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Generally too purple for its own good but a very interesting read! The Borges reference (and C. elegans conundrum) makes me as a layreader really appreciate how little we actually know about the endgame for all this data.

But there is such elegance in "rudimentary" DNN's giving us the ability to at all assemble this stuff.

Yup. Just when I finally gave in and made a user with a backup email it turns out they're also demanding I download their app? I definitely would've created an account long ago, with my regular Gmail, if they didn't demand it from me. And probably have their app too. But now I'm just determined to not give in further.

And yes, I get they're doing it because it presumably works better on aggregate than not being assholes. That just makes me hate it even more.

Quora just makes me irrationally pissed off. I realize my dislike is over the top, some of the content isn't terrible, I'd love for the basic format to somehow work out, but the package is somehow worse than Trump tweeting and I sincerely hope it fails as soon as possible.

Glad you found something'

Since the pi does have screwholes you can also just literally mount them straight on the wall :) me I like that asthetic out in the open but if they're in the closet anyways it doesn't really matter.

ps. don't forget PoE!

Nevermind the hocus pocus, and I agree as far as "travel", but all that's really needed for (fairly dystopian attempts at) space colonization is surely artificial wombs?

Which aren't far off.

We don't need to break the laws of physics, or have cryonics or singularity shit work out to eventually consume the universe. All the nodes will just be real isolated.

Any case and any old original iPad charger will do you fine, seriously :) I'm just saying, if you want something really sturdy nothing stops you from either investing in or tinkering up whatever your fancy.

And don’t forget a pi-hole is just a MITM dns server, so if anything should blow you'll just fall back to 8.8.8.8 or ISP default or whatever...

Proper USB power supplies don't just randomly die once a year, that's utter lunacy.

And what exactly is stopping you from getting any 5V power source or even just rigging up an old PSU with a 10W resistor on the 12V rail and splicing the 5V onto a USB cord? This is a non-issue.

Edit: wrote this before your edit, but still stands. If there's anything to worry about reliability-wise in that timeframe it's SD card corruption, but there's plenty ways around that, whether by limiting writes or using other media.

Edit 2: hostile tone not intended, just perplexing seeing something almost akin to concern trolling done in this manner.

Apart from being an outlier, and a plastic bag ban not being the same as one on plastic (how would that even work?), it's not like the city would be spotless if it wasn't littered with armed men and heavy enforcement.

Poverty means immediacy, and given global markets also struggle heavily with longer-term thinking no one sane would fault those in precarious positions for not giving a shit.

A place riddled with plastic garbage certainly looks worse than one that gathers and burns theirs, but since even power plant incineration with scrubbers etc is inefficient and hardly good for the environment... an actual landfill would be a lot better.

But it does make me wonder why so much Asian plastic ends up in the ocean. Why don't they burn it?

Nope. It's as if that happens, though going past a regular Google search results page, which is dropped (hence along with the search itself) from history.

How to you go from SPLC backing down after '"human rights advocates affiliated with the United Nations" praised Nawaz's work.' to Quilliam being UN affiliated, and SPLC not backing down?

At least read your own link, please. I get what you're saying about the settlement but they could've just paid out and not gone to such lengths explaining how they felt they'd gotten things wrong.

At least on iOS Safari there's this bug (feels like it's always been there, maybe content blocker related?) where sometimes a search simply gets eaten. The browser somehow thinks you went from nowhere straight to the page you're on, even though you went past a Google results page.

I assume it's somehow redirect-related and that's why these sites tend to trigger it.

Well it's pretty much driven by customers but same diff really. People who book a night or two then realize they want to extend and ask to pay cash, mostly. Someone who's already stayed with you just texting the next time, etc.

It works since Airbnb is mostly there to hook you up and protect from crazy people's wanton destruction, so once you know you're dealing with safe people and you've gotten the review, eh.

Wouldn't really be worth the penny-pinching, except people tend to forget about the long-term booking discounts and actually end up paying more than they would've just using airbnb.

Wouldn't the real use-case here rather be battery powered devices?

While RAM on a modern laptop will only use a few watts at most, which is little compared to other components when under load, that still accounts for quite a big chunk of total power usage while most of the system is idle, such as during light usage and with display brightness on low.

