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- Comment on Any guesses? 5 hours ago:
No wonder American men can never find that - we need to import more German cars
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 days ago:
I don’t generally find any tab. I work with the set related to my task then close them. The tabs for the previous task are right there, so I can just continue that task until completed, then close those tabs.
It partly works, but I don’t always close tabs for interruptions and aren’t always able to work my way back to uncompleted tasks, so it builds up
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 days ago:
I have close to 200. Every task I start has a new set of tabs. In theory I’ll complete them and work my way back through the stack
- Comment on Libraries are cool 3 days ago:
I can definitely see a preference for resolving over this
- Comment on Libraries are cool 3 days ago:
I started using Libby during pandemic and for a while I was reading more than I have in years! But the wait times got me. As I read more of the easy choices, my typical wait time got longer and longer until I lost interest again
- Comment on Libraries are cool 3 days ago:
I definitely get this, but sometimes I decide it must be meant as a joke because it’s easier to respect them as a person if it is
- Comment on eat the rich and go to libraries 3 days ago:
Even for ebooks, libraries are limited to how many they can lend out, plus the ebook has an imposed end of life.
I’ve read claims that ebooks are more expensive for libraries than physical books, because of those limitations
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me.. 1 week ago:
Thanks. I actually hadn’t found that faq. There’s another one about multiple toxic metals, but might not be for Corelle
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me.. 2 weeks ago:
Do you have a different or specific source? I found an daqnabout lead but it only said that they are in compliance and always have been. I recognize the weasel word but only because you brought it up
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me.. 2 weeks ago:
7, and my “little” brother still has it 49 years later because he doesn’t want to spend money on dishes
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I welcome you!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
That’s a tough. Normally I would hope there’d be an easy choice, but things have changed really quickly.
I don’t know much about real life in China but every time the current American administration violates human rights or represses science sacrifices our future to line their pockets or attack our friends and allies, it seems like I read about the Chinese government moving in the opposite direction. The direction of “good”, the direction the US always claimed to be. They seem to be making a lot of smart moves for their economic, technical and scientific future, and for larger influence as a global citizen. I have no way to evaluate the current level of repression but they’re at least saying alot of the right things
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Just keep On, keeping on. One day at a time. Anything for the kids. Then catch up on sleep 20 years later.
My youngest is now at college so I can finally just chill. But I’m “lucky”, he’s been calling me a lot since no one else answers after midnight. Struggling to get up for work reminds me of the good old days of getting up for diaper changes
- Comment on I hate it when people use pictures showing the condiments only on top of a hot dog. 2 weeks ago:
My grocery store has started carrying “hot dog pitas”! You can fit so many toppings!
(Or really just a lot of onions and chili)
- Comment on I hate it when people use pictures showing the condiments only on top of a hot dog. 2 weeks ago:
You could even call it windmilling
- Comment on I hate it when people use pictures showing the condiments only on top of a hot dog. 2 weeks ago:
Under. So the mustard is less likely to glop onto your shirt
- Comment on Why aren't people harassing marketers? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 weeks 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] 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
Or toilet papered
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
Banks are the web sites most likely to reject a generated password from my password generator