daedalus_j

Small counterpoint: I'm 42 years old, and I would have to look at my resume to see what year I graduated college. By time I graduated I was already working full time, had a contracting company on the side, and had a family. College was just a thing that was happening, another job, it wasn't a huge life-defining event. I remember the people I met and the projects I worked on, but there's no way I'd be able to accurately tell you the exact year it was over. (I just checked the resume, I was off by 2. Yikers.)

There you go, now you've met one!

Chezmoi is what you want.

I haven't looked at this one yet, but until someone compares it to Chezmoi and points out where it's better I'm not even looking attention I fear. Chezmoi is just that good.

In case you were unaware:

http://cuberule.com has solved this question definitively.

Does iOS not have spam blocking in the SMS app? It all goes straight to the spam folder in Google Messages, haven't seen a spam SMS in years.

The problem is that I WANT to give an app access to everything. I don't want my OS to think of "photos" vs "documents". I want a filesystem, and I want apps to be able to share access to it.

Google and apple are the ones "not respecting the users" by focusing exclusively on lowest common denominator users and pushing to increase their monopoly controls.

The day Android stops letting Syncthing have access to my entire filesystem is the day Android becomes entirely useless to me.

I agree that this access is indeed exploited by Facebook and the like, but the solution simply can't be to remove the capability entirely.

I'm honestly curious: you think people didn't vote for Harris because she was a black woman? What would you estimate the split is between people for whom that is their legitimate reason, and people who just found her to be a bad candidate?

Also curious: you use celebrity endorsements as a goalpost for what should make people care enough to vote. Why? Given the wacky things they often get up to I'd almost see their endorsement as a negative.

They did? I've not heard of that, and a cursory search isn't finding anything. Got any more info on this, which rocket, etc? I'd love to learn about that.

Definitely agree. I haven't played in some years, but when I did Apex Legends netcode was atrocious. They were clearly putting most of the workload onto the client, rather than letting the server arbitrate.

I think you've nailed the reason why these rootkits keep getting added, but I feel like there must be something else these game companies want... Why do they keep adding it to single player games for example?

They HAVE to be assumed to be hostile bad actors. I definitely hope valve stands their ground on this one.

Yes, but during its de-orbit burn, [1] [2] which is a relighting of the engine once the payload has been released. This will not be an issue for europa clipper as the 2nd stage will not be coming back to earth, so there's no issue with a lack of accuracy on this one.

I had misremembered: it was the Hera launch the FAA cleared because there was no reentry risk. Europa clipper was expected to get the same treatment, but it seems the FAA and SpaceX were happy with their understanding of what happened with the 2nd stage anomaly and returned Falcon 9 to flight. [3]

[1] https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1840245345118498987

[2] https://x.com/jeff_foust/status/1845579767040626798

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/1g1kdk3/the_faa_aut...

The second stage failed it's de-orbit disposal burn. This second stage isn't even going to be doing one since it's carrying the payload out beyond earth orbit.

NASA and the FAA were pretty clear on this actually, they don't see any risk due to that previous failure, falcon 2nd stages haven't had any problems with their primary burn in a long time.

That's not unusual at all. I'd bet every insurance company us trying to, and some straight-up offer discounts to do so.

I prefer the honesty really....

https://www.businessinsider.com/auto-insurance-monitor-drivi...

I wish... Live is the only reason I have a windows partition anymore. I just can't quite get it to work in wine/emulation...

When I'm forced to upgrade to windows 11 I simply won't have Live anymore, because I won't be doing that, and so I haven't purchased the latest version and am starting to experiment with the alternatives. Makes me sad though, it'd be so great to have on Linux.

The ThinkPhone has the shake gestures still. Boggles my mind why not every moto phone has them.

Because they assume you've set name+spam@gmail.com to be filtered directly to spam, and they can easily evade those filters by removing the ±spam part.

Big companies do this. I have signed up for things using a +filter email address, only to receive the emails from that company that is signed up to get at my plane address, without the +filter part.

The Minds from The Culture scifi series have something like this... The top level glyph is the base meaning and you can encode essentially infinite depth of meaning beyond that... Of course you have to go multidimensional at some point, so you can't really print it out beyond a few layers of resolution...

Get 'ye to an allergist and get some shots! At least in the DFW area i've managed to go from 3-weeks of benadryl-induced-coma during the "cedar season" to barely a stuffy nose!

I've heard Houston is worse. That's kinda terrifying.

It's pretty dang close. The only games I've had problems with in recent years were non-steam. Once Overwatch died and everything I was playing was in Steam I found myself rebooting into windows a lot less often.

Getting your hardware working right is still the biggest problem. The games work great, occasionally audio/video driver issues necessitate some fiddling. (advantage to the Deck is that this goes away.)

I think what triggers most of us to complain is the fact that the price goes up while the value goes down.

Spotify is actually a great value, but they keep making it worse and worse. If they had announced a price increase along side of an announcement of "we're doing this to compensate for the expected loss of income that will occur when we remove podcasts from the UI as we refocus on our core competency of delivering you amazing music and helping you discover amazing new music" we'd be cheering the price increase.

