Lammy

Why are you conflating “valid legal request” with subpoena? If they meant ”in response to subpoena” then they would say subpoena lol

The linguistic ambiguity is always where the creepy extrajudicial shit seeps in.

See also: ‘We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers’ RE: Snowden/PRISM

The point is that some people have other options. Personally I will always choose to go where I want, when I want, in the privacy of my own vehicle. Even if Waymo were completely free I'd still choose those things, and I am thankful I have the option to choose.

> The point is that there's a process

That is the opposite of reassuring, because here are the stats for those processes as a whole (just ‘requests for user information’, not broken down by data type or Google product). Currently at 84% accepance rate i.e. the ‘process’ is a formality lol: https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview?hl=...

> "huge corpos" - obviously you don't know what you're talking about.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204426...

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity: $595281000000.

How big to they have to be before they count as ‘big’ to you? In your ideal world, getting your Google account banned not only means losing all your photos, documents, contacts, conversations, and access to all your other accounts (GMail) but now also means you can't go anywhere besides what you can reach on foot, via whatever anemic local transit exists, or via similarly-expensive Uber/etc. Super cool; sign me up.

What percentage of “valid” legal requests are granted versus denied?

> provide these vehicles for use by affordable tenants in properties with limited parking

Translation: Poors are allowed to exercise their freedom of movement iff they stay in a huge corpo's good graces.

> Sarah, an avid gamer, seemed to recognize this strategy immediately.

I have also played a lot of ChuChu Rocket!

> Georgia is a timeless typeface that comes free on almost every computer.

Just not Windows 3.1–98/NT, Classic Mac OS, or Free Software operating systems whose users have not installed the relevant package and accepted its license :)

https://web.archive.org/web/19990421072704/http://www.micros...

https://www.freshports.org/x11-fonts/webfonts/

> We got the musical sting! <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui1ygMZWdKE> (These Power Macs do not make a Mac "bong.")

I love this one (my PowerMac 7100 back in the day had the same) because it's ‘totally not A Hard Day's Night’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b-awuNzko4

> This particular machine, codenamed "Zephyr," had an arresting crimson prototype board complete with populated debug header, additional test points and a silkscreened train logo. <https://old.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comments/8pcwux/oddbal...>

Not just any train; that's the California Zephyr! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Zephyr_(1949%E2%80%...

My photo of the same EMD FP7 locomotive <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Pacific_805-A> as the Wikipedia header image, at the Western Pacific RR Museum in Portola California: https://i.ibb.co/Kzzs3gT4/WP-805A.jpg (taken in 2022 with Olympus PEN-F + Sigma 56mm prime)

>material.io

I disagree with the premise. Anything that lets people exercise their freedom of movement is a good thing.

Nothing turns me off wanting to hear somebody's opinion more than using the dumbass made-up word ‘stroad’. There is no stronger signal that the author has no actual original opinion on the subject and is just parroting what they've read online and internalized as The Opinion Good People Have. Luckily it was above the paywall fold.

That's okay, I'll still keep drinking that garbage.

U+1F3AF

>micromanaging your env

PERSONAL Computer

You will probably also want to add `--no-logs-no-support` (don't mind the FUD-y argument name) to the scripted invocation of `tailscaled` here: https://github.com/victoria-riley-barnett/koreader-tailscale...

Otherwise Tailscale (the company) will be collecting your behavioral metadata every time you use your Kindle (what other hosts it connects to, on what ports, connection open and close timestamps, etc): https://tailscale.com/docs/features/logging#opt-out-of-clien...

Yes obviously the actual connection contents are encrypted, but ”just metadata” tells a whole heck of a lot about you: https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metad...

Article's history section neglects to mention Bitstream's TrueDoc Portable Font Resource format which was supported as a downloadable font standard by Netscape Communicator (4.x series).

- Post-first-browser-war version of spec: https://web.archive.org/web/20040407162455/http://www.bitstr...

- Natively supported in Netscape 4: https://web.archive.org/web/19970630083015fw_/http://develop...

- And was available as an ActiveX Control for IE4: https://web.archive.org/web/19990421092859/http://www.truedo... https://web.archive.org/web/19990224045109/http://www.truedo...

