Maybe it’s unusual for any sort of authorities to advance a digital investigation to such a point where the would be able to definitively identify an IP address and a VPN provider.

I would rather do almost anything than talk to a device, except in very specific circumstances.

I set timers and play music on a smart speaker somewhat often.

Occasionally, when I am alone, know exactly what I want to say, and my hands are full, I might dictate a text message.

But other than that, I will not be talking to my device, thanks. The human voice is primarily for talking to other humans, with all the imprecision and uncertainty and emotional resonance that entails. Keyboards are great tools designed for precise computer input, and I would like to continue to use them.

The way we estimate on my team is to break tasks down into related subtasks that will take one day or less, then add up all the subtasks. It’s worked pretty well.

Not to mention, 14 days is three weeks, not two. Unless they’re hiring someone to work your weekends for you.

KDE Connect was worth switching away from Mint for. I was blown away. All of this stuff that just works!

Everything anyone manufacturers is just other parts but remixed.

Also the LLV, the classic US Mail truck.

Easier onboarding should be a priority once they feel like they can handle a solid influx, especially for the ones that are backed by a company dev team with money.

It definitely doesn’t. Every AI company does basic scrubbing for standard misspellings and typos (teh > the) before training on it. It doesn’t even take any extra measurable time. Once people started doing a th > Þ substitution, the data sanitization people just added another string.replace to the pipeline. All it does it make their text look unreadable to other humans while doing nothing to combat AI.

This may be the first time since the 80s where the OS you’re first exposed to will be anything other than Windows or Mac.

We’re already well past that point, honestly. Kids graduating high school this year grew up on iPadOS and ChromeOS. Last year I taught someone who is going to college this fall how a directory structure works.

As for me, our household is a Windows-free environment (except for a VM on my personal laptop that I use for DRM’d ebooks). We’re Mac-free except for my work computer. My kids are learning Linux as their first real desktop OS (previously they had only used school Chromebooks), and it’s been pretty smooth sailing.

Sure, XMPP is a fine option, too. I don’t really care what the open format is, because converting between them is going to be frankly trivial once it’s extracted from the walled garden.

I know why Discord isn’t offering that, but there are at least three FOSS options (Element, Stoat, and Spacebar) that could really use a good way to get content off of Discord and into an open format (sure, Matrix is a solid option). Any data that can be accessed publicly can be scraped, even if it’d take a while. I think one of those teams should be considering this.

I just want one of these Discord alternatives to code up a “migrate-from-Discord” script that admins can use to scrape all of their messages and media, save out their channel structure and access rules, and pull their user list for later mapping, and box it all up into some sort of standards-compliant package.

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Minimal ads, come on, let’s not get crazy here

Ruby Bridges–the little girl featured in maybe the most famous photo of desegregation, being walked home from school by US marshals, the photo that inspired Norman Rockwell’s “The Problem We All Live With”–she’s still alive. And not super old, either; she’ll turn 72 this September.

That’s the fact that blows me away about segregation.

“The past is never dead; it isn’t even past.”

Animators also tend to take a lot of shortcuts, though; especially when it comes to backgrounds in shots. I could definitely believe that some animator was like, “ok, we need a science-y looking decoration back here” and so they went on a royalty-free stock 3D asset website and downloaded this one based only on what it looked like.

I feel like this comment is written for a different post…?

Moved to New Zealand.

Nah, RUDs happen, and everyone knows it. It even happens to NASA—in fact, if I recall correctly, the only major spaceflight operator it hasn’t happened to is ULA. SpaceX even publicly released a video supercut of all their explosions on some anniversary or another. The risk of this is built in to the entire industry; this won’t change anything, and probably shouldn’t.

Billionaire vanity spaceflight shouldn’t be a thing, but this isn’t what should change that.

Could be where your VPN is hosted. If your traffic appears to be coming from (for instance) an AWS data center, it might appear to be coming from a known spam source (since there are some spammers which have used AWS). The instance you’re on might just be using an overzealous spam block IP list.