Australia had ads like that too.

https://youtu.be/jyYTPRX1CCQ

They relaunched this one a few years ago because of how effective it was in the 90s.

In Australia, I used to use them the opposite way as you: “mould” for the fungus, and “mold” to shape. These days I live in the USA and use “mold” for both.

Yeah, video game ratings in Australia aren’t great. Australia didn’t even have an adult (R18+) rating for video games until 2013. Before then, all games rated higher than MA were illegal in Australia. Some games were banned, while others were modified to reduce violence, remove sexual themes, remove drug use, etc.

Australia: Consumer protection laws are better than most other countries, even European countries. For example:

• Products must last as long as a “reasonable consumer” would expect them to last, regardless of the warranty period. For example, at least 5-10 years for large appliances.
• If there’s a “major failure” any time during that period (a big problem with the product, if it stops working, if it differs from the description, is missing advertised features, or you wouldn’t have bought it if you knew about the problem beforehand), the customer has a choice of whether they want to have the item repaired, replaced, or return it and get a refund. Customers can also ask for a partial refund based on loss of value.
• The store you bought the item from must accept returns and warranty claims. They can’t tell you to go to the manufacturer.
• For repairs, returns and replacements of large items (like appliances), the company must pick it up and drop it off for free.
• It’s illegal for a store to not offer refunds (unless the items are second-hand).
• Products must match descriptions in advertising, including what a sales person tells you. If a sales person tells you the product does something but it actually doesn’t, you can get a refund.
• Businesses get fined for breaking these rules. A chain of computer stores had to pay a $200,000 fine for showing an illegal “no refunds” sign and forcing people to go to the manufacturer for warranty claims, and were later fined $750,000 for doing it again: https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/msy-technology-ordered-to-pay-penalties-of-750000-for-consumer-guarantee-misrepresentations

This applies for digital goods, too. As far as I know, Australia is the only country where you can get a refund from Steam for a major bug in a game regardless of how long you’ve owned the game for or how many hours you’ve played. Valve tried to avoid doing this and was fined $3 million: https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/valve-to-pay-3-million-fine-for-misleading-australian-gamers/

It probably accepts other key types and it’s just the UI that’s outdated. I doubt they’re using an SSH implementation other than Dropbear or OpenSSH, and both support ed25519.

id_rsa shouldn’t exist any more.

Verizon deliberately conflates the term unlocked to mean not locked to a carrier (can use a non-Verizon SIM)

This is what “unlocked” usually means to the general population though. If you search your favourite search engine for “how to unlock phone”, most (if not all) results will be either about carrier locks or about getting into the phone if you forget your PIN/password.

Someone knowledgeable enough to even know about the bootloader would usually explicitly say “unlocked bootloader” to avoid the ambiguity.

Did you see something that said it was an LLM?

Edit: Indeed it’s an LLM. They published the model here: https://huggingface.co/reglab-rrc/mistral-rrc

The Internet did not have the advertising presence it does now when it was conceived.

Do you mean back when it was only the government and universities connected to it, before the web existed? Those times were very different. Practically user was contributing to the internet some way, either through time (like actually creating the software to use it, and once the web existed, creating sites) or money.

These days, there’s a significantly larger number of freeloaders that want everything for free, without contributing anything back. So far, advertising has been the only effective model to support such users that don’t want to pay.

The one near me just says “please place your ITEM in the bagging area” for everything. Everything is just “item” and it says “item” is in a different voice that’s louder than the rest of the sentence. What.

I’ve got two Coway Airmega AP-1512HH air purifiers and they’ve helped a lot during the bushfires in California. They’re on sale right now for $140 each during the Prime Day sales.

Waze is owned by Google, and they’re slowly converging over time.

had its own built in lock with a unique key

Is this a common thing? I’m Aussie so I have no idea about guns.

User agents are essentially deprecated and are going to become less and less useful over time. The replacement is either client hints or feature detection, depending on what you’re using it for.

Most developers just write their own feature checks (a lot of detections are just a single line of code) or use a library that polyfills the feature if it’s missing.

The person you’re replying to is right, though. Modernizr popularized this approach. It predates npm, and npm still isn’t their main distribution method, so the npm download numbers don’t mean anything.

That’s exactly what you’re supposed to do with the modern web, via feature detection and client hints.

The user agent in Chrome (and I think Firefox too) is “frozen” now, meaning it no longer receives any major updates.

That really depends on the company. At big tech companies, it’s common for the levels and salary bands to be the same for both generalists (or full stack or whatever you want to call them) and specialists.

It also changes depending on market conditions. For example, frontend engineers used to be in higher demand than backend and full-stack.

Hot take: If you don’t like ads, then don’t use services/sites that are funded by ads?

I like using Sriracha, or peri-peri sauce from Nando’s or Trader Joe’s.