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You think that when the Pope leads a prayer in front of a crowd of catholic worshippers that this constitutes the kind of “public praying” that is worthy of criticism? King Charles is the head of the Anglican church, so it’s no different. They are leading a prayer together.

I’m not religious so I don’t care either way, but to classify this as “disgusting” is to completely lack understanding of the context.

Reading the article, I don’t think they’re trying to imply what is suggested by the headline, ie. that the real-name registration system is being abused somehow to scam people.

Rather it’s an article pointing out that the real-name registration system did not help to combat the already rising number of scams, which was the reason that the government gave for passing the law.

It doesn’t seem to be phone-specific either:

Hong Kong has seen a sharp increase in overall scam-related crime figures in recent years. Between 2020 and 2024, the number of scams reported to police almost tripled.

It’s a useful data point to argue against any similar initiatives in other countries, where they may use the same reasoning to justify the law. It doesn’t seem to make a difference, as criminals will always find a way regardless of the hoops that you make law-abiding citizens jump through.

Utility is born of necessity, and it’s true that every joke needs a punchline.

No problem, let me just say that I haven’t tried it myself but I’ve watched a lot of videos of other people trying it and the worst results that I’ve seen have been the ones using a gel that they paint onto the plastic and then cover in plastic wrap. This tends to leave a streaky effect because the substance is not equally thick in every area and so it has more whitening effect where it’s thicker.

The best results that I’ve seen have been the ones that have completely submerged the plastic in a liquid peroxide solution, or have suspended the plastic above the solution to immerse it in the vapors that evaporate off from the peroxide (pure oxygen). These methods give completely uniform coverage so they whiten the plastic equally in every place.

It seems that you also need strong UV, and people that live nearer the equator have better success using the sun. But in the absence of good UV lighting, heat also seems to have some effect.

Good luck!

But god forbid you unplug a controller while the console is switched on. Better know how to replace that fuse on the controller board!

(If you just bridge it with a wire, I won’t tell anyone).

Let me be the one to introduce you to the rabbit hole that is retr0bright. There are numerous videos on youtube of various different methods of retro-brighting.

The most scientifically thorough treatment of the phenomenon that I’ve seen is this paper: https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The-Retrobright-Mystery.pdf

You need a visa just to pass through Singapore on a connecting flight?

Paywall?

It might help, but I don’t think one paywall can account for a whole country’s GDP.

Form over function. They probably have aspirations of getting VC funding and for that you need to look like every other web app.

Thank you both for telling me the answers to your security questions.

I generally do not trust manfucturer preinstalled OS.

Especially pertinent for Lenovo.

What if you symlink the SD card steamapps directory (since its unmounted the mount pount will just be a regular directory on the root filesystem) to your internal storage steamapps directory?

You get incremental backups (snapshots) by using

--link-dest=DIR         hardlink to files in DIR when unchanged

To use this you pass in the previous snapshot location as DIR and use a new destination directory for the current snapshot. This creates hard links in the new snapshot to the files which were unchanged from the previous snapshot, so only the new files are transferred, and there is no duplication of data on disk (for whole-file matches).

This does of course require that all of the snapshots exist in the same filesystem, since you cannot hard-link across filesystems.

https://mastodon.social/@Liberux/114773833271790172

We’ll relaunch crowdfunding with a functional prototype. We’re also in talks with investors who respect our values.

This is almost certainly deliberate and a result of the theregister’s sense of humour.

nice meme

It’s the bloody Sycamore Gap Tree all over again! When will this madness end!?

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We just have peak/off-peak charging times, so not even hourly pricing yet.

Hidden camera footage from George’s meeting in Moscow: