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fartsparkles ,

lol did you put a spoiler in your story about spoilers?

fartsparkles ,

Especially since, to calculate current location, it needs an input of initial location (i.e. it needs GPS coordinates to begin with so it can track direction and velocity relative to that initial position). You can’t replace something you depend upon.

How do you get people to wash their vegetables when you're at their house and you don't wanna seem rude?

So awkward, but come on it says right there on the package to wash those mushrooms or whatever it is… You’re not their mom but you don’t wanna eat feces or whatever ended up on the produce. A quick rinse is never going to be perfect but it’s better than nothing....

fartsparkles ,

Been washing all kinds of mushrooms for years and I‘ve had the opposite experience. They’re only soggy if they’ve been cooking in oil, soaked it up, then dumped all their water. They don’t get brown as they soak up the oil, and then they dump it all out with the water, meaning you’re just steaming them until you evaporate off all the water.

Best is to wash the mushrooms, slice, cook in a little bit of water until they dump out their water, cook until the water has evaporated, then add oil and brown (or even crisp if you desire).

Perfect mushrooms every time (I’ve dated a lot of vegans so I’ve eaten mushrooms every few days for over a decade).

fartsparkles ,

Wash them whole and dry them right after. Contrary to popular belief, they don’t soak up water like sponges with a quick wash. You can easily prove this by just weighing them before and after washing/drying. The weight change is minuscule.

fartsparkles ,

You got me drooling - any recipe suggestions? I’ve both ingredients in my fridge!

fartsparkles ,

Please share where you found them, if you do.

fartsparkles ,

Bingo. RCS is yet another proprietary protocol, one controlled by Google (GSMA who originally designed it have practically forgotten about it for a decade) and without an open specification. RCS also doesn’t have a standardised approach to encryption as it’s designed for lawful interception.

So unless Apple have licensed Google’s implementation and extended version of RCS, this will be a shitty, insecure way to communicate between the Apple Messages and Google Messages apps and nothing more.

Google did an impressive job applying pressure and suggesting RCS was a perfect solution when in fact it’s just putting more control in Google’s hands. RCS is not an open “industry” standard. You nor I as individuals can implement it without paying license fees to see the specification and fees to have our implementations tested and accredited.

And Google have extended GSMA’s RCS with their own features (such as encryption) which is not part of the official standard and they haven’t made open either.

If Apple had been pressuring Google to implement the iMessage protocol or whatever, we’d have been up in arms (and rightfully so).

But instead of us all collectively hounding Apple and Google to ditch proprietary protocols and move to open ones such as Matrix, Signal, XMPP, etc (ones where we could all implement, use open source software clients, etc) we’ve got this shit:

Proprietary, insecure, non-private communication protocols baked into the heart of hundreds of millions of devices that everyone is now going to use by default instead of switching to something safer, private, public, open, auditable, etc etc.

fartsparkles ,

Because everyone is too distracted by “Apple bad” to realise how truly awful RCS is.

fartsparkles ,

Only Google’s proprietary extension has encryption. The actual industry standard specification of RCS has no encryption defined at all.

Edit: It turns out Apple have refused to use Google’s proprietary encryption implementation and are instead working with GSMA to update the RCS Universal Profile specification to finally have encryption defined and standardised so that any RCS client can handle encrypted payloads (whereas only Google Messages today can do encrypted RCS and requires other users to be exclusively using Google Messages otherwise messages are sent unencrypted).

fartsparkles ,

Did you ask to speak to the manager? That usually works.

fartsparkles , (edited )

0.63 Empire State Buildings. So yeah, quite a bit.

fartsparkles ,

I’m European

fartsparkles ,

I’ve been wondering whether to pick this up given how it’s often on sale on Steam. I’ve heard a lot about the controls being lacklustre and the personality of the characters being forgettable.

My nephew really enjoyed the game (he was 9 at the time) so I wonder if they weren’t targeting old fans of the genre but instead new, younger ones.

I regularly replay Jack and Daxter given how fun the characters are (the first game before they shifted a little darker in tone). There’s a game I’d love to see return (or reimagined a la Yuka-Laylee).

fartsparkles ,

Found malware in the voice recorder app on one out of the box (from Amazon while in Japan). So that was fun.

fartsparkles ,

They’re growing from different types of hair follicles. Why do we have different types? I don’t think anyone knows for certain. Possibly something to do with the development from the full body hair of our ancestors to the partial coverage we have today.

fartsparkles ,

a lot vs alot

fartsparkles ,

!patientgamers

fartsparkles ,

No, VLC is its own thing however it uses libavcodec from the FFmpeg project for a large number of the codecs included in VLC. But VLC is far from being just an FFmpeg GUI.

fartsparkles ,

And honestly, I find his phrasing today far more damming with its conciseness. It screams leadership.

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