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forestbeasts

@ forestbeasts @pawb.social

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  • California Wants to Put License Plates on E-Bikes and Slow Them Down. Cyclists Are Not Happy About It

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  • Okay, but you're still talking like tying power to people's body energy output is a good thing. Speed, power, whatever, limiting our machine capability just because our body is limited (preventing working around disability) is an asshole move.

  • California Wants to Put License Plates on E-Bikes and Slow Them Down. Cyclists Are Not Happy About It

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  • No, what you're doing is tying people's speed to what their specific body can produce rather than what is safe. Those are two very different things.

  • The mouth is a sphincter. It is connected directly to your anus. The mouth is your face anus.

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  • Totally tubular, dude!

  • A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it

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  • It certainly wouldn't help recovery.

    IMO it's better to not try to restrict them from running stuff, and instead to encrypt your disk. Like, they can also just pull your drive and stick it in their own machine (and you WANT to be able to pull your own drive if your computer gets in a physical crash or watered or something and stops working).

  • A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it

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  • I mean, if they gain physical access to your computer, they can just boot their favorite Linux live ISO and go to town. :3

  • A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it

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  • Mostly the "secure boot" crap, which you can turn off (it's more a "running your own software on the machine" risk than a privacy risk). UEFI in general isn't too bad (way way WAY more complex than BIOS though) and managing EFI bootloaders is so much less hassle than with BIOS boot!

    -- Frost

  • How is RAM size measured? Why doesn't it match the marketed size?

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  • And then you have Mac, which uses powers of 10 consistently for file sizes, IIRC! Which IMO is also a totally cromulent way to go about it.

    Some Linux file managers can be configured to use base 10. I think Dolphin has a super secret config file tweak you can do. There's no UI setting for it though. It defaults to base 2.

    -- Frost

  • What is an upstream server ?

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  • There's also other reasons to run a reverse proxy! Like for instance "you want to run multiple web services, but they'd both need port 443 and clobber each other". So you can stick the reverse proxy on port 443 and then have it pass stuff to your various backends.

    That's actually a situation where you could avoid the reverse proxy with more machines (one per service), rather than less!

    -- Frost

  • How is RAM size measured? Why doesn't it match the marketed size?

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  • GiB is powers of two, GB can be either depending on context, IMO.

    -- Frost

  • "If I can't win an argument, I must change my mind." Do you agree with this view?

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  • Just because you can't win doesn't mean that they're right.

    Hell, even if they ARE right, it doesn't mean that you're wrong! Arguments where both sides are talking past each other and misinterpreting what the other person says are definitely a thing. So it's entirely possible both can be right, or both can be wrong.

    Or they could just be boneheaded. Or you could just be boneheaded. Or both.

    -- Frost

  • me_irl

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  • We do this exact thing but with vim. Bonus: we can use CSS instead of dealing with Libreoffice paragraph styles, and we can get fancy with the design in ways that'd probably be awkward in LO!

  • Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

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  • That already exists, it's called the "lemmit" bot, and it absolutely floods the 'all' timeline if you try sorting by latest. It's an annoying pain.

    -- Frost

  • Removed

    PieFed Flagship Instance Shadowbanning Instances from Discoverability & Other Questionable Updates

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  • If they GIVE you their legal name, publishing it isn't doxing. That's what they're already known as.

    If they DON'T give you their legal name though? Yeah, then that's doxing.

    It's not quite as serious as publishing their address or stuff like that, but it's still pretty serious and not cool.

    -- Frost

  • What is bird ?

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  • Feathered wingèd biped.

    -- Frost

  • Emojis are the laugh track of the written medium 😂

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  • Counterpoint: ｢🐺｣ is not a laugh!

    -- Frost 🐺

  • GrapheneOS; slowdown on P8P recently

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  • ... Perl 8 Porters?

    Wait no, haha oops.

    -- Frost

  • Times have changes sadly

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  • Uh people DO get pissed off at cameras, or at least they should.

    It's not so bad when you have a camera system that's entirely local and the footage never leaves the building, and the only way to access it is to go into the building and ask the security person for it. That kind of access generally doesn't happen without an actual reason.

    But if it's networked and uploads everything to The Cloud™ so the advertisers or the government or whoever can do facial recognition on it and track everybody's movements... yeah, no. Yeah, no. *shudders*

    -- Frost

  • Ew why are you like that

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  • They are VERY gross.

    I'm also therian and would much, much rather have a wolf body (wolves are beautiful actually!). Human earlobes... just, no. That's one of my top dysphoria things. *shudders*

    -- Frost

  • If it's called open source, then what is the significance of licence ?

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