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killing them, at least like this on a one off basis does nothing of value except reinforcing your deadly aggression. live and let live!


I mean, China's Four Pests campaign was pretty successful at killing native sparrows, maybe killing invasive would be successful at scale: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign


A full ban, or "a quota of zero" is much more observable and enforcable than keeping track of individuals' permits and catch limits. Not here for enabling more violence on behalf of the enforcer class, but this argument didnt make much sense to me


See I'm pro freegan nugget liberating but as you said, definitely anti-this. I had a friend w an IM client in 2010 or so (maybe trillian?) with a plugin that notified him if I opened his profile to chat w him, as well as telling him whether I was really invisible, and finally one that gave a desktop notif if i was typing to him (NOT the typing indicator in a chat window with me).

We were both into computers so he acted like it was a funny/novel piece of tech but he used it in daily life. Felt like stalkerware. You don't stalk your friends, and you don't violate their consent in the same way that friends dont use a patched snapchat client that disables screenshot notifs/keeps photos. Thats creeper shit!!!


aMSN had this feature because the MSN protocol would establish a connection as soon as a you opened a chat window (before you started typing!) in order to be able to retrieve the display picture from the other user. So you would be able to know that someone opened a chat window but decided against starting to type (or haven't decided quite yet they would want to type).

This is documented in this old FAQ https://github.com/Kjir/amsn/blob/master/amsn/FAQ

(Former aMSN developer)

I admit now this is creepy.


Huh, was msn fetching the profile picture from other perso (p2p?), and not from msn servers?


It was early days for IM and I guess storage was expensive.

Early ICQ didn't even store the contact list on the server so you had different contacts on every PC.


If I recall correctly, this was actually default behavior of one of the multi-IM clients at one point (maybe GAIM?).


It'd be ok if that's the expectation. The social contract is such that both parties have agreed (by using the same client/network that offers those features), so changing it on only one side feels invasive because you had the expectation of privacy that you didn't actually have.


there were options for all these things, yes. i also remember it in a multi im client like gaim or pidgin.

i checked out that "open chat window once someone starts typing" once out of novelty value... but it felt to stalky to keep it active, and wasnt really handy at all. sometimes ppl misclick and open the wrong window and realize later, others are reading past discussions... really not that useful as a feature


This is a really good start! Good list of possible testing avenues :)

I'm sure that the blind community has UX conventions documented or otherwise that would be best practice to stick to, but may be very hard for seeing people to understand or know off the bat. I definitely think abled people should test accessibility, but no replacement for getting feedback from the target audience.


Undermines the psychological warfare google is waging to make a normal part of life IMHO, it would be tacit acknowledgment that search ads and widespread data collection are a messed up business model. Youtube ads are different to them bc they interrupt directly and are much more of a clear "nuisance" in an entertainment product


(That's what I'm reading)


wouldnt shutter control give the possibility of the image sensor overheating from extended exposures? I could absolutely be talking out of my ass but I thought I remembered that being a risk when I flashed ML to my Canon for star photos.


The worst I can thing of is extra noise from the heat build up from the sensor being energized for extended period. This is one of the many reasons that image stacking is so advantageous. Cold winter nights imaging Orion is probably not going to notice it nearly as much as those hot summer nights trying to image Milky Way. (I'm hoping to take my camera cooler out for a spin this summer. Just a modified pelican case with insulation and ice chest freezer packs. lo-tech)


Basically every camera I have had has a "bulb", which is pretty much as-long-as-you-want exposure. Never heard of sensor overheating even after hours of exposure.


Overheating is more of an issue for the image processor, at high frame rates. During bulb mode, the sensor is on for a long time but it's only one frame being handled by the image processor.


Any CCD based camera will certainly heat up a lot, and cmos as well to a lesser degree without good/active cooling.

Most cameras time out at about an hour maximum unless they are special purpose astro cameras.


crossing my fingers for any hope of unlockable bootloaders >_<


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