FriendOfDeSoto

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[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you mean off Drive or Photos? Images saved from Drive should be ready to go once unzipped. If they came from Photos each image is divorced from its meta data, which comes in a separate file. So you need to check if the new service or software you're using can reunite those two or you need to find a tool online to do that first. They make it deliberately a pain in the posterior to leave Photos.

I remember the day when the training wheels came off my bike and it was glorious. The feeling of success you can only feel as a child when you have mastered something you think you should do. They didn't come off because they were no longer cool. They were never cool to begin with. And you didn't have much say in the matter anyway.

I am willing to believe that balance bikes to proper bikes is a better learning experience, according to the boffins. That doesn't mean though that anybody who learned on training wheels is inferior. People who learned to ride a bike like that also won the Tour de France.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think if I was caught like this, the last thing I'd want to do is talk to the media about it. Not even under a pseudonym. But this story is probably not here to make Google feel bad and return some of the money. This is a reminder for parents everywhere to review payment and parental settings on anything their kids use online. You can be smug enough to say my 8yo doesn't stream on Twitch or whatever because why tf would you let them anyway. But you're deleting the credit card off of Google Play because you forgot it was there because parenting makes you forgetful at times.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't have an example for you. I see another left hook coming your way unexpectedly and that is from the term "genocide." It's fairly new. It was coined during WW2. And people still argue about the definition. We have killed each other for time immemorial but we didn't have that label that stuck to slap onto the most egregious cases. So anything before the Holocaust is given the label after the fact. And that will have some historians at the ready contesting it. So most genocides are contested not because they don't want to admit a lot of killing was going on. But because they cannot agree on what genocide means.

They hold ten-year trials in The Hague to figure out if a Milosevic or similar asshole is guilty of it. There is wiggle room in the definition. Were enough people killed? Was it targeted enough? And other distasteful questions.

We talk about genocide like it's a fixed term and everybody knows what it means. But it's more in that "I know it when I see it" category and the resulting wiggle room will make any argument you're having harder. You can't get to the slam dunk of your argument when your opponent withdraws from it on this technicality.

Registration is mandatory and registry may be checked on the street if they see you're missing a wheel reflector etc. I'm not sure if that's by local or national ordinance. Japan has a mountain problem, i.e. most of the country consists of them pushing most of the 100-something million people into the two major plains and a handful of other big cities. Where people live in shoe boxes and converge around train busy stations. Where space is doubly at a premium and most cities have no parking zones for bicycles on the streets. If they didn't force people into paid parking arrangements, the streets or more specifically the often conically narrow sidewalks would become impassable with bicycles. I've seen bicycle "tow trucks" in action in Tokyo. It's just a big open truck with an outfit of lock pickers/cutters that impound illegally parked bicycles. The registry helps reunite owners with their bikes and a nice fine. Theft is less of a problem here and depending on the area you'll see bikes that are locked but not locked to anything immovable and people leaving helmets or other items in the basket because chances are nobody will take it.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 19 points 2 days ago (3 children)

You may need to doxx yourself a little bit to get a good answer.

I live in Japan where bicycles are registered with the police. So you could take the registration number to the police.

The frames normally have stenciled ID numbers on it and that is important information for the police in Europe, where I had four bicycles stolen when I lived there. So you could ask for the number and go to the police first.

Generally, if I had the inkling of a suspicion that this bike was stolen I'd back off the sale.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If the dual passport holder is lucid and able to make decisions, they can choose which country's evacuation effort they will take advantage of. Neither country is in any position to deny this, even if having the other nationality is in violation of the law in the first one. Rescue first, prosecute later.

If the person is unable to make decisions for themselves, there are a number of situations that are possible. Maybe the first consular staff on the scene takes charge; nobody looks for a second passport of a person they don't know when they located the first. If for whatever reason both consular outfits are involved, they figure out who will be in charge. Probably the one where the unconscious patient has spent the most time in living most recently. A lot of that will have to do with how well the countries get along.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 58 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I remember meeting some masquerading Americans during the Iraq war. These were backpackers in SE Asia.

You only show your passport at the border or maybe when you get a car or a hotel room. That leaves a lot of time to pretend being Canadian everywhere else.

That being said, I just saw a comedy bit where this was recommended to Americans. I think it's more meme than happening IRL today.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 21 points 6 days ago (6 children)

They are a bit vague on this but I suspect all of these attack vectors start with LEOs having physical access to the unlocked phone. They then set up a trusted desktop without the phone owners knowing.

Which is clever, to be fair. Whether or not that's legal is already a court case. The law is so frightfully grey.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't remember lines in front of stores. I would split the decade roughly into two halves. The first half was one person buying a game that came on 15 floppy disks and a million people of friends and friends of friends and their friends would copy it. The second half was more about CD-ROMs but we figured out how to copy those two. In the background Nintendo was picking up steam and then PS. But for my money console gaming was still a bit of a niche business in the first half for sure. The geeks were excited but it wasn't a mass phenomenon.

People stood in line to buy Windows 95 though. Imagine that. People stood in line waiting to give their money voluntarily to Microsoft. I'm sure there were scalpers there as well. In my memory that was more impactful than any game release.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's not used in the sense that somebody slept in it. But the packaging seal has been broken because it's a returned item. The risk of lice is manageable.

 

... and then you have to go back and do it again. Mildly infuriating a-hole design on the LINE messaging app (popular in Japan).

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