Scottn1

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by Scottn1 2y ago
How about they fix their long-standing security issues first. Particularly their DMARC is set to "p=none" which is essentially disabled at a time large providers are mandating properly functioning DMARC. Anyone can spoof email acc
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by Scottn1 2y ago
Well said. +1 I've supported Firefox as my daily-driver on desktop and laptop since 2016. I feel that a browser should be 100% open-source and used to feel FF also had it's USERS interest at heart. FF was what I relied on to conti
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by Scottn1 2y ago
I recently wore a FreeStyle Libre for 10 days and one of the most positive things I learned from it was 10-15 minute walk after a meal significantly dropped glucose levels. It would reduce the spike in the range of 5-10% immediately. After
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by Scottn1 3y ago
Maybe this can help explain how Acrobat has grown bigger in size than many whole Linux Distros. I was installing Acrobat Standard for a client last week and the install package was 2.5Gb! This just to read and edit PDFs. I was appalled and
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Why Crypto just won't die(theatlantic.com)
7 points by Scottn1 3y ago|1 comments
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by Scottn1 3y ago
https://purelymail.com/ https://mxroute.com/ https://www.vfemail.net/ https://runbox.com/ I know these because I have spent time looking the past week for getting off Outlo
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by Scottn1 3y ago
I too was THIS close to going all-in on Skiff last week, leaving Outlook.com for more privacy, but contact sync with phone was a major annoyance. Thankfully in hindsight.
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by Scottn1 3y ago
I agree, real sad. I too was a pre-teen in the early 80's and I remember how neat it was to have these "secret" catalogs and/or ads in the back of magazines like Popular Science where I could place some cash (or ask mom
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by Scottn1 3y ago
Kagi Ultimate is $25/mo and has access to GPT-4, Claude 2 and Google Chat Bison.
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by Scottn1 3y ago
I opened an account at Skiff a few weeks ago and have used it in limited amount since then. But sending an email to my outlook.com address and my wife's gmail they both went right to inbox on first try. That was pretty impressive consi
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by Scottn1 3y ago
This is getting worse. I was at Jimmy Johns the other day and their POS now blatantly makes it difficult to NOT tip. It doesn't give you a clear option to choose $0, only the three standard options (from memory) of 15,18 or 20%. This o
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by Scottn1 3y ago
Me too. On a Netgear r7800 (which is well supported for Openwrt). After much testing, tweaking/changing settings/etc I couldn't get OpenWRT to match the performance of latest stock OEM firmware. Even wired performance was abo
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by Scottn1 4y ago
> (anything NSFW yields no result) That isn't true at all from my experience. I just tested it and I was able to search for adult videos, etc. I decided to try Kagi two weeks ago after hearing about it and trying their Orion browser
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by Scottn1 4y ago
Gene Hackman (93)
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by Scottn1 4y ago
Just turned 50 and I try to be active as much as I can each day. For example the little stuff like: Walk our dog nightly for 20 minutes (about 3/4 miles). Go to batting cages with my son and will hit/throw with him. Play whiffle b
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by Scottn1 4y ago
A while back I was casually driving home in my car in the wee-hours of the night. This is when I also had an XM subscription in my car so it was that long ago, well before Spotify/Pandora where one can listen to whatever you want at th
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by Scottn1 4y ago
>Full waiter experience (seated, handed menu, food brought to table, plate cleared) gets 20%. If the level of service is less than that, the percentage starts to go down proportionally. I have implemented the same policy of 20% BUT with
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by Scottn1 4y ago
Kirby vacuum cleaner. Bought it in 1999. Don't even remember how much I paid for it but they are usually pretty pricey. Yet I Still have it and going just as strong. I've taken it in to local Kirby service store for "tune-up&
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by Scottn1 4y ago
I keep my KeePass file on PC, sync to Onedrive, download to my phone from Onedrive iOS to have locally and use this app on iOS to open it. https://authpass.app/ Works great.
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by Scottn1 4y ago
For being so impressed with this past few weeks, I still get stuff like this and realize the end of humanity because of AI isn't near worth talking about: >How many homeruns did Aaron Judge hit in 2022 >>Aaron Judge hit 0 home
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by Scottn1 4y ago
Being a fan of MLB baseball since I was a kid, I've recently rediscovered my love for tabletop dice baseball like I used to play as a kid in the 80's. Been introducing my son to it as well. I'm a) surprised that some of the p
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by Scottn1 4y ago
On the eve of me turning 50, I am playing a tabletop dice baseball game on my desk while reading HN {obviously}
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by Scottn1 4y ago
Or he goes on the run soon and we never see him again. Someone who was fraudulently handling billions surely has a few millions somewhere that isn't accounted for. Other crypto scam artists have disappeared after taking funds. Ruja and
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by Scottn1 4y ago
And he is very carefully setting the tone with carefully constructed statements that this ISN'T what he did and it makes me sick. He knows the more he says things like: "A mistake that I feel pretty embarrassed to have made [is th
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by Scottn1 4y ago
Thirded Or Get Tailscale in the Windows Store so it could auto update for all the endpoints out in the wild I don't control (company laptops, users home PCs, etc). Trying to get TEN people to manually update today was a pain, I can&#x2
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by Scottn1 4y ago
Yes. My morning coffee sipping routine consists of scrolling Google News (US, Business, Tech, Science and Health) and clicking on articles I'm interested in reading further. Then I venture over to finance.yahoo.com and glance that whil
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by Scottn1 4y ago
Ohh Don't forget Firefox, for all it's privacy preaching: - Hijacking all your DNS requests to Cloudfare by default - installing a scheduled task to Windows PCs to phone home your Windows default browser setting choice (And if you
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by Scottn1 4y ago
Vivaldi has the best vertical tabs implementation I've used. Edge would be 2nd. Sideberry would be great if it was easier to rid of the horizontal tabs in FF when Sideberry is active. Horrible having the horizontal tabs still while als
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by Scottn1 4y ago
Same here... I read comments all the time in browser threads about these issues in Firefox and I must be lucky or my basic install with just uBO is the difference (I also don't use any Google websites outside of search and Youtube). I
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by Scottn1 4y ago
Don't remember where I found this but here is a good comparison of many Slack/Teams alternatives. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-UlA4-tslROBDS9IqHal... I'd like to see something like Matri

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