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Date: Before 2035. Evidence: Disney also bought 20th Century Fox. Princesses also appear in DreamWorks movies like the Shrek trilogy. If Disney are on an acquisition spree, DreamWorks would be the next obvious target.

A "global ban" is a ban from editing all Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) wikis declared by staff members, which can not be reversed by the volunteer administrators or by community vote. These aren't given out lightly, but are reserved for the "worst of the worst", usually handed out to the likes of pedophilia promoters (most famously Nathan Larson), and people who cause legal trouble, or at least considerable drama. Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger would fall into the third category, and possibly into the second category.

Larry Sanger has been criticizing Wikipedia for decades, especially harshly in recent years. Last month, he was banned from the English-language Wikipedia. After all the drama caused by him, most recently him advocating for requiring high-ranking functionaries to publicly disclose their real names, and stricter regulation of Wikipedia, and removal of Section 230 protections, an impending global ban against him is not far-fetched, though it wouldn't stop his advocacy outside Wikipedia.

Date: Before 2028. Evidence: See above.

It seems , Samsung took away the option to unlock a phone without pressing "OK". Probably, the thought behind it was to prevent an attacker from being able to find out the length of the PIN, because with "OK-less" unlocking, the lockscreen will reject an entered PIN once its length is reached but the PIN is wrong.

Sadly, this removal lead to the loss of convenience. It requires one additional touch at every unlock for those who don't trust biometric unlocking. And the loss of convenience is guaranteed, while what it seeks to prevent is just a small likelihood. It sacrifices a lot of convenience for a tiny bit of security.

A better solution

Here is how it could have been implemented without reducing security: Don't reject the incorrect PIN or password once its length has been reached, but still automatically accept a correct PIN or password. This prevents the length of the PIN from being revealed to an attacker.

Now, you'd think "doesn't that make it possible to brute-force the PIN?"

To that, the solution is treating a certain count of keystrokes without a successful unlock, such as 100, like 5 failed attempts with pressing "OK". This disables the keypad for a duration escalating from 30 seconds.

This count should not be dependent on the length of the password or PIN, such as the length multiplied by five, because that would expose the length again.

Another useful option would be to disable visual feedback on the keypad screen. This means the keypad is visible, but no dots appear above it for every character, and the keys don't light up if you tap them.

I hereby release this post into the public domain, .

Satellite images sometimes , such as residences of very wealthy people. This is where the got its name from.

Anything visible from the air or space should be in the public domain and never subject to censorship. No one should be able to remove satellite images from Google Maps and similar services. If there is anything considered "sensitive" or "private", it needs to be covered in a way that it is not visible from the air or space.

Anything that is visible from space it is not private.

I hereby release this post into the public domain ().

My closest guess is Edward. Edward the wolf.

His voice sounds like an Edward.

How to find out which parent album an Imgur image belongs to?

For example, this is an individual image taken from the trending page: , which belongs to this album: .

How to find out which album an Imgur image belongs to, without knowing the album URL?

Example for an album URL (taken from trending page):

Example for an image URL:

Is there any way to get the first URL from the second URL, if the first URL is unknown? How to find the parent album URL that an image belongs to if the album URL is lost?

The download list only shows the domain, not the full URL. There is no option to see the full URL.

Is there any way to obtain the full source URL of a downloaded file? Perhaps there is a command for this that can be sent through ? I found no documentation on this.

By "download", I mean as portable MP4 or webm files, not .

I couldn't find a tool to get past the age restriction on his videos, which he apparently voluntarily sets on his videos (see "requested by uploader" in description).

Has anyone managed to download his age-restricted videos, in particular "" and ""?

I would like to back up these videos given that his channel probably won't last long.

Is it worse to discharge a smartphone down to 1% or to charge it to 100%?

Somewhere in the "cupcake incident" video (Famous Youtuber Edp445 Caught Meeting 13 Y / O Girl ft. CC UNIT), Bryant explained that the "EDP" ("eat dat p___y") came from a profile picture of pacman eating a cat. Has he ever explained where the "445" comes from?

(Yes, I know the 4+4+5=13 joke.)

