A well-made and safely launched firework has a way lower chance of returning to earth than a 7.62 bullet.

But you couldn’t release your own projects based on this under pure MIT or Apache-2.0. Presumably you’d need to include the same restriction about selling on Atlassian’s marketplace.

Split meaning equal shares, or split as in each person pays for what they ordered?

Canadian checking in.

Biggest oddity to me is that the default for restaurants is one bill, and waiters get annoyed if you ask them to split it by person.

Like why would I want to either:

• do math correctly splitting the bill while trying to leave; or
• be worried I ordered something more expensive than the average and unfairly make others cover it?

It’s complete insanity to me.

I run Gentoo as my main distro, and have for a couple years now. It’s a pretty stable rolling release (IMO more stable than Arch), and since you’re already an advanced user, the experience should be pretty rewarding!

The wiki is great, and the installation handbook is top notch.

You get to control exactly what features each package is compiled with, so no bloat at all.

KDE 6 just landed too!

Bah, real power users only need a magnet and a pin.

Linux is whatever the Linux Mark Institute says it is.

The risk of mis-ordering your layers is a security issue.

There are two ways to layer a VPN and tor:

1. Tor over VPN; or
2. VPN over Tor.

In the first option, you gain little. Tor already encrypts your traffic, so your ISP can’t see inside them. Technically, Tor over a VPN hides the fact that you’re using Tor from your ISP, but Tor’s snowflake does something similar if you need that.

In the second option, you’re revealing your VPN account information, which could theoretically be associated back to you. Tor adds nothing over just a VPN in this case.

Don’t mix tor plus VPN.

If you’re using tor browser without tor for some reason, carry on.

dipshit

This requires an Apple iPhone XR or newer, as the face scan utilizes the TrueDepth sensor.

I’d rather take a plaster mold of my face than have to use a specific phone to order a VR headset.

Right? That’s the thing. Car thieves don’t care if the tool is illegal; they’re already planning on stealing a car.

If you make the tool illegal, you’re just making it harder for security experts who do care about the law.

Yes we should allow them, because the problem isn’t that this tool is available. The problem is that cars and other devices aren’t more secure.

If you broke into a bank vault with a screwdriver, you don’t ban screwdrivers; you get mad at the bank.

I’d like Gentoo ebuilds to run in a fully isolated namespace/container with only the dependencies explicitly enabled by portage configuration. Something like a mix of nix but with the ebuild syntax.

You use cards for offline authentication (bars/festivals/etc.), and use a different process for online authentication.

Proving someone has the physical card in their possession (which is what a reader does) isn’t really useful for proving identity when you can’t also check the picture.

Yes, this. Don’t put your whole home directory in git.

If you haven’t already, take a peek at Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. It’s fanfiction, but absolutely worth a read.

Pine and BeagleBoard have some decent options, but they’ll always be more expensive than rpi because of the economy of scale.

Let me preface this by saying that I am 100% pro-choice, and that I agree with the spirit of your comment, but…

This argument doesn’t work. It’s like saying “if you believe in the value of human life, don’t go on a murder spree.”

These people legitimately believe that aborting a fetus is just as wrong as killing a child/adult, and that it is their moral duty to prevent all types of murder.