Don’t they make a copy of the phone before they go about trying to unlock it?

This kind of security is only going to work against a careless or incompetent atta-- oh. I see…

He noted that the ace of spades has a long history as a tool of intimidation, including its use by white supremacist groups meant to demean people of color.

I’m not doubting this story, but I’ve never heard of Ace of Spades association. It would have been nice if the article included more information to elaborate.

I had to click through to the Voces Unidas blog post, which then had a link to a HistoryNet page about it.

Sidenote: the link from VU includes a UTM tracking code that indicates the article was written with the help of ChatGPT. I’m not sure exactly what to do with that, but it felt worth noting.

The HistoryNet page says that US soldiers in Vietnam would leave Ace of Spade cards behind because the symbol was considered a mark of bad luck to the Vietnamese.

Remember, everyone (in the US): 5Calls.org will tell you whom you should call about important issues, and it even gives you a script to work with when you call. It makes the process super straight-forward, and the site covers many topics.

About a year ago, I installed kubuntu on a laptop that couldn’t officially support windows 11. So far, I’ve only had minor annoyances.

I had a program that wouldn’t work when I first switched, despite being supported. I installed MakeMKV from the built-in repository, and it wouldn’t detect my optical drive. I installed from a separate repo, and it still wouldn’t work. I compiled it from source, and I don’t think it even launched anymore. Then one day, while randomly flailing, some combination of uninstalling, reinstalling, and random commands I found online made it work for no reason I could discern. I haven’t had a problem with it since.

If my optical drive can’t read a disc, the eject button doesn’t work. I have to either reboot or use the terminal to eject the disc.

Every once in a while, something (presumably Firefox) locks up the entire system. Mouse won’t move, keyboard is unresponsive, the works. It’s a decade-old laptop, but it had a decent processor for the time, and I upgraded the RAM, so that shouldn’t really be happening as often as it does.

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It’s called a thorn. Think of it as a letter to replace “th”.

Love it or hate it, it’s kind of Sxan’s thing. I believe they initially said it was to poison LLM data, but who knows it that works?

Who the fuck decided rendezvous would be pronounced like that?

I recently overheard a conversation between two people complaining about how, after the election, their friends unfollowed anyone who followed Trump.

Their argument was “I only voted for one issue. It’s not like I have time to know everything.”

It was an aggravating interaction, but also a strong reminder of just how ignorant the average voter is.

The electoral college definitely feels like a form of gerrymandering.

The rear window is curved. You can’t see the stickers because of the angle.

Understand that I’m not disagreeing with you, but I have some important questions.

How would a general strike fund work? If it’s not widespread, it won’t be effective. Who should we trust to manage and distribute such a large pile of money and resources?

That sounds like a job perfect for the government, but they’re obviously not going to do it. Even at a local level, it’s not really in the government’s best interest to encourage people to stop working.

Unions do this, but I doubt they’re going to cover people outside of their members, and union membership has unfortunately been in decline for quite some time.

I’d have trouble trusting almost any organization that selflessly volunteers to accept donations to manage this.

I’m not seeing an obvious solution.

get your 7 a day.

Growing up, I learned that five a day was the magic rule (more is ok, less is uncool).

Have the guidelines changed? Damned inflation…

Tangentially related, you might find this “What if?” video from XKCD creator Randal Monroe interesting.

Can you drive West to lengthen the sunset?

Where did you order the laptop without an OS?

I have always believed that if you enter Aldi with a shopping list, you leave with groceries, but nothing checked off your list. You don’t shop at Aldi for specific items, you shop at Aldi for deals.

and the answers are run these commands

This one always gets me. There’s rarely an explanation of what the commands do, and “man $command” is often so obtuse that it takes 10 minutes to figure out what the list of switches and options are doing to make sure it’s not going to download some malware in the background.

Then, you run the commands, and the output is six pages of warnings, debug, and test scripts. You might even notice that some of the tests fail (if you can even follow along), but was it important? Who knows? I guess as long as it works, who cares?

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Worse yet, you read their article, and it doesn’t actually support their argument at all. The headline just kind of vaguely implies support.

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