mini-usb cables are robust, but the sockets they plug into were pretty fragile, i’ve had multiple break.

the socket. sadly this is a design flaw with every usb connector, even type-c.

amusingly, Apple’s lightning is the only connector i’ve seen that seems truly designed for the cable to break before the socket

You can also get around this by using a non-airline owned travel metasearch engine like Kayak.

tbf perl nerds still are some of the nerdiest of nerds

they’re too fucking expensive. i won’t pay more than $20k for a car.

i don’t think many ISPs even offer encrypted DNS, i’m talking about using a third party dns. you can set up a standard dns endpoint that uses DoH upstream to the server of your choice. cloudflared makes this really easy if you are happy using their dns, and you can even have it sit upstream of something like pihole, giving your whole home network dns tracking protection and ad blocking without the overhead of a VPN.

Do you have to pay for a service? Probably not if you’re technical enough; a VM in a data center is probably sufficient.

Where are you getting free VM hosting?

also, i feel like most of your argument is rendered moot with encrypted dns solutions like DoH.

you could forgive the obnoxiously stupid packaging and marketing if the device inside that box was still as good as an iPod, but we all know a microsoft i-pod in 2005 would have been a clunky piece of crap. they didn’t figure out the zune until after the iPhone launched and it still wasn’t as polished as iPods from years earlier

not a dedicated chip per se, the trend is to build it directly into the SoC (mobile devices) or the dedicated GPU

i never used substack before and they are doing a good job making sure i never do. i hope they like being the nazi bar.

I love it when they try to take risks and do something new or different with the IP. Even if it fails, the end result is still usually more interesting than a safe retread would have been. Disco isn’t my favorite Star Trek, but it is one of the most interesting entries in the franchise, and has done a lot to expand and solidify the 23rd century canon.

People forget how controversial the Battlestar Galactica reboot was. Same goes for Daniel Craig’s James Bond. Simply being different from the source material is not enough to make it bad. Discovery isn’t as good as either of these, but i’m glad it tried.

it’s kind of shocking how bad motorcycles are at fuel efficiency given how much less mass they have to move

both of those alternatives are missing so many features Discord has that i wouldn’t really call them alternatives, especially many of the core features that make Discord Discord.

His introduction to Breaking Bad was the moment it went from a pretty good cable drama to some of the best television ever made.

It’s not as big of a deal as people like to pretend it is

It wasn’t just that E2EE was a lie, their own server software was full of its own bugs that allowed third party access to user messages, which were stored unencrypted in their database.

• Beeper can be self-hosted if you have a Mac, so you don’t have to trust their servers
• Sunbird’s app (Nothing Chat) was riddled with its own security vulnerabilities that allowed users to read other users messages, which were all stored as unencrypted plaintext, all discovered by the community within 24 hours of launch
• Beeper is actually open about how their technology works and what it’s limitations are, while Sunbird/Nothing basically lied about their product and never provided any meaningful documentation

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this is what i really don’t get about people defending google’s actions here. what incentive do uBlock Origin developers have to lie about the impact google’s changes to chrome will have on the capabilities of their extension?

google and ad blocker developers are the only two real subject matter experts here. the former has ample financial incentive to not be completely honest in their claims here, so the benefit of the doubt naturally belongs to the latter.

i’ve had real italian pizza, in italy. it was fucking delicious, but it doesn’t make the best pies i’ve had in places like new york or chicago taste like cardboard with sauce. some places in nyc can absolutely go toe-to-toe with italy.