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LFS: Send emails later, time capsule style
  • I mostly rely on built-in "scheduled send" features these days, but in the past (and possibly future, can't remember!) I've used Time Cave and been happy with it.

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    Biden at peace if he loses to Trump: "As long as I gave it my all"
  • This is an argument for why Biden is able to lead. Speaking for myself, I'm not so worried that Biden is unable to lead. He's old and obviously slowing down, but he's got decades of experience and, as you say, a whole administration's worth of expertise.

    I'm worried that he is unable to win.

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    Biden at peace if he loses to Trump: "As long as I gave it my all"
  • "This campaign is bigger than me or you. Everything we believe in, everything we stand for, and everyone we are fighting for are at risk in this election." --Joe Biden campaign email, July 4th

    "if I lose it's cool lol" --Joe Biden on ABC News, July 5th, paraphrased

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    Opinion | To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race
  • Please don't assume that it's all Russian bot bullshit. Thursday night's "debate" performance was a catastrophe that affirmed a lot of people's worst fears, my own included. I just don't know how he wins after that, and if he can't win, then I'm sorry but it's time for an open convention.

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    Router scan
  • If your router isn't even a Linksys router, then it's most likely a false positive result and can be safely ignored. If you want to be extra sure, you could attempt to actually exploit the vulnerability with routersploit and see whether you get anywhere.

    In general, the fix for a vulnerability in an end-user network device is some combination of "update the firmware" and "disable the vulnerable feature".

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    It’s time for a hard reset on notifications
  • My second proposal — and this is a wild one — is that promotional notifications should just not be allowed. Or you can opt in to them if you desperately want to hear from the Starbucks app every single day, but you should have to go out of your way to do that and should not be the default behavior when you choose “allow notifications.” Just an idea!

    The author calls out the Starbucks app here, but doesn't mention how blatantly dark-patterned its notifications really are. Android allows apps to set up multiple notification channels, so you can selectively prioritize (or, more often, mute or block) notifications based on their content. Starbucks uses this feature... to create a single channel called "Promotions & order status". You wanted to know when your order's ready? Fuck you and your concentration, get double stars today!

    I appreciate the notification controls Android gives me, and I use them aggressively. If an app pushes a notification that doesn't actually require my attention, I block that channel, and if it does it again, I block notifications for the whole app. I agree with the author, though: I shouldn't need to do that.

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    FB now 90% ads and promos?
  • It's been like that. I have some uBlock rules that clean up most of it, but the last time I got on Facebook it wasn't behaving well so I probably need to update them.

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    Male players: Why do you play female characters?
  • I had to look it up: apparently an "egg" is a maybe-possibly trans person who hasn't "hatched" into self-acceptance or self-recognition (yet). It seems like a really presumptive kind of thing to me, but also I kinda get it so maybe I'm an egg too 🤷‍♂️(🤷🤷‍♀️)

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    Does anyone know of a trustworthy and curated list of qanon sites that I can use for my pihole(s)?
  • I use that list as well as the ones at https://github.com/antifa-n/pihole/ (though they haven't been updated in years). I also use OpenDNS upstream to block their "Hate/Discrimination" category (among others).

    I've been pretty happy with this setup, but I would welcome alternatives/additional blocklists.

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    I don't get why there was positive buzz around Sonic Frontiers. It's not a good game
  • It's a very uneven game (some 9/10 "this is cool!" gameplay loops bundled together with some 3/10 "how did this ever get released?" segments) and definitely not for everybody. The object pop-ins were noticeable, the sudden 2D-perspective-locks on later islands were worse, and it took me a while to really find a groove and get into the game, but once I did I had a great time with it.

    If you want to continue playing, I recommend hunting down and completing all the "?" map challenges before working on other objectives. Some of them are designed to train necessary but non-obvious skills, and having a full map makes it a lot easier to get around and pick your battles.

    Also, starfall events give you so many fishing tokens that Big's fishing minigame becomes the single best way to gather resources and level up. It's totally gamebreaking but it's Big the Cat so it's great.

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