Such a party really deserves a .org site

“Security hardened” for some might specifically mean “no JS” which will tend to break web pages that rely on async content loading and rendering.

I’ve seen that scenario play out multiple times now.

In every case management’s paranoia was a result of their inability to comprehend employee departure as anything short of personal betrayal and thus, drama ensued. Cringe-o-rama

Oh you mean the two-syllable thing. That was more for the joke lol

I think it works as a rule of thumb: if message is simple enough that context makes it obvious, two blinks will suffice. But no, it wouldn’t be useful as an actual lexical cypher.

LOL. Doesn’t that mean it’s completely ambiguous?

Well granted, it’s high-context communication. But I’m willing to bet you’d know what I meant if you were trying to merge and I double-tapped lights.

Three would make me wonder if it’s an ongoing flashing light.

Yeah IME three is less general, usually reserved for a problem or need for caution, like if someone is driving at night with all their lights out or a visible chassis/drivetrain issue, or there’s a cop/wreck ahead.

I’d certainly interpret it that way if it fit.

The only issue I’d see with that convention is that in many scenarios in which you’d use it — other driver makes room for you to merge, brakes early to let you turn left, and so forth — you (should) already have half of the hazard lights actively repeating, which could muddle the message. But otherwise I like it.

Another random convention I learned early on was rapid triple-tap beams (i.e., like a strobe) = “speed trap ahead”

Rock on. Were there any instances of local parlance you found peculiar or surprising?

(Edit: real answer) For most acknowledgements, I double-tap a light — beams, brakes, or hazards depending on current lighting conditions and relative position of other driver — because most things I would say to them are two beats long:

• “Thank you”
• ”Sorry”
• “My bad”
• ”Go on”
• ”Nice drift”
• ”You drunk?”

Every example of human interest profile targeting functionality that humanity has ever invented, even if it begins as a way of legitimately improving the user’s experience, eventually is gutted and retooled to cyberstalk and pimp them out to voyeuristic clients.

The clients? Mostly rich pay-per-view incel corporations that could never hope to reach their desired audience organically, much less hold their interest, so they are absolutely willing to pay for non-consentual attention control.

Once we reach this phase, your pimp has less and less interest in delivering on promises they made to you a long time ago about relevant content. They know you’ll keep giving them juicy data to help pair you with clients that they can prove have the best chance at manipulating you and getting what they want from you.

So yes, you’ll probably find that the convenience you could once purchase by giving them more of your data will slow. Ultimately, all it will purchase is more intrusive advertisers stalking you everywhere you go.

Your idea of sticking to DDG sounds like a better option

In that case my guess is wrong, or at least off, because that sounds like an orphaned component, or perhaps a logic misfire corrupting the state with the effect of partially activating a notification tray or something of the sort.

In the worst case, it could be a viewport dim calculation bug that has nothing to do with Voyager. IME those can persist for a long time, forcing developers to work around it.

If the behavior can be reproduced in a browser, you could use the built in devtools to narrow it down quickly.

I suspect it’s the container for the comment textarea getting left behind after submission, where the vertical misalignment is the top+bottom padding of the container, because Android uses a different rendering engine for PWAs which follows slightly different rules in its box model, especially WRT flexbox.

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I’ve always used wooden toothpicks because

1. Common
2. Made from cheap soft wood: more likely to deform or destruct against metal than most plastics
3. Cut with the grain: especially soft to anything raking against the sides (like delicate pins)
4. The uneven “splintery” sides happen to be pretty good at snagging tiny fibers of lint to pull them out as one big ball, requiring fewer swipes

More techniques:

• clean with port facing straight down to get gravity assist
• blow across the opening of the port: mild negative pressure + agitation inside cavity vs blowing directly into port (which is generally warned against explicitly)
• focus on “pinning” lint up against each of the two corners and holding gentle pressure during extraction: these corners of the port have no exposed pins, and happen to be where lint tends to accumulate anyway

UV cure gel polish FTW!

If it’s been a while, check out the cool new magnetic (ferrous) polish.

Also, cheap fun hack: save money by just mixing mica powders into base polish colors. Endless varieties of iridescent colors, dimensional effects, etc.

Lol yeah hmm, not countersunk, //shrug maybe strong arm, new to firs, happens

“Naughty corporations” made me chuckle, but “I don’t know what the solution is” definitely rang true.

Most boomers actually don’t know where to begin, even though many of the solutions would be a 6-year-old’s first guess, and are actually proven to work, simply because they grew up being told that every single one of those obvious, proven solutions were “socialist” and that socialism was anti-American.

That indoctrination was so thorough that these solutions can be put right in front of them, gift-wrapped, with a neon arrow pointing at an easy button labeled “fix that shit,” and they’ll still shrug and say “we’re all out of ideas, maybe ask a billionaire what to do, surely they know how to fix the system.”

And the sad part is that they do and, in fact, already did.

Maybe yeah, I’m just talking about poor folks in rural areas who can’t boycott the only walmart or whatever.

Maybe a better example is Amazon. I have a rough idea how much it costs me to avoid that company and I know it might not be an easy option for someone on tighter margins.

It works, albeit imperfectly. In particular, it’s sometimes a difficult prospect for would-be participants who don’t have the luxury of choice. Also attention/bandwidth can limit participation since no one can sustain an endless game of whack-a-mole. Ultimately, it’s just one of many tools, but it has often been effective.

Common opinion among millennial graduates with ed debt whose careers were thwarted by various recessions.

The more nuanced version is that not everyone’s long term goals will be greatly furthered by higher education. It does have value on its own, and to some extent broadens the outer limits of the perspectives you might achieve in life, but it doesn’t technically teach you anything you can’t teach yourself with a library card. The argument for going into trades instead is a strong one, especially from a financial angle, but also job stability, work-life balance, mental health, etc.

All the same, not-for-profit higher ed generally offers far too much good for an individual to discount outright as a scam. For many, it’s life changing, the time curtains are thrown open on their world, or a light shone on their place in it, etc.

It just shouldn’t be considered the only viable path as perhaps it once was.