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I took a peek at the terms of service[1] when considering signing up for an account. It seemed unusual to have them in a separate language from the rest of the site.

Presuming the translation was correct I would "agree to comply with Chinese laws ... [and] grant the company a non-exclusive, free, perpetual license for global use (including modification, display, and derivative development)."

[1] https://staying.fun/en/legal/terms-of-service

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. -- Isaac Asimov

Useful discussion is an interesting scope for someone with the broad, in-depth knowledge of a vast array of subjects he demonstrates in the linked essay.

I'm a little curious, but haven't heard a word of what you're referring to. A quick search for 'atoms stalled' didn't result in anything that felt helpful.

Do you have a link that would clarify?

One thing we seem to have discovered is that absolute randomness is harder than it might first seem.

Your idea combines what feels like a significant percentage of randomness while still having enough participation to rationalize buy-in.

It's tough to want to yield control of an important choice to a random number generator... though that's not an inaccurate description for this.

I like this as a perspective on "the illusion of choice". Part of me hates the phrase because I want to believe that I can take meaningful action.

I'm unable to use mosh after switching VPN clients, though ssh works. What should I discuss and/or request with the security+network folks?

people complained that [my microphone] was taking up all their bandwidth

That's not how I expect your choice of mic to affect anyone else's experience.

It would surprise me if additional network load is part of what happens.

Deprecating scp 6 years ago

I suppose this could be easily worked around with an alias presuming the most frequent use case names only files.

alias scp='rsync'

The section entitled "So what should you use instead?" doesn't make a suggestion of what to use instead...

This is like finding a technique that will make it safer for your kids to play with the creepy neighbor.

You may be better off not playing with the creepy neighbor.

I've taken to using a fling motion on my Android devices since grabbing the position indicator in a scrollbar is comparatively inconvenient... but performance is fine.