The official language of Liberia is English because the country was founded by former slaves and free black people from the USA.

My understanding is that you can replace the ZigBee firmware with Threads firmware if you want.

Why does the absolute number matter? Why does the rate matter?

The claim is that cars and guns are equally deadly in Chicago, with the observation that gun deaths are reported more.

If this is 3 people or 30 thousand people, the critique is the same.

If this is 1 in 10 million people or 1 in 10 people, the critique is the same.

While I’m sure that some are just cosplaying as Christians, i have no doubt that there are true believers there. I mean, RFK doesn’t believe in germ fucking theory, so we know that being crazy is no hindrance from getting power. Is it really so hard to believe that Americans elected Congressmen who believe the earth is 6000 years old?

I stopped shopping at Best Buy in the 1990s when one store asked me to leave. I was writing down some prices so I could do some comparison shopping.

I just use restic.

I’m pretty sure it uses checksums to verify data on the backup target, so it doesn’t need to copy all of the data there.

Many laws are written to give the executive branch leeway in defining the details of how a law is to be implemented. This makes sense, assuming everyone is acting in good faith; technologies, science, standards, and best practices all evolve over time.

Laws are usually written in a way to ensure Congressional oversight, to prevent the executive either intentionally or accidentally from subverting their will. But with a treasonous President and a complicit Congress, here we are… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Why did you mention them not being US citizens then? 🤔

Could be Canadian, eh?

My own reading of that amendment is that it puts requirements on the US government, period. It does not limit things to US citizens.

Of course, I know that’s not the way the courts interpret the amendment. 😔

It’s also possible that the military had been using such a device for decades and it was actually prior art that invalidated the patent, but this was lost in the retelling. 🤔

Yeah man.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/feds-unmarked-vans-portland/

$1 $2 per month is expensive? 🤣

[edit: I can’t do simple math]

The claim was “Email server owners don’t look at the content”. This is untrue since possibly the largest owner of email servers looks at the content to monetize the service. That’s all.

Yeah, the largest email company is probably Google (maybe Microsoft). Google definitely looks at every email they receive for users!

For many years it was just that I didn’t trust anyone not to hand my data over to someone else, whether that be governments, companies, or (unintentionally) hackers.

Nowadays I would probably trust Proton Mail, since they have pretty good encryption. But as you point out then I would be dependent on a provider.

Currently I mostly have problems when I lose power or when my ISP renumbers. Probably I should just migrate and save myself pain from Google and Microsoft making it hard to send mail to their users (which is most people on the planet).

I’ve been running my own email for 25 years and wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. 😔

This feels so weird to me. I don’t know anyone who has used SMS for communication in many years.

I don’t like the implication that people working for non-profits should make less money than people working for for-profit companies.

If a network engineer makes $130k at a non-profit versus $140k at a for-profit, they are effectively donating $10k a year to the cause. Very few people making $130k are donating $10k a year.

Yes, there are always more efficient and cheaper ways to work, but forcing non-profits to grind and answer and defend every penny spent just makes them shitty places to work on top of the financial hit the employees are taking. 😔

Those answers can be used to convict you. Don’t say anything!