Cool, now do the API and I'll consider not actively avoiding your website.

Internet shutoffs shouldn't be a thing, outside of non-payment or legitimate abuse. If I do something illegal, they should have to sue me, not shut off my internet.

Wow, just... wow. Can you be any more evil?

We really need to strike down this arbitration agreement nonsense. If I want to resolve a dispute by arbitration, that should be an option, but never a requirement.

Why would they let bodyguards use tracking apps? Are we really that bad at opsec?

Well, Jellyfin is right over there, and it's FOSS too. Consider switching, it's pretty great.

No.

As a kind of a weird bonus, activating end-to-end encryption in Telegram is oddly difficult for non-expert users to actually do.

But tech and privacy experts have warned that the laws bring with them some unavoidable downsides, including potentially driving people to seedier corners of the web.

Hmm, if only there was something in history (cough Prohibition cough drug bans cough piracy cough) that could've predicted this. It's almost like people will do the easier thing when the legal thing is harder to do.

Oddly, you have to actually assert that right in many jurisdictions. In the US, say something like "I plead the fifth" or "I choose to remain silent" and assert your right to an attorney, and shut up until the attorney comes and only speak at the discretion of the attorney. Just staying silent opens you up to attempted manipulation, whereas they must provide an attorney if requested and the attorney may have options to strike some of the manipulation while you wait for the attorney.

Well yeah, they're enough to meet the minimum use cases so they can upsell most people on expensive RAM upgrades.

That's why I don't buy laptops with soldered RAM. That's getting harder and harder these days, but my needs for a laptop have also gone down. If they solder RAM, there's nothing you can (realistically) do if you need more, so you'll pay extra when buying so they can upcharge a lot. If it's not soldered, you have a decent option to buy RAM afterward, so there's less value in upselling too much.

So screw you Apple, I'm not buying your products until they're more repair friendly.

I'm pretty lazy, but I'd at least run a port scan so I have something to submit in a report. That takes a few minutes to run and can be scheduled to run daily so there's something in their logs.

That said, our audits always turn up something new (usually benign), so I'd be very suspicious of an "all clear" result.

Well, we have nearly an endless supply of salt here on the Internet, should be an easy transition.

Nice!

I actually recently set up my own Forgejo instance, and it's remarkably similar to GitHub, to the point where they share Github's "actions" code.

Congrats! More hosting diversity is a good thing.

That's why the 3-2-1 rule exists:

• 3 copies of everything on
• 2 different forms of media with
• 1 copy off site

For something like keys, that means:

1. secure server share
2. server share backup at a different site
3. physical copy (either USB, printed in a safe, etc)

Any IT pro should be aware of this "rule." Oh, and periodically test restoring from a backup to make sure the backup actually works.

Yeah, that's weird.

The reason iPhones are impractical to make in the US has nothing to do with anatomy or genetics, it's purely labor costs. You can hire someone to work for very little and for very long in China, you can't do that in the US. That's it. That's the only reason.

Yup, I want "unobtrusive, lightweight, compatible, and secure." Basically, the best case for an OS is that I don't notice it.

Just insane this is happening.

Um, this was a campaign promise. He promised to raise tariffs, and the natural reaction of the market to new tariffs is to drop. This isn't surprising, this is expected, and Trump said as much.

If you didn't want that, you shouldn't have elected Trump. Simple as. I didn't want that, so I didn't vote for Trump. Simple as.

Nah, it's getting better every year. Adding crappy games doesn't change the huge backlog of great games I have.

My response to the points:

1. Don't buy games until reviews are good - don't buy on release day, and certainly don't preorder
2. See 1
3. See 1, but replace "games" with "PC hardware"
4. We probably need a law here, but until then, see 1
5. This is stupid. Buy indies, they don't pull this crap.

As a probably not autistic person, email is one area where warmth is not wanted. Just get to the point, I have a dozen more to get through. And that's precisely why you shouldn't use AI to write email, AI rambles, I want 1-2 sentences, short phrases are fine.

Updated to add at 1700 UTC, April 16

In an 11th-hour reprieve, the US government last night agreed to continue funding the CVE program.

Not sure how much more whiplash I can take...

As a Christian: this is absolutely despicable. Jesus taught us to love our neighbors, and a huge part of loving someone is to respect their boundaries.

So screw this app and the people that built it. If you want to invite your neighbors to learn about Jesus:

1. Set a good example
2. Get to know them
3. Invite only when it's relevant (i.e. to a kid's baptism or whatever)

If they want to learn about Jesus, they'll ask.