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I fully agree. Similar to killing bacteria with antibiotics, Attempting to idiot-proof machinery only leads to the creation of idiot-proofing-resistant idiots.

We need to move back to putting users back into full control. Machines (including computers) should ALWAYS respect the input of the user, even if the user is wrong.

If a person shoots themself with a gun as a result of their incompetence, we don't fault the gun manufacturer for not designing the gun to prevent auto-execution. If you can't operate a firearm safely, you shouldn't attempt to operate a firearm.

Similarly, if a person deliberately points their car a solid object and accelerates into it, the actions of the operator shouldn't be the car manufacturer's responsibility. We need to get rid of ESC, ABS, AEB, etc. These features have created a whole slew of drivers who speed headfirst into the back of stationary drivers and expect their car to stop itself. This works right up until a sensor fails and the operator flies through the windshield (usually people like this don't wear seat-belts). If you can't drive, you shouldn't be driving until you rectify your incompetence.

Similarly, phones and computers should respect user input. If a users wants root access to their personal device, they should be able to get root access. If a user runs "rm -rf --no-preserve-root /" as root, the device should oblige and delete everything, since that is what the operator instructed it to do. If you can't be trusted to use a computer, you shouldn't be using a computer until you rectify your incompetence.

The lack of accountability in modern society is disgusting, and it leads to much deeper societal problems when people refuse to better themselves and instead expect the world to shield them from their willful ignorance.

Is this new? It seems like this sort of thing has been going on for a while. A lot of the products are incorrectly labelled as containing amanita muscaria, but contain cannabinoids such as Δ8-THC and/or Δ9-THC and/or 4-substituted N,N-dimethyltryptamine derivatives, such as 4-AcO-DMT and sometimes psilocybin and psilocin themselves, in spite of their status as schedule I controlled substances.

The lack of labeling enforcement is really a problem. Genuine amanita muscaria mushrooms are a lot more like alcohol than psilocybin in terms of effects, and if you didn't know better, you could easily take a few to relax at the end of a stressful day and end up freaking out instead.

A lot of the older hybrids use NiMH batteries. With that being said, a replacement traction battery for a 2nd gen Prius isn't that expensive, at least compared to newer hybrids/EV batteries. The second gen Prius is practical, affordable, and reliable (assuming proper maintenance).

The biggest issue with the Prius (at least for the years in my price range), is that the driving experience is liable to make one fall asleep at the wheel. They're the perfect cars for monks; if you're willing to forego all earthly driving pleasures, you can get high 40s mpg.

My grandmother drove a Prius, and there was a stir in my extended family as to whether she should still be driving, as she'd been seen going 20mph below the speed limit and was driving pretty far to the right side of her lane.

I got the opportunity to drive her Prius and promptly found myself alternating between going too fast and going too slow. Between the awkward pitch of the windshield and the gross-feeling electric power steering, I wasn't the best driver either. I never have any of these problems in my 2005 Honda Civic LX or my family's 4-cylinder 2011 Ford Ranger. The Prius felt like one of those stoned driving simulators that police departments bring to high schools in an effort to prevent DUIs.

I like the idea of hybrids and EVs, but it's hard to justify completely losing the pleasure of driving for 10 extra mpg. For all I know, newer models may have improved this, but they're still to expensive for me to pay any real attention to.

Finding it's half the fun! Going out walking by a creek/river on a warm, rainy spring day is kind of an antidepressant in its own right. When you find a patch of Ovoids and pick a few, it's just all the better.

Calling the Prologue "Honda's EV" feels like a huge stretch. The Prologue was a rebadged GM vehicle that served strictly as a compliance car for meeting CAFE standards. Now that the CAFE standards have been rendered toothless, there's no longer a need for that deal.

MicroG does an excellent job at reimplementating most of Google's proprietary APIs on the client side.

I don't know how feasible this is, but it would be cool if there were open-source drop-in replacements for Google's server-sided APIs that app developers could use to replace Google's services with alternate servers running open source software.

The best solution for this is to buy a $30 burner phone at Walmart and use it unactivated, tethered to your main de-Googled device. You can use the burner for only tasks requiring Play Integrity.

Make sure to leave one star reviews on all such apps that you run into.

It's pretty cool to see a licensed, authorized LPFM station being set up by hobbyists!

