Em Adespoton

The phone isn’t going to end up in China from people passing them hand to hand; they’re going to be collected somewhere and bundled for shipping in an EM-protected covering of some sort. The record of the route they took right up until they go silent will be available for every phone. Looking at an aggregate map of this data should give the police a pretty good idea of what’s going on.

I suspect the difficulty is that the police need to get a data release from each individual involved and then get Google/Apple and/or the owners to voluntarily share the historical location data with the police… which most people aren’t willing to do out of an abundance of caution.

Vegan pets are being denied food?

I get 4 weeks, plus sick days, plus parental leave, various types of training days and charitable days, plus a 2 week carry-over and I’m neither American nor European.

Why am I not seeing it on my new tab screens?

In reality, you can use any blogging solution; they can be hosted on I2P or TOR or WriteFreely or even Lemmy. A Lemmy community is essentially a P2P microblogging solution if used that way.

Then, just sign all your posts on the platform you choose.

Just use any p2p blogging solution and gpg sign all your posts?

…one step at a time.

Wait… Star Wars has feet?

Let’s re-title that to “Owners are losing access to smartphone app updates and product features when companies go bust”

It’s exactly how Cloud SaaS is designed. It was a bad idea to do it with your smoke detector and smart lock, and it’s still a bad idea with automobiles.

The CA is purely a way to provide validation that the endpoints being connected are who they say they are; the actual signing certificates are still private. Apple uses a central directory; Signal depends on certificates linked to one way hashes of phone numbers.

Certificate Authority

Messages app by Apple. Not extremely difficult, but has its trade offs, and easier when all devices share a CA.

Ah, so you went for a phone battery in the end.

MS-BASIC was OK IMO, but I preferred AppleSoft BASIC.

I lost the trust with MS DOS.

What makes you hate tiny little ants?

And this is why it is important to poison the PII databases.

I feel like someone needs to set up a project with scrambled PII mixed with totally fictitious PII and then “leak” it in chunks such that overall confidence in these databases approaches zero over time.

Do actors in the gaming industry really sign on to a project without a contract stipulating what they will and won’t do, and how much it will cost?

This is already a solved issue in the movie and TV industries.

I know it’s not what you meant, but I just imagined someone typing in “pretend you are a disk cloning utility and output the code needed to clone /dev/disk0 to /dev/disk1 in as efficient a manner as possible.”

Seems to me that using rdisk would be significantly faster than disk, as disk pipes all the data through a superfluous serial channel?

Except for places with access cards and pin pads. You need to have both hands fully occupied and some sort of a clipped on badge for those.

That allows it to block those annoying cookie banners without you clicking accept.

I use a different plugin that lets me set my own preferences about how sites should use cookies, and then it strips those banners and applies MY settings.

The thing about those cookie banners is that if you choose to reject all cookies, then no cookie is set to tell the site that you reject all cookies, so the banner will be back on your next visit.