One of EDP445's earliest videos from 2010 was titled "Album in 2018.wmv" (), in which he announced to release his album on July 25th, 2018.

That day came and went, and it looks like he forgot all about it. Who knows if it would have been better than ? It at least came out at all. :D

I am not looking for a music name identification service like Shazam, AHA-Music, or Mousai, but I would like to identify a given audio sample within other media files, meaning within other audio files and audio tracks from video files.

Say I have a hundred video files and I would like to find out which of them contain the same music as "sample.mp3".

I am looking for a tool that scans the videos and returns something like "video17.mp4 at time 06:21 contains the same music as sample.mp3".

This would be useful for finding memes in videos, for example.

Even a tool that doesn't mention the exact timestamp would be useful.

Is there any tool that can do this?

If I read the same block a million time, would it corrupt data in the neighbouring blocks? How about ten million times?

It probably depends on the flash storage, but is there some rough estimate?

I couldn't find a definitive answer online.

Kurz nach dem Germanwings-Flug 9525 veröffentlichte der YouTube-Kanal „Thesen24“ den Kurzfilm „Andreas Lubitz Vorgeschichte und Tatmotiv zum Germanwings Absturz“, welches über 100.000 mal angesehen wurde.

Woran ich mich erinnern kann: Das Intro verwendete die Vorlage „“ von VideoHive.

Das Video war mindestens bis zum August 2016 verfügbar.

Audi A8, S-Klasse, und BMW 7er-Serie gibt es nur als Limousine, nicht als Kombi, während es Audi A6, E-Klasse, und BMW 5er-Serie (obere Mittelklasse) als Kombi gibt.

Wie kommt das?

Meine Einschätzung: Wer den Platz braucht und das Geld hat, kann sich einen Luxus-Geländewagen wie Q7, GLS, oder X5/X7 holen.

When pushing CTRL+A, no text is selected, so every field has to be copied separately. I am not sure if this is a bug or deliberate.

Is there any way to copy the entire text from the certificate viewer?

Nur noch monatliche Flatrates können telefonisch bestellt werden. Das bedeutet, man wählt Menüpunkte, die von einer Roboterstimme vorgelesen werden.

Jahrespakete können scheinber bei so gut wie allen Anbietern mittlerweile nur noch in der App des Mobilfunkanbieters () und bei manchen Anbietern noch auf der Webseite des Mobilfunkanbieters aktiviert werden.

Hat jemand eine Ahnung warum?

Die klassische telefonische Aktivierung hat den Vorteil, dass sie als einzige Aktivierungsmethode keiner Internetverbindung bedarf. Um ein Jahrespaket zu aktivieren benötigt man das Festnetz-Internet, oder man verschwendet eine menge Guthaben, da mobiles Internet im Basistarif schnell teuer wird.

Flash storage stores data as electrical charges in floating-gate transistors.

From what I understand, it is the erasure, not the writing that causes the degradation, because a strong negative voltage has to be applied to the memory page.

When flash memory sits idle, its controller automatically scans and refreshes the electrical charge (source: ).

How much does this process degrade the flash storage, if at all? If it were plugged in but idle for 10 years, how much of a difference would it have made?

When plugging in an external mass storage device, how to make it mount as read-only by default?

Nach dem Jonas Ems und seine Freundin Denise sich getrennt haben, hat er wie man erwarten könnte einen großen Teil seiner alten Videos entfernt.

Darunter sind hauptsächlich Videos, in denen sie vor kam, zum Beispiel das millionenfach geclickte Video „“ aus 2018.

Sein erstes Video, „10 DINGE DIE ICH HASSE - WENN ICH IN DER SCHULE BIN! (Dinge, die in der Schule nerven!)“, ist leider auch gelöscht. Es wurde Anfang 2012 veröffentlicht und war bis mindestens 2019 verfügbar. ()

Da es über 200.000 mal angesehen wurde, gibt es eine kleine Hoffnung, dass es jemand gerettet hat.

Video platforms should be required by law to let people download videos as a non-proprietary file (usually MP4 or webm) in the download folder.

Third-party tools like youtube-dl and ytdlp exist, but they often stop working because video platforms like YouTube make changes to their site or deliberately try to counteract them.

