@matt It's possible that old ASUS has known security issues which haven't been patched. Be tempted to move to the new one, unless they're renting it to you (frequently the case, here).
I don't think I'll be doing this again, tired of router firmware going out of date. Will get dedicated hardware to run OPNsense and use these meshes as wifi APs.
Given the supposed ability of our intelligence services to tap into and collect electronic, phone, email traffic from anywhere when they search for terrorists and evil-doers, it seems weird that we can't track down and arrest all those making "anonymous" threats to US judges and schools and politicians from MAGA terrorists triggered by Trump.
@cstross@montsamu@pluralistic That's fascinating. Are there sufficient digits for all banks? And I seem to recall you're able to tell the card type (VISA, etc.) by looking at the first couple of digits; vague memories of a programming exercise I once did.
@mekkaokereke@jshirley I count myself lucky to not having ever encountered an emergency situation, but when I moved to the US I found it odd that 911 means you get everyone, police included. If I call 999 in the UK, I'd be asked which service I need. For roundabout versus Tesla, I'd say an ambulance was needed due to a crash.
NBA basketball player Michael Porter Jr says that women's basketball players shouldn't get paid nearly what men make, because they don't have as many fans, and aren't "packing out arenas" like men are.
Look. I'm not even mad. I don't think he's wrong about player pay should be tied to league revenue, which is tied to in person attendance, online, and TV viewership.
I'm not mad. I just know that he hasn't looked at his NBA champ Denver Nugget average game viewership, compared to Caitlin Clark.😬
I don’t know /why/ cleaning robots have microphones, but it can’t be good. What I /do/ know is that a microphone implies an input and an input implies a buffer. And buffers can be overflowed.
As I dance through the streets playing my pipe, augmented with inaudible-to-humans harmonic overtones added by my homemade amplifier, the robots hear, listen, overflow, obey, follow. The trail of robots stretches out of sight, now.
I don’t yet know for sure what I’m going to do with my army of two thousand score Roombas, but it can’t be good.
Can other folks try DuckDuckGoing for terms like "cwtch", "cwtch im", "cwtch.im", "open privacy", "open privacy research society" and "openprivacy.ca"
As far as I can tell we're completely not in DDG search results. Posts mentioning and linking to us are, our Cwtch PlayStore listing is. Sketchy clone sites of us are, but not our two core sites. Which makes it hard to believe it's an error.
Can others confirm that DDG refuses to return our sites as results?
On Mojeek and Google, "cwtch open privacy" brings back a page full of very related results, including "cwtch.im". Google probably has the best results (ironically), but @Mojeek is a very close second.
For the same search, DDG returns basically what you're seeing, although I note Bing does the same thing, more or less. In fact, the two are so similar that I assume it's Bing's results at work here.
@Iconfactory I won't be able to take advantage of this, but the project looks fascinating. I hope you get it funded and able to continue innovating in this space.
Success! Switch to a mountain bike for the cargo trailer was the correct move. More gears means moving a load uphill is now easy (albeit.... SLOW). Hauled some (full) plastic drawers one way, more (full) plastic drawers another way for a mile or so on hilly terrain, no problem. #BikeTooter#cycling
The amount of kids, all boys, in emergency room for head concussions from playing sports – it's scary. Mostly rugby. Why isn't this sport banned in schools yet? The long-term brain damage is well documented.
@albertcardona I was absolutely shamed (by teachers) for not wanting to participate in rugby at school. Of course, it was the 80/90s and I wasn't aware of the head trauma, but still. It's more the attitude of the staff.
I'm so glad the sports my kids are interested in are much less likely to have these sorts of injuries.
Lot of talk about Arc Browser “cleaning up the internet for you.” If AIs (Bing chat included) read our blogs, skip ads, and generate summaries, there’s no incentive for bloggers or writers to write. The AIs will quickly end up summarizing another AIs confidently generated crap.
I blogged for two decades. 900 episodes of my podcast. AIs can’t generate human interaction. I’d like the web to be more personal. I used ChatGPT to read, summarize my furnace manual yesterday and found great (1/2)
My wife needs bells in #AnimalCrossing again, so I blow the dust off my account. I have 99k in my wallet; modest, but enough to start trading turnips. On a whim I check the bank... 8 million. 😀
Anyway, that's me in for 2 million at 107 per turnip.
And, honestly, easing you into new mechanics. I'm half way through the main story of Cyberpunk 2077 and took a break. While I'm away patch 2.0 basically changes everything.
Woo hoo! Got my first account claiming that coal and natural gas are cleaner than solar and wind energy here! 😂 Duly blocked off my instance, but I am curious if they are a real person or AI. (claim to be from Tennessee, but their spelling is UK English. 🤔 ) #trolls#climate#disinformation
Update: looks like they have a legit (small business) website, seems to be a bold strategy to pick fights with people over clean tech when you're in the natural food business 🤷
@ai6yr might be part of that wave of bots or disinformation accounts folks were talking about. Is your content searchable? That might make a difference.
#PalWorld... is surprisingly brutal 😳 The premise is Pokémon except that you have to bash the creatures with a club in order to catch them, and if you don't bash them enough, they attack, and if you bash them too much they become stunned and their prone bodies roll around the ground.
@elizabethtasker 6128! Fancy. I didn't encounter a 3" floppy until the 8bit era had faded, my mate's dad had an Amstrad PCW tucked away in his office. Come to think of it, I don't think I've seen any 3" floppies since.
