I’ve noticed that too. Is it related to covid you think? As in it was like this before and now we’re returning to normal progression as people rebuild social connections and lose time. Or is it that the whole dev economy is changing with layoffs and such that devs are leaving the industry altogether? Or something else even?

Spray paint until it stops getting replaced

They paused funding for all of the exciting P2P and low bandwidth stuff last year. Hopefully it resumes soon, as mentioned in the GitHub thread.

https://matrix.org/blog/2023/12/25/the-matrix-holiday-update-2023/#In-other-news

Meanwhile, P2P Matrix and Low Bandwidth Matrix is on hiatus until there’s dedicated funding - and Account Portability work is also temporarily paused in favour of commercial Element work, despite the fantastic progress made recently with Pseudo IDs (MSC4014) and Cryptographic identifiers (MSC4080). Given P2P Matrix and Account Portability were the main projects driving Dendrite development recently, this may also cause a slow-down in Dendrite development, although Dendrite itself will still be maintained.

https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/issues/3413

I’m still sad they stopped work on dendrite. P2P level decentralization, with E2EE, would be amazing.

These are still great improvements though. I’m hyped that loading seems to be so much faster.

Always get the version of the gadget with replaceable batteries unless you want a brick in 3-10 years. Additionally, prefer 18650, AA, AAA batteries, and keep some rechargeable ones around.

It’s not the biggest, but it still is a concern, and is exceedingly easily mitigated.

It at least used to be adaptive because at one point it went to 500$ for me, then changed back down a couple months later.

For privacy.com:

• great for anyone in the USA
• don’t worry about difficult subscription cancellations again, just turn that one’s dedicated card off
• I have personally blown past the daily spend limit of 250$ without issue, idk if that limit is real. The 1000$/mo may be though I’ve never hit that.
• I’ve used privacy.com for everything from Amazon to car insurance to gym memberships.

On credit freezes:

• a freeze means that your consumer report will not be shared, which means applications for credit in your name will be denied
• all USA consumer reporting agencies (data brokers) are legally required to freeze sharing of your reports for free upon your request
• you can temporarily unfreeze when you get a new credit card, apply for rental property, etc.
• don’t let them upsell it or try to direct you to another page with similar language, it is free
• credit monitoring products need to request your report to see if any new accounts have opened. Don’t monitor it, prevent it by freezing the reports
• freezes are required for any data broker, not just credit. This includes LexisNexis (job history), and presumably the ones that do rental and vehicle ownership history though i don’t know their names.

My favorite was the password set screen allowing up to 64 characters, but login fails if the password is over 32 chars.

Oh yeah that’ll do it.

iMessage is encrypted in transit by default when talking to other iPhone users, and 95% of my contacts use iPhones. That is the ONLY reason I use an iPhone.

Only when they leak or get thrown out. If they’re still working they’re not leaking, but maybe drawing more power than needed.

Pack rice around packages extremely tightly using clear packaging (tape). Send a photo to the recipient. If it was opened, then the rice orientations won’t match the image.

FreeCAD is amazing! I’ve used it to design and print several small parts for my car, and some other things.

I’m very excited to see developments in this, and I hope it reaches the Blender mythic for modeling. ❤️

I second Matrix, though I’ve been waiting for e2ee direct p2p (the Dendrite project) do be worked on for a while. Having something like that, that’s truly decentralized while secure and hiding metadata where possible, would be a dream.

To help with this in the future, you can also create several fake results sharing your real name. Stuff like a blogger with one post not in your writing style, etc… This will dilute searches with disinformation. Removal of real data is important, but you can also confuse anyone looking.

Thanks, you’ve given some great suggestions!