Em Adespoton

You’re probably right, but steganography with FEC should be enough to do the job; any predictive text errors would be caught with the checksumming.

After all, Phil Zimmerman got the entirety of the PGP source code from the US to Germany as a book. OCR combined with predictive text reconstruction has come a LONG way since then. The big problem today with OCR is that it often corrects errors that were present in the original document.

Depends on the recipient.

And you could always encrypt a message against your recipient’s public key, print it out, and then mail it from a random drop box. You could even include a public key in the message so the recipient can send you back letters, and include an address in the letter they could reach you at.

It’d only really work if enough people were sending such letters to enough recipients though, or the act of encrypting your messages in such a manner would itself be a data point.

Also, you could print the messages on thermal paper, so they fade over time.

I’ve been a two browser person for over 20 years. It might not be for everyone, but I do all my browser activity that has an information risk (banking certain types of ordering, health access, etc.) on one browser with a specific security profile to protect those sessions, and all my other browsing on a FireFox variant locked down with NoScript, Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin, etc.

This means that I always reach for the properly configured tool when doing something online, and attempts at phishing have one more hurdle to clear. Default browser points to a fully locked down profile, so any stray clicks will do minimal damage. Sites I know are sandboxed and not allowed to access anything on the rest of the Internet.

This configuration isn’t for everyone, but I’ve been on the Internet for over 35 years and still seem to have a reasonable amount of privacy and security.

Depends what you mean by ‘learned’ — my grandparents talked about their time fighting the fascists from the time I was born.

Why not deport them?

Maybe it’s the cameras themselves that are the privacy concern, hmm?

Who exactly are we talking about here? Are you saying I should be harassing the people in the marketing department at my company? Or are you saying we should have visibility campaigns about the companies involved in the Internet ad networks? Or someone else?

No; however, you essentially have a line between price and noise, and you need to check what they filter, how expensive the filters are, and how often they need to be replaced, as well as how much it costs to run them.

Depends on what the air purifier was filtering. Mine does PM10, PM2.5, VOC and NO2. That means it’s filtering out particles down to 2.5mm plus volatile organic compounds (smoke, aerosolized oils, water vapour with pathogens, etc) and nitrous oxide.

The filter is a multi stage filter; the PM2.5 stuff passes right through the PM10 filter.

Interestingly, if I want to clear a room of smoke, sawdust, drywall dust or similar, what works the best is running my shop vac with a HEPA filter installed until I can’t smell the dust/smoke (usually around 5 minutes) and then I turn my air filter on full blast and it clears up the air in around 20 minutes. If I just used the air filter, I’d probably clog it up and then just have to replace the comparatively expensive filter.

Is that last 10% all about DRM and anti-cheat?

People online actually exist and aren’t just a simulation.

Progressive talk radio on in the background at all times?

What you’re interested in is actuarial science. It’s an interesting and complex field. Pretty much every insurance company is built on the backs of a few talented actuaries.

So… to answer the first question: as I said in a different response recently, questions are just questions. They might be asked out of ignorance, curiosity or malice, but the question itself should never be considered stupid.

As for what lemmy.world is: it’s an online service managed by a small group of people that enables users, and users of other lemmy servers that have an agreement with it, to post information in sub-forums, which can be up and downvoted by the users of the forum community; those votes and their effects can be managed based on the rules of the specific community.

Nostupidquestions@lemmy.world is one community; I’m part of it, even though I’m not a member of lemmy.world, but of lemmy.ca, which is federated with lemmy.world. This means that when I access/post content on lemmy.ca, that gets shared across to the other lemmy servers like yours that hosts or carries the communities I’m involved in.

So… single platform, multiple instances, which have different peering agreements with each other to federate content.

To complicate things further, Lemmy is part of the Fediverse, a larger group of online services that share the same federation structure and much of the same network code, but are designed for different purposes. Lemmy is similar to Reddit, Mastodon is similar to Twitter (ability to broadcast short messages that go into subscriber’s feeds and get aggregated), there’s one specifically for sharing video with others, etc.

This only tangentially answers your questions, but I felt like it was a good idea to get the foundation concepts out of the way first, after which others can reply to the particular bullet points.

I have Apple Maps, Google Maps, OpenStreets, Organic Maps and Sidekick Pro installed on my phone. Used do use Google until they started getting creepy and Apple Maps started getting decent; then switched to Apple Maps as my default.

If this goes through, Organic Maps becomes the default with Sidekick for car navigation/recorder.

Questions are just questions. How they’re framed can be inappropriate or unwelcome, but the question itself is just a question.

Asking a question that’s already answered isn’t asking a stupid question, just inappropriate. Same goes for asking a question where the intent appears to be to demean someone else or push an unwelcome viewpoint.

And bars/pubs used to be fine with the regulars hanging out in the corner, only buying a pitcher of beer each per night.

Likely the nozzle then.

Is it plugged into a socket rated for 120VAC/20W? Is there a ground fault on that socket (a fault, not a GFCI sensor, although that’s also a consideration)?

Is it connected to a rigid hose (not one of those collapsible ones)?

Have you tried using it with the motor turned off? Do you get a steady stream of water with no air bubbles?

I’ve been using that phrase with people I’m talking to in a different time zone for years.