That sucks. From the article it looks like they are at least writing the firmware, but it’s hard to tell.

I’m curious because I just ordered a couple of C210s to tinker with.

Is that true for TP-link? I always thought they were an OEM.

Block. If it was a close friend I might give different advice, but this is a stranger on the internet being annoying (or worse). Responding to him will only make it worse. Block and move on. Note: you (both) might still think about it later and you might feel a pang of guilt, or shame, or worry, or whatever. You shouldn’t, because you’re doing nothing wrong, but that’s fine if you do. It happens to everyone. You’ll think about it less and less over time.

Also, I would give the same advice to someone who isn’t a minor, and you’re right to question his actions. He shouldn’t be asking/nagging for free work. No means no and is absolutely the right answer.

If he knows your girlfriend is a minor, that just moves this to another level and she shouldn’t even hesitate to block him. If he gets around the block report him right away.

Regulators were less friendly back then

They can do a lot of that now with Recall even if you use Chrome.

They also want you to use their browser because they want to direct you to bing/copilot and get ad revenue from all of your clicks.

They wanted to do that with internet explorer but regulators weren’t monopoly-friendly back then.

Isn’t that button in the toolbar at the bottom? How would you get back to the feed if you went to your inbox?

Learn Mandarin, Spanish, and maybe Hindi, if you’re planning for the future.

Is this some Lemmy drama shit I don’t know about?

Sounds like a classic chicken and egg problem. Or circular reasoning.

Sometimes you see almost that when css hasn’t loaded. Maybe you can turn off css in browser settings, site settings, or dev tools in the browser.

No problem!

I’m not sure what you mean but there are a couple of options including “Show collapsed comment” in the settings. Have you tried changing that?

Okay yeah. I don’t think I use that as often or that it would catch me the same way.

Having this on by default with a “never ask again” option (which can then be turned back on in settings) would be ideal.

This gets me all the time. And to be clear, it’s not just swipe to go back, it’s the back button as well.

Look I’m sorry, i wasn’t meaning to upset you with my original comment. But I also wasn’t the only person to call out the inaccuracies.

Oh I didn’t realize you had the dates of firework and firearm inventions memorized, I figured you had been looking something up.

In any case, you can consider my comment directed at anyone else who comes along and thinks that people didn’t use gunpowder for killing people for over a millenia after it was invented, based on reading your post.

10th century starts at 900 CE, so you’re actually talking about 1100 years from 200 BCE.

However, you’re also using a very loose definition of fireworks. They (the Han dynasty) were throwing bamboo tubes into fire to make them go BANG in 200 BCE. Those weren’t even related (most likely) to the invention of gunpowder. The best theories suggest alchemist were looking for the elixir of life when they stumbled on something pretty flammable.

Gunpowder in a reasonably effective form wasn’t invented until about 800 CE (9th century) by the Tang dynasty. That was refined for the next 100 years to be more effective and around 900CE they got close to what we have today. They (the Song dynasty) used it pretty much immediately to make weapons (fire arrows).

Fuck yeah, I’ll raise a glass of spider-venom-laced-pumpkin-juice to that!

I’m so frustrated that this article, and many other sources - including news programs, are not talking about the lack of alarms in the buildings. I agree that the materials and density were terrible and created a catastrophic situation for the structures, but the lack of alarms to alert residents is absolutely ridiculous and is what made this such a huge tragedy for the people who died.

If the buildings’ alarms aren’t working, then they should be on “fire watch” with 24/7 personnel ready to alert people on every floor where the alarm isn’t working. Does that cost too much? Then fix the fucking alarms as a top priority. This is especially true when there are no automatic sprinklers, which sounds like is often the case in Hong Kong.

There are reports that people were getting calls from their friends and relatives and that’s how they learned about the fire. People were waking up to the smell of smoke without an alarm going off. WTF. That’s so far beyond acceptable, I don’t know what else to say.

I travel a lot and I always bring my own smoke and CO detector with me. This is an example of why.