flowerlad

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by flowerlad 5d ago
How would you like it if you rented a VM from AWS, and in the bill they added fees for employee health insurance, social security and medicare? That's a cost of compliance too!
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by flowerlad 5d ago
We need a global ban on junk fees. I am tired of shit like AT&T's "Administrative & Regulatory Cost Recovery Fee".
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by flowerlad 5d ago
But you had to install their MCP server on your computer? That works for developers. Wouldn't it be nice to avoid another install?
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by flowerlad 9d ago
Outlook for Windows used to be great in the 90s and early 2000s. Since then all they have done is added new bugs. And the latest version is HTML/JavaScript in a WebView, no longer native Windows.
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by flowerlad 9d ago
Another thing to know: in the hamburger menu there is a "require face id option". Turn it on, otherwise if your phone is snatched from you (while unlocked), they can access your 2-factor codes.
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by flowerlad 9d ago
Blue citizens will be able to move freely to EU and live and work there without special visas. Worth it. Also worth it for silicon valley tech companies who will be able to hire the best of EU as well.
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by flowerlad 9d ago
Google authenticator supports syncing across multiple devices.
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by flowerlad 9d ago
Law also prevents US military from being deployed against citizens, that isn't stopping Trump. In fact, Trump has asked for the constitution to be set aside, during his campaign. The Posse Comitatus Act makes it a criminal statute that
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by flowerlad 9d ago
Can the blue states of USA become associate members too? He has declared that the blue states are the "enemy from within" and may launch the military against us soon. https://www.npr.org/2025/09/30/n
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by flowerlad 9d ago
No. If you're a low-level C language programmer then it is useful.
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by flowerlad 1mo ago
> The water and power utilities are themselves large distributed systems. For power I can understand. For water supply it is harder to understand. Does water supply have similar characteristics to power, for example can you turn on a r
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by flowerlad 1mo ago
I wish they would make Arm64 Windows binaries a standard part of the release. Intel is on its way out.
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by flowerlad 1mo ago
Why are our water and power utilities connected to the internet? Is it so that the employees controlling them can work from home? If so they are accepting too much risk relative to the benefit.
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by flowerlad 2mo ago
As an American I’d like Europe to stand up to Trump. If little Iran can, so can Europe.
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by flowerlad 3mo ago
How far can we take this? Should Boeing airplane designs be public domain since the underlying math is public domain?
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by flowerlad 3mo ago
Should Google search index be forced to be public too?
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Anthropic Claims Alibaba Ran 'Brazen' Campaign to Access Its Claude AI Model(wsj.com)
3 points by flowerlad 3mo ago|1 comments
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by flowerlad 3mo ago
The subject says this is free, if so what free license are you using? If the license is unspecified it may be open source but it is not free.
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by flowerlad 4mo ago
Goldman Sachs projects SpaceX’s total revenue to reach $474 billion in 2030, up from $18.7 billion last year. That’s 25x in just 4 years. It shouldn’t take long to check if real growth is along this predicted trajectory. But by that time El
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by flowerlad 4mo ago
The article discusses algebraic effects but React is mentioned. Don’t make the mistake of saying thinking React is functional. See https://mckoder.medium.com/why-react-is-not-functional-b1ed1...
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Meta Is Dying. It's About Time(nytimes.com)
20 points by flowerlad 5mo ago|8 comments
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by flowerlad 6mo ago
Orban conceded defeat. This is a model for other countries to follow.
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by flowerlad 6mo ago
Not true. Liz Cheney hasn’t committed any crimes (as far as we know).
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by flowerlad 7mo ago
MVVM was invented by Microsoft for 2-way syncing in WPF. Today we know 2-way syncing is a mistake. Who uses MVC in 2026? Pretty much every framework out there, including Java frameworks and Python frameworks and .net
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by flowerlad 8mo ago
Right but it is cheaper than open source products if you self-host. Most open source products in this space, including grist, are only partially open source.
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by flowerlad 8mo ago
If you want forms try https://visualdb.com/ it is another tool that aims to be Microsoft Access
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by flowerlad 9mo ago
Better than the old one in what way?
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by flowerlad 9mo ago
This takes the American Oligarchy to the next level. Trump is now enabling his billionaire friends plunder another country, no doubt Trump will get a cut of the profits.
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by flowerlad 9mo ago
Yes the backup certificate can have validity starting at a future date. You just need to wait till that future date to create it.
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by flowerlad 9mo ago
Do services such as K8S ingress and Azure web apps allow you to specify multiple certificates? Update: looks like the answer is yes. So then the issue is people not taking advantage of this technique.

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