But no, the price will go up, and they'll F-up the UI even further to make it even harder to actually find music in it, and they still won't offer high quality streams.

"Get what you pay for" is fine, but what they're giving me is getting closer and closer to what I'd expect to get for free.

Really? Open Settings, there's a "Search" tab on the sidebar. Literally the first item is "default search engine".

At the bottom of that tab is the "Search shortcuts", which makes it trivially easy to have multiple search engines installed and use the one you want from your search bar. (I use @g for google, @d for DDG, and @k for Kagi, with an @v for DevDocs.io)

My guess would be that their phone was taken from them, unlocked, and their messages were accessed that way.

I know several large IT orgs that have done this when Legal got involved. Literally using a 2nd phone to take pictures of Signal chats on the phone in question.

What ads? I've had a pixel 7a for month, stock OS, and I'm not sure what you mean. I certainly don't get any ads via notification except for from 3rd party apps.

It's possible you have some Google app running and that's what's doing it? I would look into which apps the notifications are coming from, you should be able to completely eliminate the problem.

I was scrolling through looking for the Google Wave comment. Sad to see it at the bottom.

Wave was, IMHO, the UI paradigm of the future for this sort of thing. I have hope that it was just too far ahead of it's time and something like it will catch on again.

I think the problem it suffered from, besides being a little too "out there" for the average user, was that it required to much careful attention to how you used it. Where to fork the discussions, where to spilt them off into their own wave leaving only a link in their place, etc. It just doesn't work for people for whom the "reply all" button seems a sensible solution....

I had such hope for it though. The technical side seems pretty well solved at this point, it seems like that we need is a crack team of psychologists and UX people to have a go at the problem.

Having lived in the area for several decades: there are leopards about already! It's actually kind of impressive that the zebra managed to avoid becoming cougar lunch, it's not like she blends in with the local moss and trees very well...

FWIW I really don't need to remember the IPv6 addresses of devices on my networks, DNS and my router handle that for me fairly automatically.

I can even control how I connect to the device, either by using it's hostname on the LAN, it's WAN hostname, or it's VPN hostname. This has always been preferable to me over remembering IP addresses, even in the v4 realm.

The only time v6 has ever caused me any difficulty is when dealing with services/tools that don't support it, but that's getting to be less and less of a problem even.

I had similar issues (also with pfSense) during my ISP's rollout of IPv6. It seems that it was all ISP related. I turned it off and came back a few months later and it's been pretty flawless ever since. The only times it causes problems is when the ISP's v6 stack goes out, leaving us with interrupted v6 service but working v4. Doesn't seem that apps handle that situation very gracefully.

At another site I manage they have Starlink with v6 and CGNAT v4 and it's great, just plugged in the dish to the pfSense router, set up v6, and it's been ticking away happily ever since. The only problems we have are with the old devices (iot and such) that don't get V6 addresses, and have trouble with the CGNAT. (Seems like it doesn't reset long-running connections correctly perhaps, they just get stalled out. Killing the state on pfSense usually gets them working again.)

So I suspect it's more a your-mileage-may-vary situation depending on ISP than an issue with v6 or pfSense.

True, I do recall that! But you'd have a buy a usb/Bluetooth GPS to plug in to your laptop I think, there was no android option. In the end I just decided it wasn't worth it, my laptops can just be manually placed in my home timezone.

The service has indeed been getting worse and worse over the last few years. In the tools I've got that use it the number of inaccurate hits I've gotten has been increasing. People who move and keep their same wifi gear seem to be the cause of it. Then it happened to me when I moved, and I tried to find a way to update MLS and couldn't, so my Linux laptops can no longer be set to automatic time zone mode, or they revert back to my old time zone whenever I'm at home...

I very much hope they release the information about which patents are a problem so that future attempts at a service like it can hopefully avoid that problem, but considering the state it's been in I'm not terribly upset that it'll be shutting down.

What a disingenuous article. Uses as many techie sounding terms as possible and even points out the icloud backup problem, but fails to point out that your keys are not your own, and so no matter how secure the E2E is Apple can still read your messages. (particularly if ordered to by a government.)

Signal does not have this failing, plus it has all the Metadata encryption. Also it's cross-platform and actually auditable. There is no way iMessage is on "equal footing".

Yes, certainly. But the point is that it will leave *VERY* obvious indications that it was felled in such a way.

I haven't actually looked into this, but I imagine it works the same way Apple's iMessage: He who controls key exchange controls everything. They don't need to "backdoor" the encryption if they can just add a new (invisible) device to your account that can read all your messages.

Alternatively they could just do it inside the app. Sure messages are e2e from user to user, but then the FB client app can package up the decrypted message and send it off to wherever they want.

A good rule of thumb: If it's not fully open source, it's not actually encrypted from the gov, only from your nosy neighbor. I wonder how long before Australia will go after Signal or Matrix for being actually unreadable to them. (presumably)