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drewmol··on Git in one image
Ah, no wonder I’m so confused by git.
drewmol··on 1Password Has Raised $620M
Here's a +1 for Strongbox. It plays nicely with my Keepass/Dropbox sync setup. Been using it for a few years definitely worth the price.
drewmol··on Michelin Airless
For airless tires I've used a 4x4 (quad), the tires are open on the side just like these images.
drewmol··on Plaid settled $58M lawsuit over alleged consumer data sharing
> Giving my full credentials and my security question answer in plaintext

FWIW: I've resorted to using a formula to derive my security question answers from the real answer (kept secret) and the text of the question itself. This seems to help mitigate the damage of the q's and a's getting exposed.

drewmol··on Is Alexandra Elbakyan in real trouble this time?
I assume an open intersection or clear path is implied in which case the intersection space becomes non-rivalrous. Automated enforcement w red light cameras change the outcomes however
drewmol··on Humans are more dependent on water than many other mammals
I tried to exhale through my nasal passage and then block it off with just the muscles in my nostrils, building pressure in the nasal cavity. I cannot do that.
drewmol··on Humans are more dependent on water than many other mammals
I'm no professional diver but thinking about it and reading that link, it's really a technique to maintain enough pressure inside the nasal cavity to prevent water from rushing in, achieved by closing the soft pallet then slowly moving air into the nasal cavity as needed to maintain that pressure. So not really closing nostrils (for me at least) just restricting them a bit I think... it still sucks to get water past the nostrils but that can be prevented and it's not something I've really had to think about before. When diving into water or changing depth I have to exhale hard through the nose to combat the surge of water pressure but after that it just happens.
drewmol··on Humans are more dependent on water than many other mammals
Interesting. I happened to be one of those natural born swimmers (not as newborn) as an infant as I could float, move around by wiggling like a fish and close nasal passages instinctively (w/o exhaling) at 8 months. Always perplexed me that some people will hold their nose closed or have to exhale through it while under water.
drewmol··on OrganicMaps is Android and iOS offline maps for travel without trackers or ads
Wondered what expensive meant, On iOS full featured is currently 2/mo or 8/yr, no lifetime license.
drewmol··on Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC
https://adnauseam.io/
drewmol··on FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web
Just about everywhere: (local area code)-123-4567. 10 years ago I was almost always the only entry, if you're ever in the Cleveland feel free to use Aaaron ;-) If they don't like 123, use the store phone # prefix
drewmol··on FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web
What others have said. From my experience it's relatively simple, feature limited and dead simple to use on screen/camera containing ios/macos devices. The web version won't have the same get the app nag/confusion as zoom/whatsapp/meet, at least temporarily....
drewmol··on Keep Your Identity Small (2009)
Through my societal lense (as a grandchild of four immigrants) I view similarities, in that: their immigration was a deliberate and drastic choice, one made in response to the perceived inability to influence some desired political change. Often immigration is a follow-up choice due to fear or repricussions from the choice to support a desired political candidate (think political refugees). That being said, people don't typically get to choose the one(s) who parent them.

Edit: I say this as someone who greatly values a culture where social identies are self selected (or nor ;-) as well as mutable.

drewmol··on King County, WA bans facial recognition software
I don’t discount the usefulness of ai or facial recognition, however,

>Since when do search warrants get automatically approved by a black box? It is on the judge to approve, not a machine.

The USA PATRIOT ACT removed judicial oversight and allows for warrants to be issued that notify the judiciary and simultaneously issue gag orders on those notified. For federal cases warrants no longer require judicial approval in an undisclosed number of cases. Try and find a list of current Guantanamo Bay detainees or the judges who approved the warrants used to detain them. Until that’s dealt with I see why King County would ban this use as a defense against automated enforcement.

drewmol··on Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones"
Regarding point 2: When I worked for a valet parking company not too many years ago it would astonish me how many people would 'remember' they must secure their GPS in the glove box, despite leaving much more expensive items like iphones/laptops/purses/wallets in plain sight strown around within their vehicle. They were an easy and common theft target at one time I guess .
drewmol··on Tesla Car Hacked Remotely from Drone via Zero-Click Exploit
>(If it becomes medium-term unprofitable, then it seems to me obvious that it won't.)

I'll add that while I think it's unlikely ANY incorporated publicly traded business would stick it out to deal with the consequences... TESLA seems to have treated medium-term unprofitablity as a consequence of failing to meet quality and production goals without heavy divergence from long-term profitability plans.

drewmol··on 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
Obligatory mention: mbasic.facebook.com it's like a clean needle exchange for Facebook.
drewmol··on Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS
Allowing wifi mac addresses, ssids, bssids, etc. of leased equipment in combination with subscriber address/goelocation to be shared or otherwise disclosed to third party affiliates, partners, agencies is a requirement included in the fine print of some residential ISP's agreement terms I've read, fwiw.

I assumed that this probably is implemented as a 'non-public' goelocation service api as well raw data sharing agreements in some cases, but I'd doubt the data 'processors' and 'controllers' are known to anyone outside those parties.

drewmol··on Scientists discover fossil plants beneath mile-deep Greenland ice
The phrase "irreversibly melting off" is troubling for me to read.
drewmol··on Magic Mushrooms Are Decriminalized in DC as of Today
I'm not familiar but would an alcohol solution containing the ground batch, gently heated, then filtered, yield an even distribution of potency?
drewmol··on Me and ADHD
Your comment promped me to read your previous input to this forum, before flagging it. Please (re?) read the guidelines before making this type of comment.

But more importantly for the sake of informed discussion, please elaborate?

>Fuck commandlinefan because...

drewmol··on Emails a browser extension developer gets from scammers
They want to leech bandwidth off the userbase which become 'bots', to resell as a distributed proxy/botnet service from my understanding at least.
drewmol··on Emails a browser extension developer gets from scammers
>Wouldn't that hurt their deliverability?

If you're referring to deliverability of emails in the context of email spam filters then no. Having an unsubscribe option on repeated, unanswered solicitations would be helpful. The emails are not spam, and in the first email chain they are rather straightforward about their proposal and methods. I'm not sure what the scam actually is here.. people offering money for dev to scam users out of bandwidth? I do think it's noble of dev ignore the solicitation and provide exposure to this market however.

drewmol··on How you can get banned from Facebook permanently
mbasic.facebook.com <- (you can use messages feature w/o app)
drewmol··on Snakes Found a New Way to Slither
and Mt. Rushmore
drewmol··on Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support
>I get it that if you're a Trump fan or a Republican, you may be willing to give more of a benefit of the doubt.

I'm neither.

>But to a non-partisan (I'm not American, but deeply concerned by what I can see from my part of the world) it's plain as day.

I am an American, non-partisan, who shares mutual deep concern.

drewmol··on Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support
The outburst was a reaction to the question of why people would give him the benifit of the doubt. He was entrusted (non violently, but begrudgingly by some Americans) with the ability to command the United States' nuclear arsenal. Violent insurrection is how the republic that governs the people who operate Twitter was started, there can be good parts of it. I don't trust that Trump incited the violence, nor that it's a good idea to blame him and dismiss objection.
drewmol··on Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support
"the actual reason for the war...because they wanted a reason" Agreed.
drewmol··on Parler Databases Disclosed
I though that's what folks on Parlor were doing but I couldn't download the app to see for myself ;-). My comment was an atttempt to highlight to the huge gap between threatening rhetoric and moral atrocities in sparking natonwide infighting.
drewmol··on Malware on My Android Phone
If you don't fear as a binary then threat assessment and mitigation cost may be a factor. Could be a closet ios user.
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