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Not sure of any beginner FAQs on scanning.

I guess it all depends on how much scanning you plan to do, the size of things you want to scan, and how accurate you need the scans to be. Out of curiosity, what are you looking to scan? Is it something that can't be modeled in CAD software?

At the risk of giving you yet another option - Teaching Tech did a video on a neat scanning rig called the OpenScan Mini. Looks like someone linked OpenScan below as well. You build it yourself from electronic components, a pi, a pi camera, and some printed parts. Results look pretty decent for what it would cost to build, and probably worth the time and effort if you plan to do lots of scanning.

Thanks! I was sure there was a nomenclature, I just forgot what it was. Cheers for the reminder.

The Russians, the Iranians, the proud boys and uncle Jack in the family WhatsApp are all part of the same hydra of crap.

I see what you mean, but I disagree. Bot accounts are categorically different in this space. It's impossible to have a meaningful conversation with a bot. So when I see things like bot activity disguised to look like organic human activity, especially when it aligns with hostile foreign state interests, that's something that I think is uniquely bad and worth pointing out and combating.

Communities like https://lemmy.world/c/independentmormonism, https://lemmy.world/c/independentcatholicism, https://lemmy.world/c/thirdpartynews, all created today, and modded by a 9 day old user account with 640 comments and 334 posts.

I only bring it up to make the point that not everybody is calling what Nvidia is doing 'groundbreaking innovation'.

I mean, Nvidia is being sued by rightsholders in a class action lawsuit.

Theoretical question - would it be possible to get so gassed up that if you peed in the pool you'd make everyone else test positive?

I hear the term 'broken up' a lot in media and discourse, but it's never explained. In your eyes, what actually happens when a government 'breaks up' a corporation? I mean, what are the steps, objectives, and outcomes?

Not being adversarial, I'm just curious.

GEC looks like a legit project, and I like how their news releases are multilingual. Thank you for sharing that.

I note that the US Foreign Malign Influence Center is also at work in this space, and authored the alert yesterday that I think is motivating this particular news item.

I think funding these governmental agencies, incentivizing inter-agency communication, and modernizing & centralizing the communication of their findings is something America needs badly, as well as the country I live in.

It's a bit crazy that the only way to look at & share the FMIC alert is via a direct link to a pdf. In order to find it, you have to already know what you're looking for. Give 20 millennials a job with a mandate to find a way to organize and disseminate this information, and things would be so much better. Right now, a person has to be a sleuth to put these pieces together, and that's not right.

Anyway, I'm not taking issue with what you posted, I'm just soapboxing. An effective response to the issue of foreign disinformation campaigns seems relatively straightforward to me. The only thing missing is the political will.

Well done. I just discovered the Media Bias Fact Check - so, thank you for that!

Keep doing what you're doing. Assembling this information and making it easy to access is critically important.

We desperately need improved lines of communication between the state and the public regarding foreign disinformation. Like, a free newspaper that comes out every Monday with confirmed examples of foreign propaganda from the previous week. And official social media accounts that give up-to-date information. Surely it's in the public interest to establish offices that rapidly assemble and distribute this kind of information. Finding out, 'oh hey, that protest way back in 2022 was organized as part of a foreign interference campaign', it's just too late. This sort of information needs to be centralized, summarized, and rapidly disseminated.

It's not enough for the state to simply say 'be cautious'. Citizens need to know what to be cautious of. A general message that you shouldn't trust anything you see on social media, that's actually a benefit to the propagandists creating chaos in information spaces.

I just don't see how the problem of disinformation gets addressed without intelligence agencies getting more modern and engaged in their approach to communication with the public.

It's cryptofascism. The 'OK' hand gesture, this - fascists will call you crazy if you get upset about it. But every little thing is a seed planted.

Unfortunately this fascist attitude doesn't end with a Trump electoral defeat. These seeds are finding fertile soil. They are growing into something.