I mean, that’s hypothetically less invasive than requiring your photo ID, and it’s exactly what people have been asking for for stuff like Steam being required to identify a user’s age. If the account itself is over 18 years old, the user is. If it had an attached debit card, you can probably assume it’s an adult. Etc.
So on one hand, eww privacy. On the other, it’s info they already have on you and better than forcing ID.
I have a whole bunch of old towers I’ve accrued over the years, and family audio CD and DVD collections. Now hard drive space has become a premium for the backups, but I bought a whole bunch of powered SATA to USB adapters and a PCIe slot USB hub for my desktop. Had multiple CDs backing up at a time using every disk drive that still works. ExactRip, configure the drive, and then just swap out discs as needed while I worked from home.
Haven’t moved on to DVDs yet. CDs are easy, you just use ExactRip to rip to FLAC. Haven’t figured out a general use way for DVD ripping yet, especially because whether I want the special features backed up or not, or multiple audio streams, depends on the disc.
Their original Virtual Console NES games on the Wii had the roms extracted from them, and they were found to have ROM header data matching how the emulation community formatted it, with files set up the same way as online communities did things. Theoretically they could have put that there themselves so their in-house made emulator followed the conventions of open source ones, but people think it’s more likely they just downloaded the ROMs from the internet and they came that way.
Beyond the posting frequency, you also clearly just copy paste the title, like the post you had somewhere in the past week or so with “[OC]” in the title despite not being your own OC.
This isn’t tough. Separate your “normal user” activity from the assisted posting. Go in your account settings and switch “bot account” on. Whatever you have set up to “assist” you in posting so frequently, adjust it to place in the body text of each post “Originally from Reddit: [LINK]. Original post text below: [ORIGINAL BODY TEXT GOES HERE]”.
There, everyone is happy. Anyone who isn’t at that point can block you.
Lastly, Lemmy/Piefed doesn’t have persistent karma for each user. There’s no point doing this concentrated posting shit to begin with.
You’ll want to make sure battery optimizations are disabled for them, so Android will be less likely to close the app for only being in the background. Sometimes allowing the app to keep a persistent notification going can help as well. A lot of the specific details can vary by phone and android OS version, so web search will be your friend on this.
I’ll warn you though, with some phones, you can do everything right and it may still auto-close them on occasion.
Rub it in why don’t you. :P
I had sporadic health issues earlier this year that weren’t consistent enough for FMLA and I’m down to 4 hours PTO. If I’m a good boy, I’ll gain maybe an hour a month.
Plus, the whole deal at my workplace was they acknowledged they paid under market rate in exchange for extra flexibility. Now we have new management who desperately doesn’t want to pay us for time on-call anymore, and doesn’t believe in time in-lieu (work after hours, get the equivalent off during business hours). I’m a full fledged systems engineer making under $90k. That’s a lot of money, but it sure as hell isn’t competitive for my skills, and more and more I’m wondering if it’s really worth what it’s costing me.
Is this what qualifies as trolling these days? Makes me sad.
I remember cheap plastic body flashlights where the battery springs had worn out a little back in the 90’s sometimes having issues where the batteries wouldn’t stay positioned inside quite right, so moving it around it might flicker as they shifted or it would shut off entirely if the batteries slipped out of “alignment”. Usually you’d just thump it a few times until they settled back in right. But they lasted plenty long, and didn’t just flicker on their own.
Those seem to be what game flashlights are based off of, which is especially silly with how long cheap super bright LED flashlights with no battery looseness have been around now.
“Stole”? That’s quite the fucking leading word choice.
Is this just cynicism, or is there a history of CVEs before patches exist? This is the first headline I’ve seen like this.
And Graphene is moving to Motorola anyway.
Not trying to be a downer, but I’ve worked the trenches of an internal IT help desk for a company, and you should prepare yourself for doing free volunteer tech support if you set something up like this. You’d be shocked at what things can be road blocks to otherwise intelligent, seemingly technical people. The risk of it drops if you use something more standard like Google Sheets, but it doesn’t disappear entirely.
You will probably need to go with something that works for the lowest common denominator of your group. That might be “horrible messy email thread manually turned into a shared Apple or Google calendar once a week by a volunteer”. If you don’t, there will be constant friction with them. I’ve seen similar collaboration efforts fail on a team of professional systems engineers simply due to a difference in how each person wanted to take and maintain their notes. No one could settle on a standard and eventually the person pushing for it gave up.
In short there are multiple angles to this, more than simply privacy vs ease of use.
That said, nextcloud appears to be the current standard for this outside of Google and Microsoft.
I’ve never used any crypto black markets, but this sort of shit fascinates me. My understanding is that silk road was effectively the “Pirate Bay” of crypto black markets. It was the most easily accessible, “good enough”, and popular enough that it made headlines.
It was never the only one, or the true “source” or originator for much of the scene. These places absolutely still exist, but they’re slightly less “open”. Comparing to piracy again, it’s like getting into a private tracker rather than using one of the known public ones. You have to dig just a little for it.
Don’t know how much is agency honeypots or astroturfing, but last time I browsed the dark web one of the most popular “subreddits” on what is supposedly TOR’s biggest reddit equivalent was all discussion of current marketplaces and their specialties, annoyances, and trustworthiness.
I figure the key would be finding a way to make these cost less (including upkeep/replacement over time) than the marginal energy generation capabilities.
On that note, I’m sure there’s a reason besides “everyone else is too stupid to think of it” but I wonder why solar window shutters aren’t a thing.
I expect they’ll just script/automate some way to get 1000 entries for every legitimate one. Then again, I’m not familiar with what the entry requirements are. Unless the entry requirements are more than the potential profit, you’re still going to see scalping.
Excuse you. Hamster sex worker.
Do not speak of the old magics to me…
I have five Gmail accounts. Youngest is 5 years old. Oldest is around 20. Even have the apparently desirable firstname.lastname address for myself. So I’m not familiar with the current hoops to jump through, admittedly.
That said none have been banned, so while I recognize the risk, I don’t agree with that inevitability, especially if you aren’t making heavy use of it.
Any email service that is not self hosted has the same risk, and self hosting isn’t generally in reach for people due to all the unwritten “trust rules” the major providers have quietly implemented.
Imo, if your risk model has to account for nation state actors, you’re not the type of person who needs to ask about this stuff or you’re already screwed.
There are plenty of different options for throwaway emails and defense in depth on that if you don’t want the link to be direct, but the idea is ultimately the same: make what you need to get by, insulate between your real and it to taste.
Seeing as how in both the original anime and the manga/brotherhood, the power in them came from human souls, I’d venture to guess that wouldn’t work.