And despite being forgotten on Web still found a niche in various broadcast TV standards:

“The PFR specification defines the Bitstream portable font resource (PFR), which is a compact, platform-independent format for representing high-quality, scalable outline fonts. Many independent organizations responsible for setting digital TV standards have adopted the PFR font format as their standard font format, including:

- ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee)

- DAVIC (Digital Audio Visual Council)

- DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting)

- DTG (Digital TV Group)

- MHP (Multimedia Home Platform)

- ISO/IEC 16500-6:1999

- OCAP (OpenCable Application Platform)”

e: The linked 2022 retrospective does mention it in passing, but considering it shipped natively-supported in the #1 browser of the era I think it deserves to not be buried :) https://www.w3.org/TR/2022/NOTE-font-rationale-20220414/

I don't want my computer to be able to decide I'm not allowed to access something. I'll never use these.

Middle ground: make it respect `prefers-reduced-motion` :)

>I do like my GoPro (Hero 11). Good and robust hardware

I have the same model and hate it. Damn thing overheats constantly. It has never been able to do 4K60 for more than ~twenty minutes even with a full-blast AC vent pointed directly at it. It still overheats periodically when doing 1080P60 too, but a lot less often and usually only in situations where I am also uncomfortbly warm.

More than zero overheating is unacceptable though considering I have to notice it happened, turn it back on, dismiss the warning, and restart recording. Pic from literally just today, July 18th: https://ibb.co/chPq0N8g

The section I originally posted photos of is indeed in disrepair, but I came across a different section right at the northern end of the Tok Cutoff that is pristine: https://ibb.co/album/Z20r3Z (mile marker in photo)

Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40484930

I saw this IRL and did an actual double-take when I realized it was open-wire telephone (telltale conductor transposition pattern: <https://the-electric-orphanage.com/wp-open-wire-transpositio...>) and not an old railroad telegraph line like can be commonly found.

Honestly shocked that any of this is still standing. My pics: https://ibb.co/album/vhrp2x

See also:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Communications_System

- https://www.army.mil/article/282982/signal_corps_opens_commu...

“Beginning in the summer of 1942, the Signal Corps installed an open wire telephone line parallel to the Alaska-Canada Highway that was being constructed to connect military airfields and enhance the defense of the territory. Using mostly commercial crews, it was completed in just 15 months, despite requiring the setting of 95,00 poles in frozen ground and the stringing of 14,000 miles of wire.”

They also changed the way DRM works for digital games purchased after March 2026. It used to be a permanent license at purchase time and is now a temporary license that requires online check for the duration of the refund period with the claimed reason of combating “refund fraud”.

It's pretty hard for me to believe that going through the trouble to set up an entirely new Playstation account, buy a game, refund it, and have the dedication to stay offline forever to keep the game could possibly have been a widespread behavior. It will obviously be easy for them to ratchet that into online check required every 30 days once the current thing is out of the news cycle: https://kotaku.com/playstation-drm-ps4-ps5-support-30-days-o...

”If a tree falls in a forest”, U=U, etc. This is just FUD otherwise.

I just disable UAC. Yada yada bad practice yeah I know. I'm sick of constant slight annoyance due to hypothetical threat. If I get pwned I get pwned; hasn't happened yet lol

>What even is Microsoft's strategy? Windows 11 requiring TPM, Secure Boot

Their goal is to help their OEM buddies sell new computers despite the fact that PCs have been “good enough” for a decade or longer, because those new PCs will come with Windows and the cycle is what keeps each one relevant.

Otherwise they'd risk being usurped, which almost happened circa 2006 with the one-two-three-four punch of GNOME2 (great UI), Compiz (‘wow’ factor that gets people to jump in and try it), OpenOffice-dot-org 2.0 (when OpenDocument Format was getting a ton of press), and Windows Longhorn/Vista being famously late-and-then-hated. Luckily for Microsoft, the Desktop Linux community decided to throw all that out with Wayland (which is Fine but set us back two decades) and GNOME3 which is irredeemable — *James Rolfe voice* what were they thinking??

>SE(?) could be upgraded to 128mb ram

Probably an SE/30; vastly different internally than the original 68000 SE, more like a MacⅡx wearing a classic Mac shell. Great machine <3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_SE/30

I like how “Update” has become corporate PR's favorite weasel word for headlines bearing bad news.

Imagine four balls on the edge of a cliff.

Say a direct copy of the ball nearest the cliff is sent to the back of the line of balls and takes the place of the first ball. The formerly first ball becomes the second, the second becomes the third, and the fourth falls off the cliff.

DOEPDMA works the same way.