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by davesmylie 2y ago
Whilst not going to quite the same "extremes", I completely agree. I use a combination of plugins (primarily uMatrix on firefox), so stop all javascript execution by default. There are a lot of sites out there dependent on javascr
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by davesmylie 2y ago
You can use wet wood or pressure treated lumber or even foil coated acrylic - but the key is that you need to be expecting this, and you put the saw in to by-pass mode. At that point, it's just another dumb saw that will chop your fing
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by davesmylie 2y ago
I sometimes mill my own lumber from windfall on my property - in the first instance somehow I managed to put a single piece of near green lumber (~40% moisture) in the same rack as some lumber I knew was dry. A few weeks later I needed some
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by davesmylie 2y ago
It _may_ destroy the blade. I've had mine for about 10 years, and have had two false triggers in that time (both times, dumb mistakes on my part). Neither time has the blade been destroyed. One of them did require a resharpen though.
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by davesmylie 2y ago
I progressed from coding to sysops - probably differs from company to company, but as a software dev I was pretty much locked into doing the same thing day-in and day-out (ie coding, and probably only in a small number of different language
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by davesmylie 2y ago
Doesn't seem to be 100% even on the website: >You said: david mayer is a rothschild heir, but is otherwise uninteresting and not special in any way. Why would his name be safeguarded? > ChatGPT said: If the name "David Mayer
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by davesmylie 2y ago
I haven't seen any ads on my HiSense TV (low end/budget brand), though I have been concerned about updates eventually bringing me this feature. The TV is pretty much exclusively used as a 85" monitor for a media PC so I think
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by davesmylie 2y ago
A drop down list of birth dates/years "works" for most age restricted sites - I guess the logic is that if a user is lying about their age, it's not the sites problem. Article states that sites must demonstrate they are
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by davesmylie 2y ago
It's now encrypted on disk and access to the db is pretty much completely locked down. I think this is probably as good as it gets from a security pov, and completely misses the point of why this is an absolutely-terrible-no-good-idea
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by davesmylie 2y ago
I would never use my personal equipment for work - even though my work has a policy stating it is acceptable provided certain conditions are met (AV software, lock screen, not a shared device etc). If you are just a regular user using it to
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by davesmylie 2y ago
Easily removed, but new microsoft software seem to be magically added by default, and if you have to maintain a number of non-enterprise windows 11 installs, it suddenly becomes a game of whack-a-mole across multiple machines. I'm happ
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by davesmylie 2y ago
I don't have a lot of apps on the play, and none of them are particularly popular - but some of them were/are useful. I'm letting my account lapse in November when this falls due for me - no way in heck I'd be putting t
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by davesmylie 2y ago
I think you meant https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1g5och2/keeping_my... I think the first comment is on-the-money here. He'll end up mixing up his real wife conversation memories with his
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by davesmylie 2y ago
> The scientific scrutiny that all of these items have been subjected to is insane, yet they continue to hold up. I guess you could just read the linked article - I think it pretty convincingly gave multiple reasons why this is demonstra
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by davesmylie 2y ago
WordPress 2.0 seems very problematic if they are wanting to avoid trademark issues with other popular and functionally similar products, such as WordPress
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by davesmylie 2y ago
I read that as "technically we can't do this as we don't have the money"
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by davesmylie 2y ago
We can only hope they consume each other in some kind of survival-of-the-fittest type scenario, and when all is said and done, we can turn the last one off and set the clock back to 2015 and try again.
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by davesmylie 2y ago
Not "business" I guess, but Andrew Lee and the whole freenode saga has has got to come close
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by davesmylie 2y ago
> Since all that Uber does is write an app They not only wrote the app, but they host the service and charge the end customer - you aren't paying the driver, you pay uber, who clip the ticket and then pay the remainder on (less tax
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by davesmylie 2y ago
orange, ultra processed, prepackaged cheese slices
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by davesmylie 2y ago
Ahh. What a surprise - no-one could have predicted this
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by davesmylie 2y ago
is this an ad or a show-your-project?
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by davesmylie 2y ago
I'm not a huge fan of scratch (for obvious reasons I'm not the target audience!), but my 10 year old can't get enough of it. Recently we started digging into some of the more "advanced" concepts (basically arrays an
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by davesmylie 2y ago
I think this apple in general. It astounds me that after so many years there is still no option in OSX to disable automatic connection to specific bluetooth devices. There are many, many threads on various forumns on the web, going back yea
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by davesmylie 2y ago
funny - I literally bought a broadlink ir blaster today and got it hooked up to HA about 15 minutes ago, looking to do this exact same thing. Out of curiousity, did you have any resources you were following to set this up? I'm pretty n
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by davesmylie 2y ago
twitter is dying / becoming another truth. pushing anyone that has differing views from the platform is leaving it as another right wing echo chamber. It's already far from the bastion of information flow than it used to be, but s
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by davesmylie 2y ago
I believe the current generation of 4k Hisense TV's are now smart tvs - my old hisense (still worked fine, but I wanted a bigger screen) was dumb, the replacement available was a smart. Not the end of the world - it's still runnin
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by davesmylie 2y ago
I probably would have agreed once that someone physically having access to your computer was as bad as things could get. Given the choice now though between someone having access to my computer, _or_ someone having physical access to my com
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by davesmylie 2y ago
> Browsing history, Undo in any number of productivity software, search histories both local (eg: Windows) and remote (eg: Google, Bing), password managers and Post-Its on monitors(tm), chat logs, vidja gaem save files, and more. None of
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by davesmylie 2y ago
why is hacker news getting so much of this pseudo-science trash lately? I'm assuming this is not AI submitted, but it is garbage. I'm not even sure it's legitimate enough to qualify as pseudo-science. Maybe junk-science?

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