JohnTHaller

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by JohnTHaller 5mo ago
If you're in any way semi-popular and a decent size, you're gonna get hammered. PortableApps.com was partially offline for weeks due to China-based AI scrapers. You block the useragent, they start hitting you with another one from
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by JohnTHaller 5mo ago
I last had Covid 2 years ago. My sense of smell came back to about 25% of what it used to be. I describe it to people like distance. Like when a neighbor a couple floors below in an apartment building is cooking tomato sauce and you can sme
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by JohnTHaller 5mo ago
Both can be true
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by JohnTHaller 5mo ago
These aren't religious beliefs. This is altering behavior in a way that's inconsequential to you but can make your project/workplace/friend circle feel more welcoming to others. > Side note: I’ve repeatedly noticed th
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by JohnTHaller 5mo ago
Resisting body cameras. Wearing masks to avoid responsibility. Being moved to other locations after murdering US citizens. Etc
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by JohnTHaller 5mo ago
You mean like Trump's pool guy ruining the reflecting pool?
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by JohnTHaller 5mo ago
This will do absolutely nothing to stop robocalls, spam calls, and phishing calls. This is entirely about tying a specific phone number to a specific government IDed individual.
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by JohnTHaller 5mo ago
The back and forth with Eich on Twitter and him defending it as ethical when it was first reported on painted a different picture at the time for me: https://imgur.com/a/MotmTGh When pushback increased, it seemed like
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by JohnTHaller 5mo ago
> Senator Jerry Stevenson (R-Layton) is a powerful GOP lawmaker on Utah’s Capitol Hill — sitting on three of arguably the state’s most powerful boards and chairing the state’s top budget committee.
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Iran already has confirmation from Chinese satellites
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by JohnTHaller 5mo ago
Apple is also slightly decreasing their margins to maintain price. They can easily do this as their margins are 10x to 20x most of the industry.
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by JohnTHaller 5mo ago
Brave also got caught hijacking links and swapping in their own affiliate codes https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/06/06/the-brave-we...
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by JohnTHaller 5mo ago
You can likely run Firefox Portable from PortableApps.com on your corporate Windows machine. Just make sure you're not running afoul of IT policies. Disclosure: I make it
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by JohnTHaller 6mo ago
> closing the window, quits the app I've always hated this about macOS. And my main laptop is a macBook Air M3 15. The majority of my friends that use macOS have no idea how to quit an app. Nearly all think closing all the windows q
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by JohnTHaller 6mo ago
They don't align with it. They've never aligned with it. It was always a lie.
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For everyone saying this isn't some little guy... compared to the administration which is engaging in the same thing, it's a little guy designed to be a distraction.
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by JohnTHaller 6mo ago
Firefox has had GPU video decoding in Linux on by default since 2023 for Intel and 2025 for AMD from what I've read
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by JohnTHaller 6mo ago
The current administration can't even be honest about the fact that we're in a war, so there's no way they're gonna be honest about the costs.
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by JohnTHaller 6mo ago
One of the many issues with this supposedly being for everyone is that rich folks like Donald Trump's dad will get a doctor to get them out of it. Rules for thee and not for me is basically their motto.
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by JohnTHaller 6mo ago
* EDIT (pasted in the wrong monthly price): Creative Cloud Standard Suite is US$989.88 per year at $82.49 per month or $839.88 per year if you lock in for a year. You lose unlimited access to AI features and instead get 25 monthly credits f
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by JohnTHaller 6mo ago
For reference, the Creative Cloud Pro Suite (formerly All Apps) is US$1,259.88 per year at $104.99 per month or $839.88 per year if you lock in for a non-refundable, non-cancellable 1 year contract. Creative Cloud Standard Suite is US$989.8
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by JohnTHaller 6mo ago
It would be unsurprising if US-based conservative think tanks were already doing this. Worth noting that the ones we'd be unsurprised to see do this are neither conservative nor think tanks.
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by JohnTHaller 6mo ago
You're making the mistake of thinking that the words they say mean something
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by JohnTHaller 6mo ago
Most folks on the NotTheOnion subreddit (where you post actual news headlines that you'd assume would be from The Onion) say this is their recent favorite
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by JohnTHaller 6mo ago
Working as intended #WONTFIX
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by JohnTHaller 6mo ago
Marco Rubio (who should have been there doing this) and Trump were busy sitting ringside watching a UFC fight
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Trump's World Liberty Financial borrows $75M using its own token as collateral(coindesk.com)
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by JohnTHaller 6mo ago
I run software downloads through VirusTotal before installing or using. And I scan all releases I make on PortableApps.com through it as well. (Except those that are bigger than the max size in which case those get scanned with Defender, Cl
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by JohnTHaller 6mo ago
Well known ones. Hundreds of Chinese IPs. Useragents and IPs matched with a year long campaign from them.
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by JohnTHaller 6mo ago
A good chunk of America watch "news" crafted by right-wing billionaires and think he's doing a bang-up job.

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