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No upselling.

Bullshit. Within minutes of registering just to look at some stuff I got spammed with all sorts of bullshit via email. Custom one-off throwaway email alias.

Bush also brought the PATRIOT act to open a lot of authoritarian doors.

What sort of history revisionism are you peddling here? The Patriot act was bipartisan. We have records of the votes. like 75% of dems approved it. And 98-1-1 in the senate… https://www.justice.gov/archive/ll/subs/detailed_vote_2001.htm

Hell if we’re making this partisan, the republicans have a better claim that they’re trying to end it…

In November 2019, the House approved a three-month extension of the Patriot Act which would have expired on December 15, 2019. It was included as part of a bigger stop-gap spending bill aimed at preventing government shutdown which was approved by a vote of 231–192. The vote was mostly along party lines with Democrats voting in favor and Republicans voting against. Republican opposition was largely due to the bill’s failure to include $5 billion for border security.[253]

You using crypto to buy your toilet paper is not a mass scale use case and it is irrelevant.

So then you claim that being able to buy stuff isn’t a “mass scale” use case…

You realize that’s fucking stupid right?

As I said, I can and do buy things regularly (though “rare” comparatively with the normal fiat purchases) with crypto. Other’s can do with me as well as the sites that I do it on do it as well. I can prove that by looking at the block chain and seeing the traffic in their wallets.

So “way to go man!” Unless you actually have something more meaningful than “nuh uh”. You’re kind of full of shit.

Edit: Lack of “big” vendors doing it != not possible at mass scale.

Dell at one point accepted crypto. They stopped because of regulation, not because of technical limitation. And sites like Newegg still accept it.

Over the 15+ years that we’ve had crypto, there have been only two viable uses. All others have failed:

Criminal activity (including brutal stuff like enabling NK/Russia and drug cartels)
Financial speculation (in of itself often a malicious activity where the goal is to dump your worthless bags on a mark)

Huh, Weird… Every use I’ve ever used crypto for doesn’t fall into these two categories. So I guess your assumptions and thus everything you based your logic/responses on must be faulty and incorrect.

I use Crypto much like I use my second language/citizenship. Rarely… However, that doesn’t mean I don’t use it legally. And simply holding onto the crypto != financial speculation. Nobody treats a savings account as “financial speculation”.

I’ve paid for plenty of things from my crypto wallets. Ranging from several to thousands of dollars.

And yes, I would like my payment for toilet paper and bell peppers to be private. Strictly for the fact that I don’t want Mega-corpo stores to be able to track and advertise to me based on my payment method. “Club cards” to advertise/track you are a thing. Large chains can do this same thing with payment methods details. So yes, being “real” here, I not only require it, but demand it.

Your premise is bad. And based on your other responses you don’t care to address it at all.

Transcoding…

Since Plex is distributing software that can re-encode video, the codecs that comes with the software must be licensed for many of the codecs.

Here’s an article that covers some of the shenanigans around h264… Now realize there’s at least a dozen others as well that are likely just as screwy. https://jina-liu.medium.com/settle-your-questions-about-h-264-license-cost-once-and-for-all-hopefully-a058c2149256

pay the license costs for the codecs your using…

granted… none of us care about that. but thats what they’re doing. also developement on the software (for good and bad)

Indeed… And from the eyes of a potential service who’s looking at this feature.

“Ew, a toggle that could potentially save me from liability because they’ll detect shitty passwords when I don’t have the manpower/developer time to implement that check in my server itself! Or pay for access to HIBP/other service for millions of requests a month.”…

This is low hanging fruit… And while I’m not the biggest fan of Cloudflare (I do use it only because it’s the “best option” I have for what I need). This isn’t it… This isn’t what you get mad about. Checking and disabling known compromised passwords is literally best practice… While this isn’t the “best” implementation. It is one that gets us closer to best practice with minimal effort, which means it’s more likely to actually be implemented. High barrier security features are simply ones that will never get implemented. Does this have it’s own risk? Sure… But I’d rather a known risk with a well known company that can be actively sued should they fail, vs “anonymous” who can dox, steal, harass, etc… with virtually no repercussion.

This feels a little too tinfoil-hat for me.

Nah a lot of those services are ripe for abuse… The correct answer is to just use your own… keepass for “offline” on a USB stick type of thing… or host your own vaultwarden.

Because Cloudflare users enable the feature?

It’s literally opt-in.

yes. windows xp was a fully local OS, and when you installed it, you stilled owned your computer. these things are not true of windows 10.

Yes you can? It’s windows 11 that tries to lock you out, and even then you can install it without internet if you know the magic incantation…

But windows 10 will just install with a local account if you don’t give it internet (unplug ethernet and never setup a wifi).

sure, and I could say you’re a chainsaw juggling pedophile lizard person who came from the future to make sure flavored foams don’t have a resurgence in upscale dining at any cost because the consequences, drawn out 200 years, are so much worse than fascism and several possible extinction events. saying shit is easy. doesn’t make it true.

