asus pn51, a mini nuc-like box
so per wikipedia and confirmed at MDN, firefox is the only major browser line not to consider certificate transparency at all. and yet it's the only one that has given me occasional maddening SSL errors that have blocked site access (not always little sites, it's happened with amazon).
i don't understand how firefox can be simultaneously the least picky about certificates and the most likely to spuriously decide they're invalid.
well i feel stupid now for not doing the obvious. but…
Blocked Page
Your organization has blocked access to this page or website.
on the PPA box, this is what it showed me (meanwhile it was attempting to connect to incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org). another symptom of displaying respect for enterprise policies but in fact ignoring them. (as i had mentioned, on this box all of the settings look locked down as they should be, but it's still attempting to send telemetry.)
thanks, i'll look again. it's not that i love the idea of being fingerprinted; i just think that five mylar bags, four tin hats and a partridge in a pear tree won't save me from that. i need my password manager, and once that's in, enforcing a generic screen is silly - cow's out of the barn. but not having the arms race against pocket and telemetry would be a big bonus.
i did try that but the never-dark mode blinded me. i understand the reasoning, but absolute anonymity isn't my own threat model; i'd like to be able to use themes and resize the window
neo store refuses to run if you don't grant it the right to send notifications and bypass battery optimizations. if an app demands a permission and doesn't have a plausible explanation why it needs it, i don't keep it :/
i have wired sennheiser momentum 2s. the momentum line is on 4th generation now, and they look to all be bluetooth.
mine are great for use on the train, or the plane, or in bed for not getting hit with a pillow. fed from a phone, they're a little weak in the bottom end — probably an impedance thing — but fed from a headphone amp they're ace. (though it then becomes possible to leak enough sound to get hit.)
they're not active noise-cancelling and they're not sold for high isolation, but they keep enough in and out for any of my needs. and impedance matching isn't an issue when fed by bluetooth, though then they'll need to be kept charged.
It exists, it's called a robots.txt file that the developers can put into place, and then bots like the webarchive crawler will ignore the content.
the internet archive doesn't respect robots.txt:
Over time we have observed that the robots.txt files that are geared toward search engine crawlers do not necessarily serve our archival purposes.
the only way to stay out of the internet archive is to follow the process they created and hope they agree to remove you. or firewall them.
i don't live in dc anymore but when i did, i had a favorite painting in the national gallery, a renoir of a young dancer. she calmed me when times were rough. i'd sit with her for a while, then grab a bite in the underground food court next to the waterfall. i'd roam the huge shop, see something i liked, go up and see the real thing, then go back to her for a bit. a whole day occupied for the price of a sandwich.
when i'm back in town, as i was last year, i save one day for this routine.
i am not sure it's a flaw at all. the conditional tag syntax is based on opening_hours, which should be able to express 'closed at these times until that date'. there are ways to finesse this. but as long as the published guideline is 'don't do this', there's little point pondering practical solutions.
Our map data is often downloaded and used offline on various devices for several weeks or months. For offline data to be useful, it should at least be expected to remain unchanged in the next few weeks when you map it.
yes, by this blurb, concession for offline users does supersede safety.
i'm an editor active enough to have been granted foundation membership but hadn't known this rule; it indicates a view of osm as analogous to a paper map rather than for real-time navigation. if a change of less than weeks' length is discouraged, i can't in good conscience steer my friends away from google maps, as navigation is not a primary use case.
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flashback: zine slags off simple minds' "awful garbage" song for "bad movie"
(poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
i was cruising the music site looking for backfill songs i might buy, and was rudely reminded of the state of music criticism in the 80s (to be fair, this was from a zine, but was put in front of me by qobuz, so it had some staying power).
this hatchet job on the blink-and-you-missed-it "don't you (forget about me)" by some scottish dudes called simple minds, for the soundtrack of a very niche and forgotten film, reminds me of everything i escaped. it's probably from "the big takeover" issue #17 from 1984.
i closed the tab. no sale.
For six years this was a creative and interesting Scottish band that used synths in artistic ways to go with Jim Kerr's Roxy Music-like yearning, poetic vocals to forge lovely, danceable, moody soundscapes full of promise, enchantment, and sinewy shadows. So now they get to do a hit song for a bad movie, and they suddenly turn into every cliché you've ever heard, complete with Kerr doing what he said only last year he never would: singing the word "baby" in a pop song (repeatedly at that!). They didn't write this song, but it's their name on it and they recorded it, and sure enough this awful garbage is heard everywhere after no one in the U.S. ever played one of the band's great songs outside of nightclubs. Sorry Jim, this is obviously the most forgettable thing you've done so far. Hopefully the next LP will make this look as asinine as it is, a bad one-off, but experience tells us that once you open Pandora's box, you can't close it again, especially if it yields sales instead of ridicule.
© Jack Rabid, The Big Takeover /TiVo
n.b. all good pop songs have "baby" in them. repeatedly. sorry, jack
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part of humans learning to drive safely is knowing that flouting traffic laws increases your chance of being stopped, fined, or if you're not the right demographic, worse things. we calibrate our behavior to maximize speed and minimize cops, and to avoid being at-fault in an accident, which is a major hit to insurance rates.
autonomous vehicles can't be cited for moving violations. they're learning to maximize speed without the governor of traffic laws. in the absence of speed and citation data, it's hard to measure how safe they are. there is no systemic incentive for them to care about safety, except for bad press.