ObsoleteNerd

Facebook doesn't care. Apple doesn't care (enough to block/punish Facebook). These days the only answer is to treat the web like a hostile environment and protect yourself from malicious companies like Facebook, intent on deploying spyware and ruining the user experience in exchange for more data to profit from.

Install a Pi-Hole or similar on your network, block all FB domains. It doesn't break the web for you, it actually makes it a lot faster/nicer. Blocking Google is trickier due to core functionality of major sites depending on some of their services, but you can still block lots of it and still have a totally normal (improved) experience in your daily browsing.

(Yes, blocking all FB domains on my network stopped the recent FB bugs from crashing my apps, Spotify/etc worked flawlessly throughout that period, except when I disabled the Pi-Hole temporarily to see what all the fuss was about)

I’ve got some a lot older than that that’s still sticky. I have no idea what wizardry it’s made of but it’s incredible stuff. Probably involves actual magic (aka Materials Science, the closest thing we have to real magic). I use it every day to hold wires in place while soldering, or temporarily positioning components to decide on layouts, etc etc.

My wife uses a tiny speck of Blu Tak. It’s soft so just gets squashed flat when the lid closes and it’s designed to be infinitely reusable and come off things without leaving a mark. She just pulls it off and sticks it a few cm to the side of the camera when she wants to use it. She’s been doing it for 3+ years (same piece) and it’s genius.

8% is not a terrible conversion rate at all, and they’ve only just started. I’m not a Quibi user and have no vested interest in them either way but this is the third different article I’ve seen in the last week or 2 talking about how terrible they’re doing and now they’re about to crash and burn, because of an 8% conversion?

Comparing them to Disney is ridiculous too, it’s Disney! With multiple generations obsessed with their library and people literally counting down the days until their launch, they got a 10% conversion... but 8% is horrible and the end of Quibi?

After playing with dozens of password managers and more phone apps than I can count, I now use KeePassXC on all my desktops/laptops (across Linux/Mac/Win) and Strongbox on iOS devices and have never been happier with my setup. It all just works now.

Temporary workaround for people who need Spotify as badly as they need oxygen (Eg: me, and my kids)...

Turn airplane mode on, open Spotify, go to Settings > Playback, set it to Offline, then turn airplane mode off.

At least now you can listen to cached music and browse the web again.

Longer term, install a Pi-Hole on your home network and block all Facebook owned domains, because they’re a scourge on humanity and your life will be much better void of their infection.

You manually run the audit, and it makes it very clear that it’s about to do an online activity:

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/pull/4438

Yeah a lot of them are very clearly failed projects and businesses and it’s fascinating reading through them.

My daughter get the Kiwi Crate (gifted subscription from Grandpa), for about a year now, and it's an absolute highlight of our month. We make a day of it each time one arrives and put together a little video of completing it to send back to Grandpa. It has become very special to all of us.

They've created something really amazing with this. Other crates/boxes/etc exist, but they consistently nail the balance of challenge vs fun and overall quality. My 5 year old can follow the instructions herself with only minor prompting from me, and you always get some form of lasting & inspiring object afterwards rather than just stuff that ends up in the bin like many other similar programs. Her room and our house are littered with things she's built herself and that still get use many months later, and they've taught her heaps about how things work.

Rebooting, and nuking settings. I’ve lost count of the number of times I come back to the PC and it’s rebooted, forgotten my monitor layout, forgotten my sound settings, etc etc.

iPhone 11 Pro here, everything up to date, and I get the same as you. Type in "sketch" and press GO and I get the DDG results for the term "sketch".

I also tried the example in the OP link and typed "realty.com" and it went to realty.com as expected.

Funnily enough though, as proof that Safari suggestions are still broken despite the above examples working for me... if I now type in "sketch" again, it suggests "realty.com" as the top result. Wtf.

In the earlier days he very clearly stated he was a hacker “in the Australian scene” and name dropped various IRC channels etc. I have no idea if it was true or not, but I recognised some of the channels mentioned hence it stuck with me.

They make enough money in between selling the tool and Apple patching the exploit to make it worthy, not to mention the amount of people who don’t do updates meaning the tool is still effective some of the time.

Then the find/buy a new exploit and do it again.

The offical Raspberry Pi distro of Linux is already called “Raspberry Pi OS”:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspberry-pi-os/

For Australians:

https://www.tio.com.au/

Don't be afraid to use the TIO. ISPs get away with way too much crap here, and you'll find all your problems (I'm looking at you Telstra) are magically fixed extremely quickly once the TIO are involved.

It’s just as private as Gmail, which is the comparison in question.

If you want secure, you wouldn’t be using email in the first place.

Yeah that headline has to be on purpose. I clicked so fast, expecting some breakthrough in wireless CAR charging.

Earlier Pis could already run off USB drives, it’s just that they released the Pi4 before they had USB boot in the firmware so it didn’t work, but now it does.

What, you mean you didn’t feel the need to give up 75% of your system resources so you could have an active website as the wallpaper of your desktop?

Have you seen Powertoys[0] FancyZones? It’s honestly in my top 5 Windows 10 apps of all time and it’s free. Fully customisable window zone manager allowing different zone layouts on each monitor and with hot key support.

This should be standard in Windows IMO. It has absolutely transformed how I work and noticeably increased my productivity.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

$2.4B wasted on this.

They weren't smashing atoms together to discover world-changing new physics. They didn't send people to space or develop some new revolutionary type of transport that could transform society.

They made some really average AR glasses.

Two point four BILLION dollars.

The Tesla Model S cost ~500M to develop from start to finish[0], so Magic Leap has spent 5 times that amount.

The ENTIRE Starlink satellite network will cost ~$10B total to develop, build, and deploy [1]. So Magic Leap spent a quarter of that.

Apple developed and released the original iPhone on a budget of $150M. Magic Leap has spent 16 times that.

These aren't apples to apples, of course. But I think it puts in perspective just how much of a scam Magic Leap is in general.

[0] https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/model-s-development-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(1st_generation)

I bought a 4gb Pi4 today, got the shipping confirmation email from the supplier, then straight away got another email from the same supplier launching sales of the 8gb one... talk about timing.

I'm working on a webring type project right now, with a central site that pulls in RSS feeds of all the ring members to create a central news feed (HN style interface), to help with discoverability too.

You add the webring to your site, allowing your visitors to discover more sites you specifically like, then you can opt-in to have your RSS feed fed back to the main site.

Yeah the front page definitely tries to sound like they just invented the quadruped.

I’m all for people getting into robotics, but I’d much prefer a more natural/honest intro to projects like this. “I saw all these cool quadruped projects and wanted to make my own to learn more about them”.

Yeah I’m sure this is at least the third article I’ve seen posted in the last month or 2 boasting about being the first to use sewerage to detect the virus.

Yeah happening for me and friends too, despite being on different ISPs and in different states of Australia.

It’s random too. A site that doesn’t work for them works for me, and vice versa.

Thank you so much for that, I am/was a HUGE fan of that feature in Firefox, and it was actually one of the main features that got me to switch to Firefox in the first place. I was gutted when they removed it, and while I still swear by Firefox over Chrome, I'm finding they're making more and more questionable decisions lately when it comes to their supposed love for a free/open Internet.

“Code Survivor”.. Outwit, outlast, outplay. ;)

Still common now, at least in Australia. My ISP gives me 1GB if hosting for a website and 10 mailboxes.

Oh man, those were some fun days.

I remember taking over a top 10 channel on Efnet because the owner went on holidays and forgot to get someone to keep their account active.