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I had it process a photo of my D&D character sheet and help me debug it as I'm a n00b at the game. Also did a decent, although not perfect, job of adding up a handwritten bowling score sheet.


The next sentence under the headline is "Tech company denied illegally recording and circulating private conversations to send phone users targeted ads".


That's a worthless indicator of objective innocence.

It's a private, civil case that settled. To not deny wrongdoing (even if guilty) would be insanely rare.


Obviously. The point is that settling a lawsuit in this way is also a worthless indicator of wrongdoing.


> settling a lawsuit in this way is also a worthless indicator of wrongdoing

Only if you use a very narrow criteria that a verdict was reached. However, that's impractical as 95% of civil cases resolve without a trial verdict.

Compare this to someone who got the case dismissed 6 years ago and didn't pay out tens of millions of real dollars to settle. It's not a verdict, but it's dishonest to say the plaintiff's case had zero merit of wrongdoing based on the settlement and survival of the plaintiff's case.


As long as you hold the copyright to your "validate" project, you can dual license it. So can release it under the (A)GPL and also use it in your closed-source commercial project. I think you would need to make contributors sign a contributor license agreement (CLA) though, to continue using their contributions to "validate" in your closed-source offering.


ah, interesting.


I gotta say I'm skeptical of Gmail sharing emails with third parties without permission. Was there a breach? Govt court order?


Maybe this is a nuance that makes it “better” but I’m 99% sure that Google login means if so visit a site that supports it, Google will share my email with that site even if I don’t explicitly speaking login. Maybe there’s a workaround these businesses are using to get it? But either way my inbox is littered with emails I didn’t sign up for,


Ah, you meant "sharing my e-mail addresses". Not the actual emails (the email contents) themselves.


Google may not share the emails themselves but they for sure read those emails and sell data analysis of those emails to third parties. That's why other companies like amazon never sends emails with lists of what you bought.


Any idea if there is an argument for moving it if it obstructs sidewalk traffic, whether or not it sustains damage in the process?

I feel like you can't just leave a washing machine blocking the sidewalk unattended and sue anyone who scratches it while moving it? (IANAL)


If it obstructs the sidewalk and isn't moving, you can almost certainly move it. You should act in good faith and try to do so in a non-damaging manner if you want to avoid vandalism charges.

If it's moving? You should just wait for it to go obstruct some other part of the sidewalk.


I've seen a few in Lakeview but my experience hasn't been entirely the same as yours. I haven't noticed blinding lights at night. They seem to move relatively slowly and cautiously.

I came upon one as I was jogging last night and was worried about getting around it. It, or someone driving it, seemed to notice me coming and it waited at a spot where it was easy to pass.

That said, these are a bad idea. Like another commenter mentioned, these are going to obstruct people with mobility issues or devices, or obstruct everyone when all but a narrow strip of sidewalk is snow and ice.


I use Firefox Mobile Nightly on Android and appreciate it for the dark mode extension and ad blocking. There are some issues but the benefits outweigh them for me.

I don't even have a Home button that I can see, I must have turned it off in settings? I describe my tab count using scientific notation, though, so I'd be a "new tab" guy, anyway. But I'd also be a proponent of it being configurable.


Kinda related, I wish there was an easy way to exclude dependencies at pip-install time and mock them at runtime so an import doesn't cause an exception. Basically a way for me to approximate "extras" when the author isn't motivated to do it for me, even though it'd be super brittle.


This sounds doable, actually. You'd want to pre-install (say, from a local wheel) a matching dummy dependency where the metadata claims that it's the right version of whatever package (so the installer will just see that the dependency is "already satisfied" and skip it), but the actual implementation code just exposes a hook to your mocking system.

Doesn't work if version resolution decides to upgrade or downgrade your installed package, so you need to make sure the declared version is satisfactory, too.


I "open image in a new tab" and can then pinch to zoom in the new tab, too.


"Yes, coffee is mostly water, with standard black coffee consisting of about 98% to 99% water..."


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