My understanding is that he is not the person who deleted the data, the agent did it by entering the pin. That’s an interesting wrinkle. Is that materially different than entering the wrong pin 10 times which often also wipes the device?

Old slow gas and steam engines where you can hear every click and pop. https://youtu.be/eChBqGajIyo

“Blocks con traffic” - what’s that?

In 2017, Future of Life Institute made a short film about the possibilities of autonomous killer drones. It seems even more likely now that it did then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterbots

https://youtu.be/9fa9lVwHHqg

It’s about time

3 separate backups

2 different media types

1 off-site

Gardening and cooking. Plant some veggies or herbs used in your favorite recipes. Start a sourdough starter. Then when they ripen, use them to cook with. Feed that back into planning the garden for next year. Low cost, small chunks of time spread out over months, high personal reward.

It was a d100

And we’re starting with the New York Times, right?

I’ve heard good things about this one. It’s on my list to make.

https://homebrewtalk.com/threads/joes-ancient-orange-mead.49106/

How soon is now?

I planted a bunch of seeds that are now outgrowing their little pots. They look great but I have to figure out where to plant them. I may have 8 ghost pepper plants. Oops.

I no longer get pennies as change.

It usually (or used to) goes the other way. I would expect the same parts to be worth about half after 3 years.

The Atari 2600 was priced at $189.95 in 1977, which is equivalent to at least $1010 today. I think the current pricing is in line with history, although the chip and memory shortage certainly won’t help. I’ve always gotten more enjoyment from PC gaming, anyway.

Hello, friend! Sending you supportive thoughts.

And a whole can of soda!

Not if you want your emails to be reliably delivered. Even if you set up all of the right things and follow all of the rules, you will probably always be fighting to stay out of the spam folder.

https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html

So you won’t pay for their housing, but you will pay for their food and shelter in prison? I see where this is leading.

In general:

• The tracker sends out low-energy Bluetooth announcements including its unique id
• a nearby iPhone hears those announcements
• the iPhone uses its current location
• the iPhone sends the tracker id and the location back to Apple via WiFi or cell
• Apple notifies the owner of the tracker where the tracker was seen