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You're right, one might invoke Poe's law in relation to complaints about a hat on a cone.

man is not a safety nor mission critical system. It was trivial to work around functional anomalies. There was nothing wrong with this, and it was hilarious. I'm glad the VLC devel…

Burglars are in and out in a matter of minutes. There's no way they're standing there taking photographs. Like I said, they want money (and easily hocked valuables). No street crim…

> A piece of paper can easily be found by someone. Much easier than hacking a password manager. A piece of paper in a locked drawer is potentially accessible to a person breaking i…

A password manager only really offers marginal phishing protection, in the sense that 'automatic autofill' (as defined in the original post) is not available with an unrecognised w…

Good advice. Ever since Tavis Ormandy set his sights on password managers, I have been a very sceptical user. I still use 1Password, but without the browser extension. Putting auto…

The argument in response is that it is legitimate for the government to legislate to promote the health of its citizens, as we are seeing with lockdown laws in COVID-19. That peopl…

The counterargument to this is that there is evidence young people are neurologically not full adults at 18 years of age, and alcohol impedes neurological development. I have no do…

This shouldn't happen. If you create a Word document within a subfolder of OneDrive, and open it in Word, it should be saving to OneDrive with autosave enabled. Perhaps you are usi…

Costs are compensatory in nature, not punitive. This is a risky gambit, pardon the pun. Also, in Australia, you'll only recover a portion in accordance with scale limits (party-par…

I don't think I need to respond - you've encapsulated what I would have said perfectly.

The public/private divide is a well-known conundrum. And the analogy I gave is a practical example of that, one that has actually faced several nations. I note you've offered no ba…

I'm not even close to convinced by your response. Relying on the public-private divide as the sole basis for your retort is weak. You also assert that the person is pushing a perso…

I hope the twin prime conjecture holds, since it would be pretty incredible to think that, despite what you said, there are infinitely many twin primes.

I own a Synology, but I'm still not opening it up to the internet. I use a Wireguard VPN on a RPI to access it. It's a minor inconvenience, but I can sleep sound at night knowing m…

How good would it feel to pop calc.exe on an ATM?

Looks great, a little bit of localisation would be good though. What are gas stations?

You don't have to use this app. If you don't want to open up these so-called attack vectors you can simply not use it.

I thought this too. On the other hand, it does make sense to them to publicly claim that the reason they moved out was for technical rather than political reasons. It might not mak…

A very edgy comment! Well done.

This is annoyingly vague. What was the software bug, and what was the valid customer configuration change? It's perhaps a bit premature to demand it at this point, but I'm hoping a…