This is not as far fetched as it seems. China has been incredibly unhelpful with investigating the origins of COVID.
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_thisdot@infosec.pubto Apple•Apple's AirPods Made More Money Than Nintendo Last YearEnglish34·7 months agoNot necessarily. It stays in place for most people
_thisdot@infosec.pubto Cars - For Car Enthusiasts•World's best selling car brands in 2024English3·8 months agoSuzuki is the best selling car brand in India
_thisdot@infosec.pubto No Stupid Questions•In the event you believe a contract killer is in breach of contract, who adjudicates?English2·8 months agoI think US tax department explicitly states that you must state any income you obtained through illegal means in your tax returns.
_thisdot@infosec.pubto Mildly Infuriating•Washer estimated "1 minute left", took 13 minutes to finishEnglish2·8 months agoHate to be pedantic. But it’s “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so”
Sure. But even without it you don’t need to turn it off
_thisdot@infosec.pubto Showerthoughts•If reality worked the way hiring managers and job interviews thought it did companies would have to fire everyone when they purchased new software since no one would have any experience using it.English5·9 months agoNever heard of this one tbh. The creator of homebrew was rejected at Google when he failed to implement a basic algorithm. The people interviewing him were using the software he wrote. But tbf, if you’re applying at Google they expect you to be able to invert a binary tree
_thisdot@infosec.pubto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What life hack is so simple yet so effective, you're shocked more people don't know about it?English3·1 year agoThat feels wrong! Also what’s the scale of the banana in your picture? 2 bananas?
Degree of control is too hard to define. You should take away keeper catches where the ball doesn’t deviate too much either in that case
_thisdot@infosec.pubto No Stupid Questions•Do you ever worry that you're secretly a psychopath that unknowingly manipulates people around you?English101·1 year agoIf you worry that you may be a psychopath, you’re not one!
You’d have framed this question differently. You’d be putting the blame on the other person
“Why is he/she stupid enough to think I’m gaslighting? Can’t they grow up?”
I’m in my late 20s and I’m on the same boat. Especially when it comes to politics. People are often much more than their politics. Unless they’re in the extreme horizontals of their beliefs.
That nice barista at the coffee shop? Could be a liberal. The dude at the office who held the elevator for you? Could be conservative. That’s just the way it works
Recently started listening to Classical on Apple Music. If not, just Pink Floyd
This seems to imply that you need a fork of Android, if you’re to build a messaging app that uses RCS.
But my understanding is what you really need is essentially an RCS server.
What I’ve often found is that even seemingly harmless addictive behaviours leave lasting impressions on my personality. My two addictions I’m trying to quit are porn and nicotine gums.
Porn was just taking up too much of my time and energy. Especially since I was working from home. I’d be in meetings with my camera and mic off browsing some weird nsfw on reddit. Stopped cold turkey and it feels amazing tbh
Nicotine gums stay on for now. This is one addiction which has actually provided me an unintended benefit. My jawline improved drastically over a year! But I hope one day I can be comfortable sitting with myself idle not wanting to compulsively do anything!
_thisdot@infosec.pubto Android•Android users switched less frequently to iPhones in 2023, report showsEnglish22·1 year agoMy experience is directly the opposite. Bought an iPhone 12 Mini after Pixel 3XL died. Granted, I was already using a Macbook for a long time. Lotta things I’d been trying to get working, using things like KDE Connect instantly became automatic.
I’ve seen people actually get job done on phones, but that’s never been the case to me. To me the phone should ideally be an extension of my desktop. I’d been doing that with Chrome+Pixel for a while. But iPhone unlocked much more of macOS for me
_thisdot@infosec.pubto Ask Lemmy•What's the dumbest nickname you've ever given one of your pets?English39·1 year agoI live in Bangalore, India. The local language here is Kannada but I don’t speak it nor do I have many friends who speak it. I named my cat Bacardi and would call him Bacoo. Turns out the word for cat in the local language is also “Bacoo”. So for any local who saw me interact with my cat, it looked like I was calling my cat “cat”! I found out around a year later!
_thisdot@infosec.pubto Ask Lemmy•What are some cool things you can do with Shortcuts on iOS?English4·2 years agoAfter trying multiple apps to sort my budgeting situation. I finally decided to create a solution that involves default Numbers + a shortcut to add row to the end of sheet. Now that shortcut lives on my homescreen. This is by far the best personal budgeting solution I’ve used. And I put it all together in 20 minutes!
_thisdot@infosec.pubto Technology•Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.English121·2 years agoit’s part of their anti-adblock code. without going into too much details, they can instantly find out whether ad-block is trying to do anything on chrome, but on firefox they need a 5 sec delay
I do. Especially compared to a company like Amazon. Google’s alternatives to Amazon’s are almost always better and has better UI/UX.
But Amazon knows the market and whatever bs they stitch together ends up being the more popular option.
What I have in mind are GCP vs AWS, Kindle vs. Play Books, etc
is this the one?