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If you're sure, please suggest a medical facility currently willing to accept homemade masks via USPS.

I'm worried about how many people are going to give themselves cataracts or skin burns experimenting with UV-C light sources, which are easily available on Amazon.

It's been pointed out to me that one should check with local facilities before setting off on this project, to verify that they in fact want any. My partner is a clothing designer and gets this forwarded to her a couple of times a day, and she did some research and found that local facilities were not requesting or accepting homemade masks and the nearest ones that were were many hours drive away and required for some reason in-person dropoffs, in addition to having "enough for now."

I think it really depends on what you're trying to do. I'm the only person at my company running linux and I still can't really do things like seamlessly plug/unplug from an external monitor because while some apps scale correctly from HiDPI to normal resolution, the UI doesn't really. There are thankfully linux version of things like Zoom and Slack, and they work, mostly, but for instance I can't use zoom without headphones because pulseaudio is too problematic, whereas it works fine on a mac.

As much as the more concerned of us cringe when we hear it, "Why should I care, I have nothing to hide?" is going to be the predominant answer to that question from the majority of facebook users. And morals and ethics aside, they have a point - very few facebook users have experienced a direct, tangible, personal harm as a result of facebook's surveillance of them.

The objections are always on the basis of what should be done, what could happen, and the (decreasingly) abstract harm it brings to society as a whole.

Grandma just wants to see pictures of the grandkids and hasn't had a police visit or her passport cancelled because of something she's said online yet, and she probably thinks those concerns are nebulous enough to not worry about, or scoffs at them as crazy conspiracy theory.

Maybe the right thing to do is try to convince her it's worth worrying that her grandkids might live in a dystopian surveillance society where a careless word can cost you your social status and career?

I think it's reckless to make claims like this even with genuinely useful technology because it triggers the "Arrogant engineers think tech is the answer to everything" response which leads to people in other fields dismissing things out of hand that could actually be worthwhile.

I'm not sure what it implies statistically, but I've now seen the aftermaths of two fairly significant (ie, left in undriveable condition) cruise car collisions just on my block in SF in the past few months. In fact they're the only automobile collisions I've seen on my block in years. No idea of cause or responsibility, of course.

You joke, but a lot of auto-vs-bicycle collisions can be attributed to unexpected actions by the bicyclist, many of which probably couldn't have been compensated for by the automobile driver, perhaps not even by an automated one. Obviously the bicycle always loses in these, but the cause isn't automatically bad behavior by the automobile. (though undoubtedly it often is)

I've never been willing to consider docker volumes persistent. In the big picture, a requirement of "posix filesystem semantics" and "persistent" is a pretty inconvenient and/or expensive requirement.

Sure, but regardless of people doing dumb things, it's still worth asking "why did docker delete non-orphaned named volumes?" -- though you could also question whether someone was actually mistaken about them not being "orphaned" - you could probably arrange an unfortunate timing collision between someone running prune and a container being respawned.

All of it is wrong, and it's frustrating that things like this get promulgated with an authoritative voice. It seems to happen especially often about battery technology, for some reason, or else I only notice it more because I know a little bit about battery technology.

My other not-favorite thing, tangentially, is how marketing for anything that stores electrical energy has gravitated to "mAH" as the sole unit. I know it's because the uninformed consumer will compare based on the bare number, but every time I see "15000 milliamp hours" I cringe. Off to drive 7 megamicromiles to work.

I think this is actually done, and I wish I could remember the godforsaken website I encountered it on.

I think to some extent Amazon's commoditization of 3rd party vendors has hurt customer confidence, though surely not enough to make up for the increase in revenue.

Furthermore many sites make it difficult to use a password manager because it's hard to block automated password guessers and not interfere with password managers trying to enter passwords.

This confused me for a second. "Why is my ISP playing high-pitched noises? Surely it is not their core competency."