If downloading videos is too difficult, many people simply don't bother, which causes videos that would otherwise have been preserved to become lost media.

so they can sell YouTube Premium's "downloading" feature.

However, the YouTube premium "downloading" feature does not result in an MP4 or WEBM file, but in proprietary binary data that is stored with data lock-in, and are forcibly deleted after 30 days, making it useless for long-term preservation.

I have heard optical discs (CD, DVD, BD) like being stored "protected from light". But how bad is it if they are on a shelf where they are exposed to some scattered light from the window and room lamp?

This obviously means no direct sunlight.

When downloading many emails to ".eml" files using Thunderbird, the downloading is interrupted if one email has an excessively long subject name.

Every time this happens, the email that causes it has to be located manually. This makes exporting a high number of emails impractical.

Is there any way to save all emails as ".eml" without being interrupted by excessively long file names?

It is well known that . But I couldn't find any source on how humidity affects hard drives in storage.

Is there such a thing as writing a BD-R "too slowly"?

I read an article somewhere (probably on the now-dead MyCE/CDFreaks) that said it is counter-intuitive to write a CD-R and DVD+/-R too slowly because the organic material is intended to be written at a specific speed, so writing too slow could result in lower quality burns. It said the idea that slower is always better is an "urban myth".

Given that BD-R (HTL) uses no organic dye, does it also apply there?

I found about DVDs:

Burning slower than the rated speed will many times result in a worse burn. Ritek G05, back before it turned to trash, was a good example.

I don't know how much truth there is to it. From what I know, only RW discs have to be burned at a narrow speed range, but not sure about R discs. From experience, Hitachi-LG drive firmwares won't even let the user record at any other speed than the rated speed on RW discs. For example, it won't let you record a 4x speed DVD-RW at any other speed.

Use case: putting video player in corner with "always on top" enabled so I can see through it and watch and browse at the same time without sacrificing screen space for the video player.

From what I remember, Xfce has it (I haven't used it for some time), but which others do?

Effective May 2nd, 2026:

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Email providers sadly are killing the option to compose plain text mail. Recently, the German email provider "web.de" , even though plain text emails have benefits like saving space and being less likely to be marked as spam.

HTML is for simple text communication, like using a lorry truck to carry a load that a small car could carry. See also .

In any case, having both options is better than having only one option. So why are they killing plain text email? Do they want people to consume the space faster so they are compelled to pay for a subscription?

I know, plain text is still possible through a third-party tool like Thunderbird, but why remove the option from the web interface?

Their removal of plain text mail co-incided with their unfortunate removal of "lightmailer" (lightmailer-bs.web.de), a lightweight non-javascript web interface that worked on old browsers and loaded ten times faster than their bloated JavaScript web app that they are now forcing down the users' throats. It feels like some kind of perverted trend on online services.

Is there any way to make the bottom cell of the table in this demo extend until the bottom of the screen, regardless of how much it contains?

One possible way would be to "cheat" using JavaScript by detecting the screen height and setting the table to that height whenever the screen height changes. But is there any way to accomplish this using bare HTML and CSS?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" style="height:100%;">
<head>
	<title>Variable height demo</title>
	<style type="text/css">
		body { background-color: #222; color:#ccc; font-family: sans-serif; }
	</style>
</head>
<body style="height:100%; margin:0;">

<table style="width: 100%; height:100%; table-layout: fixed;" border="1">
	<tr style="height:50px;">
		<th>Fixed-height row</th>
	</tr>
<tr style="height:100%;">
	<td style="overflow-y: scroll; vertical-align:top;">
		<ul>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
		</ul>
	</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

I would like to move only read messages to a different folder, but there seems to only be a search filter to only see unread messages.

The closest thing would be to turn on the "Status" column (right click on header above message list, check the "[] Status" box), and then clicking on the "Status" column, but this would still not allow selecting all messages using Ctrl+A, and also no sorting by any other column.

I tried searching "status:read" but it looks like there is no such feature.

The blur and backdrop blur filter requires lots of CPU power, which is bad for laptop battery endurance. Is there any way to turn it off?

