I agree that this is probably the inevitable end result of the proliferation of the technology. The journey society is going to have to take to get to that point is going to be pretty uncomfortable though I think.

I have the standard Firefox for iOS, and the only security setting I see that might be related is “Enhanced Tracking Protection”, which is set to standard. I would assume that should allow basic cookies for persistent login though. I wonder if there’s something about Lemmy that is causing it to be detected as some kind of ad tracking thing?

Ken Lee!

Do you think that’s some kind if setting in Firefox? I thought the web site determines the expiration date for a cookie?

I think we may need to implement a 128 bit unix timestamp before that will work.

Many people have given great suggestions for the most destroying commands, but most result in an immediately borked system. While inconvenient, that doesn’t have a lasting impact on users who have backups.

I propose writing a bash script set up to run daily in cron, which picks a random file in the user’s home directory tree and randomizes just a few bytes of data in the file. The script doesn’t immediately damage the basic OS functionality, and the data degradation is so slow that by the time the user realizes something fishy is going on a lot of their documents, media, and hopefully a few months worth of backups will have been corrupted.

The basic idea of reducing air drag with a vacuum is a good one, but there are so many practical problems with a solution like the hyperloop that it should have been shot down earlier than it was. The problem of thermal expansion across a structure hundreds of miles long while needing to maintain a near vacuum was never solved.

I guess this is me now.

If you want to run some less low-level code to explore the kinds of sounds that code like this can create, I wrote a python applet that lets you explore random and custom functions interactively. It comes with several presets for interesting functions I’ve discovered on various websites.

YouTube video

source code

I think the Japanese language handles this pretty well. People typically refer to someone by name, even when speaking directly to them where “you” would be used in English.

Zero content so far and already 18k subscribers. Not bad!

Ah, I found the link at the bottom of the main page. I had no idea there were so many instances!

The MIRV is even a better idea than using the eagles!

r/buyitforlife is a treasure

5+ sets are also possible and can get very intricate.

A silent, energy-free cooling solution that works for hours at a time? Sounds like it’s perfect for military operations. Imagine the Boston Dynamics robots, but without the whirr of cooling fans.

Interesting. Is there a way to see which servers mine is currently federated with?

Thanks for posting this! I’ve often struggled with ACPI and Linux in the past and this sheds a little light on why that is.

If I happen to be the doctor and it’s someone else going under I’d say “Okay, let’s get this leg amputated!” when that is NOT the actual operation happening.

I hate that I don’t know for sure that the person did this to prove that it could be done.