Slippery_John

Auto makers don't have to use california's rules to determine how they design the whole US fleet. They choose to do so because the cost to comply nationwide is low if they're already doing it anyway. A company could absolutely design cars for the 31 states with lax standards and attempt to compete with lower costs. That nobody has done so in the last 50 years seems to imply that you actually wouldn't see much in the way of savings. Realistically international car companies will want to make as few changes as possible between markets, and so even if California's regulations are removed we'll still have Europe effectively dictating the floor of emissions standards.

> Apple, Google, and game makers need to understand what's happening here.

I'm pretty sure Apple understands. That seems like the whole point behind their new game subscription deal - the games included aren't allowed to have microtransactions. On the other end of things their screen time and ask to buy features are global, powerful, and not super hard to discover.

Google has similar parental control tools, though that's tempered by the fact that they can't be made global. The Fortnite port on Android, for instance, completely side steps it.

That said, I'm pretty sure neither stores make distinction between gambling and other forms of in app purchases.

> Where does the money come from

The magical credit card fairy. Parents who aren't into gaming or technology may not be aware of the risks that these games pose, and therefore are unprepared to properly supervise their children when playing such games. Historical methods used to signal parents like ESRB / PEGI ratings are deliberately unhelpful in the regard as they draw no distinction between gambling mechanics and more straightforward purchases. And even then those are fine-print addendums that don't impact the actual age rating. So you wind up with a situation where games with gambling mechanics are rated by PEGI as being suitable for children 3+, leading many to be unaware of the risks a particular game poses. In comparison, a game that introduces "real" gambling with cashout possibilities gets an "Adults Only" ESRB rating as a matter of course. And even those flimsy addendums are actively circumvented by game companies who will wait a month or so after launch to add in the gambling features, after the game has already been rated and warning labels have already been printed.

In contrast, things like card packs or stickers are far easier to control. You give your child $20 and they can waste it as they please. Or they ask you for something and you buy it. Almost everybody intuitively understands that if you give your credit card to the child then you're playing with fire. Setting up a payment method in a game system is more risky in that credit cards are typically the only option (plus store gift cards that parents may not be aware of). Even so, it is not at all obvious to many just how much you can spend in a game. A child might ask for a $5 pack of loot boxes, and it seems reasonable. Then your numbers are in. If your child can then social engineer your password from you or get you to check the "don't ask for password" box then they have free reign. You might even knowingly do it because, again, it is not obvious that you can even spend that kind of money in a game.

I heard they had a lot of feedback along the lines of "I really like this game, but I'm not sure if other people will" (this from a friend who is friends with one of the artifact devs, so take it with a healthy dose of salt).

To those that have yubikeys: are they actually durable enough to keep on a key chain?

If nothing else it's advertising. "We have the capability to regularly defend against attacks from state-level actors."

I've been really impressed with Cloudflare lately between this, 1.1.1.1, and warp. It's nice to see a large company find ways build up their business by supporting the public good.

I've almost entirely de-Googled, with the one straggler being YouTube. There just aren't viable competitors. I pay for YouTube premium to get rid of the ads while still paying for usage (combined with all the tracker blocking I can reasonably do), but man that $12/month is crazy. I don't care about youtube music, youtube gaming, or any of their other "value"-add junk so it's an increasingly hard pill to swallow. I just want an ad-free plan. $8/month was much more tolerable in that respect. Hell, why doesn't Google offer a Google-wide tracking / ads opt-out plan? With their reach they could probably set up a plan wherein sites with google ads get a kickback of a subscription in exchange for not displaying ads. I'd be willing to bet Google would make more money off of me if they did that.

The other product I gave up recently was Fi. It was a hard thing to give up because if you can use it then it's really the best service out there for most. What ended up kicking me there was the paltry phone support (only token support for iOS, which I switched to, and only a handful of android devices). When I found out I could get a T-mobile plan through work that offers all of the functionality I want (though some things are gimped in comparison) for a price that, while high, was at least tolerable.

The lack of Time Machine backup into iCloud is just baffling to me. That 2TB package has lots of room for backup. If they're worried about eating too much into shared space then let me pay for a time machine partition.

Looks like I'll be ending my dropbox subscription then. I only use like 18gb on dropbox so the $0.99 / month for 50gb iCloud plan is perfect for me.

I can think of several scenarios:

* I lost the phone hiking somewhere with no signal

* I lost the phone / it was stolen while in airplane mode

* I lost the phone while traveling abroad without any local service

This finding service will work for wifi-only ipads, wifi-only apple watches, and macbooks in addition to the likely tracking tokens.

> The bottom end for such bodies is around $1500

That's not accurate. You can get a Sony a6300 with a lens on amazon for $850 right now. That will get you a much better image, with a lot more flexibility. If the P30 is your phone then it's a fantastic camera and certainly more than good enough for most people. But if you're just getting it to be a camera you're wasting a bunch of money on features you won't be using.