Lithium-ion/polymer batteries are well-known to prefer partial charges, but are slow full charges or partial fast charges more harmful to a phone battery?

ZarbexBlog, auch bekannt als ZarbexCr4ft und zeitweise als „Tyler Sheesh“, war ein halbwegs bekannter Meinungsblogger. waren seine Meinungen zu ConCrafter, TheBaCorner, und TANZVERBOT, alle mit jeweils über 100.000 Aufrufen, doch heute ist nur noch ein Video aus der Zeit noch zu finden.

Der Kanal „Zarbex Reupload“ hatte damals einige seiner bekannten Videos neu hochgeladen, und sie waren unbeschwert etwa sechs Jahre lang online, doch in 2024 machte der Feigling hinter dem Kanal leider einen urplötzlichen Sinneswandel zur Moralapostel und entfernte alle Reuploads, außer einem, unter jenem er in diesem Kommentar seine Moralpredigt zurückließ:

Servus Leute, ich melde mich mal wieder zurück nach über 5 Jahren Abwesenheit: Ich hab mich entschlossen alle Videos (bis auf dieses) vom Kanal runter zu nehmen, weil ich nicht möchte, dass Zarbex durch seine alten Videos in Schwierigkeiten gerät.

In welche Schwierigkeiten soll er denn angeblich geraten? Hätte es Zarbex gestört, dann hätte er sich beschwert. Hat es aber anscheinend nicht.

Er ist mitlerweile ein ganz anderer Typ und hat wenig bis gar nichts mit seiner alten, zynisch-pubertären Art zu tun.

Na und? Trotzdem waren die Videos toll. Sie waren ein Stück Geschichte.

Außerdem würde wohl kaum jemand deshalb schlecht über Zarbex denken, sondern Verständnis dafür haben. Mir und vielen Anderen haben seine „zynisch-pubertären“ Videos jedenfalls gefallen. Dadurch ist er überhaupt bekannt geworden.

Ich hab diesen Kanal damals mit 13 aufgemacht, weil ich nicht wollte das Zarbex´s "legendäre" Meinungsblogs verloren gehen.

Waren sie auch. „Zarbex Reupload“ lag mit 13 Jahren richtiger als als Erwachsener.

Ich fand den Kanal „Zarbex Reupload“ etwa 2021. Damals hatte ich mir nicht die Mühe gemacht, die Videos zu sichern, da ich nicht mit einem dämlichen Sinneswandel nach so einer langen Zeit gerechnet hatte.

Not the ibus one. The GTK one. I want to use Ctrl+dot for other, more useful and serious shortcuts, not this infantile nonsense.

As an added nuisance, it doesn't close when pressing backspace (like it does on Windows), only the ESC button that is further away, and repetition is what makes a small annoyance large over time.

What I have tried:

# gsettings set org.freedesktop.ibus.panel.emoji hotkey "[]".
No such schema “org.freedesktop.ibus.panel.emoji”
# gsettings list-keys org.gtk.Settings.EmojiChooser
recent-emoji

From :

Used by text widgets to let users insert Emoji characters.

Awesome. Now how do I get rid of it?

So it seems there is no way to change or remove the hotkey.

Is there any way to get rid of it besides recompiling GTK with the EmojiChooser ripped out of the source code?

bzip2recover allows recovering undamaged blocks of bz2 archives, and lziprecover, from what I understand, can correct corrupted data to a limited extent.

Is there any other archival utility which has some form of error recovery? Even though the popular xz also uses blocks (whose size the user can customize), there is no tool that can isolate individual blocks to find undamaged blocks in the way bzip2 does. From what I understand, if there is any damage anywhere on xz compressed data, the rest of the data is completely unreadable.

This means, for example, if one byte in the first 50 MB of an 10 GB archive is wrong, the rest of the 10 GB is useless.

Also the more modern compressors like zstd seem to have no error recovery.

I don't expect good error recovery from any compression format given that compression is all about removing redundancy, but at least there should be some way to get parts of the data back in case of corruption, including after the corrupted data.

I see this CSS property misused so often. Is there any way to get rid of it on all websites? Just pretend it doesn't exist.

