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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That doesn’t help them recover their cloud account for which they forgot their password. They still need the unlock code of the device that was replaced >1y ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, they VIP that I was helping when I encountered the above issue was not using a pw manager and the device in question had been replaced (by the org) a bit more than a year ago. We also had an insane pw policy at the time that made users change them every three months, so good luck remembering. So grateful that madness is over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in IT and understand that the tradeoff for good security is a reduction in convenience. But this really reads like deliberate punishment. I get the same sense on Apple’s platforms. Wanna change your cloud password? Prove you know the unlock code to a device that you no longer own and haven’t had in a year. This is especially awesome when your employer makes you change passcodes on a regular basis and you have no idea what you used back then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the US name this state? Are they stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I claimed it for Nathaniel Merriweather a long time ago, in the name of Johan Dandifop and the League of Well-Dressed Gentlemen. We call it Bobsmithville. All the residents are aquatic aficionados.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal for young teenagers to snore ?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it normal for young people to have sleep apnea, asthma, or allergies? I shouldn’t have to sketch this out for you to draw a conclusion. People of all ages have various conditions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thinheritance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, people who came before me. My storage is way more space-efficient. It’s not like I’ll ever own a house, so this is a priority.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hope you like math⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always loved ladies who are smarter / better educated than me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hygiene⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’l been sitting in the same (mesh) chair for >15yrs (Aeron) and have no such problem. That the OP’s response to the GF’s complaint is anger says more about them than they intend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It must be strange to only have the grift / destroy setting and no other desire. Tyrant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, we socialized in person more before smart phones. There are a lot of studies that say so. But this isn’t even an appeal to authority. I remember the first time seeing a couple sitting across from each other in a restaurant, both staring at their phones. My buddy and I gave each other a look. It’s everyone now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US E.P.A. Plans to Revoke the Legal Basis for Tackling Climate Change | The agency’s administrator said in a podcast that the move would be “the largest deregulatory action in the history of America.”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is assured.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US E.P.A. Plans to Revoke the Legal Basis for Tackling Climate Change | The agency’s administrator said in a podcast that the move would be “the largest deregulatory action in the history of America.”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s cool how these people don’t give a shit about their grandchildren or great-grandchildren.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ohm My God!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Best laugh of the day so far. Someone deserves a fist bump for this one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨flowers for the lost⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a book to recommend:

  Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued. If any of this sounds familiar, chances are that you’re a woman.

  -Invisible Women, by Caroline Criado Perez.

  I believe I first heard her interviewed on the 99% Invisible Podcast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t feel nostalgic for the dark times when our televisions weighed 80 lbs just to beam us an inferior image. Sure, maybe for when being a teenager at the mall meant meeting girls and having a good time with friends walking around, buying nothing because we were all broke. But only the social aspects were better. I’ll take today’s entertainment any day of the week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨get sum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I may be a cis male, but if I can’t get some from the ladies, bring on the guys!

  I honestly had to reread it and think for a moment before I got it, but to my credit, I just woke up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tag yourself⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This genuinely made me chuckle. I didn’t see that coming at all, but it’s pretty accurate. Now make them suggest places to go out to eat and have each one object to another’s suggestions for about an hour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man carrying home his gardening tools arrested by armed police in Manchester⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of the cops that arrested a legally blind man for having his guide stick (I don’t know the proper terminology) folded up in his back pocket. He was able to see in daylight, but needed it at night. They called it a weapon. This was in the USA.

  ACAB.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, that’s some pro-level trolling, zionists. Hat tip for being the worst people on the planet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Internet Archive Designated as a Federal Depository Library⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for highlighting this. Too bad the link wasn’t between the article and the letter. It’d be more noticeable.

  “By being part of the program itself, it just gets us closer to the source of where the materials are coming from, so that it’s more reliably delivered to the Internet Archive, to then be made available to the patrons of the Internet Archive or partner libraries,” he continued.

  Ok, so it sounds like they’ll have a more direct line to government documents, which by law have no copyright because they belong to the people. That’s a good thing.

  The Internet Archive has also been targeted by major music labels, including Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group, over the Great 78 Project, an initiative to preserve 78 RPM records. Though most of the records are out of print, 4,000 of the 400,000 digitized recordings are copyrighted, including Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas.” The organization could owe upwards of $700 million in damages if the labels win the lawsuit — a financial hit that would threaten to shut it down.

  I’ve been aware of this lawsuit for a while. I donated to help the legal battle. It’s absurd that copyright can be flexed against works that are out of print and mostly unavailable. I’ve long argued that we’re going to have a gap in our history between when lots of works went digital-only and when we actually enshrine laws that protect them from disappearing. How large a gap depends on how quickly lawmakers address this issue vs copyright. Given the current climate, important legislation such as this isn’t happening any time soon.

  You know how we find stone tablets and ancient scrolls with historical information from thousands of years ago? We even find “nonessential” stuff like recipes and trading documents and tax records. Stuff like that likely won’t be preserved from our modern age if anyone is still around to investigate our times in two thousand years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Internet Archive Designated as a Federal Depository Library⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m waiting to learn more about what this means, but I assume it gives the Internet Archive some degree of support from the government. Whether that’s financial or just a protected status I dunno. I tentatively think this is a good thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$1 per play⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One less bigot in the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dont umlaut me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That was more humorous than I expected. It took me a second, but the delay made it even better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That sounds like a fun thing to do⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a beautiful concept. It’d never fly here (USA). People would just use it as confirmation bias that they hate others for the right reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything is a problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What fantasy world are you living in? How could my glass hold water if I didn’t sign up for a service that sends me spam? How could my table hold a book if I didn’t sign up for the monthly subscription that prevents it from ejecting books into the air? Even my cat came with a ToS that said that by petting her, I give her access to my bank account and first born child. Hasn’t it always been this way?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sharks are older than polaris⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I could explain, but there’s a lot of string theory involved and I only have limited time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sharks are older than polaris⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stars have only existed for about fifty years. Duh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm setting up a Windows 11 laptop for my uncle. Is there a sneaky way to make it block right-wing bullshit websites?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would only block 4chan, patriotfront, and other stuff that most people would never know about where the cesspool is known to be malicious and full of white nationalist instigators, if anything. But then again, it would never occur to me to try to trick a family member.

  If your uncle isn’t already lost, you might be able to gently talk about this stuff. There are people who discuss how to carefully offload alt-right beliefs by asking questions that reveal fallacy rather than beating someone over the head with why they’re wrong. You can find better info than I have by searching the web.

  My own mother, for example, voted for Trump three times. That relationship is over, sadly. Some people can’t be reached.

  Moral: don’t do underhanded shit. Be open about your disagreement, but first learn what approaches have the greatest chance of success.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's camera shy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate to say it, but this graph just made the most compelling argument against the noble Squatch I’ve ever seen. Not that I believed, but this has to be the ultimate hope-killer for true believers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would you think they want to help you? Are you a multimillionaire? Do you benefit from cutting social services to fund a tax write off that helps you?

  Ordinary people are completely fucked.