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@ Pxtl @lemmy.ca

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  • Discord to Require ID or Face Scan Next Month for Full Access

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  • I love how photo-based age verification scanning is the worst of both worlds - it destroys your anonymity, but not in a way that makes it easier to run a community where you can ban a person by their digital ID since they can just make a new one with the same face since facial recognition is too crude for that.

  • FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

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  • Ah, my bad. I looked it up and while Android does have an analog to what iOS calls "lockdown", Android uses different terminology for it, since "Lockdown" is, as you said, lock the lockscreen to be password/pin-only (which would still be a reasonable approach before being forced to turn over your phone to somebody since those are things that are harder to be compelled to provide).

    Android's version of iOS "Lockdown" is called "Advanced Protection Mode".

  • FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

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  • I'd forgotten because the first thing I did when that rolled out was revert it so long-press on the power button was the power menu. IIRC the new default is like long-press-power-and-volume-down or some garbage like that to show the power menu.

  • FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

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  • Android phones have lockdown mode too. Hold the power button to show the shutdown menu and click lockdown.

  • Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis?

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  • Eventually somebody is going to use textbots to DDOS wikipedia with subtle propaganda (if they're not already doing that) and it will be impossible to protect without completely locking it down so that only established users can edit.

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    Pxtl @lemmy.ca

    Israeli forces detain Santa Clause in raid on Palestinian Christmas celebration

    www.middleeasteye.net /news/israeli-forces-arrest-santa-clause-raid-palestinian-christmas-celebration
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    Texas launches plan to open Turning Point USA chapters in every high school

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  • Laws are only real if they're enforced.

  • Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worse

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  • The very idea of a user-generated content free-to-play MMO for children with whack-a-mole moderation is totally bananas. Even good whack-a-mole moderation would be a bananas design.

    I'm okay with little kids online gaming, but it needs to be in content that has been approved by a responsible adult in a setting where either adults are actively supervising or the children are on a server where we know everybody who's in there.

  • One of Silicon Valley's most prominent techbros is giving lectures on the Antichrist -- and he thinks it's the Pope

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  • Isn't the antichrist supposed to be a charismatic leader?

  • In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks

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  • Geforce 3060, and yes. Sometimes my primary screen gets locked at my secondary screen's framerate. The whole OS is especially wonky after wake from sleep, I often have to restart Firefox and Cinnamon after wake. WebGL things in Firefox are especially finicky. The panel-applet-spice things are horrendously single-threaded, some of lock the whole UI regularly.

    I'm going to try some other Debian-based OS in the hopes that this is just Mint+Cinnamon and not the state-of-the-art.

  • In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks

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  • I tried Mint and it's just too buggy to use.

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    ANALYSIS: Destroy the Toronto Parking Authority

    www.tvo.org /article/analysis-destroy-the-toronto-parking-authority

  • Pushing, yelling from Conservative leadership ‘sealed the deal’ on defection: d’Entremont

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  • It's almost like letting freaks take over your political movement can drive away normal people.

  • You're going to make up the funding shortfall, right?

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  • A pleasant reversal from the usual situation. Like, all the regulations that sandbag against housing are municipal, which can only be overridden by the provinces.

  • What are some physical items that should be available at libraries for people to borrow?

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  • Various detectors you use when trying to debug a problem -- ethernet testers, decibel meter, battery discharge tester, thermal camera, wifi and cellular signal analyzers, air quality testers, radon detectors (edit: hah of course this is what article is about), stud finders, etc.

    Overly-specific tools -- ethernet crimpers, obscure driver bits.

  • another social network?

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  • Lemmy blocking is worthless anyways it's just a mute

  • Cold shoulder from Canada is costly for American distillers struggling with global trade tensions

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  • Affirmative Action blues-for-white-people.

  • Florida GOP Legislator Files Bill Threatening to Defund Colleges Unless They Rename Roads After Charlie Kirk

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  • Hooray for crime!

  • Cold shoulder from Canada is costly for American distillers struggling with global trade tensions

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  • I'm loving the idea of the transphobic Mitch McConnell voters of Kentucky realizing that their state's only products are bourbon and sadness and we stopped buying bourbon.

  • Dave Chappelle Criticizes Free Speech in America at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival

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  • You can't make observational comedy about being a young and hungry comedian/writer when you've spent the last decade being wealthy and out-of-touch.

    If he was still clever, he probably could've threaded the transphobia needle and either figured a way to make it right or made it so funny that enough people would enjoy it regardless. But now he's cranky and spoiled by success so he's just going to get angry, which is even less funny.

  • Madness or brilliance

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  • If you're making a programming platform and the only debugging tool you provide to developers is console logging, you're a monster.

    yaml pipelines/actions I'm looking in your direction.

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    Virginia Democrats call for Republican John Reid to exit lieutenant governor race in Nazi porn scandal

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  • ... I'd have two nickels - which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    Pxtl @lemmy.ca

    Dave Chappelle Criticizes Free Speech in America at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival

    www.hollywoodreporter.com /news/general-news/dave-chappelle-free-speech-riyadh-saudi-comedy-festival-1236391872/
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    Pxtl @lemmy.ca

    Emma Watson's so typical of the entitled generation who think they're right about everything - like the young woman who rolled her eyes at me the other day

    www.dailymail.co.uk /debate/article-15149311/Emma-Watsons-typical-entitled-generation-think-theyre-right-like-young-woman-rolled-eyes-day-SARAH-VINE.html
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    Pxtl @lemmy.ca

    Meghan McCain slams nepo babies over Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner's daughter's UN speech

    ew.com /meghan-mccain-slams-jennifer-garner-ben-affleck-daughter-violet-11816482
  • Leopards Ate My Face @lemmy.world
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    Trump Burger Owner to Be Deported for Being Sham Marriage ‘Illegal Alien’

    www.thedailybeast.com /trump-burger-owner-roland-beainy-is-sham-marriage-illegal-immigrant/
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    Pxtl @lemmy.ca

    Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Grok 4 following Hitler concerns

    www.theverge.com /notepad-microsoft-newsletter/754647/microsoft-grok-4-roll-out-private-preview-notepad
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    Pxtl @lemmy.ca

    Recommendations for a good .ca domain host?

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Pxtl @lemmy.ca

    Southwest Airlines Flight Attendants Forced to Rerun Contract Vote After Crew Discovered Ballot System Was Vulnerable to Fraud (unsecured database web front-end)

    www.paddleyourownkanoo.com /2023/12/14/southwest-airlines-flight-attendants-forced-to-rerun-contract-vote-after-crew-discovered-ballot-system-was-vulnerable-to-fraud/
  • Do It Yourself @beehaw.org
    Pxtl @lemmy.ca

    WIP dryer repair part 2: swapping out the heating coil.

  • Do It Yourself @beehaw.org
    Pxtl @lemmy.ca

    WIP: Replacing heating coil in dryer

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Pxtl @lemmy.ca

    About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off

    www.theverge.com /2023/10/16/23919551/bandcamp-layoffs-epic-songtradr
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
    Pxtl @lemmy.ca

    The anti-Trudeau hate farm based out of Cairo

    www.canadaland.com /street-politics-canada-egypt/
  • ADHD @lemmy.world
    Pxtl @lemmy.ca

    A tale of two pharmacies

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Epic Games Cutting 870 Jobs, 16 Percent Of Its Workforce, also selling Bandcamp

    kotaku.com /epic-games-store-fortnite-unreal-engine-layoffs-1850882501
  • Sysadmin @lemmy.ml
    Pxtl @lemmy.ca

    recommendations for personal and family password management?