They have (or had) a system for reactivation that involved endorsement from another account. IIRC it was QR code based, so one of my friends would scan my reactivation QR code and a few verification texts later I’d have my account back. The last time I was banned, it was after I hearted one of my friend’s posts about his graduation.

Insofar as everyone likes the wherewithal offered by pronominal and hitherto conjunctive adverbs

Most of my lab mates are Chinese and I joined WeChat because it was what they all used. Everything was fine except my account kept getting banned for no reason. I had assumed it might be because I accidentally turned on a VPN, but ultimately I concluded it was because they didn’t want the intermingling of Chinese and American accounts, which was literally the only reason I was there in the first place.

Nice! I’ve wanted a tool exactly like that many times. I’ll back it and see.

The closest I could find before were essentially pin to pin continuity checkers, which are useful for telling if a cable is PD only, 2.0 vs 3.x, or has a line break, but most of those can be eyeballed, otherwise metered. So these just checkers just add precision and speed to something you already know how to do.

The runner ups were the (now ubiquitous) inline inductive energy trackers, because they can tell you a bit more about the gauge of the wires in the cable which can be important, especially high amperage 5v like pi 4.B

But to test quality of shielding for high rate data transfer, DP and PCI-E tunneling, etc., the only option was manually user testing with adequately powerful devices.

you could at least

Note: here “it would be nice if” is more polite, since the least one could have done is always

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I wouldn’t necessarily say fantasy. Grover’s only requires 2n qubits to brute force, where n is # of bits mod N.

So consider RSA 2048 / AES 128. Still common. You’re probably in range of wifi that uses it. That would only require ~4096 qbs to brute force. For reference, Osprey (2022) had 400+ qbs and Condor (2023) has 1k+ (with ECC it’s lower but can’t remember how much).

Probably within a decade you can rent a machine with enough for these older protocols, and that’s not a very long time to hold onto data if it’s potentially high value. So “fantasy” might be a stretch.

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For those with pocket change left over this holiday season, the Lumafield Neptune industrial CT scanner can be yours starting at 750K USD. To use it only costs 54-75K USD annually.

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The web of 2001 was a web of sites … Now it’s a web of platforms.

This is all true and I agree, but a big piece of the story that’s missing is access. People online were mostly demographically adjacent. The walled gardens sprang up for the same reasons you see more walls in places with high economic disparity.

The “utopian” attitude described in the article was a natural response to lack of representation. Society wasn’t actually as far along as millennials thought.

That utopian vision is achievable. There’s just more work to be done than we thought.

Their LLMs must be cybering

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As an ID number it has almost nothing to recommended it, especially compared to modern equivalents in Europe. It wasn’t meant to be a national ID number.

The only reason we use it for identification in the US is that a common ID is often useful but Americans have always been phobic to mandatory census.

Obviously they’re fine handling all that information to data brokers, however.

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Yeah IMO a win is a win, so if big bad red figures out a way to fix even half of these things, it counts. (Assuming they don’t do it with brute force tactics like murdering people or something.)

We have a friend who looks a ton like him when he mean-mugs, but is nicer than all of us combined, which just makes his Tate face funnier.

Good point, comrade. App services split to separate list.

Done and done