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Hardly. Keeping your apps and operating system updated is one of the more reliable prophylaxis against vulnerabilities.

Unless I'm misunderstanding "turn it off and on again" suggest a kind of pointless, "just start over and try again" kind of suggestion, no?

"Just buy your mom an iPhone"

This is, I think, a valuable heuristic. Anything but the most complex and long-term scam always includes some call to action, nearly always URGENT and IMMEDIATE (so as not to give you a chance to think about it or research it).

A notification that is ONLY a notification about something is very unlikely to be malicious (though could certainly be erroneous). My bank will send me a concerning email or SMS about suspicious activity that needs to be reviewed or confirmed, but because they know it's a vector for attack their specifically ask you to call them at their published number listed on your card.

If this is sarcasm, I love it. If you're serious then I don't.

"Modern genetic modification", as you put it, has been happening with crops and food manufacture for DECADES.

IMO, it is dishonest of YOU to suggest that this form of modern genetic modification is somehow new and scary and untested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_food

It’s still wild to me that early exploration (or I suppose colonization) of earth had the same limitation, though. The latency of packet transmission by sailing ship was pretty insane.

As a reminder, Pi Day is a doomsday!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule

Some of Grady's videos scratch that "didn't know this would be that interesting" itch.

His other channel, Practical Construction, did an in depth step-by-step of installing a sewage pump station.

Two or three. Four max.

Maybe five.

I don't disagree with the point you're trying to make, but this puts an awful lot of weight and importance on "reviews", which tend to be highly problematic, in my experience at least (cf. Amazon, Yelp)

Point of note: this is all well and good until these tools become inevitably ad-infested.

I'm starting to think we need to add "advertising" to the list (Death, Taxes, etc).

Benedict Evans often invokes the analogy of the concept of "infinite interns", which is pretty apt, at least in the current state.

May I just say, as a third-party simply reading this back and forth from the outside, that the tone of your writing and the implied attitude with which you are engaging in "debate", reads as very aggressive and uninterested in actually having a sincere discussion. To me at least.

I imagine you probably won't like this comment, but perhaps you might use it as an opportunity for reflection and self-awareness. If your interest is actually to potentially change someone's mind, and not just "be right", you might consider approaching it in a different way so that your tone doesn't get in the way of the substance of arguments you wish to make.

Just a suggestion. Take care.

All hail Ninja Tune!

If you don't know, go listen to Mr. Scruff, The Herbaliser, Fink, Coldcut, Kid Koala, Bonobo, Blockhead, Talvin Singh, and almost countless more.

Truly a case in point for the value of record labels, imo.

Adam Neely’s video essay on the music of The Backyardigans is pretty great as well.

The obvious rebuttal is that when people talk about “misinformation” colloquially, they’re talking about _deliberate_ misinformation.

I appreciate Novella’s bent towards realistic pragmatism in scientific skepticism (as opposed to idealism)

Just wait a moment

This is such a disingenuous argument, it's painful.

Did someone's internet connection get disabled?

They do have rules on what is permissible on their platform.

They call it the Creator Responsibility Policy.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7650329?hl=en

I agree with your point about the alarmism. But

>I'm assuming the actual charging equipment has physical, non-remotely-controlled safeguards

I'm assuming the opposite. Incompetence is often surprising.

WW2 airplane armoring?

The Navy also has the FADOSS, though it wasn't needed here I believe. It can lift insane amounts, at insane depths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyaway_Deep_Ocean_Salvage_Sys...

It's not a bug it's a feature?

I'm as generally skeptical as anyone, but I think you've seen that it's essentially impossible to rationally debate with someone who believes in a conspiracy to the point that evidence against it can just be dismissed as part of the conspiracy itself. It's frustrating.

I certainly wouldn't trust my life to an unaudited VPN, but I think your two main points are pretty compelling -- 1) the business model is of large VPN companies is based on trust. They have very explicit, business interest in not violating that trust. 2) in one case we know of, when seized, the servers didn't have actionable information on them.

Does that mean every VPN company is trustworthy? Of course not. Does it mean that things could change at any time? Of course.

It's not all that unique, it's just that "daily car rentals" are pretty amorphous. Similar to how the car wash was the go-to money launder on Breaking Bad.

If you have some other eComm platform telling T-shirts or whatever, sure there could be fake orders but it wouldn't be all that hard to track down that these THINGS were never sent/made. But anything involving a service...well, it's much harder to prove that those things DIDN'T happen.

I suppose you could get away with a slightly smaller motor if you don't need super torque, but it's the battery that accounts for a huge amount of weight.

This seems to be so hard for some to understand that it smacks of dis-ingenuity.

Great podcast.

Apologies for a crass and unsophisticated reaction comment here but....this is the dumbest shit ever.