MouldyCat

I don't know, but I would have thought that the key task of the OS is to provide an abstraction that allows apps to run on supported hardware. So it takes care of file access and creation, outputing to the screen, interacting with external devices such as keyboards, webcams etc.

If you already have a browser running, you already have some kind of OS taking care of those low level details.

All power to you friend. Nevertheless it's best to be informed, especially when attempting to make a better alternative.

Yes they should, however often they are not allowed to disclose such information. Over the last couple of decades, governments have realised that they can sidestep onerous legal principles such as innocent until proven guilty by requiring financial services companies to enforce KYC rules and the like. These rules were sold to us as a way to prevent the mega rich from dodging tax and organised crime from freely spending and moving their money, but surprise surprise governments have no qualms using them against people who are not so clearly in the wrong.

Cat grass (despite the name lol) is a different thing to catnip (which is the one that gets them spaced out). Cat grass is just a type of regular grass that you can grow indoors for your cat to eat.

Outdoor cats will eat grass to help their digestion, so it's important to have something safe for indoor cats to eat otherwise they will just eat anything green and that could be bad for them.

It's easy enough to grow from seed or you can get it already growing in a pot.

Unfortunately there is a significant security advantage in using Google Pay or Apple Pay which no one has yet mentioned. When you make a payment with chip-and-PIN using your physical card, your real card number is exposed to the merchant. The proprietary wallet services on the other hand use a device-specific token in place of the card number.

In practice, this means that if a retailer is compromised, there’s no usable card data to steal or clone, which removes a large class of fraud that still exists with physical cards.

stop it in physical games as well

I think the connection to physical cards is pretty weak really - the crucial difference being that if you want to get some physical cards, you go out and buy them (or stay in and buy them I guess). You start with nothing except some cash, and you end up with some random cards, which may or may not be valuable.

Loot boxes in F2P games are not like that - you play a free game, have fun and then end up with this "loot box" without having done anything to ask for it. It's just there in your inventory, and it stays there until you fork over some cash and see what's inside.

It's way more of a temptation than physical cards that you won't encounter until you buy them.

yes indeed - I had a go at decompilation a little while ago (wanted to get a mod working on linux) and while it was hella geeky fun, it was very slow and I could tell I didn't really have a hope of achieving my goal. I can really see how an LLM could turbo-charge that process.

there's nothing in this article that makes me think it's LLM generated, no idea what that guy was on about. It's very well written and readable, which I don't think LLM can really achieve, not that I've ever seen anyway. And it wasn't easy but I did manage to find a minor typo - "All my thanks to bmdhacks for keeping me informed through ~~and of~~ every step he took" 😁

I agree with you. I always take sensible steps to minimise my energy consumption, but even at current sky-high electricity prices, some things simply are not worth worrying about. Putting TV in standby is one for instance. When my parents moved house, my dad paid an electrician £200 to have a switched power socket installed by the TV, just so he could easily "turn it off at the wall". Modern TVs use less than 0.5W when in standby, so it would be decades before the savings from this expense made up for the energy costs of manufacturing and installing a new power socket.

I close before systemctl hibernate is my browser. That saves sone wear on the SSD.

I haven't heard of this, curious to know what you're referring to?

For me the advantage of keeping it in sleep is having all the apps open and exactly where I left them. "Session save" type features never keep things quite right - some apps just don't reopen, they're often not on the right workspace etc, not to mention documents and so on have to be saved if you power off.

You can of course use hibernation to get the best of both worlds, at the cost of long start-up times, and so I do often do that, when I'm not expecting to turn back for a while.

Maybe it would need to draw on experiences of moderating chat rooms and forums - these are very often done by volunteers who put a lot of time and energy into it because they believe in it.

There is also the "Web Of Trust" concept, where, given that everyone can prove their identity, people can then vouch for each other.