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> People don't leave their WiFi open

Yes they do. From my 1st WRT54G to my latest AX mesh, I have never had a WiFi password. My friends and family that were visiting over the Holidays apricated it. Everyone used it, no one asked me for the password.

Are people still Wardriving? Even if they are, the odds of a malicious hacker coming to my neighbored is up there with getting stuck by lightning. Not losing sleep over it. Why should I?

Do you prune your history of garbage? Every time I clear out all the click-bait, poor quality, and accidental picks out of my recent Watched History, I find the quality of the recommendations go up. Are you subscribed to some high-quality channels?

Agreed. I'd bet money that 20 years from now, the anti-cholesterol fad will be viewed just like the anti-fat fad.

Cholesterol is an essential building/repair block that our body makes, with very little absorbed from diet.[1] Since cholesterol responsible for repairing damaged tissue in the body[2], how do we know know that inflamed, unhealthy individuals don't generate high cholesterol amounts for repair and not from an unhealthy diet? .... Time will tell.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3257636/#:~:tex....

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4630197/

What frustrates you about Linux is exactly what drew me into FreeBSD. Have you looked into the BSDs and their development model? For example, the FreeBSD kernel and the base operating system are developed as a cohesive unit like you described.

I've been watching videos of your baby progress over the years. I love the look and guiding philosophy. You should be immensely proud of what you've accomplished. But without leveraging the existing drivers, GUI frameworks, decoders from BSD or Linux, I fail to see how it can ever be more than a toy OS. However your vision implemented on a BSD base, could be the next Solus.

I have an old Dell with a 32-bit 2.33 Ghz T2700. Linux fully supports the GPU, and no issues with missing 32-bit packages on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It's a spare browsing / retro gaming machine hooked up to the TV in the guest room. For gaming, it runs everything from arcade MAME to Mario Kart 64 like a champ. For browsing, it's not speedy but not bad on heavy HTML sites like gmail/youtube.

I agree antiX was a poor choice. No issue with PAE kernel on Tumbleweed i686. If OpenSUSE ever drops x86 support, there's always Debian or Arch 32 (if I want to stick with a rolling distro).

It's clear that engagement/profit is why Facebook is pushing parents towards these dens of misinfo. Without government oversight, they're not going to change. Has our democracy been so captured that it no longer is able to perform this vital function?

>> Fruit almost always has plenty of fiber in it to modulate sugar absorption

> but do we have sufficient sources to back it?

It's not an assumption, it's a well known fact that adding fat or fiber[2] to a high GI food will decrease it's GI. Conversely removing fiber increases it. For example brown rice(50) has a lower GI than white rice(72). The spike/crash in blood sugar from high GI foods is likely to cause carb craving and is linked to obesity/diabetes.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/136/10/2506/4746688

[2] https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/guide/understanding-carbohydr...

Does that work on Wayland or just x11? Doesn't the Widevine plugin prevent basic screen captures of its content?

When I first read the headline, I assumed this was some kind of query to the Intel Management Engine. But in this context, it's some good programming humor.

> streaming services, the rationale is "we can still call it ad-free, if the only preroll ads we run are for our own shows!"

At least on my services, they are just short trailers, never annoying ads like Progressive's. And if I'm not interested, there's always a Skip button. I'm paying for this service, I want to know what upcoming shows are coming. I don't mind if this helps with their internal metrics.

Now I do object to the actual 5-10 min of ads I subjected to in the movie theater.

I haven't read Reamde. What was the opening sequence? The zoom In Effect when you pick a local address?

> you remember the early days of the pandemic when Donald Trump was very pro-mask, including regularly wearing a mask himself,

I don't remember it. Because it never happened: https://apnews.com/article/michael-pence-virus-outbreak-dona...

It wasn't until the pandemic was raging in the summer that he wore a mask in public and then quickly stopped doing so. He even put on a show of ripping off his mask after he came back from his Covid hospitalization.

> Russia spent less money [Citation needed]

You have no idea how much money they spent. What we do know from sworn testimony is that they reached 126 million users through Facebook alone [1] We also know they funneled millions into NRA to influence our elections with dark money.[2] They also had an army of social media influencers working at the IRA with a $1.25 million monthly budget. [3] And, what is the value of the influence from their state sponsored hackers that stole data and leaked through WikiLeaks? [4] No megachurch can do that.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/technology/facebook-googl...

[2] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/the-nra-spent-dollar...

[3] https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-troll-farm-spent-mil...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...

> As a young healthy person

I personally worked with a "a young healthy person" with your attitude. He's dead now. This is not your average cold we're dealing with.

Most vaccine boosters are spaced out 6+ months, but the emergency nature of the pandemic forced the trials to only space them out 3-4 weeks. All of the data is showing that a 6-8 month booster will offer a more robust protection. Further more, a delta or any specific tailored booster is trivial with mRNA tech.

Tor is also useful is to verify country specific customization on your website are working. I regularly used Tor on reports of issues with default language or currency. It's just a quick toggle of a setting in "torrc" to limit your exit node to a specific country code.

This project is badly in need of an update. It's using an ancient 4 yo. version of tesseract.js. The current version: https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js is based on tesseract v4.1.1, a newer your Ubuntu 18.04's.