If you've got $900 to spend on a camera, just get a dedicated camera with interchangeable lenses.

How did a tool roll out changes to extra regions by accident? Fat-fingering a larger than intended volume in a single region I get, but does their tooling not require explicit opt in for regions? Why does it even allow simultaneous multi-region rollout at all? Is there no auto rollback, or was the failure mode not something that was a considered side-effect of the system?

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "a touch command", but you can always hit the mute button which physically disconnects the mic circuit.

I swapped last year around the end of November. I'm a fan of their filter DSL, which has let me keep my inbox pretty clean. I don't use desktop mail clients so the bridge thing doesn't bother me. Their web ui does just what I want it to, but their ios app doesn't seem to group conversations which is annoying.

Overall 8/10 would recommend.

You can use catchall addresses for this. Any ol email @ that domain that doesn't have an associated account gets routed to the catchall account. Protonmail supports this if you pay, as do a few others.

Welcome to Night Vale

The Black Tapes

Within The Wires

Myths and Legends

Ear Hustle

The Allusionist

The top four there are fiction if it matters to you.

I think they're afraid that one brand will be so much more successful that the other goes away. Each brand has different flavor, texture, and nutritional profiles so if any of those are particularly important to you then it's hard to make do with one of the other options.

For example, both Beyond Meat and Quorn sell meatless "beef" crumbles. Each has a noticeably different flavor and fairly different nutrition (The Quorn has significantly fewer calories, but less protein for example). I would be sad if either one went out of business because I use them differently.

I've had overdone Beyond meat that just has the texture of rubber before, so can confirm it has a narrower window. I imagine that's why the Impossible Burger is only available in restaurants: it's easier to control the experience.

I prefer the windows at the narrow end. Gives me more useable wall space. In fact my current apartment is much like your image (though with a bedroom on the side) and my previous was more like one with windows on the long side.

I've got a lot of books and board games that I keep in shelves, and so the much increased wall space allows me to place them more comfortably. I'm not interfering with light sources and I can secure the shelves to the wall so they don't fall down if my dog runs into them. It also makes it easier to keep the place cool in the summer since there's far less surface area to worry about.

As somebody that rarely wants to talk to strangers when I'm out an about, I have found that people will try to initiate conversation no matter how big and obvious your headphones are.

And even when I worked in a fast food joint in the mid 2000s people would frequently come in and order with their headphones on but music paused. So it's not exactly a new phenomenon, just maybe more widely spread.

That said it's pretty weird to wear them during a hair cut. I would be worried about them interfering or getting bits of clipped hair caught in.

I part run a non-profit site on Netlify and the experience is pretty great. The real killer bit for me has been their GitHub integration where they will render a preview build of any PRs put up to the site.

What does it matter that he isn't a game developer? I don't need to be an industrial revolution era child factory worker to understand that the conditions they labored under were inhumane.

Why not have paper ballots that can be read by a machine? It doesn't get around the issue entirely, but you can always look at the physical ballots for a recount. It's a lot harder to tamper with an election at scale when you need to handle physical ballots.

Or just abandon electronic voting entirely. Ireland tried electronic voting, but scrapped it for just these reasons. You could even keep the ballots in a machine-readable format for sanity checks if necessary.

It's close enough to linux for most use cases. I can count on my hands the number of times I've needed to spin up a linux machine to debug an issue in the last four years. In the meantime I have an OS that I don't have to constantly maintain while also having access to up-to-date packages via homebrew.

I can't reliably play Dark Souls via Steam Link over a wired connection that's less than ten feet long. Google may have some special sauce that improves the situation but like you I doubt it would be sufficient for all games.

This is exactly what my group went through. The text channels were nice, but the real killer feature for us was the seamless voice channels. In Skype you had to be very careful to not call the whole group, you had to manually construct voice chats every time. Being able to see who's on and who's hanging out in a voice channel is huge. Wanna play games or just have a chat but nobody else is on right now? Just drop into a voice channel and people can see that you're there so they can jump in without having to pee-arrange anything. Another live saver has been the ability to control, on your side, how you hear other people. Friend has a new mic that's too loud / quiet? You can adjust their volume. Somebody being inconsiderate / distracting? Mute them, or turn their volume down super low.

The general stability was also just fantastic compared to Skype. I used some Skype last year as part of a teaching role and good grief was it torture in comparison. Constant dropping, terrible quality, and painful to arrange.

They claim that they don't use your emails on gsuite the same way as they use it on gmail proper, but I find it very difficult to trust them on that.

The iOS one is still better IMO because they can/have (?) to say what they're using it for in the dialog.