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In America, paying before eating usually means the restaurant expects you to dine and dash. Basically, you’re being treated like a criminal.

You usually only see it in fast food (where the pay before eating is mainly to prioritize efficiency) or in really shitty “we probably shouldn’t have stopped here for food” neighborhoods.

Holy shit I was looking for exactly this about a week ago, to be able to view my partner’s work schedule in the calendar app. Eventually gave up because I couldn’t find it anywhere in the settings for iOS or Google. The first link I found basically went “lol no you can’t do that” so I’m glad you were able to figure it out. Thanks!

That sounds like a problem with project scope, not with agile or waterfall.

The issue is that people read “agile” and assume that means the entire project scope can be quickly changed. You still need a proper scope, even when using agile.

The ring is destroyed like halfway through the last book. Tolkien was really into worldbuilding, and he refused to let the ring be the end of it. He had to ramble for another half a book about the fallout afterwards. Aragon getting crowned king, Frodo getting banished to the Shadow Realm, some more politicking in Rivendell, and I think we hear a little bit about the elves too?

I’m also not a fan of the series, FWIW. I read the books. Gave them a fair chance. And fucking hated every minute of it, because I kept expecting it to get better. Because everyone loses their shit over it, so it has to get good eventually, right? I’m a massive fantasy nerd, but LOTR is just a slog.

He did the same thing with The Hobbit. Smaug dies like three quarters of the way through the book, and he doesn’t even get killed by one of the characters that we’ve been following for the entire fucking book. The main characters just sort of wait for him to leave the lair, then rummage through his pile of gold once he’s gone.

Pretty sure it’s even older than Fark. The photoshop battles there definitely used it, but I think it originated before Fark was even a thing. This is truly The Deep Magic of memes.

This is exactly what happened with Hitler and Napoleon. They were tried and convicted of major crimes, and given a slap on the wrist. They both took the time to raise more support, and came back even stronger.

For what it’s worth, he’s not just culturally Jewish. He’s an actively practicing orthodox Jew. He’s wearing a yarmulka in this photo, and pretty much every photo you’ll see of him.

There’s a big difference between someone who was born Jewish because their mom is Jewish, and someone who is actively practicing. Not that it excuses the Neo-Nazis and antisemites. But he’s not just culturally Jewish.

One of the biggest issues I encountered with mine was simply needing space. Nobody wants to rearrange all the furniture in their living room every time they want to play a video game. It caters almost entirely to people with large houses or spare rooms, where they can dedicate an entire space to VR. Because if you need all the furniture up against the walls to play VR, that doesn’t necessarily work when you also want to use the space as a living room, office, or den. Because the alternative is constantly hitting walls, furniture, ceiling fans, etc…

And that’s a very tight demographic, because (on top of being very expensive) it automatically excludes pretty much anyone who lives in a city or small/mid-sized apartment/townhome.

Ironically, the confederate worship started in the 50’s and 60’s during the civil rights era. It was basically a rebellion against the civil rights movement, and an attempt to intimidate black people back into silence. Like “oh you want to use the same bathroom as us now? Well you can’t stop us from erecting this statue of a confederate general, to constantly remind you where you came from.” So depending on when exactly they came from in the 50’s, the confederate stuff may also be a surprise.

I refuse to be that person.

A while back, I was having issues with my headphone mic. It was getting killed by the manufacturer’s config program. The mic would work until the program launched, then it was dead until I rebooted. Even killing the program with Task Manager wasn’t enough; I had to fully reboot. It was clearly an issue with the program, but the only thing they’d say was “lul try reinstalling.” I found a single lonely forum post with the same issue, and it didn’t have a solution. The issue is that the program also configured some other peripherals, so simply removing it from my startup programs wasn’t an option.

After a lot of troubleshooting, I finally figured out that it was because the program needed admin rights. Why did it need admin rights to use my mic? Who fucking knows. But you can’t run programs as an admin automatically at startup, for security purposes. And even if you could, you’d get the UAC prompt every single time you booted up. It’s a massive pain in the ass.

So instead, I created a .bat file to automatically launch the program with admin rights and skip the UAC, but you can’t run .bat files via startup programs. So I used the scheduler to automatically run it at login instead.

And then I went back to that one lonely forum post, and described the solution in excruciating detail, along with step-by-step screenshots, (but the explanation was enough to do it without the screenshots, in case the screenshots get purged by the image host later!)

