[-] TheLight@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 months ago

CF's captcha works by activating obscure browser features banking that bots haven't implemented them or behave just differently enough to stick out as unusual. Try creating a new profile with default settings, and if that works try adding your customizations back one by one until you find the one breaking CF.

[-] TheLight@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 months ago

It's also worth noting that people with undisclosed skeletons in their closet are blackmailable. So even if they represented your interests in the past that all ends once someone puts them on a leash. This is why even if you make no moral judgements there are pragmatic reasons to not have such people in office.

[-] TheLight@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 months ago

It's also worth noting it was always supposed to land with the solar panels on its side, the issue is that they ended up pointing west (in the shade, not producing power) instead of to the east (towards the sun).

The fact that it still handled the asymmetrical thrust after the nozzle broke off one of its two engines to make it down in one piece, and only the orientation happened to be wrong, is still a great achievement.

If the hardware survives the chill (heaters not running from lack of power) it might still resume its mission when the sun changes position in the sky and the panels start getting light.

[-] TheLight@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 6 months ago

Yup. Serve the body of Christ? Straight to jail. Your sermon is so boring someone dozes off, believe it or not, jail.

Of course, this doesn't really happen, through the magic of selective enforcement the only people getting the boot are those preventing the homeless from freezing to death, ruining the plans of the local administration.

[-] TheLight@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 months ago

On the plus side, it will be hilarious for said teabagger fanbois to know that they indirectly funded NYT.

[-] TheLight@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago

Motorola makes phones with two day batteries (5000 mAh standard, some going up to 6000 mAh) and their market share is growing, recently reaching third place in the US behind Apple and Samsung. And it's all in the standard size, forget being 8-10mm thicker, they're 8-10mm total.

[-] TheLight@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 10 months ago

Phenylephrine has been proven to not work when ingested orally (nasal spray delivery was not part of the study).

So Paracetamol is not only cheaper, it's the exact same therapeutic effect.

[-] TheLight@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

This might be the point, offering an opt-out no one will reasonably use while complying with regulations and still tracking most users, same as before.

[-] TheLight@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

Google RCS and RCS the standard are not the same thing. Third party apps are not allowed to plug into Google RCS. This is why you won't find any RCS open source alternative for Google Messages.

Google is just trying to promote their own walled garden under the guise of an open standard. If they were genuine about this they should allow you to just use any replacement, just like you can replace the stock SMS app on Android.

[-] TheLight@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

As far as I know Google doesn't allow third party apps to plug into RCS.

This is why them bashing Apple for this particular issue always seemed hypocritical to me, they want this to be their own closed ecosystem, with Apple being the exception because they have enough clout to actually go it alone or even take users away from Android.

Ideally you'd have apps like Signal plugging into the same end-to-end encryption for interoperability, but Google won't allow that because they just want people to use Google Messages for RCS, and nothing else.

[-] TheLight@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

What they're asking for is a public portfolio.

Obviously, you can't give them code that legally belongs to a past employer and they're not allowed to look to avoid accusations of copyright infringement.

Especially if they do any reverse-engineering for interoperability, there must be zero suspicion that they were inspired by code they're not allowed to use.

This is where open source contributions under permissive licenses come in.

Something shown to work in a real project is also viewed better than out of context code snippets.

When you're essentially saying you have nothing to show them, you're indistinguishable from someone who actually has nothing and is lying about their skills, so the onus is on the interviewers to vet you, which for various reasons may not be possible, so they'd rather just move on to someone with a clearly proven track record.

[-] TheLight@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago

And before anyone says this sounds like a baseless conspiracy theory, remember that the big tech companies got fined a few years ago for having an agreement not poach each other's employees to keep wages down. They do talk to each other, and for things that matter.

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