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snorlaxle··on Colorado Law Would Charge Owners for Driving Giant Trucks and SUVs
If you look into pedestrian fatalities per mile travelled per pessanger, buses are most probably still far safer than any of the vehicles listed.
snorlaxle··on EU reaches deal to make USB-C a common charger for most electronic devices
It happened to me once. It was a cheap no-name hub so I don't really blame type c for it. I also haven't heard it happen to anyone else and most of my friends and family have an android.
snorlaxle··on Gitea – a painless self-hosted Git service
Yes, that's when it was included to Trac 1.0 as a built-in plugin. Before that, it was a 3rd party plugin you have to install yourself. I remember using it before 2010 and I'm pretty sure the plugin pre-dates github.
snorlaxle··on Gitea – a painless self-hosted Git service
And even before Github, there was Trac [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trac]
snorlaxle··on 'Satan Shoes' to be recalled as Nike agrees to settle lawsuit
I'm not sure Nike would want to receive profit directly from the sales of these 'Satan Shoes.'
snorlaxle··on How Did Vim Become So Popular?
VS Code can (sort of) do that: https://github.com/cdr/sshcode
snorlaxle··on Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS
Works for me on Ubuntu 18.04.
snorlaxle··on TSA-style body scanners are coming to public spaces
Would you rather we don't have these numbers help us with decision making? Do you have a better system in mind? Should we just never discuss or think about risk/reward trade-offs as soon as it involves a single life at risk?

I also don't get where the Wikipedia snark is coming from. I know that Wikipedia pages are not perfect but It's still a pretty good reference for a lot of things. I often trust Wikipedia articles for any given subject as long as it is well-sourced and not political just like this one.

snorlaxle··on TSA-style body scanners are coming to public spaces
That's 1 of the reasons kids are usually valued more with these calculations. I'm not advocating for gun rights here. I'm not from the US and I prefer that civilians don't carry guns at all. Maybe I should have said that outright first so I don't just get down-voted and dismissed. I'm talking about freedom in a more general sense. Gun rights is not even the freedom being taken away by this type of surveillance.
snorlaxle··on TSA-style body scanners are coming to public spaces
I know it's really hard to wrap our head around the idea of objective worth of human lives but we already have calculations for the statistical value of life[1]. We only need to do a similar calculation for our freedom and then we can objectively determine when it's worth it to trade lives vs freedom. At some point (if not there already) a few lives is going to be statistically worth less than the freedom of the entire population.

[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life)

snorlaxle··on 339 Bytes of Responsive CSS
I believe the criticism was fair here. The author specifically used "339 bytes" on the headline which implies a certain level of precision. Being orders of magnitude away from the claimed file size is not excusable. It just feels like click bait. Not counting imported CSS is simply wrong here. I can have a full-featured responsive CSS framework in <50 bytes if I @import bootstrap.css
snorlaxle··on Privacy Pass
Social media like factories are usually targeting websites that are not hosted by Cloudflare (Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Youtube etc.)

If the like factories are using 3rd world IP's they are probably real human ( https://www.rt.com/viral/388169-smartphones-factory-generate... ) because bots can be run cheaper on a 1st world server because bandwidth, IP, and power usually cost less there. Captcha is an anti-bot measure and is not (or at least shouldn't be but I'm finding it hard to pass CF's captcha as human) very effective against actual humans.

I don't even think CF considers(or even aware of) the existence of a like factory on the same network for displaying the captcha and I am pretty sure they don't justify their captcha blocking with it. It's more likely that they just see a bunch of connections coming from the same IP and naively concludes that it must be a bot.

I'm sure it's easy to make "excuses"(vs justification) but given the real harm it does to actual human users and questionable effectiveness against the doubtful ill-effects of the existence of like factories against CF-hosted websites; I'd like to hear that "justification."

snorlaxle··on Privacy Pass
I didn't downvote but I don't believe the claim was 100% factual. Cloudflare has always been horrible with dealing with shared IP's even if the users are all legitmate non-malicious. I once worked in an office with a single shared IP for ~200 people and we got constantly captcha-blocked by Cloudflared websites. It was also a problem with google but it was less prevalent and their captcha system was less annoying than Cloudlfare's.

When I was a sysadmin for a few admittedly-not-highly-popular websites, there were definitely more unwelcome bot traffic from US and EU IP's than there were from any 3rd world countries.

I also don't agree that social media "like-factories" should be a concern for Cloudflare at all. Even if they are truly a concern; social media "like-factories" are probably human-operated on third-world countries or bots that are likely running from developed world servers with access to cheaper bandwidth and IP's.

snorlaxle··on Privacy Pass
Do you have a source for that claim? How does sharing IP's with 'like factories' and thousands of other legitimate users justifies getting captcha-blocked by Cloudflare without explicit instructions from the website owners?
snorlaxle··on When Microsoft's eBook store closes, your books disappear too
Not really. The hardest part is getting the activation bytes and even that is actually quite simple and you only have to do it once. For the actual converting I have a bash script that can convert all the aax files in a directory and convert them to a m4b format with all the metada intact. Using your approach you would have to manually set the chapters and the cover art. I have thousands of hours worth of audiobooks but even if you only have a single 10 hour book I think this approach is still the easier of the 2.
snorlaxle··on Generative.fm – Endlessly unique ambient music
Working for me on Android Chrome.
snorlaxle··on Addressing Spotify’s Claims
I buy Steam games from Humble Bundle all the time. The developers can actually generate steam keys and sell their game directly. https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys

As far as I know you can't do that on iOS. There's also nothing stopping the devs from selling IAP themselves on their own website. So no, Steam is much much more open than Apple's App store. Not to mention the fact that Steam is completely optional and the App store is not.

snorlaxle··on Supreme Court Sides with Baker Who Turned Away Gay Couple
Maybe if it's a sex reassignment surgery? The baker just refused to bake a wedding cake specifically.
snorlaxle··on Adobe to Acquire Magento
I know it sounds implied but he didn't say customer service had access to plain text password, just that he verified it over the phone. You can surely do that with hashed password but it's still not a good practice.
snorlaxle··on Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo
What I read at the time is that no money was paid to anyone. Hope you find the linked citation

https://techcrunch.com/2013/09/03/google-strikes-bizarre-lic...

snorlaxle··on Cloak and dagger – a new kind of attacks for Android
The impact of this vulnerability would not have been as bad if only android let the user disable background apps easily and reliably.
snorlaxle··on The Superbook: Turn your smartphone into a laptop for $99
From the FAQ:

Does the Superbook require MHL? Nope. The Superbook doesn’t use MHL technology--instead, it uses Displaylink technology

Check out http://displaylink.com/downloads/android for more info!

I haven't personally tried a Displaylink device yet but It looks like it works well with USB 2.0.