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by Shank 1y ago
AliPay, WeChat Pay, and PayPay succeed because they don’t target this market at all — they target cashed based transactions and provide cash-equivalents. The whole reason why people use them in Asia is because people could use cash but it’s
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by Shank 1y ago
> Security: I avoid using mainstream cloud storage services like Dropbox or Google Drive for primary backups. Own your data! What does this have to do with security? You shouldn't be backing up data in a way that's visible to t
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by Shank 1y ago
> So if a merchant keeps trying to charge you, it will automatically decline. I learned this the hard way with the New York Times doing this, but merchants can “force settle” a transaction if they want and it’ll override the decline they
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by Shank 1y ago
And now Crunchyroll is owned by (through a lot of companies, like Aniplex of America, Aniplex, A1 Pictures) Sony, who produces a large amount of anime!
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by Shank 1y ago
Why did GitHub remove support for them, and how do we get this decision reversed?
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by Shank 1y ago
> Simply spending to avoid a phone call. If I’m looking at an app I can read far faster than I can understand a phone call, and often I don’t need to explain myself beyond moving some pins around. “Pick me up by the P1 parking garage acr
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by Shank 1y ago
> I live in Tokyo I also live in Tokyo and surely you’re not expecting Japanese taxi standards to be remotely comparable to US Uber or Lyft, right? It’s a race to the bottom in any major US metro. Japanese taxis are refined and designed
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by Shank 1y ago
> I have a hard time seeing why one would choose rails I like Ruby, and I feel it has significantly prettier syntax, to me, than Elixir. So that’s a big reason why I also like rails.
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by Shank 1y ago
It’s pretty myopic to say that people don’t choose to use Apple software. Not only do many people choose to use the Apple software that comes with their devices, they buy those devices for it.
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by Shank 1y ago
I perceive the main benefit to the NAS hardware to be ease-of-management in terms of RAID via a software stack, and of course, physical hardware slots for holding lots of disks. You can easily build a NAS with pure Linux/FreeBSD and a
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by Shank 1y ago
> Unless Synology walks back this nonsense, I'll likely not buy another one, but I do think there is a place for this type of box in the world. I would recommend a mini-ITX NAS enclosure or a prebuilt system from a vendor that makes
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by Shank 1y ago
I personally think that in 2025, you should treat the NAS as a purely storage product and buy your hardware from that perspective. TrueNAS or UniFi’s new NAS product fulfill that goal. From there, supplement your NAS with a Mac Mini or othe
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by Shank 1y ago
I personally think if you spend the money on a Synology setup and you depend on this script, you’re playing with fire. If you intend to keep DSM updated, you run the risk of Synology playing a cat-and-mouse game that doesn’t end well. Sure
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by Shank 1y ago
Are there any non-Forbes sources that confirm this?
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by Shank 1y ago
> there's no other online community i know of that still allows fully anonymous posting Doesn't 8chan/kun still exist?
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by Shank 2y ago
> You're using them wrong. Everyone is though I can't fault you specifically. If everyone is using them wrong, I would argue that says something more about them than the users. Chat-based interfaces are the thing that kicked
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Anubis(github.com)
1 points by Shank 2y ago|1 comments
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by Shank 2y ago
With all due respect, the link you’ve linked to is reddit, and the underlying story is a 500. Can you provide an available source or alternative, since this one seems broken?
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by Shank 2y ago
> unified memory So unified memory means that the memory is accessible to the GPU and the CPU in a shared pool. AMD does not have that.
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by Shank 2y ago
> So a full blown adult is different than legally considered adult. We have to create a line somewhere and currently that line is the age of majority. Some people mature faster than others, and even you didn’t provide a specific age. How
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by Shank 2y ago
> What I don't get is, in what universe is any US president going to engage militarily against China across the ocean The whole premise of TSMC is that losing TSMC would cause such a global economic collapse that defending Taiwan is
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by Shank 2y ago
> It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. I really struggle to understand what legal team believes this language is necessary in down
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US examining whether UK's encryption demand on Apple broke data treaty(reuters.com)
62 points by Shank 2y ago|65 comments
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by Shank 2y ago
> I could switch to a UK iCloud account but then when I’m in the states everything falls apart the other way round. If it’s only two countries, you can sign in and out of the App Store only with two regions. This is how I maintained a Ja
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by Shank 2y ago
I guess I'm one of the people who was upset that it didn't exist before, and I didn't enable iCloud Backup as a result. I didn't use iCloud Photos. I had everything stored on a NAS (which was in-fact encrypted properly)
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by Shank 2y ago
> For some reason every bluetooth keyboard I have tried so far glitches every so often and sends double or triple keys or occasionally the same key a couple dozen times with no way to stop it from happening. This would make the device un
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by Shank 2y ago
It looks like the defacement was already cleared, but archives are available [0][1]. I posted these separately because of 404Media's soft-paywall, which is also linked separately here. [0]: https://archive.md/XzvTY [1]
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Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead(marcan.st)
1116 points by Shank 2y ago|997 comments
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by Shank 2y ago
I think this is an unquestionable overreach on the UK's part. If you live in any country that isn't the UK, you should feel the threat from this: the UK government believes that it is entitled to a backdoor on your hardware, even
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by Shank 2y ago
> Couldn't this happen with a domain too? Yes, and you really hope someone implemented certificate pinning for this exact reason, but it often is not the case.

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