My position on police is complicated. I don't speak to police. I don't like interacting with police. I've met some officers that were real dicks. I don't like our justice system.

I still can donate to the police retirement fund and the shop with a sheriff program, the latter of which is really about the kids, and the former of which falls in line with my some of my other beliefs.

I don't believe in the hate-motivated politics going around right now.

I don't personally feel very confused or conflicted by this situation, although I could see how others might view it as cognitive dissonance--largely because they're working with like 0.01% of the relevant information about me used to form my decision.

Edit: also, thanks for revealing your method. I confess I know a few usernames by heart, and recognize yours as familiar, but there's only maybe 2 commentors here I could nail down to an specific comment. I figured it was probably just some search-box wizardry.

2nd edit: Time to change usernames again, haha. I cycle them sometimes to avoid all the metadata.

This is HN, so I assume you've built a tool to do it. I'm really curious to hear about the method.

I don't "really enjoy sticking it to the government." First of all, I just chimed in on the other guy's comment. I made a joke about FPV drones.

Second of all, the guy who is supposedly sticking it to the government didn't make that claim himself. He was accused of that by the next comment. I think he probably just wants to check stuff out before it becomes illegal, and that doesn't make him a crank.

I use a pi-hole as well to block the trackers etc as much as possible, and so I don't leak DNS requests to the ISP either.

With the prevalence of Cloudfare now, it's pretty onerous to captcha every visit to a new site just because VPN. You would think Cloudfare could at least give me a "session" that persisted across the web, if they're going gatekeep the whole fucking thing.

Length is a good way to add entropy if the characters are not predictable.

"Ava234ncqli3h23rn2f" is a lot stronger than "Ava234ncqli3"

"DonaldTrump" is barely stronger than "Donald"

Hopefully that makes sense.

More seriously, this just kicks the can a little bit.

"Already people can chuck a + in the user part...so really there's not much point trying to maintain a 25:1 user to email ratio"

I drive a truck. I think I'm going to get my favorite body style of F150 (late 70s/early 80s) and put a brand new engine in it, and whatever else it needs to make it 100%. I don't need any tech except one of those things that turns AUX into FM radio.

When I bought this truck, it replaced a 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee with 318,000 miles (512,000km). I can live without luxury. I'll miss my heated steering wheel, though.

I vaguely know that's possible, but I don't venture out a lot honestly.

They're not the same.

The ease of accessing a voice assistant is nice--I double click a watch button to set reminders/timers/alarms. It's a shame the VA is bixby, but mostly it gets the job done.

Fixed that.

Please, just make all things possible! Let me micro-manage the shit out of notifications!

It's a great watch. I would wear it more, but it's a little gaudy for me, and heavy. Still, I've really mistreated it a lot, and it just keeps on going.