HomeDeLaPot

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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
Jira, but that's not saying much... somehow in 2024 the world's most popular ticketing system doesn't have all the bugs ironed out of its editor. I'm constantly running into little issues with the formatting in descripti
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
Scary. You can't just floor it and get out of there when someone threatens you. Same would apply for other imminent dangers like floods or fires. When the car decides to stop, there's nothing you can do except wait for it to chang
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
72 requests per day _per user with a naive feed reader_. This is a small personal blog with no ads that OP is self-hosting on her own hardware, so blocking all this junk traffic is probably saving her money. Plus she's calling attentio
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
Unhappy with your current government? You can always move to another country. Staying is acceptance of the current expression of terms of citizenship.
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
How do students that cheat with AI pass the exams?
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
Darn, I was hoping this was a scooter trip planning app: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5cffMbZV8E0
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
Awesome news. I had a New York Times subscription for a little while. Signing up online was quick & easy, but cancelling required making a phone call to "Customer Care".
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
I've been thinking about going back to a dumb phone. Somehow I always find myself using my smartphone in a way that I regret. Wasting time. Staying up too late. Mindlessly snacking while scrolling. Checking for new dopamine hits whenev
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
I didn't say it was a dichotomy or that we couldn't keep some of the newer ways.
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
I mean, sure, if we still lived as small groups of hunter-gatherers, many of today's problems would not exist. But many of yesterday's problems could never have been solved.
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
Following the link on the Mac page, it looks like Apple will not repair a 2015 Macbook Pro: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102772 > Obsolete: ... MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015), MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-i
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
After reading the few details in the article, it sounds like it could have just been a disagreement about when a baby's noises cross the line into "distraction." Was the talk recorded so we can judge for ourselves? :)
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
Oof. Companies have gained the ability to push updates over the air to hardware a customer bought 5 years ago. Sounds great, now you can get bug fixes and new features, right? ... Or, you know, they can push a "redesign" that intr
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
Good summary of Google's monopoly on the Internet today: > Now, the world's largest websites are owned by the same company, which also owns the world's most popular browser and search engine. Coincidentally, they are also
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
Full study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
“That is what our competitors do, how can we survive if we don’t as well?” Regulation is the answer to this race to the bottom. When competing companies can't agree to give employees a break, the government can make some rules. Also ap
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
> It's quite simple Error: you are hereby disqualified from further discussion of geopolitics
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
How is "Windows Activity History" different than browsing history, search history, location history, recently used apps, and recent files? I can't find much after a bit of searching. Does it store screenshots or full file con
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
Good writeup! It certainly seems absurd for banks, investment firms, government services, etc. to just allow third-party analytics startups to inject whatever code they want in between the user and the product. It's like if the bank hi
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
Where do you live that fresh produce is labeled with nutrition facts? I've got a box of Costco tomatoes and a bag of carrots here, and they are labeled with weights and dates, but nothing about nutrition. The bag of carrots just says,
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by HomeDeLaPot 3y ago
I wish more businesses would (could?) give cash discounts. It's the answer to the convenience and rewards offered by credit cards. If I can save as much or more by paying in cash as I can by paying by card, then I have a great motivati
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by HomeDeLaPot 3y ago
Taking something does not legally incur a debt, it's just a crime. The merchant did not agree to lend you anything, so there's no loan, so you can't pay it off with "legal tender".
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by HomeDeLaPot 3y ago
I don't think barter is a realistic way to circumvent the disappearance of cash. Sure, it'll work once in a while, when you happen to have something of equal value that the other guy wants—but most of the time it'll be such a
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by HomeDeLaPot 3y ago
There's a qualitative difference between the government being able to freeze the accounts of every person whose phone was detected at a protest, and the government having to send agents out to physically find each of those people, sear
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by HomeDeLaPot 3y ago
"Hackers compromised my toaster and burned down my house."
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by HomeDeLaPot 3y ago
Nobody said they have an issue with African countries growing food. Research and solutions are necessary on all fronts.
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by HomeDeLaPot 3y ago
Yeah, I would have memorized the two 7-digit codes. And being able to re-key locks without having to physically send someone to the property seems like a legitimate innovation. I'm personally a little more weirded out by the pictures a
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by HomeDeLaPot 3y ago
Yes, one of the X (formerly Twitter) screenshots confirms he died in 2009 while the operation took place in 2007.
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by HomeDeLaPot 3y ago
Dense urbanization is not the point. We need medium density. Bikeable. There should be more housing choices than an apartment in a giant building by a highway OR a single family home with a big yard out in the suburbs. With relaxed zoning,
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by HomeDeLaPot 3y ago
Ow. There's a paywall halfway through. Don't do what I did and get interested in the story if you aren't up to subscribing.

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