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dpb1··on The deception of “buying” digital movies
social security, medicare, medicaid, WIC Programs, public schools, public transportation, all come to mind.

I mean, no coincidence that they are always on the top of the list to threaten and scheme to cut by the right wing.

dpb1··on 2-in-1 calculator app adds up to surprise hit for retired engineer
Some of the strong points of this calculator is the main thing I use in RPN calculators with stacks. It's so helpful for me to duplicate a value and then operate on that, and be able to throw it away if I mess up, sanity check from where I started at intermediate calculations, etc. it's not identical, but many points others are mentioning in this thread are what I value from an RPN stack based calculator.

BTW, for anyone who is comfortable with RPNs, MacOS added the mode to their built-in calculator recently-ish. it's not terrible either. I've switched to it for my default experience. (even though nothing beats the HP 48g, as it's what I'm the most familiar with).

Also, on the article, really cool that someone added this on mobile. I love hearing about devs developing something that fills a niche and does so well. I feel like I'm out of ideas most days. Good for her!

dpb1··on Things people blamed on bicycles
I'd say your number is about right. Not just for bikes, but cars too. 5% of drivers follow me way too close, speed between lanes for no apparent benefit or emergency, pass far to close, don't signal, don't give time for people to adjust. 5% seems very low, but when there are hundreds or thousands of cars you see in a day, it's a lot of bad drivers.

And, I usually have a lot of steel and airbags around me to protect me.

It's the #1 reason I don't ride bikes on the road in the US. If I lived elsewhere I might change that.

dpb1··on Canonical Ltd source code repositories have been compromised
From our investigation so far, they do not appear to be, No.
dpb1··on Canonical Ltd source code repositories have been compromised
Hijacking top comment...

We can confirm that on 2019-07-06 there was a Canonical owned account on GitHub whose credentials were compromised and used to create repositories and issues among other activities. Canonical has removed the compromised account from the Canonical organisation in GitHub and is still investigating the extent of the breach, but there is no indication at this point that any source code or PII was affected.

Furthermore, the Launchpad infrastructure where the Ubuntu distribution is built and maintained is disconnected from GitHub and there is also no indication that it has been affected.

We plan to post a public update after our investigation, audit and remediations are finished.

Thank you, your trust in Canonical is important to us, which is why we make privacy and security a priority.

-David on behalf of Canonical