This is a good idea, as it might eventually lead to policies or laws that would reduce the spam.
I wouldn’t get my hopes up for resolution any time soon, though. Keep in mind that some of the biggest influence campaigns targeting US politics are run by foreign parties, and bulk text messages are cheap and consequence-free. Sadly, stopping it might require changing your phone number.
Yes, of course they could. Generating an image fingerprint is not all that computationally expensive by today’s standards.
Is it unique enough to track you? It doesn’t have to be, since online tracking generally keys off of a set of data, rather than a single item. But just for the sake of argument, consider that services like tineye and google images have pretty good success at matching images even with no additional data.
Is it (or will it eventually be) worthwhile for data collectors? You would have to ask them.
Let’s not forget that copyright enforcement is mostly funded by taxpayers. It’s a collectively massive cost to the rest of us.
It probably made sense for a limited time when we (society) were getting something of comparable value (cultural works) in return. But now that it’s effectively endless, and dominated by corporations, it looks an awful lot like systematic extraction of wealth… from us.
I find this to either be a lie or self inflicted.
“I’ve never experienced what you describe, so it must be either imagined or your own fault.”
I’ve seen this nonsense over and over again in communities of all kinds, most often in tech forums (where there are always a few participants suffering from a big-fish-little-pond effect). It’s a very rude and foolish bit of human behavior.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Why would I want to scan a qr code on my phone to read shit on a tiny screen you could’ve just printed on the computers display?
Because getting it off your crashed computer’s display and into text format, so it can be grepped or posted in a bug report, is a cumbersome task. (OCR tools are not ubiquitous, convenient, or reliable.) And an impossible task when half the crash dump scrolled off the screen.
Also this is gonna play out great in secured environments where cameras are a no no.
It’s optional.
Leave shit like this to the fuckers with no taste at Microsoft. Kernel panics are supposed to be verbose.
That’s how I felt when the BSoD screen was introduced, but with this new way of using it to reliably deliver more information than ever before, it’s starting to look useful.
Anthony Bray the convicted burglar?
I have read that early DualSense units had a bug that affected battery life. If you still have yours, it might be worth updating the firmware.
If your budget would allow it, I think it would be tough to beat the Steam Deck.
Or the well-maintained and developed derivative:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.shatteredpixel.shatteredpixeldungeon/
Linux user here. I don’t know of an open desktop calendar app that supports the protocol I need (CalDAV) without being one or more of:
The best compromise I’ve found so far is Thunderbird. It is bloated, but less so than any Electron app I’ve used. I find the UI annoying, but tolerable for lack of a better option. I’m thankful for an open, cross-platform tool that gets the job done, but I wish I had one that was lightweight and pleasant to use.
It would be nice to see some new work in this area. It’s a similar situation with email apps.
Tell me you’re an opinionated novice without telling me you’re an opinionated novice.
(edit:specificity)
Edit replacing my original comment:
Looks like that package has been superseded by org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze. That’s what I’m using, and it is receiving updates.
$ flatpak remote-info flathub org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze-Dark
ID: org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze-Dark
Ref: runtime/org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze-Dark/x86_64/3.22
Arch: x86_64
Branch: 3.22
Collection: org.flathub.Stable
Download: 156.9 kB
Installed: 386.6 kB
Commit: 5a19b0c0808f82290d1f64c95d2406a860329817e0f269b4aaf0a1bbba92323a
Parent: 390f820d32df2f22e3a3165eb4d65071dcb93a357ae7730f4ca548b5d016b966
End-of-life: This theme has been replaced by org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze, see README for workaround on using system color schemes. https://github.com/flathub/org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze#workarounds
Subject: Add EOL (fc4339ff)
Date: 2022-02-22 00:21:51 +0000
Wildermyth is a lovely combination of storytelling and xcom-style combat, with a genealogy system and chances for your heroes (and their descendants) to reappear in future games.
It wasn’t a recorded video. It was a live stream. They must have made it private when it ended.
Use Tor.
Do you mean Tor Browser? Because using Tor alone won’t stop fingerprinting.
Wildermyth is a lovely combination of storytelling and xcom-style combat, with a genealogy system and chances for your heroes (and their descendants) to reappear in future games.
I think that was sometimes true in the past, but they ended that practice years ago.
Have you considered using the
at
andshutdown
commands together to accomplish this?