface details of the webcam module fully top secret either.

They do seem like they publish enough information that someone could figure out the answer if they wanted to. (People in the forums have fooled around with them and seem to be convinced that they are actually hardware switches: https://community.frame.work/t/how-do-the-camera-and-microphone-switches-work/4271 IDK whether that's accurate, but that's what the forum people think.)

No idea why you're trying to lecture me from this position of authority about taking apart PCBs and whatnot. Anyway, that's how it works, hope this is helpful for you.

Not in exchange for peace, in exchange for a vague promise of peace in the future which won't be kept. I get why Trump can't see that, but it is weird for it to get reported on as if it was not a transparent scam perpetrated on one of the dumbest people in the world.

I sort of suspect that the wiring is in a diagram somewhere. I could be wrong, but that would be my guess. It's not in a PCB, that's up in the bezel where it's just wires and stuff.

Also! Inflation and whether or not it was the president's fault, and all the Palestine protests and how Democrats (only Democrats) were facing a lot of heat for their support of Israel. Almost as if our media is corrupted by partisan influences that are trying to mislead and influence people, and it works shockingly well.

By the statute, he's 100% guilty. And there's no particular guarantee that he'll get a jury of people who are willing to say "Yeah but fuck Trump at the end of the day" (or even that he won't get whisked away to some kind of ICE tribunal that are going to make him the test case for "deporting" citizens or something).

I'm 100% behind the guy, and honestly I would be cheering for him to fight the case because fuck Trump also, but I'm just saying that it's way way different when it's you in the seat start facing down "sacrifice the rest of your life" consequences.

Yeah. It's a fucking disgrace.

Read "Sky Over Kharkiv" for some generally excellent picture of the war from the Ukraine perspective, with some occasional bitterness about the cowardice and apathy of all the Western allies about helping Ukraine to any pivotal extent.

Dan Ellsberg also had some great writing about how this all functions from the POV inside the Western military machine. He called it "the stalemate machine": We're motivated enough to help you not lose, but not motivated enough to let you win. And so, you just keep dying, month after month and year after year.

Framework laptops have a little physical switch to turn off the camera / mic when you don't want them.

The original SGI webcams, some of the first that ever existed, actually had a physical plastic cover that you could slide over them when you didn't want the camera on. "No, I don't trust your hardware any more than your software. I shouldn't need to. Stop looking at me when I don't want you to, and prove to me that you are not, or else I will be suspicious." Back in those days that was sort of a universal point of view among internet people, I think...

Yeah, I'm just coming in this thread and saying totally weird counterfactual nonsense, just kind of anything that serves the narrative I am trying to portray. It doesn't even have to make sense.

Ukrainians are mostly killing foreign mercenaries, prison conscripts, and the elderly surplus population?

Yeah! That's in "The Art of War," right? You're supposed to send your "elderly" and other random dregs you can dig up first to fight a critical war. And then, once you've depended on all those "surplus" people for several years, you move on to your trained troops, the actual military. Obviously. It's just part of the Russian mastery of military strategy that meant they ~~took over the country in three days~~ ~~slowly pushed forward and got the mission accomplished and went home in a few months~~ ~~fought a Pyrrhic victory over the space of a year and a half and then negotiated a partition and then started rebuilding and preparing for next random invasion of some neighbor country~~ got stuck at the border for years, ruined their economy and any respect their military or kit might have had on the world stage, and are now scrounging around for any possible military-age males they can lay hands on to keep feeding into the grinder, hoping that if they keep it up long enough, it'll work.

I have more to say about the rest of your ridiculous message, but I don't think it's really necessary.

Unfortunately, they're outnumbered by more than an order of magnitude. They're getting ground down as time goes on, and for all its stupidity the Russian military is not small or fragile. Basically, the Russians only have to win once to win, Ukraine has to survive every month that goes by, time after time.

The good guys don't always win. Just ask the Palestinians.

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