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Nothing immediately comes up for me, but do you remember approximately when you viewed/downloaded it? If it was in a web browser, could sort by date viewed and start going through your browser history.

I suppose that people not liking NSFW questions is why Reddit had both /r/tipofmytongue and /r/tipofmypenis, to separate the two sets of questions.

You might also crosspost to !tipofmytongue@lemmy.world.

I would note that, to pick two examples:

ExpressVPN appears to have California-based exit nodes:

https://www.expressvpn.com/vpn-server/us-vpn/san-francisco-vpn

NordVPN appears to have California-based exit nodes:

https://nordvpn.com/servers/usa/sanfrancisco/

You can effectively choose the state law under which you want to access the Internet.

looks at Ohio meaningfully

I'm guessing that this case could go either way, if appealed.

If you're a citizen, there are some strong restrictions on what the government can do.

But there have been examples where the Executive Branch is accorded a great deal of leeway in being able to determine whether non-citizens may enter the country, including using criteria that would not be permissible if applied to citizens. IIRC from past reading, there is unresolved territory in case law.

kagis for an example

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/408/753/

Kleindienst v. Mandel

This action was brought to compel the Attorney General to grant a temporary nonimmigrant visa to a Belgian journalist and Marxian theoretician whom the American plaintiff appellees had invited to participate in academic conferences and discussions in this country. The alien had been found ineligible for admission under §§ 212(a)(28)(D) and (G)(v) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, barring those who advocate or publish "the economic, international, and governmental doctrines of world communism." The Attorney General had declined to waive ineligibility as he has the power to do under § 212(d) of the Act, basing his decision on unscheduled activities engaged in by the alien on a previous visit to the United States, when a waiver was granted. A three-judge District Court, although holding that the alien had no personal entry right, concluded that citizens of this country had a First Amendment right to have him enter and to hear him, and enjoined enforcement of § 212 as to this alien.

Held: In the exercise of Congress' plenary power to exclude aliens or prescribe the conditions for their entry into this country, Congress in § 212(a)(28) of the Act has delegated conditional exercise of this power to the Executive Branch. When, as in this case, the Attorney General decides for a legitimate and bona fide reason not to waive the statutory exclusion of an alien, courts will not look behind his decision or weigh it against the First Amendment interests of those who would personally communicate with the alien. Pp. 408 U. S. 761-770.

So, in that case, the guy was barred from entry to the US because he had been an advocate of world communism. However, the government could not create laws against citizens doing so, because that would violate their First Amendment rights.

kagis

Ah, but this says that while the government does have a lot of leeway as to permitting entry, courts have, in the past, found a distinction between permitting entry initially and whether-or-not a non-citizen resident may be deported:

https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/aliens/

Supreme Court precedents hold that aliens are entitled to lesser First Amendment protections while seeking to enter the United States, because an alien has no right to enter the country, as per United States ex rel. Knauff v. Shaughnessy (1950).

During the McCarthy Era, in Harisiades v. Shaughnessy, 342 U.S. 580 (1952), the U.S. allowed the deportation of a legal resident alien who was a member of the Communist Party, but Justice William O. Douglas persuasively argued in dissent that “An alien, who is assimilated in our society, is treated as a citizen so far as his property and his liberty are concerned.”

In matters involving alien exclusion and naturalization, Congress has historically been permitted broad regulatory powers, so the government has been able to use the political viewpoints of aliens against them where content-based distinctions against citizens would be impermissible. Some examples:

• Exclusion of a British anarchist was at issue in Turner v. Williams (1904);
• Harisiades v. Shaughnessy (1952), cited above, concerned deportation of communists; and
• Kleindienst v. Mandel (1972) examined denial of a travel visa to a Marxist.

Legal aliens enjoy First Amendment rights

Once situated lawfully in the United States, aliens enjoy First Amendment rights.

As Justice Francis W. Murphy described the law in his concurrence in Bridges v. Wixon (1945), “the Bill of Rights is a futile authority for the alien seeking admission for the first time to these shores. But once an alien lawfully enters and resides in this country he becomes invested with the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people within our borders.”

In that case, the Court reversed the deportation of labor activist Harry Bridges, an Australian, because of statements he had made that prosecutors charged indicated “affiliation” with the Communist Party. Writing for the Court, Justice William O. Douglas concluded that “freedom of speech and of the press is accorded aliens residing in this country. . . . [T]he literature published by Harry Bridges, the utterances made by him were entitled to that protection.”

Developments during Trump Administration

The Trump Administration has sought both to restrict U.S. entry of non-citizens who oppose U.S. policies and to expel those within the country who have participated in political protests that the administration disfavors.

In 2025, the administration sought to revoke the student visa and green card of Mahmoud Khalil for his participation in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University.

It did so under the Immigration and Nationality Act, which authorizes the Secretary of State to deport any individual who is “adversarial to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States of America.” After his arrest, Khalil was moved to a detention center in Louisiana and the government made additional arguments that Khalil obtained his green card without mentioning his employment by the Syria Office in the British Embassy in Beirut. He is now scheduled for a hearing before an immigration judge in New Jersey.

In the meantime, the government has arrested a Tufts University Ph.D. student, Rumeysa Ozturk, whom it has also transported to Louisiana, apparently on the basis that she coauthored an article criticizing the university’s response to the Palestinian crisis. The government has also deported Dr. Rasha Alawieh, who was working at Brown University, on the basis that she had attended the funeral of a Hezbollah leader in Lebanon. In addition, the government has arrested Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national researcher at Georgetown University, alleging that Suri was supporting Hamas propaganda and antisemitism. Suri has challenged this detention in court and is awaiting a hearing before an immigration judge in Texas. Yet another foreign student at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, which was a site of pro-Palestinian protests, has been arrested.

