Grombobulous

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by Grombobulous 5d ago
It’s such a great feature, and I see why YouTube gates it to Premium. Once you’ve transitioned from an ad-watching customer to a paid one, YouTube actually turns into something that treats your product experience and satisfaction as importa
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by Grombobulous 5d ago
I think you’re overestimating the peril RP puts itself in here.
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by Grombobulous 5d ago
Again, blame the individual for being “vindictive.” When will we start blaming people in power for being “vindictive” against the people?
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by Grombobulous 5d ago
Your argument would be a sound one if corporations weren’t granted unlimited financial power in making political donations and campaign ads. 67% of Americans support raising the federal minimum wage to $15/hour. Why hasn’t it happened
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by Grombobulous 5d ago
Whether it’s fraud depends heavily on how it’s sold. If it’s represented as a new product or offered with manufacturer’s warranty, that would cross into fraud.
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by Grombobulous 5d ago
All of this is pretty irrelevant from a legal perspective. Reverse engineering is legal, but manufacturers don’t have to help you figure out how to reverse engineer their products and they’re allowed to design their products in a way that m
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by Grombobulous 5d ago
Google “taylor farms cyclospora” or “tyson beef prices shortage” for an example of the problems of highly consolidated processing. I wasn’t talking about private equity farms versus not, I’m generally talking about industry consolidation. S
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by Grombobulous 5d ago
And the employer with the largest amount of employees using SNAP benefits is… Walmart is subsidized by the government to the tune of $2,000 per employee due to their low wages: https://rmfu.org/taxpayer-dollars-subsidize-wal
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by Grombobulous 5d ago
You’re absolutely right. For example, we’ve seen the negative impacts from excessive agricultural consolidation. Many of them already lack profitability without subsidy. Many agricultural products all pass through the same mega-sized proces
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by Grombobulous 5d ago
No, not-for-profit entities pay market rate salaries. This is already a well-established system.
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by Grombobulous 6d ago
I updated my comment, I mean a for-profit entity versus non-profit, which the IRS already defines. Not-for-profit entities can still pay market rate wages to employees and owners.
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by Grombobulous 6d ago
It should be more about making certain levels of consolidation and deep erosion of local ownership illegal. We have run this country on an assumption that we must give businesses a high amount of freedom. An argument can be made that busine
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by Grombobulous 6d ago
Your client device OS will not allow you to create a passkey without a local unlock PIN/password or biometric, and those local unlock methods do not traverse the Internet (they are handled with TPM/Secure Enclave).
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by Grombobulous 7d ago
The idea that the individual citizen has to assume blame for erosion of facts-based society is somewhat insulting. I don’t own a cable news channel. I didn’t found Cambridge Analytica. I don’t own Meta or TikTok feeds. Don’t blame me as the
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by Grombobulous 7d ago
Here’s what I’d tell the industry: too bad, so sad, you spent the last decade burning the trust of your consumers. Facts don’t matter anymore. Your customers used to be excited for technology. Getting a Facebook account was fun and exciting
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by Grombobulous 7d ago
Although maybe they should because someone willing to buy a $2000 phone on launch is probably more willing to buy a lot more things versus someone who keeps phones a long time.
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by Grombobulous 7d ago
Interesting that it purposefully seems to burn compute cycles to discharge faster on purpose (it says that it’ll get warm while discharging). I suspect that basically nobody will ever follow these instructions, though.
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by Grombobulous 7d ago
Have you ever used a PopSocket? I highly recommend them. I think many people who use them start to realize that having a small phone isn’t that great. Having more screen real estate and a larger battery is so much more beneficial than bein
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by Grombobulous 8d ago
In my opinion, giving one person that level of economic and social control as a concept is more of the issue than optimizing for the most positive outcome. E.g., the most intelligent and benevolent king in history might be better in those p
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by Grombobulous 8d ago
I think passkeys with single auth are fine because of how they end up being stored and managed. If you use them via Windows, iOS, Android, or macOS, they are tied to the biometrics on your device. Someone has to steal your device and unlock
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by Grombobulous 8d ago
I love passkeys as a tech enthusiast with a password manager that can hang on to them but I don’t love them as a confusing user experience for the average joe. I also don’t love how many websites and apps use them in stupid ways like using
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by Grombobulous 8d ago
Moved the goalposts from “it’s bad now” to “wait and see in the future it’ll be bad.” I might as well say that people in the Netherlands can’t keep up riding their bicycles much longer because they’ll get tired of it.
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by Grombobulous 8d ago
Right, donating your present wealth because you expect to continue receiving an astronomical amount of wealth in perpetuity through your company ownership is not all that grand of a gesture. Certainly better than many alternatives, but it’s
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by Grombobulous 8d ago
The point of the report is to put it on record that you believe a crime was committed against you and that you want a district attorney to press charges if an investigation is made and a suspect is found. When I say “police” I am not referr
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by Grombobulous 8d ago
Again, a backdoor to data you’re already sending and receiving to basically random strangers on random servers who have an instant ability to forward that information along to anyone.
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by Grombobulous 8d ago
Nearly hands-free for pilots operating controls (not all pilots have a copilot), simple and reliable technology available to planes and airports of all sizes, high amount of message flexibility, faster than typing or some other form of elec
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by Grombobulous 9d ago
This is a good time to point out that Microsoft’s tiers and pricing for Microsoft 365 is completely insane as far as the overwhelming number of different ways to fundamentally buy the exact same software. I realize they’re trying to sell a
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by Grombobulous 10d ago
As soon as Proton gains a Linux client for Drive I might be moving over. Bonus points if they get a photos app that’s more like Ente. Right now I’m stuck with Filen as the “least bad option.”
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by Grombobulous 10d ago
Is that happening? The EU is the most desirable citizenship/passport in the world.
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by Grombobulous 10d ago
How dare the EU try to preserve competitive open markets. We can’t have capitalism in the leveragist serfdom economy!

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