While the CD checks are absolutely annoying, nothing, and I mean nothing, was more inconvenient than having to go to a certain page and a certain line and a certain word in the manual to unlock a program you paid for. Fucking infuriating.

I’ve downloaded software that I had paid for, simply because of the bullshit involved with DRM, licence unlocking, etc.

If the user experience of a paid software or service is inferior to a pirated version, then the developers are doing something wrong.

We use AI models processed on-device

If it’s opt-in, and the processing is done on-device, then I have no reason to be outraged.

But the skeptic in me asks “what’s in it for google?”.

JuryNow doesn’t store any personal data or persistent user identifiers. The questions and votes are not linked to individuals in a way that would allow tracking behavior over time.

Great to hear!

There is a User Agreement, Liability, Disclaimer etc…

Are these currently in place? I don’t see links to them on the homepage, or during the sign-up screen.

I like the idea, but it needs a privacy policy. If someone answered 100 of those questions, the insight into their behaviour would be incredibly valuable to bad actors.

Guaranteeing anonymity would make this much better.

“Netflix members pay as much attention to midroll ads as they do to the shows and movies themselves,” Amy Reinhard, president of advertising at Netflix, said, according to the publication.

This is so hilarious when you think about it.

Are their movies and shows so bad that people are watching ads with as much attention?

Or do they mean “pay as much attention” by ignoring the content altogether as they only run Netflix as background noise while they do something else?

😂

Is it easy to set up SSL on a PiHole? I wanted to get Adguard home setup (similar to Pihole) but the complexity of setting up secure connections and I’m like, “yeah, nobody in my family is going to be able to fix this if something happens when I’m not around”. 😂

For context, I have a single Synology NAS, so recovering and testing the entire backup set would not be practical in my case.

I have been able to test single files or entire folders and they work fine, but obviously I’d have no way of testing the entire backup set due to the above consideration. It is my understanding that the verify feature that Synology uses is to ensure that there’s no bit rot and that the file integrity is intact. My hope is that because of how many isolated backups I do keep, the chance of not being able to recover is slim to none.

How does one realistically test their backups, if they are doing the 3-2-1 backup plan?

I validate (or whatever the term used is) my backups, once a month, and trust that it means something 😰

And yet, I think most people are checking all those boxes, unfortunately. Pray for their mental health! 😵

But why even jump to that conclusion? They could have said “may cause baldness”, too.

I mean, they come up a list of things, but proved none of it: “Chemicals in everyday plastics may disrupt the body’s natural 24-hour sleep-wake cycle and circadian rhythm in a way similar to coffee, which increases the risk of sleep disorders, diabetes, immune problems and cancer, new in vitro research shows.”

I just wish that journalists would be a little less sensationalist with stuff like this. Even if it were an animal-based study, assumptions should be tempered when it comes to reporting on the implications to human health.

Not to criticize the study, since we really do need to know how these plastics are harming us, but the headlines need to chill out.

Yes, it will lead to other studies, but the headline suggests that “Plastics in everyday objects may disrupt sleep in same way as caffeine…” as if they actually compared plastic exposure to caffeine in living people through a sleep study.

Seems like a huge assumption.

I say this, because in vitro studies can point to very wrong, absurdly misleading conclusions. For example, avocado extract appears to damage human chromosomes… in vitro. But when consumed, it’s healthy, and may even be cancer-protective.

new in vitro research shows.

So, they didn’t actually study people’s sleep?

Any priest who complies with a new law requiring the reporting of child abuse confessions to authorities will be excommunicated.

Oh, are we going to play that game?

Why does the Catholic Church have to be so fucking evil?

Longer range so it can get stuck further from home? 🤭😀👍

FWIW, he is facing trial. But every step of this case has been mishandled by the prosecution.

If the justice system is to be trusted, then this case should be dismissed, as it seems clear that he isn’t getting a fair trial.

6600 soldiers, but are any of them heros?

Immich, I believe, is linked to Futo. And Futo has a license model that’s basically “if you like this app, and want to support the development, consider buying a license.”

Sounds like it might be similar with Immich.

Better than “donate to this project”, since a license seems more like the user is getting something out of it, even if it’s basically a glorified donation 😂

The satisfaction in doing that would have been more than enough to justify the work! LOL

At what point would the effort and expense be “too much”? LOL These parts are normally available for under $10 for the seal, bearing, clips, and metal post.

On the other hand, we have a shower faucet knob where this internal piece would always crack. We replaced that part many times with the official component, but I ended up 3d printing it, and it hasn’t broken once in at least the last 6 years!