I moved five countries over so I don't have to talk to or see my family. I used to sail away so that I don't have to talk to, or even see other people.
Right now I'm in-between boats and trying out camping to get away from people instead. Also, the dogs like it more than sailing. Having to dinghy to shore for pee breaks gets tiring real fast.
Only if you want a visit from the thought police.
My first experience was with two floppy images I found on "So much shareware! Vol.2".
It was labeled Linux 0.99b, no distro. It was not of much use to me at the time.
A couple of years later I got my hands on Slackware 2.0 on CD. So much time spent compiling your own kernel, because no modules and the whole thing had to fit in main memory (640kB). So much time spent fiddling with xf86config hoping you wouldn't fry your CRT.
Good times.
Then came gentoo, which had package management. No more did you have to browse sourceforge for endless dependencies to install something. No more did you have to re-install slackware on your root partition to update. So user-friendly in comparison.
We spent a lot of time on IRC.
MUDs kind of bridged the gap between IRC and games.
I remember spending a lot of time playing abuse, snes9x, quake + team fortress and quake2 + action quake.
I'm glad you liked it.
It was the bees knees a few years back. It feels like they've lost momentum.
Today, I'd imagine safetynet puts a lot of road bumps in running apps with DRM like Spotify and Netflix. Also banking apps and apps for bus tickets and such.
Do you know what Whitney Houston's favourite porn genre is?
Apple had this undocumented function for screenshotting back on iOS 3.1, and kind of let you use it while waiting for better frameworks in iOS 4.0
At some point they started rejecting your app automatically if they found the symbol for that function in your app. I didn't want to leave my 3.1 users in the dust for no reason, so I did the same trick to obfuscate the symbol name before dynamically linking it in.
It worked right up until they stopped supporting iOS 3.1 completely.
Even I can sell $350B worth of energy if I increase the price enough.
Tariffs are a fee paid when goods enter the country.
When your $599 iPad is loaded off the freight ship in the harbour, the receiving company pays 34% ($203.66) to the gubment for the privilege of importing things from China.
Now Apple will have to sell that same iPad for $802.66 (plus sales tax) to cover the tariff.
In theory Apple could start producing iPads in the US instead to avoid the tariff. But US workers want a living wage, paid overtime, health care and PTO, so there's no chance of being cost effective. Also, most materials are still imported, so they'll have tariffs, too.
It might make sense to put tariffs on foreign cars to stimulate a domestic auto industry. It might keep a lot of workers at their job, and any dollar they earn will be taxed both as income and again when they spend it.
All-round tariffs like we saw this week just hurt most of the involved parties.
So, how does this affect the involved parties?
- Things get more expensive for US consumers. They can't afford to buy as much stuff.
- The US gubment gets extra money.
- Other countries don't sell as much stuff to the US.
How this affects international relations, and if countries retaliate with tariffs remain to be seen. Anywho, the US is no longer considered a reliable trading partner.
The first week at any job is always exhausting. There's a lot to take in, and a lot of active decision-making to do. It gets better fast when a lot of small things start going on autopilot.
Long commutes add to the suck.
Silence is golden. Duct tape is silver.
Sailor here.
I've put those plastic shower tile mats under my mattress. The ones that help with draining water while keeping your toesies dry.
It lets enough air flow through that it can dry up under the mattress. Others just drill a bunch of airholes in their berths.
Apparently it just affects certain batteries. Those affected can go boom.
I would not go back to the previous version.
I wouldn't think it's one person. More like a state-funded project. I'm not really a conspiracy theorist, but it feels like russiayhas been playing some good 4D chess lately. Feels like the pieces are falling into place for a revelation like that.
Would it surprise you if the Russian state turned out to be Satoshi and holding on to all those early mined blocks?
Yeah, me, too.
But it feels like all cars made in the last decade have connectivity. I'm not a fan.
Trump has already made it clear that he's a Russian asset. The only question that remains is if he doing their bidding knowingly.
How would he go about transferring wealth to Putin & pals? He can't do business with them, because sanctions.
Russia already owns 12% of the world's crypto.
Trump can inflate their value by pulling shit like this.
Russia: profit.
I'm driving a 2007 Citroën. I hope I can find a car without OTA updates when it's time to upgrade.
I really don't want a bait-and-switch where I start to get ads on the dashboard at every intersection.
Is GitHub considered social media?