PurpleFoxy

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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
I have tested them. If you nfc scan one not in lost mode, it opens a page explaining what airtags are and shows you it’s serial number. If you put it in lost mode, scanning shows the same page but with a phone number and a lost message. Bei
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
It isn’t. The tags have to be moving around and away from their owner. And if they really do go off and annoy someone. It’s trivial to twist the backs off and the coin cell battery pops out.
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
Just wait till your bike is on the move, then get a group to recover it.
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
Agreed. Previously I could not find lost or stolen items. Now I can find lost items. That’s a pure improvement in my eyes.
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
What police should do is keep a record of reports and their location and if too much shows up on one address, they investigate. I have also seen reports of actual police knocking on people’s doors looking for things that show as on their ho
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
People have posted the steps to do it. It’s not very hard. But if you are willing to strip the airtag to bits, it would be easier to plant a cheap android with a sim in someones car. The point is that stalking has always been possible, it’s
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
The main difference is Apple made it work way better and more accessible. Tile users are pretty rare in the wild.
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
The ultimate dream was being able to hook up a few spare hard drives and then earning enough tokens to host your backups for free. The problem is defending against malicious actors makes everything too complex.
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
The crazy thing is there are no nearby cars. There is a highway about 1.5km away which I assume it must all blow from. There is nothing else within 1.5km
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
First we have to get to the point where basic insulation and noise dampening are figured out. House quality is really terrible.
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
You can get some really high power induction stoves now. This one we have goes up to 12KW at full power. Boils a pot of water real fast.
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
I have noticed every time I open my windows, the no2 levels reported on my Dyson filter spike. Not sure what to make of it but it’s interesting.
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
Yes, reducing pollution always makes more sense than cleaning it up after the fact.
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
The cost would be so insane that no one would bother. Just park at the perimeter and take a tram or walk to the last part of your destination.
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
Ironically, following this advice makes the problem even worse as you now require a car to do anything. IMO, cities should just ban almost all car traffic from the centres so people can live car free without being poisoned.
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
I think it’s highly likely that in 20 years we will view diesel cars like we do leaded fuel. An insanely bad idea that we knew was bad at the time but continued to use.
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
The problem is that “reward users for accepting tracking” very easily becomes “punish users who reject it”. The reward will be getting back the stuff you had before this change so you are no better off. Apple believes that everyone should h
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
It’s because it makes no effort to prevent people doing insanely insecure things. Rails has a lot of safeguards for insecure things like using user input to update a record. PHP won’t even fix bugs due to backwards compatibility. They worke
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
If learning a couple of basic tools like an ORM and JS build tools is too much of a barrier, you probably shouldn’t be let anywhere near a database with real users data in it. PHP is too easy to get started with and let’s you do some truely
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
And then everyone gets their hands on this tech so the mining difficultly goes up and you are back to square one.
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
My IDE had that feature and on all but the most basic project. The diagrams would come out so large you’d have to zoom 100x to see anything.
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
When I was in uni recently I was learning UML and wondered why all the FOSS tools for UML sucked. I quickly worked out it’s because no foss programmer actually uses or cares about UML
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
Because HTML elements are forever while js modal libraries change yearly. It’s best for browsers to wait a few years and if there is one thing that has consistently been used and will be forever, then add it. The details element is a good e
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
Isn’t pumped hydro a realistic solution? There should be a massive amount of energy in moving all that water up a mountain.
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
Ok to reword. I’m going to get the iPad since it is the best value drawing tablet. I don’t need or want a MacBook. With some realistic changes apple could let me run full desktop apps on the iPad when I have it docked with a keyboard and mo
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
Hacker news is spam as a service, not letting the public post is a necessity. Or we could acknowledge there is a space between complete unmanaged access and no access.
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
I have been sat next to a drunk person on a plane before. The attendant got me a new seat and the person was arrested at the airport. At the very least they should be able to move you if there is a free seat.
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
I need an iPad for drawing. I could use the iPad for everything if the software allowed it. Why make me buy 2 devices that do the same thing and have the same hardware?
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
Some people want to use the iPad with a keyboard, mouse and external monitor. The iPad supports these things so why not let those users run full programs.
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by PurpleFoxy 5y ago
Emoji are for communicating to other people. I can’t imagine why you would ever send someone a message with a ram stick in it. OP sounds like they want the icon for a task bar. In that case they can simply import any SVG they want.

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