KeePass allows offline password management, though I am not sure if it supports card/ID autofill.

Bitwarden is mainly online only, but does support card/ID autofill and allows users to self-host their data if desired.

Not overly familiar with other password managers, but it would not surprise me if one of them out there has the best of both worlds.

“Official Act”

This is the weapon they gave him. Hope they have a fun time with the leopards.

The concept seems sound, but the execution has me feeling pessimistic.

Udon is the best.

I can’t help but think some groups must have no good people just by virtue of what the group is. Good people don’t join the Proud Boys or the KKK, nor can good people be billionaires.

Fettuccine. Honestly I just love noodles, and the thicker the better.

Didn’t Signal get big after Musk endorsed it? What gives?

It’s a bit like making alcohol—it’s made through fermentation, but you want it to be very controlled.

Normally you’d want to sterilize the starting mix first to kill any undesired molds and bacteria, add the fermenting agent that you want (lactic acid producing bacteria in this case) and age it in a sealed container until ready.

If it starts with any contaminants or if any are introduced during fermentation, it’d spoil the batch and make you very sick if ingested.

Gandhi*

“Criminals” = People I don’t like.

Guessing it’s likely due to Apple’s approval process. You can try to patch 1 major issue but they won’t approve an update unless it also adds compatibility for all of their new standards and features.

Not to say that’s unreasonable of Apple, but if the game’s not making money on that platform anymore I can understand the decision to just pull it rather than sink more resources into supporting it in perpetuity.

Plus it’s just not a good remaster anyways, they really bungled up the multiplayer capability. I don’t think anything of value has been lost.

He was, but he had a better PR team back then. Supposedly he fired them a few years back.

Canada even shares a border with Europe, so I would say it’s close enough.

To the extent that privacy-violating data collected about you should be deleted on request, absolutely.

But there are basic things like public records which should remain public. Birth/death records, property records/titles, marriage records, business ownership, etc.

Ideally it would be nice if there were protections in place on what data a company or government is allowed to collect about you in the first place, but anyone whose personal/private data (not public records) are collected by a company or government office should be able to both request copies of those records on demand and ask that they be deleted if desired.

As a sysadmin, I must second the claim that we are surely not all software devs and sysadmins.

…Right?

Makes me wonder what would happen with JD Vance, actually. His last name has changed a couple of times, which of his names is the “real” one?

I want to join in the take of “What an out-of-touch moron” but I honestly think Germany might be fucked. Meetings with AfD behind closed doors and no one in the German government appearing to have a spine to do anything about it indicates that Germany is just the next in line to slide slowly back into fascism.

France is not far behind, either.

The Biden FCC briefly brought it back but it was quickly killed by a Bush-appointed judge based on the conservative majority Supreme Court’s ruling on Loper Bright v. Raimondo which ended the practice of Chevron Deference.

Chevron Deference was a policy that allowed federal agencies to be the interpreters of ambiguous regulations, and in this particular case the uncertainty was whether or not the internet counted as a “utility” akin to electricity and water. The updated interpretation is that the FCC doesn’t have the right to treat the internet as a utility if it is not explicitly defined as a utility by law, so net neutrality was killed.

There is still hope that a later, more progressive Congress and administration could pass regulation declaring the internet to be a utility, or that a later court could change their minds on that interpretation, but for now it’s not looking good.

I’m suggesting that if Trump wants to cross the Rubicon, let Trump be the one to cross it. No need to meet him on the other side first.

In theory yes, Google should face no consequences for publishing an inaccurate map. There’s actually an old tradition of publishing maps with at least 1 inaccuracy in order to catch forgeries, which has never been a legal issue in the US. It shouldn’t be any more controversial than a published document choosing to call Jerusalem “Al-Quds”

In practice, I imagine Trump will throw a tantrum and try to argue that Google doesn’t have the right to say no to him. And if that’s the stance he wants to take, disregarding the constitutional protections that Google ought to have, let his administration waste time and resources arguing that in the courts. If he wins, then we can all stop pretending the constitution means anything, and if he loses, it’s a blow to his ego, resources wasted, and we can turn the focus on other companies to say they have an ethical obligation to change the names back.

Why wouldn’t it? Google’s just a company, not an arm of the government. At best, maybe there is some sort of accreditation process to have their maps called “authentic” or “accurate” or whatnot, but I’ve never heard of any US law that penalizes the publication of an inaccurate map.