when there are well designed and vetted ones available?
I’m not convinced of this, tbh. IIRC the RFC can’t be described in a regex at all.
when there are well designed and vetted ones available?
I’m not convinced of this, tbh. IIRC the RFC can’t be described in a regex at all.
IDK, I think this take is more “It went from bad to worse” rather than “TSR was a bastion of consumer values”.
Throwing a tantrum is one way to express a preference, I suppose, but most people grow out of that in early childhood.
That’s a good way to think about it. If someone is doing something nice for you, let them!
With my credit card. I don’t carry cash consistently.
Occasionally my wife will pay the bill, but mostly I get it #genderroles
We still date each other even though we’re “boring” and married now 😉. Who pays doesn’t really matter seeing as we’re married, but hey, old habits
And given that the appliance needs to communicate with the app on your phone while you’re not home in the first place, there probably isn’t even a separate tracking API vs. data just being harvested as part of normal operations. So “back door” doesn’t really fit. “Broken by design” or “spyware” would be more apt, I think.
Still, I’m really not a fan of calling any spying/data harvesting a “front door” – IIRC, the term was coined by an FBI head pushing for back doors in our phones so the FBI could scan our messages. But he called it a “front door” as a way to dodge the reasons why building back doors in our security software is a terrible idea.
It’s just another step in the terrible trend of “let’s pretend that this horrible idea is ok if we just rename it” :(
What would the “front door” even be in this case? What comes to my mind is the corresponding app on your phone, but that doesn’t really make sense in this context.
Oh no, not again
So… you could say that the US exerted sufficient water pressure to open the faucets in Gaza?
That’s interesting, not what I’d expect – but hey, everyone has their off days.
In an online space with more of a community feel, it would probably be worth extending a little more grace and patience. Lemmy doesn’t have that feel to me, though. It feels like having random conversations with strangers with no continuity.
I’ll admit, part of this is a pattern I started on reddit. I tried to curate my community list, but I made the – decision? mistake? – of including my city and state-specific subreddits. They were basically cesspits of racism and trolling compared to the good communities that I liked. There was also the increase in political propaganda bots over the years (not bad when I joined, terrible by time I left). I tried to avoid the worst offenders, but sometimes I’d get bored with my feed and click on the “all” feed. Bad idea.
I use the “block” feature pretty liberally. If some random stranger is being an asshole, I don’t really see the need to continue engaging with them.
Honestly, I can’t even imagine what it would be like having only owned two cars in my whole life.
Easy, just think back to when you were driving your second car ;)
What typically prompts you to buy a new car?
For me, it’s always been that I “need” a car for commuting, so I’ve looked for something reliable and efficient (I put “need” in quotes because technically, the bus routes in my city could have gotten me to work without a car. Turning a 20 minute drive into a 90 minute bus ride isn’t super palatable, though).
I bought my first car used and my second car new around the time Cash for Clunkers was affecting the used car market.
Oh, I didn’t think about having multiple cars. Are you a big car guy?
I’m in my early 40s, and I’ve owned two cars. I bought my current car after the last one got rear-ended.
Sidenote, I’m not counting cars that belonged to spouses or the car I drove in college – technically, that one belonged to my parents. If you add those in, I’m probably up to 6 or 7 cars.
Yikes, do you get a new car every single year?
I’m more of a “buy something reliable and drive it 'til it breaks” type.
I’ve seen people argue stupider things earnestly.
That makes me think of the Klingons from Star Trek “It is only an empty shell; do with it as you will.”
if you start thinking that killing is humane because “they deserve it”, I will repeat myself, you have a serious problem.
Fair enough. While I don’t subscribe to pacifism, I do prefer that self-defense be regarded as an unfortunate necessity. Celebrating violence isn’t going to help us.
Self-defense is inhumane? Call out the invader first, please, then we can talk about whether the defender is overdoing it.
Oof, -11. This should have been posted in !unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
I’m listening ;)