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by fmajid 6mo ago
The EU Data Protection Board, which unlike noyb is an official part of the EU, albeit not from the judicial branch, has also come out against pay-or-consent.
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by fmajid 6mo ago
I'm assuming Clarence Thomas, formerly a lawyer for Monsanto, will again not recuse himself, just as he did not for General Electric Co. v. Joiner (1997), Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms (2010) or Bowman v. Monsanto Co. (2013), and
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by fmajid 6mo ago
There's an ongoing debate as to whether the Alhambra features all 17 plane symmetry groups. It would be interesting to see whether Hokusai did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallpaper_group
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by fmajid 6mo ago
So is he going to replacer them with antivaxxers, flat earthers or lyssenkists?
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by fmajid 6mo ago
It's not good four my blood pressure to be reminded of that sanctimonious tax-dodging hypocrite.
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by fmajid 6mo ago
Jews probably have a very different view from yours as to how Christians expressed their Abrahamic solidarity during nearly two millennia of persecution in Europe.
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by fmajid 6mo ago
The SFP+ ones are all Thunderbolt or USB4 this far, i.e. not backward compatible with USB 3.x, like this QNAP one: https://www.qnap.com/en/product/qna-uc10g1sf
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by fmajid 6mo ago
https://xkcd.com/1013/
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by fmajid 6mo ago
FWIW I got a Xikestor 10G adapter with the Realtek chipset from AliExpress and it underperforms my much cheaper 5G one.
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by fmajid 6mo ago
People totally do want to offload the drudgery. That's why there is such a thing as dishwashers, and why OpenAI has 90 million users. But they also want the drudgery to be done reliably and not require as much work checking as it would
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by fmajid 6mo ago
I started my career at France Telecom's R&D lab in Caen, Normandy. They had their own home-grown X.400 email client, and even though they could have set up a SMTP server for free, they deliberately chose to MX to a paid SMTP to X.4
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by fmajid 6mo ago
He does ramble on and on about how awesome he is, and is enamored of the sound of his own voice.
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by fmajid 6mo ago
Yes, of course, unsupported also means it stops gettng anti-jailbreaking updates as well. I meant Amazon could atone for desupporting these devices by releasing an official unlock, like how Meta did for the Oculus Go.
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by fmajid 6mo ago
The CEO and owner of Luxottica, the dominant company in eyeglasses, bought Brooks Brothers as a present foir his idiot son, much as Larry Ellison did with Paramount and CBS for his. Said wastrel son ran it into the ground and there it remai
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by fmajid 6mo ago
There's one linked from the article: https://ledger.worseonpurpose.com/ I don't agree with all their recommendations. Tom Bihn should be put on the watch list. Goruck, Bellroy and Barbour are all avoid now.
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by fmajid 6mo ago
Interesting. Once again, I don't have a Kindle so I can't verify any of this. I do have a PocketBook Versa with stock firmware and a M5Stack Paper S3 running Crosspoint Reader, but hardly use either as I prefer reading on LCD or O
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by fmajid 6mo ago
They likely won't support the Kindle app, however, and the users won't be able to access the books they paid for but don't really own thanks to DRM.
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by fmajid 6mo ago
One way Amazon could make up for this is by unlocking these Kindles' boot loaders so owners can install KOreader instead. I am not holding my breath.
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by fmajid 6mo ago
Well, I don't have a Kindle, so I can't verify this, but I am basing this from reporting: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98k91yy4z4o "The move will mean owners of older Kindles, including its
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by fmajid 6mo ago
Usually an unsupported device stops getting new functionality and security fixes. The unsupported Kindles lose existing functionality, i.e. the ability to add books. Not quite bricked unlike, say, Sonos, but you are limited to the books y a
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by fmajid 6mo ago
I meant "obvious to anyone putting PostgreSQL in production that they have to put specific monitoring in place for this, and palliative measures" The database shutting itself down and refusing to come back up until a full vacuum o
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by fmajid 6mo ago
It's not as obvious as you think, GitLab was hit by this a few years ago. But yes, low-quality article and the SQL Server plug is in poor taste.
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by fmajid 6mo ago
Remember, Bork was the third guy who supinely did Nixon's bidding when Attornet-General and his deputy resigned rather than fire the special prosecutor investigating Watergate.
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by fmajid 6mo ago
Get-rich-quick schemes/scams existed long before this generation.
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by fmajid 6mo ago
No, Antitrust law was effectively neutered by the Chicago School and their agent Robert Bork. https://www.theamericanconservative.com/robert-borks-america... (BTW that source is right-wing and can hardly be said to be biase
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by fmajid 6mo ago
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by fmajid 6mo ago
Try the M5Stack Paper S3 instead. I am running a community build of Crosspoint Reader on mine, it actually has a touchscreen and a microSD card reader, supposedly limited to 16GB but handles my 128GB card just fine.
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by fmajid 6mo ago
I'm not that fond of eInk, having tried a PocketBook Verse e-reader (more open than a Kindle, has a microSD slot for my 70+GB fully DRM-free eBook collection) with a fairly grainy screen. A recent article on HN convinced me to try the
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by fmajid 6mo ago
Also because the Trump administration is twisting arms of big potential customers like Apple, in order to have a second source and reduce dependence on Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing. That's despite Lip-Bu Tan, whom Trump distrusts
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by fmajid 7mo ago
Write-only memory

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