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  • The Glock has three safeties designed to prevent the weapon from firing if the trigger hasn't been pulled correctly. One of these prevents the trigger from moving backwards unless it is depressed inside the trigger guard. You clearly know all this.

    The term you're looking for is "affirmative safety", one type of which would be the common switch on the side of the frame that prevents the trigger from being pulled until it is disengaged in an action distinct from pulling the trigger. The Glock does not have an affirmative safety.

    Source: certified Glock armorer

  • When was the last time you made Jello?
  • No, we call jam jam. Jelly is made purely of the juice of a fruit or berry, thickened with pectin and with added sugar. If you use the whole fruit smooshed up but with chunks we call it preserves. We also call marmalade marmalade. It's made primarily of the skin of citrus fruit, but you probably know that

  • Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen
  • You can, though. But not through their app. Someone reverse engineered their protocol and wrote a program that connects like a new client, which you then approve, and it dumps all your random seeds into a text file. I then put them all into Keepass.

    Edit: Unfortunately, the author has deprecated the project as Authy has added some attestations to their API, seemingly for this exact issue. https://github.com/alexzorin/authy?tab=readme-ov-file

  • Police in New York shoot and kill 13-year-old holding a pellet gun, authorities say
  • Strange. Doesn't the second amendment guarantee our right to keep and bear arms? But apparently the cops are allowed to murder us for it.

    I wonder when it will be okay for them to kill us for exercising free speech.

    🤔🤔

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