my undaeratanding is that lens material is so optically tuned for weight that removal of any amount of material makes a difference to the focusing - not to mention the possible coatings on the lens. this is what I have been told, I have no other evidence.

this resonates so much…

“ok, which one of you crackheads decided an unconstrained recursive C function was a good idea right her… oh.”

unqualified internet rando comment…

avoiding responsibility is a coping mechanism as well as a symptom for a host of significant, but treatable, physiological psychological issues. couple this with a demonstrated history of physical violence (I am trusting the state on this one) makes this difficult.

my own experience suggests to me that you may want to ensure that your brother is consistently seeing a qualified professional and an effective medication regime is in place, being followed to the letter and has demonstrated positive results before you reengage. without 3rd party qualified professional help things are not likely to get better and may get worse.

I am sorry you, your brother and those around this situation are hurting. please stay safe.

edit: emphasis on word and autocorrect.

/me gives a knowing head nod.

until we all learn to separate our identities from our politics from our technology, it will likely stay this way online.

for the record I will second your positive experience report regarding lemmy[.]ml - its diverse, (relatively) active, well federated and technically administered, runs bleeding edge server builds and is mostly drama free. cant think of much else I could ask for from a lemmy instance.

I consider this a useless skill

I dont know, friend. thats a bit of a step up from the usual party trick.

best I’ve got is zero lead hand/leg preference when sparring muay thai. makes me a real lonely or a real popular dance partner depending on the crowd.

no worries.

the net effect of client separation is that your device sees no other layer 2 devices on the wlan besides the gateway. this would typically be enforced at the frame level by the APs and is separate from any radio privacy cryptography.

a properly configured wireless setup would assume every client is compromised and would also disallow local client-client via source routing or proxy ARP or any other escape options. 100% secure? probably not, but its a non trivial barrier that would have to be circumvented.

as with e.g. broken WEP years ago, there are still options to mess with clients at ~Layer 1 but I dont believe its currently as trivial as it used to be.

most properly configured public wifi will enable client separation, of course that potentially still leaves lower level protocol and radio attacks.

…that wireless mac is looking suspiciously shopped and non-existent.

ASCII is a like — a state of mind, man! :-)

with a receptive white house, Bernie will be a firecracker anywhere. I would be more than happy for Bernie to retain his Senate seat and get the committee assignments that give him maximal internal clout.

yeah, and everyone knew exactly which accounts they would be.

pretty sure thats a goat. rugged, contrary and independent. one might even say… the Greatest Of All Time.

indeed! had I not posted this, I would be asking the same question!

so, its quite a bit more mundane than you might have hoped for.

a mix of…

• ~40% locally served internal pages (mostly zabbix, mail/web server monitoring, some development pages, etc).
• ~60% non-local pages - currently lots of retro computing stuff, debian stuff, github (sigh)

the most recent page I opened was an archive.org page on TI-84 firmware disassembly.

I make heavy use of Firefox containers for separation. honestly, Firefox is an absolute workhorse for me. if the Firefox ecosystem were to fall into the void, I would be dead in the water.

frantic ignoring reddit sounds

dishing out the tools to help users take back control of their lIves. hero quality.

61 Firefox windows and 427 tabs (don’t judge, I know I have a problem) and I have no performance complaints - admittedly, not all of them are active/rendering simultaniously, but still…

Firefox (and its forks) have been my go-to for 15 years.

noscript is your web condom. I will not touch a page without it.

have a look at quassel for persistent IRC connectivity and quasseldroid for mobile client access back to your quassel instance.

“tilting at windmills”

ERROR: Attempted to parse HTML with regular expression; system returned Cthulhu.

classic.

those slots were near useless.

edit to say: one trick was to use the blank expansion slot plates to gently break the vice like grip the screw had in the hex stand-off. the metal used on the cheap “digit remover” cases was sometimes soft enough to loosen the thumb screws via the driver slot without the thumb screw breaking.

still nearly useless though.