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  • But that will only happen when the user base falls, so enough people will have had to move on organically, for popular tools like web browsers to give up.

    Firefox didn't end windows 7 support until July of last year. 3 years after eol for 7 and when 7's market share among windows was around 3 percent.

    And just eol'ing Firefox doesn't immediately break it, you will have at least a couple years before the browser becomes functionally useless.

  • Potassium nitrate and sulfur.

    Gunpowder is the easiest part. The casing will be the hardest as you need pretty tight tolerances, but anyone who cares could have 50 trash cans full of cases in a week for a lifetime of reloading.

    And if you don't have cases for reloading, you can always use a case less design, then it's just a matter of sourcing the projectile.

    Of course there is always black powder, ball and cap, etc.

  • Ok I'm pretty sure I understand most of who you are talking about, but can you tell me who the conspiracy theorist was?

    And with the alcoholic I assume you mean Geoff? It's funny, because he ultimately became one of the only few people I actually really wanted to listen to in the last 4ish years, I don't think his sabbatical and ultimate recovery is much of a controversy, more just personal issues that he dealt with. He seemed to be one of the few that really still believed in the company.

    Omg you meant Joel. Wow, I can't believe he had been out for so long I forgot about him.

  • In the modern age, it's getting easier to hard-line your messaging platform though.

    If people are already used to having multiple messaging clients for multiple people, it's less of a jump to add one more.

  • Officer Kevin Dave was driving 74mph (119km/h) on a street with a 25mph (40km/h) speed limit in a police SUV before he hit 23-year-old Jaahnavi Kandula in a crosswalk on 23 January 2023.

    She was in a crosswalk, where drivers are expected to be aware of pedestrians, and the cop was going so fast, that she likely had little to no time to react.

    75mph means that you cover 110 feet per second, that's 10 feet in a literal blink.

    A car approaching at that speed is effectively impossible to judge as a pedestrian.

    Additionally, the cop was only chirping his sirens, making it even harder to place his location and speed and she had the right of way as a pedestrian, so in the 10 seconds or so it takes to cross a crosswalk, the cop car can silently (because again, he was not appropriately using his sirens) come from completely invisible, to being in the crosswalk.

    There is no justification for the cops actions in this scenario, his negligent behavior cost one life and ultimately delayed the care of someone else.

  • The cost of the cable maybe, not the cost of all the ancillary work.

    Most people have or want cameras in places where it won't be particularly easy to run wires, like door frames for door bells, and outside walls with insulation and various utilities in the way.

    Other people live where they can't do it at all (an apartment)

  • I don't love somewhere where people dress up as Scooby Doo villains to break into houses, I live in a place where people go house to house at 1 am and try door handles on cars and garages. A motion light and a camera does more to stop those people than anything else.

    If someone wants to stage an organized heist, then yea, my camera isn't doing shit, but neither are my door locks, or a bolted down safe. At that point it is just an insurance game.

  • I think the most primary thing of all is that, most people don't have the means to run Ethernet cables to places that typical cameras are installed (doorbells and garage floodlights)

    It's a catch 22 though. Ok one hand, every single person in my neighborhood has multiple cameras on their property now and even when I lived in an apartment complex, everyone had a camera at their doorbell, but they all are usually ring or some other subscription based, phone home type.

    Do WiFi cameras present a new attack vector, yea for sure. Is having a WiFi camera that could be disabled better than not having a camera at all (what was the reality 5 years ago), hard to say.

  • Yea android was the same, those huge changes were the result of an emerging tech that we (the population at large) hadn't really figured out yet.

    Smartphones are entering maturity so it makes sense to me that changes become smaller and move slower, any given update pushed out affects a billion people.