Not sure what the point is when it costs $100 and is magnitudes smaller and less powerful than a proper one which runs at $200-300 - an upfront cost which is dwarfed in the long run by filter replacements, as would be the case here.

Many (most?) proper ones use a combination of a coarse washable pre-filter, charcoal, HEPA, and ionizer. Which makes sense, since they all basically do different things.

48.65% is not 56% fyi

To be fair the quote consists of headlines appearing alongside every article in the series, and as such ought to be taken as part of the package - you don't need to navigate anywhere to see them.

Does every single piece need to hammer in how awful someone is when the whole makes entirely clear they indeed are?

Eh are we reading the same article series?

> Luanda Leaks An investigation into how Africa's richest woman, Isabel dos Santos, acquired her fortune

How Angola's state oil firm was left with just $309 in its account Published: 19 Jan 2020

Revealed: how Angolan ruler's daughter used her status to build $2bn empire Published: 19 Jan 2020

The diamond deal that rocked Angola Published: 19 Jan 2020

But what of the billions of already existing non-compliance recording devices, plus the ability to easily roll your own without including an emitter?

Even if it was successfully implemented it wouldn't actually at all tell you whether you're being recorded or not. Then what's the point?

Speaking of dark mode. How bizarre is it that after all this time Apple finally puts something in iOS, and IT JUST MADE THINGS WORSE.

In the beginning there was invert colors. Then came smart invert - it worked with some things, failed with others, but was generally pretty good.

Dark mode (by way of prefers-color-scheme etc) should make things awesome in the long run, but at least for now all that's happened is to keep things dark I have to juggle fucking THREE different switches - and end up having to fall back to classic invert most of the time. Smart invert basically stopped functioning with iOS 13.

Properly implemented they could've had a fallback css override a la DarkReader and just put an extra switch per-website, crowdsourcing the results, as well as keep their own database/system override for lazy developers with already-dark apps who refuse to respect wishes (nudge nudge, Spotify...).

Ok, this is ranty, but this is such a weird regression touted as a "feature". Poor form.

> "Most" because it has exemptions even for copyright circumvention.

Right that was what I meant, that the specific "list" I could think of is actually of exemptions. Irrelevant nitpick really, sorry.

Ah fair play, makes sense.

Wait, you're not exactly sure whether your instructor died or not?

Just how drunk were you? Mushrooms are way more rewarding anyways.

Makes me think of this one time. It was me, and a first timer who'd been convinced by his gf it might cure his fear of heights.

Yada yada yada, he broke both his legs. Something tells me it didn't help much.

True, that's instead a case of many guys making stuff up to make money.

> Breaking encryption is not illegal under the DMCA except in the cases listed in the DMCA.

isn't it the other way around?

Off course gatekeeper needs to be off once something doesn't have a valid signature. But SIP protects /System, NVRAM, kext loading and some additional stuff. Not user app signatures. Hence my question.

That's what I'm taking issue with. I don't like the feature, hence I don't use it. But why default to faulting them for adding a feature that's clearly useful enough for some to justify being hackily implemented?

As someone presumably technically capable wouldn't the first step be ensuring sync is off, routing through a pi or whatever and firing up Wireshark to check whether it's even possible that something malicious is going on? I'm not saying it's not - I have no idea. But I'd certainly have a look before making any claims.

Why stop using the app, let one report it, and not just turn the unwanted feature off?

And I think the app is covered since it's saying "enabling location data means you can plot on a map where you've connected to a host" or something like that in settings - good enough a bs feature for Apple to let it slide, evidently.

Wait, if you don't want sync why would you pay them that much money every month specifically for that feature?

Just stop paying...

I thought it was 3 minutes? Or is it 3 guaranteed, 10 maximum?

And yes, the app in question of course does exactly that notification dance (I've used it since long before it got its current name). GP is talking about a new feature to keep sessions open in bg for a loong time. I've disabled it, not for fear of tracking but because it seems like a silly way to forget connections open and drain the battery for no reason.

App has indeed also always supported mosh... me I just attach to tmux. But I agree with whoever wrote it's better to have such a bg hack feature than not, for those who find it useful.