No. Because the very nature of passwords and password managers make you immeasurably safer than not using one at all. Password managers in almost all markets detect password compromises and alert you to change them. Doing so is trivial and as long as you catch it in time, you’re much safer and harder to target than almost any other user.

Passwords are like physical locks. Its not about being unpickable or indestructible. Its mostly about raising the barrier of entry high enough that you are an unappealing target. Why would I spend days/weeks/months trying to crack the account of someone using a random string of 14 characters unique to every service and that can change their password within hours or days–when I could instead gain remote access to hundreds of other users that keep a ‘passwords.doc’ file in ~/documents with open permissions? They likely use passwords like ‘Snoopdog2004$’ so they’re easy to brute force, they won’t notice incursions, and can’t easily change passwords that are shared between multiple services.

If the dog is able to be corralled sure, but most dogs when they’re loose actively avoid interaction.

That’s the only way to do it properly. There’s no other way to get the GPS location without using cell towers to transmit and cell phone companies refuse to offer that service for free.

There’s certain conditions that you cannot reform. Murdering your own daughter over a verbal disagreement? We don’t have the resources to focus on rehabilitating him if its even possible. I’d rather these theoretical prison therapists spend more time working with inmates that went to prison for aggravated assault in a bar fight etc.

Sure, in a perfect society where his rehabilitation program doesn’t take time, money, and mental anguish from the therapist…it’d be nice to just separate him from society and revisit his ability to rejoin as a productive member decades later. But as of right now I don’t want to pay 45¢ to cover the cost of his rehabilitation when I could instead pay 20¢ to rehab a less complicated individual and the extra 25¢ could go to social safety nets or education.

Yeah, I would too. The argument wasn’t that it’s a net good. The argument is that if it were to work as they claim and only identify animals matching the description of lost pets using a mesh network, then that helps pets and pet owners. That’s objectively true.

And air tags rely on Bluetooth signaling. Lost pets often avoid people so they don’t work very well in most cases. The only options that do work are subscription based(gross) GPS trackers that use cell towers and GPS signals to determine their location. Which we have now, but thanks.

I also despise everything this would mean in terms of state surveillance, but if you could isolate this capability, it 100% would help recover lost dogs. Speaking from experience. We lost our dog for 6 days and didn’t have any idea where he was until 3 days passed. The most effective way to recover lost dogs is by knowing their current location and setting out live traps with food for them to find at night. Scared dogs don’t recognize their owners by sound so driving around calling for them wouldn’t help.

So if it this technology could work solely as a lost pet sighting tool and not a dystopian state surveillance tool, it would be immensely helpful.

Prison rape isn’t funny or acceptable when it happens to bad people either. It just perpetuates the idea that anal sex between two men is always a savage act.

Instead, hope he gets savagely assaulted regularly for what he did.

140 TB is a whole heck of a lot of movies and TV shows

No and no. The barrier to entry would have been too high. I don’t have hundreds of hours to track down the answers I was looking for. It’s not that I’m incapable of finding the information I was looking for in forums. It’s that its such basic knowledge to most tech forum users that I probably would have been seen as a leech. Have you been to tech forums lately? Its a bunch up people telling you to be a better programmer and calling you a fucking idiot. That’s why stack exchange is failing.

Access to information should be free. That’s partially why we’re all here. Everything that we post could be scraped by an LLM and used for free. When it becomes an issue is when AI crawlers quadruple server load.

I went from Windows laptop and Netflix and Hulu to a Linux desktop for a home server running Immich, Mealie, Jellyfin, and the Arr suite in docker containers. All proxied on Cloudflare for remote access. I would never have been able to do that without the use of ChatGPT. I had no knowledge of software development, Linux, networking, etc at all. If you know how to query, AI can be a huge aid in learning. It’s helping me brush up on my Italian right now too since I haven’t spoken it in 5 years.

No, I see comments just fine, but the community is blocked

Sorry, but that’s wrong. WBGT takes radiative heat into effect when it’s calculated. The sun and shade effectively have two different WBGT readings. That’s why its measured with a black globe. Protocol is to measure ~2 meters heigh in direct sunlight away from structures that block wind so you get the worse case scenario. Like any whether reading, its localized.

I think its mostly because of lurkers, but also, I first joined on midwest.social then something broke the feed and caused a bunch of federation issues. Now this is my “alt” but I can’t see content from piracy@dbzero or whatever now

It took me until the 3rd paragraph to realize this was cap

Anyone that wants to buy them on the open market. Since there would be a massive drop in demand for US bond markets, the bonds being sold would drop in price. It’s tough to say how far it would fall because you don’t know how many investors would be willing to buy what percentage of that $8 trillion. Any smart investor would know that amount of a selloff would take a considerable amount of time to recover from and also put the government in a really tight position. So why buy high? There’s always going to be people with more dollars than sense, so some will buy right away but large portfolios would wait and buy after an arbitrary drop. Say 30%. That would harm the dollar and would hurt the United States’ ability to sell new bonds to borrow money.

As for the one time sale part, europe would then look to other markets to reinvest the money in the short term. They wouldn’t want to hold that amount of cash unless they wanted to fund a massive infrastructure project(interstate system, rail network, military, housing, green energy, etc.) So I would guess that they’d look to the east and buy bonds in Southeast Asia/China. Its the only other market big enough. Then if you have trillions in foreign currency, you’ll want to invest in development to keep that investment safe. New trade deals would probably be discussed and foreign investment in developing technologies would help spur innovation. Suddenly the US would look much less attractive as a trade partner and investment test bed. The US could try to pull back similar investments but we invested heavily into non liquid assets. Manufacturing being a major one during the post war boom after WWII. It’d be very difficult to pull those assets quickly. Then to wrap this all up, Europe acquired those bonds by buying them. If they wanted to slowly sell off other investments and go back to buying US bonds, they could do so. Probably on the cheap. They make their money back and more as the US market would presumably recover…if we are able to depose regressive politics after an economic collapse.

Or just sell the $8 trillion in US bonds Europe own and crater the dollar overnight.

Don’t think too much about it. They’re right to be skeptical and you’re right to be bothered by the labels.

You can’t make a comparison to Ukraine and the Russian invasion. Ukraine isn’t a NATO member nation, whereas Denmark is.

Your understanding is wrong. I’ve tested the output air on both settings in the winter. Max heat had like a 30° difference. The engine doesn’t want to pull that much heat unless necessary because it reduces fuel economy when the block isn’t saturated. So unless you specifically ask for 110° air, it’s going to give you 80°