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“All female shark tank” is my new band name.

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Partially. The summary isn’t quite in line with the detail:

Android is the only operating system that fully immunizes VPN apps from the attack because it doesn't implement option 121. For all other OSes, there are no complete fixes. When apps run on Linux there’s a setting that minimizes the effects, but even then TunnelVision can be used to exploit a side channel that can be used to de-anonymize destination traffic and perform targeted denial-of-service attacks.

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Just archive it and take up farming.

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Let me say... I work in healthcare. I clean human waste. I'm not easily grossed out.

Come on Jo, we’ve talked about this. You’re supposed to call them patients.

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4-5 TOTP apps? So far, when, e.g. Microsoft or Google have insisted use of their own Authenticator app is required, it’s worked fine for me using Ente Auth or similar just by entering the code / QR.

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I can still hear the penny dropping in my mind when I went from ‘How can anyone fall for that—it’s so obviously a scam…’ to ‘Oh, right…’ It sounded too Machiavellian to be true. I wonder if it was so carefully designed from the start, or a process of natural selection?

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The thing with football is that there is a specific goal (pun very much intended). It’s ok to have a mindset that you’re going to play in a way that makes it unlikely (in the beginning) you’ll achieve that goal (eg play left footed), but if that player never improved, would you still think it’s ‘working’)?

I worked in an industry for many years that was obsessed with goal-setting, and that mindset never appealed to me. I eventually found a book called Goal Free Living by Stephen M. Shapiro. It was a bit of an eye-opener for me, and the phrase “Carry a compass not a map” stayed with me until today. I’ve done several different things since then but I’ll never be famous for any of them as I still keep changing direction.

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You can also instantly fix it by not going on Reddit. Just saying—it might be good for you blood pressure :)

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Q2: Which is more efficient? Code blocks do 2 different things so cannot compare. What gives?

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No inconvenience—I like these kinds of things but then another question had a typo in it (varx instead of var x) and one of the options was ‘Error’ but again that was incorrect. It’s probably worth running these snippets just to make sure :)

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True, but in this case it was. And I usually get two of them—one to my main account and one to my ‘recovery’ account and one of them ends up in spam.

From the google ‘Meh, it kinda works’ School of Design.

dave OP ,
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Yeah, it’s to my recovery account. But DKIM is set up on that account and fetched via google. Probably some kind of weird back emf somewhere.

dave OP ,
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Yes—this is what I see. But I don't work in this area, so still not sure if it's google or my domain that's borked, and quite frankly... All I used to test my domain was MXToolbox, and that reported everything configured correctly.

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    I’m genuinely fascinated by this language pattern: “great of a guy”. In, er, classic? traditional? British? English, the “of” just isn’t used. I see it so often as “big of a problem”.

    A great guy -> How great a guy I was.
    A big problem -> How big a problem is it?

    Is this just colloquialism, or is it how grammar is taught?

    dave ,
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    Yes, thanks. I’d seen that and it seemed very much ‘this is how it is’ as opposed to ‘this is how it’s taught’. The rule as I understood was that ‘of’ should be used in combination with adjectives that denote an ‘amount’ of something (eg ‘much’, ‘many’, etc.) whereas adjectives that denote a ‘characteristic’ of something (eg ‘big’, ‘great’, etc.) should not be used with of.

    The latter are far more numerous and so use with ‘of’ is rare. But is seems to be used with almost every adjective in US sources.

    See here too: https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2014/01/not-that-big-of-a-deal.html

    dave ,
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    I like someone who would die for a maybe.

    Or were those two unrelated points?

    dave , (edited )
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    So tempting just to reply ‘yes’ :)

    But it’s iPhone at least.

    dave ,
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    The graphs are all interactive (touch to show labels, etc.). That can interfere with scrolling—try dragging at the edge or one of the pie chart titles. Fwiw, it scrolls ok on mobile safari…

    dave ,
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    Except models trained on medical images are actually pretty good at diagnosing some disorders. Models trained on random samples of the internet, not so much.

    John McCarthy was right—AI is a terrible term.

    dave ,
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    Technology replacing people has been a pretty consistent theme of the last hundred years or so—how many actual people does it take to build a car? What about all those skilled engineers? Humans have been building tools in order to put in less effort since the stone age. I don’t think we’re going to argue our way out of this one…

    dave ,
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    I get this if I’m shopping in Waitrose. I think it’s from gripping the shopping cart so tightly whilst looking at the prices.

    dave ,
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    It’s funny you getting downvoted for quoting the linked article :/

    dave OP ,
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    No, the title shows the phones current version (it’s a snip from iTunes). There’s a few people reporting / spending ages on the phone to apple about it—they apparently didn’t understand it either.

    dave ,
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    Seems harsh—lots of people make coffee these days.

    dave ,
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    No—this is a good resource for finding the next one closest to you. https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/list.html

    If you’re in Europe, northern Spain in 2026 is the next best opportunity.

    dave ,
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    Just started running Arch + KDE on a Kingston Traveller to experiment with setup. Installed from live usb iso and then ran archinstall to the same device.

    Runs nicely on my dell xps laptop and my desktop with 3 monitors connected to an Nvidia 1070Ti.

    dave ,
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    How often did you catch it disappearing?

    Tick-killing pill shows promising results in human trial ( arstechnica.com )

    If you have a dog or cat, chances are you’ve given your pet a flavored chewable tablet for tick prevention at some point. What if you could take a similar pill to protect yourself from getting Lyme disease?...

    dave ,
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    Really? Most medicines are made bitter to stop kids eating the whole lot. Once you’re an adult, it’s assumed that you’ll mange to take stuff that’s good for you without being tricked into it like a dog…

    dave ,
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    I think maybe a re-read is in order. They’re claiming the new format outperforms the (presumably) old format by 28%, not that the CTR is 28%.

    dave ,
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    If you ever need to check, this site has up to date information. https://arethebritsatitagain.org

    dave ,
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    Same—my local micro brewery does a night once a month where they demo things about brewing. One month they made 6 ales with identical ingredients apart from a different strain of yeast for each. 6 very different drinks.

    dave ,
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    Not true—at least didn’t used to be. For 3 years, Tesco renewal was cheaper for us than any online comparison site (same excess, options etc). That included Tesco new quote.

    But definitely never take a renewal without checking.

    dave ,
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    Yes, all bets are off this year. Plus we now have a ‘claim’ even though it was all paid by the other party. No idea how much difference things like that make but certainly not comparing like with like.

    dave ,
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    I’ve spent a few weeks on Lemmy/all blocking things I don’t care to see, and honestly it’s now pretty good. Plenty of diversity still and easier than subscribing plus occasionally new things pop up that I wouldn’t have seen otherwise.

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