Must be in New Jersey

https://www.google.com/maps/place/40°39’02.5"N+74°13’16.0"W/@40.6505125,-74.2209521,18z/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d40.6507!4d-74.2211?hl=en

It’s weird that apps sometimes change scope and add features that users want? Ones that contributers already did most of the work for?

Why aren’t they insisting this doesn’t need to be dealt with because it was a feature, not a bug?

That was literally what they have been saying this whole fucking time.

“The database key was never intended to be a secret. At-rest encryption is not something that Signal Desktop is currently trying to provide or has ever claimed to provide,” responded the Signal employee.

It does encrpyt messages: In transit, exactly as advertised. Holy fuck.

They didn’t fuck up, they made a design choice about the scope of the app. Are they also fucking up by not blurring the messages on screen? After all someone could be looking over your shoulder without you realizing it. Maybe Signal should ship with spyglasses.

It’s mostly family photos and videos. I’ve become the de facto family digital archivist. Some digital copies of important phyiscal records. When you convert files to lossless/uncompressed formats suitable for long term storage they get large really quickly.

I use BD-R for archival storage of important files. They’re cheaper and easier than tape as well as small. I burn them in triplicate and throw them in the same case and as long as the same 3 bits don’t corrupt I can recover. The shelf life on a blue ray sealed and stored well is a few decades which is better than most other media.

Apple and I have very different notions of what it means to own something.

Not only have many states removed the right to an abortion, some of them are starting to restrict access to abortion care even when failure to provide that care could lead to grave injury such as the loss of organs or fertiity.

While there is a federal law on the books that seems to require this care, a case challenging one such state law was ruled on by SCOTUS over procedural issues and it is not clear yet how the high court will decide on the substance of the issue.

This one. I was born in 85, but in very poor, very rural Pennsylvania. I describe my upbringing as nearly gen x, with some millenial quirks.

All the charts on page 15. The ones where they extrapolate exponential improvement for a decade while only citing themselves. Their prediction is 15% annually for storage cost improvements in Li-ion batteries which they call ‘conservative’

Our analysis conservatively assumes that battery energy storage capacity costs will continue to decline over the course of the 2020s at an average annual rate of 15% (Figure 3).

Let us check if their souce updated. $139 for 2023? That isn’t a 15% decrease since 2019’s $156, let alone year over year since then, which would be under $90. In spite of last year’s drop that is still more than the 2021 price of $132. I don’t know what ‘on track’ means to you but it must be something different than it means to me.

Really gives me the warm fuzzies when someone looks at changes to physical systems over time then draws a trend line into the future indefinitely without any citations or discussion of plausibility for the part they drew on.

shouldn’t we rather invest our productivity and resources into a faster and cheaper solution?

We sure should. Do tell of this this faster, cheaper solution that is also adequate to meet all of our needs.

tow this line

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line

Case in point, my late 50s father was recently fired from his job of 36 years. They told him not to return the ancient E series thinkpad they had given him as an email checker, but wouldn’t give him a password to be able to use it. After finding the bios wasn’t locked I chucked Debian on it for him and he’s been using it for months to send applications with only a light introduction libreoffice and some minor tinkering with system settings to make it feel more familiar.

A short, steep, poor visibility, no merge area entrance that immediately preceeds a narrow, no shoulder concrete bridge. Easily more than half the cars attempting this ramp during commute hours end up stopping completely. Because even when we focus cars, we can’t do that right.

If bad bike lanes are more your thing, follow the state route north into town. Unguarded. Impossibly narrow. Frequently obstructed. They’re more dangerous to use than the car lane.