Former OS security here (I worked at an OS vendor who sold an OS or two and my job involved keeping it secure).

Fuck no.

Sorry if that makes you downvote, but it doesn’t make them safer.

When did it become illegal to be a teenager?

Shortly after tiktok made kids do dumb things for cheap popularity.

I’m more thankful, day by day, that I escaped my teens before every kid had a phone and every phone had a camera.

seen a “homeless” guy beg for money, with a cardboard sign. Then goes and gets into his sports car and drives off.

This isn’t new: 20-20 used to do exposés on this kind of thing, and profiled (tailed) a beggar on the tonnele off-ramp and circle as he walked to his car, put his over-costume in his trunk, and drove off. This was in like 1999. On interviewing him, he admitted he made decent coin.

Support your food banks. They need cash.

lionshare

Lion’s hare? That’s weird.

Did you mean “lion’s share”, but couldn’t write?

Here’s the thing: it does already. That’s why mice are great early research animals.

that make

that made.

Our foray into automation is:

• meross light bulbs about 50%
• maybe 4 amazon echo flex

We like that we can turn off the lights, dim them or change colour, with a request. But beyond power blinds and tile tracking and dogs and cat, our eventual switch is gonna be shallow.

I need a replacement for the Echo Flex units that’ll work with HAss – voice interaction, music and calls, etc. I’d like to AnyLocate the cats’ Tiles and show where they are in the house. We run airlock protocol for the patio access to ensure that cats never get out, but confirming they’re not hiding under the bed would really reduce the anxiety around that.

30 years ago we called this Beepilepsy. You fail History.

could not find it in themselves to deal with it

… without losing their principles. If Biden chose to keep his own principles, I accept that.

If we defeat evil but become evil doing so, we haven’t won.

I think the movie Wayne’s world has a Gun Rack scene like this.

able to open their browser and look something up without immediately getting distracted by the 6 tabs

That’s the methylphenidate talking.

You could use the immense amount of privilege you have (being in the top 3.5% of people in the world with food, water and electricity) to lobby your government.

Considered lobbying the government as a single human. Went to work instead since I cannot dine on privilege and need to eat.

tangably

tangibly?

anymore money.

1. any more money
2. money anymore

You can’t straddle the lanes: you have to pick one.

full-stop

Instantly distrust.

click using the mouse wheel

‘middle click’

tought

taught? Is spell-check your next epiphany?

I’ve been yum-cronning since 2002. You guys still do it manually?

it’s the only way anything interesting happens? .

See “God is not good” for a capricious/bored deity.

We don’t compare trauma. This isn’t a competition.

I mean, I get it. Anarchy looks so great sometimes. But I like roads and schools and hospitals and firemen; and we need to.elect someone who ensure those persist.

And then it’s down to choosing the least-worst bunch to do that. And that’s how it’s been for decades.

So, ask yourself: is changing out this regime and losing a bit of healthcare and a bit of infrastructure and a bit of other things that make life livable here, is that a reasonable exchange?

If you say yes, I respect you. If you say no, I respect you. But we can’t vote single-issue: we have a choice between leadership packages, and we need to evaluate them as a whole. The yanks lost their election by voting single-issue, and ended up allowing the worst choice ever to win.

So vote carefully.