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“All female shark tank” is my new band name.

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Partially. The summary isn’t quite in line with the detail:

Android is the only operating system that fully immunizes VPN apps from the attack because it doesn't implement option 121. For all other OSes, there are no complete fixes. When apps run on Linux there’s a setting that minimizes the effects, but even then TunnelVision can be used to exploit a side channel that can be used to de-anonymize destination traffic and perform targeted denial-of-service attacks.

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Just archive it and take up farming.

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Let me say... I work in healthcare. I clean human waste. I'm not easily grossed out.

Come on Jo, we’ve talked about this. You’re supposed to call them patients.

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4-5 TOTP apps? So far, when, e.g. Microsoft or Google have insisted use of their own Authenticator app is required, it’s worked fine for me using Ente Auth or similar just by entering the code / QR.

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I can still hear the penny dropping in my mind when I went from ‘How can anyone fall for that—it’s so obviously a scam…’ to ‘Oh, right…’ It sounded too Machiavellian to be true. I wonder if it was so carefully designed from the start, or a process of natural selection?

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The thing with football is that there is a specific goal (pun very much intended). It’s ok to have a mindset that you’re going to play in a way that makes it unlikely (in the beginning) you’ll achieve that goal (eg play left footed), but if that player never improved, would you still think it’s ‘working’)?

I worked in an industry for many years that was obsessed with goal-setting, and that mindset never appealed to me. I eventually found a book called Goal Free Living by Stephen M. Shapiro. It was a bit of an eye-opener for me, and the phrase “Carry a compass not a map” stayed with me until today. I’ve done several different things since then but I’ll never be famous for any of them as I still keep changing direction.

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True, but in this case it was. And I usually get two of them—one to my main account and one to my ‘recovery’ account and one of them ends up in spam.

From the google ‘Meh, it kinda works’ School of Design.

dave OP ,
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Yeah, it’s to my recovery account. But DKIM is set up on that account and fetched via google. Probably some kind of weird back emf somewhere.

dave OP ,
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Yes—this is what I see. But I don't work in this area, so still not sure if it's google or my domain that's borked, and quite frankly... All I used to test my domain was MXToolbox, and that reported everything configured correctly.

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    I’m genuinely fascinated by this language pattern: “great of a guy”. In, er, classic? traditional? British? English, the “of” just isn’t used. I see it so often as “big of a problem”.

    A great guy -> How great a guy I was.
    A big problem -> How big a problem is it?

    Is this just colloquialism, or is it how grammar is taught?

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    Yes, thanks. I’d seen that and it seemed very much ‘this is how it is’ as opposed to ‘this is how it’s taught’. The rule as I understood was that ‘of’ should be used in combination with adjectives that denote an ‘amount’ of something (eg ‘much’, ‘many’, etc.) whereas adjectives that denote a ‘characteristic’ of something (eg ‘big’, ‘great’, etc.) should not be used with of.

    The latter are far more numerous and so use with ‘of’ is rare. But is seems to be used with almost every adjective in US sources.

    See here too: https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2014/01/not-that-big-of-a-deal.html

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    So tempting just to reply ‘yes’ :)

    But it’s iPhone at least.

    dave ,
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    The graphs are all interactive (touch to show labels, etc.). That can interfere with scrolling—try dragging at the edge or one of the pie chart titles. Fwiw, it scrolls ok on mobile safari…

    dave ,
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    I get this if I’m shopping in Waitrose. I think it’s from gripping the shopping cart so tightly whilst looking at the prices.

    dave ,
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    It’s funny you getting downvoted for quoting the linked article :/

    dave OP ,
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    No, the title shows the phones current version (it’s a snip from iTunes). There’s a few people reporting / spending ages on the phone to apple about it—they apparently didn’t understand it either.

    dave ,
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    Seems harsh—lots of people make coffee these days.

    dave ,
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    No—this is a good resource for finding the next one closest to you. https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/list.html

    If you’re in Europe, northern Spain in 2026 is the next best opportunity.

    dave ,
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    Just started running Arch + KDE on a Kingston Traveller to experiment with setup. Installed from live usb iso and then ran archinstall to the same device.

    Runs nicely on my dell xps laptop and my desktop with 3 monitors connected to an Nvidia 1070Ti.

    dave ,
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    How often did you catch it disappearing?

    dave ,
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    I think maybe a re-read is in order. They’re claiming the new format outperforms the (presumably) old format by 28%, not that the CTR is 28%.

    dave ,
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    If you ever need to check, this site has up to date information. https://arethebritsatitagain.org

    dave ,
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    I’ve spent a few weeks on Lemmy/all blocking things I don’t care to see, and honestly it’s now pretty good. Plenty of diversity still and easier than subscribing plus occasionally new things pop up that I wouldn’t have seen otherwise.

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    Those guys are amateurs. Try being the Uk government—compulsorily purchase private land for new rail line, hand lucrative contracts to your mates to clear mature oaks (which they get to keep, worth £5k each), accidentally clear more than is needed, then cancel the rail line.

    dave ,
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    Well, I used a bit of poetic licence but there’s a case near me in the midlands in which the land owner has been forced to go to the high court (at his own expense) to get any chance of compensation. The tactics being used by hs2 and the Secretary of State are to frighten people into non-action. That is the leg of hs2 that is still (currently) going ahead.

    But I’d eat my manky dog-walking hat if it’s the only example in the country.

    dave ,
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    Also if OP was British, they’d have put ‘beans on toast’. What they put makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.

    dave ,
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    That is one of the four horsemen of lunch.

    Passenger sees Boeing 757-200 “wing coming apart” mid-air — United flight from San Francisco to Boston makes emergency landing in Denver ( www.cbsnews.com )

    Passenger sees Boeing 757-200 “wing coming apart” mid-air — United flight from San Francisco to Boston makes emergency landing in Denver::A United Airlines flight to Boston was diverted to Denver because of an issue with the plane's wing.

    Are We Transitioning From Capitalism to Silicon Serfdom? ( jacobin.com )

    Are We Transitioning From Capitalism to Silicon Serfdom?::The idea that we are entering an era of techno-feudalism that will be worse than capitalism is chilling and controversial. We asked former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis to elucidate this idea, explain how we got here, and map out some alternatives.

    dave ,
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    … opponent’s … typos—instant win.

    dave ,
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    All good points—did you mean “tiny violin mode”, or have I been misunderstanding that song for a long time?

    dave ,
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    But what the bank did next will shock you.

    dave ,
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    I’ve been using AWS R53 for this for ages and it works well. Not specifically recommending AWS but using dynamic updates rather than a DDNS service (or running your own name server which I’ve also done).

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