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You can only get them registered for off-road use. You can also use them on Catalina island. But no way to register them as street legal, legally.

Was nostalgic recently for fortune spitting out at the top of my old slackware shell. So I added it to my Ubuntu VPS shell. Let's just say, my sense of humor has changed a lot since I was 16. But 25% of the time I find them amusing.

WSJ is reporting the Alaska object was metallic balloon with suspended payload.

I have a strong hunch the US had known about them for a long time and maybe decided it’s better to let them hang out so they can be studied and secretly test measures against them, versus reveal response patterns and weapons capabilities. But something recently has made that calculus change.

Right, but what makes it confusing it this is the one they were calling object, so not confirmation of being a balloon or suspending a payload.

“ Another official from the Department of Defense told the New York Times that the object broke into pieces when it hit the frozen sea” - Guardian article on the Alaska downing

How could a balloon break into pieces? Doesn’t it need to be made of flexible material?

Edit: WSJ is now reporting unnamed sources confirmed Alaska was a metallic balloon w suspended payload.

At what altitude does something stop being geographic territory and start being a plane in the atmosphere?

Wonder how they picked who the lucky pilot is to get the first F-22 air to air kill. Draw straws?

Sunk so many hours into fy_iceworld. I never enjoyed sitting around and waiting for rounds to end on normal maps. Loved the pace of iceworld and awp_map.

And using headphones on iceworld gave you wallhack like abilities.

Can we start with human babies first?

What’s odd about it for me is not the content or wording (seems to point out pretty common issues with intensive breathing), it’s more the fact that it’s not presented to the user during onboarding in a meaningful or noticeable way.

I have the same watch, same issue. Just discovered it tonight while trying to enable E2EE. Presumably it’s because the 3 doesn’t receive watchOS updates anymore as a discontinued product, so it can’t participate in the new E2EE “pipeline”

Doubt it. The US would very much love it to fly pretty much anywhere outside Switzerland so it can be extradited.

Exact same reason I stopped using pi-hole. It bugged out Google shopping and my partner complained. And the whitelisting / access control is annoying UX imo so I went back to normal DNS. Might return to it eventually but not enable it for every dhcp client.

Edit: and her iPhone changes its MAC address randomly so the access control was tricky to maintain.

Still in print as far as I know. These days the physical catalog is very difficult to get from McMaster. They probably make them in very low quantities and hand select who gets them, maybe based on lifetime spend / org size, or so I’ve heard.

I believe the right click method for opening an unsigned app no longer works as of MacOS Ventura. It appears to work on your own computer but once someone downloads it and tries to run on a new computer, you can’t get around it through regular UI, I think.

I like to think of it more like (old) Usenet with pubkeys. It gets more at the distributed database factor.

I’ve always been curious to learn more about Matthias’s RIM days. I might have read somewhere he was responsible for low level radio design / engineering, as a very very early employee. Every once in awhile his electronics knowledge kinda sneaks out in a video and you know it’s the tip of an iceberg of knowledge he has no interest in revealing.

It makes me wonder how much “infrastructure runway” a company like Twitter has. If every engineer resigns, how long will it take before the infrastructure stops working autonomously… server/DB hard drives fill up or crash, PSUs die, high maintenance processes grind to a haunt, network capacity stops scaling, etc.

I always read statements like “sorry we can’t release this ground breaking technology to the public, you simply can’t handle its power and repercussions” as the AI industry low key flex.

That’s an epic reward, even if a large portion goes to legal help. How are there not more whistle blowers in big pharma? Granted, it was 7 years of hard work, but payoff is crazy.

Next-next generation undisclosed craft?

You were probably drawing onto the bare XY space without creating an art board first.

FWIW, I was absolutely captivated for all of Last Dance, and I don't watch basketball. But I do have an affinity for "30 for 30"-style docs on the human interest side of sports.

Couple of random ones I highly enjoyed recently:

- Feels Good Man -- story of the innocent illustrator behind Pepe the Frog and how the internet ruins nice things

- War Room (1993) -- fly-on-the-wall doc of James Carville during the most intense period of Bill Clinton's election campaign (amazing "pre-internet" energy)

- Downfall: Case Against Boeing -- all in the title

- Cane Toads: An Unnatural History -- hilarious story of the introduction and unintended over-multiplication of cane toads in Australia

- The Man Who Skied Down Everest -- story of a Japanese alpinist plus a team of scientists and 800+ sherpas and their mission to support him skiing down Everest from near the peak

Another vote for Icarus, and also a vote for not reading anything about it.

Thank you. It’s infuriating to use Twitter as an unauthenticated user these days. If you scroll down far enough you get the uncloseable login gateway pop up, and I can never tell if it’s triggered by reaching the end of a thread, or after X posts in a thread.

Transaction reversal is indeed outright harmful to honest vendors, and is only really necessary for the legacy systems because the legacy systems have borderline zero protection against dishonest vendors retaining customers' payment information and pulling money from it

This isn’t the only form of dishonesty. There’s cases where you initiate an honest transaction, the vendor ships you something you didn’t ask for because they are trying to clear inventory, and then refuses to refund or exchange. Then you file a claim with Amex and get your transaction reversed in about a week.

The incentive for Apple to do this would be what: do extract a little more revenue from their smallest-volume OS?

I think that's only part of the picture. Yes it would boost their services business, but Macbook/iMac users are a small part of the picture these days. It's smarter from a technology centralization standpoint. Why have almost all your products centered around iOS codebase, and then your laptops/iMacs (small % of total devices) on legacy OSX. A better strategy would be, use a single OS codebase, and add layers of functionality the bigger / more pro a device gets. Makes it way easier to advance the software for your entire product line.

Btw, expanding iOS to Macbooks/iMacs does not mean throwing pro / dev users under the bus. They can think of a way to make "iOS-macOS" appealing to devs, by simulating some of the OSX features, like terminal and the ability to write software on-device.

Apple straight up does not want people using iPads to do laptop things

Disagree. Just look at what they are releasing in iPadOS 16. Apps can now float over each other. Team iOS is coming for Team macOS, they are closing in fast. They are developing a UX & app architecture that can easily match consumer expectations around real physical laptops, and there will be further differentiation when it hits Macbooks in a few years time.

With iPadOS 16, for 95% of non-pro users, with a keyboard attachment, there is very very little differentiation between a iPad purchase and a Air purchase. You pretty much own a laptop at that point. Yes, there are obvious performance differences, ports, form factor, battery, etc. But think through the mind of a consumer user, the OS capability differences are razor thin.