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by anticorporate 4mo ago
There's also, importantly, a distinction between what are told we can no longer use, and what can actually be taken away. Open source and open hardware can be called illegal by a government, but, if we collectively invest our energy in
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by anticorporate 4mo ago
I'm unclear how getting used to QR code menus will alleviate the author's primary complaint that he would rather not use his phone during the meal and instead be present with the people there.
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by anticorporate 4mo ago
Yeah, it seems like this is the biggest missing feature from the Gemini ecosystem. If I can't connect MCP, there's really no selling point for me to use Gemini from my watch, car, smart speaker, etc. If I'm already bound to u
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Elon Musk tries again to escape FTC audits of X data handling(arstechnica.com)
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Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses(wired.com)
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Amazon-owned Ring should pay Americans for scanning their faces, lawsuit says(arstechnica.com)
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by anticorporate 4mo ago
Textbooks being expensive has nothing to do with the textbook. The textbook as an actual object of learning is irrelevant; a textbook is just a fee added on to the cost of the class that happens to come with a physical pile of bound paper t
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by anticorporate 4mo ago
In general, higher inflation has a negative impact on consumer sentiment even if wage growth matches the inflation, which it rarely does. But the bigger issue is that inflation is generally distributed much more evenly than wage increases.
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by anticorporate 4mo ago
I mean, to be fair, a lot of the reason I use Gitea is that I don't want the other 99%.
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by anticorporate 4mo ago
I think OP meant the subject link. The 2026 link they shared was as evidence of the delay.
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by anticorporate 4mo ago
Margins, maybe? I work for a grocery retailer. A healthy profit margin in my industry is roughly equivalent to the percentage we pay in credit card fees. Couple that with inertia. We couldn't go cash-only even if we wanted to without p
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by anticorporate 4mo ago
> I don't think Python would have succeeded as a language if they hadn't done Python 3. I assumed Python 2 was pretty much ubiquitous and that the world wasn't adopting Python 3 very quickly for a long time, but I do wonde
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by anticorporate 4mo ago
This is exactly the kind of calculus I hope everyone does. For example, I can't say I'm jealous of much else about the cost of living in BC, but my electricity rates in North Carolina are more than double yours, much closer to Bra
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by anticorporate 4mo ago
I've not lived there but I've spent significant time in a handful of places there. I think a lot of people have cost-of-living shock because they try to live a US lifestyle in a place where import costs vastly outweigh any savings
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by anticorporate 5mo ago
Most grocery co-ops these days are staffed almost entirely with normal W-2 employees, the one standout exception being Park Slope in NYC which requires you to work a shift in the store to be able to shop there. The other ~170 co-op grocers
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by anticorporate 5mo ago
Folks who do what I do don't seem to have much of an online water cooler, aside from some National Co-op Grocer forums which are restricted access. Do check out ncg.coop though. That said, I'll take the word of encouragement that
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by anticorporate 5mo ago
Agreed. I'm quite content living a rather simple lifestyle, owning very few new things, doing almost of the maintenance on my belongings myself. The "magic number" was really more about giving myself permission than anything
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by anticorporate 5mo ago
I quit tech at 40. I still do cool things with technology, but now at a community-owned grocery co-op. I can't recommend leaving tech highly enough. My cortisol levels are so much lower than they used to be. I don't have to schedu
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by anticorporate 5mo ago
It seems like adding an encryption/decryption step might be an easy work around. I do wonder about this. Google AI Ultra subscriptions come with 30TB(!) of Google Drive storage at no additional cost. Aside from people who do a lot of v
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by anticorporate 5mo ago
It depends a bit on your crop mix, yield, and of course, family size. You'd be surprised how much some crops can yield in small areas. (Oh god, I used to actually like pickles before I realized how many cucumbers we were churning out
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by anticorporate 5mo ago
Retailer here: Most of these costs are fairly fixed. We have to have a safe, bags, armored transport, staff training on counterfeit detection, etc. whether the percentage of our sales in cash is 8% or 80%. The few costs that are variable ar
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by anticorporate 5mo ago
I like the collection, but I'd love it if someone would make a high-quality open source clone of them. They're so simple, I really don't care if it's AI slop under the hood as long I don't have to endure the pointle
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by anticorporate 5mo ago
> Why is everybody always touching these things? Because sometimes it is hot. I want more cold air blown on me at a higher velocity until I cool off, and then to be a steady state. Even if I had remotely started my car with air condition
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by anticorporate 5mo ago
You can't just use percentages for this kind of thing. Barring a very good cause that the vast majority of the population can get behind, there will be riots when the bananas and coffee disappear. We grow enough in our garden that I co
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by anticorporate 5mo ago
Garbage like this is why the tech industry desperately needs widespread unionization.
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by anticorporate 5mo ago
Thanks for linking this. My first "serious" program was an image editor I wrote in Turbo Pascal (and a little x86 assembly) in my high school computer science class. Of course, it was supposed to be an image editor for the game I
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by anticorporate 5mo ago
That's a bit like asking "Where are the vibecoded AWSs?" or "Where are the vibe coded Office 365s?" Can I vibe code an image editor? Sure! I have, actually, just more as a curiosity. I got as far as a simple Canva r
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by anticorporate 5mo ago
True. I struggled to get signed up for my COVID vaccine back in 2021 because Walgreens wouldn't accept that my totally valid .rodeo email address could possibly exist. I still use that domain for most corporate accounts. Currently, my
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by anticorporate 6mo ago
It's funny how any time something comes along suggesting consumer choice should play a role in a market economy, these types of comments come along to suggest its not their place. There's no fundamental rule of a capitalist societ
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by anticorporate 6mo ago
While I don't think they do, I think this is a valid thing to ponder and I'm sorry it's getting downvoted. Generally, I think it's not overengineering that's the issue, it's how the consumer need for that parti

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