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this thread is about handguns specifically and they said nothing about other kinds of guns

(and i must say too, as an aussie, i love that we have near 0 gun deaths! it can’t possible be our near total gun ban though… must be something else)

you’re hunting with a handgun?

plus one of the main issues with desalination plants for fresh water is… getting rid of the sodium

exactly… stealing any iphone is worse than useless - you can’t use it, and it will track you (both via gps reporting via internet and via the find my network)

that’s about phones in general… they mention iphone once, and that’s about the 1 phone that led to them catching the criminals (which i’d say is a check in the box of “stealing iphones is useless”)

iphones in apple stores as display models are not standard iphones: they lock down and turn themselves into only a tracker the instant they leave the apple store

and it’s basically useless to steal an iphone in most cases anyway, because an iphone gets registered to an apple account, and if a phone is already registered you just can’t use it

even parting it out the huge majority of parts - especially anything even a little bit expensive - has essentially DRM on it that talks to iOS… when you add a genuine apple part to an iphone, iOS checks to see if it’s already been registered to another phone and just won’t proceed with stolen parts

the best you could do is use it or the parts as a prop in some secondary scam

motherr might agree that apple weather is more usable too… however, “accurate” was the assertion being corrected and usable had nothing to do with it

We? Who is we?

we as in, according to usage data, the large majority of australian internet users

but that’s a compromise… it’s not categorically better

you can’t run a bank like you run distributed instances, for example

services have different uptime requirements… this is perhaps the first time i’ve ever heard of signal having downtime, and the second time ever that i can remember there’s been a global AWS incident like this

and not only that, but lemmy and every service you listed aren’t even close to the scale of their centralised counterparts. we just aren’t there with the knowledge for how to build these services to simply say that centralised services are always worse, less reliable, etc. twitter is the usual example of this. it seems really easy, and arguably you can build a microblogging service in about 30min, but to scale it to the size that it handles is incredibly difficult and involves a lot of computer science (not just software engineering)

i’d say that’s mostly reasonable… not to say you can’t mess around in the guts of python, but you can mess around a lot more in c

the flip side of this is that python has a lot more guard rails: it’s simply impossible to write entire classes of sometimes very dangerous and subtle bugs in python code, while in c… go for it! that’s valid operations that you may have decided to do for performance reasons (also a reasonable argument, but if you know you’re not doing this fuckery then maybe it’s better to just let software not let you do them by accident or on purpose)

right? like if white space weren’t required, how would you format your code differently? arbitrary white space all over the place? no indentation? that is some spicy garbage code

that’s pretty disingenuous though… individual lemmy instances go down or have issues regularly… they’re different, but not necessarily worse in the case of stability… robustness of the system as a whole there’s perhaps an argument in favour of distributed, but the system as a whole isn’t a particularly helpful argument when you’re trying to access your specific account

centralised services are just inherently more stable for the same type of workload because they tend to be less complex, less networking interconnectedness to cause issues, and you can focus a lot more energy building out automation and recovery than spending energy repeatedly building the same things… that energy is distributed, but again it’s still human effort: centralised systems are likely to be more stable because they’ve had significantly more work put into stability, detection, and recovery

to really hammer home this “many ways to hide”: the PDF is kinda just like a container… it contains other things like images (the patterns for example)… these patterns are probably vector graphics (made up of lines rather than pixels)… this means you can magnify them basically infinitely… and they can contain transparent lines and all sorts of things. they could easily embed that same text in the SVG image, at tiny scale (less than a pixel at 100% scale), and make it transparent… no PDF editor is going to touch the image data: it simply doesn’t really understand it to that degree - it’s an image; not a PDF after all… so that information will remain even after you’ve removed all visible/reasonable marks

this is just 1 example of practically infinite places it could be - and remember, this text is just lines in an image! it’s not like you can ctrl+f for the text necessarily… you’d have to go through every image manually and inspect every single line, and even then there are no guarantees (perhaps they encoded that information like morse code in bumps in some lines that are only barely visible at 1000% magnification)

no matter where you host, outages are going to happen… AWS really doesn’t have many… it’s just that it’s so big that everyone notices - it causes internet-wide issues

i mean 7 didn’t think it was great post-de-borging

local storage isolation is the less interesting part, because that’s achieved much more cleanly with containers… profiles allow a kinda separate instance of your browser with different browser settings, addons, addon configuration, bookmarks, etc

totally; and i think that’s very fair for the large majority of use-cases… most people don’t need different browser settings: they just need different local storage

containers are for general browsing; profiles are for the whole browser

profiles allow you to have different addons installed, different configurations between addons in different profiles, different browser settings (eg a SOCKS proxy for work profile, or a different default search engine, default fonts, etc… or for technical users you can have a profile with experimental settings turned on)

also different addons, and different configuration for addons etc

profiles also allow different addons and addon configurations, default fonts, browser config, etc… it’s kinda like having a whole other user account or a whole other copy of the browser, rather than just cookie and storage isolation

have you tried drying it? filament gets wet when exposed to humid air for a while, and one of the noticeable effects is brittleness

if you’re going to store any filament, an air-tight container (cheapest is a vacuum bag) with some desiccant