My state is one that has recently adopted age verification requirements. Adult sites seem to be complying through IP geolocation, requiring users in my state to establish accounts. I think they are requiring a credit/debit card on file as evidence of age, but I cannot say that with any certainty.

VPN servers in less-oppressive jurisdictions bypass the account-creation requirement.

Ubuntu 8.10, Intrepid Ipex. Until then, I still had a machine in the homelab that wouldn’t/couldn’t boot to USB.

It’s not about confession. It’s about “Jesus died for your sins”. If his sacrifice “saves” you from your deepest, darkest perversions, the deeper and darker those perversions, the more meaningful the sacrifice.

Did he die just to save you from the perils of having lusted over an exposed ankle? Or does his sacrifice cover the 20 hours a week you spend fantasizing about hot Asian femboys pounding your tight ass?

Let’s try this a different way…

How do you want to indicate something should be retained? What is the single, physical act you want to perform to tell the operating system “this thing needs to be captured”?

The screenshot folder itself is certainly not limited to just screenshots. Any file you can save can be kept in there. To my mind, the “entry point” is “saving a file to this particular folder”, regardless of the specific method used to do the saving. The screenshot is just an extremely convenient way to do that.

I just thought of a way to improve this technique with Tasker. Tasker can work with the clipboard, edit files, and take a screenshot. So, you could set up a gesture to trigger a task in Tasker. Tasker can then take the screenshot, dumping it into the folder. Tasker can then check the clipboard; if there is text in your clipboard, it can prepend it to a single “TODO.txt” in your screenshot folder.

Linux could be configured much the same way, using shutter and xclip to capture the screenshot and clipboard, respectively.

What always got me personally is exactly that — over time I’d end up with multiple “entry points” depending on context (screenshot, chat, browser, notes…).

So long as you’re manually processing everything, screenshots work for all of that. You can take a note in any text box anywhere, and screenshot it. Chat message? Screenshot. Browser? Screenshot. Notes? Screenshot. You can even take a photo and then screenshot it to capture it into your workflow.

I have Shutter (apt install shutter) on my desktop, and I’ve changed the Print Screen key to shortcut to “shutter -s”. This lets me capture an area of my screen with one button (and a mouse drag). Bam, more screenshot.

The downsides of screenshot are obvious, of course: Extracting the text from the screenshot is a bit of a pain in the ass. If you really want to keep the same entry point, though, you could setup a script to OCR newly captured screenshot/photos to extract the text. An OCR-friendly font might make that pretty reliable.

Now I want to improve my setup…

On my phone, my Screenshot folder is syncthing’d to my desktop, so most of the time, capturing something in the moment is as simple as dragging three fingers down my screen. My Camera and default Download folders are also syncthing’d, so just taking a picture or saving something from a browser has it captured across my devices.

I also use Tududi, which has Telegram integration, for the quick note. Taking the note is just a matter of sending a message in Telegram, which is available on all my devices. Signal’s “Note To Self” feature is also useful; I trust it more than Telegram for sensitive data. In Firefox on my desktop, I have “Automatic Tab Opener” (Browser extension) pulling up my Tududi inbox every hour, reminding me to actually deal with the notes I have previously taken.

I don’t know if stretching reduces injury, but I know if I don’t take a few minutes to work my fingers, wrists, and forearms before hammering at the anvil, I end up with a ton of mis-strikes and cramps until I’m fully warmed up. Precision suffers when I don’t stretch.

Syncthing functions as a sort of decentralized Dropbox or Google drive, by keeping folder content synchronized across any number of devices. I haven’t tried the iOS clients, but android, Linux, and windows work great.

This feature isn’t depriving anyone of anything. Neither is the guillotine in my front yard. It hasn’t been used to decapitate anyone. It’s just sitting there in case it’s needed at some point in the future.

Oh, those cameras in the elementary school bathroom? Yeah, those aren’t actually hooked up. They don’t have any power, let alone a network connection to the security camera system we just ordered. Those cameras are there just in case they are needed later.

This date field is a Checkov Gun hanging on the wall in the first act.

I would strongly suggest Pangolin for that use case. It combines a reverse proxy with a VPN tunnel between your local network and your VPS. You can host your services on your local machine, and serve them from the VPS. Pangolin also sets up your letsencrypt certs for https.

It also provides a security layer: if enabled for a site, you have to be logged in to Pangolin before Pangolin will proxy traffic to your site.

No direct correlation, no. Businesses are largely able to refute and remove derogatory reviews with a little effort. The correlation is in how much effort they are willing to put in to maintain their image. Often that willingness extends to the actual operation of their business, but not always.

The last tolerable version of Windows was XP. The last good version of Windows was 98SE2.

The best time to switch to Linux was 2006. The second best time is Now.

It’s absolutely terrible with mundane things like that. It will find someone converting quantities of flour in US vs EU recipes, and use that same conversion for milk, or molten lead. But it fail to provide the original “flour” context, and expresses the resulting conversion with absolute confidence.

And because it is such a mundane piece of information, we tend to accept it without bothering to actually verify it.

I saw that documentary.

It would be great if that argument prevailed, but it almost certainly won’t.

You’re having a conversation with a troll spanning across at least 10 different communities over three months?

The “context” is that “banning” is clearly one of your primary interests. You might consider starting a community on the subject.

I just scrolled through about two dozen comments in your recent history. Every single one focused on banning and blocking content in the fediverse.

Do you ever actually participate in the discussion?

Not “something like this”. AFAICT, the Colorado bill is a word-for-word clone of the California one.

For this bill, “user” explicitly means “minor”. Prohibit (California) minors from using your OS in your ToC, and you don’t have to do anything at all.