Why does this map label the US as “North America” in the first version?

That’s a really weird error.

I would not be surprised if Google deliberately introduces slowdowns to some ad blocker users.

Yeah. Spice/synthetic full cannabinoid receptor agonists are honestly terrifying and have such dramatically different effects from legit cannabis.

It’s not as if you really posed an argument. You just vaguely gestured to over a hundred years as if that tells us anything at all.

Feel free to elaborate on more specific points.

This is a great write up. Thank you for writing it.

Windows 3.1 was very usable and intuitive.

I used to run it in emulation on an iPad.

Those 60s classic cars, though iconic, relied on a very different planned lifespan compared to modern cars. It was much shorter than the cars of today.

A better analogy for Debian would probably be an older Honda Civic model. It’s older and lacks many flashy or hyper-modern features, but it’s reliable, maintainable, and actively supported.

Even if it were leaked, it would still likely be very difficult to prove that any one component was machine generated from a system trained on publicly accessible code.

Apple did add a new feature to iCloud called Advanced Data Protection, which enables E2E encryption on iCloud contents, which includes message and device backups.

After enabling this, it is likely prudent to regenerate FileVault keys. It’s also notable that for the initial setup of macOS, it does offer you to forego uploading the recovery key to iCloud, but selecting this option presents a warning stating that Apple will be unable to help you retrieve your data if you lose it. Thus, I am certain most Mac users just upload them to iCloud, which opens them up to exactly the same issue as in the article, but does help protect against thieves or adversaries with brief device access.

I have tried to convince Apple users I know to enable ADP, but I have been faced with the expected dismissal of it being unnecessary because they are not interesting, etc.

More people need to engage in a culture of security and privacy when it comes to their digital lives.

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The initial setup of macOS offers disk encryption by default, but also prompts the user to upload the FileVault recovery keys to iCloud. It’s more transparent than Windows, which, if I recall correctly, just silently encrypts the disk and uploads the key to Microsoft servers.

iCloud’s Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature, which enables E2E encryption, does protect these recovery keys, but I would worry about them being copied elsewhere or retained in unprotected backups after ADP is enabled.

One would probably want to regenerate the FileVault encryption keys after enabling ADP and potentially fully disable uploading the recovery keys to iCloud.

Similarly, it is possible to disable uploading of the BitLocker decryption key in Windows with the Pro and Enterprise versions.

Personally, I doubt most users would use disk encryption if they had to keep track of the disk recovery keys on their own, so this provides meaningful protection against exfiltration of sensitive information if an adversary were to have brief physical access to the device or were to steal it, but it does no good at all for protecting against Microsoft, someone with deep access to Microsoft’s systems, or legal requests to Microsoft.

The same goes for Apple users who don’t have ADP enabled for their iCloud accounts or who have enabled ADP without later regenerating their FileVault keys. (I don’t think one can be reasonably sure that there will be no traces of the cleartext FileVault recovery key on Apple’s servers after ADP is enabled for iCloud.)

Ultimately, so many users should better engage a culture of privacy and security, think seriously about their threat models, and think about what would happen if one where to get access to their sensitive information.

Also, the approval rating for Trump’s proposed invasion of Greenland is remarkably low.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/5688403-trump-greenland-acquisition-survey/ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/just-one-five-americans-support-trumps-efforts-acquire-greenland-reutersipsos-2026-01-14/ https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/15/politics/greenland-cnn-poll

Anyone with a brain could have anticipated the immense harm of a second Trump presidency, but I doubt people would have thought that such brazen plans to war with our allies would have been his trajectory.

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I’m pretty sure that cheese is from Italy.

Edit: it’s apparently also from parts of France.

It’s as Jesus said: “Do unto others as you suspect them of potentially doing unto you.”

I suspect it’s an OCR error.

yt-dlp works with Reddit. There’s also cobalt, which is a web-based, general purpose media download tool. There are multiple instances of it that people host themselves too.

Macintosh Garden has various OS install images among a bunch of other software. There are also preconfigured installations of Mac OS 9 for Windows and macOS in Sheepshaver with integration with the host system.

QEMU is also an option for running Mac OS 9. It can run the final release of Classic Mac OS (9.2.2), unlike Sheepshaver. It has overall better software compatibility. Preinstalled versions for QEMU can be found on The Internet Archive. File transfer in and out of the emulated system is a bit more involved than with ShespShaver, though.

If you just want to play around with these systems briefly and won’t necessarily be using them on a regular basis, Infinite Mac is a really cool project to emulate them right from your browser.

The limited daylight hours really is the worst part of it for me. It consistently takes a pretty notable hit to my mood.

Boys are racist towards a black guy and in turn get drowned in a barrel filled with black ink. Gute Nacht.

I remember it as him having to be black like the kids that he mocked as his punishment. (Essentially, “think about how you would feel being as black as them.”)

He was also dunked into the inkwell by a giant St. Nicholas, of course.

That’s the result of polkit (policy kit) authentication agents. These are typically DE-specific for their GUIs.

pkexec is comparable to sudo and can be used from the terminal to get the graphical prompt for elevated commands.

It doesn’t even do that. All it does is prevent persistent data from being stored from the browsing session (so, no disk cache or browsing history).