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stjohnswarts··on Google's TOS doesn't eliminate a user's Fourth Amendment rights, judge rules [pdf]
they should as a matter of course. but I guess "papers" you entrust to someone else are a gray area. I personally think that it goes against the separation of police state and democracy, but I'm a nobody, so it doesn't matter I suppose.
stjohnswarts··on Using an 8K TV as a Monitor
yeah I'm fine with just an ultra wide, no more stacked monitors for me
stjohnswarts··on Avoidance of sun exposure as a risk factor for major causes of death (2016)
Seems kind of like a no brainer given what we know about skin cancer, but I'm kind of surprised if you control for that if it had any other great "opportunity" to increase your lifespan when you control for obvious ones like exercise, diet, and controlling stress. I'm not a big outside lover, but I do take a daily walk to hopefully get bit of vitamin D from it. I mostly exercise indoors and my hobbies are almost all indoors.
stjohnswarts··on Samsung extends Android and security updates to 7 years
this could definitely open me back up to android. I got tired of my device becoming hacker friendly and went over to iphone after my perfectly useful android device was outside of feature/security updates. I didn't want to install another OS android or root my device, I just want to use it and stick it back in my pocket. I will definitely look at samsung again with my next mobile "era" when my iphone dies/is too slow.
stjohnswarts··on Japan ANA Boeing 737-800 flight turns back due to cockpit window crack
those don't mean much with out at least a "out of X planes from manufacturer Y"
stjohnswarts··on Japan ANA Boeing 737-800 flight turns back due to cockpit window crack
yeah anything to get them to start being an engineering company again instead of a "let's squeeze all we can out of this profit center and not listen to our engineers"
stjohnswarts··on 95% of container ships are now going around the Southern Tip of Africa
This is incorrect. Israel is at war with Hamas and they aren't holding back, and there is a large difference between what is going on and genocide. If Israel wanted to commit genocide then the entirety of Gaza would be leveled and 99% of the people dead indiscriminately. There are different levels of warfare.
stjohnswarts··on United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 Max 9 inspections
In some cases (some spark plugs are what I can think of) explicitly tell you NOT to grease them, as that will let you over-torque them and potentially damage threads (aluminum heads, steel plugs). So using grease is not always the recommended procedure.
stjohnswarts··on United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 Max 9 inspections
Did you torque every bolt every time before every flight?
stjohnswarts··on FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s
Being a fat guy, I disregard that during flight other than takeoff, landing, and turbulence. I drive to work on most days, and the chance that I die that way is FAR, FAR higher than the few flights I take each year. I'll live with the odds. Yes, I wear my seat belt in my car, it's actually comfortable
stjohnswarts··on FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s
That isn't going to happen, they are too many out there and they have too much money invested. It would take FAA action (or European I suppose)
stjohnswarts··on FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s
Didn't it look like Brazilian government was almost 100% gonna have it called off because of the "hit" to national reputation? (losing one of their largest and most internationally famous powerhouses)
stjohnswarts··on FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s
what? The death penalty is still around.
stjohnswarts··on FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s
Fixing known problems as you learn of them is maintenance is it not? That's just as important as changing out the lubricants and checking that the working parts are working.
stjohnswarts··on Age verification is incompatible with the internet
Sounds like fascism to me. More like what N. Korea does, you'd think that S. Korea would be averse to adding more fascism to their lives rather than less.
stjohnswarts··on Age verification is incompatible with the internet
Where does it stop next? Government telling us that we can't have our small piece of chocolate until we eat all our veggies and Mediterranean menu diet guide?
stjohnswarts··on Age verification is incompatible with the internet
The adult sites will simply move offshore where the country trying to stop the flow of information doesn't have jurisdictions. It's whack-a-mole. The only solution is that parents control their kids, install nanny software, and teach them what is age appropriate. I chose to skip all that but supposedly I'm supposed to just accept that they are taking more of my freedom away and expect me to turn my ID over to random internet companies and trust that they'll "do the right thing"
stjohnswarts··on Age verification is incompatible with the internet
It's up to parents to lock down their kids from tech they shouldn't be accessing, the rest of us shouldn't be harassed and inconvenienced for that. I hate to beat a dead horse, but it comes down to personal responsibility, "what are your kids doing right now?"
stjohnswarts··on Everything will be alright in Iceland
I hear it more than anything about Biden. I personally think that it's an easy way to be racist without being pinned down on it because of the out that he was also a President.
stjohnswarts··on U.S. moves closer to filing antitrust case against Apple
If they would have allowed alternate web engines and excluded google then google could have easily sued the crap out of them. As it stands they can viably say it's for OS integrity and security by forcing everyone to use the say "guts"
stjohnswarts··on U.S. moves closer to filing antitrust case against Apple
Not just javascript but also the rendering engine
stjohnswarts··on U.S. moves closer to filing antitrust case against Apple
because it doesn't allow nearly as large images/videos/etc to be sent. They either get dropped or reduced in size by various means. If you stick to text I've had no problems, if you don't you're on your own if your doing Android <-->iPhone . most of my friends use signal or whatsapp so it's not a big deal for me, but others have issues.
stjohnswarts··on Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone
did that with a showerhead, $80 on amazon, $30 on aliexpress, and it's actually quite well made (real metal) and seems to be great so far after a year. I'm sure there are a lot of duds though and it's caveat emptor, do at least a little research if you can find anything.
stjohnswarts··on Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone
It's a shame that something as basic as using a keyboard with a computing device can be copyrighted/patented. It's absolutely ridiculous.
stjohnswarts··on Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone
https://hckrnews.com/ is my go to, I have it set to top 20/day otherwise I'd be on hacker news way too much/too long. It's a self limiting thing.
stjohnswarts··on 'everything' blocks devs from removing their own NPM packages
The world is simply too complicated for that, there is no way you would get the maintainers of rust, npm, deno, haskell, etc to all agree to one "package system to rule them all".
stjohnswarts··on 'everything' blocks devs from removing their own NPM packages
Maybe something like this should put up big siren noises that it has so many dependencies. Can -anything- have that many dependencies? seems like a check they could build in and not let it go into the npm packages without a review.
stjohnswarts··on Linux hits nearly 4% desktop user share on Statcounter
been doing the same with pop_os (regular releases not the LTS)
stjohnswarts··on Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US
Tesla is the only one I'll buy until any car can use the tesla charger network, others simply aren't very well kept up.
stjohnswarts··on Web browser as GUI, with your preferred language in the backend
web assembly?
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