Jenny Silverhand

I don’t know if this qualifies, but I go on call for my job and get woken up sometimes. I use a really annoying alert tone to make sure I wake up. Unfortunately, some times when I’m not on call I hallucinate hearing that tone as I’m dozing off or in a dead sleep and it makes me shoot straight up in bed.

We should prosecute animal cruelty the same as human-related crimes. Most serial killers start with animals. By treating animal crimes the same as human crimes, we would lock up a lot of sick fucks early in their careers.

Getting a VPN from Google is like asking the police to safeguard your drugs

This is just a guess, but I would assume the hospitals doing this are unaware. They probably just put Google Analytics and Meta’s SDK on their website, completely oblivious to the fact that that shit vacuums up everything on the page, including text box inputs.

Okay, I’ll use my own DNS provider

suck a nice wording

Not commenting on the merits of the blogpost’s arguments, but Proton is selling their own product here too

What is Liberal Arts? There are many majors that could be considered part of the liberal arts, but never seen an actual liberal arts major.

Thanks for organizing!

Over my dead body

Everyone must’ve got a lot smarter after 2000.

Jessica Rosenworcel is a champ. She has been fighting this fight for years. The week Ajit Pai (Ashit Pie) ended net neutrality using falsified public comments, a group gathered in front of the FCC to protest the change. I went down there for a few hours and Jessica came to the window and waved to us.

CNET can generate more articles for free

Do kids still use these? Aka, are their parents forced to pay $100 bucks for this piece of 40 year old technology?

Love it when my coworkers reformat the code style, making it nigh impossible to understand what they actually changed, while greatly inflating their “contribution.”

It also blows away the git blame, making it hard to know who actually changed that one critical line of business logic 3 years ago that you need to understand before trying to fix some obscure bug.

I have one coworker who does this constantly and if you just looked at git blame, you’d think he wrote the entire code base himself.

You’re talking about one country, worldwide Android has about 70% market share.

I believe passkeys are supposed to replace 2FA and passwords. If you have a passkey, you’re not supposed to need 2FA.

Has anyone used pass keys? I have been hesitant to try them out. Using them, do they basically keep you logged in all the time to a given site?

Oh, you’re right the M1 chip is not real. It’s just a figment of marketing. 😂