Tuta and Proton’s political circumstances are very different from Autistici/Inventati’s.

https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/

https://cyberinsider.com/tuta-refutes-allegations-of-it-being-a-front-for-spy-agencies/

Maybe they’re politically-neutral or maybe one or both are sabotaged somehow, but either way, they aren’t explicitly anti-fascist.

3D in the sense of applying 2D scans to the surface of a rectangular prism, or 3D in the sense of handling things like bump-mapped embossing or strangely-shaped boxes?

Or any of several aquatic reptiles (sea turtles, sea snakes, mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, etc.)

I’m clicking this because I don’t believe you and want to listen to the song.

Can you still buy them? They’ve disappeared from Amazon in the last year or so.

LG’s Windows drivers were doing that. LG deserves the blame and can’t be trusted, but ditto for Windows itself.

The fucked up part is that “expertise” is assumed to be exclusively found in the industry being regulated. Bill Gates is a respected industry expert, but RMS is just some dumbfuck nobody because he’s not “in the industry”.

Unconscionable bunk. It’s illegal anyway, just like how you can’t sign a contract to sell yourself into slavery.

If the courts won’t enforce it, vigilantes should.

That just sounds like a good way to destroy index funds.

Go look up “tivoization”. GPLv2 isn’t enough to protect you from this shit.

I mean… logistically it would be more efficient if we all just recycled regardless, and then the polluters paid for the processing.

Logistically it would be more efficient if we went back to having bottle deposits (and expanded it to include other types of containers) so that the packaging would be picked up and reused, not recycled.

Leave it to Sony to come up with new and innovative ways to harass customers.

Very popular this time of year.

My city’s public pools close at the beginning of August for some stupid-ass reason.

Yep. When I say “I use Keepass” what I actually mean is “I use KeepassXC, Macpass, KeepassDX, etc. depending on which OS I’m on at the time” and AFAIK none of those are actually made by the original Keepass developer.

No, he shouldn’t have switched to Bitwarden. Why the fuck do people keep recommending cloud shit instead of Keepass?

I don’t know where this weird trope of thinking Keepass is somehow obsolete or inferior came from, because it isn’t.

The monster happened to be nearby and heard or felt the impact (does the monster have ears? We do not know).

Yes, plesiosaurs have inner ears similar to other aquatic reptiles.

I was thinking more in terms of replying to the comments within threads, rather than the posts themselves. But yeah, I guess you’ve got a point that the number of comments under a post might influence its position in some types of feeds.

Okay, it’s even more confusing than I realized.

I would’ve said that “O-Scale” in the US refers to both the 1:48 rolling stock and the 1.25" track used with it (but that you could also call the track “O gauge” if you want), while “O-Gauge” in the UK refers to both the 1.43.5 rolling stock and the 32 mm track used with it (which happens to be only 0.25 mm different to the US track).

Now that I’ve looked it up, though, apparently there’s a third European standard involving 1:45 stock on a 32 mm track. And of course, there’s 0-27 gauge (which is almost the same as O and mostly compatible with it but not quite), and apparently several other variants. It’s a real mess.

Happily, I think other scales like G, HO, and N don’t have nearly as much of that sort of problem.

Edit: never mind, I just read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_modelling_scales#Scale_standards and it’s a clusterfuck everywhere.

I think the names for the sizes are mostly the same, but different sizes are common in different countries.

Also, IIRC there’s an “O-gauge” and an “O-scale” and they aren’t the same.

In my experience, [proprietary] projects are doing well if their Makefile isn’t so broken that they have to run it twice just to make sure everything actually compiles. And you want them to actually optimize it…?!