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by elric 1y ago
There is a balance to be struck. NPM in particular has been a veritable dependency hell for a long time. I don't know if it just attracts inexperienced developers, or if its security model is fundamentally flawed, but there have been s
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by elric 1y ago
Or firejail. Or QubesOS using a dedicated VM. There are options, but it would still be nice if Obsidian had a more robust security model.
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by elric 1y ago
> Women prior to sexual debut were the biggest "bang for the buck" and the obvious first recommendation target. It was a stupid decision to leave out the boys. I mean hindsight is 20/20, but if heterosexual women were gett
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by elric 1y ago
This is an erroneous blanket statement. Photographing people in public is illegal in plenty of places, depending on what exactly you're doing. Taking a picture of a big crowd is usually fine. Singling out individuals sometimes isn&#x27
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by elric 1y ago
Assuming heating oil is diesel, it's not very flammable and not a huge fire hazard. Soil pollution from leaks and spills seems like a bigger concern there. But I guess some people have large tanks of LPG which might be a bigger danger?
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by elric 1y ago
I think the parent commenter was aware of that and was deliberately flipping the tables on these self-serving politicians.
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by elric 1y ago
I fear that this sort of focus on individual actions has made a lot of people rather upset (e.g. the plastic straws debacle) for very little gains. And I worry that it might backfire.
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by elric 1y ago
At which point does this become a huge fire hazard?
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by elric 1y ago
I doubt that's made any kind of environmental/ecological impact at all. The cheap, flimsy plastic carrier bags contain orders of magnitude less material than the reusable kind, and had a second life as a bin liner. Now I need to b
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by elric 1y ago
Where "engagement" is short for driving eyeballs to ads, optimizing for this ad nauseum, until the platform is raking in the dough and they stop caring about their users in the slightest.
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by elric 1y ago
Oh I didn't put it in quotes out of disdain or anything, more because I couldn't think of a better description. Preservation sounds better indeed.
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by elric 1y ago
I had a (now defunct) startup in this space some years ago. Maybe I can help shed some light on why things are the way they are. 1. Money. Most museums have no money. They either run on donations, on subsidies, or at the whim of wealthy pat
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by elric 1y ago
Here are some of the things I do in Obsidian: 1. I have a Daily Note which is my starting point of the day. Aside from some TODOs and some daily reflections, it also contains an image map of things that are currently important. This map get
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by elric 1y ago
It does all seem utterly ridiculous. Both in terms of what's included and in terms of what isn't included. Pictographic-language-by-committee is probably the worst way of designing anything. ~4000 emoji, the choices range from inf
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State of the European Union 2025(commission.europa.eu)
5 points by elric 1y ago|2 comments
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by elric 1y ago
Ursula von der Leyen's 2025 European Union speech.
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by elric 1y ago
Ignoring your huge generalisations based on one silly picture and a bunch of Asian clichés, I think you have a point when it comes to the group thing. When I was in school, most work & learning happened on the individual level. Sometime
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by elric 1y ago
To some extent this is one of the recommendations of the PISA 2022 report, but it comes with a big caveat: > 4. Limit the distractions caused by using digital devices in class >Students who spent up to one hour per day on digital devi
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by elric 1y ago
Looking at the PISA 2022 results (2022 is the most recent report, PISA is the Programme for International Student Assessment), this is clearly a way bigger problem than just the US. Many Western countries have a downward trend in maths, rea
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by elric 1y ago
I don't think signed email would solve phishing in general. But for a service by-and-for programmers, I think it at least stands a chance. Signing the packages seems like low hanging fruit as well, if that isn't already being done
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by elric 1y ago
> 1. I genuinely don't understand why. It's a war of attrition. You can keep bombarding developers with new and clever ways of trying to obtain their credentials or get them to click on some link while signed in. It only has to
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by elric 1y ago
SPF & DKIM are all but worthless in practice, because so many companies send emails from garbage domains, or add large scale marketing platforms (like mailchimp) to their SPF records. Like Citroen sends software update notifications for
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by elric 1y ago
So many legit emails contain links that pass through some kind of URL shortener or tracker (like mailchimp does). People are being actively conditioned to ignore suspicious looking URLs.
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by elric 1y ago
This is critical infrastructure, and it gets compromised way too often. There are so many horror stories of NPM (and similar) packages getting filled with malware. You can't rely on people not falling for phishing 100% of the time. Peo
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by elric 1y ago
Their bike GPS range is...not good. I've owned two (Edge something?). Both were completely unusable for bike navigation. They're basically overpriced odometers with a shitty map bolted on as an afterthought. Updating the maps was
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by elric 1y ago
Hopefully China will improve its care of dementia patients. N=1, but a Chinese friend's mother has dementia, and basically the family is expected to care of her full time, there seem to be no facilities (at least not for regular non-ri
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by elric 1y ago
1997-1998ish I helped run a site with a bunch of forums. Regular members could request their own Diary forum, which worked exactly the way blogs would work later on. Some were literal diaries, others became grand works of fiction, some were
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by elric 1y ago
> Ten years ago if you were blogging on Tumblr or Wordpress you were writing to an audience in an attempt to promote something. Really? That wasn't my experience at all. Neither in the blogs I read, nor the blogs I wr[oi]te. Most bl
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by elric 1y ago
Was replying to a commented which was downvoted to death entirely unfairly, so I'll paste my reply as a new comment: Paracetamol/acetaminophen (the active ingredient in tylenol) is super toxic to the liver. Lots of people overdose
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by elric 1y ago
> accusing suffering parents of being crazy What? Who is supposedly calling parents of autistic children "crazy"?

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