peto (he/him)

I’d warn against opening the cells if you don’t know how old it is. Modern ones are safe, older ones might contain heavy metals.

See the problem with this is that even if I write code with this font, I can’t force people to read it in this font.

Are you referring to the song or Reagan?

Your first clue was that feeling of hope. Enterprise having ideas is never good for us tasked with doing work.

There is generally a battery that powers the clock and keeps it running even when there is no external power to the system normally one of the larger coin shaped ones. It’s non-rechargable as it lasts for a long time. It’s being constantly drained but it’s only the smallest trickle.

If you can get to the internals you should be able to find and replace it, it’s pretty obvious when you know to look for it. While you are in there you can check for corrosion/damage to the traces and components, give things a dust. The biggest issue is probably going to be an old battery, 20 years ago they were rather primative and though generally more replaceable than modern builds, getting a replacement might be harder.

Fixed penalties just become the cost of doing business. Like actors, we need to start asking for percentage of gross.

It’s cookie monster, not cookie good role model.

I always feel sad with these kinds of stories. The machine is clearly just trying to be helpful but it doesn’t understand a thing about what it is doing or why we might find what it is saying repugnant. It’s like watching a dog not understanding that yes, we like our slippers, but we don’t want our neighbours swastika themed ones on our doorstep.

And then of course we get to the content and I am reminded that we live in hell and the sadness is replaced by the familiar horror as the machine pretends to empathise with its fellow Amazon workers and helps them pick out the ideal thing to piss in without missing their drop targets.

A company who wants to promote customer privacy has a very simple job, they simply don’t harvest data on their customers, they don’t install tracking files on people’s machines. What Trustarc does for it’s customers (the websites, not you) is to help them harvest as much data as possible without running afoul of the various data laws around the world. They are a compliance company, not an individual rights company.

Do you think the goal of this company is to make it easier to opt out of tracking?

Eh… Close, but they are also a concentration social power (and fundamentally deferred violence), and rights only really exist in the context of social power. You can try and establish your own personal sovereignty but you can be sure that any state that cares to will test that. Sometimes the most you can do is accept that it is able to imprison you or go down fighting, and if you are committed to pacifism the latter is a harder option.

Their god commanded them to have lots of kids. The idea crops up again and again in fundamentalist abrahamic movements. This world is bad but that doesn’t matter as it is just the doorstep before paradise.

That wrist angle looks uncomfortable as all hell.

Oh, that kind of bad usb cable. Still useful I guess.

Finland.

Or New Zealand if you are a cartographer.

It’s almost certainly that writing security standards for an organization takes time and needs approval from high up. And someone high up complaining that they only just revised them to include special characters.