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by coldpie 27d ago
Please point me to the timestamp in that video that supports this claim: > reports of TVs and other devices automatically creating mesh networks. Your disconnected TV could talk to your neighbour's connected one.
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by coldpie 27d ago
It's a longstanding, and obviously false, rumor. It would be trivial to prove that these things connect to open wifi networks to phone home, but no one has ever proved that they do that, because they don't actually do that. It wo
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by coldpie 27d ago
Unless you have evidence, please stop spreading this rumor.
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by coldpie 28d ago
> Have you considered a posibility, that these voters just dont agree with your idea of what their best interests are? I mean, there's not really room for debate on it. Voting to take your money away from you and give it to people w
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by coldpie 28d ago
I just wanted to launch Notepad, dog.
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by coldpie 28d ago
IA is responsive. I had to cancel my donation earlier this year due to some financial circumstances and it was a quick and easy email. However I believe they have an easy cancel button if your donation is associated with an IA account, too.
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by coldpie 29d ago
I think they're just making a guitar player stereotype joke. As a guitar player myself, I thought it was funny.
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by coldpie 29d ago
The US Republican party has been inventing an increasingly elaborate alternate reality fiction in order to convince their voters to keep voting for policy positions that obviously work against those voters' own interests. One component
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by coldpie 1mo ago
I'm also primarily a guitar player. I picked up a piano accordion earlier this year, and I'm wondering if I should've gotten a button accordion instead[1]. A linear piano layout is just hard to wrap my head around, hahah.
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by coldpie 1mo ago
For folks wondering wtf is going on with the key layout, this is what's called an isomorphic ("same shape") layout. The idea is you can learn how to play a certain grouping of notes relative to each other, and then you can p
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by coldpie 1mo ago
The US first amendment has nothing to do with what a private company chooses to host on their platform. That content is there because the users and owners of the platform want it to be there.
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by coldpie 1mo ago
Given how severely that hard requirement restricts your available options, I'd suggest adapting to the USB-C audio world. No, it's not as nice as a headphone jack. But it is a relatively small con to just stick an adapter onto th
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by coldpie 1mo ago
I've mostly stopped using the Internet to learn new things and have gone back to books from the library. The majority of technical books at the library were published pre-2020s and hopefully, publishing slop physically won't be pr
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by coldpie 1mo ago
Agreed. But on the topic of antitrust specifically, Lina Khan was absolutely doing the work, and Biden 100% deserves credit for appointing her. He could've chosen some do-nothing loser like everyone before him did, but he chose Khan.
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by coldpie 1mo ago
We had a glimpse of that antitrust future on the horizon with the previous admin. This spooked all the big tech weirdos so much that they put their weight behind the other guy and, well, they won. Antitrust is dead for another generation. Y
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by coldpie 1mo ago
Our internal "security team" actually put gcc (yes, that gcc) on the banned software list. It was overturned in short order when the entire engineering org suddenly wasn't allowed to compile software. Luckily I don't hav
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by coldpie 1mo ago
I gave CoMaps a shot this morning, but it doesn't support public transit in my city (Minneapolis/Saint Paul area) which is an instant deal killer. Bummer.
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by coldpie 1mo ago
> That pricing is awful. $4/month > Small indy hosting companies ... $5/month or so is the typical price point. > I don't see the point of paying more at one of the big hosts. I'm confused. People who are paying
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by coldpie 1mo ago
I did exactly this: https://github.com/ColdPie1/enough-ai-on-hn
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by coldpie 1mo ago
I use it a couple times a week, not even daily. It's useful about half the time, and a complete waste of time the other half. It's a useful tool to reach for sometimes and I'll keep using it for the things it's good at,
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by coldpie 1mo ago
I wrote a browser extension to auto-hide AI-related articles. It makes HN much more readable: https://github.com/ColdPie1/enough-ai-on-hn/
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by coldpie 1mo ago
Has that ever been enforced? I don't see any real reason to trust that clicking on a div actually does anything.
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by coldpie 1mo ago
> A lot of us in America have no sales tax Not that many of us, actually. Only Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, and some parts of Delaware and Alaska have no sales tax. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sales_t
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by coldpie 1mo ago
It's your browser's job to protect you, not the website's. There's no guarantee that a "reject all" button does anything, anyway. Instead, just dismiss the banner however and clear the site's cookies in t
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by coldpie 1mo ago
Every year you increase it increases the odds of getting another Feinstein, McConnel, Trump, or Biden. 65 is the standard target retirement age. I don't see any real benefit to deviating from that.
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by coldpie 1mo ago
Huh?
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by coldpie 1mo ago
There are pros & cons to term limits, but I think an age limit would be an easy win. It gets you most of the same benefits with a lot less resistance. Anyone who will be over 65 when entering a position should be ineligible to be elect
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by coldpie 1mo ago
Ever seen the Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life"? It's a tough situation when your opponent is an all-powerful preteen. No win scenario: perpetually give in to childish temper tantrums and everyone is worse off for
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by coldpie 2mo ago
The actual source article[1] mentions the equipment was destroyed. The SAN.com republication linked here dropped that detail. [1] "Investigators alleged Morelock removed bolts securing the camera system, bringing down the camera, sola
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by coldpie 2mo ago
Nah, the super long delays and animations are by design and make a lot of features like mission control & workspaces unusable. But, if you can tell me a way to switch between only the two most recent windows (note: I said "windows

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