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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't people harassing marketers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s stressful and ineffective. Why do that to myself?

  It works much better to block marketing where possible, poison data where you can, scrub personal data from the internet. While the beast is too big too slay, a little effort makes it a lot easier to deal with

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do air purifiers really reduce dust much?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me I need to reset mine again. Big mistake to buy a “smart” air filter. I thought I was getting remote monitoring of air quality data, but I have something that makes too many assumptions about your home network so doesn’t work on mine, support that gave up, and a purifier that needs to be reset every couple weeks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do air purifiers really reduce dust much?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not the particular surface that people are concerned about, but more frequent cleaning of that surface might reduce overall dust settling everywhere

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So sad to see a really old guy driving an expensive sports car⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, that’s actually reasonably affordable. Looks like $11k-$20k in a brief search. Of course that’s pretty old and these are all high mileage…… but how well do they hold up? How expensive are they to maintain?

  My daily driver is an EV, but I always wanted a fun car. I could be that guy in the meme

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That would be the greatest day, when comedians mostly do jokes about dems. Imagine punch lines like “and the dem control all three branches”. Or we just love racist jokes, let’s do one about “the first dark skinned president since Obama, har har har”. And get a load of this one, it’s starts with appointing cabinet members for their expertise! What a maroon! And we’ll never get enough of “and then they passed universal healthcare and saved the environment”! LoL

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It can’t be that simple since you’d always be identifiable to anyone who knows the trick

  I wonder if there’s a technical limitation to the number of extensions. If a number can have six or seven digit extensions perhaps someone could allocate those randomly, with forwarding to your real number

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like Canada is making an impact.

  It may not be official sanctions but If there’s any credence to the news, it seems like there are movements to fund more reliable trading partners. It’s tough to make an immediate impact but we’ll see over time how much we’ve screwed ourselves. Will Canadian snowbirds come back? Will China (or anyone) buy our soybeans? Will manufacturers, such as for automobiles, be able to stay in business?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice. Too many kids have to be prompted to even use the incantation “trick or treat” much less pay attention to the words

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or toilet papered

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m due to rebuild my lab this winter so I’ll make sure to take a look

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I’m frustrated with always having to give a working phone number to accounts.

  I have no idea if I’ve been at all successful in poisoning my data but all my accounts use unique generated emails in addition to generated passwords and fake profile info. It’s just habit now.

  However all too often the one piece of real data I have to give is my phone number, and that would be really useful to cross-link all my accounts for data brokers building a dossier on me.

  I have hundreds of fake emails but can create at most a couple phone numbers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is but only if you are targeted. I completely disagree with people who say it’s insecure because most attacks are remote and in bulk. Which your password they can login from any browser but are stopped by the SMS code.

  For the SMS code they can use mostly automated social engineering to trick a certain percentage into giving it up.

  However while A SIM attack may be easy enough for a targeted individual, I don’t think it scales: they have to do work that only helps with one user. It’s too “expensive” compared to automated social engineering against a million vulnerable users

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Which reminds me: I just got a new phone and totally forgot about Authenticator apps

  I was able to recover one but the other is lost and I still need to get those accounts reset

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Banks are the web sites most likely to reject a generated password from my password generator

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF BIT ME?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I also tried searching and rash came up as at least the same possibility

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And what car did you learn in?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just automatics anymore, but also

  • CVTs, especially forneconoboxes that used to be manual
  • electronic shifters, sort of automatic
  • automatic, with more and more gears
  • EVs don’t need a transmission
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And what car did you learn in?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I finally went over to the dark side because of bostons horrendous stop and go traffic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And what car did you learn in?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Chevy Chevette. This may have been one of the worst cars built, take minutes to get up to speed and over-rev cruising in the highway, but it was also a tank that lived through 6 people learning to drive a stick and probably close to two decades.

  It was also really easy to work on, but

  • when I replaced the springs I found them light enough to compress by hand
  • when my brother replaced the clutch he said it’s the only car he saw where the transmission was light enough to hold one handed while replacing
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨School pickup lines are wild⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s always money.

  When I first moved to the town I live in now, I was impressed by the all new schools. However I eventually realized they replaced a bunch of older neighborhood schools with a smaller number of bigger schools. They saved money by providing a worse educational experience and making walking less likely.

  We walked to my kids elementary school but the town saved money by not plowing the sidewalks in winter, nor forcing residents to. Our walk would require walking on a major street - until my ex went full Karen and made them plow

  When my kids got to middle school, we were in “walking” distance so there was no bus. However that was a full mile including crossing a six lane road whose light was always broken. We ended up choosing a private school in a different town, so there were no buses nor walkability

  Regional school districts are now common. More kids goto schools that are not even in their towns

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds so much better than my bread machine where I have to add ingredients, press buttons, and wait four hours, but can never get a baguette

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't fix the problem just change the parameters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always wanted one of these but really only to remind me of my grandparents house from when I was a kid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't fix the problem just change the parameters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a parent, we made sure to have an analog clock in every room while my kids were growing up, and we made them prove they could read it. Still don’t work. Digital clocks are everywhere else and in many ways more convenient.

  Analog clocks are an obsolete decice whose time has passed. I also tried to keep it alive into the next generation but it’s not happening. It’s time to give it up.

  Let that be one of our hallmarks as we age: the last generation with analog clocks. I use an analog face on my digital watch, have analog decorative clocks and I’ll accept that my kids believe that old fashioned (they do accept the analog clock face on my old car I gave them though, or maybe don’t know how to change it)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good uses the new ballroom can have after the Trump regime is over?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just as likely he’ll get bored or run out of money and never finish

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No girlfriend. She barely noticed him. The ultimate incel

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they need those booty shorts on the other thread instead of conservative trunks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There was no need to ever improve upon THIS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have this too. So much better than OP’s layout. Easy to use without looking. Radio use with gloves.

  Having large buttons inside appropriate knobs makes it easier to find those without looking

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There was no need to ever improve upon THIS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me play devils advocate……

  One of my cars has the hvac controls on the screen and it’s usually fine, because it is actually smart. I only need to set the temperature and it remembers that.

  For example now that it’s getting cold, I almost never need to touch those controls

  • I can preheat through an app (no subscription needed)
  • when I start my car, the thermostat is set to 69 (heh heh) where I last left it
  • the car goes through a progression: heating steering wheel and seat first, then automatically off when the cabin temperature comes up
  • the glaring problem is defroster. Aside from initial heat up I don’t know a good way to switch to that while driving. I don’t know if it’s supposed to be automatic and fails or if there is a shortcut somewhere
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool, thanks for the detail!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It only needs to do 5% of what a human can do. They’re basically talking about automating low wage warehouse people

  While I realize these are decent sources of jobs in some economically depressed areas, it can’t be a very satisfying jobs and certainly the rest of us not directly affected should have no objection. While I have empathy toward those losing jobs, let’s lose them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American public transit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And smaller roads. The routes that are ideal for trains already have the overloaded highways that are already too big to maintain rain and cant scale to traffic: just one more lane, bro?