I think the topics they make videos on these days feel more gimicy and click baity so I kinda avoid them

I’d argue that the people who decided to monetize toilet paper are cheaper

Good thing that the kind of person who would were these in public doesn’t interact with others much anyway

Upload it to Google photos or Facebook bet their face recognition AI would know lol

The only thing I find hard to believe in is DNA manipulation tech becoming affordable enough for the masses to choose to get it themselves, more likely it will be forced upon people to turn them into useful slave labor

Isn’t this the plot of Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling, the rich Mechanists that extend their life through machines vs the Shapers who rely on genetic modifications. Love, Death and Robots adapted a few short stories from this books universe that were very good

How do you find such companies, in my experience small startups want to own all your time and expect you to be working constantly to meet their crazy deadlines, so that’s a no go for me, slightly older medium sized companies are a coin toss, the one I worked at had abusive people entrenched into top positions who just want to whip you for their ego, while the company itself is running in shambles because no one working there gives a shit about the job and the product. How do I find a small company with a healthy work life balance and decent colleagues and managers, I don’t need to much salary either, just the standard wage that matches the cost of living

Plus the tactile feel and responsiveness of a book us unmatched, it’s lightweight and portable, you will never run out of battery, and flipping back and forth through pages is much more intuitive that jumping between bookmarks in pdfs and ebooks, the only thing that comes close is e ink readers but those have their own tradeoffs

At the end it came down to him going for the launch despite knowing he’d likely get caught and the doctor letting him through despite knowing who he is, because his son was also not engineered, I think the message was people of the under class coming together to fight the system rather than just working hard

Plot twist - it was the AI that is making the students depressed in the first place.

Movies to watch, games to play, drugs to try, not much else

Right I used to think Android would be smart enough to maintain the illusion of an open platform alternative to Apple that doesn’t restrict users as heavily, but even Android is moving towards a locked down platform that doesn’t let users sideload apps or install alternative OS, if this succeeds then I’m quite sure Microsoft will follow suit the greedy fucks that they are. We need more alternative phone companies and easier ways to make cross platform apps that can run on non Apple and Android phones easily

So is discord providing a better alternative to monitor ban the creepy predators then, even if these bots are flawed are they not providing necessary security

Google maps navigation, web browsing, YouTube, music streaming, WhatsApp, email, social media apps for entertainment, news apps, notes app, to do app, public transit app, ebook and audiobook apps, utility apps, good camera, good screen, good speakers.

If I consider all this there is just no way to go back to the old school flip phones or the candy bar phones with the T9 keypad for me, best thing I can do is hide all the apps I don’t want to be distracted by, put app locks on the addictive ones and just be mindful of the time I spend on my phone and figure out other ways to spend my time like dedicated ebook readers or paper books and other activities

Thanks for explaining this and including the picture

Yeah this is why I hate making plans, no one else puts in any effort into finding things to do or they don’t want to pay for anything and then every outing becomes sitting in a bar shooting shit or going to a movie that either I don’t care for or the others don’t, I usually just do things by myself these days and I enjoy it a lot more, maybe someday I’ll find friends with common interest I actually want to hang out with, for now I’ve become very comfortable being by myself

So is this user specific salt word stored in a table somewhere, how does the company decrypt a salted password otherwise, and so if the salt is also stored somewhere alongside the encrypted password, couldn’t the hacker get his hands on both the salt and the password and use that to figure out the password?

Stuff like this can happen to any app, developers are only human, shit happens. A bigger company is a bigger target for hackers, so there is some saftey in an open source app that’s not as popular, but then again a bigger company also has more resources to monitor for security breaches and quickly address them and push out a hot fix, can’t say I know how this works for free open source apps

Yeah the problem with Plex is that it’s initial user base was just people who wanted to stream their pirated content, and the problem with that is that these people are also unlikely to pay for a monthly subscription when open source free alternative exists. Their best bet is to become a sort of new Netflix by getting rights to stream from multiple studios, people are tired of having to subscribe to multiple streaming websites and dealing with some of their janky interfaces and most of these services don’t allow local storage of episodes and movies which would significantly improve the quality of their content, if Plex could offer secure local storage and streaming of content from multiple sources I would pay a monthly subscription for it. The only alternative that provides this somewhat is Prime Video letting you purchase access to non Amazon content, but I don’t want anything to do with Amazon.

Goverment funded research is paid for my public money via taxes but the research information is not publicly accessible, I can understand this if it’s defense or other secretive research but there is no reason someone should have to pay for access to other research fields information when it is publicly funded