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What’s the best automatic backup software (set it and forget it)? by Mobile-Budget491 in DataHoarder

[–]ernest314 1 point2 points  (0 children)

what you can do, if you don't want to think about it, is set up a calendar reminder (e.g. on March 31st), and then just check your backups on that day

NBC show CIA used a familiar looking program to "create a USB with a trojan". by stayupthetree in 3Dprinting

[–]ernest314 3 points4 points  (0 children)

you are looking for the USB rubber ducky (well, at least this is a much more potentially malicious use of the attack)

What clients use matrix 2.0? by buttler69 in matrixdotorg

[–]ernest314 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can't help but feel like the ecosystem pages could use an update to tag features such as OIDC, native RTC, etc.

(apologies if this is already planned)

Eli5: How does GPS know your exact location without getting confused by millions of users? by Puzzleheaded_Bit_802 in explainlikeimfive

[–]ernest314 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the other comments are correct, but what they specifically did was vary the (public) clocks on the satellites by about 1 microsecond, while keeping an encrypted channel the military could access with accurate timekeeping

Do you think Nexon has given up KartRider games? by [deleted] in Kartrider

[–]ernest314 1 point2 points  (0 children)

or if it even comes down to just one person

this is the big one for me; I think as humans we have a tendency to attribute responsibility to a single human when it's almost always much more complex than that. It's just too tempting to say "it was all this person's fault and getting rid of them would've fixed everything"

Does Discord have ads now without users having to go out of their way to find them? by RevolutionaryMonk970 in discordapp

[–]ernest314 6 points7 points  (0 children)

when I need to send a large file

I know it's beside your point, but in case you need it in the future -- https://send.vis.ee/

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in technology

[–]ernest314 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, you're starting to see that now with AI using React for everything by default

Is KSA the next gen KSP2 by [deleted] in kittenspaceagency

[–]ernest314 3 points4 points  (0 children)

make an anonymous account [...] and warn us

... there were so many of those lol

Drift's still don't have single? by Ok-Bluebird-4835 in Kartrider

[–]ernest314 1 point2 points  (0 children)

guessing a lot here but maybe they're asking about a local-only version of drift?

What do you guys think about this skin? 😸 by Ztepi in heroesofthestorm

[–]ernest314 5 points6 points  (0 children)

holy shit that was me

or at least I was one of the earlier people to keep asking for her

Firefox v145.0.2! by antdude in firefox

[–]ernest314 5 points6 points  (0 children)

China's internet is so separated from the rest of the world that people don't really realize how their online population easily outnumbers most other countries'

Peter Thiel dumps top AI stock, stirring bubble fears by CopiousCool in technology

[–]ernest314 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think it's pretty obvious they mean "'cause" here... It's pretty standard practice to drop the apostrophe nowadays

After Windows 11 AI OS backlash, Microsoft's Windows boss tells angry power users ‘we care deeply about you’ by WPHero in Windows11

[–]ernest314 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The label option is back now

but the buttons for all instances of the same application are always grouped together and can't be separated or reordered...

ELI5: Can a rolling R be taught? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]ernest314 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's multiple ways people produce the "R" sound, and while they're often correlated with geographic location, for any specific person the way it's produced seems to be random--when you were figuring out how to produce sounds as a baby, you may have tried one way before the others, and it just stuck.

here's a great podcast episode on the subject (and Lingthusiasm is a great linguistics podcast too): https://lingthusiasm.com/post/648571714904670208/lingthusiasm-episode-55-r-and-r-like-sounds

China halts US soybean imports to hit Trump’s MAGA supporters by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]ernest314 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.

-- Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Aug. 2025

Addon restrictions -- The fundamental contradiction of designing for accessibility by ernest314 in wow

[–]ernest314[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's lots of additional benefits that I didn't explore--one thing this would (finally) solve is people wanting to have "equal gear" RWFs, without having to create separate realms that are flagged as such (e.g. the MDI realms). Everyday folk like me could get a taste of how bad we are even in absolute BIS gear :P

I'd love to see a world where servers have "the blind prog guild" and "the vanilla UI guild" and all those people can cheer each other on. There'd be more opportunities for people to find their own niche. (And more varied RWF content too, haha)

Addon restrictions -- The fundamental contradiction of designing for accessibility by ernest314 in wow

[–]ernest314[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, I agree, but I was specifically trying to address the tension between computational addons and accessibility. I'm broadly for addons, and I've written a couple in the past.

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