Prior to the PIRATE act of 2020, running a pirate FM station was effectively legal until the second time you were busted. Prior to 2020, if you shut the station down after getting your NOUO, there wasn't any real penalty. Teenage me loved this, and my buddies and I had a little irregularly-broadcasting pirate radio station, using a cheap CZH-7C transmitter purchased on eBay. One time we went on air from our high school's cafeteria during a study hall, and surprisingly, nobody questioned anything! We did have Microsoft Sam narrate our broadcast so that we weren't making a ton of noise.

We never did get our NOUO; instead, we ran into the much bigger reality, which was that none of us had anything of interest to say. After the novelty of hearing our voices on the radio wore off, the transmitter ended up in a closet, where it probably still sits today. Good times!

It would be nice if IA could create a browser extension or TLS-intercepting proxy that end users can run over their own computers and connections, allowing crowd-sourced scraping. It would need an allow/deny-listing feature for sites to passively crawl, and I'm not sure how you could prevent data poisoning, but it would at least get around the issues of blocking.

Only to have your own card. You can be an authorized user on a credit card even if you're under 18.

As if tetraethyl lead in gasoline wasn't bad enough, they also added ethylene dichloride and/or ethylene dibromide, which acted as a lead scavengers, preventing deposits of insoluble lead (II) oxide from forming and clogging up engines/exhaust equipment. Instead, water-soluble-at-high-temperatures lead (II) chloride and lead (II) chloride were blasted out the tailpipes of vehicles using tetraethyl lead. These are mildly soluble at ambient temperatures, allowing the lead to permeate even further than it otherwise would have.

Getting a capture card that supports VGA is another possibility. Or don't and just say you did. Is there realistically any way to know whether a video was screen-recorded or if it was downloaded?

In spite of its issues, it seems like Monero is the only mainstream cryptocurrency that actually still lives up to the ethos of what Satoshi had in mind.

The built-in terminal app seems to be similarly flaky on my Pixel 8. Also, the kernel it boots into is really stripped down, and it lacks a ton of essential features. I was not able to install VirtualHere client to pass through USB devices, and there's no built-in functionality. There's also no way to open it full-screen on the Pixel 8's DP-over-USB-C desktop mode. Hopefully it continues to improve, but it seems like Google is more into extracting value than they are improving their products at this point.

I tried it during the summer between 8th and 9th grade after discovering a Datura Stramonium plant growing at a beach on Cape Cod. Fortunately the plant was growing in sand, and the alkaloid content of the plant was very low. I boiled an entire pod down in a soda can and gave it a try. In terms of effects, I did not become delirious, but my perception of gravity was greatly enhanced; I felt like I weighed 600lb. My eyes were also completely incapable of focusing on anything close-up for several days. I never tried Datura again, and I never will. I was lucky I didn't wind up dead, in jail, or in the hospital.

Another example, this one deliriant and not psychedelic, is atropine/scopolamine, found in certain nightshades, such as deadly nightshade, mandrake, plants in the Datura genus, and trees in the Brugmansia genus. The chemical weapon QNB, also called BZ is another example of a long-acting deliriant.

As far as classic psychedelics go, I've read mescaline (3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine) lasts really long.

I kind of doubt this, as the rapidly changing nature of mobile IP addresses would mean that a periodic outbound connection would still be necessary to keep the attack up-to-date on the compromised devices current IP address. At that point, you may as well have the compromised device periodically poll an attacker-controlled server for instructions rather than jump through a bunch of hoops by getting things to work over inbound connections.

In the case of T-Mobile, unsolicited inbound IPv6 connections are blocked, but direct P2P is still possible. I successfully established a WireGuard tunnel over IPv6 between 2 phones. With IPv6, since the internal addresses and ports and the same end-to-end, all that is needed is a dynamic DNS service; STUN isn't necessary. I did need to set a persistent keepalive of 25 seconds on both sides of the tunnel to keep the firewall holes open.

Interestingly, Verizon Wireless blocks connections to other Verizon Wireless IPv6 addresses. T-Mobile-to-T-Mobile connections work, Verizon-to-T-Mobile connections work, but Verizon-to-Verizon connections do not work. Given the way Verizon's network has stagnated while T-Mobile's network has been rapidly improving, it may be time to move away from Verizon.