The 4.0 version added new neural network system based on LSTMs, with major accuracy gains.

https://fossies.org/diffs/tesseract/4.0.0_vs_4.1.0/ChangeLog...

I can confirm that just a simple modification to the standard registration form keeps out all bot spammers. If your forum or bug tracker is small enough, that will eliminate all spam. The built-in spam countermeasures like CAPTCHA's seemed worthless from my experience.

> saving a bundle in shipping costs on new kitchen cabinets

Both Lowes and Home Depot offer free delivery for orders over $45. I've also done several home improvement projects, and never needed to pay a dime in shipping. Are you buying directly from the manufacturer or something I'm missing here?

/r/ClassicMacGaming/ and /r/emulation

legit roms sign up at pleasuredome

> fears of hosting Mac roms leading to incomplete instructions and shady download sites

I'm a bit of an emulator hobbyist and have played with the native version of Basilisk II. If you weren't an outsider and part of the communities on reddit/discord you'd know the torrents trackers to use (public and private). Sure, there are shady sites, but that's not the emulators fault. And the fix is definitely not killing the good performance of a native emu by transpiling it to JS. Improved documentation could help send new users down a better path.

I lived in China for 2 years. Americans have no idea how liberating it is to be able be able to hop on a 200 mph train and arrive at totally different climate in hours. Over lunch, my coworkers would talk about a weekend of drinking tea in mountains in Hunan, visiting Mao' home in Wuhan, or exploring the beaches of Hainan. These are all things we did and were possible because of China's high speed rail system.

I think the biggest factor was the convenience. We'd just show up at the train station and take the next train, usually within an hour. No planning, no booking, just bought our tickets at the station, minutes before our trip. All of this for less than 1/4 the cost of a last minute plane ticket.

Sure we could have flown, and the farthest places may have been faster to fly. But that only if the tickets were available and security lines in china are just as bad as here. There's also the comfort of a train with a meal coach. And, the thrill of watching the land rush by at lightning speeds. America felt so backwards on my return.

> Wayland support is getting really good these days

Depends on your needs and hardware. I have an Nvidia desktop and Intel Laptop both running Arch + GNOME 40. Intel is definitely less buggy, but I still find myself switching back to X11. For example, when I needed screen sharing for work video conferencing, it only works under X11(PipeWire support was buggy at the time). Wayland/GNOME also still have issues with mouse lag with high CPU.

It's getting better every day, but still rough around the edges.

Relevant Onion article, "‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens":

https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-na...

The Onion has published the article 17 times:(

I should have left out any details because they are a distraction. My point was I could not have a friendly conversation with my neighbor, because he was all wound up over a culture war issue fed by Facebook. But for the record, here was what I saw on my quick phone fact-check at the time, that contradicted his claims about Coke having an anti-white/anti-conservative policy[1][2].

> In a statement, Coca-Cola denied the video and images circulating on social media were part of the company’s learning curriculum.

But these details really didn't matter. What would have been a positive neighborly interaction 20 years ago, was soured because of today's environment. This is going on all across America.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/03/02/fac...

[2] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/coca-cola-training-less-wh...

Worse yet, it's destroying the fabric of our society. I've know my neighbor since I was a kid, always having a friendly relationship. Just yesterday we were talking about my uncle and somehow he jumped how angry he was at "Coke for training their employees to 'be less white'". So I pull out my phone, and first hit is a fact-check showing it's a right-wing, culture war fabrication. I see the same on the other side with younger generation. We've lost a shared set of facts.

Social media and the filter bubble it creates is destroying our country by radicalizing people with addictive disinformation.

> Dogs will wait.

Often, wait to starve to death.

"Your faithful golden retriever might sit next to your dead body for days, starving, but the tabby won’t,” she writes. “Your pet cat will eat you right away, with no qualms at all. I’ve seen the result.”

https://nypost.com/2014/08/03/a-million-ways-to-die-in-new-y...

As someone who grew up in a family of pet owners, the joke is anytime there is a story with "study" and "dog", that any dog owner could have told them that. This study is what we refer to as the "invisible leash" that dogs have with with their masters. The article also touches on mirroring behavior, which is also well known and even has a whole class of dog training based around it called "Do as I Do"[1] I trained my dog this way as a pup. AMA.

Dogs spend their lives trying to figure out what we want and the meaning of our words. Science has year to catch up to learn just how much they understand and how in-tune they are with their adopted pack.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC3OqbjlxkM

There is a pond in my neighborhood that's not treated. The years I've used Mosquito Bits and Dunks, the mosquito population has crashed to tolerable levels. Bti is proven to work and totally safe for then environment. It's a small price to pay to be able to enjoy my backyard. If I ever move, my neighbors are going to miss my contribution.

Beginning with FreeBSD on exotic devices like these is going to ensure a poor first impression. Had she started on a standard x86_64 PC desktop or supported laptop like the thinkpads, she would have had much better results.

Discounting the fact check, accusing the journalist as being biased because of who they worked for is intellectually lazy and a fallacious argument. If you had read the content, you'd see that the fact checks are accurate and well sourced. From the examples I listed and lack of retractions associated with them, it's clear that Daily Wire has no journalistic integrity. They are not in the same ballpark as NYT.