So, I'm going to put it this way. I entirely agree. But I'll be slightly more open minded and say it's extremely unlikely. I mean 0.many zeroes point 1 percent likely. Winning the lottery every day for your entire life likely.
However, when it comes to physics. We only ever have an understanding through the narrow windows with which we can see the universe. We have a set of rules that seem to very well tally with the universe we observe and they're very likely all or almost all correct.
But our understanding does change all the time, it's not outside the realms of possibility we'll prove it is possible and not feasible or even possible. I will not hold my breath though.
I'd also argue that causality doesn't need to be a problem. It all depends on how we imagine traveling through time would work. If we imagine that one experienced time line is an closed loop. Then you could effect the future without destroying the entire universe on another timeline. It would just be like reversing down the track and flipping points. Now you cannot access that other track. But it still exists, and everything on that track still exists.
In that way, if I went back in time and changed some significant event in history then went into the future, I would see a different future, according to the change I effected. But my personal timeline would still include the time I spent in the time before I changed it. Therefore I've not changed my own past. Only my own future.
My point being that while time travel will never be a thing we see, the causality issue is just a lack of imagination problem :P
Well, as I added in the edit. I think they do a bit more and actually fool the verification site since they don't send the whole image, they do the work locally (which is good, for privacy). So they fake valid looking metadata and then presumably get a signed result back which they dutifully pass on to discord.
Looks to me like they're essentially redirecting the request from the normal api to do age checks to their own api, and just saying "Sure, they're an adult" to discord (since that is all the "proper" api tells them). There are easy ways for Discord to fix this. So do not expect it to work for long.
What could be risky? Well it seems to be loading some libraries. What are they doing? Don't know, didn't check. Probably just keeping the line count of the actual code down. But, who knows?
The other thing (and they of course do need to do this). They pass the full URL that would be sent to the "proper" api to their own. So if there is some private info about you/your account they usually send on, these guys would have that data too.
Just a quick 5 minute look though. I didn't look too much into it because, I'm not going to use it :P
EDIT: Looks like they actually detail what they do and it seems to involve actually tricking the age verification api too. Interesting stuff. Still not going to do it.
I was wondering about that. I mean the sticks are different (consumer preferring faster ram, enterprise preferring an extra chip for ECC). But at the root it's all dram that should be the same underlying silicon by and large.
But, I won't say for certain because I've never really looked into ram production in that level of detail.
I think there's two parts to modern electronics that make them hard to repair.
One is indeed planned obsolescence, companies like apple deliberately making things harder to repair. This is easy to solve, but what's in it for businesses that only exist to make money when the average consumer is happy to suck this crap up?
But there is a non deliberate side. So many things that used to be modules built with discrete components have been moved to a single chip. Radio parts is an example, they used to requir a lot more external discrete parts and you can now get a single chip doing Bluetooth, WiFi etc with minimal external components.
As more goes to a single chip, it's single expensive parts that can fail rather than what might have been a single capacitor or resistor failing in a larger circuit.
Of course the planned obsolescence uses this by making custom chips that you literally cannot buy if you wanted to. But there is still a legitimate side to this.
So, just going to say. I feel like this violates rule 1: (Not United States Internal News)
In any case, as an outsider I feel like it's more than obvious that the step up in activities and rhetoric is a direct response to the realisation that there's mid-terms coming this year and as it stands they will lose hugely.
So yes, they want to either take control of the voting, or even better stop the election entirely. This is what is being worked towards right now, just from me looking from the outside in.
I don't know. I feel like I'm more alert and the brain is more active with 4k+ in the day time (on days when there's low light outside). But in the evening I want it down to 2700k or so, in order to get a proper sleep cycle.
I thought we already had that, the NCA? We don't generally need "federal" level stuff because we don't have different laws.
There's some difference in trial process and civil laws (someone can correct me if there's a real difference in criminal law, I don't think there is though) between the countries making up the UK. But we don't have the whole entanglement of State law vs Federal law.
So, there's no need for anything more than what we already have which only really need to work to bring the regional forces together on serious cases.
I'm always reminded of the scene in The newsroom, where they have the guy from the epa who essentially says it's already too late to save us from climate oblivion. They wanted him to calm the message and played down the doom.
That was from 2012.
Nothing has changed at all. Humans are rubbish at dealing with problems that are more than a year or so down the road.
I've known six year old children to have more maturity than this. "I'm going to invade Greenland because I didn't get a Nobel Peace Prize" is what this boils down to.
A literal child is in charge of the most powerful single country in the world.
Peter Backman, CEO of theDelivery.World, said the practice was only misleading if customers were purposely trying to support independent restaurants and takeaways.
That's some high grade bullshit. There is going to be a subset of people (and I'd argue it's a growing number) that want to support local businesses and so yes it's misleading to all those people.
But more than that. A corporate/franchise brand has such a huge value they will sue you if you use it without permission. So if they're choosing not to use a brand they paid good money to use, it can only be because they want to deceive.
I'd say the ideal situation is that tools are developed library first, then cli or gui as preferred allowing others to pick up the slack and make the other tool (or tools) using the functions in the library.
One of the reasons automation is so much easier on linux than windows is because there are many more cli tools to do things. On windows many tools are gui first and cannot easily be automated.
So, I'm going to put it this way. I entirely agree. But I'll be slightly more open minded and say it's extremely unlikely. I mean 0.many zeroes point 1 percent likely. Winning the lottery every day for your entire life likely.
However, when it comes to physics. We only ever have an understanding through the narrow windows with which we can see the universe. We have a set of rules that seem to very well tally with the universe we observe and they're very likely all or almost all correct.
But our understanding does change all the time, it's not outside the realms of possibility we'll prove it is possible and not feasible or even possible. I will not hold my breath though.
I'd also argue that causality doesn't need to be a problem. It all depends on how we imagine traveling through time would work. If we imagine that one experienced time line is an closed loop. Then you could effect the future without destroying the entire universe on another timeline. It would just be like reversing down the track and flipping points. Now you cannot access that other track. But it still exists, and everything on that track still exists.
In that way, if I went back in time and changed some significant event in history then went into the future, I would see a different future, according to the change I effected. But my personal timeline would still include the time I spent in the time before I changed it. Therefore I've not changed my own past. Only my own future.
My point being that while time travel will never be a thing we see, the causality issue is just a lack of imagination problem :P