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  • The good thing is that if you can detect an effect from a medication and determine its mechanism, there's the possibility you may be able to synthesise something with a stronger effect and more manageable side effects.

  • Yes and No? Also X.

  • I watched his Hit and Run remake videos from the beginning, and it's not really about the end product - he made it clear from the beginning that that project was never going to be released.

    Mostly, it seems to be about selling his "learn how to make Unreal games" courses and Unreal plugins.

    The videos were fun in their own right, to be honest.

  • Absolutely.

    "It's just my opinion" isn't a valid defence when you should have kept that opinion to yourself.

    "Your baby is ugly" might even be true, but it's not something you actually say to people.

  • I get that now, I thought you were just being snarky the first time I read it!

  • I recognise that security through obscurity isn't something you can rely on, so don't consider my own practices to be secrets and am willing to share them to help others.

    I use strong unique passwords stored in a KeePass database, and MFA whenever it's available. I also have a VPN specifically so that I can use public Wifi when I have to (or wish to do something more private on the internet, such as downloading Linux ISOs).

    I also have a vanity domain that redirects all mail to a central mailbox, so whenever I sign up for something I can easily use a unique address. This allows me to block specific addresses that produce spam and see where the spammers got that address.

  • Oh yeah, the man's a lunatic. Still, the idea is that the rebuild, in itself, should be profitable - and then there's the YouTube money.

    He'll be making hundreds of thousands just off the traffic this project is bringing to his channel.

  • Isn't the goal with these rebuild channels to actually try to make money on their rebuilds?

    Sure, Tavarish may have spent 600k on the car and 500k in parts by the end, but he should send up with an asset worth 1.5m.

  • Nope. There's a reason they go after video games that use the red cross symbol for health packs, that dilutes the meaning of what the red cross stands for.

  • I think Apple users typically fall into one of a few different categories:

    1. "I'm a creative/visionary"
    2. "I don't really understand computers"
    3. "I need a native Unix command line"
  • Thanks for the link, but I already provided links to all three patents (confusingly, with the same names) that they were making claims on in my reply.

    The thing about patents is that they are regularly granted for blindingly obvious processes that should never be patentable. It's not just companies like Google that get screwed by this, it's individual developers, FOSS projects... All sorts.

    The patent system is fundamentally broken.

  • We all have to make decisions based on our own principles and with our own priorities, based on the information we have.

    If I knew Tim was a murderer, I might not want to support his business. Up until I knew that, I might have enjoyed his products.

    It's not our responsiblity to be all-knowing, but once you do learn something it becomes part of your decision-making calculus.

    Then again, even if Tim's a murderer, his soap might be really good.

  • I know they're all as bad as each other.

    If you're trying to provoke thought, think a little about this statement yourself. This is clearly untrue.

    Just because you can always dig deep enough to find a negative, it doesn't imply any sort of equivalence.

    I've done things I'm not proud of, but I've never committed genocide. Am I as bad as Hitler?

    Now, does that mean that we need to research all of our purchases deeply enough to know every minor cost to humanity and the world associated with that purchase? No, but we can make the best decisions we can with the information we have.

  • This is, again, a false dichotomy. There are also companies from C through to Z that, despite operating within a system that allows or even encourages immoral activity, try to operate in a moral and sustainable way themselves.

    Why not buy online from an individual who grows their own ingredients and makes their own, ethical, net-zero produce? Or go to vendors at your local market?

    Pretending that "they're all as bad as each other" helps absolutely nothing.

  • Ethics aren't a binary. Everything comes in shades of grey, and that means that each person gets to choose what the threshold for them is.

    Competely rejecting that choice because neither option is absolutely good is the road to nihilism.

  • I have a Withings ScanWatch. Almost all of that (except for custom watchfaces, because it uses a physical watchface).

    It also does the heart tracking and ECG stuff, but that matters to me because I have a heart condition that it can help track.

  • This won't do anything to cut any costs.

    This is all about enshittifying the free experience to push those on the edge to finally bite the bullet and start paying.

  • Wow, if they haven't already cleared this with the existing company or lawyers, this is embarrassing.

    Wouldn't you do a quick search as an early step in any branding exercise?