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> According to him, the agent operated largely autonomously, with only minimal guidance "Minimal guidance" is just vague enough to mean anything, including specifically prompting t…

I'm not worried about missing food notifications because they send me an email and a text (... and a fax and a hardcopy confirmation letter in the mail.)

Another sneaky behavior in Android is that categories that have yet to send a notification, which of course includes newly added auto-enabled channels, are collapsed under the 'sho…

Notification categories are like mailing lists now. You may have unsubscribed from the daily deals email but you're still going to be auto subscribed to every new slightly modified…

I also like this solar system model from NASA, https://science.nasa.gov/learning-resources/how-big-is-the-s... . They compare it to a US football field. "On this scale, the Sun, by…

Also for focusing a digital camera for astrophotography.

Very common in the Middle East too.

So far I've found 88 combos involving the poop emoji. Photos album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/wCNxKjzi61rCJUsU8

For any Arrested Development fans out there, a friend sent me this link related to the iceberg today. https://www.reddit.com/r/arresteddevelopment/comments/13309l...

I've been using VirtualHere since 2015, with multiple paid licenses. It's a great tool with infinite use cases. I'm glad that it's a successful business for you!

I haven't been with Wells Fargo for a few years now, but I did get a check for about $200 in the mail the other day due to some fees that had been processed in an "unintended manne…

Microsoft's Edge on Windows lets you annotate and rotate PDFs.

My Raspberry "Shake & Boom" has an infrasound sensor. https://shop.raspberryshake.org/product/turnkey-iot-atmosphe...

At least the Opinion Rewards app isn't going away. I've made $177 over the years. Not a fortune but it paid for a bunch of app buys and movie rentals.

Sean Carroll I listen to as a podcast, and Quanta I read. :)

In no particular order: The Royal Institution ( https://youtube.com/c/TheRoyalInstitution ) Team Coco ( https://youtube.com/c/TeamCoco ) World Science Festival ( https://youtube.co…

Android, since Pie, supports DNS over TLS, and I personally use it for ad blocking.

Haven't played with this one yet, but I have messed around with the BirdNET app from Cornell. It's very accurate as long as the neighbors don't have their landscapers mowing the la…

I was a Patreon supporter for about 2 years, at the 2nd biggest pledge level of $250/month. I only stopped because of my own, um, cash flow issues... :) I'm saying this not to show…

Bought this little guy[1] back in 2015 to get around DRM and rip, with the exact same philosophy as you. I'm happy to buy, but if I buy it I'm gonna own it forever, regardless of a…

One can develop* what serves as the edifice[1] of a $1B hedge fund that handles signals, orders, trades, positions, and p&l, among other things, using a system not unlike this one.…

My question exactly. In another comment here I asked for some examples for the claim that some .ru domains were being black holed.

Could you give a couple of examples of the black holing you've seen?

I've seen Sabine Hossenfelder do a few NordVPN ads in her videos and I don't think she's an idiot. To be clear though, this isn't a judgement about VPNs or me saying I trust her an…

For anyone that does challenge-response with a Yubikey like I do, I'd suggest Keepass2Android Password Safe[1] if you're on Android. I've been using it for years and it's well main…