Do you have evidence for this?

So from what I remember, the chip and the tap use pretty much the same authentication systems under the hood. They’re pretty identical in that way. The pin number and how that’s implemented is kind of a joke, because every card reader has ways to accept a payment from a card without even needing the pin (usually). Still better to use a pin of course, and that’s something the tap supports too.

Like I said before, right now a common threat to chip cards is spoof devices that criminals try to surreptitiously install onto legitimate card readers. Like a hardware keylogger basically. So - and as far as I know, this might not even be true anymore - the one main advantage the tap has over the chip is that it is not susceptible to these spoof reader devices.

No, it’s not. 🙄

The only time I ever hear about this, is when it’s coming from dishonest critics of vegans. Source?

Am also vegan, and there are a fair amount of other vegans who do think we should intervene in wilderness areas and essentially do everything possible to reduce and eliminate every possible type of suffering.

I lean somewhat against it because not only would it be a staggeringly gargantuan project, but ecologically it would be grossly irresponsible. We need to focus on our own issues first, get our own environment in order.

But on the other hand, “nature” has been many things over the course of the planet’s history. Radical transformations do happen. Trying to alleviate wild animal suffering is at least better intentioned than polluting the planet with microplastics and bringing bugs to the brink of extinction without worrying about whatever consequences those are going to have. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

When I was a cashier, there was definitely a subset of people - usually the same people wearing maga hats - who did refuse to use the tap. They believed it was insecure. I looked it up, it’s slightly more secure than the chip (if only because contactless systems are not yet susceptible to counterfeit card reader attachments).

It was pretty annoying too, because I was frequently stationed at a register that had a broken chip reader. Some people would get frustrated very quickly and, like, start rage-jamming the card into the machine repeatedly. It’s kind of scary how many people go from 0-60 unhinged at checkout.

After learning about the security aspect, and because of that broken reader, I made it a point to educate everyone I could about the tap. A lot of people aren’t even aware their card can do that stuff.

I did the same thing with my last phone, and this whole sub-model thing drives me crazy.

I started watching Discovery and Strange New Worlds recently. Honestly while it seems they are at least not so blatantly sexist as they used to be, in other ways, it seems like the newer shows are less political than the old ones. It’s almost like a hybrid between classic Star Trek, and the Star-Wars-in-Star-Trek-Clothing movies that JJ Abrams made.

I like em though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’ll care about ray tracing if it ever gets efficient enough to run at 60+ fps on an entry-level apu.

For me it was pretty good within the first episodes, but I got most hooked somewhere around 50 episodes in. I think it is a little slow to start, until their crew starts to get a decent amount of members.

Almost 600 episodes into One Piece so far. Already worth it.

Use a long series of spaces as your password. At least that way they’ll have to do a double take when they crack the hash.

In a previous relationship I gave my partner a small tour of the terminal application preinstalled in her Macbook. She had no idea it was even a thing in her computer. The list of commands used was ls, cd, and on a whim I was surprized to find Emacs was preinstalled as well. Her parents saw literally everything I did and still told her I hacked her computer. 🙄

It’s not really so much the form factor of the hardware. I think it’s more to do with the increasing complexity of the apps and how they’re designed to hide a lot of what goes on behind the scenes. Think about how the earliest versions of Android didn’t even come with a basic file browser, for example.

It’s the overall push to turn computers into single-use appliances, rather than general purpose devices.

First computer in my family’s home was a shitty Macintosh Performa, pretty sure it was running 7.x. Probably the biggest impact that had was growing up a Marathon child, rather than a Doom one. Hexen on the N64, but otherwise didn’t play Doom til later teen years.

But I also had extensive time on grand parent’s Windows 98 machine. Monkey Island series, The Sims, Final Fantasy VII, bunch of other games.

I’ve had elementary and middle school classes on both Macs and Windows machines, but didn’t gain any real typing skills until I used a Web TV device to access my first MSN chatrooms. Gained more typing speed in one day in chat than an entire quarter of typing classes.

First distro was Ubuntu 10.04. Had an interest in web design at the time, and had spent most of the years prior on a Windows XP desktop, then a Windows 7 one. Was more of an Unreal Tournament kid, again didn’t try Quake 3 Arena until my twenties but I do prefer the latter now.

Every version of Windows after 7 feels weird and unfamiliar to me. I feel like I have to shower on the rare occasions when I do use a W10 telemetry machine. Have never had enough time to become familiar with any version of OS X, and iOS is so unfamiliar to me that I end up ragequitting those devices within minutes of trying to use them.

But they’re really not. The harms and atrocities that come from dairy and eggs are arguably worse than meat itself, and the former industries drive the latter to some extent because it’s not profitable to care for animals for the duration of their natural lifespan.

Vegetarianism is neither ideologically or functionally different than any other form of animal commodification.

Believing that animals should have basic rights, at least some degree of sovereignty; and the dignity to not be systematically confined, in constant abuse and outright torture, forcibly bred, exploited and enslaved in every possible way, to have their byproducts extracted to the detriment of their own health, and finally to be slaughtered on a scale that puts every other human atrocity to shame - is not a fucking purity test, it’s a god damn moral baseline.

You would probably be interested in occult philosophy. Some groups are more organized than others, but they tend more to organize around orthopraxy (same practices/rituals) rather than orthodoxy (same beliefs) which is more typical of conventional religions. This way they can encourage more free exploration, debate, and creativity.

Most of these belief systems are predicated on concepts of reality being made of layers of “planes” with higher beings existing more predominantly on higher planes, and it being a goal to aspire toward those higher planes.

Sounds more like a computer education deficiency problem. I actually think that regardless of which OS a person uses, learning the difference between source code and executables, and getting some practice building software from source is something that should be incorporated into elementary school.

Basic commandline skills too. And I’m not even good at doing things in a terminal.