Root access should be available from the moment my purchase payment clears. I paid, it's my device.
Troy Dowling
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I was with you up until the climate controls.
Any control you can find in a 1997 Hyundai Accent should be physical.
Anything else can be hidden behind a touchscreen because I'm not going to use it while driving anyway.
My big request would be to drop the USB cable. I don't know why I need to connect both USB and Bluetooth. I'd love to just leave my cell in my bag where it belongs instead of advertising yet another reason why someone should smash my windows in!
You need a touchscreen to open the glovebox?
I have heard it front to back, back to front, up or down, but never have I heard of a left-right wiper.
The perpetual year of the Linux desktop.
I noticed I was blocked today when connecting via the same VPN I've used for years, including back when I was a user. That's fuck up enough for me.
The only reason I know what webp is, is because its "that dumb format" that doesn't play like a GIF in Signal.
Could you elaborate? If John Smith gets a speeding ticket, all other drivers get a video of it in a "Don't be like John" email? There must be so many drivers, so surely it can't be "all" of them.
Thanks to Britain, we now have swearing on the Internet.
USB One
The very last thing the Internet needs is more ads.
I bought a popcorn bowl that turned out to be terrible. It came with a leaflet coupon saying if I left a 5-star review, they would send me another bowl for free.
The comment I tried to leave was a short, fair, polite statement along the lines of 'this bowl doesn't meet the claims X and Y on the description, and came with an offer to trade a good review for another bowl for free." That review got flagged by the automod and was ultimately rejected. If I recall, the rejection message wasn't even specific on what rule my review broke.
I picked it up on the Steam winter sale. Been waiting to play this one for so long and can't wait!
Wow, this game was incredible! Apogee did a tonne of great work, but this may have been my favourite. The music and intro cutscene especially stand out in my mind.
If you don't mind me polling your opinion: do you recommend Graphene for someone previously used to Cyanogen / Lineage? I recently upgraded to a Pixel 8 from quite an old handset and I'm not particularly fond of the stock ROM. Much has changed since the last time I had to think about this stuff! I primarily care about privacy, and use my cell for little more than phone calls, messaging, and its camera.
Telus? What a bunch of crooked hosers.
When I hitbthe B button instead of spacebar on my tiny, touchscreen cell phone.
The dietary illuminati hid their food pyramid atop the unfinished pyramid of the one dollar bill! It's pyramids all the way down!
Hack.
It doesn't mean someone guessed your Facebook dictionary-word password.
It doesn't even mean some black hoodie-wearing, bad actor remotely broke into a secure computer system.
It's a clever trick. Whether it's in code or concrete. Some creative, elegant, unexpected, solution to a problem.
"I know a menu hack. Order the kids burger and add cheese to save a buck."
"We ran out of conductors in the cable, so we're transmitting power via a differential pair. I know it's a hack, but we need to ship by end of month."
I have no idea how these work, but one hack idea off the cuff:
You get the light for free. At least when your lids are open; that's how vision works. A cheap digital watch lasts ages on a tiny coin cell because the polarisation of the LCD, which passes or blocks polarised light, takes minimal energy. Stack up a passive polariser, and the active LCD-like layer, (and maybe a second passive layer?) and you can cast selective shadows on the retina.
This gives you monochrome "smart vision" in the same sense as a monochrome Casio wristwatch. No idea how to tackle issues of focus at such a short focal length, or achieving any sort of active display let alone colour.
Maybe the whole thing is a pipe dream crackpot idea.
I don't think Logitech has been a contender for years now. At least for their desktop peripherals. I used to be a fanboy, but had three mice all fail the same way within a year (middle click failed), then my new, expensive keyboard I bought for the office started dropping many keys under my left hand. And I work from home, so the keyboard only had a few dozen hours of actual use on it.
It feels like there are so few options for peripherals that have the features I want, but don't have gaudy LED light effects or an otherwise silly "gamer" aesthetic.
Problem: ambiguity of date terms like saying "this Wednesday" on a Thursday. Is the speaker referring to yesterday or the coming Wednesday six days from now? Not always clear.
Solution: I propose standardising our understanding of the week as beginning Monday, ending Sunday. At any point in the current week, "this whateverday" refers to that day in the current week, no matter if it's past or future. "Next whateverday" refers to that day in the upcoming Monday through Sunday week.
"This Wednesday", on a Thursday, is referring to yesterday.
"Next Wednesday", on a Thursday, is referring to a day six days from now.
(I also suggest adopting ISO 8601, writing dates in year-month-day order to avoid that ugly ambiguity.)
Give the article a read. Your answer is right at the top.
You might be interested in the story of Luigi Galvani's experiments with frog muscle tissue. It was seminal work in anatomy as well as physics.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1631069106000370?via%3Dihub
Cool ideas. I like the idea of an accessible, global democracy. But I wondered about two things:
One, I think the complexity of such an identity database would be so great, it would preclude any means of reliably identifying false connections. And if that complexity wasn't boggling, would it really capture anything more than our present distributed (inefficient) system of records? You would wind up with a, admittedly more sophisticated, statistical model for identifying bogus individuals.
Another thing I wonder is how much help it would actually be. Lots of issues are more complex than "is clean water good?" If and when a decision needs to be made on something outside your expertise, or with no clearly altruistic option, you have to look for help in understanding your choices. And that makes you vulnerable to influence by someone else's interpretation. Which leaves you where we are now.
So I guess it raises some problems to solve. Can you really create a perfect record of identity without sacrificing privacy? Could you meaningfully interrogate it? How do you provide an unbiased education of every vote and referendum? How do you solve the influence problem or stop organized political machines from springing up again? Does any of this address the root cause of unbalanced wealth and power?
Just cross your fingers we don't wind up with that ridiculous chimp we saw in one of their previews.
Fiirefox?
It's a beautiful bird until the horny little pricks find your chimney's metal flashing at 5:00!
Your email likely is already delivered over a TLS or SMARTLS protected channel. That's not the (only) problem PGP addresses. PGP provides message authentication in addition to encryption.
To take your colleague as an example, his email was cryptographically signed by him. A function that requires his private key, and possibly a passphrase to unlock the key. The signature includes a hash of the message, and requires that private key to generate. On your end, your client hashes the message again and compares the signature. If it isn't identical, someone has tampered with the content. Presuming you met up ahead of time in person or through another trusted channel, and shared public keys, seeing the valid signature also gives you confidence that this email was actually written by the person you expect, and not anyone else with access to their device or account. (If the senders key is still safe anyway.)
One of the frustrating things about Signal is its extreme compression. I hope WhatsApp laxing up a bit will be the final push to the Signal devs to allow me to send a 30 MiB photo if I want to. Just give me a damn opt-in option buried in a settings menu for Pete's sake.
Annoys me to no end that I'm forced to crunch image quality down. The reasons I heard in discussion were to save disk space and network bandwidth. I have no sympathy for either of these points. Have a modicum of digital hygiene and delete old files, and pressure your ridiculous governments to invest and regulate ISPs, then join the rest of the world in the 21st century.
ToonStruck, remastered, or the shelved sequel ressurected. I'd like Burst to (exist again and) handle the development because they did a fantastic job the first time around!
Za'atar, or sambal oelek.
Vim, or neovim if you want to put some leg work in for vi with modern features.
"an unknown (mobile?) client"
Well, nice try anyway.