Slightly off-topic, but if you have a modern Google Pixel phone, Google includes "free" VPN service (which probably collects/sells your data). This service uses Endpoint-Independent filtering, so if you send an outbound packet with the source port you want to map, regardless of the destination IP/port, you can effectively receive unsolicited inbound connections from any host on the internet that contacts your IP:port, so long as you send a periodic keepalive packet from the source port you are using to anywhere.

All the Linux routers I've used utilize Endpoint-Independent mapping with Address- and Port-Dependent _filtering_.

This means you can still establish direct P2P connectivity behind a Linux-based NAT device with users behind other Linux-based NAT devices. The only time it becomes an issue is when attempting to communicate with users behind NAT devices that do Address-Dependent _mapping_ or Address and Port-Dependent _mapping_. Some *BSD-based NAT implementations are this way.

Endpoint-independent _filtering_ is only a good idea for CGNAT implementations. Having an EIM/EIF NAT/firewall setup without additional firewalling makes it possible and easy for devices to run public-facing UDP-based servers without anyone's knowledge. With EIM/EIF, once you create a NAT mapping, so long as you send out periodic keepalives, _any_ IP address with _any_ source port can make unsolicited connections to a server that the NAT mapping points to. The best compromise is Endpoint-independent mapping with Address- (but not port-) dependent filtering.

This is true, but the beauty of UDP is that it's basically just a raw socket with a tiny 8 byte header slapped on top, with 2 bytes for source port, 2 bytes for destination port, 2 bytes for length, and 2 bytes for a checksum.

You could slap a UDP header on top of the TCP header and get the benefits of TCP with the hole-punching capabilities of UDP, provided you implemented some kind of keep-alive functionality and an out-of-band way of telling the "server" to establish an outbound connection with the "client". Or use QUIC, assuming it fits the use case.

Not to mention that in an emergency, you can always turn the key to kill the engine, and then put it back into pre-igntion (to unlock the steering column). You won't have power-assisted braking or power-steering, but with a bit of adrenaline-fueled strength, it is definitely preferable to being in a car that is stuck accelerating.

What cars is this the case in? All the cars I've ever driven have hydraulic-assisted brakes but can still be used without the assist in a pinch, if you really use your leg muscles. It seems REALLY dangerous to have no ability to manually actuate your brakes. If an ICE car like this with an electronic parking brake were to stall while going downhill, you'd be completely screwed.

I think what OP is saying is that if a manufacturer is putting real LSD on a tab, it's unlikely that they're also adding an adulterant.

The only app I use that actually cares is Craigslist of all things. The app doesn't do anything that the mobile website doesn't.

MoCA is truly amazing. I'm getting full symmetrical 940 Mbps speeds simultaneously over upload and download using RG59 cable with a pair of ECB6250. It helps that our house is fairly small, as the high frequencies that MoCA uses get attenuated pretty quickly on RG59 cabling, but even still, I'm impressed by the results.

Ethernet of powerline adapters a very YMMV situation. Occasionally, it works great for people, but more often than not, the performance is poor and/or unreliable, especially in countries with split-phase 120/240 volt power (where good performance relies on choosing outlets with hots on the same side of the center-tapped neutral. The people who most commonly share success stories with powerline Ethernet are residents of the UK, where houses only have 2 wires coming in from the pole and there's often a ring main system where an entire floor of a house will be on one circuit.

A better solution is repurposing unused 75Ω coaxial cable with MoCA 2.5 adapters, which will actually give you 1+ Gbps symmetrical. The latency is a very consistent 3-4ms, which is negligible. I use Screenbeam (formerly Actiontek) ECB6250 adapters, though they now make a new model, ECB7250, which is identical to the ECB6250 except with 2.5GBASE-T ports instead of 1000BASE-T.

I wonder if Toybox got its name from the Soundgarden song of the same name or if it was chosen due to the similarity of Busybox's collection of toys.

It's been happening to me too. I don't want to flag the messages as spam, as the mail delivery subsystem is doing exactly as it is supposed to, but this is a problem.

In the case of PureVPN, the only way of preventing leaks is by switching to a different provider. There is definitive proof that they keep logs despite their claims to the contrary. I have linked to a federal criminal complaint where the FBI requested logs after the offense and was given them by PureVPN. The relevant portion is on page 22.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/press-release/file/1001...

For the love of God, don't use PureVPN! They have been proven in court to log traffic, despite claiming not to.[1]

[1] https://cyberinsider.com/vpn-logs-lies/