My only hope is that it’ll be a beacon in the dark for the next lost and lonely soul who has the issue.

Yup. It’s all about the quarterly profits. Everything else is irrelevant. No CEO wants to prioritize long-term growth or a friendly user experience, because that doesn’t get them the big fat bonus as they’re on their way out the door.

If only the power companies had been repeatedly warned that this would happen, and given millions of dollars of taxpayer money to increase power generation potential.

Oh wait… They were warned of this? And they were given taxpayer money? And they illegally used it for stock buybacks instead? And nothing was ever done to prosecute the illegal spending? Yeah, that sounds about on par for Texas.

Good bot

(Yes, I know that’s not a thing here but I’m feeling nostalgic.)

Yeah, I fully expected him to be on a plane to Russia as Biden was being sworn in, so he could start calling himself President-in-Exile.

This isn’t Microsoft’s fault though?

The US military uses the .mil domain, and Mali uses the .ml domain. People in the military/contractors keep typoing email addresses and sending them to the .ml domain instead of .mil.

The nuclear move would simply be for the military to disallow any emails to the .ml domain, and warn contractors about the issue so they can do the same. It’d block any legitimate emails to a .ml domain, but aside from diplomats there likely isn’t a huge need to email anyone at a .ml domain anyways. Those people who do need to do so could be selectively allowed to email .ml addresses.

That’s what we in the cybersec business call an “oopsie daisy I made a little fucky-wucky”.

For real though, this isn’t a problem yet. The TL;DR is that Mali has a top-level domain “.ml”. Just like “.co.uk” for the UK. And the military uses the domain “.mil”. So lots of emails accidentally get sent to “[Military email]@[Military email server].ml” instead of sending to .mil.

So a bad actor could simply set up an e-mail server with .ml domains that mirror the military’s .mil ones, and start collecting all of those mis-addressed emails.

So why isn’t it an issue yet? Because we had a contract with Mali to manage their domain. They literally signed administrative rights for the .ml domain over. So the US was able to basically set up their own .ml mirrored sites, to capture all of those mis-addressed emails. They have captured thousands throughout the years, because military members keep misaddressing their emails. Supposedly containing all kinds of sensitive data. Everything from medical records to troop movements and equipment inspection reports.

But that contract ends this week, so Mali could 100% start registering their own domains when that contract expires and domain registrations begin expiring.

TL:DR: She was kidnapped by a 29 year old guy. Kidnapper allowed her to bring her Switch. She connected it to the hotel wifi, and one of her friends saw she was online. That friend reported it to the investigators, who were able to get IP location info and track the console down. They surrounded the hotel room and captured the kidnapper on the scene. She was missing for 11 days.

Or simply set rules to disallow any emails sent to a .ml domain. It’s not a perfect solution because legitimate emails could get caught in the filter. But it would prevent the issue of mis-addressed emails.

It cleared amyloid plaques completely from the brain in some participants, who were then taken off the drug.

If true, this is genuinely exciting news. It’s not a complete “you’re cured” solution, but it’s better than anything in the past has been able to accomplish. It’d be more akin to cancer remission, where patients will need to be screened every few months to ensure more plaque isn’t starting. But in the interim, they don’t need to continue actively receiving treatments. Just like how cancer survivors go back for scans even after getting the all-clear, because the chances of the cancer returning some time in the future are extremely high.

That’s what we in the cybersec business call an “oopsie daisy I made a little fucky-wucky”.

For real though, this isn’t a problem yet. The TL;DR is that Mali has a top-level domain “.ml”. Just like “.co.uk” for the UK. And the military uses the domain “.mil”. So lots of emails accidentally get sent to “[Military email]@[Military email server].ml” instead of sending to .mil.

So a bad actor could simply set up an e-mail server with .ml domains that mirror the military’s .mil ones, and start collecting all of those mis-addressed emails.

So why isn’t it an issue yet? Because we had a contract with Mali to manage their domain. They literally signed administrative rights for the .ml domain over. So the US was able to basically set up their own .ml mirrored sites, to capture all of those mis-addressed emails. They have captured thousands throughout the years, because military members keep misaddressing their emails. Supposedly containing all kinds of sensitive data. Everything from medical records to troop movements and equipment inspection reports.

But that contract ends this week, so Mali could 100% start registering their own domains when that contract expires and domain registrations begin expiring.