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I swear, I just need 4-5 more graphics cards to solve this!

Have you tried adding a few more kilobytes of regex?

Risky click of the day in this context

Two guys, one truck!

imagining a giant Reese’s PB cup

There’s chocolate in my peanut butter in my chocolate!

It’s not only the frequencies, but also the modulation and the protocol (“how devices talk to each other”). Your phone may support all needed frequencies and might still not be able to “talk” to the network.

Some companies just blatantly sell your data. Others get breached and you are part of the package that gets sold by the hackers.

The only “way around” is to use unique mail addresses for each signup/company so you can easily lock it and switch to another one when it gets known.

Just assume, that everything that you type in a form online (or in any other way send to a company/another person digitally), every email you send, everything that gets digitized about you, etc. will be public one day. Either because the other side of the transaction sold it or because they (or you) will be hacked eventually.

Btw: HaveIBeenPwned does not necessarily contain all breaches. I have several notifications of companies that got breached and leaked my data that are not listed in HIBP…

Depends, I’m from Europe and there are many local sites that allow that. You might need to search for a bit (e.g. not a button but a link in some fine print). But yes, there are many sites that just don’t have a “decline all” button and that ask you to deny every one of their 937.726.193.372.129 partners (most of them double, as you need to deselect the partner and their “legitimate interests” separately…

Somewhat - some site just don’t set a consent cookie if you deny cookies. First, they didn’t set Cookies as you requested - second, they can easily ask again on your next page load!

Nah, it’s at least two clicks - the first in the cookie banner to decline all cookies and tracking (which won’t save that setting and ask again on every page load/click on the page as you might want to be tracked in two minutes) and another one to cancel.

Is it pronounced Rust-L-S or Rus-T-L-S?

And if the latter, why not Rusty-L-S?

Surface are basically a tablet (=all hardware and weight in the monitor). You can get them with a cover that contains a keyboard but it is still top heavy (think of a normal cover for a tablet, but slightly more sturdy because of the keyboard).

There’s also a surface book that more or lees is like a laptop - from the looks of it. The bottom part with the keyboard is heavier, but only contains the keyboard, an USB hub and additional batteries. It’s till top heavy with it, as you can “detach the screen” and still have a fully functional “PC tablet”.

I’m not from the US, but where I live it’s either (or a combination of):

1. Your contract runs for two years. You can cancel it before, but still have to pay for the first two years. Often prices depend on which category of phone you want (say 20€/month for the service, 25€ with a “smart” phone, 30€ with a “premium” phone, 35€ with a “power” phone,…)
2. You have two separate contracts, one for your phone, one for the mobile service. In this case you might pay for your phone 24 months, or 36, or whatever you agreed on and you can cancel the mobile service independently (assuming it’s not also locked to 2 years)
3. Some carriers even allow you to only get a phone without a contract for the mobile service.
4. If you finance a phone with your carrier, they’re legally bound to tell you what you pay for your phone monthly and how much for the service - there are many ways around that, unfortunately…

In any case, you get an unlocked phone.

Player 1: “Well, about that trail rations you…”

Player 2: “I start by casting Fireball!”

GM: “What? Why? What or who do you target?”

Player 2: “Dunno, but I wanted to play a meme character so badly. Can’t I just cast it… in the general direction of the swamp?”

GM look with a stone cold face, grabs their dice: Go on, if you’re sure…

The issue is, that you can’t easily reach the fridge so you can’t get a new can of beer without getting up

Its all fun and games until the pearlfish decides it’s time to go home ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Is the traffic encrypted?

If it is, look at the certificate. Which hostname is it for primarily? Which SAN (Subject Alternative Name - basically a list of all other hostnames the certificate is valid for) are set, if any? Which Certificate Authority issued the certificate or is it self signed?

Yes, it’s just Oracle - Temurin, Coretto,… are all safe.

Oracle offers (paid) support for its Java distribution, which might be why it’s still used by companies…

Worse yet. They switched licensing and costs several times and companies should prepare to get hit with new licensing fees:

When they introduced Java 17 (a LTS version), they published it under the NTFC license. This means, this version is usable for free, but only until the next LTS version has been out for a year.

On Sep 19th 2023, Java 21 was released another LTS version. That means, that Java 17 just switched from the NTFC license to the OTNLA license a few days ago - which means, Java 17 is supported until 2029 but you now need a paid license to use it.

Hope everyone upgraded to Java 21 or newer in time.