donnachaidh

The install script one hasn't aged particularly well. Although I haven't used the official one, so maybe it's not up to IRC standards. Everything else though, totally on point. When is this from?

Maybe he's saying it metaphorically. What makes a monster and what makes a man, and all that.

Yeah, I'm definitely not the type of person to ride before I've got a license to. But my concern for getting the RE isn't safety - whatever I get if I don't go straight to it would probably be similarly safe or otherwise - but rather that I would be worried about damaging the bike, and have to choose between practising control of the bike and almost certainly dropping it at some point, or not doing that and not having good enough skills when I actually need them.

Yeah, I've been watching a fair few of his videos recently. Hadn't seen that one though, so thanks for the link.

Yeah, I get the changing tastes. I suppose that's why my friend wants to switch it up, and get a fair bit more power. And my concern with getting the 350 isn't that it would be dangerous, but that I'd be too cautious and unwilling to take it out and practice slow maneuvers where I might drop it, and get it damaged. Which would either lead to me not developing control of the bike well enough and getting in worse situations where the worst case isn't just dropping the bike, or just not getting out riding as much as I would like, and being less comfortable when I do. I might be overthinking that and once I'm on it I'm fine, but it would be the single most valuable, and most beautiful, thing I own, and I feel like I might beat myself up a bit if one of the mistakes I make ends up with the bike being scratched, dented or otherwise damaged.

As for the riding course, in Australia you get the learner's permit at a two-day course, which includes parking-lot and on-road riding. Is that not what happens elsewhere, or do you not think that's enough to get to practising myself? The place I'm going to do the test doesn't seem to have any courses meant for before you have a bit of experience on your L's other than a 1.5hr taster to see if you want to go to the course. I'll probably do at least one of their extra courses, but I thought they were meant for after you've had at least a month or two of riding experience.

And are any of those mistakes you've made ones I could learn from you telling me? I'll definitely end up making different mistakes, but it might be nice to have a few things to avoid before I make them.

Well, it does say it would be a floating colony, so it would probably be up where the atmosphere is about as dense as Earth's, and above the sulfuric acid clouds, which is quite a bit more feasible than on the surface. That's something actual real scientists and engineers have looked at. Still not overly feasible though, and there surely won't be a 1000-person colony there by 2050. Even if NASA, SpaceX and the rest of the industry pivoted to Venus rather than Mars, I'd doubt that could happen. And I'd trust pretty much anyone more than this guy to pull it off.

Yep, I've heard someone mention All the Gear, All the Time, and plan to stick to that. It wasn't said so explicitly, but that's also pretty much what I did with Dad. Having looked at some motorcycle youtube, I suspect what Dad had/has isn't exactly top-of-the-line, but we both wore all of it whenever we went out. Having said that, do you have any specific recommendations for hot-weather (or otherwise) gear that's safe (as much as you can be), and not too expensive?

My understanding was that the browser vendor itself would be the attester. So if Google says it's Google Chrome, it probably is. Unless you somehow reverse engineer how Google decides that it's Google Chrome and spoof that or something...

A) Maybe not you, maybe not me or anyone else here, but 99.99% of the rest of the world? And when the rest leave, is Mozilla really going to be able to justify maintaining a browser for those that remain? B) There might not be a website that would do it, but what about if practically all websites with any corporate backing did it?

You get to Google pretty quickly by following links. If you look at the top of the linked issue, it links to a few things owned by Rupert Ben Wiser. If you follow the explainer link, you get this list of authors:

Authors: Ben Wiser (Google) Borbala Benko (Google) Philipp Pfeiffenberger (Google) Sergey Kataev (Google)

And in the repo, he says it's being prototyped in Chromium.

That's all written by him though, so I guess he could just be lying and making up names. So I tried looking up his name, to see if he's listed anywhere as a Google employee, but the best I could find is he's listed as a Google employee since 2022 on Facebook and LinkedIn. And he doesn't have much on his Github. (I kinda feel a little stalkery now... Don't harass anyone please). So either this is an elaborate, very late, April fool's or he's probably the fall guy for whatever exec actually thought this up.

I may not be 100% right, as I haven't looked at it in detail, but I think it's even a bit more than that. Since the way that's proven is by the browser vendor signing the request (I assume with an HTTP header or something), you could also verify it's from a specific vendor. So even if Mozilla says, yes, we'll display your ads, a website could still lock down to Chrome. It would probably also significantly hamper new browsers, and browsers with a security/anti-ad focus, as they won't be recognised by major websites that use the new protocol until they have market share, which they won't get if they don't have access to major websites.

Nah, nah, it was the International Phonetic Alphabet. Can't have something like that on the 'murican internet.