Obligatory: ‘Rules for Rulers’ is a very condensed summary of Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith’s ‘The Dictator’s Handbook’.

Haven’t played ‘Max Payne’ in twenty years, completely forgot what it looks like in-game, and still the first thought from the screenshot was “Max Payne”.

Took them long enough, it seems. Apparently lack of traffic controllers wasn’t preventing flights last week.

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Imgur users on ‘new’ once ran an experiment for a day where they upvoted basically anything — in practice, oddest and weirdest stuff bubbled up. I’ve never seen such entertaining feed before or after.

Passwords are typically sent to the server and hashed there. I’m a bit hazy right now on the implications of client-side hashing, but it would likely present some security problems.

Edit: at the least, it would allow an attacker to use a leaked password database to log in to the sites, sidestepping the whole hashing thing.

There are protocols that send a hashed or encrypted password instead of plaintext, but they’re more complex than just hashing. Iirc they involve a challenge-and-response method.

Loop Habit Tracker is pretty good for this. In particular, it allows you to schedule stuff like ‘twice a month’, or even ‘run 10 km a week’ or somesuch. The app shows the whole list, but marks which tasks are done and which aren’t yet. Plus there are notifications and widgets, but I haven’t used the latter.

Best part is that it’s open-source and requires nearly zero permissions. OTOH the data isn’t synced anywhere.

Google integrates its own services in both the phone and messaging apps: namely spam reporting and blocking. I’m guessing that other major brands also have services to that end.

Google’s ‘Messages’ also has a button to make a video call, and I dunno even what app and protocol would be used for that, as I never used video calls and don’t have any Google apps for that functionality.

Ironically, this is the comment in this thread that’s not paranoid enough, because to my knowledge both Google and Samsung use their own closed-source message and phone apps, along with other standard apps. (Idk about other vendors, but the same is pretty likely for major brands.)

That worked hilariously in ‘Deus Ex’ when a friend had both of Denton’s legs shot to shit. Denton crawled around for hours, then stood right up in a cutscene, and after it ended, flopped back on the ground and resumed crawling.

Afaik he sorta changed his position later on, or rather said that he would be making content for phones from then on. I imagine he still wasn’t happy with watching a traditional film on a phone.

‘Twin Peaks’ is definitely the case where the film was made for those who already saw the series. Basically, one can treat it as a flashback in the series. Kinda the same way as flashbacks in ‘Simpsons’ and such are not to be watched first.

Should work alright if the server handles Unicode correctly, and isn’t one of those ass sites that put restrictions on the password’s length and composition. Hashing functions don’t even care if you’re feeding them raw binary.

Thanks to my password manager, commas are among the more tame characters that occur in my passwords.