The fuck? Any linux install will eventually become unsupported. That is my claim to counter your nonsense claim of Windows becoming unusable.

Go take your pills.

okay but windows will at some point become unusable.

Why would windows 10 magically become unusable? It’s not like Microsoft is going to send out a firmware brick at the EoL.

You know that you can still install XP today and get online… With minimal work you can actually get online completely on modern sites.

The same could be said for any linux distro.

The choice is hard because many charities already have a hard time maintaining what they have. To move to linux, they’d need people to know linux. Many volunteers that support this stuff simply don’t and are barely power-users themselves. I spend a good chunk of my day interacting with JUST windows users who have no idea how a computer actually works… they just know how to barely operate windows.

You are not getting a 3 dimensional location. That’s why GPS coordinates only exist on 2 planes. You don’t know what you’re talking about.

Proven wrong, as it’s a “2d” map that only exists on a 3d plane. It’s a slice of space that represents the moving target of “ground level”. The point that this is a problem to take it as just a “2d map” is that you can’t take 3 point readings from on top of a 1000 ft cliff and 3 feet away at the bottom of a cliff and expect 3 point measurements to actually give you accurate measurements since it’s just “2d” right? Elevation matters as it needs to be accounted for during the calculations.

So which coordinate accounts for elevation? Latitude or Longitude?

Where elevation = ground. As stated…

Then you assert.

It’s like you’re making my point for me.

Which was in response to a post stating that the watch would need a 4th satellite or “elevation” in order to get a valid GPS value.

And after I further clarified for you how it works… again… and that I was NOT making your point. I assumed you simply didn’t understand the point I was actually making.

My point, exactly

No… It wasn’t your point at all because you asserted that GPS is 3 point triangulation. When it’s 4 point Trilateration which only has the option of 3 point when the fourth value of elevation is already known, which the vast majority of devices that use GPS don’t know.

What have I straw-manned? Can you point to it? What part of GPS needs 4 nodes/data points is vague?

Clearly you didn’t… You keep asserting false statements that have already been disproven with sources.

But ultimately it’s the same thing. You need 4 pieces of input. Either 3 satellites AND elevation. Or 4 satellites.

If a watch doesn’t “know” elevation (barometer or other sensor providing such information) as the fourth data point… Then it NEEDS 4 satellites to make the data points whole. Making your statements yet again wrong. I’ve covered the cases… but you keep pushing false statements like “gps is triangulation” (completely incorrect) or “GPS uses 3 satellites” which is also only correct in one very specific case… Where it’s largely 4 or more, with reality being more like as many satellites as the device can read the pulses for. Often being a dozen or even more…

I am making accurate and complete statements. You are the one peddling misinformation.

Hell to prove the point… my time server grabs GPS as it’s primary source. It grabs up to 12 satellites to sync time. It shows me my sync status for lat/long as well… At 3 satellites it CANNOT get a lock for location OR time. At 4 it gets a weak lock.

Which is why they’d need 4 satellites. Read the whole post. Read the given sources. Stop being stupid.

A watch… or other simple gps device doesn’t know what the elevation is.

Only one of the 2 selected points in a 3 satellite setup will be valid. And your device would have no idea which one is valid without elevation knowledge or a 4th satellite. Some devices can figure it out with just 3 satellites. Many/most won’t. But ultimately it’s the same thing. You need 4 pieces of input. Either 3 satellites AND elevation. Or 4 satellites.

So no. I’ve not made a point “for” you. You’re just ignorant or specifically being obtuse on something you clearly don’t understand.

Deleted your comment because you looked at the last image?

Edit: The images on the site depict the exact thing I’ve been referencing.

1 satellite = whole sphere of options.
2 satellites = a whole circle of options
3 = 2 points
4 = 1 point.

No.

Satellites project a sphere, you need 4 in order to get to a singular point. I’ve outlined each step. Fourth isn’t for clock correction only. And even outlined why sometimes 3 is okay, but that requires additional logic that many gps devices sometimes can’t compute, and even outlined that the vast majority of devices will use way more than 4.

https://gisgeography.com/trilateration-triangulation-gps/
https://www.gps.gov/multimedia/tutorials/trilateration/

Lat/Long is only valid if elevation is valid. You can’t reference a lat/long that is miles into space… or beneath the crust of the earth.

You are not getting a 3 dimensional location. That’s why GPS coordinates only exist on 2 planes. You don’t know what you’re talking about.

Coordinates on a sphere is a 3 dimensional location. The earth isn’t flat.

Edit: Please education yourself before you’re so confident in your own bullshit answer. https://gisgeography.com/trilateration-triangulation-gps/ and https://www.gps.gov/multimedia/tutorials/trilateration/

Satellites broadcast a sphere, not a circle. And that sphere doesn’t land on the earth as a perfect circle for relatively obvious reason… since the ground isn’t perfect flat, nor is the earth perfectly spheroid.