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This effect is - in some ways I fear, almost inherent to tech. The same reason you call someone an idiot if they click an ad that looks like an error message, login to their bank o…

Consumers are the top plastic polluters on the planet. These products aren't without demand.

Yes, cannabis kills REM sleep pretty significantly.

True, just disabling it via PackageInstaller by default would do the trick, the root community could re-enable it easily and those who only needed to sideload the occasional app co…

All they'd have to do in order to survive a factory reset is to write to the /system partition, which contains the main OS. A factory reset only wipes /data and a few caches. Writi…

Wow, interesting to see Hikvision on this list, I own several of their cameras (and keep them isolated on a separate VLAN), but once you know them, you see them everywhere, they ha…

I think the philosophy here has sort of changed with newer versions of Windows, this is why the taskbar now has quicklaunch icons and regular app icons the same size and place. I k…

> when you loose your data you have only 30 days to get it back before Backblaze deletes it as well! Uhhh... this one could be a significant issue for me right now. I've got a lapt…

> Many of the bulging / exploding batteries were not in the end apple. This is incorrect. Apple issued a recall due to known issues with their own batteries ! These are not 3rd par…

You're right, keeping keys in SRAM and other trivial anti-tamper measures are way too expensive. Cutoffs are performed by the same IC. Should be trivial. This was a business decisi…

Great, so why wouldn't they accept another battery IC with a valid Apple signature? Even swapping a brand new battery is enough to raise complaints.

Google still ships Chrome and updated WebView for devices older than that even. If Windows desktops have shown us anything, it's that (given NAT) few vulnerabilities are easier and…

I'm not even in their country, pretty sure I'm not going to get extradited for breaking the privacy laws of a jurisdiction in which I have no physical presence.

Wrong link?

I'm just going to ignore them all until my actual operating jurisdiction implements one, I'm not beholden to the laws of another country, let alone a specific state in it.

You can't give someone paid leave if they don't work regular hours. I know everyone likes to mock them for calling them "contractors", but in some ways it makes sense - they're emp…

> but IMO (criminal?) negligence to not protect other passengers from this person So, what's your suggested fix? We should let any unproven accusation be enough to deny someone the…

Yes, for less technical people that's great, but for people who are willing to deal with it for improved security, it's worth it. I'm not suggesting it to mom and pop here.

I'm avoiding the browser extensions, they seem to be a security nightmare. KeePass and similar are a better way to go, if slightly more labor intensive.

> that recommendation in the first place was an act of bad faith. This seems a bit of a stretch to me. The doctors prescribed it, even given readily available research, the FDA app…

Yeah, very confusing statement - would they use this same logic to ban Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies as against their soverignty? Do they treat gold similarly?

You can always pack it with emojis and unicode characters... that's what all the spammers seem to do at least.

And that attitude is the reason we have so much overhead and useless garbage being produced instead of valuable labor. Just because I don't want to learn the intricacies of labor a…