Opening and searching people’s mail was very illegal up until the last decade or so. Now there seems to be a big push to let the RCMP do whatever they want.

Are you blocking Cloudflare at an IP level? Or just when they do that “Are you human?” thing? So much of the Internet goes through Cloudflare for DDoS protection, and blocking AI bots, I’m surprised there’s anything left.

My solution is take a screenshot and then open the file in a separate QR reader app that can open files.

Could that be due to a failing SD card or flash memory? The uncompressed data might be getting corrupted too, it just wouldn’t return you an error depending on the file type (text documents for example would never error, they would just end up with garbled text).

Based on your other comments, if you’re using an old 128mb SD card, this seems kind of likely. I’ve had many SD cards and USB sticks go bad after files have been copied on and off of them too many times.

Damn, where did you even find such a small drive? The last time I used such a small device was the USB stick I brought to highschool in 2009. Even the free giveaway USB drives I have are at least 2GB. You probably have more RAM than storage?

Only if the store you’re paying at has Internet.

They’re probably fine for lug bolts at least, the studs are big enough an extra 10-20 ft-lbs would still be in a safe range. If they haven’t broken a stud in 25 years, it’s probably never going to happen.

In some applications it’s required, but not usually with lug nuts. The main one I can think of is Honda crankshaft bolts say to put oil on the washer and bolthead surface before torquing, and the torque spec is adjusted accordingly (still 181 ft-lbs tho!).

The most I ever do for lug nuts is just wire brush off any rust so the surface is clean, and re-torque after about 100 miles (I check them occasionally after spirited driving too, since hot brakes and things cause thermal expansion that can loosen things up on newly installed wheels). I don’t drive somewhere with salt, otherwise I’d maybe try using anti-seize like I saw someone else mention.

Signal gets me all the privacy I need. I don’t care if they know my phone number uses Signal, I don’t use it as anonymous chat, I use it with friends and family.
As others in this post have said, Signal handles privacy perfectly fine, it does not provide anonymity.

Unlike several other users here, I actually view Signal’s contact discoverability as a feature, not a security flaw. All it means is if someone I know installs Signal, they can easily send me a message without a complicated back and forth through some other medium.

Signal is actually good, still, but there are even better alternatives.

… Would you care to list some of these alternatives and how they are better?

Every alternative I’ve looked at has some major drawbacks that would prevent me from getting any of my friends to move. Having to selfhost my own chat service isn’t really a positive in my mind due to the maintenance required and the higher possibility of outages.

The audits determined they don’t have any user information to provide. You can see this in previous government requests where the only thing provided was a timestamp of last connection to the network.

The government already has access to every phone number in existence. They can already track every phone to figure out who attended a protest or whatever. Filtering down to “all phone numbers who’ve ever connected to Signal” doesn’t exactly narrow anything down. They don’t have any metadata about who you were chatting with.

The critical part is that the electrons moving consumes energy from the incoming light, reducing the heat being generated while current is flowing. A disconnected solar panel will heat up a bit more than a connected one, but the difference in Watts per area is low enough the panel can just dissipate the extra unused heat to the surrounding air without any issues (unless you’re in the desert, maybe it’s possible they could overheat there, but this would likely be an issue even when generating power).

Modern solar panels are only about 20% efficient, so the panel would only heat up an extra 20% if disconnected in direct sun

I’m just not sure. It seems contradictory to me, since the manufacturer of a physical device is also “a person or entity that controls the operating system”. Unless they sell the hardware with no OS installed? This exemption doesn’t seem to mean anything.

With how they’ve defined “App Store”, basically any product that can download applications is affected by this, including devices that don’t even have the concept of a user account. I’m a little unclear still on what’s required of an entirely offline OS.

Is a mobile phone not a “physical device”? An operating system always has to run on physical hardware, so does this just invalidate the entire thing?

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“Office” is completely removed from https://www.office.com/ The only place “Office” can still be found is in the urls. It’s called “Microsoft 365” now.

Edit: My mistake, “Office Home 2024” is still a thing you can buy apparently, but it’s not the full package and isn’t being updated. I’m pretty sure Libreoffice is a full replacement for “Office Home”

The sort of information they could gather from a site like this would be a list of license plates that somebody is worried about being tracked. I can think of several government organizations who would love that sort of information right now.

It’s a sort of Streisand effect

For data leaks, haveibeenpwned only requires your email, and they send you a notification if it ever shows up. They don’t actually check passwords.

Unfortunately there’s no secondary info linked with a license plate that makes doing this sort of notification private without just downloading the full database locally.

I’ll be honest, I have more concerns about this site potentially logging my license plate than I do of someone having already looked it up.

It’s a little like if haveibeenpwned asked you for your password to check if it’s been leaked.