TheLight

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[–] TheLight@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's only cheap if you don't consider how long it will survive and the replacement/repair cost. A slab phone with no moving parts will last much longer than a foldable making the $/year cost much lower.

[–] TheLight@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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 9 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 9 months ago (5 children)

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 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's the IE effect in more ways than one. Apple makes money from apps, and by having a monopoly on which app store you can use. Therefore it's in their interest to nerf the browser as much as they can get away with it, and why they force third party browsers to use the Safari rendering engine under the hood.

[–] TheLight@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 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 10 months ago (2 children)

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 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do the stores not have free WiFi? I've never been in a Walmart, but all bigger stores here in Europe have WiFi.

[–] TheLight@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is the store policy making the experience suck.

Random checks at Kaufland (European supermarket chain) only require the employee to visually inspect your cart to see if you scanned everything and they only need to rescan like four items, to verify the employee actually took the time to check instead of just waving you through, so it's all very fast.

Also, all employees can clear restricted items, so that's fast too. My only gripe is that alcohol-free beer also triggers the age verification, but that's a minor issue.

I love the hand scanners since thanks to them wonky scales and weight limits are a thing of the past. They really make checkout faster, as long as the store isn't using them in a boneheaded way.

[–] TheLight@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year 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.

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