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by coldpie 1y ago
The beautiful thing about default-deny for internationally-sourced calls is it fixes the spam problem for everyone, including those who opt-in. If 90% of the spammers' calls are just immediately dropped, they're no longer going t
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by coldpie 1y ago
No one outside the jurisdiction of my country's laws should be able to make my phone ring or send me text messages without my permission.
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by coldpie 1y ago
Why can someone from outside the US make my phone ring? Why can't I opt out of calls sourced internationally? Seems like an easy way to fix the problem. There is no reason for anyone overseas to call me, and if someone US-based does ph
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by coldpie 1y ago
Good start. Next, put the people running these scam phone providers in jail.
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by coldpie 1y ago
There's a whoooole lot of breathing room between Elon Musk and Mr. Rogers. More ethical employment opportunities exist now, today; SpaceX employees are choosing not to take them.
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by coldpie 1y ago
I understand that perspective, but I can't agree with it. There are many important and meaningful jobs out there that those people could be doing, which don't involve giving financial & political power to one of the worst peo
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by coldpie 1y ago
Yeah. I used to be excited about SpaceX stuff, I remember watching those early livestreamed landing attempts. But their recent close association with the American fascist movement basically killed my enthusiasm. I can't support the com
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by coldpie 1y ago
Doesn't this create an incentive for the US Gov't to boost Intel and harm their competitors? That seems not great to me from a competition & healthy markets standpoint.
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by coldpie 1y ago
Sigh. I'm poking fun at the people I'm calling "smart", because they are too clever for their own good. Chill out a little, friend.
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by coldpie 1y ago
Yeah, he rides right up to, and sometimes crosses, the line of being a bit too hokey/jokey for me. But the other 95% of the content of his videos are so amazingly good that I can get over the eye-rolly bits. He absolutely deserves his
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by coldpie 1y ago
Haha. To close the loop on the comparison, you'll notice that the people I'm calling smart do not get what they want, in the end. Maybe not so smart after all, eh?
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by coldpie 1y ago
> by Apple standards Yeah. The question I'm trying to answer is not "does it make sense for Apple to make a small phone?", but rather "does it make sense for anyone to make a small phone?" I'm using the 13
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by coldpie 1y ago
I think it's like how everyone smart knows that small hatchbacks are the only cars worth buying, and everyone smart also knows that only idiots buy new cars. So, all new cars are made for idiots and no small hatchbacks get made :)
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by coldpie 1y ago
My iPhone 13 Mini is just a touch too big for my taste. For phones I've owned, I'd probably give the nod to the HTC Incredible 4G LTE[1]. Relatively stock Android, 4" screen, headphone jack, soft touch plastic back. It was pe
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by coldpie 1y ago
Remember soft touch plastics? Grippy and didn't waste all the space of a case? Then some dingleberry marketer decided slippery metals and glass were "premium" and braindead phone reviewers happily parroted that crap and now
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by coldpie 1y ago
Eh, I've gotten over the headphone jack thing. I just buy a dozen adapters, stick one on each of my headphones, and replace them as they wear out every couple months. Good enough.
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by coldpie 1y ago
I've never used a phone case. I don't understand why they make these things so small and then everyone just slaps on an extra couple mm. What's the point? If we're making them bigger anyway, at least use that space for m
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by coldpie 1y ago
> yet smaller phones have an extremely hard time actually selling enough units to justify making more of them I don't buy this. The iPhone 13 Mini all by itself sold 6 million units in a year. That's about half the rate of Goo
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by coldpie 1y ago
I prefer Android. Unlike iPhone, the Android notifications system actually makes sense, and I can use real Firefox on Android. But, I prefer phones sized to fit in a human hand even more, so I'm stuck on an iPhone 13 Mini. Please ma
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by coldpie 1y ago
The trouble is that ad-based business models incentivize maximizing engagement, because more engagement gives you more places to put ads. It turns out maximizing engagement is the primary driver of all of the bad things about social media
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by coldpie 1y ago
The NFT smell completely permeates the AI "industry." Can't wait for this bubble to pop.
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by coldpie 1y ago
> They'd rather have cheap gas for their car, not have to look at fields of solar panels, and signal their opposition to "wokeness". None of that has to change to solve climate change, so that's good news for those vo
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by coldpie 1y ago
> The solution is not easy. But it is known. It's definitely not easy, but it's not even particularly hard, either. The solutions are there and ready to go. Everything we need to do to solve it has been done before[1]. We have
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by coldpie 1y ago
I have no opinion on this, just sharing my one-and-only XSLT story. My first job in software was as a software test development intern at a ~500 employee non-profit, in about 2008 when I was about 19 or 20 years old. Writing software to te
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Nissan announces 2026 Leaf pricing, 300 mile range starting at $29,990(arstechnica.com)
25 points by coldpie 1y ago|17 comments
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by coldpie 1y ago
Your experience in Chicago is definitely not universal. I live in Saint Paul, MN and many of our residential roads are perfectly straight for miles. Earlier this summer, someone was killed by a driver going approx 100 MPH on a perfectly s
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by coldpie 1y ago
I understand where you're coming from, but, how often do you travel by foot in car-heavy areas? I'm not trying to ask a "gotcha" question, but rather trying to point out that the experience of actually traveling in thes
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by coldpie 1y ago
I do not miss the zero-interest-rate days and I hope they never return.
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by coldpie 1y ago
> Do you just whitelist every site you come across if it's broken? What's the security advantage here? Most websites load their required scripts from their own domain. So you allowlist the domain you are visiting, and things j
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by coldpie 1y ago
> Fine tuning noscript to get such a site to work without obscure breakage will take a long time of trial & error, reloading again & again. Now consider that you've to do this for every one of your regular sites. No, not rea

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