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Apple often plays a game where they blend security and business interests, but represent it only as a security interest. They own the OS and could do for private relay like what th…

> There's no organized political movement trying to tell people that seat belts and speed limits are immoral I rode in a lot of cars when I lived in Eastern Ukraine, 9/10 times or …

You can only do that if the school completely controls the laptop. You have to have the professor be able to verify that the student was using an approved laptop each class period.…

It's always a balance of tradeoffs and benefit. That might work, but there are already alternatives. If possible, change the design so that the anticipated load is acting on the x …

Nazis were invading other places now. The US cut off Japan's oil supply, triggering an existential crisis for Japan that led to a military attack. If United States had joined the A…

> other countries have much less firearm ownership. Interesting. Why do you think countries with lower firearm ownership rates have fewer shootings?

> my phone provider simply refuses to let you call me with it. I don't think it's necessary to go this far. The provider could indicate something like "CANNOT VERIFY NUMBER". I ima…

The FCC issued a report on this very subject[1]. TLDR, there have been four exceptions to the SHAKEN/STIR requirements: - Providers that can't afford it implement it - Non-IP netwo…

> less than the cost of one of these Pis to acquire all of them together. Before RAM went crazy, the Pi 4 was $75 for *8GB and $125 for 16GB. Another consideration is heat and powe…

It's not the GPIO, it's the software ecosystem for anything you would want to connect to the GPIO.

> All built-in into consumer(-ish) CPUs. Dude, I wish. I run a large homelab filled with consumer and small business grade intel hardware, and would love to have vpro on all my mid…

> There can only be one newspaper of record, I'm not sure I've ever heard this before. IIRC the term originates from liberians and can refer to papers of official record and reputa…

It was absolutely a hit piece, but what specifically was inaccurate?

For anyone that read/reads physical newspapers, do this little exercise: try to remember a time that a printed newspaper ad prevented you reading an article or made it significantl…

I'm really glad you brought this point up. I used to read physical newspapers, and I never had any problem with their advertisements. If you ask me to think of invasive internet ad…

I've done a bit of work with Microsoft and our enterprise firewall. I will bet you any amount you want that you have not blocked all of Microsoft's telemetry endpoints. They are st…

I’m trying to understand your threat model. Microsoft software is allowed to access the network and communicate with peers on the internet, with the exception of its source of secu…

You're making an apples to oranges comparison. If you can send a signal via a radio between continents, one can send a podcast using that signal with zero infrastructure between th…

If you're actually asking the question, I'll give you my answer: I was lucky enough to go to a nice spa resort earlier this year, I just handed a few bills to an attendant who had …

> I use Arch Linux, tell me which of the thousands of packages am I obligated to donate to? The ones that a barely-informed stranger could easily identify as having made you 7+ fig…

We are the third owner of our Deuter baby/toddler backpack. We use it a fair a bit and it still looks like new. We don't need it anymore, so it's going on to a 4th owner who's goin…

A cheap backpack ended up being the most expensive backpack I have ever owned. In 2004 I was very young and all my income came from summer jobs, so I got a backpack from Walmart. I…

Fair point, but I have been very surprised by how many normie friends have gotten a VPN since our state mandated age checks for adult content.

> sythetics (for anything active) are far better: lighter, warmer, better at dealing with moisture. Synthetic fibres such as polyester and acrylic absorb little water, as such they…

A large segment of the Iranian political class bet their reputations on the nuclear non-proliferation deal with the US in 2015. They've all now been utterly discredited and the har…