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> It seems like the real solution is a law which requires the stations to accept a more universal payment system like credit cards. No shit, Sherlock? In the UK a lot of fuel pumps…

Just in case you weren't joking, and at the risk of making a fool of myself if you were and still are joking (and/or trolling us now), where you initially said "non-rewritable opti…

I found it confusing - if a URL is "offline", I'd expect some kind of error message like connection refused or no such domain. The URL here is not "offline", it's the BL that's off…

> It would not make sense to train a model for every advertiser and then upload that to the phone. I was assuming that's what they were doing. Maybe you could combine both ways, wi…

I'm sure it's existed for many years. Ultrasonic tracking apps are from 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-device_tracking#Applicat... Let's try to imagine a world where tha…

I'd assume that this listening functionality only comes with certain apps, that's certainly the case for ultrasonic tracking apps [0]. Probably you have just managed to avoid insta…

>. Nothing stops you from using another phone, Do you realise phones cost money and not everyone can afford an iPhone?

It's viewable via Nitter: https://nitter.net/SenWarren/status/1733956234200445130 But I agree with the earlier point, that it is a closed platform. If you want to respond, I though…

No, it's the other way round. You setup this DNS server to serve e.g. evil.com on the global internet. Then if you can control the client, you can just do regular DNS lookups for .…

I'm not suggesting anywhere is actually using brainfuck. Why would you think I was? I was attempting to use rhetoric to point out that you do in fact care about choice of language.…

There's something extremely satisfying to me about finding the source of a noise and I love how this one was recorded and analysed. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_u…

So you'd be happy working at a place that required all code to be in brainfuck? That choice of computer language is "just an implementation detail" and you can still solve your int…

You're not getting that most employers treat the requirement to use windows like the requirement to wear pants, i.e. they're not going to state it.

I've used Linux as my primary OS for > 20 years. My current job supports Mac and Windows and I accepted it with the understanding that I'd have to use windows, but couldn't get use…

That is the same thing as preferences. Different things are important to different people, these are preferences by definition.

> I'm annoyed when I have to move my hand back to the mouse. You can bind a keyboard shortcut to a script that copies the primary to clipboard, then can use ctrl-v. Most apps also …

(3 days later, responding to myself). Maybe this was bad advice, this approach is like trying to learn a spoken language by listening to a recording and looking up each word at a t…

You just need to understand assembly. Maybe there are books that can help, I'm not aware of any, but to get started I'd recommend taking a binary of any open source software (prefe…

Also the film Conspiracy Theory - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118883/plotsummary/ > Jerry tells her that NASA is trying to kill the President using a secret weapon on the Space S…

> Yes, not every random app and feature you use on Xorg will have a Wayland equivalent. Deal with it. This is straight from the Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers model: https:…

I don't develop or support anything on Windows. Sure that excludes 99.9% (I guess) of career options involving a computer, but I've still found employment that doesn't require Wind…

If Windows is required for work then you've already lost. Seriously I'm unable to be productive in Windows (or Mac, I tried). I don't know what the stats are on employers requiring…

I highly recommend the podcast It Could Happen Here, they are good for bursting such bubbles. Last update they had on Myanmar is here: https://omny.fm/shows/it-could-happen-here/th…

Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them

You completely misunderstand. Windows and Mac are different enough from every linux distro that the argument isn't about them. And if you're going to start talking about copy-right…