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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
>> In less that a day business mandated us to remove the filter. Did something similar at a small company I was working at. The VP of marketing sat me down and told me to do the same thing. After the meeting, I was told by another dev
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
>> Criminals only stop when the risks are higher than the rewards. I would say they just transition to something else where there is a lower risk with the same reward.
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
I found the one thing that kept me off of my phone was using a degoogled pixel 4XL with Graphene OS on it. So much you can't do on the stock version using F-Droid app store. I really enjoyed until I needed to start downloading a few ba
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
Instagram is the worst. I started on there because I got back in photography and people said I absolutely needed to be on it. Notifications has been broken off and on for months now. Before you would see there were message on your post. Cli
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
You missed the point. It doesn't matter if they used Plutonium solar panels. It was over hyped and made tons of promises and then massively underdelivered and now has to be decommissioned, at a huge cost to tax payers.
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
Germany tried to go 100% renewables and then found out it wasn't possible, then made a deal with Russia to supply what they needed to cover what renewables couldn't. Right up until Russia invaded Ukraine: A huge increase in gas p
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
Also not winning: ‘World’s largest’ solar plant in Calif closing – $1.6 billion Ivanpah casts a shadow on DOE loans – ‘Federal data concluded the plant killed roughly 6,000 birds a year’ The 386-megawatt plant lagged in producing promise
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
The first company I worked for as a developer was like this, except worse. We got hit with some Christmas virus. One of the devs was talking about how he had mistakenly clicked on the link, but nothing happened. We were at lunch and sudden
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
The jeans I liked so I went and bought some at an actual Lucky Brand store. Not sure if you've ever felt Lucky Jeans but they're super soft. Mine were not the same denim or cotton they used. Mine felt rough, not as good quality. S
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
Had a 84' Chrysler LeBaron. Brakes went out on the way home from work. Managed to get it to the closet auto body shop. They had it for three days, charged me $1,200 for a new master cylinder and a bunch of other stuff I didn't kno
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
I've tried to stop buying stuff on Amazon. I really scaled back when I started going back and looking at old purchases, only to find out 8 of my last purchases were all counterfeit stuff. These were not just random electronic resellers
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
I started dating a woman once and she was a widow. I was kind of shocked a woman in her 20's was already a widow and she finally got around to telling me what happened. Very similar. Keep in mind this was some 15 years before COVID. Hu
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
>> It's very easy to complaint when you've never seen the worse alternatives. I have relatives that fled the USSR during the heights of communism. I have played soccer with guys who came from South American countries that we
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
I honestly can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. It takes 10 different offices at the Department of Health and Human Services to run programs addressing AIDS in minority communities. Autism research is spread out over 11 d
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
>>> That's the intention of this administration. Destroy any service that the government could provide until people can genuinely think the government is useless. Not really sure ANY government service runs well. There are may
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Boiling Point: Farewell to Ivanpah, the ugliest solar plant(latimes.com)
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
>> lawmakers submitting AI-generated language in bills or amendments? Most people would be shocked to find the majority of bills are simply copycat bills or written by lobbyists. https://goodparty.org/blog/article
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
But it did when Biden was in office?
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
Are you taking into account the obvious currency manipulation over the same time by the Chinese?
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
>> China is doing well as a country and the standard of living has increased even if it’s under an authoritarian regime. What do you mean "doing well"? https://asiatimes.com/2025/05/chinas-economy-
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
1. I can't name them, but they're in the health care industry. 2. Yeah, and all they're doing is taking badge reports. Going in for a Town Hall meeting or a team meeting meets these requirements. You're not required to
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
>> In which case, why fight for it? It's pointless. I fought for years and came to the same conclusion. I just focus on myself now and a few tight knit circles of friends. We still hang out together on Diaspora. We still muck and
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
Anecdotal evidence to counter this argument. Work at a fortune 200 company. We spent COVID all 100% remote WFH. After several quarters of their entire workforce working remotely, they were gushing about how productivity increased, satisfact
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
>> Even in the personal domain he seems horrible eg stealing Kauai birthright land for his mega mansion. Marc Benioff has done the same thing: https://www.hawaiifreepress.com/Articles-Main/ID/40583/Clima
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
This was a huge one for me. Remember spending so much time posting and reading twitter and insta feeds when I was in car with my wife. Totally different now. We talk and converse about what's going on with our kids, stuff at work, its
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
I tried this for a bunch of work apps that require 2FA. They pushed back hard enough where I was threatened with getting written up. I relented and installed MS Authenticator on my personal phone. I'm still bitter about the intrusion o
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
>> Probably in the long run the only way to go will be to own/carry two devices. Been doing this for a while. I have a smaller Samsung S22 for the apps I absolutely need that won't run on my Graphene phone. The majority of m
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
This is the same argument people make between Apple and Android. Can I use an Android phone without using Google? Yes, of course you can. There are plenty of secure OS's like Graphen, Lineage, Calyx and many others. Do people really ca
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
>> But then SEO died because of AI (according to him anyways). Former web dev and I still do some SEO and for the most part, he's correct. I've posted on here multiple times over the last two to three years how easy it is n
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by at-fates-hands 1y ago
Interesting and robust comments about many mice I had no idea existed and will have to try out. Fascinating there's no comments about user's love of Apple's Magic Mouse. Would be interesting to get someone's take on why

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