Funny you say that, because one thing that always irritates me is perfumes. It bothers me when someone has been through a building within the last hour or two wearing perfume. When I ride my bike, I am frequently struck by the synthetic smells coming off the pedestrians I pass. Busy areas are really offputting because of the mishmash of perfume smells. Yet still I can’t conclusively pin a fart on a culprit.

Directional smell like rats have. It would bring a new era of undeniable fart responsibility. Also high frequency hearing so bats can no longer get away with talking shit about us.

Put it on the pile with all the other races the USA is forfeiting to China. To complete you’d really need not to have a team of unqualified idiots in charge.

“Don’t tread on me” for these people only ever meant “We tread on you.” It was never a statement of some noble value.

The push currently is to define trans advocacy as domestic terrorism, rather then to just outright define all trans people as terrorists.

How many trans people would not support trans rights? It’s easy for them to claim any trans person is an advocate of trans rights and therefore a terrorist. There’s no safety margin here.

I think the incel or 4channish school shooters would fit that description. They’re almost all white cis boys though.

Someone in another thread pointed out that reddit users spotted this two gears ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/1505mzb/what_on_earth_is_ironsource/

A whiny conservative Christian student goes to the Trump people to rat on the professor for being inclusive, and the university fires the professor. This is life in the fascist USA.

Went there to update my password but got reminded what a horrible experience Plex is these days, so deleted my account instead.

I disabled all animations in Android after the recent announcement of a vulnerability in which invisible animations could be used to trick users into unwitting actions. The sudden transitions without animation were a bit odd at first, but I was surprised how much faster and more responsive the phone feels with animations turned off. I like it better this way and feel no need to turn them back on.

I second your recommendation of that video. Those Elephant Graveyard videos are really good.

He really is unbelievably dumb. Unfortunately millions of people don’t realize this, or don’t care.

The oil companies have always pledged and promised and stalled for time and fudged. Their promises can’t be taken at face value. MAGA probably will slow down their movement in the right direction, but they already dragged their feet as much as possible in the hopes that something like this would happen.

He said the code that came out was slow, but Rust always ranks within the top handful of languages for speed, so I’m taking that comment with a big pinch of salt. Among popular systems languages only C and C++ really beat Rust for speed. So you get better memory safety for the price of a pretty small decrease in speed and a steeper learning curve for the compiler’s picky rules (though the compiler gives you lots of clear help). Rust programmers know this.

The feature can be turned off. But the lack of upfront communication about it, and the developer’s failure to even acknowledge people’s concern about how proxying doesn’t prevent OpenAI or the US Government deanonymizing your voice recordings, are quite worrying.

Screwed just means you’ll have to turn off Secure Boot if you ever want to reinstall Linux. And on many PCs the Secure Boot has been so badly implemented it’s pretty worthless anyway. Several of mine have a root key called something like “AMI TEST KEY - DO NOT TRUST” which basically invalidates the whole system and is unfixable by the user.

Damn, I’ve encountered all of these, and my current job features most of them.

What a terrible system. I have a couple of computers where the vendor provides good update support, but for most of them this is not the case and you’re pretty much stuck with the firmware you get. To tie Secure Boot to such a flaky set of distribution channels seems like very poor planning.

… and claiming that the new, cheaper sources of energy are putting the price up compared to the old, more expensive sources.

Not just letting it happen, but doing everything they can to accelerate it. The stakes couldn’t be higher when it comes to getting rid of these fascists.