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by 29083011397778 4y ago
The same way my brother learned to play guitar, despite the phrase "No matter what you do or how hard you try, odds are good a 10 year old in China can do it better".
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
This actually makes me think. Apple was only implementing the scanning prior to upload to iCloud, because they don't want to be liable for hosting (in any way, shape, or form) CSAM. So in my mind, the obvious way out for everyone else
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
> yet we address things like car safety with more urgency And even then we only focus on the people inside the car.
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
If you government isn't comprised of people with a range of typical American values, from West coast to East, I have all kinds of questions. For example, if you polled someone from either side of the aisle on an issue (Christ, any is
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
> The statistics for long term ie 10+ year weight loss are abysmal Great - now do cigarettes. If you'd prefer to skip the math though, the CDC states "Fewer than one in ten adult cigarette smokers succeed in quitting each year&
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
Are you not? When I was a lad I ate four dozen eggs every morning to help me get large. And now that I'm grown I eat five dozen eggs (so I'm roughly the size of a barn).
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
> but a technological monopoly is often just a standard. Sure. To use, participate in, and build upon this "open standard", you (or your team) just have to keep up with some of the most well-paid (presumably for a reason) progr
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
Hell, I'd say mental state instead of illness. Being happy-go-lucky tends to be self-reinforcing in some, or we could use whomever we know that's a "Glass half full" kind of person as our example.
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
> with MacOS you pay for the software when you buy the hardware By that logic the normal people are still in the clear, as most OEMs bundle a Windows license with the prebuilts they sell.
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
> Third guy specialized on clogged pipes and home emergency repair. And knows anyone calling him is likely over a barrel and willing to pay big money to make the problem go away. Odd hours, but a respectable hourly rate (assuming he has
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
I distinctly recall cheering on old Newegg when a patent troll accidentally sued them. Newegg said they would be taking the issue to court, and actually prevented the patent troll from backing out of the suit, IIRC.
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
Yes and no. No, you can't buy a VoIP number and use it as your contact immediately and indefinitely. You would be amazed at how few companies update their list of VoIP vs POTS/Carrier numbers though. Hypothetically, one could
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
They're on such shaky ground they had to form a coalition with the NDP, and rely on their support to remain functionally in power. They don't have to be popular when the Conservatives are worse.
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
Using fsociety as a handle while not immediately seeing capitalism as a political ideology that, when turned up to 11 (as in America) many consider harmful is absolutely perfect.
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
20 feels like an exaggeration, but there are more than 20 Matrix bridges, so maybe I'm just less spread out than some. I've been using Telegram, Signal, Google Chat, and Discord so far, on a self-hosted server. It's not too h
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
There are multiple articles written about it [0-2], but they all seem to cite the same (single) study. [0] https://www.anylaw.com/media/2021/07/18/study-finds-that-fac... [1] https://www.hg.or
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
Without telling you to pirate: What you're describing is Sonarr / Radarr with Plex / Jellyfin. The former lets you put in a list of shows / movies you want it to download, and it'll check against public and private
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
So did the Nexus 5 - the magnets even aligned with Magsafe QI chargers!
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
Which brings us back to Mr. Gabe Newell and his "Piracy is a service problem" quote, but we've already had that discussion on HN this week.
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
Until storage gets cheap enough that the TV can simply cache it's information about you indefinitely, and upload as part of a firmware update. Hell, that could be today, just rotating logs and discarding the oldest.
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
> I welcome these mega landlords with open arms Because corporations with the cashflow of nation-states have routinely given better customer service in your experience? Or does it sound simpler having only 3 choices to rent from in your
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
I do. But people have families, and if husbands, wives, children and grandparents want to buy a fancy lightswitch, well, we do the best we can with what we have here in reality. Should everything be FOSS? Sure, that would be wonderful. But
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
> 1. People who want to censor and/or surveil other people's devices and traffic. This is me, with the caveat being that it's my damn device . It's only the OEM trying to say it's theirs and that I'm "
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
> The current suite of nonprivate tech offers an insane amount of power, especially for those of us without a good memory or navigational skills. Do you think relying on these tools has made your memory better (allowing you to wean yours
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
Annoyed at... Google, rght? Because my older phones don't explode when they get relegated to being a Kodi remote, and this is 100% on Google.
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
Why not whichever Keepass client you prefer, and Syncthing (if it's even necessary for your use-case)? Open-Source, old enough to have a few revisions and be looked at pretty closely, completely off-line, and forgiving if updates are n
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
After switching to a shavette after using a safety razor for a few years, I'd highly recommend a straightrazor. I actually get a better shave, in about the same time. When I nick myself, it doesn't bleed anywhere near as long, eit
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
I don't shop at Amazon if I can at all help it, so as someone unfamiliar with the return flow: this actually sounds expected. Telling the person you're trying to scam "It's a new feature not built into the main app yet&q
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
Sounds like Elon has one week to become a record-holder.
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by 29083011397778 4y ago
You're right - but the tone of the comments section regarding Valve is very different compared to the mixed bag below typically found below articles of other companies. Everyone may go too far, but the majority seem to hold Valve in

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