Privacy matters. If it didnt, bathrooms would not have doors.

I do not understand people who use their garage to store useless crap and leave their car outside. The car is more valuable than the crap.

Dump all that useless junk into a dumpster. Get a bike shed, put the mower in it too.

The garage is for cars, not bikes, mowers or trash nobody cares about.

Looking at you California.

In the us, home chargers will typically run on 240 volts, similar to a dryer or electric stove.

The amperage can be as low as 16 amps (not common) and up to 40 amps. There are higher amperage chargers, but they’re not super common. Most homes dont have that much capacity provisioned and adding it to the breaker box means new circuits and often the power company has to provide a higher capacity meter. It gets expensive.

Since volts x amps = watts, a 240 volt charger that operates at 40 amps will charge at 9600 watts or 9.6 kilowatts (maximum).

You can charge using a standard 120v outlet, most are rated for 15 amps. However, you will get 120v x 15a = 1800 watts or 1.8 kilowatts (maximum).

Used to make tarpits with reverse proxies. Accept the connection and then set the responses for a few seconds before default TCP timeout. Doesn’t eat much resource as long as you have enough TCP connections and can reuse them effectively.

Also, forcing your kids to play your favorite old games assumes that your games were the best games.

They were fun in their day, but time moves on. Assuming that everything since you formed your opinions is inferior is some big boomer energy.

Let them find their own fun with their friends on their terms. Making your kids play your old crap with you is kinda sad.

I think Minecraft is boring as hell and I’m not gonna play it, but I’m not going to force my kids to play mega man 2 instead.

I’m sorry, did you say a MAGA wood chipper?

Delightful!

It will be true if people are unwilling to put in a little effort to demand better or stop using windows.

You want your games to run on something else? Don’t buy them until they do. Sadly, most people are 100% unwilling to delay that instant gratification and sacrifice even the smallest convenience.

That’s how we got here. You cannot expect change if you are unwilling to do anything to make it happen.

This is why sloth is a deadly sin.

That was my first thought, like what the fuck, I don’t want my OS creeping on all my shit.

It won’t matter, they will serve slop and most people will happily eat it.

A lack of even basic technology literacy hurts everyone so much. Most people have zero clue how their stuff works and zero interest to learn. Its easy to manipulate an ignorant population as we see again and again.

My favorite simple example is “do you shit with the door open? No? OK then privacy does have value–for all involved.”

There are also hand held radios, strobelights, flares, and PLBs that do not require more satellite infrastructure.

People being lost in the wilderness is not a new problem. It often happens because people don’t bother to consider that they might get lost and plan appropriately.

Sorry, but not everyone gets to come home, especially if they don’t do a little planning.

People will do anything but put in a little work to establish healthy relationships with people.

Well, if I had a taco butt plug, everything else would seem lame by comparison.

Donations are considered revenue. However, depending on the receiving entity, they could be qualified differently.

Same here, I’m on 141.0 Linux. No tab grouping unless I group them. I do see the ai button but have not bothered with it.

Mega Man 2 theme. Phone is usually on vibrate but I put it into noisy mode from time to time.

I work in cyber security and I was spending the day in the SOC (security operations center, room full of nerds and a ton of monitors, everyone is watching security events). I left to take a piss and didnt take my phone. Someone called and ringtone played at top volume while I was away. Upon return I was greeted to half the room thinking it was funny the other half being most irritated with me. I was a director back then, so they couldn’t really say too much (I mean, I wouldn’t have cared, but corporate pecking order) which made it all the funnier.

Its called clickbait and Jalopnik is a piece of shit site anyway.

It would have to get pretty bad before people would be willing to forgo convenience.

That stuff is a nasty drug, very addictive and people will sell everything they got to keep it. They’d rather pay and arm and a leg instead of learning a little technology so they could help themselves.

People will slave themselves to the company that lets them be the most ignorant person possible but still enjoy the fun of technology.

Could you imagine if all mobile devices stopped using face recognition to unlock phones? I’d be willing to bet that a big chunk of people wouldn’t be able to use them at all. I’m surprised that google and apple haven’t started charging extra for that.

So we have the EU and their bullshit (which also has global scope), we have credit card processors and their bullshit, now we have Canada and some.of their own bullshit.

On one hand, we have been talking about the potential for full surveillance across the internet for a while, so this is hardly a surprise, but everyone all at once? What the hell is behind this new massive push?

It seems that the response to this will be a lot of services moving to countries that dont give a shit about us/EU laws and a rise in cryptocurrencies. It will take a while before the common folks to get pissed enough to figure it out, but all things have limits.

I presume there will be a patchwork of country-level blocks put into place, VPN blocks, tor filtering etc. This feels like the end of the open internet as we know it. It has been a greed fueled mess for a long time now, but this round of government invasion feels like the final knife in the chest.

It will suck for users, it will be expensive for any company to maintain compliance, it will be horribly complex from a technology perspective if any of these layers break and it will be a goddamn nightmare to secure. Organized crime hackers are going to have a field day once they get access to all the stuff being monitored and logged. Encryption backdoors will take it to a whole new level.

What? No, this is a horrible practice.

If you can’t figure out how to set identity-based ACLs you shouldn’t be working in technology! Oh I’ll just set this shit to any/any and figure out later. FUCK ANYONE WHO DOES THIS IN THEIR LEFT EAR.

I agree. The reality is that nobody should be trusting these platforms with such sensitive data. As demonstrated, there is so much that can go wrong when you trust these companies. This is a LOT of risk for very little reward.
Whatever you put online you should think “what if this were made public and attributed to me” before you post it.

Say it loud