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by fmajid 7mo ago
Only one "are you happy with your purchase?" follow-up email? He should count himself lucky...
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by fmajid 7mo ago
I think your reading makes sense.
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by fmajid 7mo ago
In a delicious irony, Trump is accelerating the transition to renewables he hates so much.
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by fmajid 7mo ago
Of course not. That's why Charles de Gaulle repatriated French gold from the New York Fed in the 1960s. Before Trump, there was Nixon, the US has form in reneging on its commitments. It seems there are still 138 tons of gold left over
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by fmajid 7mo ago
Wildcard email addresses will subject you to a torrent of spam when spammers try dictionary attacks against your domain. It's better to explicitly create aliases, I built a web UI for Postfix to do this for myself and family ( https:&#
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by fmajid 7mo ago
I am more specific: if I start receiving pornographic spam like I did to the address I gave Dell, I will know they have been hacked. I will also not hold my breath waiting for the legally required breach notification they are supposed to se
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by fmajid 7mo ago
Good point. I'll add a voice recording of me spelling out the email address.
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by fmajid 7mo ago
Ah yes, the fabulous car engineering of Dieselgate.
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by fmajid 7mo ago
The Linux Terminal app is incredibly buggy in my experience, but that may be because I use GrapheneOS.
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by fmajid 7mo ago
Exactly. Or a legislature as Frances Haugen did. That said, arbitrators like that which gagged her are inherently conflicted since they are paid by the corporation, sadly our corrupt Supreme Court rubber-stamped binding arbitration so she h
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by fmajid 7mo ago
NDAs cannot cover whistleblowing of actual criminality, including sexual harassment, which is why modern NDAs take pains to disclaim that, so they wouldn't be invalidated on that basis. Presumably the behavior exposed in the book, whil
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by fmajid 7mo ago
The UK is far worse, with draconian libel laws where the burden of proof is on the defendant. Originally designed to stop uppity commoners from challenging the aristocrats, now used by oligarchs to silence journalists.
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by fmajid 7mo ago
I use SVG where I created a text object in Affinity Designer and converted it to curves so the SVG doesn't have text any more, just vectors for the glyphs of it. Seems to work pretty well at keeping spammers at bay.
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by fmajid 7mo ago
Thanks for the Really Useful Boxes referral. I've been using made in the UK Wham Plastics organizers and IKEA boxes, but front-loading is what I really need.
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by fmajid 7mo ago
Right, but you can't expect a pocket sized tester like the Treedix to implement that, even if it is the USB standard test for compliance. The Treedix does measure resistance on the cable, however, so if a cable exceeds 250mΩ it would a
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by fmajid 7mo ago
Yes, but the only way to test for something like that would be to put the rated load and see if the cable smokes. Not something a family-friendly tester would do.
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by fmajid 7mo ago
Belden or Canare. Pesky autocorrect.
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by fmajid 7mo ago
The Treedix will tell you that, as it is a feature of the eMarker chip (no chip means 60W).
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by fmajid 7mo ago
Indeed. If I want super high quality cables, I get them from Blue Jeans Cables, who tell you exactly what Belsen or Can are cable stock and what connectors, as well as the assembly methodology.
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by fmajid 7mo ago
Then you need to plan a migration away from Ubuntu, as Canonical is embedding Snap so deep in 26.04 it probably won't be usable with snapd disabled, e.g. no sound because Pipewire will be shipped as a snap. That's why I started ex
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by fmajid 7mo ago
CachyOS gets close, including for gamers, but it is not as stable as Ubuntu.
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by fmajid 7mo ago
Not just ancients' knowledge, algebra comes from a corruption of al-jabr in Musa al Khwarizmi's "al-Kitāb al-Mukhtaṣar fī Ḥisāb al-Jabr wal-Muqābalah". al-Khwarzimi himself got corrupted to algorismus, from which the wor
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by fmajid 7mo ago
One deterrent is, in China corporate criminals are executed, like those who put melamine in infant formula.
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by fmajid 7mo ago
Unfortunately for the UK, its geology means there isn't a lot of pumped hydropower storage unlike France, which is the cheapest way to bank intermittent renewables. In the places where there is pumped hydro capacity like Coire Glas, th
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by fmajid 7mo ago
GMail, like Apple, has specific enhanced security programs available for Politically Exposed Persons: https://landing.google.com/intl/en_in/advancedprotection/ The fact the Director of the FBI did not avail h
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by fmajid 7mo ago
They have seen boom and bust cycles previously and are understandably wary of expanding capacity for expected demand that may fizzle. If they stay too conservative, China’s CXMT is chomping at the bit to eat their lunch, backed by the Chine
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by fmajid 7mo ago
French-US citizen living in the UK as well. I am not experiencing this because I refuse to install iOS 26 on my iPhone, and like the OP I am transitioning away from Apple to Linux + GrapheneOS, and about 90% of the way there since I started
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by fmajid 7mo ago
The EU is not a privacy and human rights panacea, as shown by the continuing efforts to impose Chat Control. Switzerland is no better. Then again one of my wife’s friends is high up in the Canadian policy establishment and some of her posit
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by fmajid 7mo ago
I'm worried about OpenAI enshittifying uv and ruff now they've acquired Astral, so it's good to have options.
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by fmajid 7mo ago
That was a missile attack by Israeli forces, not US ones.

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