One of the more telling aspects of who ICE is targeting.

Using 18650 batteries is nice. One of the few things I don’t like about the Eufy.

Your application to work at Microsoft has been accepted.

Sure. Now organize updating the last 30 years of hardware and software for compatability. Or just keep using the slightly unintuitive thing.

You’re conflating two different definitions of “standard”. URLs are more human readable than IPs, but changing IPs into URLs would cost decades of manpower and break everything for basically no benefit either.

Eh. :P

I mean sure it’s kind of a relic from the 90s, but so is the save icon. If you change it you’re breaking backwards compatibility with everything tangentially related to digital cameras prior to <current year>. A ‘photos’ folder might be more intuitive but then you run into the issue of “what about my language’s folder” instead of just everyone worldwide using DCIM.

Sometimes its better long term for people to learn about a standard instead of for the standard to be more intuitive to newcomers. Sure you could just make a new standard but that’s its own problem.

It’s a DCF thing, not a Windows thing. A bunch of Japanese companies collaborated on a spec in the 90s so most digital cameras would work vaguely the same as far as file storage went and it’s still the standard because it’s a naming convention and there’s not really a reason to change it.

In the US those’ve been almost universally replaced by 401k plans, which I assume is what they’re referring to.

Even if quantum computing turns out to actually be infeasible and classical cryptography is secure for the next millennia, it’s still a good feature to have a third independent encryption layer in the protocol. It makes it that much less likely reliant on the other two being bulletproof.

Trains Planes and Automobiles is about Thanksgiving. Passion of the Christ is about creating Easter at least.

But yeah they’re pretty thin on the ground, especially once you get past those two holidays.

Seconding the t6. It’s been solid and does everything I want in HA.

I even got a rebate from my electric company for the full price of it which might be worth looking into.

I believe that supposed to be whether you can get to their website to download clients / register / etc through TOR. Not that the VPN can access the TOR network.

The Commonwealth Saga is so great.

The portals / train system brings the vibes of the commonwealth up to something like the EU, but on a multi-planetary scale. You have to go through specific points to get planet to planet but the infrastructure is so built up that it’s mostly a travel time problem. It becomes an issue later on that the society has gotten kind of hidebound into a gradual expansion so they never really ‘needed’ FTL for exploration, and now they do.

https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-the-we-should-improve-society-somewhat-comic-the-popular-panel-explained

Dude history class was boring. “Good one” status is binding don’t you know that? /s

Worm also has far and away the best in-world explanation of why everyone puts up with the cops and robbers BS as well. It’s just so freakin good.

I just hope at some point they’ll be able to reformat/release it as an ebook or something. I know a lot of people get turned off by it being on wordpress. ( I know there’s at least one unofficial one but still. )

I just have a basic pilots license (PPL) but a lot of rural airports it’s normal to cancel radar services (IFR / flight following) when you have the airport in sight because there’s no tower and you’re making location callouts on the airport frequency in case there’s traffic nearby. ATC can and will ask to let you go without if they’re busy or whatever as well.

Especially in mountainous areas radar/transponder coverage can be pretty spotty unless you’re pretty high up or near a larger airport.

Smells like any other random conspiracy theory.

Some very few do, not sure if they’re in China though.

“Windfarms hurt birds” is 90+% fossil fuel propaganda though. Yes birds run into windmills, they also run into skyscrapers and houses and antennas and planes.

We should of course look for ways to mitigate that. We should not just pretend smokestacks do no harm and not develop renewable energy projects.

Dogs are significantly more subjective. And there’s a noticeable correlation with dogs trying to please their handler by indicating someone the handler is suspicious of.

Nothing is foolproof and its good to have more tools in the kit.

This kind of fundamental university based research is about to get a whole lot rarer in the US and that’s not great.

In that case you’re going from, for example 50% and 50% to 49% and 51%.

If you just have 100 people in a room divided evenly, and one person crosses the line in the middle, one side of the room has +1 person and the other is side has -1 person. There’s a 2 person (2%) difference.

2 factor authentication via app/texting I’d imagine.

An authenticator app is better than basically anything but a physical token / key generator, but the apps are more universally supported. No one is probably going to spoof your phone number to get into your accounts… But doesn’t hurt to me more secure about it anyway.