Two to three cups a day, for those wondering

I’m not sure when they added it and it might only be some phones (I have a pixel 9 pro), but you can just plug your phone in via USB and use the USB mode notification to switch it to webcam mode

see people […] spent $25…$45…$30 on gas

I spend $7 ~ $13 […] three times a month

3 x 13 = $39

it’s not nearly as close as what I’ve seen other people spend.

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The NT kernel supports hot patching because restarting running servers is an inconvenient requirement to remain secure

Apparently end users can just run that insecure kernel indefinitely because… arbitrary product feature tiering?

Oh no, don’t get me wrong, I work from home just fine.

If I’m working from a cafe, restaurant or bar, I’m spending the whole time there distracted

Which I guess is indeed a personal issue, so far play

Any time I’ve gone to “work” from home somewhere fun, no actual work is getting done, no matter how genuinely I try

Funnily enough, people running in Ubuntu do get Firefox in a container by default IIRC as it’s delivered as a snap

It’s still never been proven despite countless very smart people looking for this exact behaviour for well over a decade now. The first person to actually prove this whole mass spying via microphone to sell ads thing is actually happening, would be world-famous overnight.

For instance on an android phone, it’s not really possible for an app to do something that a determined enough security researcher couldn’t ultimately detect if they were looking for it. When you can build your own version of the operating system and decompile the application easily, there’s not really any other places to hide that won’t give something away.

If you feel like your phone is acting off of a conversation you had without interacting with it, it’s nearly always one of these three:

• The vast majority of people are super predictable most of the time.
• You are not accounting for other people in the conversation, who may well have just googled the thing. These companies know who you spend time with, they don’t need a microphone for that.
• Baader meinhof phenomenon

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve thought surely something fishy was going on plenty of times, but the reality is, until someone can actually prove it (which is entirely possible to do if it’s happening), it’s gotta just be the above. We’re being tracked a crazy amount, but it’s not passively by microphones in our pockets

Note: none of this applies if you’re actually being specifically individually targeted (i.e. by a hostile government). All bets are off in that instance

I feel like this one is relatively uncontroversial

URL pronounced as “earl” however? I’ll spend all of my remaining energy in life ensuring the person saying it is stapled to the bottom of the Mariana trench with rebar

I love the theatre of providing Pro plans the option to opt-in

I’d bet literally zero people go for that

What in the hell, this is the first time I’ve been able to actually see it as blue and black

Glocktor

I often assume this kind of thing is part of an effort to filter for idiots

If you know that’s an invalid IP address, you’re probably less likely to fall for the scam after the scammer has put the setup work in. So if they filter you out before a scammer has to spend any actual effort on you, that means more time they can spend scamming people who might be more likely to fall for it

That’s why these things often have egregious spelling errors and other seemingly obvious red flags

I literally cannot conceive of a more efficient arrangement of 17 monitors

I don’t think we want to close the recruiter & c-suite containment system

It does a great job of keeping them all in one place so we can leave them to their fart sniffing and occasionally visit like it’s a zoo

Conclusive proof all species of geese are assholes

Only if it’s intentional, it can easily be caused by ignorance/incompetence too

I was originally gonna say Sigur Ros but that’s already been covered

My shout out goes to Niteworks then, who sadly did their farewell tour last year. One of my favourites:

https://youtu.be/GY7q1DjmsiE

It would be lovely if they all would

I’ve never seen any phone tell me why someone is calling, only who

Frankly, I’ve gotten to the end of many phone calls and still not known why someone thought they needed to interrupt my day with a phone call.

I’m glad this is an increasingly common view though tbh, we all got phones in our pockets a few decades ago, and no one really stopped to set the new line of etiquette that: yes, 99% of the time it’s pretty damn rude to think what you want to talk about with someone is more important than anything they could possibly be up to at that moment. Because that’s what cold calling someone without arranging it first really is, when you boil it down