In resolving these cases, courts will likely clarify the scope of existing legislation, whether the power asserted by the Secretary of State violates due process, and the degree to which resident aliens who are legally residing within the United States are protected by the First Amendment and other constitutional guarantees.

Ah, gotcha. Just for the record --- though it doesn't really matter as regards your point, because I was incorrectly assuming that you were using it as an example of with something with Firewire onboard --- there are apparently two different products:

The 1010 has a PCI card, but it talks to an external box:

The 1010LT has a PCI card alone, no external box, and then a ton of cables that fan out directly from the card:

Neither appears to have a Firewire interface. IIRC, the 1010LT was less expensive, was the one I was using.

I have a feeling its mostly due to some audio and video hardware that has some real longevity. I’ve got a VHS+minidv player that I am transferring old videos from using FireWire (well, for the minidv. VHS is s-video capture).

Yeah, that's a thought...though honestly, unless whatever someone is doing requires real-time processing and adding latency is a problem, they can probably pass it through some other old device that can speak both Firewire and something else.

Probably the m-audio delta 1010

That doesn't have a Firewire interface, does it? I thought I had one of those.

checks

Oh, I'm thinking of the 1010LT, not the 1010. That lives on a PCI card.

Why would I bother?

Because you want to have a single interface that accepts natural-language input and gives answers.

That doesn't mean that using an LLM as a calculator is a reasonable approach --- though a larger system that incorporates an LLM might be. But I think that the goal is very understandable. I have Maxima, a symbolic math package, on my smartphone and computers. It's quite competent at probably just about any sort of mathematical problem that pretty much any typical person might want to do. It costs nothing. But...you do need to learn something about the package to be able to use it. You don't have to learn much of anything that a typical member of the public doesn't already know to use a prompt that accepts natural-language input. And that barrier is enough that most people won't use it.

I turn the refresh rate down on phones, where battery matters. I turn it up on desktops, where it doesn't matter.

If it's Linux, sounds like it should just work out of box, at least for a while longer.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/linux-to-support-firewire-until-2029

Linux to Support Firewire Until 2029

The ancient connectivity standard still has years of life ahead of it.

Firewire is getting a new lease on life and will have extended support up to 2029 on Linux operating systems. Phoronix reports that a Linux maintainer Takashi Sakamoto has volunteered to oversee the Firewire subsystem for Linux during this time, and will work on Firewire's core functions and sound drivers for the remaining few that still use the connectivity standard.

Further, Takashi Sakamoto says that his work will help users transition from Firewire to more modern technology standards (like perhaps USB 2.0). Apparently, Firewire still has a dedicated fanbase that is big enough to warrant six more years of support. But we suspect this will be the final stretch for Firewire support, surrounding Linux operating systems. Once 2029 comes around, there's a good chance Firewire will finally be dropped from the Linux kernel altogether.

Newsweek is just using a clickbait headline. Hegseth hauled in all the top brass so that he could impress everyone with the fact that he works out.

Hegseth told senior military leaders that he no longer wants to see “fat generals and admirals” or overweight troops in combat units.

“It’s completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon leading commands around the country, in the world, it’s a bad look,” Hegseth said.

For people who are actually engaged in combat, okay, but usually generals are not going to be personally engaged in physical combat. If they are, things have probably gone rather wrong on other levels. Like, we're theoretically choosing people at that level based on ability to coordinate and plan, not to look sexy on TV.

The Defense Secretary pointed to his own regimen as an example. “It all starts with physical fitness and appearance,” he said. “If the Secretary of War can do regular, hard PT [physical training], so can every member of our joint force.”

Every time I think the cringe bar cannot go lower, this administration manages it.

Oh, damn. I assumed that this was another headline trying to play up a heart attack or something, but this, in fact, does not sound good:

The Paris prosecutors' office said Mthethwa had been reported missing by his wife on Monday evening after she received a text message from him that had worried her.

The prosecutor's office said Mthethwa booked a room on the 22nd floor of the Hyatt Regency hotel in the 17th arrondissement of Paris and that a secured window had been forced open.

Could be, but I haven't tried that one myself.

I see that someone has a bone to pick with T-Mobile.

kagis

Looks like it's going forward. 2026 should be the last year that the US mints the penny.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_(United_States_coin)

In 2025, the U.S. Mint announced a plan to end penny production after the 2026 production run.

He has named...the State of Israel... in court documents.

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

The 1976 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act generally bars suits against foreign governments, except in cases where state immunity is waived; in certain admiralty claims; or in claims involving commercial activity, a tort inside the United States involving death, personal injury, or damage to or loss of property (such as a traffic collision), or expropriation of property in violation of international law.

one-ounce gold coin, valued at $40 trillion

Trump was claiming that the reason that he wanted to stop minting the penny was because the metal was worth more than the value of the penny (while true, that's not where the real cost of the penny comes from; it's rather from the handling and processing costs). I assume that that was to pander to someone, so I'm wondering if maybe there's a segment of the MAGA crowd that's obsessed with the metal value versus face value of coins.

He’s either a fucking moron or trying to drum up publicity for something.

Not necessarily mutually-exclusive possibilities, I would note.

According to the article, he did, but then Trump didn't release the Epstein files, so now he says that he doesn't like Trump.