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kwarcodeon Flock cameras used to arrest a child for playing on a swing

How did they ID the children from photos?

kwarcodeon GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released

> The reason it has 'human times' is because multiple calls with the same contact are grouped, so a precise time doesn't always make sense.

But a precise time does always make sense.

And even if "doesn't always make sense" was true, it doesn't on its own justify a different default.

So what does grouping have to do with it?

kwarcodeon Bespoke: A programming language for people who say please

No way, man.

US Sign English be like

  NOTICE: pursuant to USPCfFS 412/b Section 7 (a), pedestrians AND/OR passersby are hereby informed that disobeyance of this ordinance by any unauthorized party or parties towit any prohibited action including but not limited to treading, stamping, cartwheeling etc. without written or otherwise signalled express permission from the landowner or manager will be liable to legal action or violent retribution under said ordinance or bylaw for up to 25 days from the most recent observance of the offense or offensive behavior

kwarcodeon Investing in mothers? The long-run impact of a universal child care

daycare at say 14 sounds suboptimal

kwarcodeon Keep Our Servers Running

If violence is the only way to profit from your art, it's not worth it for society.

kwarcodeon Keep Our Servers Running

former Tory minister spotted

kwarcodeon 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]

If it can't phone home, it's not connected.

A technical solution would presumably spoof the spaff but with E2EE and DoH is it possible? So then what, hacking firmware? I guess then TVs get a hard lifespan limit.

kwarcodeon 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]

So in the living room I should fap less... or more?

kwarcodeon De-Brainrot Vacations

glib bullshit

kwarcodeon A/I shuts down

> Four other rioters died of natural causes around the time of the riot.

At that rate, how many can even be left by now?

kwarcodeon An Alien Mind

They don't need to respond before getting hit unless you can hit their secret submarines too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resort

kwarcodeon Your intellectual fly is open (2025)

Did you hear the one about Scots Wikipedia?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-...

kwarcodeon Doomscrolling ourselves to death

  2 episodes left before next season!

kwarcodeon The Dark Side of Mindfulness

This PSA from 1981 was a brutal but effective warning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UveLSA7Hoj8&t=53

kwarcodeon Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

Any specific examples where twitter was the only way?

kwarcodeon Holden's Lightning Flight

Flyboys will be flyboys.

kwarcodeon Mushroom hunting with LLMs: what can go wrong?

Nobody ever mentions the fox piss.

kwarcodeon Dyson CameraJet electric toothbrush

The newer ones suck harder.

kwarcodeon Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

like legal documents, software is best avoided wherever possible

kwarcodeon Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions

J. Edgar Hoover

kwarcodeon Aphantasia Beginner's Guide

Can you imagine peeling the stripes off?

kwarcodeon Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity

Actually there is permitted development in Scotland but flats aren't excluded. There's no "Part P" either so an AC could be DIY with no notification or fees.

kwarcodeon Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity

> In the UK

You mean "In England".

kwarcodeon Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity

Flowers bad, planks good?

kwarcodeon Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it

At least the cookie popup comes with wine

kwarcodeon Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

Weddings tend to have a free speech or two, too!