I agree. Discord actually had a metaphor that I think plays well for federation. Specifically, they called each group a server. And organized the UI in a way that would make federation pretty transparent.

The only consufsing bit would be the concept of a home server login ID. Like, the lack of a central identity provider. But I think that isn’t a show stopper.

I kinda wish there were fed ID providers that all fed servers used for login and authentication. I’m not sure exactly how that would work, but being able to have a single identity across mastodon, Lemmy, and any other fed service would really simplify things once you were in the fediverse.

For cereal and similar breakfast applications, I quite like oat milk. It does have a strong oat flavor though.

😆 if these companies did what they should because it is required for modern business we wouldn’t be in this situation to begin with. At the end of the day, standard need to evolve. We’d all still be using IE6 if it was left up to the suits making the decisions.

As someone who manages a fair few certain, damn that is short. Acme is great, and a lot of big name CAs now support it, but a lot of applications do not. I can spin up an web app proxy in some cases, but for a great many systems that is not viable.

On the other hand, it really decreases the threat of certificate stealing and reuse.

I made a shirt like that before for someone. It was a it had the Hyundai logo, the label S2000(A Honda sports car) and a picture of BMW Z24. It was very wrong but in a way subtle enough that only people who liked soft top roadsters would ever notice.

We referred to it as the wild west even back then, and we knew eventually civilization would catch up.

I absolutely disagree. That’s a fantastic reference for a union logo to make.

We’re a little behind schedule.

I haven’t touched Photoshop since like CS2 I think, so really can’t compare the two, but I will say that GIMP 3 was a huge enancenent to GIMP. It now has non-destructive editing. For my common uses, this is giant. Not having to redo 8 steps because I decided step 1 wasn’t right is so nice.

Of course Photoshop has done that for ages. My only point was that previous perceptions might be a little dated. And with the 3 update came with huge backend changes that will hopefully accelerate other feature development. Of course I’m sell on hope, but I’m excited for the future of GIMP. Also, now that 3 is out, they have been hinting that that are open to talk about a name change, which I think would be healthy if they want increased usage.

I think you can use the Apple watch as a remote shutter button, so he wouldn’t need to do laps in the parking lot like a dad trying to get a family photo. But it is fun to imagine none the less.

Sounds like I stand corrected.

Doesn’t the US already have full sanctions with Russia? So literally no trade is happening with them, so a tarrif would be pointless? Maybe I missed trump removing the sanctions at some point in his onslaught of nonsense.

For most people, the thought of replacing an outlet or switch is daunting to say the least. My IKEA smart bulbs are going on 7 years old and still working great.

I did replace every single outlet and switch in my house when I moved in, but that was before I knew about ZigBee or Zwave, and well before matter existed.

I don’t feel the need to replace most of my switches and half of my outlets again.

I had a few Google Home devices, they had a switch to turn off the mic. I assume it was legit switch, because the thing literally yelled at you and had bright red lights any time you muted it. It literally said “The mic is turned off” every time it booted up in a voice that reminds me of a child tattling on their sibling.

Any smart lights I’ve seen always turn on when going from no power to power. It’s a little annoying when the power blinks and half the house lights up, but it means physical switches always work.

Per your suggestion, I went out and took a new photo. The blog post has already been updated, but here’s the image.

I agree. I really struggled finding good light once the acrylic was on. It was just too shiny. Maybe I’ll try a daylight photo outside or something. In the article there are better pictures of the individual components though. It’s also hard to get the 3D effect in a photo. I thought about trying to embed a short video/gif of it, but didn’t have any handy.

Disasters do happen. Hurricanes are a big problem that often take out everything you mentioned except for starlink. And starlink has several problems, being owned by a Nazi is certainly one of them.

If you want to practice investing, give the 1984 hit video game Drug Wars a shot.

Oh, I’m not defending these dumb-asses doing illegal things to avoid systems setup to safeguard American and its people. They absolutely could have synced things to compromised devices. Just that Signal, themselves, couldn’t do that.