Alaska

-40F to +40F in about a four hour period.

The EU took 500€ notes out of circulation a few years ago because they prefer large transactions to be done by methods that are easier for the government to monitor. I imagine the US government feels the same way.

Yes, I’ll tell my mother to host a PiHole.

Of course bringing it with her would require something to tether it to other than the phone she’s actually using as a phone (I think), and a way to power it all. She’s going to need a bigger purse.

Or she could access it remotely. I doubt her residential DSL comes with a static IP, so she’s going to have to get a domain name and set up dynamic DNS… oh, and route the appropriate port to her Pi through the ISP’s NAT router, assuming it actually supports that. Maybe she should buy the latest fancy one from GL.iNet with those big antennas and OpenWRT.

I think I might send her that AdGuard link instead.

Neither this screenshot nor their website claims to block ordinary advertisements.

I’ve been recommending Mullvad DNS for its adblock functionality. Quad9 does not provide this.

I am now seeking recommendations for an equivalent I can recommend to friends and family for use on devices that do not easily support system-wide adblocking.

1Password is the best they could come up with when “best” is measured in dollars contributed.

It’s probably not made up because 1Password is pre-installed and bound to a hotkey in Omarchy. Linux users making informed decisions about what to use for password management probably don’t pick 1Password most of the time due to its terrible security record.

Part of it is a cultural difference. There’s a formal training and apprenticeship program in Switzerland to become a waiter. The USA relies more on informal on-the-job training than formal education in many fields. In a large, professional police department, it’s often the case that a new hire will be assigned a field training officer for a while; that’s likely to be longer for someone without experience.

The higher level of violence isn’t just lack of training. Some of it is cultural, based on an “us vs. them” mentality. Some of it is based on actual dangers; people in Switzerland pretty much never respond to a traffic stop by shooting at the police, but that’s not a rare occurrence in the USA.

And another. This is the same bird a month later.

Somebody already beat me to gosling, but have another

The more corrupt the leaders of a country are, the harder they protest that the country is anything but.

People aren’t always honest on dating sites. Something they’re particularly likely to be dishonest about is what kind of relationship they’re looking for. Women will sometimes say they’re looking for a long-term relationship even if they might be open to something else because saying they’re open to casual sex is “slutty”. Men will often say they’re looking for a long-term relationship even though they’re not because women won’t meet them if they don’t say that because it’s “slutty”.

That may be what you encountered: a man trying to see if you really meant what your profile said, or it might be a man trying to deceive you to get casual sex when that’s not what you’re looking for. Either way, a follow-up will not lead to the long-term relationship you’re seeking.

Edit: I also wouldn’t characterize his behavior as “ghosting”. Ghosting is cutting off communication without explanation. He gave you an explanation.

GrapheneOS is opposed to using attestation for lock-in, including Unified Attestation. They are not opposed to all uses of attestation, which they write in the linked thread:

Hardware-based attestation has valid use cases including the Auditor app on GrapheneOS for protecting users.

GrapheneOS devs are going to blow a gasket - they hate attestation of any kind.

No they don’t. GrahpeneOS supports attestation and runs an integrity monitoring service so users can detect tampering with their GrapheneOS devices.

I hate third-party apps having the ability to use remote attestation, but I am not the GrapheneOS devs.

Creeps want that. Anyone who wants to watch nonconsensual pornography is a creep. Much as rape is often about power more than sexual desire, I suspect many of these creeps want to see a politician they dislike in a degrading situation.

every aeroplane should be slung on a massive slingshot into the sky

Winch launching gliders is a thing.

To be fair to Brian Acton, afterward, he did co-found the Signal foundation and give it a hundred million dollar zero-interest loan.

It’s easy to find examples of homemade guns. Here’s a blog full of them: https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/author/improguns/

Most of them are made with crude metalworking, not 3D printing. Making a quality firearm is difficult; making one that goes bang most times the trigger is pulled is not.

Because of not having enough time and money to maintain the app, like the implementation of encryption and new features, founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton accepted the deal and sold the app for $19 billion to Mark Zuckerberg.

I imagine I’d also find that I don’t have enough time and money to maintain something if someone offered me $19 billion for it.