Throw up a cursive CAPTCHA.

I was 100% C=64 before I transitioned to Apple ][ before I went IBM-PC DOS, briefly Windows/OS2 Warp, then MacOS, then 100% linux, and added Android later.

(sprinkle in some brief CP/M, BeOS, and NetBSD sidequests)

I'll deal with the shift to the next phone platform OK, I think.

I should probably dust off my Pine64 and try the latest builds again. It's been a few years since they were unusable as a daily driver.

Folks, this might be a huge opportunity if you correctly pick the successor and are the first developers.

I love these retro stories from 2012.

What a blast from the past!

This is a retro story from 2012, right?

> Python isn't perfect with its syntactically meaningful whitespace nonsense

I know a programmer with a visiospatial disability.

Braces are fine. Python is literally impossible.

I looked at a few 'Python with braces' preprocessors for her but they all seemed to be half-done and not really usable.

I'm not quite sure why.

It's a dumb reason to shut someone out of an entire software ecosystem. Almost every other language is accessible to her.

Or information on the murder of their whistleblower.

I am glad, that you found a cancel mob's rationale to ditch Proton. Anyone using Proton should take a closer look at the Crypto AG story. If you think, that Swiss companies are neutral, humane and fair, then you will be in for a rude awakening, They're in it for the money, and if you are in the way, you're gone. Or betrayed. Or both.

Will this change my tax exposure when providing 'gratuities' to supreme court justices?

It's odd how every time I need to look at a Vimeo it stutters and buffers like it's 1997 no matter what device, OS, or network I'm on.

Literally the only video site that this happens to me. I thought it was my DSL line back in 2009 but home gigabit has been a thing for a while and oddly similar results.

If I understand what TFS is saying, check out The Why? Files for an example of what people like in a show with good production values (it did have a Midjourney rough patch).

"True Crime" seems lame to me but I'm not a chick so that doesn't matter.

"The Telepathy Tapes" is an investigative series that blew up the Internet.

This sounds like the NPR dweebs realized that their product was popular due to scarce distribution. Now distribution is democratized and listeners have choice.

People have long reported that taking a B vitamin supplement keeps mosquitoes away.

Beer drinking is well known to deplete B vitamins.

Consider that you might be dietarily or genetically deficient in B's. It's probably not your haircut or magnetic personality. ;)

I like Life Extension's Two-Per Day. Good blend, cheap for the potency.

I would have bought at 5.2mm.

The case adds 6.1mm so how can they excuse a gargantuan 5.6mm?

You're sitting on it wrong.

It's weird how the CIA LifeLog project got shut down a week before Facebook commenced operations.

So many coincidences.

> Seriously though... how do you propose we "just do the encryption yourself" in this case? The IOS app doesn't even have an option to export chat history.

I agree - most of my Signal friends can't manage to do backups and their safety number frequently changes when they drop their phone in the toilet. Not something that's happened to me, but wow, it's common. This breaks the assumed security model.

That said, I use Android and my nightly backups are copied by Syncthing to another device most nights. I keep the restore key somewhere safe under multiple other keys.

It's not too hard for techies but it's too hard for normies.

IMO Signal found an excellent solution to the overall security model of its ecosystem. I was asked to teach a Signal backups howto at an event next year and this probably obviates the need. That's good!

> And please, stop with the microplastics while you're at it.

I get it but I'm glad I learned that most chewing gum is made of polyethylene now, so I've stopped using it.

I would not have been chewing it if I knew it was plastic and not tree resins.

Amazingly the FDA Act was first passed to make labeling mandatory. Now FDA allows manufacturers to lie and hide ingredients.

This is what happens when you ignore the Tenth Amendment.