"Mayday - Air Crash Investigation" is a documentary series about air disasters. I predict that the following air disasters will be covered in the 27th season of Air Crash Investigation, which will be released in 2027:

• Britannia Airways flight 226A

• Pinnacle Airlines flight 3701

• Dan Air flight 1008

• Air Canada flight 621

• United Airlines flights 1175 and 328 (shared episode).

• Olympic Airways flight 411

Date: 2027. Evidence: These are widely known disasters not yet covered. Shared episodes have already been made in the past, like the episode "Cold Case".

A sparse file is created using truncate -s 100M example.bin on a file system that supports sparse files, like ext4. This will not take any space besides the file metadata, which can be checked using du -s -h example.bin.

However, is there any way to detect blank sectors (sectors with only null bytes) on a non-sparse file and mark them as sparse after the fact?

Without root access and an unlocked bootloader, you don't truly own your phone.

By default, Android places lots of restrictions on the user, for example they have no normal write access to the MicroSD card since Android 4.4 and USB OTG media since Android 6.

Google provided no menu option to let the user opt out of these restrictions, so rooting is the only way to gain normal access to your property.

Unfortunately, bootloader unlocking requires a factory reset, and backing up in-app data can be difficult to impossible depending on the app. By the time people learn about rooting, it tends to be too late.

Do not accept this nonsense as normal. This is an ownership violation.

I hereby release this post into the public domain ().

It will not be found anytime soon due to the lack of a pressing need for it, besides providing closure to the families, which the Malaysian government has - let's face it - little reason to care about. Besides, something like MH370 has never happened again since then, because the air traffic controllers are better prepared this time.

The overwhelming majority of signs point to a pilot suicide, specifically by captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, see the video by Green Dot Aviation.

The flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) will unlikely contain anything useful, if they are readable at all. Almost certainly, Zaharie pulled the circuitbreaker for the FDR before his vanishing act, and let the CVR run so it would overwrite itself due to the two-hour limit, destroying all evidence.

If the remote possibility that the wreckage has already been seized by some authorities but it is covered up from the public is true, then this post of course does not apply. But this post presumes that the wreckage is still at the bottom of the ocean.

Date: 2040 - 2049. Evidence: see above.

I release this post into the public domain, CC0 1.0.

Mainstream smartphone operating systems (Android and iOS) let applications arbitrarily disable screen capture, screen recording, and screen mirroring to an external display such as a television or an MHL connection to an HDMI monitor.

I am surprised smartphone users have been conditioned into accepting this ownership violation as a "normal part of life". It is not.

As a device owner, you should be able to screen-capture anything that appears on your screen, without exception. App makers have no business deciding what you can screen capture.

Two well-known examples of screenshot blocking and screen recorder blocking are the , and .

The first one probably only intended to prevent incognito mode from appearing on external displays such as a television, which is accomplished though the same feature as screenshot blocking and screen recorder blocking (). So screenshot and screen recorder blocking are apparently collateral damage.

Samsung also added the "secure" flag to their lockscreen key pad in 2023. The goal of this is to prevent it from appearing on external displays, so screenshot and screen recorder blocking are side effects. There is no reason to prevent the device owner from screen recording the keypad if they voluntarily wish to do it, which can be useful for a demonstration or bug report, using a temporary passcode.

See also my prediction on :

And regarding WhatsApp profile pictures: Screenshots of profile pictures are not privacy violations and never were, but have legitimate reasons such as preserving good memories.

Everyone knows that one should not upload something onto a visible spot on the Internet that one does not wish to be preserved by others. A profile picture is such a spot.

A privacy violation is, for example, . Here, developers are being coerced into disclosing personally identifiable details (including home address!) that they probably wished not to, in order to be able to release applications that work on most Android smartphones sold (network effect).

But a profile picture is something one voluntarily chooses to make public, and not even a mandatory requirement to be able to use WhatsApp. Not a privacy violation.

Ironically, this comes from Meta, Inc. - one of the biggest data harvesters in history.

I hereby release this post into the public domain ().

I never understood why popcorn seems to be so popular in cinemas. It tastes boring, and sometimes popcorn pieces get into your throat, drying it up.